jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Isn't it more likely that social repercussions will be used to enforce the status quo? Only when change has already won can it use social force to complete its victory.

Not quite. It works in two steps. At the first, while an idea is growing, there are social repercussions against it. Once it reaches a certain mass, the social repercussions start working against the majority.

Even a relatively small minority can affect the majority through social repercussions, by definition, doubly so if the members of the minority are still relatively hidden - if they can't be attacked directly.

In the UK, there's serious social repercussions against supporting UKIP, and they're still plenty strong.
This is less of an issue now than it used to be; most companies offer Paternity leave for the same amount of time these days. This amortizes the cost across all employees.
Tool use one of the key distinguishing characteristics of humans.
Hey there. I didn't mean to insinuate that your intent was to do so - but I suppose the caution is to perhaps take that signal (# of signups) with at least a bit of a grain of salt; you likewise, as other commenters stated, could be turning off a set of demographics who want nothing to do with Facebook et al, and who may be your most passionated, motivated userbase you'd perhaps want to start off with. Pros and cons either way, it seems.

And to further clarify: I also wasn't criticizing your platform as part of my comment, I was referring to the status quo platforms - citing specifically all major platforms.

I do greatly appreciate anyone genuinely attempting to solve the problem - it's a very serious problem; obesity, literally, is a big problem in North America and growing globally (no pun intended) - and in big part is the capture of our information systems (including MSM/legacy media and platforms that have reached popularity and are ad funded/driven) by industrial complexes; with a sprinkling of foreign interests and bad actors interfering.
I guess it was quite a long time ago now but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_diethylene_glycol_wine_sc...
Women in India need liberation. I talked with many married women who feel trapped in marriage but have no way out because they won't find a good enough job for them. They need to be shown power of feminism.
The switch doesn't have to happen overnight, for all contacts and groups. And you can just run them next to each other.

People have just switched messengers in the past fine; ICQ -> MSN -> google chat / fb messenger (and I probably forgot a few). I agree that Whatsapp has become more "critical infrastructure" than messengers were, but don't give up right away because it seems impossible
Irony or insult to injury?
As a 'creative' of many years (not all of them public), I have folders and folders of dead ideas I never used, many of which I agonized over for weeks and even months to no actual productive end.

Kurt Vonnegut famously said that the reason he invented Kilgore Trout and his stories was that he loved coming up with the short little SF parables, but that writing them out was just rubbish and usually not as good as the core moral itself.

That said, you can do yourself a lot of harm dwelling on never-finished ideas; at some point you have to learn to buckle down and commit to something. You'll never finish a thing, until you finish your first thing. But once you do, you'll finish another and another, and you'll keep finishing things only as long as you keep finishing them.
Interesting. Where'd you get those figures? I googled around a bit but came up short.
I've always found the name “crypto-anarchism” a bit unfortunate, given that it has a remarkably close structure to the “crypto-fascism” word, which is more than 60 years older, but with a totally different use of the prefix “crypto”.

“crypto-fascism” uses the greek prefix, also used in the word “cryptography”, while “crypto-anarchism” just use “crypto” as a shorthand for “cryptography” (and unsurprisingly, this use has also been adopted by “crypto-currencies”, which themseves originat in the crypto-anarchist movement).
Well, no; the best case is they're trying to sell bragging rights in the style of "I'm so rich I can buy original Picasso paintings for no reason beyond showing off how rich I am!". Which is stupid and says depressing thing about human civilization, but isn't really any worse than trying to sell any other kind of artwork in physical form.
This seems to be a US based company, and none of the US based fab houses compete on price. Many don't even want your business if you're in the "Idea to PCB in One Week" prototyping phase.

The vast majority still want you to email them a zip file with your gerbers and wait for them to manually respond a day later with a quote that explicitly ignores half of the specs/requirements/quantities that you asked for in your original email.

Meanwhile, many of the Chinese houses have automated online workflows for both PCB fab and SMT assembly, and competent human sales / technical support that responds within the hour, and often do a much better job than their (arrogant, dismissive, careless, lazy) US counterparts, despite the language barrier.

A few US based companies that do well on overall experience (but not price) are OSH Park, CircuitHub, and MacroFab.
Tell your boss that Google jumped the shark 15 years ago. Get him/her to tell their boss, and so on.

