skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UN Security Council isn't meant to be a politically nimble engine for progressive economic change; it's meant to prevent a shooting war between those major powers. Judging the UNSC by the standard of that design intent and purpose, the UNSC has been quite effective, a few regional proxy wars could have been much worse for everybody on this planet. We can call it a failure if/when America and China start WW3 and cover everybody else in fallout, but that hasn't happened yet. So far, the United Nations Security Council is working well.
IF the use is critical, then the user should be willing to pay more. If they can't, I would want to look into why and question how critical they are.
I am sure many of the readers here are aware of Tiny Habits (and the variations thereof).

To create a ritual/habit, you make first make the easiest component easy to do. Instead of writing for an hour, you just log in at 8am. Then you type a sentence and so on, and eventually you have a full blown habit.
Probably because the point of the 4+4 CPU pin is to get the power as close as possible to the CPU. If you notice, the 24 pin connector is comparatively really far away. Routing all that power over the motherboard would possibly be more costly (and, have other implications for design) than just using the separate connector.

Just my guess, but 4+4 pulls hundreds of watts in burst workloads. Not sure how much the rest of the motherboard uses in theory, but I imagine it's quite a bit less.
The British were able to play European powers against each other for centuries, so expect the same elsewhere.
Exactly, why only for under 18s? This should be available for everybody.
Algodjango aims at bringing Algorand blockchain functionality to any website
> "...the wrong course ('index everything! archive everything!') for thirty years now..."

that's overly broad. although i particularly dislike dichotomies, we can draw a simple one here for illustrative purposes: there's public and private information, and omni-indexing/-archiving is the "wrong course" only for private information, with private information encompassing more than just sensitive data, including any personal information a person chooses not to divulge publicly.

humanity has absolutely advanced from indexing all public information, even considering the exponential rise of disinformation and idle bullshit. instantaneous knowledge coalition and mass multiway communication are the two astonishing advances stemming from the internet. and now we're dealing with the inevitable but unintended negative consequences of these amazing advances.
Is 21st century going to be all about wars over water sources?
I have done everything in my power to keep my kids off the internet. I tell family members not to take photos, I don’t send them through email, I won’t take photos with phones that are cloud connected, etc etc.

The reality is, I walk in and still see a grandma who doesn’t respect the wishes of my wife and I and are adding filters to my kids faces. Now Instagram has their photos. No consent given. I don’t think she posted, but clearly her phone gave Instagram access.

Imo we need laws forbidding image indexing or collection of images. We also need some serious protections around data. The reality is Google, Microsoft, Apple, Chinese communist party, zoom, etc all have too much data and own everyone. Literally, I can’t imagine the government taking any action at all because of their influence.

So I think we are done, frankly.
If I ever again post a website, I’m going to post it with basic auth, so that search engines won’t index it to begin with. Exposure doesn’t pay the bills, after all.
Wanted to second that Docker Swarm has been an excellent "middle step" for two different teams I've worked on. IMO too many people disregard it right away, not realizing that it is a significant effort for the average dev to learn containerization+k8s at the same time, and it's impossible to do that on a large dev team without drastically slowing your dev cycles for a period.

When migrating from a non-containerized deployment process to a containerized one, there are a lot of new skills the employees have to learn. We've had 40+ employees, all who are basically full of work, and the mandate comes down to containerize, and all of these old school RPM/DEB folks suddenly need to start doing docker. No big deal, right? Except...half the stuff does not dockerize easily requires some slightly-more-than-beginner docker skills. People will struggle and be frustrated. Folks start with running one container manually, and quickly outgrow that to use compose. They almost always eventually use compose to run stuff in prod at some point, which works but eventually that one server is full. This the is the value of swarm - letting people expand to multi-server and get a taste of orchestration, without needing them to install new tools or learn new languages. Swarm adds just one or two small new concepts (stack and service) on top of everything they have already learned. It's a god send to tell a team they can just run swarm init, use their existing yaml files, and add a worker to the cluster. Most folks start to learn about placement constraints, deployment strategies, dynamic infrastructure like reverse proxy or service mesh, etc. After a bit of comfort and growth, a switch to k8s is manageable and the team is excited about learning it instead of overwhelmed. A lot (?all?) of the concepts in swarm are readily present in k8s, so the transition is much simpler
Prominent to optics experts before the award [EDIT: or perhaps not? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28236537 ], clearly, not to Wikipedia editors. It's easy to tell who's prominent in distant past (it's the people in history textbooks), but if your guide to recent prominence is things like lists of awards or frequent mentions in the media, you may be getting some corner cases from time to time.
For someone who does not know much about NIFs, will it be a lot slower if the Rust service is coded as a command line application and then invoked using System.cmd? Is that a good alternative?
"Notability" is an idiosyncratic, illogical, fringe, inconsistently-enforced criterion, and no one cares about it other than a tyrannical minority of wiki editors.
"Privacy is a fundamental human right."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/
It's easy to fork it but next to impossible to maintain.
Probably not too many. But I wonder, are there more Chinese factories or Tomahawk missiles? I'm not totally sure. China is a very large country.
Are we looking at different things? I just wrote a whole long comment on this after poking around on WP about it, and I'd be glad to know if I got things completely scrambled. Because what I see is a page created in 2018, and a _lot_ of intra-WP coverage of the process that led to there not being a page before 2018, all of which squares with what this article says.
I can't believe how weak these cases have been - are these more of a posturing thing?

