skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And who is going to come in and fix this water infrastructure, the British?

Seems like the Brits have done a lot, historically in Indian and China, but have their hands full at the moment with Brexit to reunite the "kingdom." My money is on the Chinese and their scientists in exchange for concessions that will further isolate the United States due to xenophobic thinking some people in the states perpetuate. How long before "their" water born illnesses become our airborne viruses?
> Censorship usually involves removing one side's articles and reasoning and not even attempting to dispute it.

This is what I find most disturbing about this election.

There is a significant portion of people in America (ballpark 30-40%) who believe there is literally no evidence of election fraud and Trump is just being obnoxious.

There is also a significant portion of people in America (ballpark 30-40%) who believe there are literally mountains of evidence of election fraud and Trump has a legitimate case.

Regardless of which camp you fall under, there is no consensus as to who is right. There are roughly equal amounts of people on both sides, who believe extremely different things.

Yet it is the latter group that is unilaterally and universally censored by big tech and big media. The latter group is casually dismissed, with extreme prejudice.

Regardless of which camp you fall under, censoring such a large group of people in such a dismissive way, is neither healthy nor productive. It breeds distrust, hostility, and division.

For the record, as is probably obvious, I fall in the latter half. I have done my own research, and to me, it seems unquestionable that election laws were broken in a variety of significant ways that meaningfully impacted the result of the election.

I say this as a person who really does not care if Trump wins or loses. I have never voted, and never will, for personal ethical reasons.

But I do care that this country is becoming increasingly divided.
Perhaps this was an NSA job.
That's more or less true of all the tube-style porn sites (of which Pornhub ended up the biggest an Mingeek ended up owning most of them), but it's also a little different in that, much like YouTube, they were ostensibly intended to allow people to upload their own videos that they'd created and quite a few did. Honestly, I think the commercial porn industry saw that as just as much of a threat as the actual piracy and a lot of the hostility came from permitting this kind of user-created content.
I think this is most likely to be the case, but I have to admit that it still does worry me!

But with CentOS 8 slated to continue in line with RHEL 8 support dates, at least there's plenty of time to see how the stream side of things goes, and to test it thoroughly.
I think that's an eternal discussion, and relates directly to COVID via things like lockdowns. The politicisation of masks though just strikes me as incredible. Wear a mask, sanitise, etc and freely continue some semblance of your regular life while catering for the well-being of all around you - surely that's a reasonable balance?
If you learn well in a self directed "hands on" fashion, https://cryptopals.com/ is a good place to start. (Co-created by the person you're responding to)
What did u switch to? I keep wondering whether I should stick to Ruby and call it a career or just look for jobs that interest me / good career move , regardless of stack.
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Well, a land value tax is a good idea, sure. And would extend to water rights that might come with the land.

Or alternatively, the government could officially own all the water supply and auction it off.

None of these is an argument against trading of water or water futures.
I think once the aerodynamics are tried a little bit more, it can be refined to a lifting body. Strakes and deltaish wing, something a bit like the space shuttle or X-37.

Having completely cylindrical body and two sets wings now for the prototype phase makes control authority good and iterating changes very easy (you can change either wing shape easily), even if it's not optimal mass wise.
Could it be anything other than the internet? Social media, YouTube, ease of publishing, etc. Has anything else relevant changed so much in the last decade or two?
First, I didn't make that claim. I do think, however, that the contributions of others must necessarily far outshadow his own considering that he is dividing his time between at least four companies. Even someone of equal competence (to say nothing of greater) working full time on just spacex would likely have a greater impact.

Then again, the thing would not have happened without him, so credit where credit is due.

You're right that figurehead probably isn't exactly the right word.
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> It's not okay to allow a third party to access the data your friends have shared with you without your friends consenting.

Why? If they shared it with me, that should mean they trust me to decide to whom I delegate the access no? I could as well just screenshot it and post it to twitter, what does make the social graph so special?
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The fact that you're recommending a one child or no child policy with a one sentence statement tells me you've never even done even high level research on the topic of population dynamic or resource allocation.

The one child policy has been disastrous for China. Imagine a whole generation of people that have no siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles (after 2 generations of one child policy). The social fabric in China has been gutted by this policy. Also it means that after 1 generation of this policy the number of working people is significantly less than the number of retired people. It destroys economic output and ability to care for a population, the oldest people suffer in a system like this, and younger people spend more of their earnings taking care of older people than improving their lives, so living standards stagnate or go down, you wind up with less resource availability.