Appreciate it.
Back with the CTS Labs AMD debacle, it became clear that Bloomberg isn't trustworthy. These were known scam artists, who called a RELATIVE working inside Bloomberg to push stories which weren't actually true. Nobody ever apologized, this wasn't even a story in the media. So while some people think a Bloomberg Terminal's a big deal and very useful, other people know Bloomberg has no issues dealing in misinformation and maybe you'd be better looking things up for yourself.
https://joebiden.com/healthcare/

“ Giving Americans a new choice, a public health insurance option like Medicare. If your insurance company isn’t doing right by you, you should have another, better choice.”

https://joebiden.com/covid19/

“ A decisive economic response that starts with emergency paid leave for all those affected by the outbreak and gives all necessary help to workers, families, and small businesses that are hit hard by this crisis. Make no mistake: this will require an immediate set of ambitious and progressive economic measures, and further decisive action to address the larger macro-economic shock from this outbreak.
Biden believes we must spend whatever it takes, without delay, to meet public health needs and deal with the mounting economic consequences.”
> one of the nastiest challenges the world has ever faced

Unfortunately, Covid probably will not be in the top 100 nastiest challenges. Our global history has some truly terrible things in it
The not dying part seems limiting.
Man...all I wish, after this illness goes away, is to finally meet you in person (in the near future that is) and have food and drinks while having a geeky chat about programming languages and the like.

I like how down to earth human being you are; that's the type of people I want to be around as much as possible.

There are so many things I could be taught from you.

Keep up the good work mate! +1
The fine is certainly too small, but also shouldn't someone be criminally charged here? I feel like many laws were broken and they know exactly who did it.
That explanation is plausible, but the expected words are there right below Facebook: keep, maintain, hold.. :)
Virtually every problem listed in this article is solved if bitcoin continues its historic rise - and yet you mention bitcoin on hacker news and you're down-voted to oblivion, it really is unbelievable.

The "Elites" are getting richer because capital is being used to accumulate more capital through dividends on stocks and revenue producing assets. The only reason money is being funneled into these assets is because they have the best return on investment, period. Money goes where it can get the best return.

The script gets flipped if that asset is a hard, un-inflatable asset like bitcoin with a built in scarcity mechanism.

Bitcoin doesn't have a dividend, if you're part of the 0.1 percent you can buy a ton of it, but in order to realize any gains you have to sell it and if you can't replenish it you'll have to go back to work to earn more.
Of course all of that is in theory, a lot of the truly rich people in this world have income producing businesses and other assets aside from stocks but you could argue that that's a lot better than money simply producing more money.

The world desperately needs bitcoin to succeed.
I don't agree that wealth is the factor that should be measured instead of income. Income is the number that matters--wealth is just unspent income.

I think wealth is just chosen because the differences are more dramatic.
Not to mention they were all poisoned by lead, using it for sweeteners, pipes, and for their chalices and cups.
There are many reasons why Google wouldn't want to give a comment too, but they did it anyway.

I'm not saying I know for a fact they're guilty. I have no objections to anyone who wants to withhold judgment. But I don't think it's reasonable to look at a clear, unrefuted accusation of misconduct and say "well I don't trust Google".
Statements of fact about a person's previous behavior and actions are not personal attacks.
they're just starting that long history. unions come up because companies have to increase profits and eventually, after other growth slows, that comes at the expense of their employees. the recent spate of activism against google is a symptom of that. it will only get worse as they clamp down.
Could someone write a tl;dr for this article so I can understand his point(s)?
Psychedelics shouldn't be viewed as palliative. They help you to bring about changes to your self. For some people trips can be very frightening or even traumatizing.
Do they actually leave 'a major enterprise' behind?
That would be an operation in this API definition.

See section 13.
What about 10GHz+ is important to uplink transmission? Better directionality? Harder to spoof?
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Usually, Subreddits are created by fans of the service. This is the first time I'm noticing a complete corporate subreddit. All the moderators are the staff of PIA. [1]

It will be interesting to see how much they accept criticisms on the subreddit about PIA.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/about/moderat...
Tax on cars is the same or higher in Norway (Except EV’s), and here we love our cars, not our bikes.
Of all the crazy things in there, "log uploading was flaky so we couldn't complete getting the log out of a burning car" may be the craziest.
Couldn't find an email address on the site and you guys Tweeted about being on HN so I figure this is the fastest way to get to you:

Always validate/escape user input!

http://www.kohort.com/thanks.php?myId=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealer...
A few summers ago when I was in Sunnyvale I took a course at the SF Comedy College (http://www.sfcomedycollege.com/). The course opened my mind up to being completely in the moment and creative without overthinking things (applicable to almost everything you do in life). They go through common improv exercises like Yes-ands and scenario role plays. Highly recommend improv classes.
Unfortunately calling Clojure/JRuby/Scala forks of Java is like saying airline tickets are forks of tourist destinations.
Great post! I thought about all of the companies in my list as having the exact same general problem, and I see now that's not true.

