skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most countries have "migration tax" - wealthy investors can buy visas. That's obviously not "open borders" the way most people understand that expression.

> For instance, if the problem lies with migrant welfare use, the most keyhole solution-like approach is to change the rules, or enforcement of rules, surrounding migrant welfare use.

This is just bad. The quality of my life is directly related to the amount of support people around me get. I'm expecting a reduction in social support for the poorest would directly lead to increase in crime. In addition, people generally want things like emergency services being available to everyone, otherwise they'd have to see people dying on the street. I'd rather avoid both of those, and avoid open borders, than have open borders, rampant poverty, crime and people dying on the street. "But without open borders, that problem just translates elsewhere - there are poor people dying of crime on the streets of Africa right now!" Yeah, but then let's solve that problem instead. It's much cheaper for me & my taxes to give someone in a low-PPP country social support, basic job, housing and medical insurance.
Here's a thing: incorrect assumptions that are built into a model are more harmful than a model that assumes too little structure. If you model the vocal tract and the actual exciting things are the transient noises that occur when we produce consonants, at best there's lots of work with not much to show and at worst you're limiting your model in a negative way. That's the basis for the "every time we fired a linguist, recognition rates improved" from 90s speech recognition.

On the other end of the spectrum, data and compute ARE limited and for some tasks we're at a point where the model eats up all the humanity's written works and a couple million dollars in compute and further progress has to come from elsewhere because even large companies won't spend billions of dollars in compute and humanity will not suddenly write ten times more blog articles.
> If we are going to truly treat this 1833 treaty as legally valid

If? SCOTUS literally just said it's valid. Today.

As far as what's going to happen, presumably the state legislature, congress, and the Tribal government(s) are going to come to some kind of deal. I'm no expert. I'm just reacting to the vaguely racist paranoia in the headline that has people freaking out that they'll suddenly be Ruled by Indians.
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I don't understand why it's necessary to bring this up or its relation at all with SSC or the New Yorker piece.
> somebody creates a website that takes the user's credit card info, passes it through to any Bitcoin seller and then receives the Bitcoin and transfers the value to the target

Two things go wrong:

- credit transactions are reversible and bitcoin isn't, so the middle party gets stiffed by fraud

- you have to have a merchant account to take credit payments, and the networks will blacklist you if you do things like this
You can now sponsor NetBSD on GitHub
The decision has no bearing on land ownership or governance, but will force Oklahoma to tie up its historical loose ends.

EDIT: I originally incorrectly wrote "All they did was interrupt the trial of an accused rapist." in addition to the above sentence.
You think all of that hasn't been tried already? Why would the delivery services leave free money on the table if it worked? Consumers would not pay those high costs in enough numbers to make it work so we end up with this model. It's a very price sensitive market.
This is fascinating. It's a New York take on the Bay Area take on New York. It's the Media take on the Tech take on Media. It's illuminating, and frustrating. I keep looking for some reflection, some attempt to learn something from another point of view.

I'll have to read it again more closely.
I've always personally envisioned AMD's graphics driver team as a bunch of underdogs pulling off serious wizardry on a shoestring budget and still being criticized by the public for having any bugs at all.
[inserts gif of visitor counter spinning out of control]

[also adds in some "under construction" gifs]

I really wish I had some way to access my original AOL website. So many memories... and web ring links...
I've always wondered what the web would have been now if adobe would have opened flash player and created a foundation to manage its evolution when it was at its prime time.

Their source of revenue was the flash editor (if I'm not mistaken) so I guess it wouldn't have had that much impact on their business.
I was thinking the same thing, if what the court was saying was that the land has always been a reservation, then, uh, get ready for the mother of all tax refunds.
moment.js is so annoying because if I don't do momentObject.clone() everywhere I end up having many unwanted side-effects.
Crypto exchange Coinbase (YC S12) readies landmark stock market listing
Decentraleyes breaks sites that use subresource integrity, which is why I sadly needed to stop using it, until I find time to land a PR.
> Ford is no more liable for actions of bad cops than Volkswagen, BMW, or Mercedes were for the actions of the nazis.

Interesting piece of history: "Ironically" Ford is actually sort of liable for the actions of the Nazi's, well Henry Ford that is. Henry Ford was a BIG anti semite. Hitler himself has said Ford's anti semitism was an inspiration to him, Ford is also mentioned favourably a couple of times in Hitlers Mein Kampf, was awarded a high Nazi medal for his virtue in anti semtism and apparently Hitler for a time had a photo on his desk of Ford...
Maybe he already is and the internet hasn't found it yet.
In some ways it should be faster because it isn't garbage-collected. But I agree that would be a much better benchmark for what should be possible.
In the service of keeping my resume as dense as possible while remaining readable I've moved specific technology keywords from the body of my line items to the end of each job's body.

