skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m quite happy that they are able to make money off of a game like chess. I don’t see a problem with “cashing in on their domain name.” They provide value to people, and people are willing to pay.

You generally have to pay to be a member of a chess club for example. For a fraction of the price, you can play with anyone in the world. Seems valuable to me.
Juno at Jupiter: Extended Mission Flybys of Galilean Moons
By charging their users money.
I think if you look at pre-2016 Trump and Sanders, before both got eaten up by their respective political machines, their larger platforms are actually quite similar.
Not sure if I follow this logic. Are you saying that importing SV salaries and culture will create a Dutch disease effect in the broader Canadian economy?
This analysis seems to be restricted to the USA, which becomes apparent when the charts appear.

I wish there was an established way on HN to mark titles which sound like they are general but actually only care about USA, at least for social and economic analyses.
UXG-Pro is the successor to the USG. It’s available in the EA store. I was tempted to get it but it’s $500 so I’ll wait for it to go GA.
Still makes it a "is a witness which adds problems.". So there is no difference compared to normal truck+driver, in this specific sense.
New dev tools can break the low-code lock in
I used to spend hours doing this on Deluxe Paint II, back in 1988
When someone is in charge of way more money than that I think you want a sinecure for them after they leave so they don't fuck things up for you if they get restless.
Even the heads of state for UK, Canada, and Germany have directly attributed blame to the Trump administration, which is diplomatically rare among allies.
They do the slow fade-in effect when you open the door. That's got to cost something.

I, mistakenly, bought the refrigerator with LED lighting because I hated how old-style bulbs would turn on slowly in the cold. LED lighting should be instant I thought. Oh no, totally on purpose it was made slow.
Are they really useful or are they just easy to copy and to rember?

Staying power of memes in culture has little to do with their usefulness.

Whole lot of popular narratives distract us from the nature of reality rather than helps us interact with it.

I would gladly see introduction to particle physics that doesn't show a single sharp rigid sphere.
I hear the State Department CMS might have some openings...
I have a better idea - these creatures are no more different than the beasts of burden of old...then the steam and int. combustion engines came so we put them down.
Nobody is missing them, nobody will miss the current lot as well.
Great, thanks for the detailed and informative explanation.
No, there are few to no actual privacy improvements over centralized systems.

Perhaps even functional regression: what, are you going to run a hash blocklist across all nodes? Like spamhaus? Is there logging or user accounting? Is anything chain of custody admissable, or are we actually talking about privacy and liberty here?

Is everything just marked, "not for unlimited distribution"? And we dwpend upon there not being bad actors?

Real costs are very different with just friendly early adopters.

Cryptographically signing posts (with LD-Signatures) may help with integrity, but that can be done with centralized systems and does nothing to help with confidentiality.

What about availability?
Is it a trivially-DOS'able system?
no need for tmux, nohup would have done the job.
If they don't it'll just add to the duopoly break up argument.

It's also easy to be be complacent when it's not our views under attack, but all you need is the thought exercise of how this will be abused when the other side takes power.
> Quite a large number of physicists (and quantum computing people) seem to speak as if there is one.

The reason they seem to speak that way is because they are being a little sloppy for the sake of brevity. The physicists all understand that there is a blurry boundary.

There is an amusing instance where there was a similar confusion though: the soft diffraction limit was mistaken by many for a hard one. So super-resulution came as a bit of a shock.
Molly for Android: A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock
Being able to refer to my car, or ship, or other vessel, as an identified single object, regardless of what parts have been changed - yes, I would say it is very useful thing for living with it and operating it.

> easy to copy and to rember

That's a very important, useful and valueable property of an abstraction, yes. Though certainly not the only important property.

Or do you want one that takes you hours to understand and that you have to remind yourself of it and re-learn every week?
You can google "antifa guillotine" or "blm guillotine" and see the same thing but against trump/bezos/unpopular governor
Then why can't I easily purchase a Disney+ subscription? The main thing I don't understand why, as a Canadian aboding in Cyprus, I see: "Sorry, Disney+ is not available in your region" instead of a call for a credit card number and email address.

It's an EU country! You know what Netflix shows me on an incognito browser?

