skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. While I hate "canceling" as a tactic, tit-for-tat is a dominant strategy for ensuring cooperation in repeated games. Cancel culture only works because, like the Gestapo/Stasi/NKVD/KGB, the targets are seemingly random and the agents show up in force. But they don't torture or kill, and they don't really possess the level of asymmetric power of actual totalitarian state actors.

As such, canceling the cancelers would likely be useful under the following constraints:

1) Publicly state your intention to cancel anyone who cancels you; and
2) Only cancel people defensively, never on offense;
3) If the canceler professes a change of heart, cease the cancellation, accept the apology (forgiveness/mercy and relatively simple reintegration for offenders is one asymmetric advantage the free speech side has going for it);
4) Form a mutual-aid alliance with likeminded people, such that the cancelation of one implies the cancelation of all;
5) Never under any circumstance apologize or "bend the knee" to a cancel mob, even if you are not completely in the right - you are not dealing with people who want to treat you as an equal, but totalitarians who want to control you.

I think if people who are in favor of free speech (myself included) followed those rules, cancel culture would at least plateau. A couple of prominent cancelers like Anima Anandkumar getting stung would probably allow cooler heads to prevail.
I think the bifurcation might be more clearly described as 'problem space' and 'solution space' complexity.

The 'complexity of the problem' is inherent, by definition.

Unless accountants want to literally change the requirements.

The complexity of the solution space is something else entirely and it may be hard to derive theoretically ...

But with sufficient tooling, such as AI, maybe it becomes trivial.

If we have 'AI Apis' that can immediately handle complex problems and dissolve them into something really simple, then many apparently complex domains could be reduced to something simple.

As long as we're allowed to use 'other software' and not have it 'count' as part of the complexity we are measuring, well, the then complex of the 'app' tends towards 0.

You can already see this a little bit with CRUD apps, which often feel like just gluing some forms together.
It's not likely that charging will represent a durable advantage.

(Tesla has a significant lead, but ultimately still has a small number of locations)
Our (americans) only hope is the EU.
> The president is blaming social media for his election loss and seeking to repeal section 230 as the remedy.

Is that true?

From my perspective, it seems like Trump is pointing to the censorship of “big tech” - Twitter and Facebook, in particular - as having largely suppressed stories that would have been negative for Biden, then having suppressed voter fraud allegations in the immediate aftermath of the election.

This is only the perspective that I infer to be his. I don’t really agree or disagree with it. From where I sit, it has become increasingly difficult to find reliable reporting about any political topic.
Defining the suppression of discussion on COVID as acts of censorship has nothing to do with the private nature of the platforms. It is legal, but it is still censorship.
Hu?

I grew up in France and I have always cleaned my plate as my mother told me. In my familly, it's the polite and sensitive way to eat. Same expectation when visiting friends. Really few are overweight.

Since I moved to Japan, I learned that here too food is treated with the same deference : "you shall not let a grain of rice left in your bowl" is basic table decency. Few overweigh people here either.

Both France and Japan have their food recognized as UNESCO cultural world heritages. In both countries people LOVE to eat and hate to waste.

Maybe people should treat their food and themselves with respect and only put on the plate what they should and can eat?
It completely depends on the reward function it's given. It won't give a shit about anything else.
These are fairly artificial constraints.

1. Lidar is expensive for everyone. It’s not like Tesla will pay more than other manufacturers. They’d prefer not to use Lidar, but if cameras just don’t cut it, I don't think they would die on that hill.

2. I’m sure there is some fine print around the current FSD being for camera based sensors only. They can easily say the car tops off at L4 for cameras, and L5 needs Lidar, if we come to that bridge
Not unless they can make them significantly quieter. What you don't hear under the music in that video is the robot making an awful lot of noise just moving around. The hostage-takers in your scenario will hear them a mile away.
From the HN Guidelines ([0]):

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

It certainly gratified my intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's Via Transilvanica ~1200 km
https://www.viatransilvanica.com/en/guide/
and the map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1J5_EDJTogDtItv...
What would be better is if the US had (does it?) a nation-wide law requiring explicit opt-in, as opposed to having to opt out of surveillance. Small steps forward.

Also, does this form really amount to anything other than "we promise we won't spy you that much?" Are banks audited in this regard, or are they subject to the same non-existent regulations as the Sillycon Valley surveillance?
No. The answer isn't "yes". And you have linked to absolutely no studies to affirm whether this brand new vaccine is more effective than natural antibodies long-term. No such studies have been conducted.
If Dear PyGUI uses immediate mode, does it perhaps have the makings of a game library?

