skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotes abound, when this is really not the sort of debate that should be conducted using anecdotes (cf. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...). Sure, some societies have uncensored social media and wind up with a lot of people believing that vaccines are a Bill Gates conspiracy, occasionally leading to real harm. Other societies, as a downstream effect of uncensored social media, wind up with racial pogroms, as a commenter elsewhere in here pointed out. On the other hand, some societies with censorship wind up totalitarian hellholes, and some societies didn't even have social media at all and still had racial pogroms (whether initiated by local word of mouth, or the local counterpart of the same elites that presumably would be in charge of censoring social media if there were social media). The existence of these anecdotes tells us nothing about whether we would be better off with or without uncensored social media, or whether some other more subtle solution than censoring or not censoring would lead to better outcomes. So, which one is more likely? Which one has worse consequences in expectation? This argument can only be done quantitatively, and as far as I know nobody has produced the numbers that we would need to do that.

We might as well try to determine whether private possession of bladed objects should be permitted based on a comparing whether an emotional account of a marital stabbing, defense of the cultural value of home cooking or appeal to the value of adults feeling like society trusts them to hurt themselves feels more moving.

(If we stop trying to pretend that there is a meaningful utilitarian argument to be had here, though, on an idealistic level, where emotional appeals are properly at home, I'm with the more critical commenters here. Quoting from low culture like video games may be a little tacky, but: "Beware he[sic] who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master.")
The w3schools python docs aren’t bad. I was recently tutoring a family member in a level 1 compsci course that was being taught with python, and the w3schools documentation was waaaaaay easier to consume than the docs.python.org stuff.
I found this terminology confusing for many years, hope this clarification is helpful:

- “Coaxial” refers to the design of the physical cable (Wikipedia has a better explanation than I can offer)

- CATV refers to “Community Antenna Television”, the first cable systems in the USA, which fed the signal from a shared “community antenna” to homes in areas with poor broadcast reception.

- “Cable” is the generic term for pay-TV and ISP services over coaxial cable
If only the US were in dire need of massive infrastructure refurbishment projects.
"Your pretended fear lest Error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the wine out the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge. If a man speak foolishly, ye suffer him gladly because ye are wise; if erroneously, the truth more appears by your conviction 'of him.' Stop such a man's mouth by sound words which cannot be gainsayed. If he speak blasphemously, or to the disturbance of the public peace, let the Civil Magistrate punish him: if truly, rejoice in the truth." -- Oliver Cromwell, 1650.

Within four years of this letter, Cromwell would essentially have to put these Presbyterian inquisitors down by force and assume guardianship of the country because these people never stop.

Coincidentally, Cromwell also held that the right to the liberty of conscience, a largely heretical view for another century, was a fundamental requirement of his Protectorate, which he had to personally safeguard against everyone.

"Is not liberty of conscience in religion a fundamental? … Liberty of conscience is a natural right; and he that would have it, ought to give it; having himself liberty to settle what he likes for the public. Every sect saith: “Oh, give me liberty!” But give him it, and to his power he will not yield it to anybody else. Where is our ingenuousness? Liberty of conscience – truly that’s a thing ought to be very reciprocal."
Germany is not that much better than NL except for fintech and that pays well everywhere.
Yup - it's on our radar for evaluation.
Merico raises $4.1M for its developer analytics platform
Amazon Wins Loyal Walmart Shoppers as Americans Stampede Online
My walled garden respects me as a user, but I am the kind of user the walled garden is maintained for.
https://insidethemagic-119e2.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
Except, in this system you're relying on users who choose to view unrated content to provide the initial ratings. Even places like 4chan have moderation and most people won't be willing to engage with content at that level to positively rate memes or more general discussion. Add onto that that untrained users are going to be largely garbage at actually classifying your content; this is somethign social media struggles with and they have trained moderators. What's the difference between hate and ironic self ribbing, what's the difference between sexuality, art, and medicine (see tumblr's hilarious attempt at banning "femme presenting nipples"), what kind of content can be legitimately traumatizing or otherwise dangerous (calls to violence; deadly misinformation; etc).

The closest thing to that model is something like the fediverse where you're choosing to federate with instances based on their moderation rules and your users choose to stay on your instance based on yours. Even that has problems with chains of trust and discovery though. At scale you can't assume good faith anymore
first time I heard that term was in donoteat01's video on the loop[0], haven't got around to reading that post till now though (thanks for the reminder)

[0] Elon Musk's "Loop" - It's bad, folks https://youtu.be/4dn6ZVpJLxs
In prison, the worst punishment you can get is being moved AWAY from all the rapists and murderers, and into solitary confinement. Humans are extremely social creatures.

