skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think that Bloomberg terminals are any more useful for insider trading, in the strict sense, than any other communication device, and probably less so because they are more likely to be monitored by one's employer. However, there is one exception: Bloomberg News publishes a lot of scoops about public companies. That is its raison d'être. To move markets. Those Bloomberg scoops are released to terminal subscribers 15-20 minutes before the news hits the rest of the market. So it's a kind of syndication of inside information, obtained by Bloomberg reporters from anonymous sources somehow apprised of the companies that the journalists cover. But Bloomberg doesn't trade. Its clients do. Bloomberg just reports, and there is nothing illegal about that.
regular users dont care about security issues
> There is not (to the best of my knowledge) a government operated CDN or network backbone which you could make use of in order to avoid such concerns.

The line between private and public gets a bit blurry when talking about edge routing and CDNs. Especially edge routing.
And "slavery" and "private ownership of the means of production" are similarly orthogonal.

If the means of production were owned by the government, and the government forced its citizens to work uncompensated against their will, with no option to leave, could one then contend that socialism/communism is inextricably linked to slavery? No, that's absurd. Involuntary servitude can exist in any economic system, whether the means of production are owned by the people or by the government.

Slavery can only exist if the government actively enforces the ability for one to own another human being against their will. While it's absolutely correct that capitalism is rooted in private ownership of property, it by no means presupposes that humans MUST be considered property. On the other hand, capitalism can only really function in a world where all transactions are bilaterally voluntary, which is anathema to slavery.
While I do feel like it is still an appropriate joke to make in the sense that it sounds ridiculous to say you aren't interested in Mt Everest because its too crowded, sadly it seems we have already reached that point in time - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/24/mount-everes...
> I wish more companies experimented with in-home appliances

have to disagree. I want the least amount of corporations in my home as possible
I am surprised that this is considered a secret anymore. If you travel anywhere and board a flight, stay a hotel or rent a car, you should assume that the government already knows about this. All companies have data sharing agreements with the government and judges are known to sign very broad data warrants that force companies to give data to governments for any suspicion of crime .

Basically today, everybody should assume that the government knows everything about you - where you live, where you work, what car you drive, where you travel, What property you own, lease , whom you call etc. Privacy exists in name only.
For those interested in past predictions as a track record, I found Scott's previous predictions here:

2018-2019: https://www.profgalloway.com/2019-predictions

2019-2020: https://www.profgalloway.com/2020-predictions

Though some of his predictions are shaky because they don't provide a timeline. Scott Alexander used to do predictions w/ deadlines + estimated probability. If all goes well you should be able to map your predictions on a perfect line, x axis representing estimated probability and y representing actual percentage which happened.
> I know density is the way to go in urban development, but... I feel like developers have lost the plot.

This is exactly true! A lot of the time, the increased size doesn't even result in increased density - most McMansions are single-family homes. Plus, because the extra space is weirdly proportioned and placed, it doesn't provide much benefit to the inhabitants - it only serves to inflate the listed price.
I was disappointed with how much this missed:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(satellite)

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

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

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

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

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

The interesting aspects of how USN submarines access these systems doesn't appear to be openly available.
What does a decentralized Bloomberg terminal look like?
> Kurt Rathmann explained to Forbes last month, customers were craving a person, rather than a computer to do their accounting. “We really thought we could automate the entire back office of a small business,” Rathmann said. A lofty goal that more money couldn’t achieve.

The whole selling point of the company was to automate away bookkeeping and make it real-time. The reason why customers signed up was to not have to deal with a person. It's unbelievable that despite the market calling this man out on his bullshit he still has the audacity to lie one more time and try to change the entire narrative. If customers were truly craving a person instead of a computer for their accounting you would've stopped at the market research/MVP phase instead of raising $100M and defrauding customers.
Okay, sure, but “we can fix it by fundamentally changing the entire way we attempt to have representation in government” is something China could do as well.
Not people. Dinosaurs, intelligent crocodiles, industrialised trilobites, whatever it might be. So many millions of years ago that there may be no such thing as permanent marks.

You possibly could be thinking about an Atlantis type of scenario, the idea that relatively advanced prehistoric human civilisations could have risen say 100,000 years ago and fallen without a trace (especially if they literally fell into the sea). Which does have some level of possibility, but indeed there isn't much chance they could have developed advanced sciences.

The thing is, though it seems far wackier, it's interesting to think that there literally could have been populations of millions of intelligent lizards (or whatever) for hundreds of thousands of years, and for the fossil record not to reflect it. It would be amazing if one day a cliff collapsed and we found an intact fossilised dinosaur airliner or whatever, but this article is about whether less direct evidence of such a civilisation, if it ever existed, would persist.
From what I've read, the Oregon AG alleged that they were released by the prison they were taken to without charges, so apparently they refused to book them for whatever they were accused of in the first place.

