skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating though this is, the negative long term impact of these guys tends to be much greater than their positive short-term impact.

You go in, you train a bunch of locals as guerrillas, you achieve the objective, and then you get out, leaving the local guerrillas behind.

These guys now have the knowledge, experience and organisation to make the place ungovernable. At least some of them will proceed to do so; either they will form a resistance movement to whoever is in charge and become a proxy force for some other power, or they will simply replace politics with profit and convert to organised crime. Either way, the new government is faced with an ungovernable mess.

Afganistan is probably the best example. It was never easy to govern, but after the US trained a guerilla resistance to the Soviet invasion it became impossible. Most of the Islamic fundamentalism that the USA is fighting today can be traced back to that one event.
I am going to massively over simplify, but here goes. The really big idea from control theory is the idea of negative feedback. This basically boils down to measuring the output of your system and making the input to the system some function of the difference between the input signal and the output.
The parent post refers to PID control. This refers to the three types of commonly used things to do with the difference (or error) signal.

P is for proportional - where you just multiply the error signal with a constant. What this does is to encourage the system to track the level of the input signal (but potentially with some lag)

I is for integral. This is where you integrate the difference signal over time. What this does is to reduce the lag between the input and output signal
D is for derivative. This is where you feed back in the derivative of the error signal What this does is to damp down the swings in the system especially those that come from being too aggressive with the above two knobs.

Good controller design often comes down to picking the right weights for each of the three types of feedback functions you can input into the system. So in this example, it might be that you distribute your requests to servers based on how over or under loaded the servers are...
C++Cast: Goodbye 2020
We had all those things in my house as a kid in the 90s.
> I'd expect Venezuela could do something similar if they felt like it.

And yet, if you look at the real world, and how things exist already, you see that these types of efforts have failed.

This is not a hypothetical situation. This is not about stuff that may or may not happen in the future.

Instead, you can look at real world situations, that happen right now, in existing countries all around the world, and you will see that the efforts to control the internet, have mostly failed.

Ex: Just look at china, which is the most famous example of internet control. . Lots of people have VPNs and can get around these restrictions in china.

The evidence already proves you wrong. There are multiple countries who have attempted to enact strict controls, over the internet, already, and they have mostly failed.
Wait until you guys see the prices for the "AAFES POGS" on ebay ...

Basically while you can use cash, coins are too heavy to justify shipping into country. AAFES instead prints "gift certificates" in the shape of a pog, in 0.05, 0.10, 0.25 denominations.

The resale value on these is hilariously high ... these are federally issued mediums of exchange being currency except in name only. And only useable in deployed locations.
They had to produce something that could legally be called a pizza to at least fulfill the purchase contract with DoorDash and avoid making themselves legally liable.

But what would probably have worked would be to pull this off with two restaurants, each ordering pizzas from the other, with them sending the same physical pizzas around all the time. Cold and old pizza is still legally a pizza, just a bad one.
To be fair, they did this with Godiva festival in Coventry to good effect - It's a public music festival put on by the council, however every year there were issues with overcrowding and people queueing to get in after the venue reached its capacity.

They changed the model to ticketed entry at £3 per person (enough to pay for the full infrastructure for collecting and checking tickets but nowhere near enough to scratch a surface on the event costs) and it worked really well - no queues and really good value. The money wasn't a barrier to entry, but did put up enough of a barrier to entry to mean that people didn't register 'free' tickets and then not show.
The business model was for Boulton & Watt to provide the engine for free while the mine owner paid them fees based on the tonnage of coal saved.

A more sophisticated business model than a good chunk of 21st century tech startups!
Bottom line is, if you do all those things and most everybody you know does too, you’re truly exceptional.

Even perfectly dutiful people usually know someone who clearly resents paying taxes (which at the very least encourages others not to fulfil their duties), or has no particular regard for the law beyond not getting caught. Most people know folks who vocally disrespect entire categories of people. Most people know folks who deny climate change, which clearly brings with it duties that would not otherwise exist.

If you don’t really know anyone like that, you’ve got yourself a nice living environment. That’s great - but there’s a genuine concern out there for people who know a range of folks. Even you yourself will be affected by significant externalities whether you recognise them or not.
Which community are you referring to? In mine it was the very same, and I guess it's very common.
Really! Why even bother with predictions, except to reveal your biases?