"Unlimited movies, TV shows, and more. Watch anywhere. Cancel anytime."

It's 2021 and the internet has been around long enough. How is the company this poorly managed?
Any running Linux kernel is a router. You just have to know how to configure it. Of course, you might be expecting a lot more than just a router, ie. DHCP, DNS, traffic shaping etc. It's all available in most distros.
This is happening to normal folks with small businesses too. I have some friends who are being targeted by google and fb, for no good reason as they’re completely in the dark. We need to decentralize the web yesterday.
When the government calculates inflation, they look at prices of common goods, but not housing. That's why inflation is artificially low, and even CPI-adjusted "real" monetary values don't really make sense.
You consider "66% of California pay" low?
Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarine USS Pennsylvania SSBN 735 Underway
We did test Vitess couple of years ago, just decided not to go with it. There were a lot of reasons for that, maybe a topic for another post.
> Here in Germany, most homeless people could not even start to work because you need a legal residence to get a bank account (getting paid in cash or via check is illegal in Germany), so they cannot accept the Arbeitslosengeld (Hartz IV).

This is not specific of Germany/EU, and it's actually a principle of pretty much of any society. Countries can't just give away residence and money for free. If one belongs to EU, getting residence is easy; if not, the visa conditions apply. Therefore, you're talking about illegals (and/or refugees), which is a different matter.

It's actually funny (in a tragic way) that countries like Germany or France took the highest number of refugees during the crisis (official stats: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...), and citizens still complain.

In other words, ironically, countries may as well block entrance to asylum seekers, or throw homeless away out of the borders, and the public opinion will be negative regardless.
At the very least she's extremely manipulative. She faked her voice in public for years. That's next-level dedication.

Although, after reading Bad Blood, David Boies and his law firm came across as one of the scarier characters in the whole thing. Theranos' lawyers were completely willing to terrify and intimidate anyone who got in the way of their fraud.
> First, Parler gets kicked off because "They host violent, imminent threats". Never mind the sheer scale of terrorist groups organizing on Facebook, Twitter and enjoying free high quality encryption thanks to Whatsapp

What's with all the whataboutism here? Can you honestly not see the difference? One is an echo chamber of hate with a lot of calls to violence and support thereof, and the platform does nothing about it. The others have shittons of shit ( cat videos, porn, ads, anti-vaxx bullshit, etc) and hate and calls for violence, which are moderated ( not nearly good enough). Apple explicitly asked Parler to come up with a moderation plan or get booted of their store, and they didn't. Twitter, Facebook, Google heavily moderate and ban all sorts of hate-related content.

> Tomorrow, will it be okay to point a finger at any individual and have the equivalent of mass economic sanctions destroy their ability to be a part of society because they disagree with the broad interpretation of "values" these tech companies arbitrarily decide?

I don't know why you've suddenly decided that if doing X to Y is okay today, doing X to Z will be as well tomorrow. That's not how regular people work in most cases, and if tomorrow "SV"( if you're so intent on throwing them all together, as if they aren't composed of many people at different levels ( employees, managers, CxOs, shareholders) in different countries, with varying political affiliations or views) decide to deplatform something people disagree being deplatformed, people will complain, same as what people are doing together to defend the hate speech spewing fascists on Parler.
> If we could understand human thought at a similar level, we MIGHT find out that "the feeling of red" is not fundamentally different than "the understanding that 1 + 1 = 2", and we could come up with quantifications of it in different ways, from the physical representation in the brain to a certain "bit pattern" in the abstract model of the human brain computer.

I guess the idea is that an abstract concept like "the understanding that 1 + 1 = 2" would be easier to "quantify" in the relevant sense than "the feeling of red", but I don't think that's true.

The very concept of a representation presumes an intellect in which that representation is mapped to the underlying concept. No particular physical state objectively signifies some abstract concept any more than the word "dog" objectively signifies that particular type of animal. But our mental states must be able to do so, because denying this would be denying our ability to engage in coherent reasoning and therefore self-defeating. So those mental states can't be "implemented" solely using physical states.

This argument was actually proposed by the late philosopher James Ross and developed in greater detail by Edward Feser. [1] A similar argument -- though he didn't take it as far -- was made by John Searle (of Chinese Room fame). [2]

But in any event, I would reject the notion that any representation of "the feeling of red" is equivalent to the sensation itself.

