skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is this a realistic solution if you're not able to persuade everyone to stop following these outlets?

Look, I get that the media is driven by interests that aren't always aligned with the public good, which can create an atmosphere of distrust. But simply discouraging people from consuming media is like telling people to just stop eating sugar.

We have an inherent desire to be informed about our leadership, but asking people to stop watching isn't going to stop people who are already convinced that their side/station/party is right and everyone else is wrong. If everyone got your message to stop watching those networks, what would really change? I don't think anything would.
There's also a huge variation in what roads cyclists consider acceptable.

For example, one of our local highways has a speed limit of 55mph and a shoulder that is maybe 10 feet wide with a rumble strip near the cars. Is that a good road for bicycles or not? I'm OK with it but some of my riding friends are not. A bike path can be perfect for a family yet dangerous for practicing time trials.

I've also been surprised at how narrow some of my favorite roads are for driving. Just about any road is great if it doesn't have traffic. So a good road at lunch time is no good during rush hour.

So maybe the ultimate bicycle router would
a) Offer a bunch of preferences just like you see for cars, e.g. "avoid freeways", "avoid tolls".
b) Flag roads as "avoid", e.g. that four lane road with no shoulder next to the sidewalk.
c) Specify roads with gravel. (OSM data can have this; not sure about Google.)
The supreme court decision after the Florida hanging chads debacle established that timeliness is more important than accuracy. So that's one possible playbook: dispute certain results (aka mail in ballots) and use the timeliness argument to get a decision without counting the disputed results.
Oja's Rule
My large-format printer is a Canon. I have no idea whether HP's pro line is eligible for the program, but the HP printer I use with it is a bottom-end office AIO. They're explicitly targeting the consumer and SOHO markets in their promotional material for the program, so I'd be surprised if their pro stuff works with Instant Ink, instead of maybe with a similar program that's adjusted to work out better in the sort of context where a higher-end printer like that will see use.
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Driverless trains are being embraced around the world (2019)
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Nope. This is a call to the Haskell developer community to stop cooperation with crypto projects, not a general call to stop using Haskell.

I.e., it's a call to the knife makers to stop making their knifes to the specs of mob bosses, not a call to ban knifes.

There are plenty of precedents for this kind of action, e.g. pharmaceutical companies refusing to supply chemicals for executions. (If were already going all life-and-death with the analogies)
Another method would be a standardised QR code so that you can make a transaction from your app by scanning the qr code.

I don’t know about other countries, but this is basically the premise of QRIS Technology [0] used in Indonesia, basically to put an end on competing in QR-based payment method.

[0]: https://www.bi.go.id/QRIS/Contents/Default.aspx
background:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1288868346859905024
My point is exactly that: a technology itself can't be tainted by crooks using it.

Have innumerable script kiddies, scammers, doorway site creators, etc, used PHP for doing bad things? Did / do they constitute a significant part of the user community? Yes.

Has PHP been used to create wonderful and world-changing things, like Wikipedia? Does PHP have great, very nicely designed tools that help people develop good things faster, like Laravel? Has the PHP community done a tremendous work to make the language much better, and its stdlib much nicer? Yes.

Crooks using your favorite tool can be a nuisance in the community, but noble-intentioned people can be jerks, too, which has many times been observed. If the community has a problem with its being nice, welcoming, constructive place, it's usually not because of people's business and even political affiliation.

I'll hazard to link to [1] as a supplementary reading on the topic.

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GLMFmFvXGyAcG25ni/i-can-tole...
(It's a copy; unfortunately the author has taken his whole huge blog offline.)
I'm baffled with the fact that they were toying with the production database in the production machine. That sounds incredibly dangerous
There are not only two positions on it, like the dumbed down vocabulary tries to suggest.

But anything more than binary choices seems to be too complex for today's "journalism".
Yes, that's because I limit search keywords/terms to 3 or more characters each right now.

Try #newyork for the state or #newyorknewyork for NYC and of course you can add any keywords you want to it after that.
This is very intriguing. It looks like this could be part of the family tree of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. I'll take a read.
Talking "Why does capitalism work so well?" during a pandemic caused in large part by crony capitalism is the sort of bravado energy I need right now.
Google Maps consistently provides cycling directions that go the wrong way on one-way streets.

This is unacceptable given that cycling the wrong way is illegal and dangerous.
This reads like an exercise in rationalizing your own biases and wishes. Masks didn't suddenly start preventing viral infections in 2020, they've been used for more than half a century and we knew exactly how effective they were much before COVID19.
This has also been my experience writing documentation.