I looked briefly at pygame a while ago and was dissuaded when using hardware surfaces seemed to be black magic in the opinion of many users of the library, and using software rendering nets you a max of like 25fps if you do nothing but blit black across the entire screen. Does anyone know if pygame is still the state of the art for python game dev?
Apple also lobbied against the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Reprehensible.

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-nike-coca-cola-lobbied...

Passed the House, has not yet passed in the Senate.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6210
I think it's a fair assumption to make that we cannot increase healthspan significantly more than we can increase lifespan. The increases to each would be similar; after all, a healthy body won't just keel over and die. The post you were responding to specifically mentioned the costs of end of life care. If we can't reduce the amount of time between when a body begins to fail and when a person dies, then we've done nothing to address that issue.
I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. Most firewalls are just so much security theater cargo culting. NAT and universal firewalls have done immeasurable, and at this point practically irreversible, damage to network freedom and free software.
A look ahead at hair growth therapies in 2021
It's kind of an amazing tidbit (from the Wikipedia article) that this service has to interface with 8500 different ticket issuing systems. I hope they have a well defined communications protocol.
I just used my phone keyboard. No idea it mapped to that character!
If your point is that frequently interruptions of sleep is not the same as a sociological phenomenon? I think it is if it happens in every family, every night. It's exactly the kind of pattern that changes habits, cultures, and technology trends. It's worth documenting and giving it a name. If all of a sudden the pattern disappears, that's also worth noting.
buy an intel nuc, take it off the case, you've got a single-board-computer that you can use as a desktop.

look out for my comments for more free tech tips.
My grandfather would say "take all you'd like, but eat all you take" which had a similar "plate clearing" idea, but was also more responsible (likely due to growing up during the great depression).

The issue with the "children in africa" thing is that someone else is setting the portions for you, I think. Everywhere I go, meals are just too big! I feel silly only eating half of a meal, especially if I don't have the ability to save the rest for later.

Portion sizes, like everything else in America, are just bigger.
But common! Companies often pretend to buy you in order to get insight into your plans and finances. Or pretend to buy you in order to delay you so that they can build competitors. Can happen to individuals too. You get interviewed, made to explain the design choices of your invention only to then get rejected when they release their competing product.
Ask HN: Have you found a way to avoid burnout
I've burnt out once before and don't ever want to repeat that. It's such a horrible place to be, not being able to do a good days work is horrible.

I'm sure this has happened to others. Have any of you found a mechanism to avoid this happening to you?
Well hopefully they approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine too, which should be much easier to roll out are greater scale.
I thought I remember string theory positing more than three dimensions. Does string theory explain our perception of three at human length and time scales?
Honestly, GTA has been mellowing out over the years. the antics of running around a strip club beheading prostitutes as might have happened in vice city are replaced with a focus with the main story which most of the time would not be out of place on primetime TV - is it still set in a dark crime world, yes. But they've moved on from the level of shock factor of earlier titles. There's maybe one sequence in the first 40-50% of GTA V I played that I can recall as being very shocking.
I've been at usps for 15 years, and I only wish that our amazon overlords would just take over.. the incompetence in govt handling this kind of thing is impossible, and the usps unions...just wow. Grievance because you woke an employee from mid day slumber too abruptly. only tip of ice berg... Amazon is good at what they do we should not punish them, we should be asking competitors why they are so bad
“Better” for who? The corporations or the people? United States usually favors one over the other by design.
How did they manage to do that without government subsidies and CO2 taxes?
Like the fox offering an opt-out list to the chickens...
By “little guy”, you mean convicted criminal and recently pardoned friend of President Trump?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-pr...
Thanks for the link - I found the interview interesting.

In it, Pink describes two competing mindsets for approaching social issues. One prioritizes analysis and understanding as first steps; the other prioritizes activism unrestrained by fact-checking.

I'd be interested to hear his accusers' response to that interview. Experience tells me to withhold judgment until I've heard from all sides, and that interview was only with him.
Neuro-plasticity means what it says: the brain is moldable. It's not static. It's not set in stone. Prior to neuro-plasticity the brain was perceived as being set in stone, so to speak.

The brain is a result of how you "exercise" it, or not. It's the result of what you feed it, or not. It's not static.

Neuro-plasticity enables stroke victims to recover. And the depth and breadth of that recovery is a function of how much or not the brain is forced to rewire.
How to distuingish this behavior from hypocrisy, then?

