skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're going down this road of wild guessing for the future ... marriage will probably evolve a lot by then with more legal bindings or stop making sense for most people entirely. Maybe a renewal clause will become standard and every X months, the parties opt in to keep it going.
I agree with this. Plus, let's be real: it's nigh impossible to be passionate about half of the products out there. Really? You'd tell me honestly that you're passionate about what Zillow provides? Indeed? Not buyin it.
http://archive.is/QnkCJ
How would FIRE defend these people from these things. Death threats are already illegal, and a police issue. The rest of what you are describing sounds like things that are protected by the first amendment rights of those people / groups who disagree with the conclusions of the researchers.
That is usually accompanied with "They need to spend more time optimising" or "Clearly they haven't optimised this yet" with a clear subtext that many believe game developers just have a dial or slider marked "Optimisation" and that the devs were just too lazy to crank it.
I live in a place where I get to
witness epic battles between a murder of crows and a colony of seagulls on a daily basis this time of the year. The seagulls are nesting on the roofs of nearby houses. The crows are trying to eat the seagull hatchlings.

It's kind of fascinating to watch. It seems like the crows are trying new strategies every new day. The much larger seagulls are wasting lots of energy in a kinda stupid way, the crows are chilling most of the time.
Icanhazjob approach!
Consider it a blessing and move on?
The modding community have really stood out here - particularly “downfall”.
For free speech to be a reasonable thing to priorise over other things you have to have some more fundamental rules of society in place.
E.g. fighting for free speech during the rise of the nazi party in 1920s Germany might sound like a noble thing, but once the Nazis whos speech you defended are in power they will shoot you at your doorstep for defending that of their enemies.

That doesn't mean you have forbid Nazis from ever speaking (as if this would work), it means you have to make sure your democracy and your institutions are stable enough to survive their first period in government and manage to get a peaceful and fair transfer of power after that (instead of Nazis setting fire to the Reichstag, blaming it on communists, declaring an emergency and never have elections again).

I'd rather loose the right to utter certain inflamatory phrases than loose the right and the possibility to vote the next government out of office in a fair and representative election.
This isn't how most people actually work. Most of us see principles as a means to an end, even if we don't say so, or initially don't admit it.

It's kind of a fairy tale of the kind Disney sells you: if you do the right thing, everything works out for the best. We like that idea because simplicity is appealing, but the real world is complicated and conflicts with such nice notions.

In Disney movies when you do the right thing, it saves the world in the end.

In the real world when you do the right thing, sometimes all you achieve is nazis running over a crowd, and you end up with a crisis of conscience and not much to show for it.
> Because BSD is not just a kernel, but an entire operating system

To my chagrin, I’ve never understood this. (A Linux distribution is not just a kernel, either.)
It's not even a new trend either. Back in 2003 when I worked at eBay and PayPal doing security, the bulk of the attempts came from China and Romania (Romania at the time had one ISP for the whole country that was fast but didn't care about abuse at all).
Peer review is necessary.
Peer review is totally failing to do its job.
There is nothing in the current structure of peer review which would suggest that it could be expected to do its job.
Discuss.
I don't know what will happen with Apple and its app store. There are two parts to the fairness, I think: Apple should be able to get revenue for hosting apps on stores; Not every business that has an app should be forced to pay 30% to Apple.

My "solution" is this: Apple should give companies two ways to pay to be on the app store. The first, 30% commission on whatever money that app makes. The second, pay hosting and download fees (that Apple con profit on.) So (say) $0.10 per app download (including updates.)

Companies like Netflix and Amazon (and Epic) can pay the download fee. Everyone else (ish) can pay commission. To me, that seems fair on both sides.
Collectivization was about crushing the independent peasantry, which was created about 15 years before, when the Bolsheviks confiscated land from large landowners hand handed it to landless peasants. It created a class which was too pro-capitalist and too economically independent for the later Bolsheviks' taste. So the land was effectively taken back again.

But the aggressive food taxes were not incompetence, but a calculated sacrifice.

Food was one of the very few items the young USSR was able to export. It was paid in gold, because the Bretton Woods system was still in force, and real currencies were backed with gold. Yes, the USSR exported a lot of food right at the time its own citizens were dying from famine.

The USSR then paid that gold for technology, in particular, for buying entire factories from the US. American firms built a number of large car, truck, and tractor factories, and taught the workers the then-current advanced manufacturing technologies. These factories were later converted to produce military trucks and tanks, which played a key role in WWII.