> Note that the argument for qualia is not one that proves the existence of qualia - it is essentially only a definition. We have no reason to believe that the thing which the term qualia describes actually exists in the world, beyond our own personal experience, which is circular in a way.

Well, I think it is self-evident that qualia exist for me, and that those same qualia demonstrate that there are physical correlates of qualia. I also think there is good reason to think that qualia exist in others because we share the same physical correlates.

Can I completely prove or disprove that others have qualia? No -- not you, not a rock, not an AGI. But I still have the physical correlates, which gives me some basis to draw conclusions.

[1] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2017/01/revisiting-ross-on-i...

[2] https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/Is%20the%2...
There was no hate speech and there were no calls for violence from Trump, quite the opposite. Twitter banned him because he might say something that might be interpreted as such, but of course they didn't care what the act of banning him itself might cause. Because that makes sense.
How to become a web developer in 2021?
I think everyone uses a “reader mode” on the internet now. The “Accept all cookies” followed by “Subscribe to our newsletter” dialogs made that people don’t even try.
Do you see the government and the rich as two distinct groups? I thought they had lots of overlap?
Because if they don't, they will rack up really bad reputation for crushing people wantonly and acting as judge, jury and executioner over their livelihoods, without even giving a clear idea what constitutes a fatal offence.

Next phase, antitrust trials.
Man, you need some optimism in your life, some people are so nice they'll make up for all the bad ones... You just need to go out and meet them :)
Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol
I'm not ideologically opposed to contraception, for what it's worth.

I used the word "coercion" intentionally, although it's not exactly right.

Just as "coercion" implies "force or threatening," "persuasion" implies an "un-forced, freely-made choice." And that is a big part of what I'm questioning depending on particular circumstances.

At what level of deception or trickery or lies-of-omission, does the free-choice become the illusion-of-choice?

Hypothetically, in Xinjiang, if (and I get that this is an extremely unlikely "if" for obvious reasons) if we presume the actions are exactly the same (provide/offer/compel education), and the end results are exactly the same (results in suppressed Uighur birthrate, but educated),

Then does the government's good or bad intent matter?

What's the difference between these scenarios, if

1) China govt being honest and trying raise the QoL in Xinjiang to be equal with the rest of China, or

2) China govt lying, and using education as a pretense because of the low birthrate result that they desire?
Does this job come with an adult diaper stipend?
UNIX is still busy trying to catch up with 70's world from Parc Place, and apparently the 80's UNIX world is what UNIX aficionados want to stay on.

No need for more modern examples.
> I get the impression that decoherence is treated as merely a problem for technicians working on experimental apparatus, or an engineering issue to be dealt with on the road to quantum computation. Are there any results on fundamental limits to the degree of entanglement in a system? We've been trying to get that damn cat into superposition for ~85 years now, with no luck.

We've been setting records for bigger and bigger superpositions every few years - apparently we're up to 2000 atoms now. There's no reason to suspect there's a fundamental limit, any more than there's a fundamental problem that prevents nuclear fusion from working. That doesn't mean the engineering isn't devilishly hard, maybe even impractical (if it gets literally exponentially harder to maintain more and more particles in superposition), but it's not a fundamental physics issue.
Compared to ordinary consumer products, I'll keep listing them as prosumer. They aren't mikrotik, or barebones openwrt, rather like dd-wrt.

The hardware is indeed a bit lagging, I'm not arguing there, but it's not always (only) the hardware that makes prosumer.
Autonomous racing is coming to Indianapolis with the Indy Autonomous Challenge
Agreed. The red LED seems to be a conscious choice to indicate something that you need to get rid of (like those notification badges on iOS app icons or the unread indicator on Facebook).

This is especially jarring as the rest of Alexa LEDs are all blue.
I don't have a Disney+ account. Is there much difference as far as the user is concerned?
The most important part of a social network is the people on it. A decentralized social network will never be able to compete with the marketing of for-profit social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Without marketing, you will never get a critical mass of people on it, which means your social network would be missing the most important part of a social network.