* These were all approved at the time. This is going to make for a crazy world if folks act on an approval and then they are reversed.

* The focus of a lot of these seems to be on harm to other (sometimes very scammy) businesses. The Apple case has this issue as well. Match group can't do non-cancelable auto-renewing billing in their own app store. Rando app can't get your email and other details but you can route via apple. Etc. Why not focus on consumer harm more - that was traditional focus. The complaint is Facebook doesn't make an easy api for others to scrape their platform - uh, hello cambridge analytic?

* These social network things seem somewhat fragile. Myspace came and went, Friendster was hot. Now I see a lot more folks on tiktok. Are kids still even active on facebook?

* Instagram wasn't that big when purchased, and many folks (including same people writing the articles now about monopolies) said that facebook wildly overpaid.

https://twitter.com/rockspindeln/status/189416024058245121

What's crazy is there is so much straight pure scam crap on the internet the FTC does nothing about. I mean, stuff that is obvious consumer harm. In my case I tried to cancel a subscription 30 days in advance recently (nearly 1K per year). It turns out you have to cancel 90 days in advance but not more than 120 days in advance?? So now I'm on the hook for another 1K. That is just total trash behavior online. And instead of the click to sign up, I had to go through endless hoops. Talked to someone, then they wanted me to submit a case, I did that, then back and forth to "verify" me etc etc.

The FTC is crickets on just endless false advertising, misleading internet offers etc (stuff that's not even close to OK).
>> It snuck up on us, or rather, it was quietly imposed upon us by profiteers

Into the early 2000s, everyone still knew never to use a real name online. Murderers would probably get you or something. Don't want randos knowing you you are. Besides, handles were cooler. Some well known people had publicly known aliases, but aliases were the norm... like on HN.

In my bubble, it was FB that really broke through this. I heard about fb as a social network, but with real names. That way you could friend people from real life. It was actually quite a revelation, like a public address book... very useful.

Anyway... Zuck is, IMO, more of an "eye for the tides" guy than the tide itself. He realised that "relentlessly cataloging and indexing information about every single person on the planet in a way that anyone can search instantaneously" was happening and he decided to be there first.
When are these tiger parents going to figure out that the objective function
for any institution's admissions has multiple terms, some of which value
social stability over raw IQ?
How can people who don't even know who they are voting for until they go in a booth and see whose name has an R or a D by it possibly pick good leaders?

If in a century people are living in the carcass of civilization will we celebrate that we achieved our ruin progressively or inclusively?

Let's be real though people aren't worried about being progressive they are more apt to worried because they support a political party that could never survive without the ignorant and the stupid.

If only people with college degrees who actually made a minimal effort to follow non Facebook meme politics could vote the republicans would only be competitive vs the green party.
ball screws are better, more expensive, and more rigid. to get them longer than ~50 inches you probably want to either get ones with a very high lead angle, or use ones with a driven ball nut design.

R&P works totally fine for wood and aluminum, and is significantly cheaper and easier to implement.

Once consideration is that in driven ball nuts and R&P the motor must traverse with the moving axis. In standard ballscrew config the motor can be static which makes cables and packaging easier.
(2011)

anything new to add?

Some previous discussion:

2 years ago (which is basically same as now) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303181

5 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548043

7 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147008
> apparently they don't experience the high that those without get from such stimulants.

Isn't part of it due to dosage? From what I understand, medical doses are lower than recreational doses, sometimes by a factor of 5-10.
The proposed remedy in the complaint is the divestiture of Instagram and / or WhatsApp (extremely unlikely) and increased oversight on Facebook in the future that would make similar acquisitions much more difficult (more likely).
If you're just going to quote me out of context and not bother responding to the actual substance of my comment (which was a high level but concrete comparison of two different CSV parsers, demonstrating an important qualitative difference with respect to csv parsers solving problems), then please, don't bother responding.
> they'll just raise their own prices to compensate.