So instead of this:

Weyland Yutani Corp, Sea of Tranquility, 2318-2320
- increased foo by bar with blockchain, ml, vr, k8s, GIMP
- did baz with COBOL, webassembly, graphql, react

I'd just have this:

Weyland Yutani Corp, Sea of Tranquility, 2318-2320
- increased foo by bar
- did baz
(ml, blockchain, big data, k8s, GIMP, react, etc)

I can't comment on if it's something hiring managers and recruiters prefer but I can say that I think it looks nice and I am currently employed.
What an ugly article. A couple quotes:

> It remains possible that Alexander vaporized his blog not because he thought it would force Metz’s hand but because he feared that a Times reporter wouldn’t have to poke around for very long to turn up a creditable reason for negative coverage.

The reporter is unaware that the Internet Archive exists? The content is obviously still readily available, so the reporter is either stupid or disingenuous.

> For one thing, the S.S.C. code prioritizes semantic precision, but Metz—if Alexander’s account is to be taken at its word—had proposed not to “doxx” Alexander but to de-anonymize him.

And no, the difference between "doxx" and "de-anonymize" is never explained.

The practical lesson that I'd take here is that semi-anonymity doesn't exist. Alexander should either have written under his own name, or taken sufficient technical precautions to make doxxing by the NYT impossible.

The higher-level lesson is that anyone expressing heterodox opinions is likely to write something that a reporter working for a mainstream outlet considers "a creditable reason for negative coverage". At that point, the reporter now seems happy to use whatever tools they have at their disposal to cause that person harm, with the implicit consent of the huge organization behind them. Probably this was always true to some extent, but I think it's getting worse.
Honestly after all the Native Americans went through, give them the whole state at least. People in the United States speak and reflect often about the atrocities of slavery. We need to equally reflect on and remember the atrocities against Native Americans.
"They tweeted something bad" -> "get them fired," is substantially different from, "the reporters working for this organization are dangerous," -> "don't talk to them." One is going on the offense, the other is defensive.
Quite a war, media suffers heavy casualties. Oh wait it was just the blogger and his readers.
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Agreed. There is a difference between people who come to the West on their own accord to live and work, versus their children who basically have to move with their parents, and are happy enough to take the path of least resistance when it comes to making friends and acquaintances.

I used to board ESL students, and they worked extremely hard at communicating with others without wrapping themselves in a cultural bubble.

Actually, we had lots of fun discussing similarities and differences for words and concepts. I learned from a Korean boarder that English has gerunds. Funny that I've used them all my life and it never occurred to me that there would be a word for it.
There's something of the older BSD/Unix engeineering culture all through google's technical sutff.

It's noticable through their documentaion and in some of their architectural decisions and general approach/attitude towards software engineering.

I've have noticed that it's faded somewhat but it's still there, it's noticable specially when contrasting it with Amazon's approach which has a different approach or style to it.

I think it has to do with the origins of older google engineers (this also would explain why/how it's diluted but still there)

Also it seems that in some parts of google are trying to move away from these in order to be seem more enterprise friendly?

But personally, I really like google's more engineer-oriented attitude (here are they pieces and how they are made, you can figure it out) versus a more hand-holding style which later makes it difficult to move beyond the happy path.

it's not very easy to explain what I mean exactly as it all comes from a rather vague sensation about engineering style.
Definitely in favor, as long as I can disable that, i.e. in incognito mode. There are some things that could work so, so much better, especially with some modern frameworks (think Flutter) that don't render to DOM unless absolutely necessary. There would be no accessibility mode buttons, everything would, you know, just work.
Banksy's identity is right on his Wikipedia page for anyone who really wants to know. I think NYT and other media are keeping him "anonymous" by way of asking. They could easily publish his name if they wanted. Unlike SSC, Banksy seems to hold similar political views to NYT, so they have no problem playing along.

The only truly anonymous public figure I'm aware of is Satoshi Nakamoto and I'm pretty sure that the only reason he stayed anonymous is that he died before he could be definitively found out.
Email is not a synchronous channel, and shouldn't be treated as such. Plenty of mailservers will happily delay your messages for a few minutes for spam and virus scanning (because who cares if an email arrives a minute later), and you have all sorts of asynchronous things built into the major servers and protocols (queues, delays/greylisting, 4-day(!!) backoff-retries, etc).
Sure, especially if you control the whole package (like a bluetooth headphone would) and double especially if you can rely on your source material having zero spectral content above 15k (many streaming music formats) or even lower (phone calls). But a 20dB cut is pretty dramatic. I use a 5-band parametric DSP with my headphones and it is only capable of 12dB cuts.
Actually it translated to "have to", not "should" (which would more properly be "sollten").
My last name is easy to find. My first name is Kurt, I live in Chicago, I work on startups. I've published with my last name within the last decade.