You write "hold button for 5 seconds until light is blue", and someone will hold the button for 3 seconds until it turns white and ask why it's not working.
My understanding for part of it is that magstip readers were much more common in the US, and businesses (a) didn't want to pay to upgrade all their terminals and (b) don't want to turn away a purchase because a customer doesn't have a chip or the chip isn't working.
It accidentally made it easy to clone by rushing to market, making false assumptions and hoping the enterprise market would soon lose interest in personal computers.

Rushing to market led to the decision to license the OS from Bill Gates instead of buying the OS or writing it in-house.

An example of a false assumption would be believing that holding the copyright on the BIOS would be enough prevent clones.
An introduction to data oriented design with Rust
How have you got you account properties and views set up?

The main view you use for GA reporting will have the bot filterer turned on.

You do have the standard three view per property setup.

You need to look at the unfiltered view.

I must admit I haven't really looked at our cloud flare -

I am the bus factor guy who gets to stand-in for our main GA/GTM person - Large Multinational 50+ properties
in one account, nearly 100 Containers.

Oh a final thought check your GA reports are not being sampled - you can get discrepancies.
I wonder if this would run afoul of the USPS monopoly on first class mail?
I think the implication is "old school financial institutions don't like cryptocurrencies because they will make them obsolete".

so don't agree with the statement or the implication that it's relevant, but I think that's what the person above meant.
The issue the author is worried about is that the crypto companies are taking advantage of Haskell's public prestige to imply a level of robustness and rigor that doesn't actually exist: this incredibly incredibly shady company can't be that shady since they're using such fancy technology.

> In this new era the Haskell community itself has simply become a tool to buy legitimacy and pump token values. The reputation of our community is now used to defraud the public and convince non-technical users of the soundness of an utterly unsound investment.

So when people realize that 50% of crypto entrepreneurs are scammers and the other 50% are deluded, and the bubble pops, there is a serious concern that Haskell will be publicly understood as a "cryptocurrency" language and will suffer a reputational hit.
Crypto in particular has lots of requirements that would be served by Rust and Haskell that might make them more appealing; where a traditional web startup that mainly serves web traffic can easily choose between Ruby, Python, Javascript, Elixir, etc.
Most people I know who bother any more to own document printers own lasers, precisely because the operating costs are so much lower. I actually don't think anyone I know even still has an inkjet, except for other photographers.
"Smart" is one of those nebulous things, until people give it a too-narrow definition like IQ. It's important to acknowledge that there are many kinds of intelligence, not all of which are pure logic or knowledge-gathering.
This completely ignores the amount of worry and frustration which an ordinary person has to go through to get back to the point that only the bank are out of pocket. It's not trivial by any means.

You could also make an argument that by continuing to allow this fraud to happen we're funding all kinds of nasty people. I'm not convinced the argument holds water since bad guys are often faster to move than the banks but it's worth noting.
Here is a feature i would like to suggest: a mechanism for change reviews, so that any non tech person can make DB changes, but have them reviewed by peers (much like a github review) and approved before having them applied. Can save a lot of headaches.
Yea... we aren't legally compelled to buy anything on amazon either. A portion of every dollar spent on Amazon is extra funding for lobbyists and lawyers to fight against regulation. This is my ultimate point. "The people" dont have to wait for slow moving government to do something. A very effective tactic is just buy stuff NOT on Amazon. Yes they are THE juggernaut and it takes a lot of people to follow this for it to be effective... but dont cry about animal rights while you club a seal to death for the fur. Take some personal responsibility for your beliefs.
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My goal was not to rehabilitate McCarthy or give aid and comfort to Holocaust deniers but to point out that there was a lot of Soviet espionage activity, which the article implies was not the case. I strongly encourage you to read Patrick Moynihan's "Secrecy" book for a nuanced view of the policy challenges of managing secrets, diplomacy, and counter-intelligence in a way that preserves democracy.
There's no reason why contactless EMV should not be required even at a gas station (not needing a limit).
Although I think this article is informative about pointing out the crypto connection (there sure are many well known haskell devs related to crypto, to Cardano specifically), but I think it's way too negative. There are scams in cryptocurrencies, sure, but do some of them have real value? I think they do.

But perhaps somebody knows the answer to these questions instead:

- is Cardano itself a scam? (= are the people related immoral?)

- are there more cryptocurrencies developed in haskell and are these scams?

Other than that, I don't really see the influence on the ecosystem - what are some concrete examples here?
I think all scientific papers should be written in this format.
>such as its pre-1976 length (28 years + optional 28 year renewal).

