jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How is that any different than current dating reality? White rich males (and females) are the cream of the crop on dating systems. Attractiveness is another huge driver, as a derivative of the prior two attributes combined with other more subtle ones.

This idea is simply an admittance of what we're all already collectively doing. Only difference is the blame is centralized to the app, versus spread out to each user.

If you don't believe me, take a look at statistics on dating app success for unattractive minorities versus the aforementioned "cream of the crop". We're all pretty blatantly <something>-ist when it comes to dating.
They certainly are needed. I was snared in late night construction traffic near Baltimore waiting for a crane to lift a beam. I was in the middle lane preparing to merge over and was at an angle along with another two guys in a car to our right from the right lane. Suddenly there's this beeping coming from a car that's trying to get between us. We then hear a young woman asking to let her pass. "Excuse me, can you please move?" My friend leans out the window and asks, "You can't pass, the road is blocked by construction" she again asks the same thing but a little distressed. My friend responds "Is everything okay? do you need help?" she just kept begging "please move we have to get through." The guys next to us again ask them "Do you need help?" The girl again begged for one of us to move this time nearly crying. The other driver responds "You can't pass. There's nowhere to go" The woman responds by leaning on the horn while inching up until she nearly hits the other car forcing him to pull off the road. She then speeds off into the very active construction zone. Within seconds, out of the darkness comes lights and sirens and gives chase.

About 30 minutes later when the lane opens we get about half a mile down the zone and saw that the cop was only able to stop this nut job after her path was blocked by machinery and materials. She was cuffed, sitting on the hood of her car completely zoned out. Her friend was still in the passenger seat. They couldn't have been older than 20. My money was on club/party drugs they couldn't handle and freaked out while waiting in traffic.
> (maybe game physics?)

Not game physics, as it puts the CPU in a lower speed regime it'd have negative implications on the rest of the games performance. So far, that AVX512 requires this lower speed (due to thermals) is an implementation detail, and it could be expected that newer processes (Intels 10 or 7 nm?) would allow them to work AVX512 tasks on full speed.

Until that happens, and everyone has AVX512 (because it'd be a massive fail to have a game that requires you to have a HEDT Intel processor to play), it'd be a nice gimmick to have on very specific tech demos, and performance sensitive scientific code that you know will run on a certain machine with certain characteristics.
For those of us in London who are totally fed up with bullish companies like Uber who refuse to play by the rules and systematically tread on workers' rights, there's a worker's cooperative called TaxiApp (https://www.taxiapp.uk.com) which works on a non-profit basis and attempts to give a similar experience to that of Uber/Lyft/Hailo etc.

Unlike the others, it's operated and owned by the workers - so you know that everyone is getting a fair deal.
Because adoption of ipv6 allows everyone to be an equal on the internet again. Right now half of the computers hooked up to the 'net aren't even given a routable IP address. They're behind carrier NAT unable to participate like a real computer. They can't use protocols, they can only consume third party services over HTTP/S for the most part.

If everyone is routable it cuts the gordian knot in the "What kind of content should be allowed on our platform?" question by allowing everyone to simply be their own platform. If ipv6 gets adopted fast enough it might just save the 'net from being just a more privacy invasive form of television.
I couldn't help but notice some of the internal comms wires that were seemingly crossed between Firefly's CRO and their Product team (and the police apparently).

>"When you look at that density in major cities, we do have the potential to collect significant amounts of data. The question is what to do with that data.” (After this story was published, a Firefly representative said the company was “not questioning what to do with that data.”)"

>"But he said they’ve been “contemplating” and “testing lightly” a feature where the screens pick up noise off the street with built-in microphones. (Noise sensors are not part of last week’s roll-out. A Firefly representative stressed to CityLab after publication that Hudes has nothing to do with the product team where these decisions would be made, and that all his mentions of such a feature are hypothetical and are not part of the company’s roadmap.)"

>"Acoustic data cross-referenced with GPS coordinates might help police identify where the shot came from, and from what direction. The San Francisco police department says that “never had such a discussion with a Firefly representative about this hypothetical use of this technology.” They did meet with a representative “to discuss the possibility of featuring public safety messages on the display screens,” but have no formal agreement, and have “no plans to move forward with an agreement.”
If you have a problem with this question you have a problem with John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which has stood the test of time for a reason, and I propose such people look up Heterodox Academy https://heterodoxacademy.org, started by Jonathan Haidt among others.

They released the relevant parts of On Liberty I recommend https://heterodoxacademy.org/mill.