A no child policy leads to extinction after one generation. You don't even need to do research on anything to know this, just simply thinking about what you're saying for a moment works.

A reduction in population does not increase resources available to people. Resources must be produced by people, a reduction in population also reduces that output. For historical proof, look at the numerous examples of famines that occurred in previous centuries, when there were less than a billion people on earth, by your logic life should've been more plentiful throughout history until recently but the opposite is actually the case, because resource availability scales with production capacity, it does not simply decrease with demand pressure.
BTC is a great store of value until better tech come out then it's done.
it's funny the lies this time are coming not from the government but from the opposition and their propaganda machinery.

I'd never consider myself government supporter, but with Trump it's like the last bastion before the country is overrun with far-left SJW hordes swayed by misinformation.

It's ironic the ultimate win for democracy manifests itself in stolen elections.
It's not a bad point, but are you sure this actually hurts Google? I believe Google and Facebook business models are advertising-based, so they strive to maximize the root mean square engagement metrics. People aren't just going to leave YouTube and Facebook et al because there's a bunch of fake news and controversy because:

1. People love that shit.
2. There's no alternative since these companies are ~monopolies that already own all of the network mass.
I feel like it's a wash. Sure we have a million causalities but is it really a bioerror? The problem is that the definition of bioerror is not in the bet itself. I personally think this bet should either be invalid, someone should flip a coin or the one who submitted the bet should pay because he can always word the bet in a way that favors himself. If bioerror is kept ambiguous then he would win through redefining the terms of the bet by a later date.
Nuts - ignore me, the FAQ seems to have been tweaked since I first read it, could have sworn it said that before...
Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong.

I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow.

My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.

I'm at a stage now where I've bottomed out all the work I've wanted to do and I'm looking for a fresh round of feedback. Would love you guys to check it out and see what you can think of.

Thanks!
It wasn't a case of lynch mobs - the court administration were properly appointed officials, and there were checks and balances in place (by the standards of the time). But the mentality that the rules had to be written down ahead of time and any loopholes were fair game just wasn't there.
> The term was not previously used with regard to software

This is just not a true thing to say. See my other replies for examples from before 1997.
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Which the article states very clearly was not the data stolen.
> given your very narrow focus

That's an incorrect assumption on your part. As i said originally:

>> There are situations where I’m ok with censorship. One of them is ...
>phase correct 250Hz crossovers as FIR

These are things that make me excited about audio. I just wonder why it’s so expensive and less mainstream. I could honestly roll my own in a matter of hours for a 10th of the price. Why don’t market forces drive the price of proper high-end audio gear down?
To be fair there's always going to be hacks and glue to put together an opinionated project like this. But adding proper mpris support upstream rather than using their own hacky wrappers would have been useful to contribute. I'm on the bug lists of most of the upstream projects and I don't recall any contributions from these guys (yet) which is a bit sad.
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> So where are all the examples on public mailing lists and Usenet of them using this?

Here's one

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

Also - even the USPTO rejected their claim as a trademark.
I find the gaming examples confusing.

Do Minecraft and Fortnite really have a social graph at their core? Both have a social dimension arguably a lite one for Fortnite and a much strong but more diffuse one for Minecraft but neither is social first in the way Roblox is for example.

I also think this is very much oversold:

> The key isn’t the rule itself, but the implication for founders trying to compete: No category is really won until the social product is built.

It really needs qualifying that a social product needs to make sense. Does my insurance provider or healthcare provider need a social component?
What makes you think so? Do you have any countries in mind that have less government intervention and look more neo-feudalist?

As a counter example, many places in Asia have gone more pro-market in the last decades and have benefitted enormously from it.

It's all a matter of degree, of course. Eg South Korea isn't made up of only free markets. But it has noticeably freer markets than North Korea. Or China pre- and post Deng Xiaoping.

Singapore is perhaps the closest to a free market place on earth, and is also one of the richest and safest.
These are financial futures. For some evidence that the presence of futures stabilises spot commodity prices see e.g. http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/CNEH/2005/papers/futures_CNEH_030...
If the water tanker guys are able fulfill the deficiency, then you know that there is enough water. It's only that the waterworks aren't supplying enough so that people have no choice left but to pay the water tanker guys.

Municipalities in most of Urban India are hand in glove with these water tanker mafias.

Good governance is the answer.
Was that your original point?