The defense vs attack comparison seems very inappropriate, I don't know where's the line between the former and the latter, but trying to get someone fired seems like an attack to me.
I think the word he is looking for in the beginning is surreal.
Same here. I have a suspicion like they designed it for 5 queries/day and we just blew it.
SVMs are still relevant and well worth learning if you want ML of the non-neural variety.
The Cuddle Sutra [pdf]
Again, it's proof of a relationship. His actions via Wikileaks is proof he is a Russian asset. King and Ventura didn't participate in a coordinated attack on American democracy, so your comparison remains useless.

> If there was any actual evidence he was a Kremlin agent

"why don't spy agencies burn sources and methods to charge Assange with espionage when he's already in prison for other charges?" That's really not how it works.
I highly recommend requesting your data from Verizon (if you’re a vzw customer). A 10mb spreadsheet, very enlightening. Not too difficult to request but took 2-3 weeks to arrive.

What is the process requesting from lexis nexis?
Can’t legislate from the bench. But there already is a subtext here. If one could license iOS for this, what they are doing here probably wouldn’t fall under fair use. Instead it could fall under the terms of Apple’s own license agreement. I’m personally kind of sick of Apple’s shit in the virtualization/emulation/kernel/cloud/hackintosh/thumb-on-developers area though, and I fully realize my bias to applaud this decision regardless of whether or not it is fair or right to Apple or whether Cornelium deserved to win. Seems there is a lot of smoke billowing out of this thing...
This is one of my favorite topics, because these stages are so often misused, misquoted, and misunderstood. I can guarantee you that after two weeks and a hacker weekend, you most likely do not have a MVP, let alone a working prototype or a viable business concept. There is so much more work that has to be done.
I think the answer is to put up a gate with keypad and just provide the code to the landowner that has right of way. expensive but 100% effective.
I am aware of that. Which is why I tried being very precise with my words:

> However, AdS/CFT hasn't produced a single bit of verifiable experimental evidence in the realm of black holes
I bought an ODROID-HC1 to do some data recovery tasks at some point during the pandemic. I was very impressed by their polish. The hardware was quite reliable and the software stack was on par with RPI. Overall, do reccomend.
This is really cool, but a lot of the comparison to VR or AR HMDs is parroting VR cliches (it's anti-social, you need a headset, etc). I do believe a display could be interesting for some use cases, but one of the strengths of VR is handtracking and tracked controllers. VR wasn't particularly interesting without an input system and that's regularly disconnected by both VR skeptics and VR lovers. A volumetric display you could reach into (think Black Panther "black sand") would be amazing.
Back then, Microsoft had a reputation for ruthless and underhanded corporate behavior. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising, were bad behavior also going on internally.
UAP Task Force to Provide Report to Senate Intelligence Committee
> If the writing is bad, there's nothing that can really "improve" it other than the original author cleaning it up with the help of an editor. A bad translation is effectively a new work, at best inspired by the original bad script. You could replace a bad Japanese script with a "good" English one - this has happened before - but at that point it's questionable whether any translation has happened at all, you're mostly writing new content inspired by the original work or adhering to broad constraints.

What distinction are you drawing between working with an editor vs working with a translator? Often it's a very similar process, and there are cases where something is cleaned up in a translation and then that gets incorporated back into the next edition in the original language.
If your computer is secure, you don't need a firewall.
The law is not a programming language, no matter what herds of software engineers may like to believe. Every license is subordinate to legislation, statute, rights and obligations, tests of reasonableness and the public interest, jurisprudence etc.

The delusion that one can magically conjure otherwise with a few words and a tickbox, leads straight down the path that Apple followed.
The site is already marketingreportoptout.visa.com. How would your random link add anything?
I mostly agree with you. On the topic specifically of whether protests over the summer were a significant factor in spreading the virus, I haven’t seen evidence that’s true. This article is from August so practically ancient history now, but it describes an analysis concluding the protests weren’t a major factor. If there is evidence to the contrary I would love to see it.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/08/11/racial-justice-prot...
> except OSM isn't dependent on any company or person in particular. It's a community effort

That doesn't stop Apple needing control, or at least feeling that way.

> Apple could as well contribute whatever improvements it deems necessary to benefit themselves and everyone else

They do. Apple uses OSM data and contributes to OSM indirectly (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple).

> It would've been a much better starting point, too

Who's to say? As stated, Apple does use OSM data. They use data from multiple different sources. (http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html)

> than whatever proprietary data they licensed to get started

I detect a bit of a fallacy in what you're saying, that Apple wanting to have control over their own geographical data must mean that they aren't using or contributing to OSM. It isn't a zero-sum situation.
What Section 230 does is make business which operate platforms not liable for the user content posted on those platforms. It's a "safe harbor" provision that prevents any company from having to take on the legal liabilities that come from hosting user-generated content they have no real control over.

