skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd argue that slaves were the means of production.

But also things like olive oil presses. There's this example of an ancient Greek philosopher Thales essentially inventing the option derivative contract by buying the rights to use oil presses before the harvest for cheap, and charging a high price to use those presses once the harvest proved to be bountiful.[1]

The dip in banking during the Dark Ages in Europe is mostly the effect of Christianity banning usury. But globally the practices didn't stop.

I'm not sure, why it's important to show that capitalism a) equates to banking, and b) is some relatively late invention of the Western civilization. Because it's not in both cases.

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[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-the-first-ever-...
I'd like to point out that TFA does not actually link to the memo itself. So any phrasing in the article like "scolds," "blunt," or "exhorts" must be taken with a grain of salt--and by extension, any comments here that are opining on the letter based on these adjectives.

In fact, I'd go as far as saying that the article in its current state is at best worthless (and at worst a hatchet job).

It's entirely possible that the tone of the letter/memo was indeed harsh, or tone-deaf, or cringe-worthy. But perhaps it wasn't, and honestly the few quotes in the article make it impossible to tell.
"Engagement" is the "paper clip maximizer"[1] of the modern software industry, or more generally an example of "instrumental convergence."
Optimizing engagement without regard for negative externalities is a catastrophic ethical failure of the major players in the software industry, and we are finally seeing a backlash both from mainstream advertisers and widespread public outcry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution by Raquel Varela (2019)
I tried to find out which udp/tcp ports need to be open for tinc to work, but could not find anything in the documentation?
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This should have (2009) appended to the title. I imagine that the code for this site has changed a great deal in the last eleven years.
How would a quarantine be over by now? We don't have a vaccine nor any reliable treatment. Unless we closed our borders completely like NZ, we would have an outbreak immediately upon reopening. Just like we are seeing now.
Seeing a statue of Lincoln defaced made me more sad than almost any of the other. If we can’t look to people like Lincoln as our heroes, then what type of hero do we really want?
Is this the actual HN ranking code? It looks like a demo of a lisp.
As I always say in software projects, if some of your tasks aren't failing, you're not being ambitious enough in your goals, or are not ditching ineffective work soon enough.
And what are the downsides to Electron apps? All I hear is file size is bloated and slow but slowness is likely to be the fault of the developers who use frameworks blindly without knowing what they're doing and can be improved.

You can see some web sites can be snappy...
levels.fyi recently released this: https://www.levels.fyi/calculator/
Reading this comment, it felt like you were describing the education system.

I'm waiting for someone to write a best-seller on the "Heat Theory of Education" [ Knowledge, in a given domain, flows from a knowledge-hot person to a knowledge-cool person, proportional to the differential, with some things between them acting as insulator or a conductor ]

It would be a nice bulwark against the pervasive meme that 'teaching is domain-less' aka "if you know how to teach you can teach anything"
Hacker News literally is (or began as) pg's demo of Arc Lisp.

But Anarki no longer resembles what's running on HN currently.
Twitter/FB just aren't the right platforms for nuanced discussion. I don't know why people keep trying to treat them that way or keep wanting them to become such. Easy for me to say as someone who has already come to this realization and has actively avoided building dependency on Twitter/FB in my daily life, I guess... But honestly I wish people who wanted to have real meaningful discourse with people would gravitate towards other forums. Maybe the reality is that no good alternative exists? I don't really know of any platforms built for "at scale" social discourse. Discords and Slacks and chats and whatnot work great for localized (in the graph-distance sense) discussion. I have yet to come across a tool built specifically around having nuanced discussion of real social issues at scale in a way that doesn't end in scorched earth.
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HN runs an evolved version of said "demo of a lisp". So it's probably not the actual code running anymore, but it is a predecessor.
> But this is true for Fossil as well.

Since I don't know anything about how Fossil stores commit metadata this might a naive question - but why is that?

I would guess that being able to efficiently query all the children of particular commit should be just an index away.
The first time I saw a GUI desktop (Win95-like) in a Web browser, it was done by one of the prominent kernel developers. Either a proof of concept, or a hack for fun, or both.

It was especially impressive, because this was when Web developers were mostly concerned with things like rounding corners of rectangles in layouts. Then some non-Web person is passing by, and says, hey, y'know, it looks like one thing you could do with this now is... :)
Vi Hart is amazing with flexagons [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k
There's some frameworks that are available for old Windows desktop apps to run in the browser. It's main use is for old ERP systems that were originally written for on-premise to be deployed in the cloud and browser based without needing to essentially rewrite everything.

