skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point I'm making is that the Democratic Party has beat back the challenge from its base far more effectively than the Republicans, to the point that the argument just won't fit. Despite Sanders' high favorability among many Democratic voters, there's no evidence he's going to be very "influential" anytime soon.
Personally I am not worried that flat-earthers will turn all of us, so I am not uncomfortable, but I agree that such a regression would be quite unpalatable.

Rather, I believe that the majority of people will continue to understand the earth as "round" and will be more likely to believe the (also minority) science pedants when they say "actually, it's more slightly egg-shaped" than they will the ravings of someone who does not believe in satellites.

The beautiful trick of decentralization is not that it has any ability to prevent wrong-information from being disseminated, but that it ensures that correct-information will be disseminated regardless of any co-existing propaganda campaign to the contrary. In a centralized censorable system this guarantee cannot be met.

I believe that as long as correct-information is available the majority of humans will eventually find consensus with it.

I am not convinced that fringe ideas like flat-earthism are necessarily growing or that they would be doing so because of the web. It is likely that the web is just exposing, for the first time, the true extant of the population that is willing to accept fringe theories which while I agree is a disconcertingly large percentage, still does not seem to be the majority of people.

That said, roughly half the people I talk to still seem to fully accept and believe in some sort of literal sky god and roughly a third still seem to take in earnest the existence of actual ghosts, luck, karma, or other such poorly supported meta-think as obvious truths. But I believe this number is way way down from 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 1000 years ago... I believe more people are finding consensus with actual truth due in large part to the awesome power of decentralized messaging systems we've built to date starting with language and so far culminating at the internet and the nascent social and technical overlays that are being built on-top of it.
Is there an API or service that can tell me the value of a domain by looking at things like backlinks or Alexa ranking or something like that?

What if I were to make a tool that monitored dropped domains and ran it through the service and then automatically bought domains which had some base value according to the tool?
This American Life had a segment that was someone telling a story about when they were a teenager and snuck onto a domestic flight.

"Act Three" here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/477/getting-away-with-it

So, I dunno, I can believe it, although I don't know exactly how connections worked then or if it could have been the same plane stopping in LA and continuing to Japan or what. But in general, yeah, "security" wasn't actually a thing on planes then. There was no security checkpoint at all to get to a gate before the 70s; you didn't need a ticket or to show ID to go through the security checkpoint that did exist before 2001. It's easy to forget or not realize how much thing have changed.

Or, it's just one of those rumors that people like to adopt and claim as a story that happened to htem, when really they heard it from someone else that claimed it happened to them, etc. That also happens.
It’s pretty much perfect as is. Maybe add some contact info? Not everyone will be able to track you down on HN. :p
Saudi Arabia has a sovereign fund it invests on behalf of its citizens. It’s around 1.3 million/person. Altho’ they don’t accept immigrants. At all. Also. Oil.

I would like to see the American billionaires like Gates and Ackman et al combine their millions to start the fund. Perhaps they could pick people by lottery. It should be interesting.

Honestly..govt funded housing for all, free education and universal medical as social safety net would solve inequality rather than this. But can it easily be achieved with the same $26 billion/year budget quoted.

It’s actually not a bad idea that’s suggested as long as it doesn’t involve tax squeezing the middle class or those in an age group who get no benefit from this scheme.

It can still be done if people start saving from the time they know they learn of pregnancy. In India..back when I was a kid..there were many govt backed programs like this. Starting from a fixed deposit amount at birth with cumulative interest that you can’t break till the child turns 21.

There were wedding bonds, education bonds etc. they were backed by the govt and also recurring ones where you can pay at the post office. In rural areas, they’d come home every month to collect from the villagers. This was especially popular as gifts for girl children as female foeticide was prevalent and often due to poverty. Knowing that the child had enough money as an adult to be independent made her less vulnerable. Often relatives pooled in money for these bonds.

In one of the family homes I visited in the village, I met an elderly woman who said that back when(before independence), the practice was to plant fruit trees or hardwood trees..she suggested that in modern times, mothers should plant ten mango tree saplings or ten coconut trees every year on the girl child’s birthday. They deliver dividend every year w/fruits and will be a valuable orchard by the time she’s 18..which was the legal age to be married in India at that time and they certainly expected to marry off their girls by that time.
Who is little Jimmy?
I don't think the way the article is written has nearly as much to do with the comments on this thread as the subject itself, which tends to bring out the worst in the site. I think the article itself is quite well written.

