skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the phone company provided a way for criminals to organize in secret and communicate with each other without having to meetup in person so the phone company is responsible for that crime?

Unless I mis-understood your argument. It seemed to be that you should be responsible for everything bad someone else does with something you made. You made a cooking knife. Someone stabs someone with it. It's your responsibility. You shouldn't have introduced cooking knives into the world knowing that people might stab others with them.
Crazy Clock
I like the sights, myself. The only time I go over 100kph is on the freeway, and it's not by much.
People rarely go out of their way to put in positive review (or at least neutral reviews, "works as expected"). The current cheats implemented by apps probably affect the ratio of positive reviews per user a lot, making it indicative only of how effective the cheat is, and not the quality of the app.

I wonder if you could get away with only negative reviews? Would a "negative review per total install" metric be worse than "positive reviews per review" (e.g. current ratings)?
"documented in Esperanto" is interesting; super cool actually
I'd clarify that when people talk about "a different language", they're usually describing the notation used in formal mathematics. But that's a comparatively recent phenomena (most of it from the last century). For most of its history, mathematics was (and still is, most mathematics papers have far fewer uses of the notation than most laypeople would think) communicated with the natural language of its authors and their readers. The problem was that natural language was frequently too imprecise to easily describe things formally (inclusive vs exclusive or is an example), so mathematics writing became stilted and full of jargon and structural formalisms: "consider two values that are natural numbers and neither of which divides the other without remainder and ..." versus "$$ \{x,y \mid x,y \in \mathbb{Z}_+ \ \mathbb{and}\ x \perp y \}$$" (Edit: wait, Hacker News doesn't support MathJax?) Modern mathematics notation is more to simplify clear communication rather than to describe things that can't be described with words. That is, mathematical notation has far more in common with shorthand than it has with Esperanto, and I think that's an important distinction. When I read set-builder notation, what I "hear" in my head is English. (Also, you're begging the question by implying that there is an external concept/thing that the various languages and pictures are referencing)
People don't have large families because their cars are too small? That sounds backwards to me.
Stackoverflow can be a bit off putting if your question is considered off topic. Some people zealously close questions without really reading the content.
I mean stakes have been pretty high when Mongolians were invading Europe and China, when Hitler was invading everywhere, etc etc.
I have the same isssue. I think it may be a Safari issue. Works fine for me on chrome not Safari.
Well, once you use RPN, there is no going back. I truly despise normal calculators. I’d hate entering expressions anyway.
> Cancellation culture exists because this is the expected norm for those in power.

The problem with that line of thinking is how "those in power" is defined more and more broadly and has now evolved to a point where who you are is more important than what you did.

So now most people who gets cancelled do not tend to be the Harvey Weinstein but one of those "racist Karens" videos where the context have been cut off and the people are obviously in the early onset of dementia or college kids making offensive jokes on Twitter.

> So you get a mob together where no one person is an easy target for having their life destroyed and ignore the justice system which can be easily bent with money/connections.

This is double edged knife since mobs and thugs can be bought too. There is a reason why all modern nations give the state the legal monopoly on violence.

> It's a logical response to the power structure in place.

Correction, it is an emotional response. Mobs are never "logical".
My own personal policy back in the day when I was single, debt-free, and working hourly wage jobs was that when they notice I'm gone they've had all the notice they were gonna get.

Back then, life was too short to spend it somewhere boring. There were too many places to see, things to do, etc. All my employers had my home address at my parent's house for anything they needed to send so if I had a new opportunity come up that sounded better than my current situation I loaded my stuff into my duffle bag, checked out of the motel or folded the tent (whichever I was using at the time) and hit the road. In a four year period I worked from Arkansas to Oregon, south Texas to Montana for more than a dozen companies. Sometimes I was there for months, other times just long enough to find out the guy who hired me lied about the pay rate or other terms of employment. A couple of the companies never paid me for the work I did though I worked in one case for four weeks, dawn to dark-thirty, 7 days a week. The industry was in collapse mode at the time so it was easy for me to write it off and move on.

For a long time I never held any job longer than 3 years. I'd get an itch and start looking around. Then I found myself in the position where I had so much varied experience that friends encouraged me to start consulting. Been doing that for 20 years. Not a bad gig.

Nowadays I'm tied to real estate, taxes, debts, the finest spouse anyone could ever ask for and some great children. It all worked out okay for me.

Companies come and go. Enjoy life while you are young. If that voice in your head tells you to move on, pack up and hit the road. It'll all work out in the end.
Agreed. Maybe biggest since WWII, certainly not biggest ever. Climate change is terrible but because it's smooth (even if superlinear) it's hard to ascribe hinginess to a specific moment.

