skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It most definitely does require a base trust - however that's not an argument against the solution, just a challenge to implementation.

We implicitly trust a tremendous amount of digitized information because we trust its sources - for instance, digital banking works because we trust banks to only log verified transactions to our account. Sourcing that information is absolutely very difficult, but it doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: Living in flyover country surrounded by people with at best a high school education has taught me MANY things about how the public consumes tech.

They have no idea what is possible with technology. They literally do not and cannot comprehend what can be done with their information online. To the folks I interact with, it's almost magical how it works.

They trust, as another comment points out here, that someone is taking care of whatever trail they leave (if they even understand that's a thing). They trust that tech companies are acting in their best interests.

Maybe that's just anecdotal data from my experience, but it's my experience.
I don't program in Ruby and never really have, but there is one thing I know dealing with plenty of legacy code: Temporary code is almost always permanent.
Well, universities act like companies, particularly resorts.
Yeah. To "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/mission/

I agree they're not really faithful to it.
I mean don't get me wrong. Google Search and Maps are two inventions that are so insanely useful, they may standalone be responsible for decades of faster progress. But I do think that if they were really true to the mission statement, they'd take things such as archival more seriously.

(If you explained the entire internet to an alien, and then told them that Google aren't the ones running the Internet Archive, they'd say "Seriously?")
Because, while common, methane is associated with life. People dream of permafrost leaching methane somewhere on mars, a holdover from its water days.
Figma/Sketch don't use the box model. They are modeled after illustration programs. In fact Sketch IS an illustration program that like Photoshop before it got pressed into UI duty.
I think google removed that option.
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Even if they prefer working with nice material the people who are the best in their craft can still build pretty nice stuff out of crap material if that's what's in front of them.
> just block anything that is not actual content

At this point the reverse approach (whitelist) becomes easier. Just pluck out the content, ignore the rest, and write your own simple UI. Most websites can be modeled quite easily as category->article(->comment) with some additional data.

Writing UI for that is quite trivial.

It can be done in browser via extensions/userscripts (without a database), or you can fetch the data into a database and view it via an electron app, or cli tools, or whatever.
how are those things related? do all mediums of financial exchange require venture funding? does all crypto qualify as fincial exchange?
Or don't post things that you'd be embarrassed to be associated with? Easy for me to say of course. My digitized articles from an undergrad newspaper at least went through editors. And anything from my BBS days is almost assuredly lost to the ages. But I've always used my True Name and don't have any problem with that.
Doesn’t this ask the user to violate the terms of service of their own email platforms, assuming most email providers prohibit you from sharing passwords?
What free speech is he referring to? The only speech I know of that has been censored is terrorist groups. It makes me uncomfortable when I see people here complaining about that.
Before I left a website I was writing for (in amicable terms), I asked if I could have a db dump of the posts authored by me. It's in my archive now, so that I know I can get back to years of writing even if the website won't be there anymore in the future.
Personal data point:

Did a Bachelor's + Master's degree in CS in Europe. Only around 5% of my coursework had (and could!) be outside CS. And you could fill that with things like Game Theory 102 or Copyright Law 101 or something without issue.
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That's what they want you to do so they can maintain power. The threat of violence is what keeps people in line. Don't like it? Go talk to the police about it (you know... those people who use the threat of violence)
You should also ask for an email to send a free trial/inform people of the release in order to build a first prospect list.
I'm reminded of the UK PM, David Cameron, who signed many emails "LOL". He though it meant 'lots of love'.
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Ruby != Rails. I think it makes sense that the language remains flexible while the framework is opinionated. I probably won't use @1 et al in my projects, that's where enforcing consistency via rubocop comes into play.
Very, very true! By proclaiming "Can’t Be Hacked" is an invite to the world.
German Stukas were also excellent tank killers, and early in the war, it was the only weapon that could hurt the heavier Russian tanks.

