skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relationship is circular. Asimov's story was of course based on emerging notions of economics, which had become increasingly mathamaticised and grounded in statistics. His writing also affected and influenced economists, and at least one, Paul Krugman, has stated this specifically:

There are certain novels that can shape a teenage boy's life. For some, it's Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; for others it's Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As a widely quoted internet meme says, the unrealistic fantasy world portrayed in one of those books can warp a young man's character forever; the other book is about orcs. But for me, of course, it was neither. My Book – the one that has stayed with me for four-and-a-half decades – is Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, written when Asimov was barely out of his teens himself. I didn't grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/04/paul-krugman-a...
How do you mean “unregular”? Lots of movies are showing consummation of desire, or otherwise healthy sex in maybe risky or unwise circumstances.

Films like Girl with the Dragon Tattoo show maltreatment and restorative sex both. I’ve heard that porn tends to unregular, but I haven’t made time for that research, the porn I’ve seen would be worth aspiring to.
Negative, my office is a whole separate floor in my house and it still gives me anxiety. Home and work are blurred.
If this paper is to be trusted.
FDB is tested in many failure mode and scenceio.
I expect it may fail, but should fail in predictable way.
Plato's – Theory of Idea, Theory of Justice, Theory of Education, Theory (Cont)
These were banned in Santa Barbara (where I grew up) a few decades ago. It was strange to move outta SB and encounter them again.
> Careful design, knowledge and learning is being discouraged in favour of superficial understanding, copy-pasting, tweaking-until-it-works.

This is like poo-pooing amatuer woodworking and saying “people should really become an apprentice first” - no one who has the education to do careful engineering is being discouraged, the field of hardware and software is now within reach of people who just wouldn’t take on any of these projects 10 years ago.
https://localwiki.org/davis/Banning_leaf-blowers finally a political party I can get behind
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Sure it’s a big ask but if the planning is important and you are important to the planning and it is deemed a sufficient quality of planning can only happen in person … business travel seems far too common to be worthless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nobody said anything about work activities after 5. You can go do whatever.

But hanging out with coworkers when you’re all seeing each other for a rare or even first time seems like a pretty common whatever.
But Navy personnel were deployed to Iraq and landlocked Afghanistan so clearly the DoD doesn’t see the clear delineation.
I don't think refusing to take their money will harm them much. Boycotting them is not likely to do something. Media scandals don't stick either

Maybe make a bot that goes to Facebook and click on all ads costing them money?
I was going down this route once, trying to use Inkscape headless. Is there a SVG-2-bitmap tool you can recommend?
>The next best step is to pledge to not hire ex-Facebookers.

So, if this is the rule, then there's no reason for FB employee to quit as they'll never find another job.
Reading this over the cacophony of panties dropping was a challenge.
US Treasury sanctions cryptocurrency exchange SUEX
> we were pretty f*in' divided during the Bush years, and the GOP stopped at nothing to go after Clinton.

Its quite weird, because the exact same narrative of unprecedented polarization has been used under Clinton (during the bipartisan neoliberal policy consensus), Bush, Obama, and Trump (with Biden, its at least usually acknowledged as a continuation of that under Trump, not new), with most major voices just seemingly forgetting the unbroken succession of preceding instances of the same narrative, pretending whatever is currently happening came recently, out of the blue without warning.

I think you can justify the claim that there was a real increase in political tribalism resulting from the resolution of the long post-WWII set of political realignments that was particularly evident from about the 1994 midterms and the Contract With America through today. (With some signs as far back as the 1980s as the lines of the new alignment started to become clear and the parties really accelerated movement toward their new polarity, where previously major ideological divides weren't aligned with the major partisan divide, so that ideological factions, to succeed, had to work across party lines.) But that's not as sexy a narrative as “suddenly we woke up in this election cycle with divisiveness that just came out of nowhere”.
Is there anything less urgent to spend brain cells on?
Funny because I've seen incompatible changes twice on this timeframe.

The last one I remember. It was moving the API that did version negotiation from recommended to deprecated and then removed status. But yeah, the API itself didn't change. All that changed is the recommended way to interact with the library, and the old one removed.
I do agree with this part of the statement from the company:
"If any research had identified an exact solution to these complex challenges, the tech industry, governments, and society would have solved them a long time ago." The social costs of social media are complex, and solutions are not obvious. Unfortunately it's likely that if the companies can't meaningfully address these problems on their own, congress will attempt to, and the results of that the companies may not find to their liking.
I think the RPA is way overhyped, especially the "ML" features of the big players. But from what I've seen, it does have it's place in the enterprise.