BTW the Soviets were shrewd and bold, and of course cheated: they did not pay the last tranche of the gold once the last factory was completed according to the contract. In a few years, WWII started, and the point became moot for decades.
How to leave a job forcing you back to an office
Rain itself doesn't "block" 2.4GHz signals per se, though any obstruction will cause some degree of radio wave attenuation. Attenuation is higher at 10GHz and above, since the wavelength is shorter: higher frequency = shorter wavelength, and shorter wavelengths are obstructed by smaller objects.

That being said, wet trees are more effective at attenuating non line of sight radio signals than dry ones, even at 2.4Ghz and below. So while the raindrops themselves have minimal effect for sub-10GHz signals, you can see signal fade in wet conditions.
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Apple has at least ten or more of these I’ve seen - on badly configured networks you sometimes see it in the address bar - because cached responses could destroy the utility.
Yes, google, apple and Microsoft all maintain their own httpd with tiny stub content on it which specifically is not tls.
A question on the use of this phrase was made earlier today in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414444

(I didn't submit this item, but suspect jgrahamc may have also seen that comment.)
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Unless I am confusing cases Breonna Taylor did not shoot at the police or even have a gun.
More effective to delete the account before it spreads said nonsense to even more people?
UN launches Decade to counter ‘triple environmental emergency’
Completely agree. I will never look at LeBron the same way ever again. I mean I always knew he was a self-centered celebrity like the rest of them. But I never considered that he or any other American celebrity would stoop that low. It's one thing for a cohort of secret corporate executives to edit a film for a Chinese release. That in itself is a disaster but feels somehow different. It's completely another thing for a celebrity to get on the air and make statements that directly capitulate to the CCP in broad daylight. It's the kind of thing that makes me want to pinch myself. Makes me feel like I live in a failed timeline in some dystopian sci-fi movie.
> just in case you're a drooling moron who doesn't know how to read a letter, the attached letter highlighting the supposed problems will reliably include at the bottom of the pages, "Over!" "Next page please!" "Flip over to continue reading!" and other insulting directions that more or less imply I don't know how to read a multi-page document.

I haven't drooled in a while, but I do actually appreciate those kinds of hints.

I agree with everything else you said though. It's hard to imagine that debasing the very concept of surveys will be a net positive for democracy.
Average tx fee paid != cost to commit a tx. A lot of people are intentionally overpaying to 100% guarantee placement in the very next block. You don't need to do this if quick settlement isn't an absolute requirement.
It's very hard to make Haskell look attractive to me, I deal with open systems (i.e. systems which interact with many other heterogenous systems which evolve in time), and Haskell is optimized for precisely the opposite case (a walled garden built out of elaborate types for verifying correctness). Haskell is the weird introvert guy in an extrovert world.
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To echo a comment I made a couple of months ago: "why not simply..." is a way of thinking out loud and providing an opening for someone more knowledgeable to explain what is being overlooked. It makes for interesting threads.
Why TSMC and Intel keep building foundries in the Arizona desert
Thank you Davis! Your help is much appreciated! I also saw theres a cheap ferry going to the bahamas from miami so thats a huge plus as well! I also know those beaches are the best on the East Coast for surfing and nothing can beat that haha.

One question I have is whether part-time jobs are available in the area to fall back on in case my startup is cash-strapped? Jobs like uber and doordash and the sorts?
Radar on an oceanic buoy is probably more efficient. Ocean buoys are giant metal spheres with some concrete ballast to add stability, attached via steel cable to an old train freight car used as an anchor. You can throw a couple hundred watts of solar and electronics on there no problem. There's hundreds of these things scattered about in the ocean for oceanic research/weather forecasting, not a new technology. Modern, consumer-grade solid state radar ($1200, off the shelf at Amazon or West Marine, google "4G radar") can pick up seagulls sitting on the water at 500 feet, or track a tiny ski 4 person boat at 10 miles.

Before you ask, no, there is no such thing as a stealth radar fishing boat.
and it then feeds the persecution complex of "see, BIGTECH is SILENCING all the voices THEY don't want YOU to READ!" :/
If you're copy-pasting passwords as you mentioned you've already lost 'theoretical hole' game. Everything that has any sort of basic privileges on your machine can read a clipboard as soon as you put something there.

> But talking about that wasn't my goal.

Too bad, because passwords managers in browsers are the end of the line as passwords go. Vast majority of people wouldn't be copy pasting passwords, not because it's different kind of less secure, but because it's not convenient.