I also think we tend to fall into a trap here of assuming that an article's impact on HN is indicative of its quality. Most people don't write "for" HN, and lots of good stuff doesn't play well here.
Are attractions at tree farms (that is to say, everything aside from trees) typically first-party (you) or external contractors?

I'd be fascinated in the experience value-add economics.

Said as someone who today bought a U-Cut 8' cypress ($56) at a local tree farm, a train ride (2x $2), baling ($2), three drinks + brownie + boiled peanuts (~$12). Thankfully, letting two quarantine-bored teenagers ride in the back of my truck around the farm was free. ;-)
The constant wildfires make Californians feel at home there.
Investors in two Sequoia funds will see 11-fold returns on paper, after fees
The key to identical particles is understanding the configuration space properly. Basically, instead of ordered n-tuples (R^3N), one can use sets of size n whose elements are points in R^3. This immediately eliminates everything except the "symmetric" wave functions. To get the anti-symmetric functions needed for fermions, one needs to extend the theories under consideration a bit. One could use a covering space approach, demanding a suitable projection of the trajectories downwards or one can approach it from the perspective of having a twisted bundle for the value space of the wave function, one in which it looks locally like complex-valued wave functions, but globally it has a parallel transport action that leads to sign change around a closed path that suitably permutes the set.

The nice thing about the parallel transport point of view is the extension to spin. Again, it will look locally like the usual tensor product, but by using an index set for the tensor product being just the set of positions itself, one can again get a non-trivial parallel transport that does just what one would expect.

This is what restricts the permissible wave functions.

One reference for this is my own thesis from about 20 years ago:

http://jostylr.com/thesis.pdf

There were some papers that were published from that, but they mainly focused on the general topological story rather than having very much in the way of identical particles.

One thing we never did accomplish from this point of view was explaining why fermions went with half spins and bosons integer spins. But at least we did get it reduced to just the two choices.
Related to this, how do repeat-customers play in? I'm that a major target?
But my point is that 'quirky enough to be considered off' is a rather subjective and context-dependent POV. The main issue really is the lack of consistent structure beyond the very short term, but aside from that the music seems to replicate many interesting features of the style, and it's certainly interesting enough to be listenable. Clearly it doesn't sit within the classical tradition of composed music, but it really is quite passable as 'noodling' or improvisation.
> my response has been to disengage

What if disengagement (demoralization) is what the people who oppose your politics want you to do?

Wikipedia, “Demoralization (warfare)”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoralization_(warfare)
Quick Hitting Tips for Dealing with People Who Play the Victim
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good riddance. She tried to doxx her colleagues for daring to criticize her work.
No, my point is I think the article is actually arguing for more than just hobbyist networks. I think they ARE trying to reach non-technical users with this plan.
Most companies have old/unmaintained wiki sites. That doesn't mean the organization is dead.
My smartass reaction was "I wonder if that's where my PS5 is."

But this got me thinking: it would be very interesting to get a listing of everything lost. Even as just a one-off case study. What does it look like to lose a container ship worth or cargo?
I think it's mainly ask.com
I've been using Emacs for ~15 years and my configuration is more than 20k lines of code that I've personally written plus
comments. Occasionally, I will factor out parts of my config and release them as Emacs Lisp libraries.

I would expect any heavy Emacs user, fully immersed in the Emacs-is-an-extensible-environment paradigm to operate in similar fashion.
I've reported malicious Chrome extensions and Google ads on Search that direct to them that hijack the browser, even had Googlers pursue the matter internally, only to find them reinstated within hours. And tons of these have lasted for years.

Malicious actors are almost certainly incredible revenue drivers for Google, and people on the ads team are protecting them because they make their metrics look good.
Hmm, i play and make music, but i can see a place for randomly generated music, or at least randomly generated music as a tool for creation. But, like with a lot of randomly generated video games, it's easy to make them suck. I think something maybe more like A robot named fight's approach to procedural generation may be better for music, random generation based on pre-assembled parts, or maybe random generation to create variation for pre written parts.

A lot of arpeggiators already do something similar.

Though, i do agree with the general premise of that and think any randomly generated parts should be hand touched up by someone who knows what they're doing and should be used as any other tool in a musician's arsenal and not as a way to just generate songs wholesale.

There is a potential for random generation to be used creatively in music, it just shouldn't be used as a crutch to cover lack of skill or as the sole means by which a song is created.
I don’t think we should make claims based only on what seems apparent to us.

That isn’t a good path to finding the truth. It only exposes hidden biases and assumptions.
Billionaires are overwhelming pro-Democratic party politics, and most of them are even in favor of genuine "big government". They understand which side their bread is buttered on.

