skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Things that affect everyone fairly equally are now just more expensive. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Housing. Higher education.

It's great that our universities are capable of turning out transformative technologies like CRISPR, but it's arguably slowing down, and it's happening at a time when our basic assumptions about what education opportunities should be available to our children. And make no mistake, they're narrowing.

Space travel may retrospectively look in a thousand years like an absolute necessity. But that will be from a perspective of inequality here on earth having exploded. And fewer people will be involved than our collectivity would like.
This is neat, I'm looking at the licensing for my project.
Because by now everyone knows it as "Spanish flu". If you say H1N1-A-18, almost nobody would know what you're talking about.
Can you help me understand why selectively removing content
from a privately owned website is considered "abuse"?
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The benefits of yoga are countless, both, for the body and mind. As a regular exercise, yoga boosts flexibility, muscle tone, and strength, and helps weight loss.
Maybe lived through the famous nationwide botulism scare (the reason black olives are in cans to this day).
So, you are a much better player than I will likely ever be. For me what mattered is that the software would guide me to improve on a piece as fast as possible. To do this it measures your performance very precisely and then judges where you are still weak, and then it starts to bring you up by focusing on the weakest parts first until they are no longer the weakest parts. Like that you improve quite rapidly.

Give it a try if you have an opportunity, I'm curious what you make of it given that you are roughly on the same path but clearly very much ahead of me.
Thanks so much for answering! I think what I'm trying to understand is why you'd want to target chemicals if other options like surgery also are targeted. Is the application then for tumors that are hard to remove surgically?
> Would the forums of yesteryear survive?

I know this is questioning some fundamental assumptions of most of our moral principals, but I am literally questioning: should they survive? It seems everyone is assuming that they should. Some seem to suggest they should for abstract "free speech at all costs" philosophy. Others are assuming they have some kind of positive effect, either on personal growth or economic activity.

> Would the open source software community survive?

I'm not sure how Section 230 applies to code but I don't think public forums like Facebook, Twitter or Youtube are necessary for open source software to continue (any more than they were necessary for it to start, which happened long before they existed).

Besides, what I'm pondering is the centralized aggregation points. People could still host blogs, they are just directly liable for the content they post (as they likely are now).
> then a big “thank you for making this and making it open source” is appropriate.

As is not doing it.

Perhaps you did not mean to use the word "appropriate"?
> It is impossible for a content-removal practice, algorithmic or otherwise, to be politically neutral.

Right. My point is that Hawley's whole premise of a "politically appointed political neutrality committee" is absurdly transparent.
Yup. We basically built a worst-of-all-options* system in the US. It's not free market. And it's not fully socialized.

* From the perspective of an average consumer. It's a brilliant system if you're in a position to profit off it. And it has resulted in the best health care in the world (for those who can afford it).
That just demonstrates that there isn't an easily definable political neutral. From my point of view, the "Burisma scandal" got all the attention it deserved. The reason the media isn't harping on it is because it wasn't a scandal, and one political party was desperately trying to make it so.

In the same way, a lot of people would say it would be neutral for media to present arguments that global warming is not man-made, but people who care about scientific fact would claim that even presenting the skeptic argument is non-neutral, sense you are signal boosting an argument with no basis in reality.
This reminds me of what the Lincoln character said in the same named movie about the 13th amendment: "what you will be to our nation after this I don't know." Well, now we know.
Newspapers and magazines have a staff of editors (and sometimes lawyers!) review each issue before it's published. That's the standard you want to apply to anyone running any forum anywhere on the internet? That every comment has to be carefully prescreened for legal compliance? And even then you have to operate under a substantially increased risk of lawsuit.

Maybe you prescreen every comment but you make a bad call and something defamatory gets through. Or maybe someone sues you under bad faith and you have to pay to defend it or settle.

This is a very bad future for the internet. It's an internet where the powerful, who have the full support of publishers, will get to have their voices heard loudly. And the less powerful, who do not have teams of lawyers willing to fight on their behalf, will have a very hard time getting their voices heard.
Yes, it does. As long as you use a browser supporting extensions, like Firefoxu or Kiwi for example.
Good point, thank you, I will add this to the todo list.
I instantly knew it was incorrect but it took me way to long to realize it's suppose to be 1E-21 or 10^-21 seconds.
In Ohio, a Printing Company Is Overwhelmed and Mail Ballots Are Delayed
MySQL has dual license and one of them if friendly to companies who can pay the fees.
Yes with Firefox Nightly.
>They'd get freedom to control their platform, just without a special legal exemption that gives them immunity from the results of their control on of their platform.

Exactly, thats the point. It's a market economy of platforms.

>they're censoring politically and control what people see, shaping public opinion in large ways.

