skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you'd still want some sort of business process for "hire ethical people"

I absolutely agree. But this only works if the top leadership are themselves ethical people. If they are unethical or even neutral, it’s going to backfire. Instead of hiring people for their backbone in terms of pushing back against unethical decisions, it turns into hiring people for their willingness to conform to what they are told.

> It's fine for the CEO to say, for instance, "Ordinarily I would have put the brakes on this via this particular means, but I failed to notice because of this unexpected circumstance. I'm sorry and this is how I'm going to make sure I notice and make the right decision next time."

Definitely. But you only get to use that excuse so many times before it starts to lose credibility.

> That is't too far off from what was actually said, actually

Here I disagree. To his credit, Ammon has taken full personal responsibility for pushing this through, even over internal objections. It’s not a failure to notice something that happened when you’re the one doing the thing.

The resolution is also more personal than procedural: be more conscientious about your users and listen to people who object to your ideas. Demonstrate that you can do that over time and you can regain trust.
No, and it's an interesting thought. Would be a huge change though. I'm not sure the beast would like it.
> Given those are all the examples

https://github.com/arc80/plywood/tree/master/repos/plywood/s...

A video renderer, audio synthesis, parsing, and web server. Linked right from the article. The first is even the first demo in the article.
I feel like cryptocurrency miner install is going to end up being the new cover story anytime someone doesn't want to tip their hand on capabilities.
To be honest, I pay a lot of attention to the research coming out, and there’s not be much which is counterintuitive. All of it builds off of stuff we’ve seen from the days of eternal September.

Generalist subs/topics collect junk. Directed subs have more focus and are healthier in defending crap.
Huh, I didn't know that Github had that sort of integration. I'm surprised that they're willing to run arbitrary ruby like that.
Huh, I had no idea there was a PDP-11 that would fit on a desktop. I was thinking of something more like this: https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/40
Signed up for a year as soon as I got the email announcement. Love NextDNS and excited to see where they go — particularly would love some sort of time-based scheduling or API for rule automations.
MasterClass is somewhat paradoxical in my opinion. They’re attempting to reach a wide audience (people who aren’t technically proficient in the respective fields of say cooking or music) but they’re framing it as a “masterclass” which is a class given by a master of a topic to students who are proficient in their topic. Seems like more entertainment than an actual masterclass which I would prefer
> If that’s the case, what’re you actually getting from the news? Aggravated? Wound up? Certainly not informed about anything important.

This seems like the author is explicitly arguing for the tragedy of the commons. Yes, any one individual getting 'wound up' doesn't accomplish much, but the public 'at large' getting wound up can and does effect real change sometimes.

Like, it's very easy to point to a variety of topics, about which there was sufficient public outrage from a news story to cause some change. For example, the recent killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the black jogger in Georgia. Before the public outrage that followed the release of the video, the killers had not even so much as been arrested.

If the author here had gotten his way, nobody would've seen the video, nobody would've been outraged, and nothing would've happened after Ahmed was murdered. Am I supposed to believe that this is an improvement?
well, similarly - recent news articles on the State Department concerns few years back about safety in the BSL4 Wuhan labs which conducted coronavirus "gain of function" research (my non-professional understanding - trying to make virus more deadly and virulent in order to research whether it can become more deadly and virulent) pretty much achieved in my brain the same effect wrt. China/coronavirus what "Denver" was trying to achieve back then wrt. US/AIDS.
> The fact that some people hold a belief strongly is itself proof that that belief can be held, and therefore that people can be convinced to hold it.

The fact that I'm tall is proof that people can be tall. But not that you can become tall.

In general people have the opinions they need to have to feel good about themselves. That's hard to change.
Chris Voss' negotiation class has easily justified the $100 per year subscription. Kasparov's chess class is valuable, but it wouldn't be worth it on its own. Paul Krugman's economics class is interesting but pedantic. It only serves as a basic introduction, but does so in a field in which the introduction is barely useful. Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution University course fills the gap between beginner and intermediate economics for free.
Depending on the sticker price this could be a game changer.
You said this to me publicly, and it seems to have been fairly easy.
I'd also plug Last Week Tonight if folks are looking for informational satire. John Oliver and his staff do a fantastic job investigating a lot of current and ongoing issues while presenting them in ways that are approachable for a layman.
False, archive.is serves 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as A records back to people who try to resolve it using cf dns.
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Undoubtedly it's harder to build, but it is the same technology.
A friend of mine is developing https://www.firefightervr.de/ and they seem to be doing quite well using VR for training.
There are plenty of people in the developed US who have unreliable and slow internet. Consumers benefit from lightweight products. This is not really difficult to understand.
No, because Bitcoin is a commodity, it's not legally classified as money. There's no need to do KYC for BTC any more than there is for baseball cards.
Very interesting observations, thanks for sharing.

