jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
By that argument, the United States must have become dystopian in the early 1900s, when the Supreme Court in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) upheld fining people who refused smallpox vaccination. Or in 1922, when in Zucht v. King, 260 U.S. 174 (1922) upheld a Texas public school not allowing a student to attend without proof of vaccination.

There was an interesting piece on NPR this morning on "vaccine passports". It brought up the history of the eradication of smallpox in the US up through the middle of the 20th century and a large part of it was making vaccination mandatory for things like attending school and checking this. They didn't formally have vaccine passports because the smallpox vaccination left a distinctive mark so all someone had to do to check was ask you to roll up a sleeve and they could take a look.

They did bring up a risk of vaccine passports that would not have been a risk in the mid 20th century: privacy. With the propensity nowadays to exploit for tracking everything that can be tracked and to tie together all the different databases that contained anything about us, it is quite possible that a vaccine passport system could turn into something more--showing you vaccine passport to be allowed into a store for example might end up being equivalent to showing you full driver's license, credit report, and everything else.

Any vaccine passport system should be designed so that all it reveals is that the bearer had been vaccinated, not who the bearer is. I can't offhand think of a way to do that other than having vaccine passports be active electronic devices which might get expensive.
This looks pretty good if using Laravel: https://spark.laravel.com/
We prefer plug and receptacle.
> You cannot displace 1.2M of people and try to look as a democratic state (no matter how necessary it was).

There are a number of democratic states that have happily uprooted a lot more people than that, both before, and after WW2. Most of them haven't failed.
What you are saying is factually wrong. If I can sue a mall security for something. I should be able to sue a police officer for the same. The job of the defendant doesn't change the status of the charge/request. Most public servant don't work as a spy imbedded in Russia.
Publicly their firehose customers include Google, MS, and ~10-12 startups whose names I don't know.

Soon they'll begin seeing revenue from the new half/10% hose plans announced last week.
True, although she didn't personally live through the civil war. Missed it by 50 years.
While I can't disagree with those tips, those sorts of things are precisely why I use and love Sass, plus I can split my CSS into multiple files by logical division, and use macros to express otherwise-verbose constructs succinctly (like +border-radius versus six -vendor-border-radius declarations).
Thanks for the free CDN service.
Honestly, this has recently given credence to the idea that Google is just broken recently. I can hardly find anything I'm looking for anymore. Even for freely available books, searching for the PDF just links me to a content farm that doesn't even have it. It's just a maze of "herbal Viagra" ads.
Netflix is terrible. You spend more time looking for stuff to watch than actually watching stuff. I know a movie is bad if it's available for streaming on netflix.
David Flanagan looking for a salaried job? My first thought is, that's a sad end of an era. My second thought is, I wish I were hiring right now.
I'm surprised at that mindset. The only thing a photo could do is disqualify you out of racism or ageism, or bump an unqualified person to the second round through attraction.

What benefit does a company gain by knowing what an applicant looks like prior to determining if the resume makes the skills cutoff?
I kind of think "how hard it is to sell YC to your cofounders" is a good test of both your own communications ability and their startup-mindedness. My two cofounders hadn't really heard of the details of YC before (although they knew of the general organization); it was pretty easy to convince them, although they did ask insightful questions about the value proposition.
I don't know about Europe, but walking around South Korea three years ago, it was a sea of Samsungs and LGs on every man, woman, child, and senior. Today, if a university student isn't sporting an iPhone 4 (not 3Gs, since that's last year's model), then it's because they're getting one next month or next semester.

Nevertheless, South Koreans are fiercely loyal to national brands and companies (chaebol - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol), so it sets up quite a quandary:

Do I get a better (often cheaper) smart phone that carries more cachet, or do I get a pretty-good locally-made phone that's loaded down with features that I don't really use much and for which I have to pay extra (Nate/June/DMBtv)?

It seems that almost universally Koreans have put aside their intense nationalism and national-brand loyalty (you'd be amazed how intense) and opted for the foreign-made cachet-carrier. That, with the exception of the Galaxy S, which is doing great and being promoted heavily on (literally) every busy street corner. I do mean literally, not "literally".

All of this to conclude that now, South Korea sees a huge chink in iPhone's armour, just like Naver and Daum saw a chink in Google's armor a couple of weeks ago. This is a chance to put down the foreigner brands and promote national brands anew. The thinking being: "let's go for it and see what we can get out of this."
There are a lot of direct technical reason this might not work (not all edge cases are sufficiently sampled).