Companies are allowed to choose what they say and project outward.

The problem here is a lack of interoperability between platforms, institutional silos. Standardized data exports and imports. Cross platform messaging and subscription.

230 exists precisely to prevent the world you are advocating. It's not an accidentally careless law that had a loophole, it's intent is to protect private companies first amendment rights.

>They should be liable for the content of their platforms since they demonstrated the ability to control whats on them.

Says who? I dont think they have at all demonstrated they are good at controlling whats on their platforms. They are ok at at, at best.
The last McDonald's meal sold in Iceland is still around, 11 years later:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50262547
About a trillion zeptoseconds == 1-nanosecond.

Or 250 Billion zeptoseconds == 0.25 nanoseconds (aka: typical 4GHz desktop CPU these days). Many CPU operations can be applied to a register in a singular clock tick (Add, Sub, XOR, AND), multiplication can happen once-per-clock tick but still has a latency of a few cycles (maybe 4 to 5 clocks, or ~1-nanosecond)
Defund police? If you must make them worse. How about redirecting it into the prison system instead of some fairy social justice grift?
> Cambridge Analytica was overblown

Louder for the people in the back.
Government is partnering with big banks, fintech to speed payments to Americans
Luckily, we won't have this problem with "SARS-CoV-2".
I've done that, and this is roughly how magenta works, which is pretty good, on random input it has about 92.5% accuracy which I think is very impressive.
It’s not even that. People don’t even try to read. Ask two questions in an e-mail, and get an answer to the first question, only. Every time.

You have to adapt. Ask the single most important question as the first sentence. Don’t write a lot of text after the question either – it would only make people feel they can put off reading it, and therefore put off answering the e-mail. Don’t ask an easy question later in the same e-email (people would answer that question only, and ignore the rest of the text). And so on.
My impression was that Turkish referred to nationality, not race in this case. The impression is that electronic law and order in Turkey are different than in California.
I don't think GP is questioning the need for a good but unsecure PRNG.

What is questionable is the "somewhat secure" argument. Either you don't want adversaries to predict your numbers and you should use a good CSPRNG, or you don't care and predictability is not a property that matters.

As for reproducibility, all PRNGs give a reproducible sequence if you know the internal state, including the secure ones. You have to mix in a source of entropy to make them non-deterministic. The predictability we are considering here is when the attacker doesn't have access to the internal state.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The article is pretty bad. It starts as an anecdote about an inmate beaten to death by the wards, like if it was representative, but then the overwhelming majority of deaths are a result of diseases, overdoses and suicides. Also no reference to the denominator, so you can’t really tell if there is an over mortality in jail vs outside (particularly for the subset of the population that is likely to end up in jail - drug addicts, people with mental problems, etc).
> Any of these is preferred for API/Web development?

I often wonder why anyone would use a language like Zig or Rust for Web development. I am very much biased in favour of Nim here, but to me in general a non-GC'd language seems like overkill for web development. So I would rule those languages out straight away.

I can't speak to Elixir, likely the main difference will be the lack of a mature Django-like framework. I'm assuming that Elixir has one, whereas Nim doesn't. If you're looking for a fun project, I would love to see that made for Nim and happy to give pointers if you need them :)
I can't read the article (paywall), but in general - you can't. E&Y (and the other audit firms) have very real conflict rules that prevent audit customers from using advisory services and vice versa.

In fact, we went down the road in building out an offer that would have worked with one of the firms and we abandoned it because it was so painful to just determine if they had a conflict and then we would lose the customer if they did.
> The U.S. government collects detailed data on who’s dying in which jails around the country – but won’t let anyone see it.

I want to know more about this. That's my data, as I am that for which the government exists. So who dares to withhold it from me? Have newspapers tried FOIA requests for it? This is the first I've heard of this data being withheld. Withheld by who?

Edit: wow holy shit it's worse than I thought:

> The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics has collected inmate mortality data for two decades – but statistics for individual jails are withheld from the public, government officials and oversight agencies under a 1984 law limiting the release of BJS data. Agency officials say that discretion is critical because it encourages sheriffs and police to report their deaths data each year.

They don't want to let people read the reports because they're afraid cops won't report their murders otherwise. Despicable. Now I have more reasons than ever to continue protesting.
> It kind of turned into a mini-cult around Yudkowski

I think this transformation had already happened when I first heard of rationalists. Some of the things that they were saying seemed vaguely interesting. But I couldn't quite put my finger on something being off. At some point I came to the conclusion that Yudkowski was some sort of cult leader like figure.

A cult around rational thinking. Isn't that something.

