skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Future of War, and How It Affects You (2019) [video]
Interesting part starts at 11:22 where GEN Robert Brown explains how armed forces around globe use modern tech to plan operations and execute / prevent the future fight utilizing modern society

Submitted previously in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302190
I also couldn’t see the list due to ad block blocking. Added a top level comment after viewing list.
Epic could sell to accounts in every other channel without having to pay a cut. In-app purchasing is just too convenient - and as a result, too lucrative.
Name one social media/image hosting site that lets you set an
alt attribute.

And when you actually have control over the content you can use some nice CSS to get the same look with a fraction of the
size and 100% accessible.
I really hope that line would have been "the weapons are good enough", but considering the US stockpile of nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War was enough to cause the extinction of humanity a few times over, I guess not...
Yes! I've made a similar observation that politicians have abdicated their responsibility for decision making in many policy matters. And that good politicians are really all that keeps us from some sort of creepy technocracy where we are forced to behave "for our own good" based on someone else's narrow version of what our own good it. There was even a Simpsons episode about it, where the nerds took over the city leadership (also a similarly themed fresh price I believe where Carleton ran the school cafeteria).

Covid is the most obvious ongoing example but I think the thread is there through how all kinds of new technology is managed, from ride sharing, crypto, etc, to digital records and data collection. The economy is another great example I never really thought about.

Unfortunately, nothing will change in my view until we have a decent batch of politicians come along that are both principled to want to do something beyond just pandering to whoever is loudest, and charismatic enough to build the consensus that is needed for tough change. I suspect this will have to wait until a real serious crisis comes along that galvanized people into putting the usual retail political aside.
Hello! I am the author of this post if anyone has any questions :)

The library discussed is available on Github here: https://github.com/transcend-io/secret-value and is on npm to download via `yarn add @transcend-io/secret-value`
Thanks. Definitely food for thought!
It's fun (and a little depressing) to look at this list, but it exists is basically every popular project. Unfortunately, the incentives are set up for this to essentially be necessary: if something popular doesn't work in your software, users are going to think your code is the one who is broken, not the thing they are trying to use. So you have a sort of a "tragedy of the commons" where if you keep a principled position a user is going to switch to your competitor that supports quirks to get the thing to work.
See earlier thread with 294 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26162513
Is there a way to create these images from Vim or the shell in a terminal emulator?
I’d say in many cases it could also be 1.
Kyligence Releases Data Cloud Platform for Interactive Analytics
Body fat % is more accurate than BMI when it comes to gauging health risk, but it is also a lot harder to estimate/calculate so BMI is generally used to estimate risk factors. This is a problem will all BMI-based metrics, and it's worth noting that BMI is not one-size-fits-all. Different body types (muscular vs lean, for example), different ethnicities/cultures, different genders, all have different definitions of a "healthy" body and BMI isn't able to take all of that into account. That's not to say that it can't be useful, but take it with a grain of salt when it comes to interpreting BMI across different fields.
Just FYI, Netflix works without any issues on the new Chromecast with Google TV.
Demanding a law requiring negotiations merely gives them more options and legal leverage to try to demand cash payments. It doesn't shoot them in the foot. In the worst case, they can "grant" a free license to the tech companies and we have status quo ante. But the threat of making it illegal for the tech companies to operate unless they give some money to them certainly gives them more bargaining power. This requires zero analysis (except of the political climate).
Don't host your DNS at GoDaddy. If Backblaze's entire DNS gets suspended if just one of their customers hosts offending content that's just unacceptable.
For anyone who isn't familiar with the subject of that photo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Owens_Thompson
The same Prime Minister who promoted an innovation economy at the same time as switching out fiber-backboned network upgrade plans for the existing rotting copper network.
> they did it because enough people complained that they saw a potential loss in future revenue

See, this is something I highly doubt. Do you think that there is such a large part of Disney public that does give a damn about what Gina Carano says? I don't think so. I want to count the ones who actually stop watching "the Mandalorian" because of Gina Carano's tweets. My bet is that they're so few they'd feel stupid after two weeks and start watching it again.

I think the issue here is that taken one by one, each of those who have the power to take decisions succumb to peer pressure and fear of being targeted next. Everyone is replaceable, so everyone prefers to keep on the safe side when confronted by people who are aggressive, determined, and always ready to escalate the pressure to the the next hierarchy level or to to start working out the weakest peers.