C.f. altitude vs geographic prominence.

Also, I think the fear of A.I. has distorted the fact the outward rate of change has declined massively from say the "special century" of 1870-1970, even if it has picked back up a bit in recent years.
Hehe, Over 50 straight males hooking up on tinder, just in case a girl wants to feel old age creeping up on her!

But really, I bet this outrage is comming from someone not even in that demographic. I think most of these old horndogs are more than happy to let younger people pay less if it means more of them are on the app.

It's kind of like how ladies nights used to work at the clubs and bars before the lockdowns.
Tunkl vs. Regents of University of California
At least there is http status code 402 Payment Required. But I think no host want to set an error code as return code for an existing, working page.
I don't sniff my armpits because they've never smelled in my life.

I have a genetic defect where I don't produce apocrine sweat (the kind that causes bacteria to produce odor) but still maintain the eccrine sweat that cools me down.

This trait is associated with dry earwax.

I've worn a shirt for a week straight and had a relative with a sensitive nose smell it and another shirt that had not been worn a day. They incorrectly guessed which shirt I had worn and which one I hadn't.
When compared to "harmony" usage of the other words is basically zero. Harmony is a common word, and it is the root which makes "disharmonious" easy to understand despite its extreme rarity.

Even "disharmony" is far more common than "disharmonious."
You can configure the colours in Windows 10 to make it look fun and childish.
I never really thought about it, but could online shopping + delivery actually be much more environmentally friendly? i.e rather than having everyone drive do to their own shopping.

This is with the assumption that a single delivery truck can hit multiple customers on their route, and in the context of more rural\suburban areas.
It has a lot of custom made content by volunteers here. http://customsforge.com/
I agree. I just don't think they are the majority. The majority is just dumb holders.
I think no. We are in a boring, prosperous, stable time with an overactive media. The virus is bad, but it will pass and medical science will save many millions. The plague of Justinian, this is not. Hope I'm not wrong about that, at any rate.
My bad, absolutely right.
NASA commissions report to show its economic impact: $64B and 312K jobs
And here is the Archive link: https://archive.is/02fMN
I had to allow third-party cookies for those 2 sites
It depends also where you live. In some countries, for example Norway, employment contracts can have 2-3 months notice period even for normal employees.
I was educated at my university that the hinge of history was actually World War I.

Hundreds of millions died in horrific new waus, the world centralized around a pole of power, and basically the world has only been getting better since.
It's because I'm relatively secure in my knowledge of these areas, I count 3 vast hyperboles, 1 discontinued, and 1 unknown and I'd be getting good value out of you teaching me how to pull it off. That's all
YES! My poodle has all the above. You can definitly tell the difference between "I see something" and "I hear something but idk what". Snowplows are DEFCON1.

Also, "there's something I want but I can't get it", very similar to "I want to be somewhere but I'm stuck" (usually she trapped herself in the bathroom). Even though both are a shrill YARP, the former is insistent, the latter is uncertain.

Then there's "throw the damn ball already", "cat, get away from my food", and the ultra rare yet adorable ambulance howl.
These are good points, but we have to remember that the car industry is backed by a powerful lobby that makes car ownership particularly convenient. I argue that it's _too_ convenient at the current point in time.

The problem that makes vehicles incompatible with other modes of transportation (mostly cycling, but increasingly walking) is that cars are increasingly made "safer" at a social cost -- namely, visibility of pedestrians/cyclists and vehicle mass (and therefore momentum). Cars are much heavier today than before, and they have worse visibility of the road than before. This is to make the driver safer, and it comes at the cost of the safety of non-car drivers around.

Cyclists and pedestrians have (almost) no voice when it comes to regulation of automotive safety. There isn't even a notion of "whole community safety" when automotive safety is discussed. The only thing that seems to matter is whether the driver is protected, and this has created a safety imbalance. In the rare moments that something is done, we focus mostly on driving speed.

I think we can do more.

We should be asking ourselves: Is there an engineering solution to ensure that foot traffic, bike traffic, and car traffic can peacefully coexist to move people around as effectively and harmlessly (environment, other people, etc) as possible?
I didn't read the article, but the answer is emphatically yes. We are rubbing up against the reality that most humans are less and less valuable to other humans such that they are basically valueless, and their market value diminishes accordingly, and that technological advances and market efficiencies are actually eliminating scarcity within certain arenas. We have to grapple with the fact that most humans offer almost nothing of value, while we actually have the capability, within certain domains, to actually allow them to be entitled to certain things.