Could you elaborate on what the problems are? They are probably interesting.
It actually has a setting specifically to accommodate this. From their FAQ:

"f.lux was created by people who care a lot about accuracy in colors. We know you want to make sure your colors are perfect so there is an option to disable f.lux for 1 hour at a time (for example, while using Photoshop). This setting returns your screen to its normal settings. In the future we plan to allow automatic disabling of f.lux when you launch certain programs. f.lux is not designed for use during advanced color work, but it's fine for layout or HTML. Currently, we don't recommend running f.lux on calibrated systems running Windows, but we expect to have a solution for this soon."
I appreciated Peter Thiel's thoughts from a while back because he talked a little bit about the economics behind higher education, and why in some cases it doesn't make sense for some bright young kids to go to college. Couldn't agree more.

This post, on the other hand, smells more like baseless weltschmerz. It's the kind of stuff I used to hear all day long while I was getting my education in liberal arts, from both students and professors: universities aren't what they used to be, we should get all the stupid people out, it's gotten so easy I could do this in my sleep (after which those same students proceed to get barely passing degrees, "because why would I bother going for more in an environment like this"), universities have become slave to the industry, and so on and so on.

I like a bit of random pessimism and carping as much as the next guy, but I kind of thought most people were smart enough to realize that the whole "universities have lost their soul" thing was just a fun shtick rather than the actual state of things. Apparently not.
Lot's of things can be observed. Conclusion of correlation or rather causation is purely speculative however.

What I'm repeating and will be repeating is that such unethical methods like DRM have no place in any decent business. And they don't help sales of course. All they help are some crooks who want more control over the market or technology (DCMA-1201 and similar laws is their leverage on top of DRM).
I don't know where you got that textbook definition, but it sounds useless to me. What violence and intimidation is not done in the pursuit of political aims, aside from low-level street crime? Even adding the qualifier against civilians doesn't seem to help much, as civilians not being deliberately targeted is very much the exception in warfare historically.

My definition is "Violence and intimidation, conducted by an organization not directly under the control of a national government, targeted deliberately at civilians, for a political purpose". Much of what is popularly referred to as terrorism is closer to guerrilla warfare.

I don't entirely agree with the linked post above, but I would also not call ISIS a terrorist organization. They may be major-league assholes who need to be dealt with somehow, but they're more of a statelet attempting to practice regular warfare, including controlling a specific territory, establishing their own political system, etc.
I like Checkvist better, but WorkFlowy looks nice! I'll stick with Checkvist.
Why is "Sign in with GitHub" not a button? (Also, what value is there in doing that?)
The notion of guardedness (for structural recursion) was a bit too permissive. This lead to inconsistency if you assume e.g. (False->False = True) (which is implied by propositional extensionality, and by the univalence axiom). The same issue affected Agda also. It was discussed a lot on the Coq and Agda mailing lists, e.g. https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/coq-club/2013-12/msg00119.h... http://agda.chalmers.narkive.com/E2UeRTOx/re-coq-club-propos...
sama addresses the liquidation preference point: "Private companies are valued as of their last round that sold stock with at most a 1x liquidation preference or last secondary transaction of at least $100MM of stock."
If you're concerned about your drinking habits, you should probably not check out aa.org. There is little solid evidence that AA is a particularly effective treatment for alcoholism. Various types of therapy with real trained and certified therapists have good success rates backed by actual scientific evidence, as do certain prescription drugs. Combining them likely has an even better success rate. Talk to your doctor.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/26/alcoholics-anonymous-mu...
Modern skyscrapers basically do this, with giant tanks of water at the top that gets pumped around to act as a dampener.
Dang, sorry. I skimmed the manual again, but couldn't find the exact feature(s) that triggered my conclusion. Maybe they have been plugged already.

Anyway, I think I'm overdue on reevaluating the language. I can't wait to replace Python/Go/C/Java with this.
Everybody already carries a computer that powerful around with them continuously -- their phone. And that phone is powerful enough to run office applications, web browsers and video games.

Soon every monitor will be a docking station for both phones and laptops. A USB 3.1 type C connector will carry power, displayport and legacy USB.

The only remaining problem is software: iOS and Android aren't well suited for a keyboard+mouse+big screen interface. I bet that both Apple & Google are working on that.

Ubuntu obviously is.
Could this be used to ahead-of-time compile Python code ? I'm more interested in getting to a native executable or library.
Then it's a good thing 30 year mortgage interest APRs are lower than average YoY returns for mutual funds, so you can make more money investing your cash than you can save by paying off your mortgage.
A few weeks ago suddenly a bunch of fonts changed messing up the layout of a site of a customer. I've also seen periodic slowdowns because the fonts would not load or load very slowly.

