skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amtrak is clinging to an unprofitable business model (outside the Boston-DC route).

85% of adults in America have a car. The 15% (plus children) who don't can use Greyhound/Megabus buses, which are fine. Flights are generally more convenient for trips over 300 miles anyway.

There is no significant use case for Amtrak. It doesn't take a conspiracy to make it unprofitable.
The Secret Service has been protecting US Presidents for 100+ years. And bodyguards go back way further. Varian (via McAfee) was talking about technology. Let me propose a clarifying addendum:

"A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today [but didn't have 10 years ago]; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have it in an additional decade."
I just bought a gigantic computer monitor and connected it to my apple-tv, problem solved.

sure, the monitor was atleast 25% more expensive than a similar screen with a smart-tv function in it, but I think it's worth it.
For sure, this is also one of those roads you can't go down in good hands because of how much it could be abused in the wrong hands (so, by any future administration for eternity).

For example, imagine if you couldn't buy plane tickets because you didn't sit through enough critical race theory white-guilty training.
Think of it as unpatched computer on your network, possibly with a built in microphone and camera.
Yeah, if you pay attention to the world (and I'm not implying grandparent does not - please don't draw that conclusion), you will see a lot of "symptoms" before 2016 happened.

I believe the person grandparent is referring to's rise to power was one more symptom in what's been happening, and not a cause in any way. Of course, these things tend to enter a sort of feedback loop. If you'll allow me a parallel with the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the early half of the last century: It was not Nazism that emboldened and bolstered antisemitic feelings across Europe. Nazism was a symptom of the established and pretty mainstream antisemitic current in western society at the time. Even the US was not immune to hating on the Jew.

This rise in far-right political strength is most likely associated with a backlash against the (mostly? totally?) left-wing push for inclusivity and rapid social progressivism. In a way, among those that wouldn't identify themselves as far-right but do manifest ideals associated with the far-right of today, I can identify a certain undercurrent of "we're going too far, we're making too many changes, we need to slow down". Of course, things like "cancel culture", Spotify's staff wanting complete creative control over a 'controversial' podcast, etc., as well as the social bubbles we isolate ourselves in on our chosen social media platforms do not help at all with empathy or viewing others' viewpoints, which greatly exacerbates the issue.
There were two kinds of participants in the mid-twenty-teens Internet explosion of over the top neo-Nazi, fascist, and reactionary ideology. (I heard it comically called the Internet "Heilstorm" or the "Basement Blitzkreig.")

The first kind were actual Nazis, actual white supremacists, people who were or had been converted to fascist and racialist ideology.

The second were trolls who didn't necessarily believe any of it but liked the fact that it rattled people. A lot of these were adolescents doing the Information Age equivalent of throwing toilet paper over houses. But some of them were people who saw being maximally offensive as a way to push back, if even subconsciously, against a rising tide of conformism. These were more like the musicians and artists from the 60s onward who played with "Satanic" imagery to challenge a conformist culture. Satan no longer shocks, so they had to bust out Hitler.

The trouble is that this type of protest doesn't work anymore and is counterproductive.

In the old days there was a thing called "pop culture" and if you made something challenging or offensive that got popular people would be forced to deal with it. There is no pop culture anymore. There are a million little bubbles. When you make offensive memes the culture doesn't care. Everyone just retreats into their bubbles and clicks "don't show me content like this" and if you keep becoming more and more offensive in an attempt to shock your way in the platform will just ban you. Unlike the days when books and music were physical artifacts, removal of content from a platform is instantaneous.

At the same time the offensiveness pushes those who are genuinely (and sometimes for good reason!) offended by it away from more open areas and into walled gardens. You're actually helping the walled gardens by doing this.

The only solution I see to the problem this site is describing is the abandonment of the public Internet, including the read/write public web, in favor of small peer to peer or privately hosted communities with gates. Of course you also have to encrypt absolutely everything.
> it largely prevents malware

Most antivirus has been shown to open more security holes than it fixes.

> some security policies mandate it

That's only because the people behind those policies think that A is true.
Off topic question. Is there a mailing list people could follow?

I don't actively use anything on the fediverse and still avoid Twitter, but I would still like to follow the project.
You can also tell Gmail not to open images at all until you hit a button saying so
David Graeber: What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? (2014)
Deaths are not the only major side-effect of CV-19. Effects in survivors include “brain fog”, blood clots, stroke, weakened heart, etc. I’m not sure we know how many people continue to experience severe symptoms, but it’s likely much higher than the official death rate.
I am very glad foreign funded vested interest groups working as NGOs like Amnesty International is leaving India for good.
NGOs like Amnesty and Greenpeace has been involved in shady work in many places in India, including religious conversion and paid protests in remote villages. Hindus being a global minority need to be cautious and are worried about such conversion activities.