Can you share any continuation of thoughts into the present and near future?

It's hard for me to see what is driving current "tech" culture. I'm loath to even call it that because so much of it is not really tech but attempts to hack business or regulatory processes, often without regard for ethics or social impact. "hacking" sounds like a better term than "tech" for most "exciting startups" right now.
> It was during an iOS beta on one of the devices

Bear uses iCloud storage which has on multiple occasions trashed people's data during iOS beta periods. It's not "Bear Sync", it's just another iCloud beta sync problem. If you value your data, don't use iOS betas. It's that simple.

If they had the choice, many developers would disable their apps on beta devices because of issues like yours.
Blocked in some countries and worldwide from at least one third party DNS provider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/archive.is

http://web.archive.org/web/20200526163314/https://www.wsj.co...

http://web.archive.org/web/20200526201849/https://www.wsj.co...
Agreed on Earthbound. I will add one more data point. GTA V. We learn about each character through the banter and their actions and not some long winded exposition. If there was a time I could not help feeling for the characters lately, it was GTA. They felt so tragic.
Different countries may have different values. Citizens of those countries are educated to value those different (quite abstract) ideals, such as "freedom of speach" in the US, or "economic development" in China. Like a religion, those systems of values are flexible and abstract enough that you can make them mean whatever you want. Then automatically we tend to think of our system of values as better than any other; indeed, that's what we use values for.

So what have we learn so far? Nothing, apparently.
Yeah, but our kids can still all use TikTok, right? That's the important thing here.
Show HN: Aquarium – endlessly generated psychedelic WebGL experience
24 years after the release of the first version of the site, the founders of Russian rock music, “Aquarium” got a new psychedelic site with endless worlds variants: just scroll to the end to see a new one.

trailer: https://vimeo.com/418412430

tons of dev images and videos: https://artlebedev.com/aquarium/site2/process

official announcement: https://artlebedev.com/aquarium/site2
Interesting. The diff appears to be (a) they changed the headline from "Facebook Knows It Encourages Division. Top Executives Nixed Solutions." to "Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive", and (b) they inserted a video most of the way down the article, captioned "In a speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the ways Facebook has tightened controls on who can run political ads while still preserving his commitment to freedom of speech."
And another party trick: Base64-encoded JSON objects always start with "ey".
depends on how you view writing. he might not be your average book nerd's cup of tea, but his astonishing success is nothing to balk at. i love all sorts of authors, and maybe he might not write the best literary works of art, its entertaining as shit and i devoured his books in my teenage years.
> Is this insane?

No, in fact I belive some variant of this approach is what will eventually lead to AGI. (you can probably do a similar type of solution but approaching from the direction of neural networks where you can use backprop)
Internet Communities Function
I scored text.garden a while ago which in retrospect would have been great for something like this.
If you restrict yourself to 2 bad choices, then you can only make bad choices. It doesn't help to label one of them "artificial" and imply the other choice isn't artificial.

It is, in fact, not just crude but actually quite artificial to measure likelihood to interact as a single number, and personalize the list of discussions solely or primarily based on that single number.

Since your chosen crude and artificial indication turned out to be harmful, why double-down on it? Why not seek something better? Off the top of my head, potential avenues of exploration:

• different kinds of interaction are weighted differently. Some could be weighted negatively (e.g. angry reacts)

• [More Like This] / [Fewer Like This] buttons that aren't hidden in the ⋮ menu

• instead of emoji reactions, reactions with explicit editorial meaning, e.g. [Agree] [Heartwearming] [Funny] [Adds to discussion] [Disagree] [Abusive] [Inaccurate] [Doesn't contribute] (this is actually pretty much what Ars Technica's comment system does, but it's an optional second step after up- or down-voting. What if one of these were the only way to up- or down-vote?)

• instead of trying to auto-detect party affiliation, use sentiment analysis to try to detect the tone and toxicity of the conversation. These could be used to adjusts the weights on different kind of interactions, maybe some people share divisive things privately but share pleasant things publicly. (This seems a little paternalistic, but no more so than "artificially" penalizing opposing party affiliation)

• certain kinds of shares could require or encourage editorializing reactions ([Funny] [Thoughtful] [Look at this idiot])

• Facebook conducted surveys that determined that Upworthy-style clickbait sucked, in spite of high engagement, right? Surveys like that could be a regular mechanism to determine weights on interaction types and content classifiers and sentiment analysis. This wouldn't be paternalistic, you wouldn't be deciding for people, they'd be deciding for themselves
Who? The renowned author Dan Brown?
All very good questions. However there is missing one question, that perhaps overrides them all:

- By doing this will I gain a deeper appreciation of the art? Will it help others to see this too?