So the bottom line is that if the targets of these attacks just stood their ground united and told the mobs to fuck off, the cancellers would just vaporise in a couple of weeks.
They'd be cutting themselves out of other stores if they did that. Stores like Steam require that your game is sold at the same price across all stores otherwise it will be removed from Steam.
Both of those hopes seem naive to me.

More likely is that users will stay on FB and consume each other’s insane conspiracy theories without even a hint of real reporting added in.
Seems to me that’s a viable answer. How can we test an algorithm like Google’s ranking though? We can’t feed it consistent data like in a software test. It relies on too much information, and what we know about it indicates we can’t extract it out to test against it—except for results in the real world.

Not to mention Facebook’s are even more difficult. Tangentially related, remember when you could use “View As” on your profile page to see what your profile looked like to others? It doesn’t work anymore, only works for Public and Yourself; you can no longer choose the person to view as.

It’d be great to test these algorithms. We can’t. They need to be designed and instrumented so this is possible.
Wait really? I thought subtree stores a copy of the other repo?
I love the markdown MADR you have referred to. I have worked in tech for 25 years, 16 in architecture, and capturing alternatives is pretty rare in my experience, so thank you for sharing.

I’ve also come across departments and organisations who use a template as an reason to stop thinking. For me, the most important point from Simon and the EA Anamnesis paper is to think, and be aware of how you think.
Just wondering if you've seen apple's pretty recent annoucement of the App Store Small Business Program which for the first $1 million reduces that "tax" to 15%.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...
Their website always crashes when they announce a new product
Last part unless you have any questions and I will expand

I mentioned all types in Kernel are disjoint, but didn't mention that they are encapsulated. All primitive types are encapsulated, but you can also create your own encapsulations. There is no bolts-attached object or records libraries like in lisp or scheme to achieve this: just one simple primitive: (make-encapsulation-type), which takes no arguments.

The primitive returns a 3-tuple consisting of a constructor, a predicate to test if an object is of the encapsulated type, and an elimination function to access the value with which it was constructed. Generally, you would expose the predicate by binding it to a symbol in an accessible environment, but you would not reveal the constructor and eliminator - you would use them only inside the static environment where defining your encapsulation.

To give and example, lets use the compound operative type I referred to above - which is essentially a 4-tuple. I used the functions `get-static-env`, `get-parameter-tree` etc without defining them earlier. I will define them here.

($provide!
($vau
get-static-env
get-parameter-tree
get-symbol-for-dynamic-env
get-body
operative?)

($define! (make-operative operative? eliminate-operative) (make-encapsulation-type))

($define! $vau
($vau-primitive (formals symbol body) static-env
(make-operative (list formals symbol body static-env))))

($define! get-static-env
($lambda (operative)
($let ((#ignore #ignore #ignore static-env) (eliminate-operative operative))
static-env)))

($define! get-parameter-tree
($lambda (operative)
($let ((formals #ignore #ignore #ignore) (eliminate-operative operative))
formals)))

($define! get-symbol-for-dynamic-env
($lambda (operative)
($let ((#ignore symbol #ignore #ignore) (eliminate-operative operative))
symbol)))

($define! get-body
($lambda (operative)
($let ((#ignore #ignore body #ignore) (eliminate-operative) operative))
body)))

$provide! here binds the list of symbols in its first operand into the dynamic environment where $provide! was called. The remaining operands to $provide! mutate the local environment of $provide! but not the dynamic environment from which $provide! was called. This means that the definitions of 'make-operative' and 'eliminate-operative' are only accessible from within the local scope of provide, but are no longer accessible directly once $provide! has been evaluated. Note that $provide! itself is not a language primitive, but a function in the standard library. It is a compound operative implemented using $define!

The user of this 'library' can only use the 6 combiners provided at the top. The details of how operatives are implemented (as a 4-tuple) are hidden from any use of these combiners.

This clever way in which environments, encapsulations and operatives work together is truly a gem. The decision to forbid mutating parent environments, and the ability to encapsulate objects fixes the problems of old fexprs, which were very unintuitive to work with.
This also blocks substacks and blogs btw. Hopefully, this just leads to more sources getting classified as "news media" and eventually stops any meaningful linking and thereby making Facebook useless in Australia at least. One can dream, but they'll probably capitulate before then.
Looks like that link is having problems, but you can read more scrolling down on this page:

https://www.eink.com/color-technology.html
I agree with you but I am still scared of racism.
You might want to note some very important parts of your first-listed source:

> Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.