Germany lost their early air superiority in the Battle of Britain, though. Having your pilots shot down over enemy territory while shooting their pilots down over their own territory is a battle of attrition you're eventually going to lose.
All those things are dead, and what's worse, replaced by devices whose primary focus is consumption rather than ceation
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Unfortunately, this also happens, but I think it is an orthogonal issue.

Degree / No-Degree is not a filter I apply personally, but I can see why some companies use it. When you get 2000+ applications for a position, you need to filter out almost all extremely quickly. Just because there are many charlatans with a degree, doesn't mean no-degrees are perfect ...
Nothing makes me trust a site more than a ~ in the url somewhere.
Maybe pull request trolling could be a thing? Pull requests that print “why hasn’t anyone involved in the GFC gone to jail?”
Beyond Meat products are at a lot of stores, including Safeway and Target. In mine they're located over by the fresh meat. The web site has a locator: https://www.beyondmeat.com/where-to-find/

It does a remarkably good job of giving the texture of a mediocre burger. Not a great burger by any means, but it might fill a niche that you don't get from the Morningstar-type burgers.
Writing that article probably didn't take more than a week so lets say 40 hours. Now compare that with the donation amount. 0.5 billion dollars. Assuming very generously you paid $300 per hour per employee (just to drive home how crazy the amount of money is) this is equivalent to 1.6 million man hours wasted compared to 40 hours. Someone with only 40 work hours is unable to solve the problem. An organization with millions of man hours should be able to solve the problem. In other words criticizing the author for wasting his time is completely crazy because unless he writes another 40000 of these articles his inefficiency amounts to almost nothing.
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Then it’s not decentralized?
Hmm..I would prefer to not have it. In production, managing database persistence is very hard. Especially when you go down the kubernetes road.

I would take higher latency, but avoid pulling in a whole database infrastructure.

Plus a huge number of us use postgresql..so that becomes another set of a mess. I would strongly urge you to do this on the same bigquery database that you would connect to anyways.
Ah yes, such a simple solution, just get everyone, everywhere to install adblocking software in their browser of choice.

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Very true. I think Stackoverflow questions provide context that tends to be missing in most technical documentation. Many times starting in SO and ending in the docs is more practical than just starting in the docs.
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For that matter, the "greater nobles" would just as soon bribe their way in over paying millions in "philanthropic" gifts. The only way you could ever get these incentivized donations would be if bribery is not an option or too risky of an option.

If colleges really want to, they can set tuition at three million a semester and offer price cuts to students that "get in." I don't see why this has to be a wink-wink thing, if they want to offer goods or services for a price so be it. There's no need to involve corruption or secret winks in the normal practice of exchanging a service for money.
That's just how title inflation works in finance.
Not only, I know more than 3 completely unrelated piece of software using the name gimli:
Not really as an engineer who had been in similar problem.

It's not that I am programmed to keep my head down and focus on technical stuff only and that I don't see the big picture and
externalities of our actions.

Having a technical degree instead of humanity or philosophy doesn't make you less ethical. I'd bet a broke and uneducated person can be more ethical than me despite not having the technical education I possess.

I can see the ethical problems but when I raised them to the management.

Management acted like my friend and told me, look pal, there are many people in the world and we can't just think for everyone. You need to care about yourself and your family and we care about you. This is our group and we only care how much our group prospers (read: makes money) and we don't care about outsiders.

It's ingroup and outgroup politics here and it's much easier to sympathize with the people who are in front of you acting desperate to make money than those who you'll never see.

Then they bring their legal team, who assure me that this plan is completely legal, so we will not run into any problems!

Have you ever seen Wolf of Wall Street? It's much similar to that, we live in bubble where it's okay to do those things and no one around us judges us for that, so we feel safe and secure.

There is no one telling me that I am doing something unethical.

If you want to study this problem then go back to history and see how much unfair the world was and people who had it easy were pretty okay with all that.