I still have my job, but not being able to go out and socialize in the evenings and on weekends is driving me a little nutty. Sure, I work on some side projects, read books, work out, watch films, etc., but it just doesn't come remotely close to filling the same void for me as having a drink and good conversation (in real-life) with my close friends, or swinging by my climbing gym, or seeing live music.

I don't think that means something is "really off" with me, or that I'm "domesticated livestock" - it just means my hobbies and the way I like to spend my time aren't as pandemic-friendly as yours.
My guess is the vague responses, or no response at all, is because scammers will game the system using any information they disclose.

One would hope transparent, clear rules and enforcement would prevail. But ambiguity and silence are far less expensive.
Or even easier, just create a hockey puck of detergent that dissolves a certain amount each time you run it. Kind of like those toilet pucks.

Once it disappears, drop a new one in.
Can GPT-3 be re-purposed to do automatic content moderation?
Bill 4050 mentioned in the article really is a piece of shit - "To improve the ability of law enforcement agencies to access encrypted data, and for other purposes."
Wow - yours and baybal’s comment above explained this quite well to me. I’ve always wondered about this salary dynamic! Thank you.
This is unrelated to the article at hand, but I've seen sites go so far as to replace entire articles[0]. I'm fairly certain this level of opaque editing is standard practice for journalists anymore, and tend to prefer archive links when I'm sharing content with friends.

[0]
Original article: Boris's new cabinet meet for the first time

New article: Boris Johnson: Premiership will be the start of a golden age

http://archive.is/LobY4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49107417
I have wondered how much less (if any) this is a problem in Democracies with Parliamentary systems, particularly any that don't use "first past the post" voting. Anyone from outside the US have insight on that to share?
In Chrome: Menu > check "Desktop Site"
> By "rendered graphics" you mean "place characters on screen"?

It was a fully graphical 800x1024 (or 1024x1024) system running on 1982 processors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)

> having programmed more constrained systems decades ago doesn't magically make you knowledgeable on performance

Perhaps not but it does mean you've "written a program where performance really mattered" which I believe was the original claim?
Central planning is 100% an engineering problem. Mises didn't call it the "Calculation Problem" for nothing. As long as economic complexity grows slower than processing power, there will be a point where central planning will be doable.

Of course, there is also the problem of incentives, but in the Soviet Union the problem of incentives was really only relevant as far as higher-ups reporting data, Soviet workers worked as hard and as well as any.

That is not to say that central planning directed by a centralized Leninist state is something that I think is desirable (or even something that would be theoretically desirable), but massive computing power is a quantum shift in the possibility of centralized and decentralized planning. The fact that it worked as well as it did in the USSR through pencil and paper is stunning.
I am typing this reply from a Lenovo Thinkbook 14-IIL, that has a 10nm CPU, also known by its codename Ice Lake. It's not a desktop CPU, it's a mobile CPU, but it's enough to counter your claim that "Intel doesn't yet have 10nm".
The US has become a very developed market since then, though certainly not the "dominant market", but regardless should we as actors in the current legal system advocate for something that gives preferential treatment of Chinese businesses OR an entirely different system with very little protections for IP?

I don't think so, and would actually prefer we take on something closer to the Chinese approach of leasing land in the same way we encourage people to put ideas in the public domain for a guarantee of a period of market monopoly. Though there are many reforms about current US IP law that I would love to see.

>US Foreign policy (as well as that of any nation) even in 2020, when you take justifications, stunningly aligned with US national interest.

I disagree - most nations advocate for their self-interests, otherwise we would be the United States of the World right now rather than the United States of America. Similarly, many countries have a foreign policy favorable to China because of economic incentives with a voluntary relationship between them. Are all countries or localities as equally 'autonomous' as China or the US when deciding with whom their most beneficial economic relationships are? No, though I don't think "dropping IP law" is a particular benefit to increasing that autonomy either.

Asides from Afghanistan and Iraq, are there any states you can name that are advocating for almost objectively US aligned policy?
ZRA Intercepts 4 more Trucks Smuggling goods into Zambia
When you are directly comparing how much something cost to build, such as a mile of track, in USD, Purchase Power doesn't matter, does it? This is what the Parent post was asserting.

China builds a mile of track at half the price because they literally pay their people half the price (or less). It doesn't matter that their local Purchase Power might be greater.

Taking it a step further, the Parent was comparing a mile of track in China to a mile of track in Hawaii, which literally has to ship all supplies, and likely a lot of labor, across an ocean. So it's not a great comparison even if we remove labor costs.
I don't understand, if you actually assume that ID screening is actually 100% useless (in reality it probably has some reduction), you wouldn't screen at all yes.