The one tech stack I know of that does this is IBM Websphere for Java apps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere). One that isn't as smooth as the site in OP is Microsoft's Remote Desktop Service.
There's no need to go to war with someone if you can plant the seeds of a toxic mindset, and then watch them tear themselves apart instead.
> Pakistan's big deployment is one example ..

A valid example of what can go wrong when you pick the wrong technology, don't do small scale trials first, and rely on government oversight. (Refer the Background & Operation section of the wikipedia article -- toe-curlingly alarming, yet ultimately unsurprising.)

They almost definitely should have pursued concentrated solar thermal. It partly solves the 'storage problem', provides power well into the evening, doesn't need more water than they have to clean it, and improves magnificently with high temperatures (the wikipedia article cites the problem of regular 45C days, which are above the 25C optimum temperature for PV panels).

Given all this was known and understood before they broke ground, this sounds like a traditional government project problem -- susceptibility to corruption, vanity, hubris etc.
It’s just extremely uncomfortable. I try to participate in the neighborhood events as well so it’s better to just fall in line (wherever the line is, not really clear either). Just a recent example, I forgot to wear a mask last week when I went to the supermarket and kept getting stares by other shoppers. That wouldn’t be an issue even a couple of months ago.

I’m guilty of it now, too, though. If anyone is smoking on the road while walking or biking, I lock eyes with them and they usually stop or at least turn away.
Having seen all this from the inside of more offices than I can remember, I would say definitively yes. That programmers did have to introduce delays for that, and for other reasons.

However, this was a trust thing, and not an innate limitation of human capacity.

Now that we’re in 2020, I would argue that almost 0 users need that crutch.

If the work is done, it’s done. Similarly, employees on early keyboard-only terminals didn’t need any delay either. They trusted that when they said do X, the system did it. How else could you process dozens (or hundreds!) of items a minute?
It is using TAA-upsampling and I think the only DL part is replacing the neighborhood clamping filter with a trained function.

You can look at the tradeoffs of neighborhood clamping/clipping here:

https://de45xmedrsdbp.cloudfront.net/Resources/files/Tempora...

Those slides were before TAA upsampling was added, but the issues are similar once it is in place too. Unreal Engine already has TAA upsampling, but has to fight against the issues mentioned in the Nvidia presentation.

Nvidia trained it for specific upsampling multiples, so the main functional difference with existing TAA upsampling is it can't do continuous base-resolution changes.
What sort of work did you do? What's the most surprising thing you witnessed? What did you notice was different about 'super billionaires' compared to average people?
It should work like a trade, for each picture requested they give a picture showing why they are held in prison.
any change of getting AVS here? I spent years playing with that!
So it's ok for a company to further their agenda by supporting a political cause as NewRelic has done with their support of the matter... But it's no OK for an employee to think that they should actually mean what they've said and supported by trying to actually support the movement. K...

So new relic supports the Movement. But fuck the employees that actually believe them and try to further the change. It's only OK if the employer exploits a current social movement. I see you buddy.
I assumed you meant, given the context, if the rule changes appreciably affected the meta, i.e. the way the game is played. If you zoom out far enough, all sports have the same rules, contests between humans with a physical component.

The rules for swimming and running are similarly changing constantly. Google the controversy about the faster water in Beijing that was used to cause more records to be set, or the rules about shoes in running.

The fact that someone who doesn't know about a sport thinks it's not changing doesn't mean it isn't. Ignorance does not convey some kind of deeper insight.
Why should a for-profit enterprise have any kind of ethical consideration at all? It seems that's your mistake.
dang has mentioned several times the algorithm has evolved over the years.
I'm not sure we should necessarily read all that much into what gets graffiti. There are trolls everywhere, and it can be cleaned up.
Back in 1998/1999 I worked in a mom-and-pop ISP shop with 64 dialup lines. We had an Indy that ran our mail server, website, databases, FTP and web hosting, LDAP server, etc etc. And it was still somewhat usable as a desktop as well.
> I would guess that being able to efficiently query all the children of particular commit should be just an index away.

Yes, but where will you find the space, and when will you compute it?
I like it except for one problem. I never leave a job unless I have a job. Seems too risky to jump ship from a good job where you're under paid to get a chance at a little more money.
You say “us vs them” like it’s at all inaccurate. Owners have every incentive to make their employees work more for less. Unions just balance that power dynamic.
SAT solvers overwhelmingly don't use resolution. Modern state of the art solvers use DPLL/CDCL.
Sprites is someone that I feel truly epitomises the original hacking spirit. His ability to understand the inner-workings of a large variety of things, strip them down to their bare elements and combine them in different ways to make something new is nothing short of impressive.

