skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, you were the one bringing that up. And no, no one would say that because that's also illegal now in Germany (you see a pattern).
I sometimes wonder, if we've passed peak human flight just recently.
> Very sad that authoritarianism is replacing individualism, free thinking and libertarian ideals that gave us soo much prosperity

Indeed, very sad. This is not what I signed for.

So I'm not sure I want to be in tech anymore. This is not my type of people, and not my ideals. I feel I was born too late to taste this spirit of freedom I can only read about, but not experience.
Not to mention that it also needs to account for science advancing one funeral at a time.

How to distinguish between real flaws or just a good theory that is not yet taken seriously ?
My local roaster's decaf is seriously the best I've ever had, swiss water method and really good beans. I do a half/half with their caffeinated blends and I love it. In the afternoon, I'll do just the decaf and it's really smooth and flavourful.

https://www.onevillagecoffee.com/collections/coffee/products...
Close to 216.
What happens when racists start wearing facial masks with the confederate flag on them?
I've seen this sort of statement on technical forums (such as HN) regularly. I makes sense logically and I want to agree with it.

But I've also been in organisations big enough to have multiple full time in-house counsel, and more often than not the desire to run software like this comes from those legal people.

I don't know who is in the right but I do know that people who study law and not tech seem more likely to have argued this is a good thing for an organisation.
AsciiDoc is one of the underrated markup languages when Markdown is dominent.

I know everybody knows markdown and markdown is simple, but I have seen so many people who ended up with HTML hacks for more "advanced" features like image size/position, complex tables, and even comments.

I higly recommend trying AsciiDoc to people who needs more features than Markdown.

Also, it is much more PDF-friendly than Markdown so that you don't need weird renderer workarounds to print.
Why not at the end of the day in case something happens to your computer?
What's the point of this with the current high quality of state-of-the-art machine translation? Don't we expect machine translation to surpass humans in the near future?

People who are domain experts in various fields don't know how, don't care to, and shouldn't code. They should just edit the articles in natural language.

A lot of the content of Wikidata isn't numbers and is natural language also, so you'd still need to (machine?) translate it. But this time the machine translation algorithm would not have the benefit of the long-term context from the encompassing paragraph.

There are too many reasons why this is a bad idea. Almost makes me mad.
But here's the problematic part of your statement:

"Politically correct mobs are a form of this - they are ugly and indiscriminate, but effective at shaping culture by stigmatizing ideas that have been used to justify harm".

How do you define "harm"? It seems that the modern edition of "progress" is trying to eliminate psychological harm by controlling people's speech. Is psychological harm really something worth trying to eliminate in our society?

I'd argue no. Our society thrives on free speech and truth, and attempting to silence people for the sake of keeping the feelings of others intact is not a trade off that's worth making. A book I read that was very informative on the topic was "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jonathan Haidt - I'd highly recommend looking into it.
> The United States of America has about 1/6th of the world's manufacturing output and the majority of the manufacturing output consumed within the United States is in fact produced within the United States.

Manufacturing output is measured using "manufacturing value added," which is the price the output is sold at minus the price of the input - raw materials, parts from other suppliers, tooling, etc. The United States has such a high "value add" because of cheap parts and raw materials sourced globally for overpriced products sold to the Armed Forces/DoD, the healthcare system, and a vast government/corporate bureaucracy with more money than sense.

It's great to be high up in the value chain but claiming the wealthiest country has 1/6th of the world's manufacturing output because it has the most money to waste isn't accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KZ3jgbbmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA
Philosophical Zombies in Quantum Mechanics
> The amount of general politeness and manners exhibited from people was amazing.

If you were the same class, race, etc., sure. Not if you were a slave, a servant, a woman, a child labourer, a poor, or any one of a huge range of "lesser" peoples.
This.

I also noticed quite a bump up when I actively decided to try to not be a cynical asshole _all_ the time. Meditation, on the other hand, never did it for me.

But hey, as long as it works. :)
Try Finnish or Hungarian, for example.
ok someone didn't like this comment, lets see if I can make it better.
The article linked doesn't have a lot of detail, but i'm impressed that someone has pushed through the standard reflexive though that either chiral form was equally likely and recognised that actually the universal has handedness that could have influenced the outcome.
That's what I think is the stroke of genius here, not the conclusion, but the idea to consider other forms of handedness
eg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(electromagnetism)#H...

as context in which the left or right forms might not actually be equivalent.

