skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, assuming you are competent, the answer is obvious. Unless your outcome preference vector and mine are the same, any decision for policy made by both of us will be less optimal for one of us than a decision made by that person.

Simply put, you can make better decisions because you don't have to negotiate.
What about the fact checkers who rated the EFF as wrong on the warrantless surveillance issues?
Absolutely nothing will make it a smartphone replacement unless it has good battery life. Smartphones are batteries with computers attached.
So I assume that protestors wanted him identified because 1) he was abusive, and 2) he didn't have any fully visible identifying badge number - which if there was then arguably these citizen journalists could simply make a police report via official route instead of depending on public crowdsourcing?
Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
The EO on bytedance is forcing Bytedance to sell all global tiktok operations. How is that a reciprocate issue? A reciprocate would be deny tiktok market accesses in US only. But clearly US gov doesn't want bytedance to exist at all. They want to kill it everywhere.
cmd-shift-first letter will activate nearly any dialog box button. Some folks griped when the first marzipan/combine apps wouldn't support that, but I believe they caught up sometime last spring.
That's Molyneux though, not Damore, right? Because the GP comment spoke about Damore and all the people who "defended" (aka didn't condemn and had actually read the memo) him. That suddenly turned into "praising that sort of thing" and suddenly it's "far right", which turns into back seat moderation in the form of (paraphrased) "do we really want the literal Nazis here?"

It's a terrible comment that belongs on Reddit, not HN.
It would be hard for the affected user to know this is happening, so it seems as if the only way to know whether it happens is to write the code first.
My understanding is this is closer to something like Bootstrap but using Web Components (or material-ui if you want a react component set) than it is to React itself.

You'd probably still want to use React or similar ontop of it, but in the future we might get much lighter libraries covering that side of things.
Oooh, good question! Anyone able to answer this?
⌘? → → →
Well, yes and no. Thus far, dollars have not decreased substantially in value, except in the equity market. Consumer prices have been steady for many years[1], with a small (under 2%) annual increase.

What's happening instead is that money is funneled almost directly from Federal Reserve accounts into equities markets, making only a brief appearance in the hands of consumers. There, it mostly seems to prevent deflation -- which keeps people buying stuff and avoids massive unemployment (and causing even more deflation).

At some point the market will correct, and the outflow will go... somewhere. A lot of that money will simply vanish, leaving us with massive debts owed by the government to the banks and large bond buyers. That will be a whole different kind of crash.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
No, but it can look deceivingly able to:

https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1284801028676653060

(and this is how to prime it:

https://twitter.com/vybhavram/status/1284803750146617344)

The main problem is that GPT3 has a free will of a creative but delusional person and will distort facts as it pleases to maximize its output function score.

So, similar to evening news.
Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.90....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5606237

(From the book The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity.)
The article below provides a summary of the discussion on the NY bail law impact:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/nyregion/crime-stats-nyc-...
I really think its as simple as Trump hates TikTok because 95% of TikTok users are not Trump supporters. Every thing else is just excuses/rationalization for the ban (although some of the reasons may actually be good, they aren't what Trump cares about)
Appears to be a custom HTML elements (and some helper libraries) that you can plugin to vanilla, Vue, React, etc?
Right, and they seem to be encouraged to be dishonest about Google's position in search.

Anyways, a majority of Google's non-search products are intrinsically tied to their search product so it's still relevant.
Well, the focus on Web Components is good for cross-compatibility, but means not being able to do the full static analysis of components that you can do with JSX or equivalents.
Oatly: The New Coke
I saw a video recently where someone was discussing Facebook's "moat". Essentially, among Big Tech, it has the least defensible moat, which I think is true.

https://youtu.be/4SrxqfKn9Bw?t=1605

I think Facebook has very little choice right now. Libra could have been a moat, but it is more or less dead now. They are being cornered into being more pro-conservative, because otherwise their moat (engagement, which is what advertisers pay for) will collapse by the time COVID is done. They need to walk the fine line between proving their engagement and hoping that advertisers would actually want to show ads to the group which is engaged.
Echo chambers develop when you are only reading things you already know, not things you agree with. It's about learning new things vs. keeping your worldview narrow. Like if you have an opinion on climate change, reading arguments from deniers doesn't expand your worldview. Reading about how climate change affects different social classes can expand your worldview -- and all be from people you already agree with.
This is really cool! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time since I don't use `find` often enough to remember its command line arguments. Finally
Sorry, don't remember, was a throwawy project
I could get behind that. Again, though, UBI is sort of a fantasy legislation for neoliberal wonks to argue about. It's not relevant to the current situation, really, at all. There's no way to make that kind of bureaucratic change on the kind of schedule we're forced into at all. It only seems simple to software geeks in HN threads.
This isn't real surprising. On a good day, a ridiculous percentage of people don't pay their rent when it's due. This doesn't mean they don't pay their rent. They just pay it late. Chronically.
I tried being “brutally honest” with an Indian coworker about her English. She started to studiously avoid me, and I realized I’d made a huge misstep following the “golden rule” so to speak. If I learn a new language I want people to constantly correct me.

