skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are assumed to be a criminal because a machine said so.

Not really. At least where I live, the false positive rates are high enough that people would walk right past, or the employees would wave them through because they're holding store branded bags. A more egregious example would be the algorithmic bail systems that some states are deploying.
Agreed, and communities don't outsource their comments. It seems to me that things like Disqus aren't useful, since if you use a third party service for your comments, they're mostly an afterthought and could well be omitted.
This depends heavily on the website in question and how well the comments are moderated/curated. The Online Photographer [0] is my goto example of a blog where the comments are excellent (and a key part of the value gained from visiting the site). The trick in this case: every comment goes through a moderation queue before it's posted. Some then get featured as part of the article.

[0]: https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogr...
In some sects, I would imagine that sadness is seen as a bug and not a feature-- "why feel bad that you killed something to survive? you should be proud!" is a theme common in our human history.
I'm sorry, but if you have a valid email address of butts@butts.com, then you deserve the spam. Also, if you do actually own that address, thanks for hosting it so that bounce tests don't fail immediately!!
> subsidies from higher levels of governments (e.g., federal) to lower levels (e.g., cities) for infrastructure

The same thing is happening right now with EU grant money given for "development" to some of its Eastern European members. Lots of mayors and local officials use that money for grand local infrastructure projects for which they won't have any reasonable money to maintain even in the near future (let alone 30 to 50 years from now), because we have a numerically declining tax-base that is getting older and older (I live in one of those Eastern European countries).

But mentioning that issue gets you labeled as a person "against progress" or an anti-European (or worse, a Russian shill who doesn't trust the European project). We have a saying in Romanian that roughly translates as: "you should stretch out only as much as your blanket allows you to", i.e. one should only consume the resources he/she thinks are reasonably available to him/her, but right at this moment we are "stretching out" further than the bed itself and getting out of the bedroom altogether.
> No, I'm not.

Yes, you are :-)

> literally any evidence is equally consistent with that as it is with constant physical laws

No, it isn't. The Kolmogorov complexity of the universe turns out to be very small. That is not consistent with an intelligent agent pushing changes to a simulation in real time.
Hiring an actual IT person to set it up would be a very difficult expense for many small businesses. Cafes usually operate on very tight margins. I just find this law completely ridiculous and an obvious result of hysteria. It is not a rational response to the very tiny risk of the dastardly and scary terrorists using free wifi.
Ask HN: High refresh rate monitors for writing code?
I was writing some code yesterday, and noticed that I was really bothered by the blurriness of text on my screen while scrolling. I was visually scanning for a string, which I couldn't remember the name of, in a manpage (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html) while scrolling one notch at a time on my scroll wheel. It was so blurry that I to spend time stopping the scroll, scanning, and continuing. I remember this being easier on a CRT.

With gaming monitors being releasing with crazy high refresh rates (some nearing the 400Hz range), I was wondering if anyone has experience with writing code on one of these displays? If so, is the experience any better?

Sometimes even on the terminal, I wish I could scan output more easily while scrolling.
> If we remove those filters for things that we can't change, won't it make everyone needlessly miserable?

Perceived as Normal: People do not see the world for what it is and need to rationalize pleasant things to motivate their continual participation in it and expect others to do the same.

One aspect of depression: People see the world for what is is and can no longer rationalize pleasant things to motivate their continual participation in it.

High functioning: People see the world for what it is and have no need to rationalize pleasant things to motivate their continue participation in it and leverage the observation that others need and expect a continual illusion.

We are not all the same and perhaps more people can be higher functioning.
Not to mention the EU thinks they can police the world.
In this analogy the entire company as a whole is still making a large loss overall. So it will go bankrupt just like the city.
I have a similar thing going since a few years. Go to work for 8 hours. Come home and sleep on the couch for 3 to 4 hours, followed by another 4 to 6 hour period of hacking. I feel like I totally understand the concept of fiesta since I started this routine. However, during lockdown, as you have already indicated, things started to drift because of the lack of commute, or in my case, because of the lack of the 5 minute walk to work.

TL;DR: Yeah, powernapping is a thing.
Here is a similar story from a couple years ago of lemures using chemicals from crushed millipedes to treat infections: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/lemurs-mi...
'Why I bought a voting machine on eBay'
I think so too. The government has to pass a budget every year. Would it really be too much to ask of them to reaffirm old laws every 10-20 years?
This is one issue making my WebGL app unusable in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025
> Whoever labels xi a dictator is fooling his audience for some unspeakable purpose.

So anyone who claims Xi is a dictator has evil motives? No room for honest disagreement? The facts are not only clear and unambiguous, but also so widely spread that everyone knows? Nonsense. "I'm right, and anyone who disagrees is not only wrong but evil" is a very cheap rhetorical trick. You sound like...