If you disagree with the premise that ID screening is 100% useless, then dig up some evidence of its effectiveness.
w3s didn't something evil in the past that I missed?
I totally agree, and most of what I do outside of work isn't directly work related (even though that's been very challenging during quarantine). The most fun I've had in a while is coming up with an idea and banging on the keyboard until it comes out haha.

However, that said. Code could help some of my non-work related projects.

I actually really enjoy coding outside of work - just having trouble even with ADHD meds getting properly focused to learn code related things I guess?
I seriously dislike PPP calculations for salary numbers. I feel like it disingenuously masks the real event that’s happening - employers arbitraging history and geopolitics to get labour at a suppressed cost.
I find the crowdsourced data at levels.fyi to be a good reality check on what dev compensation is like at large tech companies.

Let's take three others that make well-known desktop browsers: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Apple,Google,Microsoft&track...

According to that data, senior developers at Apple (ICT4), Google (L5) and Microsoft (64) make on average $320k, $352k, and $225k. Their fully-loaded costs (benefits, payroll taxes, office space, etc) to the company will of course be even higher.

These are examples of peer companies Mozilla is competing against for employees. As I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138083 , Mozilla does not try to attract people solely via compensation. However, you can only offer so much less before you're no longer able to hire and retain the talent you need.
I agree with the other comments here. Physical knobs and buttons are superior for cars. Until operating a vehicle can be done safely and reliably without driver focus (true autonomous) then we should really be focusing on physical knobs and buttons.

My car has a physical button that is customizable. Much like the radio station preset buttons, but it could be for switching to radio or cd or bluetooth. I think there were a few other options besides just media, but there were only like 5 or 6 options in total. I would love to have a wider selection of functions available to set for that button, and to have at least a handful of programmable buttons that could handle some simple tasks like switching to Android Auto, toggle between Spotify and my podcast app, activate voice, or setting the climate control to a certain setting.

In addition to bringing back physical interfaces, I think car designers should focus on improving NLP/voice recognition to the point where a driver shouldn't have memorize keywords or commands (too much thinking is also very distracting).
Antennapod uses it as the default provider for its podcast search functionality.
Ever heard of 'Real Time Bidding?', Google sells your data to advertisers to the highest bidder [0]. Planning on becoming an activist? I've got news for you, law enforcement also want your data and Google sells it to them upon request at any time. [1]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/technology/google-search-...
Ain't the software; it's the peopleware.

What does that mean?

One viable thing to do is redistribute political power instead of wealth

No, that's clearly not viable. The US is still "really" a democracy in the sense those who get the most legal votes really do win - real, fair elections right now, are a big factor in the distribution of power in the US, for democratic-ness on a world-scale, that's pretty good. Yet the extremely unequal distribution of wealth makes a mockery of the realness of voting's impact. Most people are effectively powerless to make an impact on much outside their immediate lives.

Return to the enumerated powers on the Constitution, and refactor all this Progressive cruft to the State level

This is an extreme reactionary viewpoint, taken from the 3-percenters or similar outfit.
There are plenty of people with a high quality education who go around talking about how specific rich groups run a massive conspiracy to subvert democracy and promote bad political views. (Indeed, most politically engaged people I've encountered believe multiple such theories.)
Yeah, the problem is indeed that everyone points to the same general concept but isn't using the same terms which adds to the confusion.

Technically you are using a DOCSIS connection which happens to use a coaxial cable. But not the same cable one as you'd have with CATV because that one didn't have the same ratings. There is also a difference with one-way broadcast and two-way communication where you also need a CMTS for that purpose. And to make it worse, sometime EOC is used which in itself is Ethernet, but not over CAT5/6/7 cables.

However, all of those words are better than people calling it 'the internet wire'.
I think you're largely right -- a lot of founders get trapped in mediocrity because they raise so much that they don't feel enough pressure to execute. And that frequent, high-resolution fundraises are much more viable than they were ten years ago.

On the other hand, I'll offer two countervailing observations to keep in mind:

* In well-understood categories (e.g. horizontal B2B SaaS), there has been so much brainpower and cash deployed in the last ten years that customers are overwhelmed by noise and expect much higher quality products before they'll meaningfully adopt and pay. My experience is that founders are spending much longer in the initial build phase getting to an MVP than they were ten years ago.

* The oversupply of venture dollars is not evenly distributed. If you're building something that needs years in the lab (chips, batteries, robots, hardware, etc), the investor herd thins out quickly and many of the folks willing to make a purely conceptual bet are much less comfortable judging whether some-progress-but-no-product is worth continued investment.

Sometimes it can be smart to raise a lot from a true believer to bridge you to the spreadsheet jockeys.
Has anyone attempted to re-engineer a superior UX on top of the git data structure? Would it even be possible?
"...a less common scenario." But still a scenario.

