skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why this doesn't apply to guns is beyond me.

Because people aren't concerned that in a decade or three, politicians are going to use the registry of motor vehicle licenses to help them in confiscating motor vehicles from normal people who want to keep them around in order to protect their families.
Newsletters can be incredibly profitable for media organizations because it 1) gets people to return to your content on a regular basis 2) can allow for more targeted advertising

I personally hate this trend, but almost everybody's doing it these days
Why does this feel like a way for the countries to save face.
"it's based on greed"

All systems reward greed. The more detached they are from how people naturally behave, the more they reward people who chase the system at the expense of thise who what comes naturally. Capitalism rewards people for fulfilling other's revealed preferences. A democratically-decided social credit system would reward people for doing what the majority says they should do. Both systems would occasionally reward people for anti-social behaviour, and require legislative correction. Of the two, I would prefer the one oriented towards the needs and desires of the individual, not of the collective.

We would like a world where people are more kind. Why not pay people to be kind to you?

- an induced kindness it not desirable, we want a natural kindness

- it's subjective: what one person thinks is kind, another doesn't; how would we write that contract?

- there's a tradeoff: while we value kindness, in many cases others value not being kind more than we value kindness; you would likely have to pay more than you are willing to pay

- transaction costs: while the subjectivity problem might be solved, it would be at great expense, this would probably push the price over the edge where it wasn't already

All these reasons apply equally to inducing kindness with a social credit system. I think the tradeoff problem would likely be ignored. That is, people would be forced to be kind against their wish (being punished for not doing it rather than rewarded for doing it). Suppose I believe that the burden of being constantly forced to be kind would outweigh the advantage of living in a world where everyone is kind all the time. A capitalist system tests this claim, a democratic social credit system ignores it in favour if the will of the majority.
The key is to have worked at the place that developed it for a couple of years.
Definitely not a conspiracy in the crackpot sense, but one in the "organized subversion" sense. I posted on the Amazon walkout thread as well - software orgs are becoming too focused on politics. Of course some politics is to be expected, FOSS itself is somewhat a politically-motivated movement, but the end goal is apolitical.

Really this deplatforming is getting ridiculous, and the only goal it achieves is dumbing down society by merging all social environments into one so they have less to assess about an individual
Millennial has turned into a slur, so at this point I think the terminology needs to be superseded. The term originally meant birth between 1982-2004, with the caveat that the end of the generation might be up for discussion while the next generation was still growing. Now all of a sudden you have people calling anyone born in the 80s a "millennial", usually as a means to disparage them.
That's not true. Safari only allows 50K elements per list, but an app can (and some do) have multiple lists.
It's a vicious cycle. Methane levels increase to dangerous levels, which causes researchers to soil their pants, which releases more methane into the atmosphere.
My email is in my profile, and it's impossible to distinguish "spam received because somebody scraped my HN profile" from "spam received because somebody bought my email address from some dark web market". So I mostly don't even consider the spam aspect.

OTOH, I get a message every now and then saying something like "I saw your book recommendations in thread XYZ and really appreciate them" or "Dude, I totally agree with your comment on $FOO" or something. Those are rare, but highly appreciated. I'd be happy to have my email in my profile just for those.
I think you're conflating "corporate" with "considerate" or similar.

Lots of people feel that tech culture leans toward the objectification of women, so we're less inclined to use projects that use overtly sexual language or imagery.

For example, read the first paragraph of the Julia language community standards: https://julialang.org/community/standards/
This is so incorrect and for some mainly subtle reasons. Many times companies (and people) don't publicly want to expose the details of what they're doing or working on. That said, at conferences many "off-the-record" conversations happen that are extremely valuable. How often can you spend days together with peers from other companies? That IMO is the real value of going.
Those facilities and practices were started by Bill Clinton in the 90s.
I have a feeling though that landlords who used to do 5% now think it is acceptable to do 8%. Obviously the market demands will restrict the increases further but the law kind of codifies what is not price gouging. I guess we will see in a few years.
Single public suicide.
Obligatory self-promotion of my opposite joke project, git-upstage, which steals credit for someone else's work. (Squashes their branch to a single commit under your name and backdates it five minutes.)

https://github.com/SilasX/git-upstage

(Inspired by the time someone typo'd "unstage" to "upstage" and I guessed what a git-upstage command would be.)
> Generational classification and "analysis" is almost as bad as stereotypes.

Sometimes there genuinely are very big changes between generations. E.g. Brexit, which is much more widely supported by old people than young people.
What would be the alternative? For a functional national security program, some aspects need to be secret from the general public in order to protect against compromise.
I wish the fed would print some money for me to help pay my student debt
As a muslim from a Muslim country, how so?
I don't know. I honestly could see an argument that he's just not mentally stable, he may sincerely believe a lot of what he's saying and not trying to manipulate the market.