There was undeniable steep gradient towards extremism, how it worked on me in particular is irrelevant. It is a numbers game.
To be honest, the most disadvantaged are the native English speakers. Nobody understands them.
The post you replied to was correct. Your reply shows you didn't understand it. I suggest you look up sovereign immunity if you want to learn more.
> Interesting, from what I can tell the mainstream seems crazy far left and in favour of all kinds of interventions to 'smooth rough edges' and worse.

I'd like to see some examples.

> In the US the Republicans are against free trade

This isn't anti pro-market. This is anti market-as-totalizing-factor-in-life. These things aren't contradictory.

> and the Democrats have their usually anti market stance.

They gave us NAFTA. They passed a--i shit you not--market-mediated healthcare bill. As you speak, there is literally a power struggle happening wherein lobbyists are being stacked in Biden's future cabinet to ensure favorable market positions for their represented patrons.

I think there's a lot of confusion on your part. I think you're mis-using "market," to refer to some "free-market," that could never exist. I might be wrong, but there's no other way that I could understand how you can refer to Democrats, as a whole, as "anti-market." Sure, AOC gets a lot of press, but you're missing the forest for the trees when this forms your world-view of what that party is and does.
We already had that, with a few nore numbers arranged in a box (but still handwritten), but it was only available via SMS. And it cost much more than the regular postage itself.

So this is a very welcome improvement.
> By "bioerror", I mean something which has the same effect as a terror attack, but rises from inadvertance rather than evil intent.

I don’t think it’s a stretch. In an optimistic view, the current administration could be said to have inadvertently allowed things to get so bad. In a more pessimistic view, there is malice involved.
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> performance should dictate the algorithms, not the other way

You want correctness first, and performance second. But these two are very much intertwined. And knowing exactly where the boundary is will help you co-design them.

Some AWS engineers have said the following[1]:

"TLA+ [...] giving us enough understanding and confidence to make aggressive performance optimizations without sacrificing correctness."

[1] https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/24/use-of-formal-methods-at...
And it was a no-brainer that it was something that should never have been allowed to happen due to antitrust regulations. T-mobile had to jump through hoops to buy decrepit Sprint but tech companies get to buy whoever and whatever they want that allows them to expand even outside their niche and where their niche is going.
Trump has crossed so far over the line and lied so much, that not caring if he wins or loses isn't a reasonable, defensible position any more.

You're pretty lucky to be in such a privileged position that you can be so careless, but there are so many people who are directly affected and attacked by him that aren't privileged to be so lucky and care-free as you claim to be.

What exactly would he have to do in order for you to care? Is separating kids from their parents and putting them in cages while undermining Democracy just fine with you? Or can he get away with anything he wants to in your mind, even worse than that, and you still don't care if he wins or loses? Where do you draw the line?
Though I agree with you that the stock market is more gambling, I do not agree that it is because of Robinhood. It’s a byproduct of how the stock price isn’t based in reality: it’s just based on investor perceptions. I don’t think the “barrier” of trading fees is really enough to say that it’s not about gambling in the first place. I might even go as far as saying that it’s purely accidental that the stock of a reputable company will likely go up. If investors get into a feedback loop of “investors don’t want to buy X stock”, the stock price will plummet regardless of how well the company actually does. You have to have enough investors with faith in the stock for it to stay up.

I think we’d do better judging the stock market for this systematic issue rather than some app which makes it easier to exploit that issue. Is robinhood part of the problem? Sure. But it’s not at the root of the problem.
Why do they even need cap-and-trade? That would at most be a second best.

Just make water rights fully tradeable.

Of course, you might also want to remove grandfathered water rights. Good luck getting that past the lobbyists.

But even with the existing silly initial distribution of water rights, making them fully tradeable would increase efficiency:

The almond farmer would still get lots of water, but at least he'd turn into a former almond former and just sell his water on the market to someone with a better use.
Can't watch the video but comment anyway.

When you work a 15-hour week, there's always somebody who got 7 times more accomplished than you did that week.

Unless they were a 10x performer or something, then it's even more ambitious by comparison.
You can now run GFN in the browser on Linux (It might need Chrom(e/ium)).

The downside is that if you have a non 16:9 resolution you will have to change your desktop resolution to support fullscreen with black borders, otherwise the content renders off the bottom of the screen.
Where are we getting the free electricity from?

(I do agree that very cheap electricity means very cheap water.)
Voter suppression isn’t specifically targeted at minorities. That’s a common misconception, it’s tailored to individual states voting patterns. Overall turnout consistently favors Democrats which doesn’t win every state, but control doesn’t require every state.