There are two primary types of RPA, attended and unattended. Unattended automations make for good candidates for replacement with systems that have proper API's. The issue I've seen is that most of the underlying back office systems have a weird division of business logic between the view layer, the server and the database such that no one wants to risk trying to detangle the systems. In theory RPA can act as a bridging technology that lets you first create something closer to a proper API. Then if new apps built on top of those API's provide value, it becomes easier to justify a re-write of the underlying systems. So it kind of helps build the political will in larger organizations by making the value of the future state of sunsetting the legacy systems more real to those outside of the tech org.

Attended automations, when done right, function as a window orchestration tool for multivendor workflows where the end user needs to be in the loop, maybe for compliance reasons, or because they need to use some professional judgement like underwriters. Even when platforms have solid API's, they rarely have deep linking with enough sophistication to take the user to the proper screen for a multi-application flow. In a perfect world you'd map out relevant workflows, and write some simple glue apps that are built on top of multiple APIs, which is what Power apps is kind of trying to do. The reality is that SME's can be really attached to certain systems and ways of doing things, that the cost of retraining on a new flow is often not politically viable. So it becomes easier to augment the workflows, pulling up SharePoint docs when certain conditions are met, partially filling out forms in some webapps, etc... than search for a global maximum.

I guess in short, I think there are pragmatic ways to use RPA without resigning yourself to never doing the necessary work of rearchitecting the systems that made RPA necessary in the first place.
I’m not 100% sure how well it would work, but pointing an old kindle at a auto-refreshing web page might get the job done.
Hey thanks for list. Let me try to incorporate that too!
Started off as a great story about a super AI then … alien dogs with some kind of mind reading distributed pack intelligence? Really disappointing. Didn’t bother finishing it.
There ought to be a branch of the military that is dedicated to those goals.

I can imagine there are a lot of people who might be interested in that, but not in the war fighting. Today those people either don't enlist, or enlist and hate that aspect.
> Also, some iCloud backup data is e2ee. The document it here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Some of it is "E2EE", but Apple holds the keys that can decrypt that data.
They hired a Honeywell manager; WTF did they expect?
It seems pretty preposterous to me that people could be surprised by finding out they have shady offshore bank accounts and what not. If you have a money person and he's not telling you what he's doing with your money that seems like it would set off red flags.

Regardless of if people really are completely ignorant of their own finances and financial strategy I think they are still responsible for it. If I told a judge that I wasn't paying attention to my toxic chemical collection which I kept on the front lawn next to a neighborhood park I wouldn't expect that defense to protect me from legal liability.
Facebook is more than a factor. It is central to the problem as the largest social media corporation. Its amplification of psychopathic content to maximize the sickest forms of engagement for profit has people effectively living in a destructive cult. Remember when first came the tea party with their death panels talk, then birtherism, then Trump, QAnon and coup attempts?
Former USAFE member here. You weren't hearing a sonic boom, just the normal engine noise. If I recall correctly, we would do supersonic training off the coast of Spain. Flying supersonic over populated areas would do things like break windows in people's houses and that's not good.

The engine noise you heard was loud because military aircraft are normally exempt from sound level limits (when non-supersonic). And the engines for the F-16, Tornado, etc. were designed in the 1970s. Even for modern military engines, performance comes first. So they are still going to be loud.

The chart in this PDF shows that for the F-16, the allowed exposure time could be as short as 21 seconds with the older "muff + plugs" hearing protection. They're just LOUD (and I have the tinnitus to prove it)

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...
I suspect the easiest way to remove your site is to place on it content that Google frowns upon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
This is the real problem. All they really have to be is a razor's edge better than Google, which it sounds like they still (arguably) are.
I'm planning on setting up an all-in-one touchscreen+computer+monitor ($300 on eBay) as a glorified family to-do list manager and photo frame... any software recommendations would be appreciated! (For instance, not sure how well supported the touch screens are on Linux, etc.)
Yeah that rule doesn't feel very well thought through. :-/
IIRC someone on HN once mentioned that the Kindle web browser has a memory leak that will cause an OoM error/crash every (1000?) refreshes. They had a workaround but I forgot what it was.
I have seen it first hand it a major european city I lived in for more than 10 years, so I know there is a connection. Large open squares and spaces, and corners, facilitate hanging around of certain individuals. Also, I think safety and prevention of crime are very important, more important to limiting cars in a city. I'm sure you'll differ in your opinion after getting beaten up, mugged or raped. If there are no open spaces, it becomes much harder for groups of people to gather and because of that, it impedes crime.
> Again, if you have $10, and the price of X goes from $5 to $7, now you only have $3 to spend on other things, which reduces the price of those other things.

