skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government DMV workers: 'Your paperwork has been denied because you forgot form 12A-T3, you dumb idiot.'

Private DMV run by Google: 'Your paperwork has been denied because our classifier says you're a scammer. We won't tell you why. You are forbidden from ever trying again.'
I think you are taking those links as an overly important part of Hanson's argument.

His point is that if we consider where life originated without any a priori assumptions, Mars could be viewed (based on some existing theories) as a more likely place of origin than Earth.

He's simply peeling back some of the existing (and often immovable) theoretical layers that filter our perception of the underlying reality and asking whether any of those layers might be reasonably discarded.

In a way this is the same point made by Kuhn about the calcification and cultural embeddedness of scientific authority.

He then notes that we humans seem to have a bias in which we eagerly rule out explanations that turn out to be true, and wonders how we might overcome this.

He proposes a prediction market mechanism that would allow for probability-weighted odds-making while also allowing for profits to be extracted by those whose knowledge is not widely shared; in effect an incentive for structured investigative behavior toward answering a series of deep and related questions.

It's not that Hanson believes archaeologists lack humility, just that the questions that are considered most interesting and the analytical approaches that are the most culturally rewarded may result in a landscape that prevents us from understanding an (obvious?) deeper truth.

I think that to appreciate Hanson's method of argument you must adopt a view of science as a collection of imperfect models and humans as irrational monkeys playing with the models and often overlooking valuable inferences and insights.

Put another way, under what circumstances would one of Hanson's proposed prediction markets fail to achieve equilibrium (liquidity)? Your analysis would suggest that you would bet $0.99p or $0.01p on any of the contracts and happily await reality to prove Hanson foolish. That's the point of such markets, however. Hanson would love to be shown that one of the markets he suggests had that quality, as the price would be valuable information about the robustness of the underlying constructs.
You can just use Google text to speech to solve reCaptcha
For anyone, OP included, who hasn't heard Django Reinhardt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATIHWbN-sM
I was actually surprised when I read it because I felt the same way.
I do have a clear alternative

I wrote about it 11 years ago

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=93

Costs under a capitalist system of private property and monopolies enforced by government are one thing. Under a system with no profit motive or restrictions on innovation, they are another. We already witness the cost to the US taxpayer. This a lot of money raised by walkathons and public universities and so on. The NIH develops many things and pharma licenses those patents and they don’t pay the public any direct royalties for them. And it devolves into handouts for the large corporations, whether it’s this or banks too big to fail or now with the Fed exceeding its mandate and just making sirect investments into the top corporations to prop up the stock market to restore people’s “confidence” in this system. You talk about cost? The societal cost of the current system is huge, AND the health outcomes and preparedness are far behind what they would be under a system with LESS enforcement private property on such levels.

https://youtu.be/HIQk5B0il-A

Disclaimer: I am a left-libertarian
if you are looking for an open source version of obsidian, I would check out https://dendron.so (disclaimer, I'm the author)

it supports all the same features and built on top of vscode. use it to manage my personal knowledge base of 20k md files
Sadly the grave accent is breaking your link ;)
Kodi + Kore on the smartphone might be a replacement? Though I mostly just stream files that I already have on my NAS, it should be more than capable of streaming straight from YouTube and others.

[0] https://kodi.tv/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kore

[2] https://kodi.tv/addons
I don’t know about commonly, but the law mentioned in the article you cite carved out an exception for private investigators, so...

I’m not excited about license plate tracking either, but I have different expectations of the data I leak by going about town, compared with the complete personal information that I must give to a state agency (on top of paying them, on top of them receiving state funding) to have the privilege of going (driving, I guess) about town.
Even though it's not exactly new, in my mind this is still in sharp contrast to the recurring headlines I used to read about whether Apple will survive in the next year (mac user since 1990).
>I heard Oracle is deep into really shitty kinds of user tracking/spying.

Absolutely not defending Oracle, but who isn't into shitty user tracking and spying? It's a central part of most business models, because they give the service away for free.
For comparison, that's more than the GDP of Italy or Spain.
The best way to deal with stupid corporate policies is to ignore them. Working remote when you're not "allowed to" is a big one to ignore, and if you don't have the access credentials you need, it might not even be possible. There are other policies that are much easier to ignore, though.

Don't like the dress code? Dress however you want. Don't think the status meeting requires your attendance? Don't go. Mandatory office hours are 9-5 but you have better things to do with your morning? Show up at 11.

What are they gonna do, fire you? Not likely. It's hard to hire people, and it's risky to fire people who perform well but flout pointless rules.