Scott Alexander's last name is also easy to find. His first name is Scott, his middle name is Alexander, he's a psychiatrist, and he lives in Michigan. This is all information he publicized.

And he has also published under his last name, even on SSC, within the last decade.
The problem is that the media has lost people’s trust that it is not going to get things badly wrong or dig up whatever it can on you in the interest of controversy.

If people don’t know if something will be a hit piece, they need to respond as if it is.

I’ve worked with some great and curious journalists. I’ve also known some who don’t care to understand the issues at hand. They just want to write about them.
That is so true, and good for you for reaching out. I'm sure those immigrants will remember those dinners as a highlight of the time they were in the US.
I kind of doubt that level of Machiavellianism from him. If he didn't want to do it anymore he would just say so.
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Largely used? A scan through my local paper, and frankly most of my experience, is that journalism is largely used to report the news. I'm not going to wade in on the moral debate here, but I count among the new stories in the first few pages today:

3 stories about a major storm that came through last night

1 story about changes to unemployment rules

1 story about a major conference being canceled due to travel restrictions

2 crime stories
For completeness: So did the German factory of Ford even though they weren't required by the Nazi's to do so.
I detected the same shift in blog content, but figured (or, assumed) it was due to caution given the current political and social climate, more than lack of inspiration.
Are all the other treaties going to be reviewed? What percentage of the USA would become reservation land if all the treaties were honored? If it was >50% would we still call them reservations?
I’m aware - I read the article shortly after it went up.

In a narrow reading of the article, I think this critique tracks. However, given the broader prominence of that particular digital debate and Lorenz’ unique success in centering the discussion online to this purported “SV war on media”, their Twitter situation exists as the girder for the broader arguments in the article.
Yeah, and companies that do A/B testing of their UIs could get valuable data, like knowing that we're actually out there trying to use their new, probably less accessible UI.
Here's a thought I had when Twitter was still very new:

1. Sites should forbid dots in "normal" usernames.
2. Usernames with dots can only be registered by demonstrating ownership of the corresponding DNS domain.

Now you can have your favorite "brand" across all sites, nobody else can register it before you, etc.

This is obviously not very non-techie friendly at this time...
Does anyone know the progress on exposing browser APIs (and hopefully real JS objects) to WASM directly? I think its use-cases will remain pretty narrow until then, but I haven't heard much noise about those developments lately.
I've switched most of my work that used to use moment over to Luxon[0] now. It's still written by the same authors, but fixes a lot of the drawbacks[1].

[0]: https://moment.github.io/luxon/index.html
[1]: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/moment.html
I think on the redesign you have to be logged in to show all the replies by default. That has been my experience anyway.
I feel motive is important.

Was there backlash because the NYT published an opinion some disagree with? Or was PPI going to be exposed that hurt a medical professional maintain his practice?

I think one carries a very real reason for backlash. The other, not so much.

Also, what was being requested? Did Scott make this personal and ask for someone to get fired? If he did, equating this with actions like that makes sense. If not, it makes no sense.

Last, your use of the word tantrum for an adult making rational decisions related to the well being of himself and his patients only highlights your own emotive state.
This is how it's typically done:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-do-scientists-meas...

There are thousands of measurement stations spread across the globe - on land, in the ocean and in the air.

Four independent datasets are generated by different groups:
Scientists use four major datasets to study global temperature. The UK Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit jointly produce HadCRUT4 .

In the US, the GISTEMP series comes via the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) creates the MLOST record. The Japan Meteorological Agency ( JMA) produces a fourth dataset.
Article fails to defend the NYT in any substantive way, and the writer makes obvious their biases with statements like:

S.S.C. supporters on Twitter were quick to identify some of the Times’ recent concessions to pseudonymous quotation—Virgil Texas, a co-host of the podcast “Chapo Trap House,” was mentioned, as were Banksy and a member of ISIS—as if these supposed inconsistencies were dispositive proof of the paper’s secret agenda, rather than an ad-hoc and perhaps clumsy application of a flexible policy

Obviously this isn't and either/or. The lumping together of all SSC supporters is another cheap rhetorical trick. In any case, no matter which of these views you hold, the examples show the policy could accommodate Scott's request for pseudonymity.

Note too the lack of any real investigation or original reporting here; the author hasn't bother to talk to Metz?

Additionally, it seems difficult to fathom that a professional journalist of Metz’s experience and standing would assure a subject, especially at the beginning of a process, that he planned to write a “mostly positive” story; although there often seems to be some confusion about this matter in Silicon Valley, journalism and public relations are distinct enterprises.