Only in the bizarre world where prices are set by demand alone, and quantity traded is held fixed by the Hand of God. Real supply curves aren't horizontal lines except in very bizarre circumstances.

In a real economy, a restriction in supply of a widely used input with no significant change in money supply, velocity, or relative spending vs. saving desire causes the price per unit of consumer goods to go up and the quantity traded to go down.

> Demand push and supply pull explanations do not account for this

No, they don't “account for” your fantasy that consumer goods behave such that a price change for one good has the results expected only if all other goods had perfectly inelastic supply, because perfectly inelastic supply isn't normal.
To put my position more simply: fixing (or ending) Facebook is necessary, but it won't be sufficient.
It's not useless, it means the API takes data directly.

What you would have to do to make a non-data-driven API data-driven is the work you are saved from having to do by having the API already data-driven.
Well, the idea is that the economy should be able to self-regulate. People don't want to work in bad conditions and they don't want to support polluting companies, which makes these companies unable to compete. In this way, laissez-faire economy has morality, because people can directly vote with their wallet and their feet. In order to maximize profits, companies will have to seek the favor of people.

Even today, companies compete on being clean and treating their workers well, even further than any regulations would require them. The historical difference is that back then people weren't asking for higher standards, i.e. there was lack of knowledge and lack of alternatives. Also, I don't believe that horrible working conditions have ever been a standard practice, but rather an extreme example of some anomaly that has resulted from coercion or even state regulation of some sort.

There would be less price gouging and less monopolies, because these both are caused by lack of competition. There are lots of regulatory moats than decrease competition and increase costs.
Unless they can figure out reversible computing to the point their computer doesn't really need any power, they also have to contend with the Landauer limit, so counting to 2^255 (at current cosmic microwave background temperature) would need about 2^255 k 3kelvin ln(2) / c^2 = ~9 million solar masses of fuel (assuming perfect effeciency).
There is zero way that sending Apple all MAC addresses on the local network helps with either of those.
It seems some of us are more averse to LCD screens than others. For an always-on ambient advice, I appreciate that epaper can match the lighting of the room and not draw attention to itself (instead of basically being a flourescent bulb)
Yes, and now we have a situation in paris where certain neighborhoods impact the safety and well being of the entire city. So maybe all this new hipster urban planning wasn't such a great idea after all.
> > the options for places to live are endless.

> That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute

There's a lot of miles (literally) between endless options of places to live, and places that are within commuting distance to the office.
I'm sorry if you've had bad experiences with this approach in the past, but it emphatically does not lead to low quality and/or meaningless tests. It's the essential foundation of well-abstracted and maintainable software.
Just out of curiosity, how large of a company/companies have you been working for?

I’m asking because my experience is largely with <200 people companies (more so with <50) and onboarding and such is always very scant at startup stage and only starts to happen in my experience at stages of intense growth and post series C/D, but I may be in a weird niche.

These things also tend to happen organically at different stages depending on the team but don’t become mandated/invested in until later.
^string of course.
What sort of legislation?
Facebook actually did the wrong thing during the arab spring : 1- login was not encrypted, so we got our accounts compromised 2- they blocked activist accounts, disabled pages and groups and censored content based on pro regime reports 3- when they got their shit together, they realized that most of us did not use our real identities on facebook so blocking every Tunisian user based on regime report was not going to cut it. So they had this smart identity verification idea where they would show you a picture where one of your friends was identified and ask you where he was. Genius. Too bad we actually identified people on stupid photos just to get their attention. So when you tried to login you were showed say a picture with two dogs and they asked you to identify one of your friends. Half the Tunisians were blocked out of facebook till they rolled back this feature.
My take is beyond economic activity to enable the biological survival of the species, our economics are historically built on gossip and political whimsy. I suspect there are many fewer rules needed than we’ve been lead to believe.