Designing a good language is very very hard, harder maybe than a typeface, or a cathedral. But the rewards, in the terms of that question, can be inestimable.
Roam as in https://roamresearch.com/?
Stripes in CSS (2014)
> Touchscreens on mobile works because it's cheaper to build than a number pad, and way cheaper than a keyboard, it's cheaper to extend the touch screen so they don't use any real buttons on the front of most androids. The flexibility is helpful for text input.

Consumers didn't flock to a more expensive phone (the iPhone in 2007) because it was cheaper to make (it wasn't). They did so because the touchscreen enabled new forms of interaction not yet possible, enabling full-screen games, photo viewing/shooting, and web browsing to name a few.
Next gen electric cars are going to hammer the resale price of both ICE and current EV cars.

Might even be worse we're on the verge of the big global warming panic. At the same time the current pandemic has been showing that the world under a semi command economy is more resilient than neoliberals gaslighted everyone into believing. And thus governments have a lot more wiggle room than they thought. One might find that the resale value of your ICE car is zero.
My understanding is that the Arbery murder became widely known because of Twitter, not the "news." The news reported on it after it became a phenomenon, not as the original source.

And this is where the "conversation" piece may come in with a 21st century twist. Enough folks highlighted it as the "most important thing" to make it widely known via retweets and likes.
What can you realistically do? The alternatives as I see it are,

Riling people up (showing different opinions)
Echo-chambers (showing same opinion)
Sweeping issues under the rug (showing neither)
What do you mean? The code example is more verbose than Python, and has about as much structure.
> So it came as a surprise when sysadmins began noticing their new Western Digital Red NAS drives were dropping out of NAS RAIDs and ZFS pools owing to random write timeouts and failures.

I experienced exactly that a few days ago. I have some of those SMR WD drives in my NAS and one drive just disappeared from the ZFS pool while importing a large database. I rebooted and the drive was back. ZFS worked its magic and everything seems fine now, but it doesn't inspire confidence.
I've started to notice a lot of youtube channels I watch do that. They'll put 5-10 minute videos on youtube, and the full length version of those videos are on their personal websites, and more in-depth videos are exclusive to patreon subscribers.
Gabe Newell opens up on why Steam Machines didn't work out in Edge magazine
Most Popular Desktop Browsers 1994 – 2020
Joplin is cool because you can add your own css to customize the desktop app. I realize not every is interested in doing that, but I’ve been an advocate once I tweaked the styles to my liking [0]. Agree with you that the mobile app styles are very rough, but the community is very active and open to suggestions / improvements [1].

[0] https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme
[1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/
See also:

- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
If you mean cloudflare is blocking it it’s actually other way around - webarchive blocks cloudflare resolvers
archive.is returns A records 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 (cloudflare ips) back when you query them using cf dns. This means that your browser sends a request to 1.1.1.1 with the host header set to "archive.md". cloudflare's proxy tries to find the relevant config for archive.md, and not hosting it, tells you it doesn't host that page. it also helpfully informs you that if you just added your site to cloudflare, it might take a minute for it to show up.
I would also highly recommend your local NPR affiliate radio station. They can vary in quality, but tend to be pretty excellent at just telling you "what's happening" without much agenda.

I think Colorado has the best NPR affiliate of all time -- they go by CPR. Really popular, even among younger people. Highest quality news and radio... I wonder if any other states/cities have similar quality public radio?
I think Mulholland Drive is a great movie, why do you think it's not good?
I tried building this 10 years ago as a startup. Maybe time to revisit, the zeitgeist is turning more and more towards this and computing power has gotten cheap enough ...
You could pay for Nexus Lexus if you want the real dirty on people
Can a Rock Think? (2016)
Humans are pretty terrible at driving in rain and snow as well.
This is the way to do it. Serious kudos for this post OP.

Turn off notifications about "breaking news" on your phone, declutter your inbox by unsubscribing to newsletters from media outlets, and unfollow news co's on social media (hint: using Twitter's keyword filter is a peach for this). Completely and utterly disengage. I've done this for the past year or so and have completely mellowed out and gotten a lot more done.

The funny part? Nothing has really changed in the world, even with a pandemic tossed in. Barring opinion pieces and in-depth journalism, it's all a machine designed to keep you angry, helpless, and unthinking.
Folks like the OP" mentioned they use GOG, No Starch Press, etc, so they presumably don't mind paying

They clearly say this is the first time they have paid. So they like the products they have from those companies because they are easy to not-pay-for.
I always end up using https://jwt.ms/ because it's much more lightweight.
I don't know about Facebook but Google Talk was federated at some point [1].

[1] https://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html
Megastore Creator Software
> I don't know. Maybe that will just make the echo chambers worse.

This.

Also. What incentive does a walled garden even have to allow something like this? Put a different way, what incentive does a walled garden have to not just block this "user agent"? Because the UA would effectively be replacing the walled garden's own "algo curated new feed" - except if the user builds their own AI bot -- the walled garden can't make money the way they currently do.

