skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would a world war have to do with reminding people of privacy?

World War 2 gave China and Soviet Russia a new sense of privacy?

WW2 made the US worse as a place in most regards, not better. That's what caused the US to build its military industrial complex, to install a massive standing global military, to primarily guard against the Europeans going on rampage again for the nth time (which was guaranteed to happen with the USSR very eager to conquer even more of Europe in the days post WW2).

From WW2 the US got a dramatically expanded (and more intrusive) Federal Government, surveillence state and war machine, encouraged by Hoover's aggressive domestic actions and all the newly minted three letter agencies (CIA 1947, NSA 1952, NRO 1960, ATF 1972, DEA 1973).

A third world war would make the governments even more paranoid, scared, and intrusive, not less.

You wouldn't want to see what the involved governments would do to their people as a war involving the US, Russia, China, and various countries in Europe and Asia broke out. The stakes would be as high as they could possibly be, given the nuclear arsenals in existence now. Privacy would rapidly sink toward zero, and that conflict would be an extraodinary argument in favor of zero privacy (according to the governments): for no mistakes can be tolerated, the dangers are too high, no privacy can be afforded (they would claim).
I'm seeing a lot of responses from fellow folks in the US that seem to imply this EU (proposed?) regulation is unprecedented in the US.

Is that actually so?
> "byte 0" is the last byte in little endian

What do you mean by ”last byte” here? On a little endian machine, a two-byte integer stored at address x has its less significant byte at x+0, and its more significant byte at x+1.

Going by those numbers, byte 0 is the least significant byte, much like bit 0 is the least significant bit.
Sad, I liked his ebulliant antics, and his lengthy appeal process plans, as revealed by Janice McAfee, lends credence to the 'hidden hand' being in play here.
My own personal experience with Unity tryin'a import models from Blender bein' a huge pain in the butt was what led me to try out Godot after hearin' about but ignoring it for the longest time.

Turns out that Godot ended up auto-importing my Blender models with pretty much zero hassles (drop 'em in a project folder, save 'em back out as a Godot scene), and it was a short time after (under an hour, including the time it took to read some docs to familiarize myself with GDScript) I already had mouse/controller clicky code attached to them and a first person camera controller in place. Since then, the more I learn about Godot the more I enjoy workin' with it, pretty much like my experiences with Blender. :)

Of course a large part of my affinity for Godot could be influenced by my love of Python and the similarity of GDScript to Python code.
What is cultural infrastructure in other countries? Is it just religion / worship?
> Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune all radiate ~2x the heat they receive from the Sun.

As I've said elsewhere, this is most surprising for Neptune, but the fact that these bodies radiate this much heat is a clue that something more is going on.

The primordial heat hypothesis doesn't hold up, as Uranus was formed around the same time as Neptune and its energy balance is 1.05. If the comparison is indeed accurate, then the question remains what is making these planetary bodies so hot? Neptune especially.

Here are the energy balances of each to our best estimates,

Jupiter, 2.132 ± 0.051 [current estimate, older estimate was, 1.668 ± 0.085] (source, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06107-2#Sec2)

Saturn, 1.78 ± 0.09 (source, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001910... )

Neptune 2.61 ± 0.28 (source, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/91JA... )

My tweets on the topic, https://twitter.com/_areoform/status/1373376028861734918
Which long career as a military science fiction writer?

I admit aside ASOIAF I haven't read much GRRM -- his awesome Sandkings short story, and his collaboration with Lisa Tuttle, Windhaven, and I'm aware of some of his horror/fantasy fiction.

Checking on Wikipedia I don't see a lot of military scifi in the list...
When there's "blue collar overproduction" due to outsourcing and automation of manufacturing jobs, it's not a big deal because they can just learn to code, but when there's "elite overproduction" we need to wring our hands and talk about how this is terrible? Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
Exception handling and implicit allocations are very easy to control in C++, especially in a project where one would not use the STL or any other typical user space libraries. The language has been used in safety-critical projects and low-level embedded work for decades, so it must support such use cases well.
That is exactly my point.

We have systems in place to deal with people going door-to-door trying to open the windows on each house down my street. The police are eager to fly through red lights and get here as fast as possible to fight crime. (Equity in policing is a different discussion but the point here is that the system exists)

But for the electronic equivalent, we have no system.
> Basically, scaling is hard, and the EU is not bad at it.

It's not scaling economically though, is it?
It was Michael Gove, the education minister and Vote Leave figurehead, who said in 2016: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts"[0].