Well, you sound like the American left. And the American right. And the Republican Party. And the Democratic Party. What you don't sound like, though, is a reasonable person having a reasonable discussion, who has evidence on his side.
> As for the psychiatric help, I'm glad that for you not taking coffee and doing sports is enough. I've mistakenly thought that for years (more vitamin D, "it's S.A.D", no coffee for months, more exercise, etc etc), but I had to hit a wall hard before I encountered the help that I realized I needed my whole life.

This is actually what I'm afraid of. I haven't confirmed it yet, I'm still on my medication now. I might be developing some kidney problems (VPA is hard on kidneys and liver), so who knows. Based on your experience, and what others have mentioned, I might look for a psychiatrist I trust as an out-patient and see what my options are. I'm still not convinced the medication is stopping any psychosis either, but I'd rather not find that out the hard way.
I'm afraid you come across as insane.
Absolutely. Numeric data can be arbitrarily large, and supports _ as numeric whitespace in the text format.
What happens if you hit forget network? Does it also forget the MAC address for that network so you use a new MAC if you join the network again?
I think we're disagreeing on what the central point is, then. I think least-privilege architectures are great, and I use them for many things. I think they do not save you from the problem being addressed in this article. That is, do not read what I'm saying as an argument against least-privilege architectures: read it as an argument against using that hammer to drive in this screw.

In turn, I think that means that there isn't enough justification for using them in this case that users will feel like the additional complexity of wiring through least-privilege across their libraries is worth it. Even if you take the approach of incrementally adding the security to the existing design, the implication is it won't actually be securing end users for a long time, and only against minor and unlikely threats at first, but it will impose increasing complexity all along.

See also this excellent post about mitigations: http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2020/03/before-you-ship-securi...

KeyKOS is great and I've read about it and tried to adopt its lessons in my own designs, but the fact remains that KeyKOS is dead. And I certainly agree that a small performance overhead for guaranteed security properties shouldn't be seen as a tradeoff (assuming it is in fact solely a performance overhead, and not a developer mental burden, nor a reviewer mental burden, nor an operational burden) - but I'm not commenting on what I see, I'm commenting that the vast majority of NPM users will see it as a tradeoff, regardless of what you and I believe.
I find it hard to believe Apple would ditch bootcamp outright. It is too useful of a feature.
The interesting comparison being to private contractors working for private entities. I somehow doubt that Walmart is spending years and tens of millions of dollars to re-tile one of their storefronts. Which proves that it can be done, when there isn't an incentive for corruption and waste.

The question is how to remove the corruption and waste.
Lion's Mane mushroom is being marketed by Stamets
This is why I think our legal system is not really compatible with the world of surveillance. Everyone has something to hide, therefore everyone has something to fear.
> Except "scientists" didn't come around until 1833 (etymologically speaking).

What difference does that make? The correct people to ask about this today are the people who are doing science today. The label you choose to attach to those people is irrelevant.

> there are certain metaphysical assumptions that you have to make before you start thinking you can explain the cosmos

Like what?
A lot worser. Years long the mobile-posse shouted: 'The roads are runned-down, off! We want you (the Gov) to repair'em!'. And the time came when the government started some infrastructure-programs repairing bridges and -roads (also railroads), but the people were 'unthankful' shouting: 'Now it takes a lot more time to [Insert:Object]-[1]. Under construction...everywhere! we do not like it!', 'Do something!' And a lot more happend to "home" (-;

[1]-[Object.List]: get home; to work, to the shopping center, the Kindergarden, bring the kids to school, find a parking lot... get our everyday stuff done. ^^
Reminds of the "epistemological" reasons Nassim Taleb hates history
If you think what I said is wrong, you're welcome to explain why. Personal attacks are neither productive nor interesting.

My reasoning is the following:

People would only listen to you if you can prove what you say is right, because nobody is interested in hearing wrong things or unexplained things, they just aren't helpful.

"We should use nodejs!" "Why?" "I don't want to argue, we just should." Is that helpful?

If you don't have the reasoning skills to convince others, you can't present constructive ideas and back them up with an explanation.

If you can't do that, literally, what is your value to the team? Blindly and quietly execute the will of other team members? That would take too much energy from those people, to direct you on every step of the way.

When you hire engineers, you expect them to give more than they take, otherwise they're a drain on the team resources.

Collective problem solving is impossible without arguing. Arguing is trying to improve something, identify mistakes, logical contradictions, basically you're doing the work of a compiler that checks your program for correctness. Would you want a compiler that always agreed with you, whatever you fed into it? Don't think so. Same thing with engineers working together to reach a common goal. You're checking and improving each other's ideas.