Related, some enjoyable wisdom from Morgan Housel (one of my favorite personal finance writers): https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/sure/
I suspect this is a situation where you’re likely to have a lot of sampling bias. Lockdown has been really shit for a lot of people and I would guess that the lack of financial stability or any kind of predictability would put people off. The question is whether this is counteracted by the better off people whose pandemic experience has been more encouraging.
Screw Theory
* Baizuo gestapo

* The DJ mix fades slowly from Covid to climatechange

* Bill Gates does geoengineering

* Trillions of dollars printed -> effect -> bitcoin to the moon

* People will say that internet in 2020 had freedom

* Migration of taxpayers to other countries
The difference between what delivery services like Doordash and what Taxi companies are doing is that Doordash is holding themselves out to be the company.

There's several instances where Company A has had Service Provider B set up a website in the name of Company A, update Google Listings to replace the Phone number and website of Company A with their own version of the site.

Then when an unwitting customer calls the number given, they're actually talking to Service Provider B, not Company A.

Taxi services don't hold themselves out as the personal driver service for the company you're going to.
Investment into renewables, as one example among others.

You could make a reasonable argument that the EU should generally refrain from funding infrastructure and other development projects, and that this is a power best reserved for member states.

But don’t sell it short; those programs are generally intended to provide long-term support for the stability of the single market by developing international cooperation and helping the least developed regions and countries catch up. It’s more intertwined with supporting free trade that it may initially seem.

NAFTA on the other hand requires roughly 0 percent, which is markedly better.

NAFTA (or USMCA now) is not really comparable to the European single market even from a free trade perspective. The latter eliminates barriers to the extent that trading with other member states is like trading between different US states. I could load a van up with products, drive them to another EU country, and deliver them to a customer - with no need for customs forms, tariffs, inspections, bureaucracy or anything else of the sort. It’s hard to overstate how much easier this makes trade.

The cost is that removing barriers means greater harmonisation between member states is required on many levels, and the purpose of the EU is to provide the means for that harmonisation.

Again, it’s fine to feel that a better approach is possible. But I think it’s also important to be honest about what the trade offs really are. Neglecting to do that is what led to Brexit.
That's an excuse, and very weak one. Tax subsidy is a minuscule part of the cost savings.
I am one of them. I tend to do exactly that. I find new thing and if it tastes ok, I buy it multiple times and stop buying when novelty wears off. The new snack/milk/yogurt feels like fresh change more then once. I can eat it many times till it becomes "normal" at which point I loose interest.

Watermelon-flavored Oreos sounds exactly like the thing I would go for.
Microsoft Says Suspected Russian Hackers Viewed Source Code
> An atmosphere where interrupting people randomly is commonplace is almost never good for productivity.

Almost everywhere I have worked there has been a way to signify that you don't want to be disturbed and you are working in the zone, be it setting do not disturb on slack or wearing headphones.

It's not an either/or situation, and if John has the credentials to a server and sits opposite me and doesn't have headphones in, I'm asking him to pop them across rather than raising a ticket to him.
Few trillion in national debt. Who cares.

I thought it was quite interesting that 30% of the budget is debt servicing.

If they didn’t have any debt, they wouldn’t need to loan any money.
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong but the two times I've used Logseq, I've managed to horribly destroy a page by breaking some special formatting which has made me back away in horror, thinking I could accidentally break my database sometime.
Looking around at all the enormously fat people, I suspect it's more likely to be thyroid and biome problems than cancer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915086/

https://www.gmoscience.org/glyphosate-and-roundup-disrupt-th...

I'm happy to pay more for, say, beans which aren't soaked in glyphosate. It's really bonkers how Monsanto has succeeded in putting this shit everywhere.
How is the USD helping the North Koreans?

No one claimed that Bitcoin is useful in NK so I don't get the point of the question.
The window chrome is fine but the settings are a bit of a mess in my opinion.
You and they making a mistake saying that blind people should not see dreams. I wonder how such an idiotic idea reached the HN at all. It's Daily Mail level.

People see dreams not every time they sleep, not every night, sometimes we can have multiple nights without dreams. By this moronic theory our “visual cortex” should be modified to “blind mode” just in the first night of sleep without dreams.