You have three buckets and six balls evenly distributed among them. Now you move the balls so they have a distribution of 4, 1, and 1. You still have three buckets, even though two of them are used less.

Please reread my prior comment with this in mind as you are misinterpreting what I wrote.
He will - when you fail his phone screen :)
Kidding.
One dollar, one vote!
I used to think that the fact that the HoR size has held constant since 1910 (!) was among the major problems.

2020 saw a week where:

- POTUS couldn't remove the unconstitutional act of a predecessor, that should have been a Congressional job at all points

- SCOTUS rewrote the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that should have been a Congressional job at all points

- Congress blew fat piles of cash on COVID-19 but did precious little else of which I'm aware

I submit that a https://conventionofstates.com/ is overdue.
Very specialised work with a low volume of competitors seems a great way to stagnate wages.
Yes, SEO-ing and content-farming their half-baked web documentation.
w3schools might not be the canonical and authoritative source for web technologies documentation but sometimes I find the most straightforward answer there.

They don’t deserve the hate they get. What people seem to hate from w3 is how light and loose they go about things, potentially opening some lanes for bad practices.

But they have improved a lot throughout the years. Also people don’t seem to acknowledge how hard is to create non-verbose documentation. I can’t imagine the amount of effort that it takes to trim all the fat and still produce something useful.

I almost get the feeling that people who hate w3schools, simply hate the concept of a resource that is trying to make easy what is by nature pretty hard.

I guess that’s how great singers feel about autotune.

It’s this idea that if you can’t consume the raw, hardcore documentation then you’re not worth it of using that technology.
I've been meaning to check it out, it's like right there too.
> No, you don't need to measure that

Just this evening I came across some code which pasted an image on top of a blue background (in Go) that set every individual pixel to the background, then got every pixel from the source and set the corresponding pixel of the destination to that colour. I figured it'd be quicker to paste the source onto the destination with `image/draw`.

Turns out, if you're using NRGBA images, it's 40-50% slower. That's definitely an "obvious optimisation" that was proven wrong by measurement.

(If you're using RGBA images, though, the pasting method is 300% faster. Because obviously.)
I absolutely refuse to buy a car with a touch screen interface (unless it also has physical buttons). Touch screens like what are in Tesla are NOT good, for many reasons. Car companies should copy the idea of the electric car, but for the love of God, please don't copy their terrible touch screens!
Nothing cleans quite as good as strong alkaline. In the lab, we'd use a 50% lye bath and it strips off everything.

If you want to add a bit of punch, you can add some 30% hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizer. Caution is needed as mixing a strong oxidizer and organic material is a recipe for fire or an explosion.
This doesn't really make sense to me. The big difference I see is the cost to buy spectrum and the inherent geographic monopoly of owning it. Transformers and switchcraft are heavy-iron things which cost a lot because they're safety-rated and built with a large amount of actual matter. Transceivers and antennas are comparatively cheap to manufacture (but with higher margins) and generally don't incinerate things if they fail.

In my area the cost to deploy service seems to be primarily driven by the cost of labor to bury things. That impacts electricity more than cell data, as you actually have to physically reach every one of your customers.

Also your meter is two-way. It's just sending your usage data back, not power.
Why haven't analog circuits taken off yet in mobile computing and other spaces? They seem great for things like machine learning and possibly superior to traditional digital circuits. What are the trade-offs?
If an aggressive homeless person approaches me on the street and I'm not sure of his state of mind and intentions, should I be allowed to stab him?
Especially given the fact that we have, in theory, the order of magnitude of computing power necessary to calculate an economy. But to implement it well would certainly be the most complex and titanic project in the history of computing, and even then it might fail for some unknown reason.
It's fine, you just need to put cloth over the vent to meet their requirements.
Seems likely. And did I really regularly play it? I don't think I actually did. Maybe I just did for like a week and remember it well.
You're underestimating the power of steam, hot water, and surfactants and overestimating the power of enzyme cleaners. You could run a dishwasher on fresh dishes without any detergent at all and there's a great chance they'd come out spic and span, though with water stains.
If you don’t control your encryption keys, you don’t control your encryption.

I’ve used AESCrypt for a while. Open source and no major bugs found under a third-party audit.
I'm starting to feel like it's good money after bad.
To be fair to them, it seems they've improved a lot in the last few years. I've no problem using them nowadays.
Loop is basically a personal rapid transit system, which is an idea that keeps getting proposed for basically the reasons you cite, but the few implementations that do exist have generally underwhelmed.
Russia's economy today is smaller than during the USSR (adjusted for inflation), by quite a bit. Not comparable at all.