His language and mannerisms remind me of a high functioning paranoid.

He also just doesn't strike me as a criminal operator, more of a lunatic.

I wonder what impact the mental capacity has on SEC charges?
>Congress ought to tear it down.

ABSCAM.

There is a Lavrentiy Beria everywhere. (There's probably thousands of Lavrentiy Beria's in the US alone, truth be told.) With the threat of ABSCAM-like ops looming out there, I wouldn't count on politicians saving us. Just ask black and hispanic males how well appealing to politicians for help from malicious prosecution has worked out for them historically.
The way the system is set up, most politicians don't think they have an alternative. Unless you're a standout star in a high-profile race, your election prospects are inexorably linked with your ability to fundraise (as well as your party affiliation, if you survive the primary). If you're not cashing checks, your opponents will.

It's the same argument you hear from businesses and affluent individuals: "If I don't [pay my employees as little as possible | take advantage of every tax loophole I can find | spend thousands of dollars lobbying congress | pollute the environment], my competitors will."

Of course, those excuses ring hollow when those same individuals aren't in favor of changing a broken system. Any politician that complains about fundraising but is not in favor of campaign finance reform is a hypocrite, IMHO.
On How to Show Kindness
If the number of possible permissions is small enough, sure. Otherwise it ends up being a huge token that gets sent over the wire for each request.

One "hybrid" approach that seems to work well is pulling permissions from the DB but then caching them in-memory on the server. That way you can still keep them granular but you'll only hit the DB on the first request or if the cache expires. It also lets you immediately kill access (rather than waiting for the JWT to expire) if you can send a message to your servers to clear the cache for that user.
Every action is an attempt to stimulate positive economic activity by increasing liquidity and decreasing volatility. Despite the various descriptions that can be used they all essentially create money, causing inflation, which incentivizes not holding on to money.

In theory this affects all equally but in practice and in agreement with recent memory, losing X% of a small amount to inflation or wage stagnation (i.e. what you or I experience) is more negatively impactful than a large player losing that same relative amount.
As long as they refund him with interest I'd say it was fair-ish.
Containers run processes, in a context where those within a container only see those within the same container, by underlying OS accounting generalization.
Very useful. I hate having to pull in external processes to do something simple in BASH that the manpage doesn't cover. Expecting PERL to be on every machine (or the right version of SED.. posix? gnu?) is not reliable in my line of work.
The Constitution still says what it always said. The problem is that there's been 243 years of interpretation. So what it effectively says in many cases bears little relationship to it.
It’s in effect moving heat around, rather than generating it. That’s why it can be more than 100% efficient.
Fwiw, it was the PATRIOT Act, passed shortly after the events of 9/11/2001, that allows for these administrative subpoenas and gag orders and removed any effective judicial oversight. Many of those provisions in the act were set to expire and those expirations were extended by both president Bush and Obama. IIRC the AG or their subordinates have to notify the judiciary of these subpoenas but can issue a gag order along with the disclosure effectively removing any judicial oversight.
I like being protected from writing to /dev/sda by mistake. If an OS is going to expose its guts to the world it makes sense to have permission controls on the vulnerable parts.
Link to David's long essay on Peter Thiel, if this sounds interesting - https://www.perell.com/blog/peter-thiel
PSA for anyone reading this is thinking "I should try that."

Be very, deadly careful not to get it on your skin. You can hit LD50 pretty quickly by dousing yourself in liquid stimulants.
Chef Robotics Is Hiring a Senior Mechanical Engineer
You said "that's a straw man". I attempted to show how it wasn't -
specifically that there wasn't a gap between the thing you called a straw man and the beliefs you thought the code author had. You then continued to call it a straw man without elaborating how.

I'm not sure that I'm the person refusing to engage here.
They were public statements on his blog, people certainly noticed them earlier.

It just wasn’t considered enough whereas media headlines (falsely) stating he defended Epstein resulted in immediate action
Medical insurance will often cover therapy, even if you are not diagnosed with a Major Disorder of Doom. Of course, the deductibles can also add up.
Guessing "Pink 50" is both the Lyft logo color and the anchor for all of the other shades. Nothing nefarious necessarily, but it does mean this color scheme will make your site look kinda like Lyft's.
NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger Resigned
RMS is pretty old (66). I wonder if he was given the option to fight it but decided he'd rather retire than deal with all the politics, or if it was a fait accompli situation where he only had the choice between resigning and being fired.
Unless you are directly plumbing the depths of data and doing computations, I worry using “statistics” to make decisions will just bias your thinking in subtler ways: towards what you’re already aware of, estimates that could be faulty, information availability bias. Except in some ways it’s more dangerous because it carries the veneer of mathematical correctness
Theres a lock color field on the very bottom.
As long as there are always more humans on this planet, we will have to serve them. Factories, food, electricity can’t be decreased if every decrease per person is followed by an increase in headcounts, which is what’s happening of all western countries since we invented ecology.