Articles containing words “Mother Nature” are only good for religious organizations, homeopathy lovers and other imbeciles.
I'm curious - why do you think that Bitcoin is "one of the worst ideas in modern history"? It's a very bold claim, I'd like to understand your reasoning.
yeah, from technology point of view 80s synths are incredibly interesting, btw recent discussion on DX7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592265

The thing with eurorack that can feel uninspiring because it's never one music instrument, especially if you rewire it often and it becomes this abstract blob of music tech that is never finished, which makes it both addictive and expensive.
I'm sure 99% percent of drivers will choose 30% more money vs "avoiding risky cash". And they have an option of direct money transfer through mobile phone too.
Of maybe like electronic lunch chits. Once they go through the reader, it might 'burn the circuit' being equivalent to stamping a hole into the card.
Actually I think the biggest problem is predicting correctly all the jump targets.
How to Be Right on the Internet
The general agreement here is that the law was made because Doordash/Postmates were impersonating restaurants without authorization from them and taking orders in their behalf, so it's not exactly similar to your shoes examples.

Most people find the impersonation and lack of transparent unreasonable. Whether the law is the best tool to fix it or whether it will have side effects is what's in debate, but the main intention of the law seems pretty clear to everyone.
I’m completely fine with apps listing restaurants without permission. But ONLY if the app makes that explicitly clear.

To falsely pretend to offer a sanctioned service is fraud imho. There’s all kinds of issues with this. Such as who to blame if an order is incorrect. Or who to complain to when prices suddenly increase.

This law kinda sucks. But the status who is fraud at worst and dishonest at best.

As far as regulations go this one seems mostly fine.
I don't get why it requires to be loaded as a temporary extension in order to work. Both Chrome and Firefox nowadays only allow permanent installation for extensions that are present on the store.

I know that both the Mozilla and Chrome stores have become increasingly strict in terms of what the uploaded extensions can do (I've gone through a quite bumpy road to get my extension published), but if you submit the extension to them and make sure that it is compliant with their policies I think that there would be no need to manually load the manifest from developer mode.
It might depending on platform. On my windows laptop, I can videoconference without GPU accelleration. Windows 10 has an impressive software fallback for gpu rendering (WARP), they could be using that.
Encoding parser FSMs by hand can be tedious and error prone, there's some nice tools to help you with that; I'm a huge fan of Ragel: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
This is the best article on DCO that I ever seen, so many thanks to the author. Often digital oscillators are unfairly misrepresented and it's difficult to find a fair comparison on the fundamentals of it.
The main problem is that the same symptoms are caused by other virus, and some of them last for years. So without a baseline to compare how frequent is this in the not-covid-19 infected population, it's difficult to be sure od the impact. (And also, they must sample the same population. Using number from other populations is not reliable.)
This is my wife’s uncle. He does this all the time. If there’s one poop in a field he’ll step in it.

Recent failures include: no brand Chinese smartphone bricking on Christmas Day and losing all his photos
because he didn’t want to pay for the Apple tax any more (he had an iPhone XR which is still fine!), spending more on Audi service in three years than he did on the car, garage wall collapsed after hiring someone who convinced him was respectable but came with no references, throwing his shit out of the pram at work followed by claiming victory on Facebook followed by being fired followed by being hired for an undisclosed lower sum elsewhere, setting up range extenders in his house while not understanding the problem and actually not even enabling them.

That’s just 2020. I’m slowly folding his experiences into my list of things not to do. He only gets away with it because he has some cash to fall back on which was inherited.
Companies will start caring about their user's data privacy. Has been a year since CCPA. iOS privacy feature will go live. Companies will realize blatant sharing of data is too risky (or not even possible)
Not much info on the app but there's an Android version here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gnews.app&...
* more countries will attempt fascism or authoritarian type of government

* more countries will have problem with clean water. Hopefully new technologies to make water purification easier or cheaper emerge

* given fall guys and among us success stories, there will be many more games aimed at that gameplay. Likely one or two of those will boom

* non code programming (drag drop, or similar to) will rise. Used to complement customization, not to replace code-based programming (dreamweaver for example)

* PWA or similar web-based app / installer will rise, while having more opposition from apple and google.
As a passenger, to me cash is far more convenient, as it preserves my privacy and nobody can overcharge me.
The bill is usually 20-30% lower than Uber.
Nah, that’s more like shrugging. “Mhh, this number here says that screwing X we’ll make a few more dollars. <shrugs> Ah well, that’s how the cookie crumbles.” <goes ahead screwing X>
Sue them!

They are so blatantly a monopoly.

50% of American consumers do their computing with a company that forces all interacting parties to jump through Byzantine hoops and pay outrageous taxes.