Passwords are inherently flawed or they wouldn't be what we call passwords. You're trying to solve something that is already solved with 2FA, passwords just need to be there as a bare minimum that should't be considered secure by itself no matter how complex any of them they are.
I'm not familiar with the, er, phrase "power phrase" in this context.

I note you're the person using the phrase in both this thread and in the comment you link. What's your source of the phrase?
> Why aren't you afraid today? Their gatekeeping is clearly useless.

You're not perfect at anything you do. Does that make you useless? Of course not.
"semantic" is not overloaded in this case. It has the same meaning in both cases
The whole concept of cancel culture seems to just be used as a way to silence legitimate criticism of others as far as I can see. I'm sure it meant something at one point, but now it's just silly.
Citizens United was about banning an organization from publishing a political attack video on Hillary Clinton.

If Citizens United had gone the other way, nothing would stop the government from banning books or social media posts as well. (During oral arguments before the Supreme Court, the government lawyer admitted they believed they could ban books and YouTube videos as well)

Citizens United is frequently misunderstood - the main problem with it is that because restrictions on recognized political party fundraising still remain on the books, political money ends up flooding into third party organizations that are less under control of the institutional party and are more likely to be extreme. Meanwhile political candidates can plausibly deny their connection to the actions of such super PACs. Making the playing field even again by allowing larger or unlimited direct donations to candidates or parties would be the way toward a just but also effective solution.
> I know Linus has a "don't break userland" theory which causes some of the above

And the worst part, Linux actually breaks userland _way_ more often than any of the *BSDs...

"Moving what should have been dev nodes to sysfs since 2010 (TM), then reorganizing sysfs every couple years..."
Because he was in possession of a controlled substance and a gun which is illegal.

Edit: not sure why I am being down voted but here is the statement https://mobile.twitter.com/DLoesch/status/895508311193382912
If one is living on $300/month why pay any transaction fee? Cash is free.
Major didn't need icanhazip.com to get a good paying and quality job, this man is legend (at RAX when working with him)
They are sorted by popularity, but the API stopped revealing comment votes about 7 years ago, so no new comments will ever rank in popularity.
Yes subtitle horse is a lesser known hero for video accessibility. Been around a long time, I remember integrating the old flash based version with a video app almost a decade ago!
They use the same webview as Safari on iOS.
New optical dating tech used to constrain the age of prehistoric stone artefacts
This is a timely article about an important issue in the sciences.

The author begins by discussing the importance given in popular media to whether articles are peer reviewed or not, using somewhat absurd examples of foundational historical papers to stress the point.

The author then makes a logical jump, and claims that "Science worships peer review". However neither the journal Science nor the discipline of the same name are capable of worshipping anything. The author might mean to say that "Scientists worship peer review"? But for such a claim the author provides little evidence, and further it would contradict the later statement that "simple inertia, and ..." are the reasons "we still have peer review".

Subsequently the author tries to demonstrate that peer review is useless by stressing the multitude of problematic papers that did make it through peer review. This, of course, is a standard logical fallacy and again in direct contradiction with the latter statement that "we do not know whether the science we produce is better with or without it" (emphasis mine).

As I mentioned above, it is clear that the author raises an important point and at its root the message it tries to convey is certainly valid. However the article itself adds little to what scientists (and I would wager the informed public) already know. Besides the issues mentions above, I think a further weakness is that it claims to speak for all of science but I might imagine that in a field like mathematics the act of peer review can be more meaningful.

Altogether, then, I am of the opinion that the above issues need to be corrected in a substantial revision before I can accept the article for publication in your journal.

Sincerely,
I liked this hypothesis overall—that exposure to democracy through trade is sufficient to breed democracy in China. It’s a confident and peaceful approach, and I’m glad that we tested it. However, in this case, I believe we’ve disproven the hypothesis; continuing to run the same experiment unmodified and expecting improving results is signing up for disappointment.
Can you guarantee the children won't suffer? If not, then again you're unilaterally deciding the risk is justified.

> they'll also be free to decide if life is something they want to personally continue living or not

Really? It's okay to force people into existence because they are free to commit suicide?

It seems like you could justify anything with this line of reasoning. "Why are you mad at me? If you don't like it, just kill yourself."
I use FreeBSD on my servers and for research for the following reasons:

1. The documentation is excellent. The man pages are well-written and have useful examples, and the FreeBSD Handbook and Developer Guide are great resources.