That's how it works in econ 101, but not necessarily in practice. Prices on many goods are less flexible than commodities like oil and lumber, for many reasons. Manufacturers may be locked into fixed-price contracts or distribution agreements, for example. Or a scarce component might be shared across "budget" and "premium" product lines, but the budget line is too price sensitive to change so the premium product goes up 10x instead. Or the company just borrows money and eats the loss...
What, the bible isn't the literal truth, or do you doubt the Epics of Gilgamesh? They should have been in a different list.

The other thing is notice how few events there were in the "dark ages", 500-1500 ad. Bet things were popping up but not known to westerners like me in those lands that eventually became part of modern China.
Are you being accused of optimism in hindsight or by naysayers in advance before attempting something? The answer matters. Sometimes accusations of optimism are a defense mechanism from lazy people. Or it could be good feedback that your projects are over-scoped.
Could some fork drop the topical, media and "hot" topics and polish the hard sciences?

Or historical facts which should be presented as being unbiased and isn't something which is now changing (unless we find an ancient dvd player in the pyramids).

If this existed and Wikipedia worked with this "factopedia" to pull from it I'd very happily contribute.

Potentially a wiki with some basic checks for having at least an undergraduate in the field of question?
Yeah and also in a significant amount of cases, the real job is expectation management around downstream dependencies and timeline. Arguably the only true metric is "was anyone surprised at the engineering deliverable in time and quality" IMO.
> The US managed to fund a military, roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other good stuff before that year, right?

Mostly, no, the United States did not. The states did some (less than they alone, ignoring the feds, do now), the US did a little (far less than now, and funded by extensive use of simultaneously regressive and contractionary tariffs and excise taxes) at normal times and when it scaled up imposed special taxes for the purpose (including, starting in the Civil War, income taxes.) For the military part specifically, prior to WWI (and, to—IIRC—a lesser extent between WWI and WWII), the US had (especially aside from the Navy) very little standing military, relying on expanding out from a small cadre via conscription and rushed training in crises.
What does it mean specifically if we "stopped relentlessly cataloging and indexing information about every single person on the planet in a way that anyone can search instantaneously", making it illegal to catalogue all of this information? Imposing a tax? Requiring permission of those involved?
While I get this is frustrating, original research is explicitly against Wikipedia rules.
> As far as the Iranian authorities are concerned, "Iraq's interests are irrelevant," she adds bluntly.

I'm pretty sure that Iraq has missiles capable of destroying dams. Seems like that would be a relevant bargaining point.
These companies are now too big to fail and too big to meaningfully prosecute, even a $1bn fine is not really going to trouble the likes of facebook. Any more meaningful punishment would have pretty adverse financial market and political impacts, which people would get over eventually but would take some serious conviction to inflict.

The only real recourse is to stop more of the same happening again in the future.
Since it said "Americans," I assumed it was at the federal level.
I told you how. Maybe you're being too literal?

It's "punished" in the sense that there's a relative negative consequence -- your post is raised up less by the algorithm than competing posts. This is colloquially valid.
The chaos of CSV files is older than XML. And while many of the same issues have played out in HTML, I have a strong suspicion that the particular levels of hell familiar to anyone using CSV files professionally informed some of the opinionated nature of XML. Especially since XML delves into data transport instead of just typesetting of text meant for human consumption.

I know I had specific conversations about CSV versus XML and those referred to a substantial body of literature on the topic.
No, but we’re definitely seeing the results of the first generation to be taking stimulants their whole life beginning in early childhood.

I was on amphetamines for ADHD for nearly 30 years. Toward the end it got really hard to tell the difference between “amped up and focused” and “active psychosis”. My behavior was erratic and people around me were worried, despite these being drugs I had taken my entire life. They worked well and helped me get to a certain point in my career where soft skills become more important, when they suddenly became a hindrance.

I switched to Strattera / atomoxetine (a non-stimulant drug approved for use with ADHD) and it’s been great. I can’t rely on the drugs for motivation anymore, but it does seem to remove the roadblocks to focusing on something when I really need to.

I’m never going to have great attention to detail without amphetamines, and I’ve had to accept that and adopt a more “visionary” outlook. But I no longer feel like a square peg trying to force herself into a round hole. Amphetamines are good if your working style is to disappear into a hole and come out with a whole lot of productivity, but for anything collaborative I find they can be more of a burden than a boon.
In Europe, there is a project to create an European official payment processor that would be a competitor to visa, MasterCard, ... It is the EPI project.
http://www.thetower.org/article/the-map-that-ruined-the-midd...