It's not clear to me what other records they would have in that case and again, this isn't exactly being "disappeared" given that they were turned over to the police for processing and then released without charges. Sounds more to me like some cops were lazy with the paperwork when they were going to release them anyhow.

The feds have wide-ranging authority to arrest people and always have, though:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-heck-are-federal-law-enforc...
> but as far as I can tell, they actually do have relatively sweeping legal authority

I think that's splitting hairs in a not helpful way.

As far as I can tell, the US actually does have legal authority to unilaterally declare war on the tiny nation of Lichtenstein and then carpet bomb it until all that remains are glowing embers.

But doing so would be evil, and fortunately all previous and current US administrations have chosen not to do so. We shouldn't need to explicitly legally forbid all awful things that the US President could theoretically do. We should have leaders who stay well within the bounds of law, guided by the will of the voters, their own moral code, and a respect for the long-term consequences of their actions.

The fact that Trump lacks all of those things to me does not mean that we should therefore be in the business of trying to outlaw every bad thing a President can do. That's an endlessly long list and if we've learned anything from the past almost-four years, it's that it doesn't really matter what the law says if Congress chooses not to enforce it.

You can't fight corruption by writing more new laws that will also get ignored. You have to entirely remove corrupt people from power. No set of laws would somehow forcibly turn Trump into a competent President.
Steven Pinker Will Be Just Fine
> And they can easily cut anyone off for re-distributing it (in addition to any legal remedy they may attempt).

AFAIK that's what grsecurity does. They distribute linux patches, which aren't copyrightable because they're GPL. To prevent anyone from distributing their patches openly (and putting them out of business), they have a clause in their contracts saying that if you distribute their patches, they'll terminate your subscription.
It's funny just how much the implementations described in the paper map to how modern search engines implement retrieval. The same is true for BLAST and other search engines.

(it's a very readable paper and I enjoy the frank expression of view, even if I have a vastly different perspective on how to accelerate problems like this)
Ducts do make it easy to add a humidifier or dehumidifier. Which, if you live either in a desert or a swamp, can be a plus.
That graph would look much less dramatic if you could plot cases in foreign worker dorms (which have been isolated and are subject to an intense testing and clearance regime[1]) separately from cases in the broader community.

As of yesterday's report[2], dorm cases account for 45,260 of the 48,035 total cases. Incidence in the ex-dorm population is only 0.04%, and fewer than half of those have unknown chains of transmission.

1. Which is, admittedly, a separate issue in and of itself.

2. https://covidsitrep.moh.gov.sg
Obviously its not a secret since you know it.
Could you elaborate? As I said, I'm assuming this is a blind spot, but assuming both parents are onboard with trading consumption for security/freedom, I don't understand what specifically would make this unworkable.

That is to say, the same logic applies to a family: If a family making $120k could survive adequately in a given location, then a family making $160k can pretend they make $120k and do the same thing. As I mentioned, the only exception I can think of is wanting to max out education spending: taking for granted that school spending is valuable for educational outcomes, does this explain 100% of the difficulty in maintaining this habit once having a family?

Other possibilities:

1) education/housing spending is often a proxy for class segregation, which I suppose is another factor you'd want to max out for your kid (I have no experience with this: my parents were upper-class in the old country so they hung out with other upper-class old country people (of various incomes) and I got the values they hoped I would without having to pay for it)

2) Perhaps it has less to do with kids than it does coupling up: anecdotally, most of my male friends who are happy to be ascetic need to start flashing money when they start dating, and most of my female friends are far more interested in consumption/comfortable living spaces. I know few people living well below their means, but 0% of them are women, despite my having many female friends. Though this is a pretty low-confidence guess, since as I said, it's based on anecdota.
radius on front cover doesn't work in firefox
Reminds me of an ST:TNG episode...

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

"Temba, his arms wide"
Okay, so your argument goes like this:

1. US domestic surveillance is different than China’s because Americans can change things by electing different politicians.

2. Americans cannot actually in practice change things by electing different politicians.

3. If you don’t like it, you can leave.

This is a very poor argument.
The big issue with the NS Savannah was timing. Even with free fuel, you can't quite manage to get break bulk cargo shipping to be cost competitive with containers. If she launched a few years later after Ideal X's success, then we might have more nuclear ships.
That is a fair point; SPoF depends on what level you're looking at. A RAID array removes the SPoF that is a single disk, but still leaves a SPoF in the RAID controller or CPU or power supply; a ceph cluster can withstand the loss of a whole rack but could still fall to certain software bugs. Likewise, "cloud" companies are internally redundant, right up to the point where they aren't. It depends on how you scope the question.
> It seems you are suggesting it's possible for killings to be driven by racism, but for the skew of killings not to be driven by racism.