The reason I think this is genius, is it is a question anyone could have asked. Lots of us have probably thought about it at some point and summarily concluded it was not a question we were capable of exploring.
Their UX dark patterns are incredibly scummy, but I’ve actually found it really useful for quickly reaching the right person for biz dev deals/partnerships.
LinkedIn had dark patterns on day one. Search posts right here on HackersNews. You will see a lot of shady stuff Linkedin was doing in early 2010s.
Doesn't the author date stay unchanged by a rebase?
I feel like in 2020 we shouldn't even bother with pretending that any bits are physically inside Sealand, it's all in AWS or Azure or whatever anyway, right?
In the 50s Chrysler's tank division proposed a truly bizarre nuclear powered tank: http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/chry...
Computationally mimicking the creative design process
Probably at least one part of our current electrochemical model will be considered hilariously wrong, on the same level of wrongness as the planetary model of the atom is considered today. Perhaps our hopes of the island of stability [0] will be dashed.

Economists and mathematicians will eventually have a conversation which upends all known slogans of economics, forming a new school. It happens every few decades.

The era of antibiotics is drawing to a close, as antibiotic resistance continues to grow. Meanwhile, phage therapy [1] is still being discovered but likely will give us a route to a kind of antibacterial and antibiotic therapy which is not as broad-spectrum as our existing drugs. Similarly, chemotherapy may give way to more targeted ways to deal with cancers, and eventually we might see some of these harsher treatments as akin to the overuse of radiotherapy during the era of radioactive quackery [2].

High fructose corn syrup may yet have its reckoning. Strangely, before 2020, this wouldn't have been thinkable, but we know from history that the Great Depression and World Wars changed the composition of dishes all around the world and even in industrialized recipes. The pandemic may yet change peoples' diets in ways which we won't understand for a decade or two, and the proper nutritional correction may take another few decades after that.

Our children may be sincere about dealing with climate change. If so, then they may fly less, shrink standing armies, forbid the import/export of oil, drive less, set the thermostat a couple degrees hotter, or take many other relatively minor changes to parts of society which we usually imagine not changing at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery
There doesn't seem to be much of anything actually substantiating King David's existence. Has this changed as of late? I know it's very important to modern-day Israeli historiography.
Bandcamp has been of the best things to ever happen to DIY music. It’s given a tremendous amount of power to artists, power that used to be held almost exclusively by labels. We’re finally at a point where many bands can make decent money without having to worry about “getting signed” to a label and losing so much control in the process.
Show HN: Automated time tracking *can* be privacy-first
All ambitious projects that don't come to fruition are mad, and obviously were impossible from the start.
It wasn't just people disliking it, it was actually a terrible plan AFAIK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70wkxmumAw
I've been working on a single player word game for web and mobile. :)

https://seanwilson.itch.io/wordoid

Top score I know of is around 2,000 points if anyone wants to try and beat that!

I'm also working on an ebook version of my web best practices guide:

http://www.checkbot.io/guide/
Just going to leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw
Which Bossware SaaS has such sophisticated NLP?
Straight out of the fallout universe
Your question is like asking about the Apache Webserver in one of unrelated project hosted by Apache Foundation.

Eclipse Foundation is much larger organization than just the IDE.
You are very welcome, and that's great to hear :) Thank you for supporting independent artists (and us)!
Lots of words, but no actual content. Many are frustrated, but it needs constructive channeling.
Before I spend more effort on this, why are you on a newly registered throwaway?
Bitcoin isn't a currency according FinCen [1], and back then not according the IRS [2], either. Maybe they were just trying to stay under the radar, but that's a lucky guess and again they've been active in the space regardless since '14. Who knows, but still I wanted to believe Blaji could actually live up to his 'Buidl' Speech, and I'm actually surprised he isn't around here on HN somewhere.

1: https://klasing-associates.com/fincen-update-bitcoin-cryptoc...

2: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/03/25/irs...
Scamming bad actors out of lots of capital can be bad for ones health.
Seems like a misinterpretation on the electric power part. Very few power plant designs use atomic power resources explosively to make electricity. They probably just meant undergrounded regular old fission nuclear power plants, which Teller also liked.

But maybe not; that's a pretty direct statement. Certainly there were ideas to blow weapons up and then recover energy from the heated walls (often some kind of high heat capacity liquid).
While I know this is possible and have done it sometimes for fun, I would never spend any appreciable amount of time doing it at a job.

If you are at the point where you need to modify commit timestamps to satisfy some micromanager, it's highly likely that there are other things wrong with them that will lead to you searching for a new job fairly soon.
How's that even remotely relevant? Your doctor is not your wife and treatment does not involve enthusiastic agreement on every controversial topic of the day.
A bit of "legal realism" here: if someone takes over Sealand and starts expanding it and doing anything the UK doesn't like, they will simply put a stop to it. International law only matters insofar as other nations are willing to use it, and nobody will care enough about Sealand.
This? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov...
There are technical solutions to this that allow you to still read the article, you know.
The UK argues that nobody recognised Sealand as a legitimate entity so there's no dispute. I'm not aware of any other countries officially recognizing Sealand as a sovereign nation before the border change.
Leave it to hn to spin a culture problem as a compliance concern. If you're dickriding your employees every keystroke, your leadership methods and corporate governance are the fucking problems.