Edit: moreover, if you lack reasoning skills to convince others, means you lack reasoning skills themselves. How are you going to solve problems in the first place?
A billion years of instinct must lead to uncertainty and mixed feelings. We great apes are a strange apparition in the cosmos, capable of glimpsing the absurdity of our own existence.

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
i don't like this argument at all. protecting the environment is an immense responsibility that we all share, so the argument veers close to implying that choosing not to take psychedelic drugs is morally wrong -- willfully choosing to inhibit "evolutionary intelligence".

i've noticed that in the last couple years, psychedelic advocates have shifted from advocating for legalization and increased research (very good in my view), to being very defensive about possible dangers, to applying social pressure against people who don't want to take psychedelics. of course this only happens right now in certain limited social circles, but it is spreading.

not a good trend in my view, and not very reassuring if psychedelics are supposed to help people be more enlightened and open-minded.
I got interested in networking trying to setup XBconnect to play Halo 1 over the internet. That led to using a Splinter Cell exploit to install Linux on my Xbox and then eventually installing Ubuntu 7.04 on my PC.

My first job was standing up a document management system on Linux servers which grew into virtualization, other sysadmin roles, and now a Product Manager focused in API integrations.

So, I too got my start thanks to Linux and have always been grateful for it!
The Kaleidoscope LLVM tutorial!
Survey of entity encounter experiences after inhaled N,N-dimethyltryptamine
Buildcraft is a Minecraft mod that is completely different from the vanilla game. Saying Factorio can be traced back to Infiniminer is a stretch.
Cities could procure significant funds by assessing developers for long term maintenance costs. For example, it should be possible to estimate how many new housing units would require an additional fire station and the cost to build it. Then prorate that cost to each house. Same applies to libraries, parks, court houses and so on. Developers would tack the additional assessment on to the price of the house and that in turn might slow demand and growth.

Corruption is most definitely a factor, maybe not universal, but I have seen it. In my city a developer got approval for the first stage of new houses, about 130, and the county planning agency gave approval for the second stage conditional upon the developer building a bridge to allevate traffic. After the first stage was complete the county commissioners voted to pick up the cost of the bridge and the only explanation was the developer did not have the funds and the commissioners thought the second stage housing would be be an economic benefit to the community.
I think this is a great education model for happy kids in a stable environment, but I'm worried it would compound inequality if applied universally. Many kids don't have much in the way of family or friends encouraging them towards learning. If we take away the structure of a curriculum and the grading expectations of success, will it still be possible for them to succeed?
What if they spread their ideas via proselyting and convert more people to their way of thinking, causing abortion centers to close and gay marriage to become illegal? Should that be allowed?
That's really interesting -- it genuinely does make drawing with my mouse far easier!

I was trying to write with my mouse on the various whiteboards mentioned above and getting a garbled mess, but it's distinctly legible using your approach. :)

https://letsboard.co/boards/I0EGPMpLgZMa6HI3oQYhZHowjL32Q0eI...
This looks very promising. I've given it a like, will take a deeper look when I get on the laptop. :)

Thanks a lot for sharing Rick!
There is one, actually: Algeria... also, Oman and Morocco are not far behind!

This is according to this[1] report from Plan International Norway (whose author's "focus is on gender, technology and social justice"), which has the objective of finding ways to actually increase the participation of girls in STEM in Scandinavian countries, where their participation, paradoxically, is just about the average of the world at around 30% female, against 19% in the USA.

From the paper itself:

"More recently, Stoet and Geary’s (2018) paper on the «gender equality paradox» demonstrated that, perhaps surprisingly, the more «gender equal» a country is, the larger the gender gap in STEM education and careers."

Despite that statistic, the Scientific American[2] claims that this is NOT due to women choosing differently than mean, but because "Early in school, teachers’ unconscious biases subtly push girls away from STEM".

I don't know how they came up with this conclusion (they link to a paper[3] correlating student's mothers biases with the student's later choices - which is NOT what they had just claimed and seems to only weakly give the argument any substance), but that goes directly against the new research we're discussing, which seems to point to the exact opposite conclusion.

[1] https://www.telenor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-Gende...

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/countries-with-l...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232604569_Achieveme...
Measuring Covid Elasticity of Your Business
One of the best levers many of us have is public forums, so this commenter is doing something great - enforcing the idea that the government should be changed in thousands of readers' minds. Once an idea gets enough traction, it often can turn into actual change. You are only reenforcing the fatalism you seem to criticize.
Terence McKenna would be agree.
> In Australia, there are only a limited number of suppliers that carry stock.