As to the extra voting in Texas. 2020 had an additional + 1205300 Republican votes and + 1381258 Democratic votes in a solid red state which just hit 1/2 of voting age population. That’s 46.6% Republican and 53.4% Democrat and means those extra votes very much favored Democrats. Project a 20% increase in turnout with that kind of margin and Texas is in dead even recount territory.

Of course any election where Texas is that close Democrats have already won by such a margin as to make possibility flipping Texas largely irrelevant. Further, looking at these numbers it’s clear why targeted voter suppression becomes so significant.
It is just the same with your eye - and camera response curves are optimized to be similar to your eye.
There is metamerism - many spectral distributions will look the same to your eye as well as to a camera. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)
I guess optimizations like storing the v8 compiler cache format in the binary should be possible.
I understand why people here are so pissed about Flash, but if I be completely honest with you, IMO this tech was part of the stuff that made the "old" web so vibrant.

I remember about 15 years ago, there was a Flash animations channel on a Chinese website PCOnline.com.cn (Pacific Computer Network), many "Flashkers" published their art works and games there, Little Cherry Cartoon, ShiHuang Animations and that green bean frog to name a few. It was the number 1 place I went to every time when I back from school (that every half month).

For Americans, if you visit NASA.gov in around 2005 (I maybe misremembered the exact time), their intro page was a Flash animation featuring rocket launch and other stuff. And that animation was really cool and moving.

All of that is no more in today's web. Today's web only gives you few pictures or maybe a video in the background, and a big highlighted "Sign Up"||"Get Started" button. They are less and less "Look me, I'm so cool", and the resonance is mostly gone.

It's sad that Adobe was unable to address the security and stability issue in the Flash Player. Bye Flash, it was really fun.
> I have done my own research, and to me, it seems unquestionable that election laws were broken in a variety of significant ways that meaningfully impacted the result of the election.

Oh? Why in your research were highly paid lawyers unable to point to anything convincing? Why in most cases did they not even try once in a venue where lying would have penalties?
Lost it at LaTeX.
What if Martin Rees is the "inventor" of the Corona virus?
Facebook is not a journalist, it's a communications platform.

That's just mincing words. Facebook is very much a communications platform that determines what its users get to see. In that sense, Facebook exercises editorial control over its content, and to its users it makes no difference whether that control is automated or manual. Therefore it doesn't matter whether we classify Facebook as a "journalist", the damage done by Facebook's editorial control is the same.
Would you be willing to entertain a bet on that?
Do you expect water to become globally scarce?
KABOOM!

<giant fireball, smoke, bits of rocket>

"Incredible work team, nice work!"

That cracked me up.
>We don't want to take it away from people who have proven they are effective leaders and managers and hand it over to bureaucrats.

This sentence is so bizarre not even the opposite is correct. First off, 'effective leaders and managers' isn't an antonym to 'bureaucrat'. There are effective leaders and managers in bureaucracies. In fact that's kind of what bureaucracy means, effective and rational management of resources.

Furthermore, bureaucracies exist both in the private sector and public sector. Wealthy billionaires employ hundreds (if not more) of individuals doing nothing but managing their wealth in highly bureaucratic fashion. They don't run around and employ their billions in some sort of crazy act of pizza and dorm-room fuelled creative destruction, the deploy countless of institutions and non-profits and accountants and lawyers, the gates foundation looks more like the tax office or a defense department than a garage workshop.

>, or give people with a proven track record more resources to devote to new enterprises

No, the point of capitalism is to allocate capital to people who don't have any proven track record. Because that's the people who actually make new things. If you only want to distribute money to people with track records then a bureaucracy is the right address, because correctly licensing, testing, rewarding, and promoting people based on their track record is the very essence of the ideal Weberian bureaucracy. Keeping track of who does a good job is 90% of what bureaucracies are all about.
Actually there's a pretty nice natural experiment in the US, because of the Onions Futures Act. There are several studies and some division between the experts on the details, but there's a strong case to be made for futures contracts reducing the volatility in these markets.

One thing that people don't tend to realize is that speculation happens anyway, it's just not made in a public manner and through other types of contracts. In fact, if futures do reduce volatility then they reduce speculation, since it's volatility what drives speculation profits.
I invite you to spot bubbles and pop them very profitably via short selling.

(Spoiler: there are no bubbles as they are commonly understood.)
The grand-parent commenter wrote "If they have secret data, that really ought to be a reason to withdraw their patent.".

The parent commenter helpfully explained how such statement is trivially false, in that there is value in keeping some data secret even though patents are involved.