skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people start to understand the way Facebook is manipulating them, then there is also an opportunity for another platform, which does not do so, or to a lesser extent.

This assumes that a platform which behaves more ethically or is better aligned with the public good can actually compete financially with a company like Facebook. If Facebook financially benefits by not acting in the public interest, what makes you think a competitor who is acting in the public interest is able to compete? The whole point of the problem is that being a bad actor is incredibly profitable in this case.

This statement:

> nothing is preventing Facebook from doing this. Facebook is incentivized to act as you describe. I do not see it as Facebook's responsibility to act in another way.

and this statement:

> If people start to understand the way Facebook is manipulating them, then there is also an opportunity for another platform, which does not do so, or to a lesser extent.

are inherently contradictory because Facebook is explicitly incentivized to misbehave, as you mention, meaning that any competitor trying to compete whilst acting in the public interest will never succeed. If acting in the public interest was profitable, Facebook would do it.
> Why shouldn't they, why is that your point? If an uncharitable read of your comment is that you are mocking people and trying to gain hipster points by knowing about it before it was popular, then maybe a charitable read is that "we are too quick" is a warning of some hazard or danger that happens if we ooh and aahh about things too quickly which (in some way) objectively haven't earned it, by not being first, and that being first is in some way a majorly important criterion. If so, what is it that you are warning about?

Again, you are completely misinterpreting my comment. Google is a trillion dollar company. It's not impressive that they recreated something a startup was doing 12 years ago.

> What exactly is your problem with people being excited or impressed by something that was done before, which makes it worth a comment?

For the third time, I'm not saying people shouldn't think the feature is cool. They should just IMHO not be heaping praise on Google for it since it's old tech, and perhaps the scrappy startup that did it first a long time ago deserves more of the credit.
Last time I looked at that site, the first HCQ study I looked at was counted as positive although the study authors were clear that their results were negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730995

Interestingly, the site also seems to list Remdesivir as possibly useful, somewhat weakening your not-a-conspiracy-theory-just-pointing-out-"interesting"-observations.

Also, the site made the country data at https://c19study.com/countries.html more respectable-looking since the last time I saw it, but the data quality still seems to be crap. In Central Europe the Czech Republic sticks out as dark green "widely used", but none of the sources linked allow this conclusion.
I believe those changes are tracked, there are commands that will tell you what package a file is from (I think it might be apt-file). It's been a while since I used apt in depth, but I do know that pacman tracks that and will log error messages if a file already exists. For example when config formats change, if I have /etc/example.yml created already, pacman will throw an error and put the new file at /etc/example.yml.pac-new (or a similar scheme).

> (if, say, both app1 and app2 need ImageMagick with different policies) ?

Debian typically handles that by building fat binaries/libraries with all the possible options enabled. In cases where there are multiple incompatible options, I'm not an expert, but I believe you create a virtual/meta "package" that can be satisfied by installation of any of the incompatible binaries. Pacman handles it similarly. Gentoo is an oddball in that it tracks a set of system flags and enabled/disables features in builds based on which flags you have set. It's able to do that because it compiles the packages itself, so you can choose the options at install time.
The newsweek article has basically no information. Either of these would be much better
> You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want.

So, what makes your examples better than the author's?
> Hunter Biden

You're right - my comment was written under the assumption that the Biden camp has enough access to Hunter that they could verify the authenticity of the emails. I'll add: I would be shocked if that were not the case.

Regardless of my personal feelings about the NYP, my guess is they probably did verify to some extent and I agree that they are probably authentic.

I can understand the temptation of doing this sort of "slow the spread" if you're a social media platform faced with Trump, my worry is when that gets turned around and deployed against the Left, or against anti-trust, etc. I'm already getting near daily push notifications from Uber telling me which way to vote in California elections, I'm terrified of what the future holds where Twitter et al. can ban certain messages from even being sent to friends.
Fortunately, there already exists a secular church, so to speak: Unitarian Universalism[0].

The modern Unitarian Universalist (UU) church is very welcoming to people of all faiths, religions, and creeds. You do not need to be atheist to join, nor do you need to believe in anything. Most congregations are very welcoming of new members.

Four US Presidents, eleven Nobel prize winners, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee are Unitarians. There are many Unitarians out there, though they do not tend to proselytize much, which is maybe why you haven't heard of them.