2. First-class support for features such as ZFS and Dtrace.

3. This is a preference, but I like the BSDs' conservatism when it comes to adding new features. It seems that new features in the BSDs seem to be more in line with the Unix philosophy (similar to the Solaris and Joyent communities' attitudes), while the Linux community seems to be more willing to add features that may solve problems, but not necessarily in the way that some diehard Unix users would (e.g., PulseAudio, systemd).

With that being said, I use Linux for work and in the WSL environment on my Microsoft Surface tablet. Linux is also a great operating system, and sometimes I need to use Linux instead of FreeBSD for hardware and software support reasons (for example, I use CUDA for my job, which needs Linux).
At sufficiently high leverage any volatility is high enough to bring on a total loss
Is discussion of Critical Race Theory an exercise of free speech?
I like John Travolta.

I've wondered lately if he is working so much because of his hobbies, or just loves any acting gig?

(I need a life?)
I did my Ph.D in a relatively niche area of physics. We had conferences, attendeed by a handful of people from all over the world, and presented and discussed our research. None of this was "peer reviewed" in the sense that it had undergone a third party review like you'd have for paper or conference submission. But the whole point of the conferences was peer review. This is what I expect mostly happened in the days of Einstein and Watson. Just because there was not an editor assigning three reviewers, doesn't mean their work wasn't scrutinized by their peers.

Now extrapolating this outside of niche science and into research that is underpinning policy decisions (or tenure and promotion decisions), of course one would expect it to undergo some kind of review. And if something had not, and was just a preprint being circulated, it's a pretty important consideration that its not yet part of established canon.

Certainly I agree there are lots of flaws with peer review, that a system that originally evolved to build out the body of accepted knowledge in a field had now been formalized and used for other purposes, and that it can be gamed. But it don't find it credible to say that we just don't need it, and that we shouldn't distinguish between new results and better scrutinized ones.
Hi I'm Joel, a 26 year old developer from Argentina, just finishing up my CS degree.

This is my first open-source app, I wrote it as a side project from my main startup that I'm trying to get off the ground. I've always been really into productivity and making the most out of each day (even to the point of tracking every hour over the past year) and figuring out when I'm making progress and when I get distracted or side tracked.

So I came up with the idea of an app that would ping you at random times through the day to check whether you're procrastinating or not, and if you were, ask you to log the reason why. My idea being that being aware and tracking something could help you step back and figure out the reasons it happens. I've read studies that those who are prompted to reflect each day on something (eg what they ate and why) tend to do better, so hopefully this app helps in a similar way.

The app itself is free, there's only a couple links to my main startup in there that you can ignore. I plan to add more login types (eg email or none) later if there's enough demand. The logins are for cloud sync so you can use on multiple devices or in case you lose a device.

For tech stack, I'm using React Native and Firebase, since these are the tools I'll be using on my main project too.

Appreciate any feedback or requests!
Laser pulse travels 300 times faster than light (2002)
> or Microsoft will lose an enormous amount of trust

What trust do they currently have?

Seriously, nobody cares about things like this. Way bigger things have been walked back on.
So, how old are the great pyramids now?
The practice reduces repeat offences.

Where follower-recruitment is expensive, it increases trust-attack costs.

Where account-creation is expensive (through verification, reputation, financial costs, validation tokens (e.g., SIMs, phone numbers, external vouchers)), it again increases attack costs.

Note that both remedies might be more effective than either separately: notify the reader of the false data (in the even the offending account hadn't already been removed) and remove the offending account.
There have been others. I join in the disappointment at the sad turn the ACLU has taken. But they have been consistent in their opposition to no-fly lists, as an end-run around due process, and have applied the same argument against proposals to create similar no-gun lists.
They are right in both cases.

Then there was this case, which was mainly 1st amendment, but with strong 2nd amendment ingredients:

https://lee-phillips.org/aclu2/
> "Poverty level" is an official number used as a standard put out by the American federal govt.

I know that. I'm pointing out that it is often not a good indicator of the actual amount of wealth you have access to. As you acknowledge, you have access to a huge amount of wealth that does not appear in your nominal income or your nominal net worth. Your real net worth includes your share of that huge amount of wealth. And the post you responded to with your comment about "poverty level" was talking about net worth, i.e., the actual wealth you have access to, not nominal income.

> In the future, many of our needs will be taken care of

How? By magic? No: by other people creating the wealth you make use of. You have access to all those wonderful benefits in your area because other people built those things. What about their needs? Who is "taking care of" those? Answer: nobody except themselves.

In short, this vision you have, where you can just have all your needs taken care of, only works for some fraction of people. If everybody takes that approach, nobody's needs will be taken care of, because nobody will be creating any of the wealth required to do that.