In the US, CWS ByteMark sells a wide variety of inductive components in prototype quantities.
Thank you uberman!
There is also the hacker ethics, as summarized by the ccc: https://www.ccc.de/en/hackerethik

While they have a slightly different goal, the content could be a very useful reference for actual guideline.
I got 7 Job Offers during the worst job market in history. Here's the data
Our links are essentially standard 5 GHz wifi, but on licensed bands with higher tx power, and we don't want random people to connect to them. A WPA key mitigates that without breaking any regulations.

Mainly a mitigation against curious people with Ubiquiti equipment, which makes it way too easy to disable country restrictions and find and connect to our links in licensed bands :-)
Yeah, there's a few things there that are a bit of a worry, not to mention that element 17 seems overly represented in the wrong places (instead of element 7)!! Bit a nonsense really. Incidentally, in my other post I refer to an organic chemistry book given to me by my father decades ago when I was a teenager. It also had descriptions of the production of fulminates and it described the different sensitivities of the more common Hg and Ag forms. (When one's a budding chemist of about 14, one's chemistry books get well thumbed around such descriptions.) ;-)

The same book covered picric acid in considerable detail. It made a specific point of mentioning that sometime during WWI TNT replaced picric acid in shells for various reasons including safety. Being a reasonably strong phenolic acid, picric acid readily formed metallic picrate salts with shell casings and that these salts are much more unstable than the straight acid.

It seems that even nowadays with the still-regular roundup of WWI munitions on the 'Western Front' (in Belgium, etc.) old corroded picric acid shells are a major ongoing problem (dozens of them still turn up (usually plowed up) every year). If I recall correctly said acid was also largely implicated in the enormous Halifax disaster of 1917.

One final point: when I was a school picric acid was one of the standard reagents in our school chemistry lab. Seems it was no big deal back then, nor was the 'fertilizer' which we used to remove tree stumps.
I'm from Germany, 50k seems pretty low for a plot of land. You already pay more like 100k already in the countryside. And then the commune doesn't really make a profit (if they didn't own the land beforehand).
I wonder if the only change that needs to happen is that applications driving a significant amount of traffic (i.e. Chrome) & DNS owners of other domains need to start bearing the costs here. Then we wouldn't be dealing with cost externalities & tragedy of the commons. On the other hand, introduce revenue streams & you start focusing on optimizing the revenue stream instead of solving the problem.

I wonder if there's a different way to make the costs felt that isn't directly revenue to align incentives. Like slow down or fail queries for zones who's authoritative servers don't implement the features needed to keep scaling under control. Then make sure that there's revenue to the root servers from non-root servers based on load so that costs are tracked & managed.
This is what I have documented:

- Intermittent FMLA. (1)

- Being able take extended breaks during the day and make up hours without using FMLA. (Flex time)

- Work from home when I need to.

- No on call. (Company has to respect my consistent sleep schedule.)

- No overtime. Maximum of 40 working hours per week.

- Ability to take extended leave for inpatient care.

My team knows I'm out occasionally for medical issues but they don't have an issue with it.

I really do work for a wonderful company that takes care of their employees. Having someone's kid interrupt a zoom meeting is common right now and no one except the parent gets annoyed by it. Even the CEO isn't immune from his kids interrupting an all hands meeting. He just laughs and sets the tone for the rest of the company. :)

1: Basically, I can take time off in 1 hour increments for any medical reason, any time.
I'm going to leave aside your points about seaweed evolution and iguana evolution because they are definitely correct and would lead to the collapse of the system I described. Externalities are a real beast!

Hehe, well, if humans were able to survive off of sunlight alone, then the only reason to kill something would be "for fun", or in other words, the result of what we would call a mental illness.

I wonder if there has ever been an Galapagos iguana vs Galapagos iguana murder. I don't even think they possess the physical capability to murder each other, like, their mouths and hands don't generate enough energy to pierce skin or constrict blood flow or deliver blunt force trauma.

If iguanas were able to survive on sunlight alone, eventually they would hit carrying capacity of the place in which they live.
It already works. There are lots of local independent cinemas like this.
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
You're describing property taxes in your first paragraph.
I can think of many cities (even in Europe) where many people are fully bilingual (in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, in some regions of Italy, Austria and Croatia, etc...) - and if we go outside of Europe, well, in India, Ghana, Paraguay, etc... (just to select one instance across other continents), well, I'd say that bilingualism (or multilingualism) is almost a norm...
It’s a self-marketing term for an artist (?) named “Tom Sachs”. The first DDG hit is a link to him, and his invention of the term.

The fact we’re discussing this means the marketing gimmick worked.
Well yes. Personally blowing up a federal building, assassinating politicians, etc is frowned upon and generally produces the opposite of the intended effect. Ridding ourselves of this metastasized illegitimate government will take collective action.