I'm sorry, Apple fans, but this company isn't fair to the rest of the world. It's a dark specter, turning once open computing into an arcane serfdom.
She's probably putting the cart before the horse... light or troubled sleep leads to more dreaming because REM sleep phase comes just before a waking or almost waking phase. Also, you most vividly remember those dreams that happen just as you are waking up, so the more often you wake the more intense your dreaming seems.
Bitcoin all-time-high, has someone missed the boat? Bitcoin is bad, that's why there are thousands of alternative crypto coins. For me, Bitcoin is a commodity, digital gold. It's fast and easy to move across country borders, it's quicker than international wire transfers. And because nothing is 100% perfect in the world, Bitcoin is not perfect, either.
Well, but again the analogy does not hold water, there is big difference between a sentient agent programming a laptop (for which we have a complete causal/mechanistic account) and evolution, which is not sentient/self-aware and can only be said to be "following a direction". The only way I could steelman this argument is by assuming a telos in nature, in which case it would quickly become a religious argument. If life was just an algorithm to consume energy we would already be past the point of creating artificial life, while instead we have no clue of how it begins, with our best conjecture being abiogenesis which we have so far failed spectacularly to recreate in a lab. I am convinced that it is only matter of time before we have artificial life, but it will come in the form and shape of the regular metabolizing biological life.
I'm a harbinger of failure on the supply side. Whenever I join a company or new industry or make an investment or make a prediction, it does the exact opposite of what I anticipated because of some insane global event that has nothing to do with me.

For example, I was working in a bootstrapped tech startup in online education industry which was delivering real value (really great product). But didn't really go anywhere... Then I learned that the lack of success in the education sector is probably because the entire global monetary system is a scam and so, unlike in the last thousands of years, real economic value stopped mattering as soon as I entered the workforce (what are the odds of that!?).

So I learned from this and got into an extremely hyped-up blockchain project, then right after I joined, the CEO decided to cut back on marketing and focus on development, price crashed... (what are the odds?)

So I quit and started a crypto project related to travel industry, COVID19 happens... ITO fails... WTF???

Seriously, the government should just give me free money. I don't care about pride or self-fulfillment or whatever nonsense emotion some completely useless job is supposed to bring to my shitty life. Just give me free money so that I don't have to deal with any of this shit. I don't need any fancy bling, I just want unlimited time off from having to deal with our insane economy.
Too bad I can't charge companies to NOT invest in them and to stay away from their employees.
yeah, like I said I read it somewhere and haven't been able to find it again - as you say probably nonsense and a reflection of social mores at the time - it was probably in the 80's I read it.

Edit: found it - its called the variability hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
That's alright, there is no coercion to use BTC.
If it makes you feel better, I'm the only person I know of who still has a Microsoft Phone... running Windows 10!
I see a lot of correlation here and very little causation, what if the visual dreaming is an effect of some other, more fundamental, mechanism?
Consider that maybe the intense dreams are a reflection of physical processes in the body that cause sleep to not be restful. That is, both intense dreams and not feeling rested are maybe caused by the same underlying thing.
The rumor back in the day was that loadall was added to the 286 for cruise missiles to switch context faster.
Thank you for pointing this out, much appreciated. I checked and something seemed off but could not work out what it was. Damn you "n"
A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry
Risk taking is new buzzword. Every other study on HN tend to frame pretty much everything in terms of risk taking, no matter how much strained and how little actual risk is involved. When having choice between two extraordinary safe decisions, somehow, pop journal psychology will always guess risk taking explanation.

And it is clearly guess here, the wording in article is clear on that.
in different contexts:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Zetas#Foundation

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James#Quantrill's_Raider...
Desktop app is coming my friend. Fingers crossed it will be soon.
How were businesses being abused?

Do you mean customers use the app to order from X-Pizza, the app then prominently lists Y-Pizza and now X loses customers?
This question always arises on HN, and at least one answer is always the same: Twitter is where the eyeballs are.
> mobile internet repeaters for tunnels are a solved problem.

True. Unfortunately in Canada (Toronto at least) the big 4 telco oligopoly can't agree on pricing for this one. The result is a single company offers subway coverage!

Nevermind that data here is more expensive than even the US.

Where's that Silicon Valley disruption spirit for the telco oligopolies worldwide?
I hate Bitcoin but I want to be rich with no effort, so I've got FOMO.
The Wikipedia article referenced in parent gives good detail on the problems Cape Bojador posed for early sailors.
“The only civilian media in the world that regards takedown of the Chinese Communist Party as the sole stand in the current Expose revolution”

I just don’t understand why the PRC would have a problem with this. /s