Larry and Sergey themselves both believed that ad-funded search was problematic, and that a transparent search engine in the academic realm was "crucial".

Unfortunately, Larry and Sergey's price was clearly billions of dollars.
When did “privacy issues” start to mean “too much privacy”?
They need to improve the reliability the their DNS by partnering with a provider that won't back stab them.
One nitpick. A huge number of mutual funds outperform the market. Something like 40 percent of them, which would be in the hundreds to thousands. It's the average over all of them (after accounting for survivorship bias) that underperforms.

I otherwise wholeheartedly agree with everything you've written. Self-proclaimed expertise should be viewed with a very healthy scepticism, and the burden of proof isn't on you to show why they're wrong, it's on them to show why they're right without resorting to an argument from authority.
The same applies to cash once a critical mass of people believe there's an effectively unlimited amount of it flooding the market. That's what hyperinflation is. You really don't want to be in cash if that happens.

See the performance of Venezuela's stock market over the last 5 years:

https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/stock-market

(The "crash" in late 2018 was the redenomination of the bolivar at a 1:1000 ratio, which affected everything denominated in bolivars, including the stock market.)
You are half right, according to the song writer Robert Lopez the original movie structure and plan just had the placeholder title “Elsa’s Badass Song” and he was told to go write it, and then came up with let it go.

But it was still very early in the process and it was the first song to be written that actually made it into the movie. The extended soundtrack includes quite a few of the early songs that didn’t make it into the movie where they were still trying to work out what the style of music was going to be and who the characters are, so the music and story were definitely co-developed together.
> It isn’t progress to have massive grid outages because windmills froze

How did Texans manage to screw up windmills? The ones across the lake from me work perfectly fine all winter long, despite much colder winters.

I'm guessing they cheaped out on basic preparedness measures for this sort of thing, and clearly across the whole grid, not just renewables.
Honestly my fear isn't rogue developers. That's always a concern but not one that is going to show up with any consistency. My real fear is what carriers will do with this ruling, as they have the institutional power and collusion ability to force Apple's hand if they really wanted. I'm thinking shovelware and apps that can't be deleted becoming part and parcel with providing a phone service through a carrier.

I'm also considering the transition in the Steam marketplace as a recent example. Their opening from curation started with Greenlight, a fast track program with some but minimal curation. There were a few turds but by and large the games that came through were of some general quality. Enter phase 2, Early Access. The minimal barriers were removed except "will it run", adult content allowed, and a smaller hosting fee used. And in came the parade of low effort hot garbage. Recommendations in their platform are hard to come by now. Random impulse buy while scrolling rarely happens for me now as discovery of actual good games for me is much lower and I feel like the platform as a whole has suffered for it. I could see a similar trajectory for the app store albeit with my value of the services being placed in different categories.
In my experience, jammed in an open office in a FAANG, shoulder to shoulder, with people talking loud for hours all around (not enough conference rooms, most do VC meetings from their desks), regular office hours were just for reading email, meetings, looong lunch breaks, loong coffee breaks and BSing with coworkers. Nothing of note got done 9-5 (well, perhaps "team building" did).

Any coding, debugging, thinking had to be done either after 6pm or on weekends, or WFH. Now perhaps you can see why people coast; not everybody is willing to sacrifice nights and weekends to be productive.
From the map, Europe has 0 cdma tower while US has pretty significant number of cdma towers. Maybe most european cell phones simply doesn't have cdma support which makes roaming to US difficult?

Edit: Glancing at the map, it seems no one use cdma anymore except a handful of countries like US, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Venezuela, and some part of North Africa.
I worked in film visual effects for nearly a decade, and my wife was a AAA producer (since left the industry.) Perhaps because we were a couple, I never encountered any sex orgies, but the drugs, oh yeah, the drugs were very prevalent.
Yes, it does help when you can read between the lines . . .
I would guess that very few people are reading, editing, or re-running your code, though, which kind of changes the nature of discussing a programming language. Otherwise they'd all need to know and want to use Common Lisp.

This isn't a criticism of your code, it just reflects a larger issue in scientific programming: most code is never read, edited, or re-run by anyone other than one sole author. If that is the status quo, most considerations about languages don't even matter anymore, since the biggest issue is normally just finding a good balance between functionality and ability to collaborate, and scientific culture has lopped off the collaboration side of the equation.

This choice may also feed into that culture, a positive feedback loop of cloistering: if I were in your field and noticed you had a code base, I would have to go out of my way to run your code or improve it, so I probably just wouldn't.
That's not what happens though, is it? It's a dumb example.