But there is also a "fundamental" issue of it being difficult/impossible to enumerate "bad behaviors". This is an issue related to a lot of AI safety, including AGI safety as discussed by for example in Nick Bostrom's "Superintelligence" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LOOCGB2)
Missing: irritating auto-playing video that cannot be stopped and follows you as you scroll; confirm-shaming; dire warning that this is your "last free article"; annoying slide-overs obscuring as much of the page as possible; worthless outbrain clickbait; infinite scrolling loop of the same garbage repeated; "sponsored" content; 10 different social media buttons/trackers; google analytics; anti-privacy policy; our terms of use have changed: read them before proceeding; only works in Chrome.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means[1]. Maybe that's why a lot of people are confused about what you are trying to say.

Perhaps you mean "least developed countries"[2]? That's beside the point, however.

The point is, making up definitions and using the equivalent of "love it or leave it" when it comes to talking about the US won't get you far in terms of getting any point across.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Developed_Countries
I'm not denying that the market exists. I'm denying that the product google launched in these cases was comparable to the competition. Google code, for instance, was SO inferior to github that comparing the two is actually kind of funny.
That's hardly the case. The entirety of NYC (including the 5 bouroughs) is falling apart, and quality/cost of new projects leaves much to be desired.
I hope to see this at the next Tool concert
Thanks a lot, I need this
I would aggressively vote and promote a us presidential candidate who stated they would negotiate an arrangement to do this for financial compensation on coastal equator countries- and failing that, a hostile military invasion to force it upon them.

Probably no need for the latter, but having it on the table makes the former easier to negotiate.

This process could release deadly nickel into the water. It probably would harm the coral reefs more than help... but I really feel like much of the ocean is pretty f*ed longer term anyway. Also the countries most poised to do this are the ones most at risk from climate change both in terms of heat, tidal forces, and horrible storms.

I feel it would be a powerful platform. It makes an optimistic message out of an otherwise negative concept- and it makes America the hero saving the world. Who wouldn’t vote for that?
They're even hiring an analytics manager!

https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisiti...
End of the day, both are hard to implement. On bugout.dev, I chose to go with a simple locking mechanism for collaboration (similar to WebDAV).
> Perhaps the question should be, “Why do women value gold?”

No, it shouldn't. Gold has been worn by just as many men as women. I thought the blue-pink divide was arbitrary, but now gold is "only for women"? Based on what?

> the females

Gross.

> the men would not normally have the task of polishing the stuff

What incredibly specific and odd gender roles you imagine.
I'm pretty sure this is 99% of the value of bitcoin for 99% of people that hold bitcoin.
It's not just about wages. I think Amazon has actually made great strides by raising their minimum wages to $15/h. According to US stats the monetary benefit from unionising is about +11% on average. By offering twice the federal minimum, it's possible that Amazon is already above that. Now, you can argue that minimum wage should be higher still, but that's a separate discussion.

I don't think we should pretend that FC jobs will ever be super high paying or enviable jobs, but there are other ways to improve worker conditions. e.g. In some FC's, people allegedly have to walk for 20 minutes to reach a toilet. That's easily fixed. Making sure people don't have to choose between feeding their families and casting a vote in the election is another example. In general, even for a low skill job, pressure shouldn't be so high as to burn people out.

I think some FCs might actually have decent worker conditions. Others don't. As you alluded to, a company has financial interests that may not align with worker interests, which is why I think this needs to be approached in a structural way. Like Bezos himself once said: "Good intentions don't work; you need good mechanisms to make anything happen."
> I'm a Mac user, mostly because I like the simplicity of the hardware.

Do you mean software? Or are you referring to the iMac? because on the laptop side, the MacBooks seem very similar in terms of simplicity. Build quality is a different story, etc.
> The union will always be on your side

This just isn't true.

If I'm a junior worker in a union with a pay-by-seniority agreement because the majority of workers are senior, then they aren't on my side are they? They're on the side of the majority senior workers. They're on the side against me and my aspirations to get paid more.
Ditched GA about two years ago now and haven't looked back. And haven't missed those upsell emails every time they released a new feature either.

Instead we employ a QA to check everything from spelling and grammar, to page links and downloads and everything else in between and they've been worth every penny.

Customer satisfaction and retention is up and I'm even getting better night's sleep! (I kid you not)
Napster is different. The fact you do not want to pay for music does not make it free to produce, promote and distribute.

There is real time and money involved in songwriting, composing, interpreting, recording, marketing, etc.

In this case, the journals paid nothing for the research they publish, and they share none of the money they make.

An analogy for a journal would be a napster that forces you to publish your music there and then doesn't pay you anything.
This has been proposed, and it is still a good idea if one wants to make Haskell accessible to OO programers. It would require the function composition dot to have spaces around it, which is already fairly standard practice.