I have another coworker who is Eastern European and she has explicitly told me “point out EVERY mistake I make. Be brutal, I want to learn perfect English.” So I do. It seems like she really is getting less of an accent from it. It’s pretty cool to see.

People are nice and don’t point out mistakes because some people don’t want this. It’s taboo on both sides, at least in the corporate US world. So they never learn to speak fluently just enough to get by.
While some of the incidents in the list are regrettable, much of the list is about trans issues. That's where the game is given up (trans issues are where the game is always given up) and it becomes obvious that the maintainer of the list is a bigot.

The list also has a bunch of references to Quillette, which is white supremacism for people that have a college degree.
People often ask me for examples of non-scientific Julia codebases. My favourite one is Franklin.jl (https://franklinjl.org), a static site generator. This blog discusses quite a bit more, and it doesn't even talk about all the improvements in integrating with databases and such.
Through a system of judgement by peers, not a morally corrupt dictator
Do you know the difference between being rich and being wealthy?
It contains that information over two paragraphs but it took a lot of reading to get there. It doesn't appear to be about that issue at all.
My anecdata agrees; I received the email and _vaguely_ remember maybe having done this at some point. Certainly it's nothing I want to keep, whatever it is.

Yet when I visited the Classic Sites Manager it shows nothing. ("0 owned by you" and 0s all the way down the rest of the suggested filters.)

False positive, maybe? The email sounded like y'all were pretty certain: "We’ve identified that you own one or more ACTIVE classic Sites."
That's a good point! The only reason I'm comfortable self-experimenting on this one is that 1) there's already evidence that frequent blood donors outlive non-donors (obviously that's an observational study, but still) and 2) there's actually already a clinical use for plasma replacement therapy in Alzheimer's that's roughly identical to the one done in the study.

In addition - they theorize that it's a buildup of bad elements in the blood that causes some runaway process that contributes to aging, so it might follow that less extreme interventions (~15% removal of blood plasma, like plasma donation, which takes around 800 ml out of the ~5500 ml of plasma in your body) done more frequently might provide the same effect.

You're right though - totally unproven.
Kind of surprises me that Microsoft allowed this project to use Discord for external communication.
The fact that the benefits are more than some people’s pay shows how low the pay was.
Well, since none of the overridden fact checks were described in the article (which seems like a failure of journalism to me) we can’t really know. Anyways Facebook is a private company, they can do whatever they want, right?
Trump Lost His Trade War (2019)
> The speed of light is not an absolute constant as Einstein believed. C just represented the speed that light can travel as a relationship between energy and mass. My favorite form of the equation is C equals the square root of energy divided by mass. Behaviorally all that means is that as the energy to mass ratio goes up, the speed of light goes up. And as the mass to energy ratio goes up, the speed of light goes down. Hence time dilation, black holes, etc.

That isn't what's happening in relativity. That might be a neat trick for you to remember whether an effect is dilation or contraction (though I personally find it more confusing), but the speed of light does not change in different frames of reference -- this is a fundamental property of relativity (and is an assertion by Einstein, who argued that the speed of light derived from Maxwell's equations means that if light functions in all frames of reference it must propagate at the same speed).

And while the mass-energy equivalence equation you mentioned is used in the way you described (rearranging it to have the speed of light as one term), it's actually used explicitly because the value must be constant -- the implication being that mass-energy is an invariant in relativity (though technically this derivation is backwards -- E=mc² is the conclusion you reach after assuming mass-energy conservation).

Relativity is already unintuitive enough, I personally find that adding incorrect-but-seemingly-intuitive explanations probably hurts your understanding more than it helps.
> The latter (archaea) were completely unknown until the first (archaea) were found in 1977.

Aha ! Thanks.

Quite frankly the rest of the article isn't easy to decipher either (but English isn't my first language).

The list of beliefs/theories that could change throws me off because some statements are about some topics that I thought most were in agreement (eg: the universe is expanding)

> Things will continue to change. Below I have put a few things that I think could change from now into the beginning of the next century.

> - The Universe is not expanding.