Pair this with neural interfaces, AI, asteroid and celestial body mining, cheap space travel, and economics are going to start looking weird. I say this as an avid fan of capitalism. It isn't going to fail because of corruption, it's going to fail because markets are optimized and technology is increasingly pushing your average bloke out of the game.
Thanks for the slippery slope, but they're saying that it barely makes it easier. So the question is how much money you want to spend on that barely.
The usual employment notice period is the pay period. One employer had a budget cut and let me know three months ahead of time. Two others took my access card and provided severance. When I changed jobs, I let my current employer know the situation and they generally held on to me for enough time for me to wrap things up. In a number of cases I helped out my previous employer after starting with my new employer. When it comes time to find a new job, it helps to happy references from previous employers.
Being knocked down didn't sting as much when nobody had electricity, indoor plumbing, or technological aids. Modern society has much more to lose from a dire economic collapse.
I'd argue the cold war was closer to the 'hinge of history'. In fact on this very day 9/26 in 1983, a not very well known soviet lieutenant colonel prevented what would very likely have been all out atomic war.

In the grand scheme of things, everything that happened this year is probably minor in comparison to Petrov's decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
OLED screens save power if it's darker.
Improving machine learning code quality
I think the problem is worse than this. There is no universal coordinate system, no 0x0x0 coordinate to measure everything from. The Earth is moving wrt the galactic center, the galactic center is moving wrt...what? The Andromeda galaxy? Why should that galaxy be special? And the local cluster is moving wrt...what? All the other galaxy clusters, I suppose, but what does that mean?
> Being bigger doesn't automatically make a car better at snow.

Huh yes it does. Especially 4x4 and higher to the ground which are two qualities SUVs and trucks tend to have compared to "normal" cars.

> A family with kids probably has more than one car, and probably only needs one big one.

First of all that's not true, it's pretty much 50/50 if there's only one car or not and it mostly depends on budget, work location and schedule. Also, people with families tend to bring with them more stuff than what can be put inside the trunk.
Is it not?

There's a story that has been circulating for years in Chinese. CHECK.

This story is almost a word for word translation of that. CHECK.

What is wrong with that statement? At the same time, A story that has been circulating for years in Chinese would also almost be a word for word translation of this story.
> I've slaughtered more machines than any of you.

I guarantee that you haven't, as the number of people that can make that claim in relation to my background is vanishingly small and I know almost all of them by name.

I centralize logs. Not only does it make more sense for administration at scale, it's invaluable for security reasons and assists in compliance by providing a controllable guaranteed audit trail.

You may have a valid argument about cost here for some applications, but it's unwise to make arrogant claims you cannot back up.
> I have never "enjoyed" a single linux desktop environment

Just because you don't like linux desktop environments, doesn't mean everyone doesn't. I've used several linux desktop environments, and I prefer all of them to Windows (my current favorite is i3/sway). Of course that is a personal preference. I know some people prefer the windows (or mac) desktop experience to linux's, and that's fine. Just don't say that my preference is invalid.

> Scared of what?

That they will try to pull off the "Extinguish" phase of their infamous "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". I am doubtful that they would be successful extinguish linux at this point, but whatever they do to attempt such a feat could very well cause some pain for desktop linux users.
Are we not always in the "hinge of history"? What we do determines what the future is like, and the future is dependent on how we act now. If everybody aims towards the highest good, society will probably look better than if we aim towards the worst future possible.

I think something like this can only be determined in retrospect. The importance of a specific event usually makes little impact at the time it occurs, and reverberates through the future. It's only upon looking back that we can see how important it was.

Was Nietzsche world-renowned when he was actively writing, or Einstein when he made his discoveries?
That’s super annoying. Are you able to access this hyperlink while logged in in safari? https://www.foundingsales.com/10-early-sales-management

It might also be that the redirect after registration goes back to the home page, and the chapter buttons are below the fold if one doesn’t scroll down. Probably would be better to redirect to table of contents after registration. I’ll see if that can be configured through Memberspace.
Right, I have dry earwax and have never worn deodorant. I shower once or twice a week, but I never start to stink. My clothes don't even stink if I get them all sweaty every day without changing them.

It's not fair, but it's how it is.
Not a car.

>> "“A lot of consumers don’t need anything fancy, a commute is all they ask from a car,” said Yale Zhang, founder of AutoForesight"

I expect a great deal more than the simple commute. I expect safety. I expect crumple zones, airbags, traction control, and enough actual strength that I have a hope of surviving a serious crash. This not-a-car 5K EV doesn't have such things. It is essentially an enclosed 4-wheel motorcycle. Cheap, but not offing any degree of physical protection.

>> I always feel a bit nervous in this low-speed car because it’s kind of shaky.”