Then later tiger king came out and I realized that apparently everything can devolve into forming cults.
That was the relief technique I tried but did not work for me but discovered the one that works: Rubbing in single motion by starting from back my shoulder up to the back of my ear.
At what point would you consider IPv6 "widely used"? It's currently 30% of traffic:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
The entire minecraft protocol in Rust using macro magic
It's not that SV is union workers but that union workers have a higher labor cost. Kind of goes to why GM started Saturn in TN and why Saturn cars where cheap in the late 80s, no unions thus cheaper labor.

SV labor is expensive compared to other markets (see below). I have worked in SV and elsewhere and mostly elsewhere is 1/2 the pay as SV and without the things like free lunch / coffee bar / shuttle service.

SV doesn't need unions because the turnover rate is so high that the companies are basically providing what unions would negotiate just to compete (free lunch / coffee bar / shuttle service). It's still a buyers market from the employee standpoint.

I do think SV is not quite at the inflection point just yet, but it is moving in that direction.

The irony in this is actually that the cost of labor is high because the cost of living is high. The cost of living is high because of the NIMBY folks preventing multiunit housing. If the ballon collapses those NIMBY folks would see their precious house values decline.

Finally as to superior products most Japanese and German cars sold in the US are still built in the US, just not Detroit because of.... Wait for it.... Union Workers.
Nano defender is an anti-anti-adblocker. It works along with uBO ("defend" it if you like), or author's fork of uBO (Nano ADBlocker).

uBo is getting good doing this job itself now, but there are still some gaps for Nano Defender to be useful.
Would you consider "this is dangerous" or "this is misinformation" to be editorializing? What about "adding context"[1], as Jack Dorsey has promised to do at twitter?

Given that all are judgement calls, I'd say it's impossible for it to not be. There's a difference between merely removing something and giving your opinion on the contents.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1317081843443912706
I am curious about applications too. I wonder if this is somehow related to being able to do protein folding
And this projects doesn't use GPL, uses Apache. So why do the authors expect something back !?
> wtf is it to them if I choose to commute 2hrs each way to and from work

No one is docking people for living farther away and commuting into the office. The salary adjustments are for people who live in areas with different costs of living.
Auto-update is such a antifeuture. There is like no circumstances where it is beneficial since you can mever trust it wont break your stuff or add malicoius code. Since it is pushed instantly there is no chance anyone had the time to review it.

Eg. Steam ask if it should update a game. Windows just does it and adds Candy Crush and spyware. Two different takes on the same thing.
The Medium rebrand is a flipped copy of bakkenbaeck's work
In Reversal, Twitter Is No Longer Blocking New York Post Article
Governments like that interest free cash.
Isn't the denominator a number that happens to also the vast majority of the world's imprisoned?

Nothing you're saying makes me think any of this is ok lol.
I agree that it's an incentive problem, and that it is directly analogous to what happened with the ratings agencies, but I don't think regulation will help much.

Auditing worked when the shareholders were paying for it, because they were interested in getting 'tough' reports, and they were holding the auditors to account. As soon as you make it mandatory, and the companies are paying for it, the audit becomes de rigueur; more of a formality than a search for truth. I don't think regulators are part of the solution here.

I think that having 'crowdfunded' audits by shareholders would work much better, but it probably won't happen while audits are required for all public companies. You'd have to put the onus of auditing back on the shareholders, and expect that some results will go un-audited.
Are these designed to be mixed and matched? Like, Polyform-free trial + Polyform-small business?
Your impression that chemo is only valuable for metastatic cancer is mistaken.

Chemo is effectively a poison that poisons the tumour faster than the rest of the body; the tumour’s cells are more susceptible to the poison than normal cells because they’re reproducing faster. As such, it doesn’t matter whether the tumour is large or small, localised or metastatic. It’s given systemically simply because of the nature of the drugs in question - because that’s generally how we get drugs into the body. Local administration of drugs is rare, and chemo especially so.
Printer manufacturers don't make money on printers. They make money on ink. Making money on ink requires a closed system to require the ink purchase. There is aftermarket ink, but companies are always working to defeat it.
>> There is NO SOLUTION [Emphasis added] to this problem that doesn't involve unaccountable third parties setting the ground rules

Are you absolutely sure that this statement is correct?
...and I'm relatively certain they wanted to communicate that the new owners are based in Turkey, not that their developer team is strictly of Turkish ethnicity. They probably didn't check whether there might be Kurds or Circassians on the team.
I would say that Nim has one of, if not the, highest quality metaprogramming among these languages. Indeed, compile-time function execution, AST manipulating macros, declarative templates and term rewriting macros are some of the metaprogramming features in Nim.
(Angular) Globally enforce a coding style using TSLint and Prettier and Husky
Yep. My point isn’t that Slovenian, German et al are special in having many dialects. Slovenian has way many for such a small language, but all languages have them.