As always, finding the right congregation is very important. The UU church has a good site here to help:

https://www.uua.org/find

With the current Covid-19 crisis, local churches near you may be closed or only doing virtual services. Please check with the minister.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism
It may make someone eat less overall over time, as satiety seems to be decreased. There is quite a literature on the topic.
They are also assigned all the corner cases, last mile problems, and have a limited amount of choice surrounding which problem they solve.
I wonder if you will feel that way when GPT-3, deepfaking, and bots produce the vast majority of online content. That day is coming quickly.
No, professional complainers.
English, unlike the 'symbolic' languages they studied, doesn't have narrow cultural roots; it agglomerates Proto-Indo European, Germanic, Celtic, Italic, and others. Chinese and Japanese are far more monocultural, and developed somewhat linearly.

It would be very interesting to see research on the inverse: native English speakers who experience dyslexia in other languages. Also research on non-symbolic language dual learning (e.g., German speakers who learn English).
> It seems like believing in God isn't really the key part.

Maybe that is why the devil and the hell were introduced at some point ;-)

Edited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustinian_theodicy
If Rust does more inlining than Haskell, it does _a lot_ of inlining! Haskell doesn't monomorphise (it calls it specialise) much by default though.
If the secret swapping wasn't as secret as the experimenters thought, these results seem consistent with the babies having a stable, random preference order among the blocks.

Otherwise, it does seem like they've demonstrated (something like?) choice induced preference change in babies, and it's additionally interesting that it can be tricked that way.
I feel like this is an underrated distinction. While definitions vary, this way of looking at it resonates pretty strongly with me, personally.
> think landing a mature cross-platform desktop app framework which is not beholden to any browser vendors is a huge goal.

So this adapts to different browser engines?

I think this will play in favor of Electron. Because its important to have more control, where you can customize and adapt the customize background engine.

The other thing to take into account is that Chrome itself will want to compete in this vertical, with little modifications a Javascript "application" that reuses the same browser engine you already have in your machine (BTW, I think there is something called 'Carlo' that basically achieve that).

This is a really brutal market to compete, so i'm inclined to think the opposite. Its hard to propose real value here , and if you don't do it, its hard to beat more well established propositions.
Do you know how they resolve weird grammatical constructions that are now a part of regional dialects?

One that comes to mind is "How it works?" Although it sounds weird, it is now common enough that there is no way to retroactively correct all the times it has come up.

The other one I see a lot is starting a sentence without an article e.g. "Asking, 'How it works?' is now considered grammatically correct. Reason being [,|that] it is frequently used in spoken English."
Or to use a popular phrasing: Economists have accurately predicted 5 of the last 3 recessions.

On the way up, it always looks like last year was peak. Then this year does even better. Continue for decades until one year, suddenly, the music stops.
Yeah, I could relate to some of these things (on a scale).
I don't understand.

If A implies B, then not B implies not A, and I'm pretty sure when I was in CS school in France (5 years ago) we learned this.

And I'm also pretty sure that I knew this before, though I can't exactly remember when I first learned it.
No, you don't have to do that¹. Where did you get that info? I don't want to argue your personal value calculation and I accept that you feel the way you do, so let's set that part aside.

I've been using my IntelliJ licence at multiple jobs on my own and AFAIK if I don't get it reimbursed I don't need a business licence.

¹ https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240855-Can-...
Spoken like a true hacker.
Agreed, assuming there is informed consent - meaning the legal owner was aware of what was happening, was intending to provide the data and was not deceived.

Without those conditions, you'd exclude the whole field of social engineering from hacking, which is all about making the owner "voluntarily" copy data to a third party - and is widely regarded a subset of "hacking".

Also pending the specific circumstances under which you "own" data, which may not be identical with owning the storage medium, as discussed in other posts.
This is similar what they have for the banning process, but the score is well specified and has a number of points. There have been terrible projects that got a passing score. So you have the classic problem of if it is public they will game it, but if it isn't public than it is corruption.

But I think this is on the right track. As a simple approach you can have final-cost ratio. "Unknown" bidders would use the average score across all projects (or all first-time projects?) and known-good bidders would be able to use their own score (which may be close to 1). Known-bad bidders may have 1.5-2 multipliers which "corrects" for their underbid.

Of course this too simple. You want to:

- Account for time.

- Account for how easy they were to work with.

- You need to factor in unexpected changes. (which do have a cost, but how do you determine the true cost?)

- Using the average for unknowns may make it too difficult for new companies to enter. I way I see it you want some new entries to keep your pool in check. (Although the majority of projects, and quite possibly the largest projects should be going to known-good companies).

I think this is part of the problem. There are so many factors that it is difficult to rigidly define them, and if they aren't rigidly defined than you have chances for corruption.

The TL;DR is that unless you just let a human make the decision it is a very hard problem, and right now we don't think that humans are trustworthy enough.
> Every year, we think that this cannot possibly continue, and every year it does.