This line of thinking is beautifully conveyed in a satirical drawing by Will McPhail that appeared in the 2017-01-02 issue of The New Yorker with the caption "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?".[1]

Another satirical drawing from 2016 seems to capture a similar pathology, where the character starts by saying "I want things to be different".[2]

[0] https://www.london.edu/think/who-needs-experts

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/06/trump-cart...

[2] https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984
As a counterpoint, we in America certainly do not seem to be immune to sticking with flawed social constructs that impede our progress/happiness.

For that matter, less-individualistic societies such as European countries don’t seem immune to some of the symptoms the parent comment mentioned, such as sports-worship.

There is something to the notion that American individualism comes with its unique pathologies, but there’s clearly a lot more to the story of why things like self-help have exploded.

For one thing, as traditional sources of meaning have withered under the harsh lights of science and modernity, all wealthy societies have seemed to struggle with a crisis of meaning.

This leaves a vacuum that gets filled with self-help (the secret to a meaningful life is here in this book), sports-worship, celebrity-worship, video-game escapism, neo-nationalism, whatever. This can be seen all over the developed world. However, America’s extreme individualism may exacerbate this crisis of meaning, since community is often itself a source of meaning.

We cannot go back to pre-modernity, nor should we try.

What can we do to build societies, here and now, that help people feel a sense of meaning in their lives without the ghastly drawbacks of past sources of meaning such as religion and ethnic nationalism?
Nextdoor to become a publicly traded company
As far as I know they don't but for arguments sake let's say that they do. A lot of smart people have worked on Gmail so any scanning of mails would be for useful metadata or if they scan all the text it would be to provide services from context (find something with a date, ask if it should put it in your calendar, etc.). Almost all emails are worthless information and I doubt even the NSA with 100 times the budget it has today could learn anything worthwhile from scanning everything even if everything is only "everything at gmail". At best they would end up with data worse than they get from metadata and more likely the need for thousands of people looking at mails that match wordlists (hate USA, bombmaking, presidents route...) and not learn anything useful at all.
It's not, but in the case of Messages in iCloud being off, the actual plaintext of the iMessages themselves is included in the (non-e2e) iCloud Backup (which I am 100% positive is on by default).

In the case of MIC being on, then the MIC sync key is included in the (again, non-e2e) iCloud Backup.

MIC on = MIC sync key escrow via iCloud Backup (realtime iMessage content decrypt)

MIC off = iMessage plaintext escrow via iCloud backup (nightly)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Before you mention "but you can turn off iCloud Backup!": these default settings affect all of your conversation partners, too, so even if you disable iCloud Backup, it's likely that your messages are still getting escrowed from the devices of the people you talk to.
Translation for ya:

Viva la Revolution - IE Off with the aristocrat's heads, is far less likely these days for lots of reasons.

Though neither the parent author, nor I, are advocating for that response, I'm using it as an extreme to tug your frame of focus along the correct discussion axis.

The least of which is that the super wealthy have both private and public security forces on speed dial. Even minor protest groups or 'gentleman's disputes' like a more basic bare assault of vigilante protest are also off the table. There is no available check against uncouth behavior which violates the social and moral expectations.
All the new users get that interface by default, and when they first launched it you had to specifically opt out, which not everyone knows how to do.

I don't think they have any experiments where they give a new user the old interface to do a proper A/B test, so I don't think you can conclusively say that people like the new interface better than the old, or vice versa.
Good luck with that - the genie's out of the bottle.

End to end encryption is vital to the operations of modern businesses, it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
I don't really care about the downvotes.

But this meme that university likely doesn't teach you anything...it's so baffling to me, like, university does. It imply smarts, but not everyone who went to highschool reads and I feel like at least on this website people should get intervention effectiveness and probability etc. Just because university education isn't ideal and people might disagree whether the education people receive there is useful or marketable doesn't change the fact that if you graduate from a serious university or community colleague it is likely you'll have learned self management skills as well as whatever was in your classes.

I've once seen a talk by a German soldier coming back from Afghanistan and he talked about what big difference it maae that in Germany almost everyone trains their ability to focus on someone speaking for 30+ minutes, discussing how he had to learn to triple check his local co-soldiers who hadn't had that luxury actually got the mission briefing. Even if you just learn to binge learn and puke out knowledge in tests that can come in quite handy later on, and the often maligned humanities actually matter if you are interested in a nuanced and continually evolving look of humans onto themselves. So I find this meme that university is worthless quite damaging and not really trustworthy. People can be uncultured swine, idiots and dicks at any educational level, it doesn't necessarily mean they didn't benefit from their education.