However, just adding some syntax does not finish solving the problem: one still needs to figure out how to get everything to typecheck under all use cases (and all type extensions) and also to operate efficiently at runtime. This article does that (although it isn't actually explained that well in the article).
This is tangental, but why aren't we building new cities? We keep on adding population. We have realized that people under 30 don't want to live in the suburbs. We have realized that poor and rich alike don't really like the suburban model.

However, the current set of cities are constrained. We can't really build out, and public transportation has been found to be a must. Cars aren't the solution in high density living. As such, we need new land.

Import artists. Bring along tech. Have artisans build some great buildings.

It would only take 50 square miles, some coastline, and some water rights. Why isn't this the time to be bold?
- If there's more data showing that artists help improve a community's quality of life, I think that's important data to share. The author figures that's a given (and I agree) but I don't think the general public gets it yet. If you roll out the red carpet, create spaces for artists, treat artists with respect, you might attract more artists. (Instead of harassing them, which is common.) However, what kind of artists will you get? You need a strategy.

- There's the whole issue of the Internet that the article doesn't really cover. Not that long ago, New York artists had to wait for the latest styles to get from Paris to New York by ship. Today, location is not as much an issue. If your work is remarkable and you can get a good photo uploaded to the Internet, who cares where you are? New York artists are a dime a dozen. If you're somewhere exotic, that could work to your advantage. Years ago I read an article about galleries closing in favor of more intimate, private viewing spaces where you could make an appointment to see and purchase something you saw online. (Assuming you need to see it in person before purchasing.) So the fancy street address is no longer as important to sell art. And Art Basel (and similar events) make New York less relevant too.
The CIO is probably better at playing corporate politics than a grunt. (That's why they are CIO and not a grunt.)
(Sigh). I wish I was making 150K starting salary. Unfortunately, I'm not and I live in BosWash which makes me part of the below-welfare-wage numbers. I wish folks could have more attitudes like NinjaTime so that they can become the enlightened masses.

Nothing is more discouraging than watching Joe and Jane from high school and college getting promotions at their consulting, law and medical careers knowing that I was way smarter than they were. Cue Kurt Vonneghan, "The real horror is waking up one day and realizing your high school class is running the country"; well, I'm just slightly disgusted that just the undeserving plebes, not the popular high school kids are buying McMansions and starter luxury cars!

Well, at least I'm part of the enlightened. I got my security clearance (no H1B competition), my personal contracting sole proprietorship (line-by-line deduction), Cisco/Oracle/MCSE certificates (certified scrum-master), and I intend to stick it all the way to the Man!
But people live after they reproduce. Having 2 children, and every 2 in the next generation have 2 more, etc, means population continues to grow. A steady state is reached, but as lifespan increases so does population. The obvious limit is, if lifespan is infinite, then 0 children is the only number that permits a stable population.
This is pretty much exactly what I expected to see, once I figured out the potential for most of the hardest portability concerns to be isolated into the JVM. Building the future has always been about stable platforms.
Back in the day I used ange-ftp for such things. My emacs lived where I did and transferred the files hither and thither.

That said, I do use jove every single day...
Add Lucene (and by its extension, Elastic Search) to that list. In retrospect, I don't know how we did things before some of these projects came out.
I don't see how you can say Hong Kong is more democratic/free. It was a colony, now it's a SAR of PRC, which has been tightening its fingers. The people are certainly more free to protest (for the time being), but their politicians are hand-picked by Beijing. Not really better than Singapore where the administration sets up arbitrary barriers to opposition political activity, and announces elections on short notice while gerrymandering new districts to divide and conquer and pockets of opposition support.
1) JavaScript is obviously fine for an introduction and pedagogical benefits trump all other concerns so the author of the post picked a very good tool for the job at hand.

2) If you want to be grumpy and complain about "what has the world come to". I'd rather use Fortran than C for this specific domain. I'd also rather use Fortran than Matlab.

If it's a bigger project and not the typical "academic toy example" I'd very much prefer Python+NumPy over Matlab (if I was a better Fortran programmer I'd use that but I lack software engineering expertise with Fortran). I can very much live with the performance loss (which isn't even major) if I gain engineering benefits. You can always measure + optimize later if need be.

+I'd rather not waste time thinking about licensing
Thanks. I'll be sure to post this for websites that won't show anything with NoScript on.
Treating offenders only as their offence is what most justice systems to to most criminals most of the time. Particularly in the USA, where incarceration is a for-profit business traded on the stock market.
I've been looking into that space once in a while out of curiosity but had never found Solvespace for some reason. Thanks!
But ... so what? For one thing, the metaphor doesn't have to go that way. For another, "leader/follower" captures that too.
You can also configure HA NAT with an ICMP heartbeat: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/2781451301784570
I would rather see systems that try to guess/let me input directly what I dont want to see.