In short, if you post something on Facebook that someone else doesn't like, that person can't sue Facebook. But, crucially, there's nothing special about Facebook, Twitter, or the other big names here. If I make my own social media startup, I would also enjoy the same protections. It's the same reason you can't sue Wikipedia for libel if you don't like what's written about you. Indeed, wikipedia can only really exist because of Section 230 protections.

Now why would the negative effects be disproportionate towards small entities and startups? Because the big guys can afford their own content moderation systems. They certainly don't want to take on the role of censor, but they're perfectly able to. Little nimble startups can't, which makes repealing section 230 a form of regulatory capture by existing social media companies.
I thought these paragraphs were particularly interesting:

> When I have spoken to them, their approach has been significant: they've chosen what features to prioritize based on a chosen major website, and then attempted a complete implementation of those features. An example of this is that they only implemented HTMLTableElement in the recent past, despite having supported much of the HTML DOM for a lot longer.

> Historically, many attempts at new browser engines have started by trying to systematically implement features per specification, only to find that no interesting site is yet functional even when the majority is done. By being vastly more selective and only implementing features when needed, they are undoubtedly cutting out many obscure legacy features unlikely to be used on any major site today.
I follow the account and thought the same thing as you for a while. The name and picture are always changing, but then I saw several huge publications cite his account. It made me rethink that it was either a) him, b) he doesn’t care that someone is impersonating him and getting cited, or c) he has no idea about the account or any articles referring to it.
In Hong Kong, it's nice that Google maps has some hiking trails, but it has no notion of trail quality. Hong Kong really has some great official hiking trails with markers every 1 km, mostly dirt, but with some concrete sections. Google maps also has some very questionable routes, with no indication that you're going to be blazing a trail through 6-foot high brush or scaling a rock with help of a very sketchy rope cobbled together from several ratty ropes.

I do see now that the Mount Butler HF radio station is no longer marked "Gas Station" (hint: barbed wire and guard dog warning signs aren't common at gas stations) on Google maps, so at least some things have gotten better. At least the desktop maps also have some indication of trail quality, but it shows as a high quality trail the most direct trail from Explosive Ordinance Disposal Depot at the Quarry Bay rock quarry to Jardine's Lookout on the back side of the quarry. That trail includes a scramble up a rock face with the assistance of a cobbled-together sketchy rope, and trail blazing through bamboo leaves that will give you paper cuts. My wife now refers to that path as "I will kill you Hubby Mountain".

When we first moved to North Point, my wife and I were looking for an alternative route from our place up over the mountain range to Stanley. Google maps ended up taking us to the Morning Garden (fair enough), but then through a bunch of knee-length grass where the trail was apparently only virtual, down to the front face of the quarry in Quarry Bay, past the police shooting range and the EOD Depot, up a narrow concrete flash flood control ditch, and up a rock face assisted by a cobbled-together rope some kind soul left for others, and finally a scramble to meet Jardine's Lookout at the back side of the quarry. It wasn't that dangerous, but it was very rough and my wife wasn't happy about bamboo leaf cuts on her legs. Google maps really should have had us continue on Sir Cecil's Ride until it met the Wilson Trail behind the quarry, instead of taking a shortcut through Morning Garden.

We always take plenty of water and download the government map PDFs to our phones. I have plenty of experience navigating the wilderness on the US-Canadian border. I have plenty of orienteering / map reading as well as dead-reckoning experience. Still, it'd be nice to have a trustworthy navigating app to double-check my route.
This article is a great example of the straw man fallacy. The article pretends that there is an "intellectual justification" for capitalism that doesn't recognize the need to break up monopolies to preserve the free market. I think that recognition is quite common even among "hardcore libertarians".

The article makes good points in favor of a government intervention of some kind against Amazon. But the headline and thesis is overwrought, unsupported clickbait.

(For what it's worth, in my opinion, the lack of government action in this area is good evidence that no one in power in the US right now gives two shits about the intellectual justification for capitalism).
Cairo, a Turing complete language for writing provable programs, is released
Presumably paying that ransom would also be illegal.
Depends on how much I got paid.
Is Every Ambitious Teen-Ager a “Founder and CEO”?
Could this ruling have gone another way if it was done in a different state? e.g. California

(just generally curious)
This doesn't sound like a true story. He lies to Bill Gates 'telling him the console would incorporate the Windows operating system' but also had 'been telling them that [this doesn't need Windows at all] for two years.'