[ EDIT: turns out I was wrong. Billionaires are not overwhelmingly pro-Democratic party. They are, however, roughly split between Democrats and Republicans, which does more or less the same work in disproving the claim implicit in the parent's rhetorical thought experiment. ]

Your thesis doesn't hold.
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You could then determine an over/under on recovering them. Ideally you could recover them all, but you would need some that weren't just rice and beans to make it worthwhile.
Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)
My favorite feature of logical names was that they didn't just point to directories -- they could be a search path!

To test new code, all I had to do was create a directory to hold my changes, and copy in just the files I wanted to update. Set the logical name aliasing the code location to search first in my "branch" directory, then in the main directory. Any code in found the top-level search location takes precedence over the main directory.

Boom! Instant branches, but supported at the OS level.
Wow, this looks like a pretty impressive rewrite!
Interesting that they'd voluntarily raise this in their own published FAQ. Seems unusual for a PR site: "Are there any problems with the hull structure of this vessel type? We know the same type of vessel also experienced container loss recently."
I've seen the "better" version a few times before. I wrote something equivalent from first principles.

It is NOT better. It is much more difficult to understand. Software engineering is about making the code intelligible for the people who follow you. The simple two pointer with conditional is MUCH easier to read and understand.
The issue is not the extensions per se, but the partner revenue.

"I'm extremely pleased to announce the extension of our 14-year relationship with Google," said Joey Levin, CEO of IAC. "We've generated nearly $10 billion in revenue to date through the life of our partnership, and this extension makes clear that we have plenty more to deliver. Google's search and search advertising products remain the strongest in the world, and we believe that this renewal puts us in a solid position for the years ahead."

Does google have data scientists looking at ad revenue? For sure. How that revenue is generated is a core business, and there is no question they had metrics on quality of that traffic which would be the first hop before landing on the ad. The idea they thought this was all quality organic traffic - no chance.

I get regulators are cracking down, but the fake reviews, fake shopping sites and now these fake ad revenue generators don't deserve regulatory protection.

Fair point on the extensions side though.
Really great project to decentralise video
An easier way for an Android end-user or an administrator of a small number of Android devices to deal with this is to switch from the built-in browser to Firefox Mobile, because it comes with its own root store which includes the ISRG root, even on an OS that doesn't know about that.

(This suggestion is provided in the ISRG post about this change -- https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html#if-you-... -- and elsewhere on the Let's Encrypt community forum. If the IdenTrust root expiration ends up leading to much consternation among users and site operators, this might be good information to spread around more widely!)
> Malicious actors are almost certainly incredible revenue drivers for Google, and people on the ads team are protecting them because they make their metrics look good.

This is one of the downsides of a Google monopoly (/single advertiser market): they don't have to care about click fraud besides making sure it doesn't show up in headlines. Even if Google suddenly had a reputation for click fraud, not advertising on YouTube and the rest of the web can be a death sentence to staying competitive in your respective market.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/12/04/exclu...

Not a conspiracy theory.
They're not sealed though, I think?

Now I'm wondering about how much stuff survives and how that correlates with value.
I don't understand why people just can't use Ethereum for this with a little more polishing on the UI end from the devs. It has the added benefit of being decentralized, something Facebook or any other company or charity will never be. It even recently implemented proof of stake rollout so it isn't using massive environmental resources for proof of work in the future.

Of course Bitcoin was ideal for this but it went off the rails for the banking the unbanked dream when it refused to scale from a blistering 7 transactions per second and the associated high fees. Ethereum fees aren't great either, but my understanding is that massive increases in throughput are coming with sharding etc. in Ethereum 2.0. Monero would be perfect for this, but I don't know if the world is ready for true privacy and fungibility in their e-coin.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth...
I'm hoping this issue (https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler/issues/1553) is addressed by the time they release Pages :( Excited for Pages however!
I think the article itself is quite well written.

And yet there isn't a single comment by you engaging directly with the article itself. Only engaging with your opinion that my opinion of it is wrong.

To me this fact only lends further support to my view of what is going on here.

But I don't intend to argue it further. This isn't remedying the problem at all. It isn't somehow leading to better discussion here.
Wow - that's a remarkably large number of containers. If my math is right, just about 25% of a full load on this ship.