In other words, do you have a plan for decreasing actual footprint without having it followed by: “Hey guys, we can afford increasing our population!”
I don't think these are meant for training, but instead inference.
There is a profound difference between research and sales conferences, to the extent it seems wrong to even use the same word to describe them.
While it's true that modern compilers are wondrous things, checking whether they're clever enough to optimize away a particular construct - and to do so correctly, and to continue doing so in the next release - still takes time. If the same optimization can be done at a higher level, such that it will apply for any correct (but not necessarily clever) compiler, that's preferable. In my experience that's practically all the time. The best compiler optimizations IMO are the ones that can't be easily done at the source level.
Plane and Pilot
What you write is true, but leaves out the fact that taking down Amazon or putting restrictions on Amazon's warehouse operations can unintentionally make things worse for low-skilled workers if their other employment options are worse than working in an Amazon warehouse.
Okay so wait, we have corporations trying to turn the public against a competitor for being "too successful," in the hopes that it will let them use the apparatus of government to hobble said competitor in any way without repercussions, and no one is upset about this? Instead, we just go along with this fake-grassroots idea of "oh yeah Amazon is an evil empire"? This doesn't process for me.

I mean seriously, Amazon is so superior to the competition that they're left trying to use institutionalized violence to stop them; that can only make things worse on the economics side. Why are we forgetting that?

And before you talk about how Amazon acts monopolistically by promoting their own or favorite products, it's their platform, they have a right to do that and they're not forcing sellers to use them. The sellers, if they really think they have a better chance elsewhere, can leave. And Amazon doesn't owe them the best possible service. It might make it worse for users, but again no one is forcing you to use Amazon. Use Walmart all you want!
That's treating delinquency and default as the same thing. Even if your debt isn't forgiven, if you repay late, then the present discounted value of that future money is worth less to the creditor than had it been paid on time.

Tala, Branch, and all these fintech firms are taking out debt themselves in order to lend to these individuals. Thus, they are paying interest. If you are late in your payments, they are floating you on their debt lines for longer.

Thus, even without loan forgiveness, a higher interest rate make sense to account for the risk if delinquency.

Secondly, even if they don't forgive the loan formally, internally it will eventually be taken as a writedown. You can default on a loan and they never get the money back without loan forgiveness existing. That again affects their rate of return and thus needs to affect their interest rate.

If instead they shouldn't be allowed to charge above a certain interest rate, then that will internet come with denying credit to a lot of the population.

People always want to have it both ways: don't discriminate against poor people by denying them credit but don't charge them the interest rates that are required to offer them credit. It's why people simultaneously complain about how sub-prime was predatory but also complain that the banks aren't doing enough to get low income people into home ownership. You can't have it both ways.

I'm not saying that there shouldn't be regulation limiting the types of loans allowed, interest rates, etc. Uneducated people in developing countries are probably not the best rational actors when it comes to making complex financial decisions. Some regulatory paternalism (and even libertarian paternalism by the govt through forcing clearer information on loan terms) is definitely warranted.

My point is fundamentally you can't have it both ways. Interest rates are a reflection of risk. And the result would be denying people access to financial services. We should be honest ourselves about these tradeoffs instead of pretending we can simply have our cake and eat it too.

There is only so much philanthropy money from the Gates Foundation, World Bank, etc. The rest of the capital to fund development ultimately comes from the private sector wherein there must be a sufficient return on that capital to justify its use in that scenario. Otherwise, the capital will simply just go elsewhere.

And again there could be other solutions. A massive overhaul to tax policy worldwide could provide a massive new source of capital to solve the problems of economic development. But I'm not holding my breath for such changes in a world where the super rich have only become more adept at tax evasion.

Disclaimer: I worked in online lending at Avant. I know some of the Tala guys as I live in Santa Monica. And my wife works at the World Bank in international development.
I just interviewed at a small startup, but one that has real customers and hasn't needed to raise VC money. Some customers them millions to develop their platform features, others pay them just to use the platform as it is.

No thrashing around for product-market fit, changing goals every week.