I'm definitely in favor of shorter lengths. Not so much renewal though as it tends to favor big publishers and media companies who are far less likely to forget to renew than some individual or small company is. (That's been one of the big pushbacks against a lot of orphan works proposals. In that case I don't really agree with the content creators but I do get the argument.)
"Cushy jobs" is overstating it. People find the means to write with poor jobs too.

Yes, you need to be able to have a means of living in order to write. Selling your books is one such way, but not the only one. Lots of writers would still write without a business model.

That was my only point, really. It's false that one would have to be "insane" in order to write. We can argue about ifs and buts all day long, but that bit which I was replying to was hyperbolic and false.
UBI is not a silver bullet, nothing is. We need a complex net of programs like Universal Healthcare to reinforce a UBI like system, or really any system. One comment here made the argument that people can still spend all the money on whatever and be out of luck for necessities. Making some of those necessities included in citizenship (healthcare) could lessen that issue. Universal Healthcare on its own might lead to a massive boost new entrepreneurs now able to build their own business vs stuck at a job for the healthcare. It's been a key part of my job searches as I could not afford much without good insurance and company contributions.
I am a proponent of the lowest common denominator model of development. Basically this means that whatever you develop should be understandable by a relatively new or junior developer. You should develop in such away that a someone coming in off the street should be able to pick up where you left off with minimal effort. This is partly about code, but also docs. Think about the next guy/gal. Is your code clean and well commented? But do you also have docs explaining the bigger picture? Think about what sort of documentation would have helped you get up to speed with the project. If people have to use compile errors to figure out what needs to be done to get up and running then you could have done better.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643258

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839581

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743860
I have re-read the blog post and I can't find what you mention.

The blog post is basically telling us that cryptocurrencies and its leaders are a giant scam and they don't contribute anything of value to society.

Your interpretation is very generous if you ask me. A blog post with that angle would be interesting to read though. It would have more to do with the Haskell ecosystem than this one and it would be good to have that discussion if the cryptocurrency influence on the ecosystem is too big.
I'm not making any assumptions, I have quite a bit of experience being poor. How about you?
Quinoa Math vs. Brown Rice Math
That's not how the first sale doctrine works, nor is it how it has ever worked.

In a nutshell: the first sale doctrine merely means that if someone comes into legitimate possession of a physical good containing IP, they are free to sell or otherwise exploit the physical good without requiring a license for the IP contained therein.

Crucially, the first sale doctrine does not extend to exploiting the IP itself, so if the IP is separated from the physical good (such as by recording or scanning a copy), the first sale doctrine no longer applies.

The first sale doctrine does not apply at all to library lending programs. Libraries providing digital lending pursuant to explicit licenses provided by publishers for digital lending.
ROFL worst idea ever.
I'm not sure I understand this. Fraud, and cleaning up after it, is not free of cost. If anything, fraud is more insidious because it costs the one thing I can't replace, which is time.

Even for me--someone who has multiple payment cards, primarily uses credit (instead of debit), a healthy savings account, and a flexible job--cleaning up from a stolen credit card number takes two or three hours at a minimum. For someone who does not have those things, particularly for people who primarily use debit cards[0], the impact is far worse.

If we swapped our cards to simply require a PIN that's validated by the chip on the card (so that in-person charges without the proper PIN cannot complete, even if the card is shimmed), that removes the bulk of in-person fraud attempts. But US banks are, largely, so fearful of customers switching away from them at even the slightest provocation, we don't get PINs. So I'm forced to ask what other "basic" measures (like 3D Secure for online transactions) we lack.

0 - I don't want to hear the rebuttal that "well, people should just use credit cards." There are a hundred different reasons why people don't use credit cards--don't qualify for one, have an objection to debt, past bad experience, and so on--and we cannot write off people who "only" use debit from security measures.
Well, not exactly "impossible". Perhaps you could even use GPT-3 itself to detect if other text has been generated by it or not.

Disclosure: this text has been generated by GPT-3. ... Not! </Borat reference>
Rog, is that you?
If a transaction doesn't get made because it was over $40, that represents unacceptable missed profits, if some unfortunate consumer gets their identity stolen[1], well, they should have been more careful.

It would make sense to eliminate magstripes, to limit them to $40, to let people decide their own limit, or any number of other things - the trouble is that the incentives of the businesses, banks, and credit card companies are more to make every transaction a success and to blame the consumer when they're too successful.

[1]: Yes, I recognize this is bad framing, the fault isn't with the victim nor really with the perpetrator but the incompetent designer of the lock.
I feel like you're making this sound worse than it actually is

* systemd-boot doesn't support those filesystems as the /boot partition, all of those things for your / are totally fine. For most people having your /boot partition be XFS vs FAT32 is firmly in the "who cares?" realm.