This is just silly. How about you ask Metz? The cheap shot at all of Silicon Valley tips the hand too.

This article is just more propaganda in the evolving war of words between SV and journalism.
Interesting implication that Tulsa is now inside of a reservation. Growing up I thought reservations were located on tiny parcels of land but in some western states that is not the case. In Arizona about 25% of the state is tribal land, with neighboring state New Mexico having about 10% of its land as reservations.
> My guess is someone added this tool for other tools to use.

That's precisely what it's for; and there's a cdnjs mirror as well, for the same reason.
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I've been willing to try it for a while, now.

Does the lack of "native" support for real-time linting, debuggers, formatters, etc get in your way? Did you manage to integrate such features in your workflow?
> In startups, being defensibile means competitors can’t catch you once you’re ahead.

I'm not sure this is a useful concept. Investors are burning billions of dollars trying to ensure that Uber-or-Lyft [or insert other unicorn battle here] gets un-catch-ably "ahead", meanwhile neither is a successful business in the traditional sense. There are tons of successful businesses in the world that just execute well and deliver value in exchange for money. They're not succeeding because they are "ahead" of the competition, they are succeeding because there is plenty of room for multiple competitors to succeed.
I'm confused, are you agreeing with Scott? Both of you have last names that are "easy to find," but neither of you are purposely making it easily available. You both believe that there is a difference between "technically can be found" and "is printed everywhere my pseudonym is." If I were to write your last name in this comment, I would be going against your implied wishes, where your implied wishes are visible because you didn't write it in your comment.
I mean, they built and added camo like a decade ago to allow your reaction gifs in code review to work over HTTPS. The shitposting is now a fact of life
I don't know why people are so negative about Adobe Flash today. It was a great technology for its time--which has come and gone. We don't mock other great technologies of the past, like the Palm Pilot, the Cassette Walkman, Castle Wolfenstein, etc.
Can someone explain why America has reservations? From what I know, Native Indians had this land almost 2+ centuries ago. Why have a special, looks like an autonomous, region and special treatment to people that are a few generations down from when this happened?

How far back into the history should we go?
I realise I did Nvidia a dis-service as Jen-Hsun and team are obviously much, much more than just 'stable'.

Never met him, but seems very impressive and approachable - how many CEOs would give a talk to students sitting on the steps of a university entrance? [1]

Just to add though that having groupies is not necessarily a positive for investors!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqiBzmuqPNY
I think this had more to do with the specifics of this specific land and how things played out legally. I'm not sure these circumstances apply anywhere else.
Ha I see - I've been training ML models with millions of data points and millions of features on CPUs for a decade now, I didn't know I needed a GPU - I guess I've been doing it all wrong all this time!
I was a very loyal reader of SSC and thought I followed the "doxing" incident and fallout rather closely. I read numerous related blog posts about it and followed the discussion on the main remaining discussion space the community has, /r/slatestarcodex.

Never once did I see the comments of said "Bay Area attorney" or Srinivasan, or see them discussed. It's certainly possible they were there and I missed them, but they weren't so important that it was impossible to miss them either. It's these ones the article focuses on because they went overboard in striking back at the NYT in a way not really consistent with the principles of Scott or SSC, in my opinion anyways.

A shame this article is basically trying to use those few hotheads to tar and feather the whole community.
I had a very similar take (probably not precise), and like you I'm about to start a second reading, to say "this is a fascinating read to me, personally" must come with the caveat lector that I'm not making any value judgements.
Does anyone know the status of private land, not belonging to tribe members, now considered within the reservation? Can it be confiscated by the tribe?
European here: what does it mean economically, geographically and for the local ecosystem?
Yes and there’re examples of their making exceptions to their “rule” when they want to.
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TIL. Didn’t know Germany was involved in that.
Is the alternative you're referring to here saving money and using the interest generated to buy traditional lottery tickets?
> Can someone explain why America has reservations?

Because we signed treaties with the tribes, which are now semi-sovereign entities as a result.
I was hoping I could get by without resolving to to GC, utilizing the rust allocation model(RAII with syntactic sugar and compiler helping out basically). If I "have to" write a GC because idris programming model requires is, I don't think there is a lot of value in writing a rust code generator.
He was a bit more than "accused". He was convicted.

And, they didn't interrupt the trial. He's been in prison for more than two decades for this crime.
That was just a lot of Intel cores. I'm talking about an NVIDIA GPU that happens to have some ARM cores along with the CUDA cores.
There was a whole block of pre-formatted HTML you would have to insert into your website. When you clicked on a button to navigate the ring it would like to a cgi script on the "owners" domain to take you to the next site.

Edit: Down this [1] page a little bit you can see an example of the code you would have to copy/paste

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19970616173036/http://www.acmepe...