I think the idea is very interesting. I personally believe digital UA's will have a place in the future. But in this scenario I couldn't see it working.
> If I want to read your book on my Kindle, the only option is piracy.

It's in the kindle store... what am I missing?
Echo use of the Mox library! I found testing in Elixir to be by far my favourite experience (outside of Scheme, I guess, but I haven't done production Scheme). The REPL is really nice as well for exploratory development.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. He was elected after all.
You get what you pay for. On shore freelance is worth the money.

Check out https://toptal.com
I really do not think the Chris Hadfield series on Space Exploration will help you become an astronaut.
Every productivity advice: "make routines".

ADHD sufferers: uuuugh...
> I do not believe the FBI would do that so lightly

What do you mean by "so lightly"? It changed the entire meaning of the sentence.
honestly, if this is going to be about static vs dynamic typing in general, i'm going to peace out because this argument has been rehashed about a million times. and we seem to be talking past each other anyway

i just wanted to make a point about how checking types at runtime doesn't mesh well with generics and functions, so it's always going to be limited on that axis. and perhaps there's a dynamically typed nirvana where you just handle that differently, but it's a problem i personally had

[edit: removed unnecessary snarkiness]
"It’s perfectly fine to say, “I don’t know enough about it, and I really don’t care to.”"

This guy must be loads of fun at dinner parties ;)... i'd say stopping at "i don't know enough about it." would be the perfectly fine thing to say.
Ha! Well that was a pure treat - instantly grabby title leading to a concise, witty, well-constructed article, containing good advice. Loved it for all those reasons.
Agree:

- Dead-simple concurrency model. Even if it won’t be the most performing one for some (or most) situations, it should be built into the language and be very easy to use. Ideally built with functions alone, requiring no special syntactic constructs. Advanced concurrency possible via STM.

Most of the other design considerations sound like a description of Clojure:

- Plain and simple syntax, minimal boilerplate, few keywords, no need for OOP constructs. The code must be very easy to read through. (this one is subjective I suppose. :-))

- Everything is an expression, no statements. The program itself is just a single expression.

- First-class functions and modules. Modules are simply sets of functions and records. Modules can be further organized into packages. Function calls supporting tail-call optimizations.

- Few data types. Yatta comes with the following built-in types: integer (64 bit), floating point number (64 bit), character (UTF-8), symbol, sequence (variable length, constant-time access to both ends), tuple (fixed length), dictionary, set and STM (Software Transactional Memory – coming in beta). No implicit conversions between types though!

- Custom data types, or records. Records are basically just tuples with named fields, and syntax sugar that goes with it.

- Run on JVM (GraalVM) and allow polyglot cooperation with other JVM languages. Very important if integrating with existing code-bases.
Python...

subprocess.Popen(['cvlc','--play-and-exit','{filename_here}'])

(just being cheeky)
Given the angle the author is taking here, I can hardly believe that he'd be saying "yeah but spending your time on Twitter is good and productive", considering its reputation as a source of constant outrage seems even worse than for internet or TV news. So, the same reasoning applies.

You could also look at something covered more by regular news sources, like how the GOP's attempted repeal of Obamacare was blocked by public response once it became clear how many people would lose health insurance coverage. Suddenly, the repeal that was reasonably popular overall (and very popular on the right) was much less so. Would the repeal having quietly passed through Congress because nobody was paying attention to national news have been an improvement?

The author's argument is one in favor of selfishness: being a well-informed citizen of your state or country does not benefit you personally, so why bother? I actually think that the logic does hold, it's just that the implication of everyone listening to his advice is that the country becomes less informed as a whole, which sounds really, REALLY bad to me. People's average level of political and current event knowledge already seems dreadfully low, someone pushing to make it lower yet...why?
What does school teach now? Is it still the four P's or did new age terms like inbound marketing replace old nomenclature?

I like the argument, that the main thing thats changed in marketing since the 50's is what everything is called.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/everything-the-tech-world-...
Why are those platforms still supported?
I don't understand this, can you help me understand? I can give you a uniformly random byte. I can also give you a byte distributed from normal distribution such that ~127 is more likely than 0 and 255. They'll both be a byte (same bits of information) but getting 0 in one of them will be be a lot more surprising than the other. How is unpredictability a measure of message's information content?
"Millions of Americans staying at home are relying on Amazon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI
Now that's an amazing coding platform.
Could we maybe leave calls for mass executions to other places and times?
For Bitcoin, we run a open source relay network called FIBRE, and incredibly low latency network which uses some encoding tricks to gain significantly faster than TCP transmission of block data around the world. It's currently limited in part by the number of points of presence that can be reasonably operated from. Is there anybody at Cloudflare that would be interested in taking this on using your incredibly latency-diverse network?