* Nobody really supports OPAL, even grub. The only reliable solution is using https://github.com/sedutil/sedutil to unlock the disk and then soft reboot into any normal bootloader.

* You can do mdraid, you just have to stick the metadata at the end of the drive rather than the beginning. The utilities that set up your raid even warn you about this because this setup is so standard.
I like the idea, but could not find what you do exactly from your features page. Examples would be great. Also, the term user friendly is used a lot without any instances or client testimonials.
This is (uncredited) from the latest[1] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver[2].

[1]: July 26, 2020

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Week_Tonight_with_John_Ol...
When you have manufacturing moving almost to the other side of the globe in order to increase profits I think it is hard to see how there is a transportation and logistics scarcity. Most of the scarcity I see is artificially induced by the people that want more profits.
Removing money from the equation and just leaving the resources, I don't see much scarcity.. maybe in some battery components and such, but certainly not in housing, electricity, food and water. It's just that under the current system, if there is no profit to be made, then it doesn't happen. Same reason we haven't colonized the moon and mars.
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First of all, Holocaust deniers deny that the Holocaust happened, when the Holocaust is an indisputable historical fact with thousands of survivors and millions of relatives of victims and denying that is offensive and malicious. So-called "climate deniers" deny neither the existence of climate, nor climate change, nor anthropogenic climate change (most of them anyway), they are simply not convinced that the magnitude of the effect of human carbon dioxide emissions is represented correctly in the alleged "consensus" (which it provably isn't) of climate scientists. Especially after climate scientists were caught in the act of tampering with data in order to hide past warming periods. So there is a difference regarding the malicious intent, the moral dimension and the legitimacy of claims. As anyone who tries to debate it with an open mind and honest arguments would know.
I hate suggesting competitors in the comments, but I have had good success using Quip for collaborative markdown editing, commenting, etc.
Is this fact the inspiration behind the floating city in Star Wars V? (Serious question)
But that is part of the resistance to updating. A whole pile of testing must be done again.
To be clear, I'm talking about views and understanding in broader society, not the scientific community. 35 years is a long time- roughly half the humans in the US weren't alive 35 years ago. It'd be surprising if nothing had changed.

(edit: although maybe things have not changed as much as my lived experience tells me: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx)
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That may have been the case, but pretty much everywhere I go stores have newer EMV capable terminals (e.g Ingenico etc). The only place I really use mag swipe now is a gas station pump (who have no excuse not to switch to contactless EMV).

You'd think with COVID-19, there'd be a rush to move to contactless payments.
I assume this is related to this from yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23990075
Which is about revoking secure boot keys
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> The problem description (at least in the comic) is good. Any suggested action ... not so much.

Well put.

In theory, people like the idea of making science better.

In practice, people don't like the idea of fewer papers, boring papers, ambiguity in hiring and tenure, uncertainty on financial return-on-investment, and less institutional/national pride talking points.

The bad incentives and metrics we have haven't happened by chance - they have emerged from our collective desire for science to be useful, sexy, and a reliable function of money/effort spent.
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That's a good question, and not one I know the answer to.

I've spent a good amount of time out in nature in the dark, in areas with very little light pollution. In these areas, moonlight can definitely be adequate for a lot of things. But under tree or cloud cover, or when the moon is new, the natural dark can be truly debilitating. Now, this could be because my modern vision system never properly adjusts because it's used to light pollution, but I'd at least conclude from this that a lack of light pollution doesn't inherently mean better night vision.
>Even the article's author doesn't appear to conceive of anything better than capitalism.

Because through blood, sweat and tears we've landed on a system that is based on market-economics coupled with welfare state to provide a safety net. Changing any of that would require a wholesale destruction of our current system and is no better than the Russian revolution. Our system has a lot of slack. You can adjust market and welfare policies across elections. There's a lot you can do within the system - your problem seems to be that policies you like are not pushed through the system ... but that's Democracy for you. It takes effort and negotiation to make societal level changes.

>So I guess what I want is less of a religious view of the social systems and more of a engineering view.

Social systems are not engineering systems. They are messy because they are fundamentally composed of messy individuals with historical baggage to boot. You cannot create a clean top-down plan without it looking like Soviet-style communism. Democracy is messy and requires give and take and negotiation, compromise, and horse-trading between all the thousands of different stakeholders and groups. You cannot clean that up with an engineering schematic. You're falling into the trap that all ideologues fall into.