The cosmology list is more about fact waiting to happen that expansion of knowledge but I am just a layman.
Another aspect is that a lot of non-left, or right-leaning viewpoints have been categorized into "naughty idea" territory, despite a lot of reasonable people holding them. E.g. Things such as: Being against mass-migration from 3rd world countries to the west, wanting racially homogenous societies, removing welfare, building a wall, racial profiling, there being no gender pay-gap, protesting spreads the virus, BLM are agitators, etc. All non-inherently "evil" ideas, but we've moved into a territory where they're seen as hateful and as such the mainstream is primed to attack them. That is now manifesting (or stared in?) the internet, and we're seeing the consequences everywhere as a result.
We are a democratic country, don't support a war, vote for someone in office who does not support it.

China on the other hand if you don't support putting muslims in concentration camps, you end up there yourself
I really want something like this as a replacement for sh in tiny busybox-backed use-cases, so I find it really annoying that developers insist I install rust and compile it instead of offering a statically compiled binary I can use.

And if it can't do that because of a reliance on shared libs, then that's even worse!
Are we facing a Bitcoin and Ethereum Bullrun?
That's FAST!
Tiktok has a completely different concept than Instagram and Snapchat. The entire product philosophy is different.
This is a very thoughtful comment which point out the real root cause.

A lot of other discussions use “selective” facts to support their “superficial” points.
The relevant prior art is in Scheme (and OCaml, a bit), Erlang and Go, and we do credit them where relevant. Nevertheless, there are a few innovations in Java, both in implementation and design. For example, Java allows you to provide a custom scheduler for virtual threads.
Strictly speaking we're both in violent agreement that really high quality studies are required for the evidence to be solid.

Please note that I did not say there was scientific evidence for masks, but that wearing masks is good is the mainstream scientific position (which changed only very recently).

I read your article. It's pretty limited in its analysis. I'm going by this popular science article from my alma mater (I have a PhD in biophysics), https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

The article you cited doesn't include a number of the articles my article mentions (http://files.fast.ai/papers/masks_lit_review.pdf, https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Associati..., https://www.cmaj.ca/content/192/15/E410, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/17/masks-sal...,

More importantly- this is a situation where we don't have unambiguous data, but the mainstream position is consistent with the current data and reasonable thinking about disease prevention.
Protests? "Riots" and "terrorism" are better descriptors. For example, "Portland Police Chief Slams ‘Incomprehensible’ Violence, Says Rioters Target Local Officers with Mortars and Commercial-Grade Fireworks" https://www.nationalreview.com/news/portland-police-chief-sl... .
Not everything needs to be a product.
Reminded me of Hal Varian talking about Google's dominance and (dismissing any role of) network effects back in 2008:

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/our-secret-sauce.htm...

They were pretty on message even a decade ago.
UBI combines your paymaster with your legislator.

That sounds like a great idea until UBI is treated like a driver's license...something that can be taken away...if you, for example, are seen at a "riot", or "interfere" with law enforcement, or stay out past 10pm.
a shame that it’s not discoverable (i.e. something people would think to look for when they need it, if they hadn't used it before.)

It's discovered when someone clicks on the "Help" menu at the top of every single screen. How much more discoverable can it be without resorting to Clippy-style intrusions?
They are direct quotes with citations...
Why does the submission headline say "N. America" when the linked article doesn't? The linked article does say have this ridiculous sentence though: "One puzzling aspect of the decline is that it seems to be confined to Europe and the United States — it was not seen in Asia, South America or, from limited data, in Africa."
Same with breaking up Ma Bell. Sometimes it’s that M and A helps the CEOs more than the investors.
>what ads would be acceptable in the eyes of privacy focused developers

I think it's a pretty straight-forward and easy answer.

Don't put ads that breach user privacy. Just use context-based advertisements.

If your ads are asking about my canvas size, mouse position, etc. or otherwise are attempting to track me from website to website, I'm not cool with that and will block it whatever way possible. Other dark patterns (blending in to website e.g. Reddit's sponsored posts) are also terrible, but not necessarily related to your question re: privacy.

If I know a website is using context-based advertisements with no tracking, I allow the ads and sometimes even follow them if I need whatever is being advertised.
I've also heard a hypothesis that infection with a common cold at the same time as COVID-19 could improve the outcome. The idea is that COVID-19 seems to suppress interferon production in infected cells but does not seem to suppress the response to interferon from outside the cells. So, if you have a normal cold, your lungs and/or airways might contain interferons, and those might help your innate immune system defend against COVID-19.

This hypothesis is entirely untested as far as I know.
Both are stealing, why is one better than the other?
> Worse is the attempt to feed the state governments between five hundred to a trillion dollars to shore up budgets of states that are not even trying to clip their expenditures,

States shouldn't be trying to clip overall service expenditures during a massive economic and public health emergency that creates novel challenges for education delivery (health, economic safety net, and education cover much of the big ticket state spending items, and this situation creates additional demands on all of them.)