Without diversity in viewpoint, you don't know what you know or not, and when you face someone with an opposing viewpoint, you find yourself impotent and confused. They will likely beat you in debate and influence others more effectively. Your emotions may become intense, undermining your ability to bring others to see your view. Challenging your own ideas teaches you and strengthens you.
Lynx is niche now? Low user count, yeah, but it’s a standards complaint browser.
> The one other thing I will say is that I did get ebooks instead of textbooks a number of times in college because it was cheaper and I was told ahead of time that we either never or rarely use the book (but had to prove we got it or lose points in the class).

Did the professor write the book?
.. and speaking of which, who is the dickhead who created a cypherpunk account on HN, but with a nonstandard password? Or changed it to a nonstandard one?

Please atone for your evil ways and fix it to "cypherpunk".

Thx.
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I launched this late last night, a few things that make it unique:

- You can actually have a conversation with someone - each person submitting gets a unique animal for the thread. All replies from the same animal are from the same person.

- It's realtime, you can happily sit there and watch idly if you wish.

- There's a ranking algoritm that's based on interaction rather than vites.

There's still a few bugs to work out: post errors are at the top of the page Stack Overflow style but the first users all seem to hate this location - I'll move it back to the comment box. Also replies will get images very soon, but this isn't yet implemented yet.

I'm trying to chase the PostSecret demographic, but expect the odd birth of anonymous mirth in their too. The audience is anyone who is interested in the lives of others, or who has the basic human need to have a witness to their lives.
Tech stack is Python, Tornado, MongoDB, my own ORM.
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Hosting: Google Cloud
There's something intuitively misleading here, though I'm not sure what it is. I am looking at 100 square inches of floor right now and nothing unusual is happening in any of them.
thinkpad x395 (2019), the one I am using.

I suspect your setup isn't using hw acceleration for video decode.
these are I ate 4 though by accident so maybe doesn't help with my cut but holy crap for "keto cookies" they taste legit
Isn't Comodo the CA that was compromised recently?
What browser were you on?
Outstanding use of sarcasm to make fun of the "EBS outage means we should all go back to building our own datacenters" overreaction.

/applauds
I agree with your point, yet as the parent points out. The uptake will be less, it has to be. Websites and people learning languages are vastly different size wise.

I also think the numbers he quoted about buying learning material are a little off. Purely because they are quoting numbers which cover a broad range of media. Whereas duolingo is the web and maybe mobile apps.

I personally think the market is huge, I just felt the numbers were sexed up for effect.

The "avg" of user sentences to create a better version sounds very exciting from a tech point of view.
Okay, I see KeePass and Password Gorilla recommended here in the other replies. I use KeePass actually, and I've seen PGorilla. But I'd like something that is integrated with the iPhone - and works with Linux and Windows too.

There's an app called Strip that looks pretty good. I'm listening to other suggestions.
It doesn't mean they either know, or don't know. It means their PR isn't willing to fully disclose the exact nature because if they confirm customer data was nicked, class actions will start off rather promptly, and if they say it certainly wasn't, they're seen as over-reacting.
Who says they're simulating it accurately?
To me it sounds like lawyer-speak for "We don't think they do but we're covering our arses"
Does anyone else have this "problem"?

Yes, or at least used to: I outgrew it. I think part of it came from being raised by a single mom and being very aware of how important money was. Once I had more of it than I needed, I simply didn't know what else to do besides bank it or invest it and the thought of spending made me break out in hives.

At some point, though, you realize that having nice things doesn't mean you're wasting your money or that you're going to be homeless next week. Life is about balance. Be good to yourself, but be careful.
Actually I really like the way Google gets their best employees -- they get them in acquisition after they've build something useful
I grew up in Los Alamos in the 1980s and 1990s and the detailed history of what happened on the receiving end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still mostly glossed over. The story told is more about the heroic wartime feat of engineering that was the Manhattan Project. Even now that gets played up more. Since I left they installed a statue of Gen. Groves and Dr. Oppenheimer in one of the parks there.
Yeah, it's pretty cool, but wouldn't work with airline seat pitch: https://youtu.be/6-ee-eZtUKc

There is a design where the middle seat is further back than the aisle and window seats. It would help in a different way...it's easier to get in and out of the seats. There's even an option to slide the aisle seat in during boarding, though I'm somewhat skeptical about that.

It does make the middle seat more desirable than it currently is, by making it wider and solving the armrest problem. https://www.fastcompany.com/3067612/this-redesigned-airplane...
Federal antitrust law could be used to break up a company, but that would not result in its CEO being imprisoned.
> If you want to calculate GDP some other way then you will need to decide what millions of prices "should" be and persuade others with your argument.