We like to believe it must be complicated because of course society is. But social laws are based on social network effects which are politically manipulated.

So in conclusion, it’s rhetorically a free market but in practical terms it’s gamed by social corruption as usual, requiring ever more Byzantine economic theory to capture the edge cases.

Infinitely big little numbers have allowed economists to iterate on the edge, but socially it’s belly button digging.
Is that how archive.vn works? I've always wondered how they are able to get the full text of paywalled sites like Wall Street Journal who give 0 free articles per month.
Isn’t the point of these you can launch them from Kansas while at the office and they still reach their target in a matter of minutes? No huge deployment required to get a missile boat in range, just load in the coordinates, press the btn, and go back to lunch.
Oh I see it now, you mean at the time of operation by the end-user.

I was thinking about the operational complexity of developing/manufacturing such thing, hence why for me it seemed to be virtually the same thing.

Thanks for taking your time to clarify this.
I think you very much missed the point. The tine packs don't mind read, they have high bandwidth sonic communication and their mind is brought into being through that communication. Much like the same can be said of you, whose brain consists of specialized regions with high-bandwidth communication between them. Individually they're rather dumb dogs, but together they can form a higher intelligence.

It's an extremely interesting way to explore the nature of the mind, and what it means to be a conscious, thinking entity. The super-AI thing is just a thriller plot point to move the story forward, by comparison.
Wouldn't the "unbundled" cause a lot of headache when trying to deploy it in production?
It’s not Facebook, it’s capitalism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211003164029/https://www.thegu...

https://archive.is/rwHBj
As in they don't exit or you haven't heard of them?
The tea party and birtherism predate all of Facebook’s content ranking algorithms - so I would say you’ve proved the GP’s point.
That bot would likely make Facebook money and cost advertisers money
I would have thought he's a "metrics" kind of guy... There's no way of judging what people outside his line of sight are accomplishing? Does he spend his whole day watching a set of monitors showing everybody at work?
Going that fast requires significantly more energy. You start to worry about things like the cross section of the aircraft (which is why fast plane commonly have knife-edge wings) and smooth airflow over the fuselage.

One of the advantages of the composite construction being used by Boom is you don't have those thousands of rivets sticking out. And panel gaps. Which is why the 787 is as fuel-efficient as it is compared to traditional aluminum bodied aircraft.
Deeply offensive, coming from a working father. Reverse the genders here and it's an instant ban.
The story is a hoax
The old normal wasn't that great for most people. It was just the devil we knew.
> If batteries can power a multi-ton F-150 truck, it is fatuous for landscapers to say that they aren’t strong enough for a dozen-pound leaf blower.

Sure, if the batteries are large enough. I tried Lowe's Kobalt 80V leaf blower, and only on the max speed setting did it have enough power to pull leaves out of the grass. Unfortunately, on that setting the battery would last ~10-15 minutes, which isn't enough time for the front and back yard. Sure, I could get two batteries, but now costs are rapidly rising, and I'm also draining the battery's useful life at an increased rate.

I want cordless electric gardening tools to be great, I really do. I don't enjoy having to deal with clogged jets in my weed eater's carburetor (Husqvarna 4-stroke, because what the article does get correct is that 2-strokes are obnoxiously loud), nor do I enjoy having to drive out of my way to get ethanol-free gas for them. However, I'll take that over mediocre performance and battery life.
We have seen this story before. Person joins Facebook thinking they can "help". Then quits.

Facebook is a public company whose purpose is serve advertisers. Online ads is the only way they can generate revenue. It is not some woo-woo about connecting the world, giving people a voice, or whatever. That's what the internet enables, not a single website controlled by someone else. Facebook tries to take credit for what is good about the internet.

Facebook is a barrel of fish, the website is the barrel, users are the fish (ad targets) and advertisers are the shooters. For advertisers and FB investors,^1 things are going great. Except for the bad publicity.

1. Attempts to oust Zuckerberg, the root of the problem, will always fail.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/betsyatkins/2019/06/07/facebook...

There is nothing to fix. As other commenters point out, the "solution", for users, is to stop using Facebook and use other means to communicate over the internet that do not require middlemen, third party intermediaries and interlopers that seek to sell online ad services and are determined to conduct ever-increasing levels surveillance and personal data mining.
Facebook encourages hate speech for profit, says whistleblower