Employees aren't cattle.

Edit: and let me be clear, corporate spyware preys exclusively on companies with weak and incompetent management. All it does is let them buckpass to the next performance eval.
Of course you can. There might be consequences, of course, but in the case of Sealand it's very unlikely any other nation will care enough to do anything.
Chemistry is all about good-enough approximations, of which the planetary model is one, for simple organic reactions at least. Doubt it's going away
doesn't explain Peru
While I love algolia, I hate the way it is implemented on producthunt.
> I know the Old Testament reasonably well and I think the majority of the researchers the article quotes deny a literal reading of it in one way or another.

I suspect that still aligns with GP's point -- people are generally partisan on this subject, one way or another.
I’ve seen this hot take before, and it always struck me as coming from someone that had seen very few episodes.

About half the time episodes end with exposition to spell out the point for people that didn’t quite get it. The creators definitely take positions. Those positions just happened to be expressed through satire.

The whole episode 201 debacle should highlight the fact that the creators have the courage of their convictions. Contrasted with someone like Seth MacFarlane, who just... doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a moral principle [1].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=diW3OwMYdrk
They are not solving your problem. They are solving theirs.

This is an experimental project so there is nothing to be angry about. Time will tell if this was a good idea or not.
The Nucleon was a gag. Nobody serious thought there would be nuclear-powered cars even in the 1950s. There are even intros to textbooks that dismiss the idea as "not within the bounds of reality", as Glasstone did in 1956 [1]

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...

Of course today there are literal nuclear-powered cars all over the place. They're electric cars charged by nearby nuclear power stations. But I guess that's semantics.
Indeed, the 1950s saw the beginning of some ambitious projects. One in particular was the US Interstate Highway System, launched in 1956 under president Eisenhower. It wasn't completed until 36 years later in 1992.

The system cost $114 billion, equivalent to $521 billion in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
I had similar problems when I moved out to university and had to cook for myself on a tight budget. After a few months your gut gets used to an all-lentil diet.
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Ah there it is. If someone hadn't linked to the fracking-with-nuclear-weapons project I was going to post it.

Fun pic of it here: https://twitter.com/whatisnuclear/status/1107498549074264065...

Source: This 370-page book called Plowshare; a selected, annotated bibliography of the civil, industrial, and scientific uses for nuclear explosions, compiled by Robert G. West [and] Robert C. Kelly.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015095076132&vi...
For one thing, in the case of Reddit, there are sites which exist to archive deleted posts and comments. I believe I've used https://www.removeddit.com/ in the past to read some deleted content.

I would imagine it's relatively affordable and easy for someone to scrape social media and store it all, forever.
Where is the high quality machine translation? I spend most of my time in countries where I don't speak the same language as the majority of people and text that I encounter, so I am using machine translation many times per day. My experience of the average quality of machine translation is extremely low. It garbles meaning a majority of the time, and in a significant minority of cases destroys meaning completely.

To me the idea that you could translate an encyclopedia, where accuracy of meaning is critical, using such technology in its current state is horrifying. By contrast the abstract/semantic approach seems to have some potential, although I can't imagine it working well for all articles.
I usually look up the company's sales number and give them their own number. I have no idea if this has ever inconvenienced anyone but it does give me a moment of petty satisfaction.
What was the suggested alternative to grasses?

Guns, Germs, and Steel goes into this a great deal and the conclusion there is that in many ways precursors to today’s wheat is the miracle that gave birth to modern civilization.

Potential alternatives would need to provide similar nutrition (esp protein), be easily amenable to “naturally” providing selective breeding for choice traits, be easy to sow and harvest for hunter gatherers to become farmers, and be resilient enough to provide a model for civilizations around the globe.
Denny seems to be leaving Google and joining Wikimedia Foundation to lead the project this month, so probably you do not need to worry too much about Denny's affiliation with Google.
I'm sorry it creeps you out, but as a general rule company managers are free to do what they please with their company, as long as it is not illegal. Banning racists isn't illegal so ...
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Yep! Sorry, I meant that the only developed branch on origin is `master` (or whatever it’s called at your org). You can create branches locally, but pushing a local branch is strongly discouraged.

The workflow looks something like this.

git pull master; git checkout -b my-feature; ... ; git add -A; git commit

At this point, you submit the code for review, and upon approval the branch is merged into master and pushed. It’s not possible to push a commit hash to master that has not been reviewed.