Indian govt has been asking NGOs to comply with FCRA Norms and many including Amnesty Internation has failed to file annual returns despite mandatory legal(pre-2014 norms) requirements.

India has millions of people living under poverty. To lift them out of poverty they need JOBS. Being an trade partner of US and UK, India has let functioning of shady NGOs like these work wrecklessly.

Whether it is Nuclear power plant or Copper plant, NGOs have been involved in mass mobilisation of people by using foreign funds to stall projects so that donor companies benefit.

If NGOs are so committed to their objective, they can raise funds from India itself to work for it. They don't need large donations from Multinational Corporation from abroad to raise objections in a democratic manner. By using foreign funds these NGOs have been successful in sabotaging Govt and Public-Private projects. So that donor Corporations can get benefitted. Similar mobilisation was also observed in Australia when Adani has been bidding for Coal mines.

NGOs were not working for their objective, but also were transferring money from their account to other NGOs without proper clearance. Shady foreign money transfers from NGOs also prompted authorities to investigate these firms on FEMA Act. If NGOs were so clean, they can fight the battle with local money than CRYING.

Foreign fund is NOT needed to fight so-called Hindu nationalism.

Foreign fund is NOT needed to raise political objections in a democratic system.

One cannot even read a recipe of a proper Gujrati Dhokla nowadays without constant screaming of "rising Hindu nationalism". XD

https://www.firstpost.com/india/enforcement-directorate-raid...

https://www.bloombergquint.com/law-and-policy/2019/09/05/ed-...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/dining/indian-recipes.htm...
I think they are referring to the idea of "apparatus" from Michel Foucault.

From wikipedia:
"I shall call an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif
> There is no iphone3 appstore where I can buy iphone3 apps

Of course there is. It's called the App Store, and it's where all of the apps that support the iPhone 3g are. And just like your example with the PS3 these apps are likely not maintained. The fact that you can't download the latest version and run it on an iPhone 3g is no different than not being able to play PS4 games on a PS3.

I have an iPhone 4 in my desk, as a reminder of how quickly the world moves. I just turned it on. It connected to wifi and worked just fine. I'm sure no different than your PS3.
The FTC has a nice site that makes it clear that antitrust enforcement doesn't require a government-mandated or absolute monopoly. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

ETA: Fixed wrong link.
I’ll hazard that this class of decision is entirely because enterprise success is determined by movement of the share price which requires continuous growth. It’s not enough to have a wildly successful product and a wildly successful company but constant growth is required to be seen as a success.

That’s the only way I see a golden goose killing ux change making into one of the industry leading products in a cut throat ever changing sector.

I’ll now browse the comments to see if any other plausible explanations have been presented.
New headline: Physicists make another ridiculous claim about the known universe ....
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I never understood this. Economics 101 or 102 maybe tells us that our consumer welfare will be reduced if firms have less uncertainty about how much they can extract from us. You can make this argument more sophisticated in networks, regarding ads, regarding quality and what have you. But the basic case should be enough to convince you that amazon knowing every detail about you is not going to help you. At all.

So of course we have something to hide.
I have the same gripe with auto-flush toilets. The ones where I work tend to be over-zealous meaning they flush to early and need to be flushed again when you are done.
The judge in the case - an actual lawyer - disagrees with you.
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I can feel your passion about this topic, so I guess music (and playing) is an integral part of your life. That is really admirable and I could imagine having the same passion about it if I'd focused on it from my childhood up.
I did chose a different path and now approaching 40 want to "do music" coming from the technical side. You could describe me as the youtube learner. I like to watch some music theory videos from time to time, but what I like even more is doing something and learning what works and what does not by making mistakes.

I am not afraid to make mistakes and am even happier if I discovered something on my own that probably any music student would have learned in the first class.

So I'll tip my hat to you for having such a deep passion for music, but I will still move along my own path
I believe he's suggesting that Assange should have released both sets of data, not just one because of his personal vendetta.
LGs have ads as well. I had to add a bunch of domains to a DNS blacklist in order to get my $2000 TV to stop spamming me.
IMO, the best example of this is CF lightbulbs.

How many people have have lived / are living with absolutely terrible light and usage ergonomics (and will do so for years more) because of that stillborn "technology" ?