Maybe some of your coworkers will resent you for thinking you're special and the rules don't apply to you, but don't let their jealousy stop you. If your company isn't going to treat you like an adult, you don't owe them anything.
Well, I won't suggest any scenarios of how it would work right now, even though I don't think it's totally inconceivable... I'll just point out that I don't actually need a loaded gun to make you sell your Rolex for $20. I only need you to believe it's loaded.
They already make it available.

The school data is "anonymized" but like most anonymized data, it is possible in some cases to trace it back to individuals. They also publish some types of information.

The police interaction records can be public record depending on the type of interaction/document. Departments using unencrypted comms broadcast your information when they call in your stop, which could be heard by anyone with a scanner.

Also, how do you see this as a betrayal? It doesn't violate any laws nor any agreement with the individual.

I would like to see better privacy laws. What they did is not shocking, not a betrayal, and not illegal. It would be nice if it was.
To everything others have said, I'll add this:

It's probably not that they "care so much", it's that they simply don't care. The random people who occasionally navigate to a Reddit thread from a web search, but otherwise don't engage with Reddit in any consistent way, are basically just white noise to them. It's a demographic that represents such as small and unreliable source of revenue that it's just not worth thinking much about from a business perspective.

One certainly wouldn't want to risk reducing the conversion rate among people whose attention is easier to capture, just to mildly appease the never-downloaders.
Despite what many might think, everything doesn’t need to be an “app,” PWA or otherwise. Reddit is literally a message board, one of the earliest types of website. It doesn’t need my location — ever. Email works just fine as a notification, if I want it as a “push” notification, I could VIP-enable the notification email address in Mail. Does Reddit need my accelerometer? Or direct access to my camera or microphone? Or address book? Or graphics APIs like Metal?

Nope. It’s just a message board. Sell contextual ads for the different subreddits, don’t bother tracking people, and be done with it. Of course that would likely require a significantly smaller workforce.
I think he's less hated if only because he's less known.
My work computer and personal computer may be roughly on par as far as the spec sheet goes, but my personal computer does not have McAfee, so it's at least 100 times faster.
> or longer seeping time with this procedure

Or more generally shorter seeping time, I've never seen a tea which wanted 6mn seep time, and most somewhat fragile tea want way less (with the possible exclusion of summing the consecutive infusions of an oolong, I guess you do get into the 6mn range total at the end of the session).
That's a pretty good bet, as Amazon is already sitting on a 1.6T market cap. Tesla is at a "meager" 342B$.
Seconding RYM, imo the best place to find music worth listening if you don't have time to go through everything. The community is also very good in curating lists for various tastes.
They can't, but they can prevent a foreign company from doing business in the US (and from US companies doing business with a foreign company)—which is what they're doing.

Bytedance (TikTok) can "work around this problem" by selling their US business to a US company—which is what they're doing.

It's shady, completely legal, and fully up to the President/executive branch (e.g. Trump) to set policies in this area.
Thanks. I just contacted their support with some pre-sale questions and had a very quick and good answer. I'll give them a try!
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This isn't terribly surprising to me, they might not have the compute deployed in all their sites to serve the more expensive worker requests.
I'm still banging away on my original one from the mid 90's (PS/2 adaptor and all!) and it's still going strong. The ESC has all but worn off the rubber F key strip but other than that it's in fine shape.

I understand the new fangled 2 comes with real switches for the F key strip?
Read the Ebay stalking indictment. They were the B team with extremely limited operational capability. Now imagine they had any of the following, which are all for sale:

* Real-time location from your cell provider

* Real-time AirBnB booking

* Real-time purchases from credit card companies

* Real-time browsing records from your mobile ISP, home ISP, and behavioral advertising networks

* Your complete prescription history from your pharmacy

This is truly the stuff of nightmares. Part of the problem with government data sales is that it normalizes morally abhorrent practices that would not have been tolerated just a few years ago.
Your first T is always the hardest
that doesnt really matter too much.
US advertisers won't be able to pay tiktok. Basically 0 money for bytedance, while plenty of trafic expenses if they keep servicing.

And ofc, apple and google can simply remove the app from your phone.
I think short-term vocational training is great. The days of getting a degree in order to get a job should be over. And if programs like this succeed, hopefully the pricing on degrees will correct.

But that doesn't mean degrees are getting disrupted - it means people are recognizing that their purpose is orthogonal to getting a job. Anyone who still wants a T-shaped higher education still will get value from a degree.
I don't have anything substantial to say for this blog post, sorry, except maybe a generic "scratch your own itch" and "continue scratching them until you find one that other people too have" sort of a thing. I guess you already know that, and you're looking for or thinking aloud about more specific advice.