> Until now. As covid and wildfire smoke have atomized us all into whatever living space we can afford, and into a grid of separate video boxes on a screen, the place as it was no longer exists. The forces that kept people here are temporarily gone. Through cratering rents San Francisco is finally proving to opponents of growth that supply and demand apply to housing too.

Intelligent people will twist themselves in knots trying to disprove basic economics. I see long threads on HN all the time of brilliant people convinced that supply and demand is just "far too simple" or "totally disproved" etc. etc.

This book is a classic https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...
> Have I noticed all these things? You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want.

And you can also be deliberately avoidant of the things you don't want to think about. Yes, the space programs are doing okay, but the city streets are decaying and filled with crime. Yes, we know about the Higgs Boson, but we also have no savings, and an opioid epidemic.

> If every decision is made to maximize self interest - what about the near eradication of polio and Guinea worm disease by the gates and Carter foundations?

Good things can come from self-interested acts, nobody denies that, but you're thinking about this from within the paradigm of liberalism and so you're missing the critique, like someone who can't see the forest for the trees. In fact, that adage has never been more apt, because the issue with liberalism and with self-interest in general is that it boils down to a cult of the individual.

Within the decaying liberal system, the individual is above all else. Only the experiences of individuals matter. "Communities" don't exist, except as categories; and the categories themselves only exist as ways of aggregating individuals for marketing purposes. We are all atomized, all recluses even when we are being social.

> In the past few years we got CRISPR, an explosion in AI, the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, etc etc etc. All from academics.

Each of those academics is motivated by many factors, some of them selfless, some of them pure curiosity, but ultimately in the case of every successful participant there is the selfish interest in being the person to publish the paper, getting that credit, getting a bit of career advancement, maybe even a bit of fame. Individuals.

The result here is that the academics who do get some notoriety are those who are working on sexy projects, like the ones you named. CRISPR, very cool; funded with a lot of tax money; never likely to do a goddamned thing for 99.999% of the population who fronted the money for it, nor for their children, but hey, maybe 100 years from now we live in some gene-edited hellscape. Yay.
You don't always, ethical companies should not charge a percentage.
There was a discussion a few weeks back about TimescaleDB doing a "Cloud Protection License", which seems to mean that they reserve the right to offer the product in a cloud offering. Seemed to me like a good compromise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579628

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...
> Why did Fairchild have to choose its epicenter as a one dimensional strip of land between mountains and bay with nowhere to physically expand to? Why did every starry-eyed post-bubble founder plop their headquarters in a dinky suburb that would fight them for office space and housing forever after? Abundance is an accident

The Valley grew up around Stanford: https://interestingengineering.com/the-origin-story-of-silic....

Silicon Valley is the result of deliberate industrial policy and state investment into institutions. I grew up in northern Virginia and watched a similar thing happen in Virginia from 1989 to today.
And many car issues can still be fixed if you’re willing to learn. Maybe this is less true the further up you go on the performance scale, but in the ten years I’ve owned my Honda, I haven’t had a single problem I couldn’t fix.
I know Matt. I'm impressed that AWS hired him for this. That's a promising sign.
This has been done more systematically. For example, for 2009: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kbA6T3xpxtko36GgP/assessing-... https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kK5rabDsKWMkup7gw/kurzweil-s...

For 2019: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NcGBmDEe5qXB7dFBF/assessing-...

My own takeaway: Kurzweil's self-assessments are misleading and borderline dishonest; Kurzweil is overoptimistic in general, and you could improve by adjusting by about a decade; there seems to be a split in accuracy to my eyes about hardware vs software - when Kurzweil talks about software such as natural language translation, he is often right or delayed by a relatively short time, but when he talks about hardware (and biology especially) he is strikingly wrong and often the prediction looks like it will never come to pass; and a lot of the software wins were driven by the deep learning revolution: even in 2015, you would have reasonably dismissed some of the 2019 predictions working out, but by the end of 2019...
IIUC...

The idea is that the baby selected the box they believed contained B, but it actually contained A. Apparently the baby concluded that since they had opened the box that they chose, they must have chosen the toy inside, and they now like A better and B worse.
This - I've looked at a number of projects. There's some kind of tipping point with public / govt infra projects at which point they just go crazy in terms of cost, it's like the make work / interia / rent extractors just tip out the get things done folks at some point.

NY / SF, even germany for a bit with Berlin's airport. I look at what they did in the past (huge railroad bridges in 100 days) and even now with private money (Tesla in germany is going up fast and sports stadiums go up like weeds despite their scale) the contrasts are remarkable.