If you have a feature that’s composed of many steps, you can “stack” multiple commits, and review/merge them in order.

If you want to develop the entire stack at once, you’re most likely doing something wrong (according to this culture). You can incrementally merge pieces of code to master in such a way that’s impossible for it to be deployed, and your final diff can be what makes it deployable.
An ML approach and autotagging might actually work: Let the user decide!
My take.

Facebook: I’ve got nothing. I use FB. I guess it’s been away to keep in contact with people and it employs thousands of people who all contribute to the economy. But I really don’t have a case for it being a value creating platform.

Apple: it ushered in the app economy but more importantly, it made the idea popular of having a computer in every pocket. Even services that would never have been popular without mobile made billions of dollars. Between its employees, suppliers, and third parties it’s also been a value creator.

Amazon (Disclaimer: I work for AWS): hundreds of thousands employees and the minimum wage is $15/hour for fulfillment center workers, not to mention its enabled third party sellers to reach millions, again a value creator.

Google: while Apple first popularized the modern smart phone era. Let’s be honest, Apple’s products are out of reach for most people in the world. Android democratized the idea of a computer in every pocket. Mobile payments have done wonders for 3rd world countries.

How is this creating "trillions in value, and millions of jobs via direct and indirect employment"? It's funneling more utility into the Google service model, which is "free", because your data is not.

If Google’s ads weren’t effective, would people be buying them? Are they more effective than the third world.

We don’t have to guess whether tech has created trillions in value. It’s reflected in their market cap. The five big tech companies are worth over five trillion together. Those stocks are in pension funds, 401Ks etc. The money people make directly and indirectly are the single handedly propping up the stock markets and those pensions.

http://www.iweblists.com/us/commerce/MarketCapitalization.ht...

Big Tech is as much responsible for the dwindling payouts on music and movie royalties to artists

Blame the people buying subscriptions not the tech industry. Before the rise of Spotify, by 2010. Apple and all of the rest of the industry was selling DRM free music you own. Apple still does through iTunes. People decided that they wanted subscription music.

You can still pay for music you own - DRM free through Apple.

Commercial movies have never been free of copy protection. Even during the analog days of VHS and Macrovision.

Even console games have always required third party manufacturers to license copy protection from the console makers. Well at least since the mid 80s.
the main things that make it faster come down to:

- the api doesn't care about compatibility with the standard library at all (interface-wise), allowing a little more flexibility in interface presentation, which can allow for some performance improvements

- the implementations are small and not as large as `bytes.Buffer`'s, which also aid in making it fast (just look at all that `bytes.Buffer` does to write data: https://golang.org/src/bytes/buffer.go#L168)

- i try to bypass safety checks where possible and feasible (such as when indexing, by using `unsafe.Pointer`) which, doesn't speed it up much, but it's full of unnecessary/unidiomatic code optimizations already, i don't think more would be too much of an issue :p

that's probably all of the big things. there's also other design decisions like choosing to generate implementations of what would be redundant instead of providing a consolidated implementation like i had done before (as seen with the complex r/w methods), and other really small micro-optimizations that i touched it off with that probably don't help much but i was honestly trying to find whatever i could just to make it faster
Elastic Search

Lucene

Sphinx

Solr

And thousands of other ones made by hobbyists, but those are the mature (as in since the 90s) ones. For instance Craiglist uses Sphinx.
WW2 was 13 years before. And some of those 3% were in fact killed by nukes and radiation and fallout.

I have to ask gramps for the truth.
Or just use a database like SQLite or Postgres that has developers dedicated to solving this problem.
Is there a link to the article?
I strongly agree. I go one level further. As an independent consultant, I have multiple clients (usually around 3-4 at any given time). I use a different laptop and mobile device for every client. I would take to them to client site -- when travel was a thing. I also use different VPCs on the cloud for each of them. And I have a different set of machines for my own business. This allows clients to specify whatever software policy they like on machines that connect to their network, wit out affecting anything else I do. I wipe the hard disks of the the relevant machines clean after end of the engagement. None of my clients has demanded that I install any 'bossware', primarily because I'm only paid on outcomes, not effort. So they don't really care how I do the work.
You can doctor author dates pretty trivially. git commit --date=
> Our children may be sincere about dealing with climate change.

Indeed they may. And we can either teach them to encourage it or ignore them and not even do that small part.
A major problem with our relentless optimization of food production is that we don't price in the externalities, like large scale destruction of ecosystems or the exploitation of workers. Few people argue that we should go back to pre-modern agriculture (billions would starve!), but I think it's fairly obvious that our current system is not optimizing a good cost function.
It’s utter insanity now