Well more precisely, I'm happy to accept that population-disproportionate killings of black men are due to racism, but understanding the facts is important to understanding how that racism manifests. Ie, if it matches the arrest rate and/or the violent crime rate, we're facing a much broader racial justice problem than simply throwing an IAT at every cop in the country. I don't understand why Pinker's tweet wouldn't be interpreted in that light.
IIRC the Voyager probes aren't on the eliptic plane, they're less likely to hit debris. Plus once they reach the interstellar medium there is not much to worry about besides cosmic rays.
Seems like if this issue could easily be solved, a startup would have formed to solve it. Are there any alternatives to recaptcha and hcaptcha that are effective and also accessible?
Shouldn't that liability be with the operators of websites that use those captchas if they're required to be blind-accessible? If they get sued, it'll apply pressure up the supply chain.
How do these come into private possession?
I think this is only surprising for some people because the tech growth-adoption mentality of the last couple of decades needed and benefited from UI that became increasingly optimized for 'ease of use', for 'everyone', for universality.

But bloomberg terminals do not need to be massively adopted. You don't need more (less specialized) terminal operators. That market/user-base didn't need to grow as much as excel users, browser user or CRM users.

As we reach peak digital tools/process adoptions I expect more and more specialized tools that don't try to be 'easy to use' first.
Many bathrooms in Scandinavia are "wet rooms", the floor slopes slightly towards one (sometimes two) floor drains.

As I understand it, the building regulations say a washing machine must be in a room with a floor drain. Therefore, most washing machines are in the bathroom.
I think if they block the developer, they won’t be able to see his/her contributions, which they likely want to still see. They just want to block the avatar. Just a guess on my part.
‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well
https://twitter.com/quasimondo/status/1283658713178537984
> Fiat currencies (that is, currency that has no intrinsic value) has existed for at least 1300 years, if not longer. They are not based on air

If paper currency got bootstrapping 1300 years ago, then why were American and European currencies gold backed half a century ago? Apparently the bootstrapped currency needed to be bootstraped again.

Gold is an ordinary commodity with practical uses (electronics, tooth fillings etc.) Its special qualities that make it a good currency candidate are its durability, portability, uniformity and divisibility. Gold is valuable due to its practical value, but is often exchanged due to its commodity qualities.

> an institution and its ability to maintain its value through whatever means it has available

The means a half century ago was to trade the paper for gold. Now that is implicit. The US stores tons of gold in Fort Knox and elsewhere - why? Obviously it implicitly backs the currency, even if the M1 supply is very large.
> tl;dr: as soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of adults — it’s dead.

Not to disagree with the rest of the article, but this particular claim is unfortunately far from true. There are dozens (hundreds?) of startups claiming to reinvent something with blockchain and get millions thrown at them despite anyone with a basic understanding of what blockchain is can tell that either their problem is unsolvable with a technological solution (blockchain or not) or that blockchain doesn't bring anything to the table compared to a database.
"More square feet for less dollars"

This was the slogan of a house builder I once analysed for a management consulting project on the future of the Australian building industry.

After a week touring display homes, and estimating cost (or costs avoided), I figured out exactly how the market leaders lowered the sticker price while increasing their margins. No matter that the houses quickly fell apart after purchase...

The tricks I remember included:

* No plaster on the wall behind the fridge

* Big mirrors in bathrooms, because mirrors cost about the same as tiles but are much quicker to install.

* Eliminate walls on the ground floor, to give the open-plan look. Except that there's no sound insulation, or heat retention. And the new owners need to buy a lot more furniture, otherwise it looks too empty.

* Make the eaves very narrow, to reduce the size of the roof. Even though the walls now have no shade from the sun, the interior heats up more in summer, and you spend much more on air conditioning.

* Build the house like a big box, up close to the boundary line... Looks good on the plan. Less good when your neighbours' bedroom windows look right into yours. And less good when there's no shade or privacy because the builder cut down the established trees...

I remember both feeling in awe at the cost-cutting ingenuity and disgusted at future problems it would bring the unlucky new owners.
Which is aberrant, and is being denounced by political opposition and non-state-controlled media.
There's a once-a-summer, or really more of a once-every-few-summers level heat wave rolling through the northeast right now...not something I'd necessarily take into account when buying a house. I grew up in very old unairconditioned house in inland New England, where I don't believe I knew anybody in the 90s/early 2000s who had central a/c, even in a fairly affluent area. From what I've read the models don't expect the region to face major summer heat effects from climate change.