His hacks section is very entertaining (https://spritesmods.com/?art=hardware). My favourites are his Minecraft portal and his automatic jello-shot printer made from old CD-ROM parts.
They are fully citizens, but where they live isn't a state.
What's funny is web development has surpassed desktop development so much that it's easier to make websites that look like desktop apps than making actual desktop apps.
This whole "in a perfect world everyone would walk just like me" is just an attempt to justify the constant loss of walking space to cars since the 1950s.

My dream is that one day pedestrianised spaces would be large enough to allow everyone to use it without compromises.
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There’s a Nathan Pyle comic with this advice:
https://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/business_insid...
Hi,

You can start by learning about yourself.
This article here https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/three-actionable-ins... can set you on your path.

Thanks
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WireGuard is like a modernized version of the SPTPS protocol --- SPTPS is a denatured variant of TLS --- that tinc uses, (ordinarily) coupled to the Linux networking stack. It is something you would build a modern version of tinc on top of, not a competitor to tinc. See Tailscale for an example of something that looks a lot like tinc, but built on WireGuard.

Tinc's security track record has not been especially great†, and while WireGuard and tinc are both written in C, tinc is a great ghastly blob of C, and WireGuard was written defensively by a vulnerability researcher to minimize attack surface --- the whole thing is about 4000 lines of code, and can be run without memory allocation.

So if you were just comparing SPTPS to WireGuard, it'd be no contest at all: you'd always, always prefer WireGuard. And that's what most people should do, because most people run simple access VPNs that don't need elaborate mesh routing features. For the minority that do, for now, there's Tailscale and Tinc; maybe Tinc can do a 2.0 on top of WireGuard, with its userland components in a memory-safe language.

† This, in particular, is not the commit message you want to see in a fix for an error oracle vulnerability: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=commit;h=d3297f...
> if... it can be forced to allow only content that advertisers approve of.

Your comment seems to state explicitly that not only can they be forced to, but they actively are, and already have been for a while.

However, this fits with my intuition (especially in the now-advertiser-driven “news” space), so I may be jumping to conclusions.
That's from 2009 and also excludes a lot of the "secret sauce". I reverse-engineered the algorithm in 2013 [1], but things have changed a lot since then.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
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The defaced statue was a conservative media misunderstanding:

We traced the photo back to the conservative website the Daily Wire, where “The Michael Knowles Show”...

- https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/statue-in-lincoln-memorial...
Not the first one, 7 months ago (Dec 1, 2019): https://www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-scandal-hits-german-elite-mil...

Too little too late, they have open Nazis https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5344859/Far-right-G...

in Parliament now https://time.com/4955503/germany-elections-2017-far-right-ru...

with strategically placed Public officials in high places

https://www.dw.com/en/german-spy-chief-passed-info-to-afd-re...

a spy Chief passing secret information to neo nazi organisation, and surviving the scandal with a _promotion_!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/germanys-domes...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-ex-spy-chief-maassen-to-join-la...

They tried to put BND on the case to investigate in 2016, but AfD sued and won :] Somehow they are trying again https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/german-intelli... but what good does investigation when you have AfD members in the oversight commissions now ...
I started work on one of these a couple of years back. Never actually finished it (is anything ever truly finished?!). It’s got a media player with milkdrop visualiser (you can control the presets with left and right on the keyboard), a terminal (with matrix effect via the command with the same name), various settings and apps. I had a drum machine in there, but removed it because it was a bit messy code-wise. Wanna get some emulators in there, my previous site had an awesome JS NES emulator virtual arcade easter egg that was triggered via the Konami code. This web OS experiment is built in jQuery, but I’m inclined to port it over to Vue at some point.

Link, for those that are interested: https://os.virusav.com

Note: the name VirusAV might seem ominous, but it stands for Virus AudioVisual. I’m a coder, VJ, DJ and music producer.
Never knew! Thank you. Do you know if the current algorithm is published anywhere or do they keep that under wraps to prevent it from being gamed?
Tearjerker, but in a positive way. I believe so much in this country and it's ability to right what's wrong, eventually.
This is where I first learned about them! Absolutely loved watching her videos when I was younger and just getting into math/science as a concept.
What reckoning? How does the all time high NASDAQ suppose to teach the Tech upper management humility?
I foresee a familiar cycle playing out:

1. Gemini is great, no spam and commercial crap

2. Someone realises it would be great to have simple inline images, and makes a cool client that supports “gemini+img” syntax that they make up. The syntax gracefully degrades, so you can use it in your docs even if your users aren’t using the new browser!