And, unlike the feds, states can't as a practical (and usually constitutional) matter meet temporary emergency need with deficit spending for operations, because most have Constitutional balanced operating budget requirements but, more importantly (because it's a constraint that applies whatever the state chooses), they have a much higher cost of borrowing because they aren’t currency issuers whose debt is in their own currency.

For that reason, it's normal for the federal government to backstop the states on major emergencies specifically so they aren't forced to make temporary economic emergencies worse by taking more money out through spending cuts or saddle taxpayers with greater debts than if the feds were paying by borrowing at the state level.
They're literally direct quotes. Nice try though.
This site seems to have a lot interesting articles. I have been trying to read about things like this on OpenJDK. But this site seems to be very easy to navigate on (unlike openjdk). It is also highly likely that I am an idiot.
(edited for tone)

It's not just the US. Countries around the world are slowly coming to the realization that they can really only regulate the portions of the internet housed within their legal jurisdictions, and that data sovereignty matters.

Is the US splitting the internet? That's debatable. I think we started the process with the Patriot Act. That led to multiple countries passing new privacy and data localization laws (GDPR in Europe, Data Localization in Russia). I believe that the current proposals coming out of State are best characterized as a (clumsy) attempt at data localization through executive fiat.

Of course, this could also just be revenge for a bunch of TikTok users trolling the president pretty hard.
Isn't that part of the point?

Right now there is an incredible power imbalance between employers and employees, where for the employer it's an inconvenience if they lose the employee, while for the employee it's loss of access to food, shelter and medicine if they lose their employer.

This means that the employer can squeeze the employee, allowing them to pile on with abusive working conditions, bad pay, and poor compensation. Lots of workplaces outright steal out of the paychecks for the employees in plain daylight and get away with it because the employee knows that if they raise a fuss they might get fired.

Nobody would work for 1 dollar an hour, as you say. So companies will have to offer more to attract workers. And the workers have the option of saying "no" if what they offer just isn't good enough. So they would be two equal parties, bargaining over what the labor is worth, without neither having a gun pushed against their head if they say "no".

Weirdly, a lot of people seem to think things are as they should be. People should starve and be homeless if they aren't willing to work under unsafe condition, or being blackmailed into working for bottom wages just to have food to eat tomorrow. I'm not a fan of that sort of Social Darwinism though.
i haven't used twitter in a while (and even then was barely a user because it was so overwhelming), but i suspect a lot of the twitter and social media backlash is an impedance mismatch between our signal-seeking antennas and the tidal wave of signal (and noise) that's 300M people chatting at once.

a single human isn't evolutionarily equipped to tease out useful information from that much constant and ever-present signal. we're designed to tell if an eye crinkle means the coincident stream of words are more likely true or false.

we're also constantly making attribution errors via twitter in the same vein, attributing to individuals things that only apply to systems and groups (akin to the idea that there is no average person), generalizing in ways that are bound to be flawed but unable to help our collective selves.

i say all this to disagree with the idea that avoiding (angry) opinion is necessarily the "right way to use twitter". it's maybe a way for an individual to avoid drowning in the deluge of signal, but it does nothing to find the truths that must be washing over us at the same time.
Weird timing. I recently just quit Twitter and deleted everything. I wrote about it:

https://vancelucas.com/blog/scorched-earth-quitting-twitter-...
The claims are sourced. You're welcome to present evidence to the contrary.
Stefan Molyneux is a pig but your characterization of Damore is low effort and more or less completely wrong. If you read the memo it is a relatively straightforward review of standard Biology and Psychology research. There's virtually nothing controversial in it. If you have issues with it you have issues with science. Which given the "decolonize" science lunacy recently isn't surprising. China is laughing all the way to the bank as both sides of the political divide in the West largely and the US specifically abandon logic and reason for superstition and dogma.
It’s almost as if Google isn’t a product company but an engineering study hall.

Perhaps societies take on what we should expect of these places is due for a refresh?

Obviously Google knows about this. They’ve brought it up. The culture continues to not care as it’s mostly a capital extraction vehicle for IT workers.

I’ve had a number of Googlers from pre-2010s mope Google isn’t favoring them anymore and is trying to push products not imaginations of engineers, it’s not working with all those older engineers hanging about collecting $500k+/yr. Who gives that up?

Capitalism doesn’t demand product development. Just exchange of “capital” for rubberneckers to bet against.

If y’all are gonna imagine Google has that much capital to trade why do they need to make products? You’re already buying the myth.