The kicker is that after 20 years of bad lighting environment, you have a local mercury disposal issue, regardless of how much mercury might have been saved in total emissions over the bulbs lifetime.
Samsung makes great hardware but shit software. From TV to tablets to laptops

If it involves code it is going to be terrible for the customer.
> So far, evidence of reinfection with Covid-19 seems limited to a handful of people.

Is there even enough evidence in those few cases that it was really a reinfection? RT-PCR based tests are good but are not perfect after all, false positives happen.
It seems like the definition is "broadened" but no actual definition is provided. All we can look at is who gets labeled as "white supremacist" and draw our own inferences. Notably, a lot of garden-variety egalitarians--people who are against any kind of racial ideology including critical race theory, "anti-racism", and other left-wing racial ideologies--are frequently labeled "white supremacist" (including an awful lot of people of color, jewish people, homosexuals, etc).

We should be very wary of rhetoric that depends on changing definitions of terms without providing precise definitions (see also "racism"). Put differently, everyone's ideas should be criticized on their own terms, but you oughtn't be taken seriously if you don't even define your own terms (and defining them in terms of other poorly defined terms--e.g., "'anti-racism' opposing racism"--doesn't count).
It used LuaJIT before too right? Or it's only introduced with 0.5 release?

Curious on the performance impact of the release.
It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is
Honestly, I don't pay that much attention to American politics since there's enough to be worried about in my country, but iirc he openly admitted to obstruction of justice and to the Ukraine stuff post-impeachment?

I'm sure there's been other stuff too, he likes to brag.
Apple themselves call it a general computing device?

You can see that for iphones as well.
Does it work the same for all clients?
Agreed. I think the audience matters too -- different messages appeal to different people.

My dad is one of those old school guys who thinks law enforcement can do no wrong and nobody needs to hide anything unless they're doing something wrong. Even if that were true and I think it is true that many law enforcement personnel are trying to do good, that doesn't always mean the results will always reflect their intentions. When the sample size of facts is too small, as is often the case with mass collection, it's too easy for your sample to get mixed up with someone else's. Maybe your phone is the only other phone in the area when a murder is committed. That doesn't mean you did it, but it sure makes you look like the only suspect.

I was never able to gain an inch on his argument until I asked him why he has curtains on his living room window. I mean, it faces North, so there's no need to block intense sunlight, yet he closes them every night when he's sitting there reading a book or watching TV. Why? He's not doing anything illegal, yet he still doesn't want people watching him. He said he would not be ok with the Police standing at his window all night watching him. That's when he finally understood that digital privacy is not just for criminals, but for everyone who wants to exist in a peaceful state and not a police state.
US antitrust law isn't designed to break up platform monopolies, period. Which is unfortunate, because the kind of all-owning combinations it's designed around aren't really possible in tech, post-Internet.

Microsoft of the 90s was much-lamented, but in reality they extracted far less value than they could have. They could have easily asked for 30% of all revenue of all Windows software, and developers would have had to pay it.

I'm hesitant to advocate breaking up of platform monopolies or duopolies, but a lesser-version of antitrust law would substantially benefit consumers in both app stores and ISPs. In both cases, the monopoly stems from monopolized access to the end customer, which is what would be beneficial to attack.

IMHO, a sliding scale of mandates for increasingly-open third party access based on market share (broken down into each user market!) would be appropriate.

If you want 90% market share, go for it. But you'd better believe you're going to have to provide (1) customer access to third parties & (2) any work required to enable them, at cost.
Depending how you sleep on a train, you might be able to sleep 5 at home and try to catch 3+ hours on the trains.
There are more jobs than you'd expect within 1h rail commute of cheap housing

The Boston area has among the most restrictive zoning regimes in the country and that's consistently driven up the cost of housing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/how-to-bl...

The cost of housing is driving up the cost of salaries. Until Boston/Cambridge/Somerville and so forth build more housing, housing is going to remain very expensive relative to locations that have legalized the building of housing.
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Indeed. One city nearby was spending ~$4,500 a month to feed and house families, but the conditions were fairly horrible (dilapidated shelters with communal bathrooms, poor food quality). Simply handing the families the cash would have been better. Of course, then you have other issues like welfare cutoffs and people from other municipalities coming to receive such benefits, problems that would be solved by a nationwide UBI.
>Shipping India's able-bodied workforce to the US [...]

I wonder why the blame is on the US or American companies, which offer better working conditions and pay, rather than Indian companies for not being competitive enough, or the expats for "defecting" from their home country.
>Assange basically had 2 nukes, one with Clinton's name on it and one with Trump's name on it and released only the Clinton one because he had personal beef with her.