I can choose to leave this job but it basically means being stripped of your status, income and group (which took years of hard work) and even then someone else will right? And I can move up the chain, some day I might do ethical work, system can only be changed from the top, right? It's easy to justify your actions to yourself this way and stay at the place.
Whenever we get into web nostalgia I've got to post http://wiby.me which is a search engine for live retro websites, a mix of modern sites with very little except text and immaculate sites from the early web that time hasn't changed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Ownership of Computation, Liberty of Encryption, and the Pursuit of Privacy.
This was my point, though you put it much more articulately. People used to make websites because they were enthusiastic about The Smashing Pumpkins, Fight Club, or their EverQuest guild. Now they make sites for a business. Business ruined eBay, and then it spread to the rest of the web. If you have a passion you want to building for, you have to accept a terms of service of a big platform and build with their tools. It might be easier, but it sure has been less fun to view.
>(If you explained the entire internet to an alien, and then told them that Google aren't the ones running the Internet Archive, they'd say "Seriously?")

+1000

Mind you. At some level, I'm happier that it's a non-profit pursuing this as its mission rather than Google. But, given the vast amounts of money that Google spends on all sorts of things, I don't really grok the mindset that doesn't really prioritize the preservation of information--and the organization of that information--as at least a sideline.

There are admittedly growing headwinds, especially in the case of Europe, about what information can be preserved, but that hasn't really been a big issue until recently.
Could be, but they weren't actually higher quality. Tigers were powerful, but the first batch was very unreliable, and they still consumed enormous amounts of fuel.

Most tanks the Germans had were PzIVs, StuGIIIs and Panthers.
US emits only 15% of global carbon dioxide. If you plant 2.4x trees, you’ll only offset 40% of global emissions. For 2.4x to cover global emissions, global emissions would have to shrink by 60%. If US emissions were reduced by that much, it would put US emissions per capita below present day Belarus and Bulgaria.

> Also, as long as you replace any trees that die with seedlings, you don't need to worry about what happens to the dead wood.

You do, though. If the wood decomposes, all the CO2 is released back to atmosphere, which puts you back at square one.
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Amazon is know for a large capital investment and their stock has gone up even though they could cut costs and increase their margins.
If all the parties have equal access, transparency should help all the parties and only hurt those who do something deviant.

It would become an equalizing factor I suppose.
Great info! Thanks.

Seems like an interesting problem space. Way out of my field, but interesting regardless.

I hope there are breakthroughs, including in cost. From a naive standpoint it just seems to make so much more sense to use compostable (esp. easily compostable) organic-based materials to contain...organics.
Just to add another data point, I also felt like my physical performance in the gym was greatly enhanced during days I used Modafinil, to the point where I would schedule my Mod days with when I did a leg workout in the gym (which I otherwise despised). I've discussed this with friends and they all also agree. It could well be placebo, but that's not to say it still isn't an effective training enhancer.
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But you can't force a piece of knobbly wood into a straight line. You work with what you've got. If the wood is twisted and knotty you have to play with that, you can't say "I make little identical figurines and I can do it with any wood" no matter how skilled you are.

That's the point, you work with what is in front of you. That doesn't mean you'll have an identical outcome.
He's describing, hyperbolically but not wholly inaccurately, the Bay Area housing market.
We shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The grade/score threshold itself is easy to game, which is a big part of why universities generally use a rubric that encourages the admissions department to look at other things as well.

For example, because of a quirk in how the grade point system in one of the high schools I went to worked, it was very nearly a mathematical impossibility for kids who took an extra class instead of a study hall period to make it to the top echelons of the honor roll. Creating a strategy where, for example, helicopter parents who wanted to see their kid named valedictorian would forbid them from taking that extra class, since doing so would have knocked them out of the running.

Similarly, the college admissions exams are well-known to be poor predictors of academic aptitude. A big chunk of what they measure is simply how much money your parents spent on prep programs and tutors.

This is even before we start digging into the muddy waters about the extent to which grades and test scores unintentionally measure factors related to socioeconomic background rather than academic aptitude, though there does seem to be a pretty robust body of research around that morass as well.
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need that FTP sync thoooo
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> There is no feasible way to separate politics from everyday life, and leaving "politics to those who knows about it" isn't really viable. Anyone with a platform whether it is sports, tech, culture should consider what message they are sending. Because there is a message, even from quiet people. "Not politicising" is a political act and statement as well. There is no dodging politics.