What’s interesting about English is the relative lack of dialects outside the UK. It’s already a very standardized lingua franca because of how it spread.

And what’s left is solvable with the BBC/Hollywood English. Similar to how germany has hoch deutsch – an invented standard dialect everyone learns in school.

You can have a standard form of English taught in schools without demanding say-to-day stabdardization in common use. And we kinda already do. Just unofficially.
Why not give the new feature to paying licencees immediately and to open source 12-24 months later.
A company which is building a valuable product will not think twice whether to wait for 2 years and their rivals being faster or buying a commercial license. And everyone else just has to wait, they will get it for free one day, ignore their hate.

I have seen systems too where every new feature to an open source project had to be sponsored by big companies. If nobody is paying for it, it will never happen.
I'd guess quantum research
I did a podcast interview with two early and very successful adopters of the PolyForm NonCommercial license: https://www.valueinopen.fm/episode/epplus-mats-jan

They are making enough license sales for both of them to be fully self-employed working on EPPlus.
"GPL is about freedom for the user" - define what do you mean by freedom, it's different for different people.

GPL is the better license for net freedom. - it's not, because of it's virality, it pollutes other code and then demands everything fall into it's license, which is ethically wrong.
You seem like a psychopath who's terrible at cocktail parties.
This is absolutely fucking bonkers. Why are we literally fine with this? When are we going to draw the line?

Is this the bystander effect in the scale of an entire country? "Oh I'm waiting for someone else to start taking action first"

And then some people have the audacity to criticize people taking direct action while they're living in their single family homes, completely oblivious to what's happening to thousands of their country-people.

I'm disappointed in us.
I worked on a process to reduce a vatful of long-chain polysaccharides to dextrose. The resulting dried powder was shipped as 'coffee creamer'. But not sure how efficient the process would be on starch - we started with much shorter chains (sucrose etc but some starch).
sg! will take a look!
>Section 230 makes sites like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, Instagram and even Hacker News possible. Revoking Section 230 could expose those platforms to the possibility of liability for content posted on them. This might cause a re-shaping of the Internet in general.

>Part of me seriously wonders - would that necessarily be a bad thing? I am not convinced, by any stretch of the imagination, that these social media opinion aggregation platforms are universally positive.

Here's where you are wrong to think this. It doesn't protect social media giants, Hacker News and news websites. It protects literally everyone on the internet in the USA.

Thanks to this law you can't be held liable if you have a blog with a comment section. Anyone can post anything there and you could be at serious risk of legal trouble if someone posted something that breaks the law on your website. Any communal website would either a) move out of the US and b) probably require some very strict controls on who can post and what.

The law doesn't protect American giants, it protects everyone that uses the internet to discuss.

I suggest you read this blog post on the issue, especially this part:

""If you said "Section 230 is a massive gift to big tech!"

Once again, I must inform you that you are very, very wrong. There is nothing in Section 230 that applies solely to big tech. Indeed, it applies to every website on the internet and every user of those websites.""

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
This isn’t “stripping it bare”. Nothing is being taken away from the author nor is anything preventing the author or original contributors from continuing to work.

That’s the whole point of the license. You’re putting code out there for others to use however they want.

This isn’t even about legal requirement vs intent. If you put up a super permissive license, you are making the intent very clear that people can do whatever they want with it.

The lack of obligation, both legal and societal, of using open source software is what makes it so useful and lets the whole ecosystem flourish.

If your in open source for glory and getting monetary or promotional credit for your work, you’re doing it for the wrong reason.
Nano blocker was awesome.

Now I have to delete stuff.

At this point, I no longer trust non-open source application and even open source stuff with low followers.
best reason to use firefox is the ability to disable updates for extensions

I've got them all off except ubo
I suggest that's exactly what we see with the social media problems, the tribes are still insular and ignorant they're just bigger.
Good on Reuters for investigating and sharing this data. The jail system is a wreck and people with mental health issues do not have good outcomes in it.

I worked with these folks on the mental health side years ago and we avoided putting our people in King County Jail whenever at all possible for a lot of reasons. Support in the form of mental health professionals, other social workers, and basic training for the cops and corrections officers is severely lacking.

Some of my guys would be in and out of KCJ dozens of times for minor charges, which would interrupt what little treatment and stability they had, sometimes catastrophically. Between that and the ER visits they were probably costing the city and state tens of thousands a year. Considering how cheap housing was when we could find it and the incredibly powerful effect it had on their lives and outcomes, it felt like the system was robbing itself while making everyone worse off in the process. And Seattle is known for being a compassionate, responsive city for this stuff! How it must be in other places I can't even imagine.
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