It's more like the abuser forms a bond with the naive kid, and in exchange for their 'loyalty' they are rewarded with a form of insecure attachment where they do what they're told to try and get more approval, and basically just try to live with it as if it's normal.

Have a drink with me tonight and I'll make sure to call X about that role tomorrow, alright? Then tomorrow comes and maybe on occasion they actually follow through with the promise, enough to convince you they're being sincere, but most likely there'll be an excuse and another 'request', and more favours. And more dependence and more control.

Trying to compare this hellish cycle of abuse to getting fucked in the arse by Bezos for 100 mil is not just absurd, it's completely out of touch with the grim reality the victims spend the rest of their lives contending with.
Everyone was probably comparatively lean looking in the circumstances in which humanity evolved; we’re talking about small differences in fat storage and metabolism that are magnified by the environment that we’ve created.

Edited to add: obviously that’s before we consider the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection.
This is the direct link for full screen visualization:
https://alpercinar.com/open-cell-id/vis.html
Interesting take.

Are you saying that laws should exist to disallow linking between two websites based on "allocation of benefits"?

If so, how does one determine what the balance of benefits are?
In Apple ][ hires graphics, the 280 pixel-wide display area was really 140 pixels with the extra resolution coming from sub-addressing the RGB pixels on the display. On a black and white display you got the full 280 pixels but in color you would get weird color fringing happening. Even more fun was that one byte of memory was mapped to 7 "pixels" with the high bit indicating how the RGB sub-pixels would be split into the left and right halves of the pixel. Technologically it was rather cool, although it was a challenge to program against.
I think this might come down to individual countries.

I've stayed in hundreds of hotels throughout the UK, and never been asked for ID. I've flown hundreds of domestic flight legs, and on the non-budget airlines (budget ones use name change fees and paid changes to tickets as a major revenue stream) I've never had to show ID, and nor is it required. Going overseas, it's only needed for entering the country (and a cursory glance from the airline to assure themselves you actually have it, due to the high penalties they're charged for a returned passenger).

I imagine therefore a lot of this is down to individual countries - in much of Europe they seem very keen to scan passports and ID documents at hotel check-in (often required by local legislation). I always felt this ironic given the (populist) view the UK is a surveillance heavy country, yet it was much of Europe that was being far more invasive in this regard in my experience.
Only if the provider has reached a market position where their behaviour can adversely effect captive users.

The Verizon/AT&T comparison is interesting; because it wasn't so long ago that phones were locked to carriers.

Regulation could and should pry open the private networks of large software companies to facilitate healthy competition.
It isn't illegal to jailbreak these.

Just if you want the convince, security, ecosystem, support you can expect to also in the same price point start supporting all the possible malware you will be able to sideload to your car, tractor and iPhone.
These EU giants wouldn't pay anymore taxes than the current tech giants do.

If Europe wants to compete, why not simply create an ecosystem where Europeans companies can succeed?
Human beings are not animals.

A responsible human is able to resist raping anyone they see.

Minors are sexually assaulted, and they do not "taunt hungry tigers" as you put it.

I urge you to visit a therapist and explore what has led you to the position you detailed in your comment.

I honestly hope you are trolling, because the attitude you have towards women is deeply troubling.

I wish you good luck in self improvement and therapy.
Your work data is not something within your own rights to do as you please with it, it is that of your employer.

Your private data is something within your own rights to do as you please with it, which gives you a choice of whether you want to store it on apple's systems or on someone else's systems or on the local systems that you personally own.
Using your "crime alley" analogy, you would agree that one should NOT wear expensive and highly visible jewelry if they go there. Whether it's their "fault" if they get mugged doing such is a different matter than using common sense prevention.

I'm not looking at this like St. Peter scoring one's sin card in the afterlife, but rather how do we reduce a common problem. One is morally obligated to take basic common sense precautions. I believe most will agree to that, even those giving me all these negative points.

By the way, if I were forced to assign "fault" in such a situation, I'd give the mugger 90% of it and the bling wearer 10%. The bling wearer is not 100% innocent in my book. The bling is not a necessity for survival nor health; neither is exposing half your tits at work.

LEAVE YOUR TOYS AT HOME! They are disruptive in the workplace.
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I hope this will kill all LCD screens outside, the annoyance of those super bright screens loses against the friendly natural e-ink.
I find it a bit weird that you let nicknames expire for living people if you recognize the importance of keeping someone's identity constant.