People act like "everything is political" is such a stunning insight. I disagree. It's as stunning an insight as saying "everything affects everything else". Yeah, sure, everything does affect everything else. Everything affects everythign else in mysterious and unknowable ways but that isn't particularly interesting and it isn't clear how that fact should affect one's behavior.

> If you have listeners you have a responsibility for what you are saying whether you like it or not. It doesn't matter whether those 1M instagram followers just like to see you do backflips on a bicycle. If have 1M followers you have influence. If you have 10M followers you are a political force. Even if you just ride bikes on instagram.

This makes my skin crawl. The presumption here is that a person can calculate how that person's beliefs and the expression of those beliefs (i.e. actions) will benefit/harm the world and act accordingly. Yeah, no. People think they can do that, but they're deluding themselves. In order to do that, you'd have to model the world. We can't even model a single person.

> Saying nothing even remotely political is better than completely screwing up ("Lex Notch"), but it's still the easy way out.

No, it's the hard way out, which is why most public figures babble endlessly about politics.

Hannah Arendt:

> The main characteristic of any event is that it has not been foreseen. We don’t know the future but everybody acts into the future. Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a “we” and not an “I.” Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I’m doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history.
> difficult it is for people to actually find the valuable parts

That's why you need to catalog stuff.

And if you have stored something, you can always get rid of it if you deem it to be unimportant, but if you haven't stored it, most times you can't get it back. Erring on the side of storing unimportant things is an important strategy to cope with that.
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Given infinite resources and any tool I want, even you or I could create a life size stone sculpture. Software and software run stone cutting machines make it easy.

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In real code with actual logic (not simplified examples like here) the inner variables are typically not named |x, y|. |key, value| (or |k, v|) is one common shorthand, but even those -immediately- denote more semantic meaning than |@1, @2|.

Usually something is being mapped over, or being selected/filtered etc, with a context, so it's useful to have something like |course|, |report|, or |course_name, course_values|, especially for people-who-are-not-me that may be reading the code.

The issue here is that @1 and @2 make it much, much easier to write garbage code. At least with named vars you explicitly have to acknowledge that you're choosing a bad name. @1 makes it so you don't even have to think about it at all. This is a flagrant issue, and doesn't belong in Ruby at all.
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One problem with emojis is that they represent different graphics on different clients, which can subtly change the apparent meaning.
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You'd think a 1500+, 4.0+, 12+ AP course student coming from an elite magnet school, with a parental income of $250,000+ is smarter than the poor kid from rural Idaho that lacked such opportunities.

The poor rural kid from Idaho may not be admitted to MIT, Duke, Berkeley, ivies and may not look as good as that 1500+ kid, but you surely will miss kids like: https://www.uidaho.edu/engr/news/features/tom-mueller that would have been successful at an MIT or Caltech. While the 1500+ kid might have gotten that score due to SAT prep, they may not actually be that smart. The Idaho kid could be much more intelligent, but since they're coming in with fewer AP courses and fewer ECs, they wouldn't pass the sniff test.
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There's another product, can't remember it's name at the moment, with similar concept - however they also highlight screen capturing. Perhaps in the case of those who are more introverted or shy, or not feeling confident being on camera, can simply be doing a screen capture of the product - and then a voice over to share what was done, challenges, faced, etc.
> At this point the reverse approach (whitelist) becomes easier. Just pluck out the content, ignore the rest, and write your own simple UI.

This basically exists already. It's called Reader View in Firefox.
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No matter how good or enthusiastic the teacher is, under-performing students simply require more time. Time is a precious commodity, and if the class size is large and professors have other (non-teaching) responsibilities then something has to give.

Unless you're advocating that "good professors will just put in the 90 hours a week to make it happen"?
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this is interesting because I know many companies would not allow you to do that. Your work belongs to them