Ya. Be afraid. It might seem all friendly at low speeds, but one day those tiny wheels dig into a pothole, throwing you into oncoming traffic (bad) or a tree (worse). The people praising these things are like those who call motorcycles dangerous but hop on a Vespa without hesitation.
Or when the Spanish vini vidi vicied the Americas.

But you could argue too that post nuclear has been continually the highest stakes by far.
> Is it reasonable to expect Facebook to do all those things, compared to other choices that are consistent, neutral, and inevitably result in various type I and type II errors with respect to the nature and purposes of posts related to violence?

No, and that is precisely why their moderation should be transparent.
This is in the form of not having the latest and greatest where suburban families might buy used 5-10 year old large sedans and SUVs instead of a comparable small car from 2019. If Americans were fine with smaller cars, they'd buy more smart cars and MINIs, but that isn't the case.
> The standard C library's runtime environment is designed for C, and it generally contains a tangled skein of assumptions about how things work. Forcing all other languages to fit themselves into these undocumented constraints is clearly confining, and the standard C library generally isn't designed to be a transparent API; in fact, at least GNU libc deliberately manipulates what it does under the hood to be more useful to C programs.

It's hard to reconcile this with the fact that every other language besides Go manages to interface with the standard c library just fine. It seems like if it were such a big problem, you'd see more languages opting out.
Yeah but that means if you want to fix things at the libc level, you necessarily skip Go. OpenBSD had/has this problem.

But more broadly, I think the policy is less "Unix took a wrong turn" and more that goroutines make C/Go interop painful.
Pretty sure GP was bristling at the reverse happening. We must keep the developers from screwing up the important computers.

Saying the emperor has no clothes is not white tower thinking,
An underfunded IRS can’t afford to dedicate vast resources to go after big sophisticated tax cheats.
I am literally just now learning in this comment thread that Youtube has ads...
That's actually probably not true. I'm not a historian, but one interesting thing I've learned from reading lots of history is the different attitudes different societies had about the past/future.

As far as I know, it's only really since the enlightenment/industrial revolution, that people feel like the future is going to be better. The idea that the past was the golden age, where Humans were much more advanced, knew more, Had better technology, etc, seems to be the common position in history.

Im not sure about the feeling that society was"hungry" ala the article, but I suspect that feeling is connected.
SO has a code editor? Do you mean the text box with ``` for code boundaries?
Has nothing to do with COVID-19.

> The most important improvement you can make to your workflow is buying an ergonomic keyboard.

I think typing less would give even more improvement. A programmer who spends all their time typing is busy, but not necessarily productive.
Again I'm sure you mean trading, someone conducting it as a business, what's a "forex investor"? Anyone who owns foreign currency?

I have 4 different currencies sitting in a bank for years, they've moved far more than $200 in gain/losses over that time.

Accountants in both Sydney and Singapore have never wanted the details of me moving that cash around.

I pay my income tax (converted rate) on them and that's it.

I've also been paid in crypto before and that gets capital gains applied plus income tax. Not complaining though, often worked out ok.
I was left with this impression when I listened to Blueprint for Armageddon, by Dan Carlin. It's excellent. I thought I knew the history of that era but I was very wrong. The early parts are a little boring compared to what it turns into, but I can't see how that could be avoided given the topic.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-55-blu...
Tax collection is coercive and therefore tax payers cannot be held responsible for the actions that are performed using that revenue. Voters maybe, but not racketeering victims.
Probably only true if we allow the “hinge” to be a process that spans several centuries, perhaps starting around 1800 with the beginnings of industrialization and gathering pace in the 20th century.

If we look at the 21st century so far, it just hasn’t been... that interesting! Indeed some scholars of technological change (to take just one metric) actually think the pace of change has slowed. The 20th century gave us flight, the Haber-Bosch process, nuclear weapons, antibiotics, space flight, computers, the Pill, the Internet. The 21st? The iPhone? Meh.

Think long term. Expect a humdrum next decade and an interesting next century.
Safety features have added a lot to prices.
You have just pushed the mystery back a step. What caused the failure of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation? What reversed the failure 1200-odd years later?

Evidence for a bolide strike producing a huge meltwater pulse, to start the process, is accumulating, coinciding with extinction of 30+ genera and the sudden end of the Clovis culture. Another strike at the Holocene boundary is less well supported; but we do need a cause.
In Japan, they have a much better culture around copyright, and I would argue it’s why Japan is such a creative powerhouse. In Japan, amateur artists can remix whatever popular characters they want, and make money off it, and it’s seen as a tribute to the original artists, not as “theft”.

Our copyright laws should be largely eliminated. Anything that isn’t basically an exact reproduction should be fair game. It would be good for the creative arts.