Space Launch System is $20B with not a single flight. SpaceX comes along, get's no $1B/year base, get's paid a fraction of the "big players" - and has done 80+ F9 launches.

Also - success academies in NY seems to have some pretty amazing results relative to local schools. I realize some confounding factors, but if I was a parent in NY - that would be the choice if I lived in an area they served.
Would you recommend anything in particular by Dillard? "How we spend our days is how we spend our days" struck me from the moment I read it (though once I learned the context, the meaning shifted. I haven't read anything by her, though.
Glad to hear. Good luck!

EDIT: I had thought that a commercial franchising agreement implicitly assumes that the purchaser would be operating the franchise directly. However, in this case, it looks like Wifi Dabba will be operating the POP equipment in India for investors not in the immediate POP vicinity. In any case, all the best!
> Can't legislate physics.

What does that even mean? You can absolutely legislate the cost to the environment, to health, to sustainability. If making a widget causes $1 trillion in environmental damage to natural resources, legislating that the company is responsible for that damage is the solution. They either innovate to prevent the damage in the first place, raise prices of the product to cover all the costs (which would basically price out products that aren't sustainable), or they go out of business and stop damaging the environment.
I follow the logic, but I'm not sure homo economicus axioms about the transitivity of preferences necessarily applies to babies. (They also attempted to rule out infants just preferring novel toys, but I'm not sure 58% vs 70% is that decisive a difference for n<50, especially when you acknowledge you've excluded more than a third of the participants in some of the trials for not choosing or bursting into tears!)

I can imagine my brother's wife having fun testing with their daughter though :D
As I said feel free to cite the terms that Hunter Biden signed. We can then discuss about jargon.

Btw Do you mean that there are people paying for your level of legal advice? Good for you man.
> A plant reproducing is something the plant does.

This is not necessarily the case for a quite large number of genetically modified organisms. Many do not propagate without human intervention, as I believe is also the case with seedless grapes.
Well it's not necessarily a bad thing if the pay cut isn't too severe. Totally depends on what the adjustment is, and whether it's fair.
They are, but there is still more trust in the government. Speaking for the Chinese perspective - there are objective measures that most people can evaluate to say that their government has been successful. Sure, there's always disinformation on WeChat and such, but in general the central government is seen as competent and corruption is tolerated as an acceptable part of that. Remember that for the older generation, they literally went from rationing, food shortages, no education, etc., to now what we see of Shanghai/Beijing, their kids have decent access to higher education, travel, consumer goods, etc. Even South Korea/Japan/Taiwan have an older generation who can remember the difficulties of a past era.

The real question is whether this trend can continue forward. My bet is yes for the foreseeable future, but no power system lasts forever. So while we're seeing the gradual (seeming) decline of the West, we'll probably be repeating the pattern in a few decades for East Asia.
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Thank you very much for working on XState, it's a real game changer. Always enjoy your Twitter posts about state machines. Keep up the good work, just realised XState has a Github sponsor button, count me in soon.
People are generally talking about working in different time zones, but proximity to work is one of the best predictors for job satisfaction and turnover.
How is this not an argument that the masses are too stupid to handle themselves and need to be brainwashed for social control and stability? That's essentially what religion is, especially Abrahamic religions based on nothing but completely made up stories.
I think that this was a really interesting parallel to the natural world. There are two really important questions to be asking when trying to figure out if the exodus of Silicon Valley is temporary or permanent.

1. Is the damage or outside stressors that are causing the exodus permanent? (I really hope not...)

2. Was there a natural cause (repeatable, will continue) for the previous abundance, or was it just momentum and luck that kept Silicon Valley as abundant as it has been.

Point number two I leave for discussion.
I'm glad you are happy with your new Toyota but I think you are giving too much confidence in it's ability. Look at this evaluation between OpenPilot and Toyota TSS 2.0 https://youtu.be/z5-inxH92wM

Also free to checkout navigating SF with OpenPilot https://youtu.be/0TpMMoQ7GGg (30 min). I highly doubt you would find similar results with a Toyota TSS 2.0 system. Nevertheless, I will let the contents of the videos speak for themselves.
Recently discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24597748
What Is a Web Form
To drive the analogy even further, web browsers could be considered the automobiles of the information superhighway.
If you use Reddit Enhancement Suite on old.reddit.com you can still sort comments and do all sorts of power users things
- including running scripts / plugins! Yes, reddit actually used to encourage that sort of development. I still run an old old old plugin to delete my comments after a week
It's pretty common and rather annoying
I think the point is that there's so much variability that drawing a conclusion based on anecdotes is bound to be ignoring a lot of reality.