Everyone I talked to seemed so... calm. It was surreal. At my current startup job people seem to take a weird sort of pride in how frazzled and overwhelmed they are.
Wow this is not good. Repo market is the market of overnight debt between banks. Banks lend money to each other to cover their collateral needs/exposures at the end of each day. If banks lose confidence in each other, they start demanding more collateral from each other in the overnight market, which means the overnight rate goes up. The NYFed is trying to keep interest rates down and is having trouble doing it. As a result, it's having to take some extraordinary measures to the tune of injecting $100b into banks, every night, for the next month. They are basically trying to ensure that no bank gets caught with it's shirt off, while the banks are signaling that they think their peers might be naked.
> own less more generally

Absolutely. I save like 60-70% (depending on how you count taxes) every month and plan on stopping traditional work at 40. I'll probably have enough money to coast at that point and I can take up some contracting work a few months a year instead of being stuck in the 9-5. That goal is the only thing that keeps me sane.
Schrodinger's Cat is Schrodinger's way of saying Copenhagen interpretation is probably wrong I think. That was an absurd example that got a life of its own.
Walmart to discontinue e-cigarette sales
A license is not the same for a physical copy vs a digital copy.

A physical copy is an actual tangible thing, and courts have ruled that licenses travel with the ownership of the actual thing--i.e., copyright law does not trump property law.

A digital copy is an ephemeral, transitory thing. The very nature of a digital object means that the object used/viewed/etc is not the same digital object that was stored (i.e., the copy on your hard drive is not the copy in memory, though they may be identical).

Copyright law is entirely about restrictions on copying things and digital goods are trivially copyable things.

The French law makes little sense. The distinction between physical goods and intangible items exists for a reason in copyright law, and indeed is inherent in other parts of EU law, such as with respect to e-books. Importantly, earlier this week the EU itself ruled that ebooks cannot be resold (see https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/i...) and the French court's reasoning in this case is entirely contrary to the reasoning of the EU.

Expect this law to be overturned, or for PC game prices to go up dramatically in the EU if it is not.
GitHub also supports a special <username>@users.noreply.github.com address if you wanted her to retain semi-anonymous authorship as a GitHub user.
Cruelty Scale
Statistics based on what? Almost all statistics you can collect will be based on what other people do, so there's no escaping that bias. You're better off thinking for yourself, and being cautious about making any decision that affects your future.
A major defense contractor who shall remain nameless put together an internal training music video called Let's Talk About FOD (foreign object damage) to the tune of Let's Talk About Sex. It was sung by a C-level exec. There were guys in clean room suits dancing (IIRC one of them even spun on his/her head). It was filmed on site in actual production facilities. The production value easily surpassed "peak-ISIS" and rivaled that of professional music videos.

Being a lumbering bureaucracy doesn't mean you can't make a good music video. You just gotta have the skills to pull it off. Any government agency that takes propaganda (aka marketing) seriously should have the requisite skills in house.
> I can make my own choices on what type of as blocking technology I want to use

True, safari may not be for you then (it's not for me either). But for many people, especially those who don't understand how to get good privacy online, safari takes that guesswork out of the process. Apple applies similar logic to other security related choices they make for users too. It's not for everyone, but it is arguably good for many.
> …you have to remember Haskell's list comprehension syntax…

I get the point you're trying to make, but this feels like a huge stretch. Haskell's list comprehension syntax is straightforward and in many cases a terse and useful way of implementing complex functionality. You'll find multiple uses of it in the base libraries; notably, catMaybes is implemented in terms of list comprehension:

catMaybes :: [Maybe a] -> [a]
catMaybes ls = [x | Just x <- ls]

I'm all for reducing cognitive load, but Haskell has such a sparse syntax and this specific feature is so useful (and honestly, so consistent with the rest of Haskell's syntax) that arguing it's some kind of unnecessary cognitive burden feels ridiculous to me.
There are presidential candidates essentially promising just that.
How to Reduce Alert Fatigue
Haha, this is a great question.

I remember thinking about this before I knew JULIA. I can't remember that time clearly. I have tried to black it out. Presumably, I was just sitting nude in a cave bashing two rocks together covered in faeces and confused shame...just like you.

Here are things I can guarantee: learning JULIA will make you stronger, more agile, your IQ will double, women will be able to smell your dominance, children will run from you screaming in terror, you will be able to grow a thick lustrous beard (even if you are a woman), you will be able to talk to animals and lead them in battle, and you will be able to throw a spear through a 5m deep concrete wall from 200m.

EDIT: I forgot, if you do learn JULIA be sure to avoid any contact with indigenous societies. They will likely think you are a God. You go to the Amazon one time, and suddenly these people are building shrines, making human sacrifices, and carving intricate wood etchings of benchmarks and terse, readable function compositions (they told me they were still using Python2.7...lol).
Belgian police forced to stop using facial recognition (Dutch)
Standing desks and frequent breaks are 100% compatible with virtually any computer -related job. Even in the context of "Deep Work" sessions (cf Cal Newport), it's a matter of making a point of periodically stretching your legs and giving your eyes a chance to focus on distant objects