When it's in the high 50s/low 60s evey night, and you have some thoughtful design so the house can be ventilated well with just the windows, the cool night air sticks around well into the next day, a cold shower or a little portable a/c unit can get you through the handful of hot nights each summer.

I live in NYC now, where a/c is necessary most nights in July and August, and find it kind of funny to see New Yorkers buying summer houses in my hometown and immediately spending thousands retrofitting central air. For me one of the great pleasures of going home to visit my family is sleeping with the windows open to the chilly night air!
I replaced my electrical sump pump with one powered by water pressure. I figure that if both water AND electricity go out, I'm screwed anyway.
I'm living in Spain at the moment. I'm from the Netherlands though! How did you find out about the other studies?
They generally are, as each feature adds more work and there's only so much time and money available. While this isn't exclusively the case (some things are universal), the more you work on a feature specifically targeted at power users, the less you work on features targeted towards the general population.

For an app that's specifically meant for and targeting power users, that might be an acceptable choice to make, but if you want to target "people", then you're likely not going to be investing in power user features.
I moved to the PNW 10 years ago and thought the rotting decks everywhere were hilarious. Until I got my own of course. IDK why people keep building uncovered wooden decks here. It's like they can't see what's happening to their neighbors's house.

I think a lot of what has gone wrong here is the midcentuey California housing boom & bust pushed Cali builders here.

WA state finally adopted some sensible building codes in 1997 (I think it was 97) and 2017 but everything before then has massive issues with water. Bad or inadequate flashing jobs, unprotected windows, doors and decks, inappropriate grade along houses, inadequate sewer and irrigation drainage. I could go on.
Ton Roosendaal[0] commented:

> Impressive digital archeology by Greg Miller[1] - getting the oldest Blender binary (1.0) to work! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I9PkevsfZxvI3TGa9i2iA

[0] https://twitter.com/tonroosendaal/status/1281596209443090432

[1] https://twitter.com/StuffIBuild/status/1279794087147823104
Use Google Maps JavaScript API in China
Oh my goodness I love this. My husband once told me that when I died he would upload my brain into a machine that was constantly playing Cities Skylines. This looks to be focused mostly on urban grid design; have you given thought to what a suburban generator might look like?
I’m sure it can’t be done, but I’d love to see Pharo running natively on iOS one day.
"Enigma machine at Opera", so this ex-colleague of yours work at Opera the ex-awesome browser making company?
How to Make Your Skills Sound Better on Your Resume
Even if you're right, what are you arguing here? "Cargo build" makes it extremely easy to distribute executables, as do GitHub releases. And free I might add.

It it only the most lazy and selfish developers who would not utilize this. I am speaking as someone who has distributed both Rust and Go programs.

Even a once a year executable release would be better than just saying "build it yourself".
I don't know from a scientific perspective but it certainly feels that way.

I'd liken it to the results from Deep Dream style image generation. Each small part of the image makes sense but taken together it's a Lovecraftian nightmare that your brain can't quite process all at once.
Cloudflare doesn't work without JS, even for static jsless sites. It's a pest.
OK let's follow this train of thought, what message is conveyed here? Don't touch this case? Side with investors? Side with the bank?

Even if you're right and fear is the motivation, fear in which direction?
> Common Carrier status is perhaps a closer comparison, but I think AT&T is allowed to drop a customer if they violate the AT&T ToS / contract.

That would make net neutrality meaningless, surely. Just put something in the ToS that says you agree not to actually use your internet service.

> Also, the CEO of CloudFlare went out of his way to publicize that this was a problem for the health of the internet and to start a conversation. Society didn't walk away from CloudFlare (eg. "vote with your feet/wallet") and Congress didn't choose to create any laws.

Which is exactly the problem. America has given up on free speech, and CloudFlare was a prime mover in that shift.
Speed of light in a fiber is slower than the speed of light in a vacuum, so it's the straight line speed of light versus the great circle speed of light / index of refraction. So you're looking at somewhere north of 35 milliseconds (because the fiber is NOT great circle, and repeaters and routers will add little snips of time every time they touch the signal).

But can you decode a neutrino signal in real time?
Thank you for that, it was very helpful. Those notebooks and quickstart examples are exactly what I was thinking of, I just hadn't found them.

To be honest, the splash page doesn't help me understand which of my problems the technology would solve and so I didn't dig deep enough to find those examples. I would say the splash page is a little heavy on what TileDB is and a little light on why I should care. But thank you for taking the time to explain it to me!
The EncroChat police hacking sets a dangerous precedent
"Return will insert a newline character; Enter will immediately send the tweet." Holy crap, how do people cope with all the accidents that must cause?