It's a bit worse than that because cost, value and price are all different things.

The amortized cost of making water available from the tap is pennies per gallon. The value of water is nigh infinite because without it you die. The price is presumably somewhere between those two values, but it could be anywhere -- an efficient water company might charge close to the cost but a robber baron with a hard monopoly on water might charge close to the value. The market only tells you the price, not the cost or the value.

In a lot of cases it doesn't even tell you that. Consider what happens when a person spends time on a hobby. The cost is not zero, the value is not zero, and there is no price. Even more complicated, suppose the hobby is writing free software. Then there is no price (or it's zero, which isn't very informative) but you have value being derived by people all over the world, who may each value it in a different amount.

> Philosophically, even major changes like a carbon tax or universal basic income are basically just patches to get prices somewhere closer to what we think they should be.

A carbon tax is definitely about pricing an externality. A UBI is kind of the opposite. It's basically admitting that we don't know how to value everything correctly so instead of that here's the money, go choose what you need for yourself.
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Hi all, this page basically processes a list of experts on Twitter and finds what they are engaging with (likes, replies, quote tweets, retweets).

Let me know what you think!

If it seems useful to people I'm considering adding the top articles from the past 12 hours above the top tweets.

I was also thinking of doing some text matching to make sure that the tweets contain words like "covid" or "coronavirus" but I'm not sure I mind tweets that say things like "I got tenure"--it's what people in the community are talking about...
I could not agree more with this. Do keep in mind that Italy has had 5000 deaths in a rather short timespan, while the 25,000 deaths in 16-17 was over a much longer timespan.
I fear the economic repercussions will be grossly underestimated, when we could have done like Japan.
At least the environment will benefit from all the lockdowns around the world.
Probably because it's supposed to be "introspective", in the sense that you just add a single HTML line to your otherwise usual markdown/tex files, and the javascript recognizes this patterns ie. it ignores the <script> tag and renders everything else.
Small, easy to write/maintain approaches are at an evolutionary disadvantage vs classically "enterprise" styles.

Easier to work with -> fewer people needed -> fewer people hired -> fewer people learn -> fewer people know.

Now there's fewer people in the market who know Simple, vs many people who've learned OverEngineered (TM). Leadership wants to pick a language/style they'll be able to hire for as-needed. OverEngineered has a much larger talent pool.
Now has haiku:

https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8241

“Haiku of the month:

Stand up for your rights.
VMware does not comply.
Hellwig goes to court.

(https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-fa...
I wonder what the economic implications are when things that are "illegal" have a limited access to technology because of privacy concerns.

This is not a user friendly map.
Your first reason is why I prefer to use LaTeX and distribute .tex files along with .pdfs. I think the syntax of TeX is nicer than HTML and since I'm not a good or fast designer I don't have to worry about designing things nicely, adjusting for different browsers, etc. I do like your idea of embedding base64-encoded data for the browser to read, though.
More recently they will only give you one bbq sauce with their chicken nuggets, and even asking for an extra one isn't free. Asking for bbq sauce w/ fries is an extra charge.
There is a good article about luck in chess here:
http://www.chessninja.com/migonchess/migonchess005.htm

To quote a bit:

There is no "chance" on the chessboard, the pieces don't move by themselves. ... However, "extraordinarily improbable" things happen all the time.
It's not negative; it's an astute observation, and I thank you! :) I suppose some might fully have the intention to promote stocks they are interested in, but all submissions are subject to community voting so theoretically only opportunities of true merit should rise (I have plans to defend against gaming the system). Successful traders sharing tips actually makes sense if they've already bought into a position, because they are essentially promoting that position. Many "expert" analysts get paid to give opinions, and I think everyone should have this opportunity.
That your conclusion is wrong. The correct conclusion would be that Poker is a game of both luck and skill.

I fail to see why that is by any metrics message board geeky but fair enough if that is what it is then by all means...
Since everybody already knows that games exist on a continuum from solvability to coin-flip randomness, you haven't contributed any insight to the discussion, but you're very intent on demonstrating to us all that you know that the continuum exists, and that at least 2 games you can name exist on the far end of that spectrum.
I'm sorry. I've mishandled this. What I should have said to begin with is, "Yes, ThomPete, you are right, and I was wrong. Poker is a game of both skill and luck. Thank you for clarifying that for all of us; it would have been terrible indeed to let stand the incorrect notion that luck was not a factor in poker."
I'm surprised that you can even compel someone to produce this information in an interview setting, considering some other things that are not legal to ask ("how much do you weigh, how tall are you . . .").
Being a centrally-guided product over a community project has been an intentional core characteristic of how Signal is run from the start though, so that's pretty much against the principle for it. (outside of the level that companies listen to user community feedback)
Yes this is my impression as well.