The fact that the US puts you heavily into debt to get that education is another question that I'll leave untouched here since dang asked me repeatedly to steer clear of predictable controversies
Well, the UK wanted Northern Irelend to benefit from a have-your-cake-and-eat-it semi-membership of the EU, while actively denying that to the rest of their own people elsewhere in the UK.

The EU have offered many opportunities for the UK to harmonise with the EU on many issues, while continuing with Brexit. For the most part, UK rejected repeated offers that would grant UK people and businesses more rights.

For example, the rights of British people to freely travel in EU countries could have been kept, but the UK said we don't want our people to have that, as the price of mirroring it by allowing EU citizens the ability to travel in the UK is too high.

EU offered to let students from the UK travel through EU under the Erasmus scheme. UK said no.

EU offered a customs union, where standards were more harmonised and the would need to be far fewer checks at borders. That would have been far cheaper for every business in the UK that sells into the EU. UK rejected that. UK actively wants to diverge from EU standards (e.g. for things like food). It shouldn't be surprising that EU will protect businesses that conform to those standards over those seeking to undermine them.

Businesses in Northern Ireland currently have advantageous access to the EU in ways no other part of the UK does. I don't mean the physical access to Ireland, I mean administrative access to the EU markets. You can see it in tax and import/export forms. There are currently reasons to set up businesses in Northern Irelend to get that foot-in-both-worlds advantage.

A lot of businesses in the UK mainland would love to have the same rights as businesses in Northern Ireland. Especially those in Scotland who didn't vote to leave anyway, and see it as an England-imposed harm on them.

What would you expect should happen, that UK should be allowed to use Nothern Ireland as backdoor to send unchecked goods to the EU, imported from say the USA and Australia and re-exported into the whole EU market with no border checks anywhere?
Mostly doesn't exist.
Which, to me, is exactly his point--design the buildings with natural air flow so you don't suffocate when the power goes out.
Well, to revive this conversation.

States have access to "a monopoly of legitimate violence". We grant them that in order for them to be able to keep the peace, you know, law and order.

Everything else can be boiled down to this. No matter how many bits of encryption keys are used, someone with a chloroform infused rag and a wrench can visit any of us at any moment. And it's actually part of what we, collectively, as citizens, have granted as a power to the state.
Paracetamol can damage your liver. Neither are great options to take too much of.
Fun fact: you need not just a town, but a legally incorporated city, if you want a liquor store. A trailer park with a population of 188 is the densest incorporated city in Texas (and one of the 100 densest cities in America) for precisely this reason: https://twitter.com/DanKeshet/status/1350633707036663809, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_City,_Texas.
Wait, this is something that American and Chinese companies do on a regular basis, but when European companies do it it would mean the end of the industry? I'm certainly not in favour of this, but I don't follow your logic.
Can you explain DeFi loans? I used a calculator, and to take out $500 worth in one coin, it costs $900usd in bitcoin collateral, I mean if I had $900 in bitcoin, why would I need $500 and not just use the bitcoin?
> Isn't that potentially stimulating millions or even hundreds of millions of neurons? We don't know what each individual neuron is doing. How is it possible to do this without causing bizarre malfunctions of the brain at best, or completely lobotomizing someone at worst?

Many psychiatric drugs affect large parts of the brain despite the drugs' efficacies being determined by their effects on much smaller parts of the brain.

For example, some anxiolytic and antidepressant effects are mediated by changes at certain serotonin-1A receptors in certain parts of the brain, yet common drugs like SSRIs change serotonin levels all over the brain and body.

You could categorize SSRI-induced activation of 5HT2C receptors as a 'bizarre malfunction', as it causes increased anxiety and dysphoria, which is the opposite of what you'd want if you're trying to treat anxiety or depression.

Alcohol works like this in the body, as well.

I'm skeptical of most brain implants for other reasons[1], though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135696
But BTC does not replace the banking system. The banking system does way way way more than simply hold money in accounts and send it places. I could sort of buy this argument for something like Ethereum that is truly programmable, but even if BTC completely takes over and no other currencies exist then there will still be banks and bank branches.

The discussion of inflation and wars is just fantasy. Everybody in the world using BTC isn't going to end standing armies.
> The EU is not a sovereign state.

It represents sovereign states.

> The EU chopped up UK business marketshare, business leadership, professional lives for little more than a gram of power.

How, exactly?

> I feel like it is necessary to point out the similarities between the CCP and European Parliament.

Please expand on this.
Thanks, I did the calculation quickly & admittedly didn’t double check, so I’ll take your word on it.

But the point stands true. This will certainly warm the lake in the local vicinity, where the quoted resident came from. But to slant this warming story as if it will effect the whole ecosystem of the lake is silly & inaccurate.