In general keeping the number of dependencies down is a good thing to do.
not related to this project, but rob is the instigator for massscan (https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan) as well, whic claims to scan the entire ipv4 space in approx 6 minutes!!!
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1357/
thanks. I should researching any possible legal issue before I start building a public product.
What label would you have used instead?
They all work great in the browser. You don’t need their apps.
That's good to hear. May They live Krita forever. Favourite such-tool.
What's wrong with running a grocery story? Isn't AMZN making waves by moving into...groceries
I think a good litmus test for a political issue to gain brownie points on is this: Does it affect the politician, themselves?

If a politician is straight, what does two gay persons marrying have to do with him? It’s thus a brownie point issue, same goes with pot.

Once it start affecting their bottom line, i.e. there’s money involved, watch them and the media skirt around the issue carefully.
This article is what Karl Popper would call historicism — the idea that history has fixed laws or trends that inevitably lead to certain outcomes.

Here's an article on why he considered it false and even dangerous:
https://fs.blog/2016/03/karl-popper-mistake-of-historicism/
Over 20%. Is there a P/E ratio-analogue, but for this kind of dead weight financialization?
If your country has a broken political system then it's unremarkable that it's unable to to organise itself. The forces that shape economic decisions come to shape political decisions too.
I haven't tried to meditate in a long time, but my understanding of the process was, setting aside mysticism and tradition, you just take a mental concept and you focus on it and every time your mind starts drifting you return to it.

So, I've heard that people make a big deal about choosing a mantra, but my thinking was it can be anything, and somehow I got into the habit of visualizing a blank field of a particular color. The nice thing about focusing on a color was that if my visual imagination distracted me, I could concentrate on "seeing" the color, while if I was imagining words or sounds, I could focus on the name of the color too. So it was like having an object to focus on that had all the different angles available.

I'm not sure I've never experienced synaesthesia, but I'm pretty sure I haven't been perceiving smells or sounds as having color recently.
Thank you for the in-depth feedback. We're actually using Jitsi as videobridge which comes with encryption built-in but we hear your concerns and security remains a priority for us despite our early stage and we're also working on various OSes.
IP addresses are only PII if attached to other information. I can generate a list of IP addresses and store/sell that data and it's all fine because its meaningless without associated data.
The internet has struggled for years to become dynamic and we want to make it static all over again ?

I am sorry but I can't agree with this.

Caching is a different thing though...
Been using Kagi for more than 2 months. Definitely looks good enough for me. I don’t remember switching over to Google because I couldn’t find what I wanted and then finding it.
Well, that is one of the--for lack of a better term--fictions that Wikipedia (at least in theory) leans on. Which is to say an admin may or may not decide to follow the fiction. But, in theory, so long as something is cited whether or not as a practical matter a person would realistically look up the cite that should be sufficient. Of course, even verifying the cite could also be hard in practice.
In that case though, why wouldn’t all Googlers working at offices in Spain already just declare fully remote for the 100% salary increase?
This is a well-reasoned criticism; thank you for taking the time to write it.

> Van Eyck must have spent days

I am curious, from your experience, how long do you think it would have taken Van Eyck to get the prayer beads this right?

> It’s longer than a normal human neck

I agree with you that people fetishize master artists. Yet, I think you must also agree that painters often alter reality to achieve an effect. I chose to use the neck as an example, for it's much more likely that he did on this purpose, and it really hit me as a surprise when I first looked at that painting.

> There is no consistent theory that makes a Botticelli "good" and both Van Gogh paintings "good".

The theory I proposed is "what affects humans". This is much fuzzier than mathematical theory, but I think you can judge both works as good, if they affect humans as the artists intended.

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If you have suggestions for books that explore painting, less from an art history perspective, and more from a painter's perspective, would love em!
Real support call centers will send you to numerous automated menus and make you jump through hoops to talk to a real person. There's going to be a heuristic adopted in a few years where real person = scammer.
This doesn’t mean that nothing bad happens today, but that it’s nothing compared to past atrocities.

Of course Mariupol is horrible and I feel empathy for the people there. It must be horrible. And I’m sure it’s no comfort to them that Mariupol isn’t as bad as past things.

But it is a comfort to the rest of the world that Mariupol isn’t as bad as stuff like Alexander’s siege of Tyre over 2000 years ago [0]. And that Mariupol will not be remembered in the list of world horrors. It’s unlikely anyone will be linking to Mariupol in 2000 years. And let’s be thankful that it doesn’t get worse than it currently is. And that we help the people of Mariupol.

[0] after capture everyone in the city was murdered, crucified, or sold into slavery
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/107/alexanders-siege-of...