What are you talking about? There's no source that Assange or WL had any information on Trump, which they held back.

Your cited article only writes about the twitter DMs, in which the WL account asked Trump Jr. to leak his fathers tax returns. It doesn't mean they ever posessed them.
From what I understand this is an actual thriving industry already. Traditional identity theft (get someone's SSN and other info and open credit lines in their name) is much harder now, so the fraudsters have moved on to creating wholly made up "synthetic identities" de novo.
My parents were thinking about getting a Samsung TV and I've always been under the impression they make great displays.

Instead I will recommend Sony or LG now
They used Archimedes screws, as noted in the article.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199662266/ is a very good book about the current state of research into the Hanging Gardens. As ncmncm notes, there is strong evidence that Babylon never had any such thing, but Nineveh did.
This does not apply to tracking pixels - the technology used here is completely different.

What you mention is the ability for your email client to send a "that email was read" message when you send an email with such a request.
I just want to know how they installed the new nvidia cuda drivers without borking their Ubuntu/tf install.
I think that the trick is to use a monitor/commercial display instead of a tv.
New homeowner 'freaked out' when stranger took control of her security system
> The man or woman who could be the next Einstein may well be tending a cassava field right now.

Probably not. Einstein was not a solitary genius. He lived in a culture and society that placed high value on learning and especially math.

He was also in communication with some very gifted people such as Emmy Noether who actually discovered the mathematical foundation for much of his work.

Srinivasan Ramanujan on the other hand is a much better example of finding someone who had super human abilities in an unexpected place.
This is not the sort of thing you want your sysadmin, the one who's blocking your network address lookups, to read on Hacker News.
Quite a few people are having trouble groking the "stupid solutions" part.
Note: OpIndia is far from an unbiased source.
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Trees are a renewable resource.
Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little. And here, too, that Spanish proverb holds good, which declares that honor and money are not to be found in the same purse—honora y provecho no caben en un saco.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship"

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship

For professionals in technical fields where skills-assessment itself is expensive and uncertain, a book serves at a minimum as a signifier of one's own skill and ability. In exceptional circumstances, a book can lead to the author becoming part of both the skill-generating and certifying mechanism. Writing "the book" on a topic, and the teaching, lecturing, training, or technical leadership roles availed ... may ... prove worthwhile. Others then display their copies or familiarity of the book as evidence of their own ability. (Knuth, Gang of Four, Kernighan & Ritchie, etc.)

It's critical to realise that this signalling capability, as with attention, is a fundamentally rivalrous and finite space (perhaps not fully zero-sum), such that there can only be one truly leading authority or reference at a time. Though if like Martin Kleppmann you hit that spot, it can prove rewarding.
Is it true that Germany “tracks” students early and aggressively? I.e. if you’re not doing well academically, then you are encouraged to use the vocational track.

Not that there’s anything wrong with vocational training compared to a university. The plumber who came out for a 15 minute house call probably makes more than I do in a year.
Just as a plug / FYI for Consumer Reports - it's worth checking your local public library to see if they've got a subscription to C.R. that you can use for free.

Nowadays, with everything being online, you might even be able to use the Consumer Reports website for free, through your local public library.
I wonder how historically true it is that people had an ability to voice unpopular opinions without social consequence.

My parents are from the Soviet Union, so that example comes to mind most readily. Obviously speech was heavily restricted and policed in that time and place; a relative was briefly thrown in jail for handing out pro-democracy leaflets in the late 80s. My wife's family is from China, another country with a history of policing speech. There is a wonderful book called "The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution" which talks about the negative consequences of seemingly innocuous speech during the Cultural Revolution.

Lest people think I only have examples from overseas, when I was growing up here, I found that criticizing religion, even lightly, was problematic. Organized religion was something of a sacred cow until perhaps the early 2000s. I have gay friends, and coming to their support in the late 90s and early 2000s was difficult, with the majority of opposition coming from the religious community.

After 2001, criticizing the war on terror lead many public figures to be deplatformed (or canceled in modern terms). An example of this is the MSNBC host Phil Donahue [1]. Some of you may be old enough to remember the "support the troops not the war" slogan to try to get around these issues, with mixed success.

Maybe folks who are older than me can compare the attitudes now with other historical periods, but I don’t believe it’s more difficult now to vocalize an unpopular opinion than it used to be.

[1]: https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/21/phil_donahue_on_his_2...