Maybe deliberate is too strong a word, but certainly the map ignored all tribal, geographical and cultural boundaries. Nothing other than instability should have been expected.
Your Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care (2020)
Navalny: Only action against corruption can solve the world’s biggest problems
Honestly disabling all ad targeting has been the best thing I've done.
> Unsurprisingly, Rust outperforms Elixir by 2 orders of magnitude.

That seems very surprising to me. Is this a common result? I've heard that the BEAM is not the best for "number crunching" code, is this one of those scenarios? Is this really just the raw performance of the languages, or a difference in algorithms? There's also no mention of the version of Elixir and the OTP. Did the JIT change anything?
Hear, hear. This is practically a trope, and not just with ADHD but all kinds of illness, mental and physical. I'm not saying psychiatry or the pharmaceutical industry are perfect, or that there are zero people taking meds who don't need to, but come on - there are actually lots and lots and lots of folks who have tried things like meditation and it didn't make it possible for them to get through the day.

People with these kinds of problems reach a point of desperation after having tried everything you could possibly think of. So when the hundredth person comes along and says "you don't need meds, you just need X," where X is one of the many, many things they've already tried, it's exasperating.
No, it definitely is not. Governments notoriously move slow and they do not often keep up with the fast moving pace of technology.

Governments for the most part worldwide have still done barely anything to address things like "loot boxes" in gaming despite them being almost identical to gambling. They aren't even getting fined or anything for this and are raking in billions of dollars. So whether or not big companies are doing things to break regulations they can still be doing things that should be regulated or are not ethical anyway.

The taxi industry was pretty bad and often filled with scams and corruption. One of the cities I live near only allowed one cab company to be licensed in the city and they sucked especially when people needed rides home at night. So when Uber came in people loved it because they could finally get home safety after a night of drinking and it discouraged people from having to try and drive home drunk. For whatever reason the city always only allowed this one cab company. It would be reasonable to think a city official had some affiliation with that company to not allow other cab companies to come in.

Uber forced that to happen and it forced them to make regulation for it. There seemed to be no progress in that happening before Uber came to town.

So while Uber has some pretty shitty practices and I wouldn't consider it a good company, it is definitely a good example of what often needs to be done to force regulation.

And I mean a city always had the option to increase their fines to something massive and hit Uber hard, but instead they realized that their population wanted that and they would likely lose a lot of votes if they did something against the people like that.
The tone of the FTC's post is quite aggressive:

> FTC Alleges Facebook Resorted to Illegal Buy-or-Bury Scheme to Crush Competition After String of Failed Attempts to Innovate

Ouch.

It's important to analyze this in the context of the initial complaint, which was rejected because they didn't show enough evidence of a monopoly (and many commenters here questioned that assertion too, discussed many times, but here for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666439). This amended complaint seems to make their claims more explicit.

Note that if I'm following correctly, the main thrust of the complaint is not that they are a monopoly now, it's that they were in the early 2010s, and they abused that monopoly position at that time. Though they do also spend some time making the case that they currently have monopoly power, I'm not sure that they need to substantiate monopoly in 2020; they might just need to substantiate it in 2012 (Instagram) and/or 2014 (WhatsApp).

> By 2011, Facebook was touting to its advertising clients that “Facebook is now 95% of all social media in the US.”

I find that more specific argument much more convincing, although I'm convincable that they have a 2020 monopoly too.

> According to the amended complaint, a critical transition period in the history of the internet, and in Facebook’s history, was the emergence of smartphones and the mobile Internet in the 2010s. Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, recognized at the time that “we’re vulnerable in mobile” and a major shareholder worried that Facebook’s mobile weakness “ran the risk of the unthinkable happening - being eclipsed by another network[.]”

> After suffering significant failures during this critical transition period, Facebook found that it lacked the business talent and engineering acumen to quickly and successfully integrate its outdated desktop-based technology to the new era of mobile-first communication. Unable to maintain its monopoly or its advertising profits by fairly competing, Facebook’s executives addressed this existential threat by buying up the new mobile innovators, including its rival Instagram in 2012 and mobile messaging app WhatsApp in 2014

> The amended complaint bolsters the FTC’s monopoly power allegations by providing detailed statistics showing that Facebook had dominant market shares in the U.S. personal social networking market.

The detailed claims seem to be found around paragraph 180 in the filing (https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/ecf_75-1_ft...). This cites Comscore numbers, does anyone know if they are any good?

Also, another claim might be that TikTok is a viable competitor; they claim TikTok is in another market:

> TikTok is a prominent example of a content broadcasting and consumption service
that is not an acceptable substitute for personal social networking services.

It seems that a lot of antitrust complaints come down to where you draw the dotted line of the "market" in which they compete. This seems quite technical and IANAL so I'll just note this as interesting, without opining.