But anyways, after reading this post I clicked around and read your other post. I found that useful, so wanted to say thanks! I especially found it useful how you separated market-fit from founder-fit, I'd not quite cleanly separated them that way before.

Also, while I'm sure it was very frustrating, but I wouldn't count it as failure: if there was a straight path to "success" (whatever that means to someone), then everyone would be taking it. Keep building, and best of luck!
I don't see the outrage. This looks pretty similar to the design of every streaming service these days? Netflix, Prime, etc. The top bar is the largest and displays the newest/trending things to watch.

The only difference is what they might display on the top bar. On Netflix they just show you the newest/trending stuff regardless of I'm interested in it based on my viewing habits. Netflix really wants me to watch Tiger King. So if these streaming services were smart they would pay Google for this ad space based on my viewing habits, or it'll be the newest/trending stuff from these services and it's basically the same/useless then.
> Eating out in Houston is an exercise in acceptance. Someone who probably doesn’t look like you—whether that’s the waitstaff, the back of the house—is letting you into their home.

This is just a wild sentence. People don't become less racist after eating foreign food. People should not feel proud about themselves just because they spent money on a bowl of ramen.

> In Houston, most days out of the week, I’ve found myself in the company of family that wasn’t my own, that’s adopted me nonetheless.

There has to be a way to express, "restaurant workers are struggling financially because of COVID", without projecting that the minimum wage workers at your favorite Korean restaurant think of you as an adopted family member.

They just want to do their job and earn a living without contracting a contagious disease. They shouldn't, on top of that, be forced to emotionally validate their customers.
Missing the season vs dying though ?
There is a lot that isn't in that wiki page that has been posted to usenet.

The 3033 wasn't supposed to happen, the System/370 family was expected to be replaced by the Future Systems project [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
I put the "developed world" declaimer as I figured in some poor countries you wouldn't be able to get good treatment without paying for it but I imagine even then you will not pay as much as in the US.

In Western Europe such things are generally free.
> 3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I don't want to remap my brain.

As someone who's used Mac for a long time (and now Linux desktop, with similar shortcuts, plus spending most of my time in a browser like Chromium or Firefox), I chose other editors like Sublime and now VS Code partly because they use shortcuts that feel normal on those platforms so I didn't have to remap my brain. (More like my thumbs I think.) So to me the shortcuts changes in this project may be the most interesting part!
Thanks. Great work.
Well, it is about 30 doublings from the first dollar
That won't probably work any more. I have a couple of old test accounts, can't create new ones without them being locked right away.
You're definitely correct. "Convenience" is emphasized. If it's not convenient to exercise, don't; wait until a liquidity event.

This makes me curious: what's the total typically required to purchase one's options (not including the potential tax implications)? Does it vary wildly from a couple thousand to tens- or hundreds-of-thousands? Lottery ticket money, or significant fractions of annual income?
I did almost exactly the same thing at my last job. I'm a game dev and they provided us all with woefully underpowered MacBooks that didn't even have a dedicated GPU. The game engine was constantly crashing while working and making it very difficult to get anything done. I recorded the amount of time wasted on these crashes over the course of a week.

I then proved to management that there was about 5 hours a week being completely wasted for me waiting for my machine to open applications after they crash. So after that we all got new MacBooks that were properly spec'd out for game development. I got to pick the specs :)
Severance allowance? Do you have knowledge of Apple's practices around hiring and firing employees, or am I just not aware of this thing?
You should really look at what the FB app does have access to...
The FDA provides an essential role in verifying the safety of medications and their standards are high because people lives matter.

The reality is that drug development is hard and failure percentage is high. Don't blame the FDA for that. Getting the government out of the picture will either increase the danger to the public with relaxing regulations or have negligible impact on drug development because most drugs fail anyways.
CF seems to have started classifying browsers with no existing CF cookies as likely bots (a score of 10 or less, where 99 is a human and 1 is confirmed bot) for enterprise users of their Bot Management feature[0]. From my testing, it happens for both puppeteer and incognito tabs of Chrome, even with perfect IP reputation.

0: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002751945...
How is constantly getting nagged to download the app any different to constantly getting nagged to enable notifications?
Yes, but thats only a small part of the story, your limit only works if the numerator is constant, positive and > 0. Actually, the correct answer for lim{x->0} a/x is really "anything" and "strongly depends on a and da/dx"...