From my (extremely limited) experience, I feel that as a startup you want to be working with tech/tools of 50-75% of the complexity that you are able to handle and work with. You (probably) don't want to be working right up against cutting edge unless you are very confident about it or your unequivocally an expert. Otherwise all the variance and errors that come with running a startup is just going to render your product/service/whatever unusable
Discussion from yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827

Consensus - WTF?
Good. Maybe the mining company will actually make a deal with the new government to control and clean up their waste, perhaps by posting a substantial bond, unlike most mining companies which just go bankrupt and disappear and leave it for the local government to handle.
I think there are 3 attitudes towards Signal:

1. Anger from purists who care about the fact it's not decentralised, and that Moxie runs the show, and that it uses phone numbers etc etc...

2. Indifference from those who have never heard of it

3. Joy from those who are extremely happy a decent, private, alternative to Facebook/Whatsapp exists

My worry is that group 1) try and ruin it for the rest of us.

Signal is literally the only product I can get my family to use which provides E2E messaging and prevents mass surveillance. But Signal needs to keep core feature parity to remain competitive with WhatsApp, Telegram etc. And that includes a payment mechanism.
It's already a Free Software.

Huge fork in 10... 9... 8...
I think the assumption that addition is commutative in any context simplifies the spec rather than makes it more complex.
The focus on lack of evidence for effectiveness here seems plainly wrong.
I convinced quite a lot of my friends to switch to Threema. No phone number required, and really open source (https://threema.ch/en/faq/source_code)
> You make some good points, however every company should find a way to be sustainable and pay their fair share of taxes to society. If that's really not possible, then perhaps that business should go bankrupt.

This sounds nice in theory, but in practice there is always the option to just not do business. You can get away with high taxes if you have something to offer in return, but at some point you just damage or destroy the economy.

> Breaking monopolies and monopoly-like structures will create many opportunities for SMEs / SMBs to flourish.

Fair enough, but as a consumer, perhaps I would prefer not to shop at the SMB equivalent of Amazon? Perhaps I like the fact that AWS is cross-subsidizing my deliveries?

Amazon isn't really much of a monopoly if you consider that it really competes on price and there isn't much of a barrier of entry to their market. They have little competition because it's not profitable, not because they're so powerful. Of course Amazon knows this, which is why they attempt to build a moat with regulation and taxation.

> I'm sorry, I can't tell if what you are saying is sarcastic, naive or perhaps...

Perhaps you did not quite understand what I am saying: These people are not earning money, they own assets. Owning assets can earn you money, such as dividends or rent. Those are already taxed. However, the reason why people find themselves on top of the "richest people" lists is usually not because they earned income from assets, but because the assets they own appreciated in value.

In general, you don't tax that appreciation because the asset price could drop just as well - if the Fed didn't bail out the market every time. You tax the profits gained from selling those assets. If you never sell your assets because you are already a billionaire and don't need cash, you don't get taxed. This is not really much of a tax revenue loss, because if you taxed, say, unrealized stock gains, you would massively suppress the value of stocks. Such hypothetical tax revenue just doesn't exist, at least not in the amount that you may imagine.

> What's the alternative? Don't tax corporations...

Yes. Corporate tax does nothing but make the country less interesting from a business perspective, for what little revenue it creates.

> ...allow them to form monopolies and starve SMBs?

That is orthogonal, in fact SMBs would profit the most from reductions in corporate tax.
Interesting article. I might subscribe to Playboy.
Oh, it's because I have enabled "Text-only zoom" in Firefox. I expected the icons to be sized in "ems" so that their size would be relative to their element's font size.
I was excited to see they decided to add extension support.
Unfortunately it seems quite limited for now. Essentially you have greasemonkey scripts plus a button on the toolbar.
Also the extension API is extremely buggy at the moment, which makes it painful to write extension but its still a development build so it's ok.

Looking at the changelogs I'm surprised to see regressions in basic features of the browsers. I wonder if the firefox and chrome trunks have the same kinds of bugs.
It's not so surprising given that his initial idea for the Web was proposed in 1989.
How about another word: valuation. And another: capitalism. One more? Ok! How about: accountability.

No one needs to manage your business for you. If you are unaware of the value of the property which you hold and someone makes you an offer which you gladly accept. Guess what?!?! YOU are the only person accountable. Don't go whining because you were taken advantage of. Be a smarter entrepreneur. rabble