I soo wish for "NEVER EVER SHOW ME THINGS LIKE THIS AGAIN" YouTube button. Currently I open one wrong YT link and for the next week google keeps recommending me videos of shitting babies or some 'hot new singer you just need to listen'.
They should have gone all in on ironruby and it would have been a huge competitor to jruby to hip coders for the enterprise.
The main application that sells it is likely to be less specialised than the cool demos, which are always a bit niche (modelling industrial design for motorbikes etc).

I wonder if its "killer app" might just be that now a virtually big screen takes up little physical space/weight.

Clear the big monitor off your desk, now your 11" laptop (or smaller) can effectively have a 40" screen, etc.

Unlike Oculus, you can still see the real world. Unlike Google Glass, it's a big display and not an awkward eye movement.

There's still the barriers of
- showing other people stuff
- social awkwardness of sitting with a keyboard seeming (to others) to be staring into empty space while working
- it might feel like wearing a hat
- what's the effective pixel density like?
This is some pretty intense work, thanks! Wish they had thought about doing something like this themselves, would really help to have some supporting materials like this to go along with the audio.
> But most AIG researchers don't throw their hands up and say, "Oh damn, it's impossible...

Neither does the author of the article.

> As far as the possibility of intelligence being intractable, what are the chances of this.

I think the odds are very good. Every known complex system -- the weather, for example, or an ant colony -- is intractable, let alone the human brain.

> Should we stop researching AIG because of the possibility that it might be too much for us to handle?

Intractability doesn't mean it's too much for us to handle. We can simulate intractable processes, and we do it all the time (that's how the weatherman knows if it's going to rain tomorrow), so of course it can be studied. The problem with intractable processes is not that they can't be artificially created, but they can't be artificially controlled (or predicted) beyond very short time frame. So it's very possible we could build an AGI, but won't know how to make it any smarter than us.
>This seems like a discussion that ends in us arguing about the validity of the concept of a human soul.

I disagree. There is a logical end, so long as either of us have the capability of admitting we're wrong.
Tim from Docker here. "Docker+Wasm" is just a shorthand for the Technical Preview build, which allows you to build both traditional container apps, as well as Wasm apps. Behind the scenes, we try to let Wasm apps be developed largely without interference from any container technology — just giving you a good local environment you can use to code against. That said, if you want, we do offer the ability to run Wasm apps within a Docker Compose application. We do also offer the possibility to package Wasm apps within an OCI image, with an embedded Wasm runtime (WasmEdge) so you can a) easily share these via an image registry like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, etc. and b) easily run this anywhere you’d run a container. That said it’s not mandatory, and if you want the benefits of (a) without the benefits of (b) you can easily unpack the image to just get the Wasm payload and run that however you want. We dove into the details of the approach at Kubecon today, and the video should be coming out shortly.
I got it with curl -I 185.31.18.133 --header "Host: mattias-.github.io"
By "call," maybe you are inferring belief but I mean it with no belief and even plenty of skepticism implied.
Ah, you're right. Totally forgot about that. Thanks for pointing it out!
I think the author is a bit confused by how this technology works. My understanding is that an aircraft can also have an ADS-B receiver onboard, which allows the pilot to identify other traffic in the local area - it doesn't rebroadcast the signals as in a mesh network (I don't think there is any encryption in these signals either, so that's probably a good thing).

ADS-B is only really used currently as a secondary resource for identifying aircraft rather than seeing where aircraft are. The primary way is by using a radar return, and matching this up with the aircraft transponder which reports the aircraft ID and altitude.

At the moment I don't think there are any hard requirements on having ADS-B transmission equipment on aircraft, although most commercial airliners already have it (which is what FlightAware and such usually use - at least outside the US). It will become a requirement over the next few years however for most civilian aircraft.
I can add this blog to the list of things to read when I want to feel stupid. Definitely cool if it turns out to be true.
I've made something like this as a side project, http://www.pythiafilter.com/. You paste a comment and it tries to guess whether it will be upvoted or downvoted. The longer the comment the better, obviously.
This is what I meant. What other way did you infer?
Hm. Main source on this article seems to be Florian Mueller, a name I recognise from his performance on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428123

Maybe the article itself is still good, but just FYI.
Thanks for posting the "why" for the curious, but I'm curious what you are trying to achieve?
In Spain/Greece most salaries for young people are 1000€/600€ month.