Half-submerged containers can be pretty insidious navigation hazards. Hopefully nobody ends up hitting them before they sink.
and they've shot themselves in the foot with Docker Hub with the rate throttling

similar to npm though they'll keep getting second chances since it's the default namespace in the cli
Speaking of, are there alternative Reddit backends? It would be interesting to be able to take one of these sites or Reddit apps and point it at an alternative backend that provides identical functionality with different data.
Why not the concise version?

for(p=NULL,q=head; q!=entry;p=q,q=q->next);
*(p?&p->next:&head) = q->next;
Because he's the first president since Jimmy Carter not to start a new armed conflict? He negotiated middle east peace agreements between Israel and 4 or 5 other nations. He created Opportunity Zones for tax-incentivized investments in poor (often minority) neighborhoods. He increased funding to historically black colleges. He instituted prison reform to shorten sentences for non-violent offenders. If anything, people have been angry at him for not being enough of a medical dictator with the covid situation, meanwhile a lot of Democrat governors seem to have a predilection for banning churches, arresting small business owners, and instituting lockdowns. Left-wing social media has instituted strict anti-conservative censorship and deplatforming, in an attempt to influence the election. There's been no censorship from Trump. He's a blowhard, and sometimes an asshole, but he doesn't try to silence anyone. He's not locking people up in their houses. He's not un-personing anyone.
> 64 are believed to be Dangerous Goods containers

I'm curious what these actually contain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_goods
Here's a great usable demo: https://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/AudioRecorder/index.html
Not at all - I still favor vanillajs if only to avoid the bloat of the whole modern js toolchain (webpack...babel...extra compile times)

There's also a big difference for us within the form world between forms with ephemeral state and forms that need to persist state through many interactions and sessions. The former is perfectly fine for us to handle with vanilla js, the latter just becomes easier for developers with a declarative model.
Sorry for the late reply -- this is my weekend this week!

I remember reading that the packets were encrypted using blowfish and compressed using a custom Huffman table.

There's a lot of bit-packing in the game's packets, so I initially thought it was strange that they didn't use 10 bits for each id and pack all 32 in a row. I'm not very knowledgeable, but my guess is that wasn't done because it would right-shift the rest of the chunk by 64 bits. They would then have to go through the code for unpacking and increase the offset for each field. I believe the ids were right at the start of the chunk, and there were almost 30 other fields.

Also, there was always a belief that the game's code was a fine spaghetti. A part of me wonders if the chunk was actually unpacked in multiple places, which would make correcting the offsets that much more tedious.
They’re water tight to prevent cargo exposure to the ocean and elements, but will sink once the remaining air escapes. They can float beneath the ocean surface for days to weeks, depending on contents and weight.
Often products with batteries in them. But also products with chemicals or generally products that cause could health, safety or fire concerns if not handled properly.
The FAQ appears to be translated directly from the Japanese, which does not share the American tradition of admitting to nothing to avoid feeding lawsuits.

To be clear, the Japanese answers don't admit to anything either, the questions are just more blunt than you might expect.
SAP Commerce (Hybris) interview questions with answers – Dynamic Attributes
This essay smells like referred pain.

If the author has a good case, he should just debate PG directly on his Coinbase stance. Because it sure feels to me that that's the real issue here. All the rest of the snarkiness is motivated by a disagreement on THAT issue.
all powered by a fusion reactor
There's plenty that aren't but it's safer to assume they could be.
I was surprised to find that between 2,000 to 10,000 containers are lost each year. Seems like with the design on these you’re just asking for trouble.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship
Gotcha. Reminds me of an old story of someone using coins to bridge the gap between a CPU heat sink and the L2 cache chips with good effect.
Bionicle, Throwbots; etc - would like a strong word with you. ;)

Some LEGO doesn’t snap-fit. The average blocks don’t. There’s a good portion of pieces that do.
MIT Develops a New System That Creates Different Kind of Robots
The page states that the winds were at BF 4 (13-18 MPH) and waves were 5-6 meters (16-20 feet) during the incident.

One Apus measures out at 364 meters.

I spent four years at sea and 5-6 meters with BF4 winds, isn't THAT bad- especially for a ship that size. Am I missing something here?
You're correct. The translation should indeed be "security certificate". Would edit it if I still could.
Saying that Apple banned Epic for "fighting back" is definitely twisting the truth a bit. Epic released a behind-the-scenes software update in direct contravention of the App Store rules, which they knew was going to get them banned.
https://www.airseacontainers.com/blog/are-shipping-container...

It would appear that containers in good condition are indeed water "resistant", that is, if rained on or spray with sea water, it won't get in the container.

Dropped in the ocean? Yeah, water is getting in.