3. Protocol is technically text-only but in reality everyone uses img-enabled browser

4. Repeat with basic styling, then simple scripts. Eventually authors rely on more and more “optional” features and syntax extensions, and we end up with a similar feature set to what we have today.

5. Advertisers move in as Gemini gains mainstream adoption, and we’re back to www
Exactly. It’s very possible the author of the article is sensitive / has an agenda / etc and interprets anything said in the memo in the least charitable way possible.
Slowly? Isn't this a common use case?

I've had interviews where they required my GitHub profile so we could discuss one of my projects in depth.
Didn't Basecamp just try growing into email?
I think dang has mentioned they might consider publishing some of the changes they've made over the years but that it would be difficult to untangle the YC business logic from everything else, and they wouldn't have the time to maintain it.

But anything to do with voting, spam detection, ranking etc. though, they definitely keep secret.
I’ve tried to verify the algorithm in the past but the api doesn’t expose enough information to do so. You would need to be able to see points on the comments, where currently you can only see the points on the comments you made. If I remember correctly the reputation of the voters at the time they voted is also a factor. I completely understand why this isn’t available but if your just really curious how the greatest site around works you reach a dead end there.

It can be really facisnating to see the magic numbers and transformations people come up with.
It's cute that this library is 1776 bytes, but that's quickly going to change as bugs are found and new features need to get added. It seems like coupling a product's name to something that will likely change very shortly is just bad product naming.
Inadvertently, this is a great argument for government as the public needs a coercive force able to require companies to internalize costs.
From a social standpoint, uncritically repeating what everybody thinks is acceptable. From a scientific standpoint, it is not.
I (or any math noob) can easily understand the pigeon hole principle. His more detailed arguments about max, avg and a bunch of other stuff is more obtuse and harder to follow. IMO, pigeon hole principle, where applicable, wins this argument. If you're dealing with a sequence of real numbers, you might need max >= avg.
You are pointing to RETAIL electricity costs. Rookie error, man. Hydrogen would be produced at wholesale, especially with cut rate power when renewables are overproducing. In some places this number becomes negative.
Wimbledon Village is in London, not that it's really a village any longer. Even when lowercased, a denomination such as village isn't going to be a clue in a city like London with tiny pockets of communities that may have been there since Boudicca was whispered in the local pubs as a code to drink up.
> why not design a new Lisp?

Urbit.
That specific one was, but there are others being called to take down, and this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-memorial-steps-...
> Why?

Because it is a public company and their purpose is to make the investors money not cater to the "activist" cause-du-jour.
If we let the virus run wild then over a million Americans would die from it. And the hospitals would be vastly overwhelmed, so many more people who need hospitalization from other causes would die. And many millions would suffer severe diseases, like for weeks, and with many of them there would be strong aftereffects lasting for months.

In the countries that have had a strong lockdown and other measures, within a few months they had the disease halted and beaten back, and could go back to mostly normal. I think that is vastly better.
You do understand that not every company is the same as yours, right? Maybe there is a bad culture there and perhaps the ceo has information that you don’t have? Also, since when did criticism became despicable in the virus crisis?
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Hydrogen makes sense in industrial applications (steel, chemistry, e.g. ammonia production). Electricity often isn’t even an option there (same with aviation).

I think people tend to be too blinded in their focus on cars here? I don’t think hydrogen cars make much sense. Batteries all the way – but that doesn’t mean that hydrogen is without merit for other applications.

And if you want to replace all greenhouse gases in industrial applications with green hydrogen you still need a shitton of hydrogen (since, yeah, it’s inefficient – but if it’s the most efficient greenhouse-neutral way to get there – what choice is there?), so that’s not something you can just improvise. You need to tackle it head-on.

That’s why I fear people being stubbornly focused on cars. Even if not a single car will ever use hydrogen ever we could still need a lot of green hydrogen for other purposes if we want to be greenhouse-neutra.
Sorry there was some confusion. By long term I meant 3-10 year follow ups.

Weight loss from diet/exercise will definitely persist for a year or even a couple.

Also specifically about exercise your study says
"[Weight] did not change in the exercise without weight loss [group]"
> This CEO should look in the mirror and wonder what he could do to improve things.

He is trying to improve things by telling his employees to get back to work and stop pearl clutching.
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Americans!

People cannot "transcend" past wrongs, so don't do them.

The ones correcting historical wrongs, and undoing mess ups of previous generations don't do that for the "good" memory of people who did them.
You can. It's cheaper to also have some hydrogen. Not just for seasonal storage, but to act as a backup for rare long lulls during winter. Without this insurance policy, the renewables have to be sized for extreme worst cases.
>first major economy to phase out coal

just after we strip mine this ancient forest over there https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-hambach-forest/