So in general, assuming anything like \infty for a division by zero is wrong wrong wrong.
The zoom medium is amazing, but I've found that many teachers are trying to replicate a classroom environment on zoom and that doesn't generally work, since it's an entirely different environment. What kind of activities did your child's class do on zoom? We've found that it's essential to keep kids moving on zoom and make the projects highly interactive. I ask all my parents to set up the children's learning device so it's easy for them to move about the room. In my class, we start with meditation, then yoga - usually with Cosmic Kids Yoga, then kids share their feelings through speaking, art or writing. Then we see how many jumping jacks we can do. Then we do a drawing activity together - usually with Art Hub for Kids. I then spend an hour reading to them while sharing the screen and pausing frequently to ask questions so they can improve critical reading skills and expand vocabulary. We then do more cartwheels, jumping jacks or some other physical movement. Then we spend 30 minutes to an hour working independently on learning apps. If kids get stuck, generally another child helps them or I help them (though the kids are better at apps then me!) Finally, I leave the group and let the kids stay on for playdates. Kids can leave or come back at anytime. If they want to take a nap, they take a nap. If they want to draw while we're doing something else, they draw. If only one child is there and just wants to chat with me about their life, then that's what we do. I have found in this way, kids are able to stay engaged for up to 3 hours at a time and beg me to stay when I have to go take a lunch break.
does this run a version of android? or is it still java but blackberry's own system? like how do I author an app for it?
Dude, china is literally modern day Nazis.

Concentrations camps: Check
1st class and second class citzens: check (Not Aryin/Han Chinese, too bad for you filthy subhuman)
Dictatorship: Check

They simply are dominating in economics rather than warfare.
Rise of Remote Working: Now and the Future
In future PyLyx-mode the code is monospace, but comments are assumed to be Tex-formatted. Imagine implementation of some mathematical formula. You can have the description with proper notation. It will be so beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes already.
I don't understand the hate for TikTok I frequently see on HN. Is it just ordinary ageism/curmudgeonliness?

I'm not in its core audience myself, but it seems to me to be a very smartly put together app, both in its core features (practically the only video remixing/editing app for mobile that retains tolerable levels of both accessibility and expressiveness) and in its platform (particularly the recommendation engine which seems to drive pretty solid engagement).
I'm a big fan of ending the requirement for four-year degrees to get entry-level jobs, though I'm a bit surprised at the ones they've chosen: project manager, data analyst, and UX designer. IT support makes a lot of sense, since it's a fairly well-defined set of tasks, but the others strike me as wider in scope and thus harder to teach in six months.

If they're really making good on their goal of hiring these people, at decent salaries, with the idea of starting in apprentice-style positions and learning on the job, then that would be fantastic. The experience needed to do those jobs isn't really well served by more years of book-learning anyway.
Who wants push notifications from Reddit though?
Wow. Absolutely no fun allowed.
In the Spanish-speaking world you can find the endings -e, -@, and -x. Depending on the area/organization one or other can be used (also, differing ways of pronouncing them; I'm a native and barely have heard any one pronounce the -e versions ever).
> the recurring headlines I used to read about whether Apple will survive in the next year

Where are these headlines?

That seems like a patently ludicrous thing to claim that Apple will disappear within a year.
The system makes much more sense if you assume the goal of government corruption is a wealth transfer to for the (politically connected subset of the) upper and middle classes and assume high DMV fees are a sin tax.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

I'm not saying that welfare for a subset of the people who can pay their own way and high sin taxes on essential services are good government policy (I personally think the combination is farcically regressive), just that the system makes sense if you take that viewpoint.
I was thinking "attention" as in "attention deficit", but this test was "find a red apple amongst blue apples". They're not sure if finding red apples amongst blue apples is beneficial though:

>> “What we need to know next is whether this attention difference is advantageous or detrimental to their everyday life.”
I believe Apple is going to be allowing push notifications from the web soon, and you can also "Add to Homescreen" a webpage, and it acts like an app, so we might finally be seeing a needed shift away from the app store.
I wish it was just prompts. Some days I can't even access Reddit through my phone.

Randomly locking subreddits for mobile users saying: "Sorry mobile browser user, but, /r/xyz is only available on your device through the mobile app." is just infuriating.
The problem is that registering in the US and EU does not protect you against someone in (let's say) India starting a clone of your business.

With the global nature of most SaaS businesses, trademarks have become an unwieldy (and very expensive) tool.
It’s certainly fair to consider nefarious reasons, but it’s also important to consider less interesting reasons, like Kodak already (historically) dealing heavily with chemical production and Oracle making a bid to pivot and stay relevant. Who else might want to pay the most for TikTok US? From FAANG, only Facebook seems like a fit but Facebook won’t pay “market” rate for TikTok because they already have Reels, Microsoft and AANG don’t seem like fits. Outside of those, it’s some private equity group but they would need to spin up an operation around actually running and developing TikTok, that’s complicated.

Or it could all just be sweetheart deals.