It’s a really big lake. I’m more used to seeing smaller, man made lakes for this purpose. My old hometown has one, and yes the water was warm. But that didn’t stop anyone from canoeing & fishing in it.

And I must point out, a detail that gets buried in this story is the power plant was not repurposed as natural gas and started back up with the sole intention of mining Bitcoin. It was intended to provide extra electricity during peak usage hours in the summer. The Bitcoin mining is basically a ‘side hustle’.
>The coders and general contractors who didn't go to university who out earn and out-succeed grads is a real cultural factor, and a big part .of the U.S. red/blue divide.

Hardly. Those are just outliers. Even in spite of the college-educated barista trope, which is a favorite of the media and pundits when making a sweeping generalization about an entire generation, the data has consistently shown that college grads make more than high school grads and this gap has only widened since 2008.
Strangest bit of trivia is that the Truman Show was filmed there, and the house that the titular character lived in is owned by Matt Gaetz, the extreme right wing congressperson under investigation for sex trafficking.
The world has a poor history on banning the application of math.
Godot is sort of its own thing, not a strict "object hierarchy everything" so much as "favor composition; everything is a node in the scene tree."
I don't have to hire average developers. Obviously, I will need some exceptional developers.
Back in the banking crisis days, I applied for a mortgage modification. I’m on top of paperwork and fax like a boss, so I made sure all of our documentation was in order and submitted ahead of schedule. Regardless, the bank tried to use every trick in the book to delay. I ended up war dialing all the extensions around my contact to find someone who worked there with access to my files to push it along. Ended up succeeding and receiving my modification.

Imagine trying that with google or Facebook or chime.

I don’t agree with the need for physical violence. Historically, we have had decent regulatory protections for customers. I feel like those protections are rapidly being eroded. The threat of reporting to the bank/insurance/etc regulator was real and triggered a response even in the most dense bureaucracies in my experience.

Best story ever along these lines is when an angry homeowner who was wrongfully foreclosed upon ended up suing the bank, winning, then foreclosing on her local branch when they neglected to pay: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...
> What's the point of interstellar colonization?

The cheapest way to fully explore another stellar system is probably colonizing it, so explorers can be manufactured in situ.
This is actually really interesting. Open source is the future of software and incentivizing communal efforts makes sense. Are you taking any commissions on it though?
The new design serves the needs of the company over the needs of the users.
I do when it when the company sending it is legit and operating in the US. Most of the times it works and I stop being spammed. When it doesn't, I report spam until it stops showing up on my inbox.
From that source:

In 1986, the United States Congress updated the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 by enacting the Electronic Communications Privacy Act which included an updated "Wiretap Act" and also extended Fourth Amendment-like protections to electronic communications in Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, known as the Stored Communications Act.

In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled warrants are needed for gathering cell phone tracking information, remarking that cell phones are almost a “feature of human anatomy”, “when the Government tracks the location of a cell phone it achieves near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user”. and that

[cell-site location information] provides officers with “an all-encompassing record of the holder’s whereabouts” and “provides an intimate window into a person’s life, revealing not only [an individual’s] particular movements, but through them [their] familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.”[5]

AND

From https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/e-mail-and-wa...

Are there Any Laws that Protect Your Email Privacy?

Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), police can access emails without a warrant if the emails are stored in the cloud and at least 180 days old. However, this law is outdated and lawmakers are attempting to pass the E-mail Privacy Act. This would update the ECPA by requiring warrants for all email searches. At the moment, in July 2018, the ECPA has yet to pass.

E-mails that are in remote storage and opened or older than 180 days do not require a warrant. Instead, the police only need to obtain an administrative subpoena. Administrative subpoenas are issued by federal agencies without any approval by a judge, so they are much easier to obtain.

So.. run your own email server in your basement if you're concerned (which would require a warrant). Or try end-to-end encryption solutions.
Because the surveillance is nothing but a tool for control and compliance. Solving crimes was never the point. It would not surprise me in the least if we found out in 50 years that these crypto groups were just another government team hoovering up data and getting more off the books funding.
No it doesn't. Only the copyright owner can re-license.

You can put modifications (that enjoy copyright protection) to BSD licensed code under the GPL or put BSD licensed code in a larger GPL code base, but you cannot re-license code covered by the BSD license.
All the games you are referring to didn't target increasingly parallel hardware. ECS is made to scale in ways OOP will not be able to.
The EU has a lot of carrot for countries like Poland or Lithuania. Even longer term members such as Belgium, etc, that don't have such history with the Soviets know they are better off being in the EU than splintered.