At best you end up with a little hangout for you and a handful of people you already know, possibly people who were already on the mainstream for-profit social networks with you but you insisted they use this other one to contact you. At that point you have an overengineered group chat application.
I can break it down quickly, here:
- Scaling web servers is much easier. Queries are (mostly, on a single host) executed one after another, so if one is slow, you suddenly have a queued of queries waiting to be executed. The goal is to execute them as quickly as possible.
- 2 separate queries, both using perfect indexes will be much faster (insanely faster on this scale) than 1 query with a join. So, we just join them in code
- Sorting is often a problem, since in MySQL only one index can be used per query.
- No foreign keys increases insert/update query speeds, and decreases server load.
- Etc, etc.

And thanks for brining this up, I've added a disclaimer that these are not to be taken for granted, and they work for us, on our scale.

I did plan a whole new article about this. With all the benchmarks we've gathered over the years.
Interestingly, I haven’t ever seen actual candidate data used to determine compensation. Ie companies almost never use a candidate demanding more to actually change anything. It’s all based on these “professional comp surveyors” as the parent has described.
30% of a population being vegetarian sounds like it would barely impact your chance of seeing meat or a carcass at the market.
Idaho internet provider blocks Facebook, Twitter
Check out the paradox of tolerance and Goebbels's thoughts on the matter:

https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/goebbels-on-the-reichst...
To be slightly more correct, they only consider interest payments in calculations of inflation, since they consider the principle a recoverable investment.
You could make a decent argument that twitter and the other social giants have more real power than most countries' governments on this planet. The whole reason we think governments shouldn't censer speech is specifically because they are so powerful, and while you may like who's in power today, good luck trying to keep it that way.
Microcode-Level Calculator Simulation (2004) [pdf]
> You can't do that anymore. You either have to buy their server or use their cloud, from my understanding. I am another considering migration away from them for this reason as well.

Alternatively, you can use their hardware with an alternative serf-hosted NVR like zoneminder.

The cameras work just fine in standalone mode as RTSP sources.
I listen to Ron Paul all the time, not even once i have listened him to be racist or hateful to anyone, or advocate for violence. Actually this is what i dislike him the most, that he is too peaceful, almost against all wars. Other subjects he comments usually, is the climate change that it may be true, but most probably not man-made, he is not favor at all the compulsory vaccination because it is totally unscientific, and that most of the covid measures are totally authoritarian.

However silencing the political opposition is always a necessary step we have to make, so as to have a good functional democracy.
I am still stunned that tech company ceos have not given interviews to the media explaining their decision.

Their actions have huge consequences and we're not even pressuring them to explain why they're doing what they're doing.
> 'What makes you think this is the case? X11 has an ordered event queue and there is no reason an application can't process the keystrokes in the correct order.'

Frankly, it is completely fucking unacceptable for software to miss keystrokes or read them out of order. This is basic programming 101. Any code which exhibits such a problem has a shit design and needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

This sort of thing is exactly what drove me away from the mainstream Linux distros, to create my own from scratch. If and when I ever happen to boot up something like Linux Mint and use it, (shudder,) the sluggishness of gnome3/cinnamon/whatever and all the other bloatware running on the system is readily apparent. My system is always FAST and snappy. Input lag or missed keystrokes? Not on your life.

Reading through the HN comments on articles having to do with speed, snappiness, responsivness of a UI, and excessive bloat of software, it occurred to me one day that these kids (here's the root of the problem) don't actually have a clue that things could be any different than they are. And that's why we're stuck here.

They have literally grown up with slow, bloated shitware for their entire lives, so they actually think all the bloat and slowness is normal and necessary.

Notice how the GP blames X11? They grasp for excuses rather than exercising deep thought, while demonstrating low standards, complacency, and laziness. This is what happens when the common masses take over anything. Shallow thinking and low standards prevail.

These kids have a false conception that doing away with the bloat would mean losing a bunch of features. But in reality we could indeed have fast, responsive, light weight systems, with all of the same features and even more, if only programmers cared enough, or were talented enough to write good software.
#LetYangSpeak
A TV channel is not the same as a social network. One broadcasts their ideology, the other is a platform for discussion. Like it or not social networks are the modern day way of people to assemble.

They are flirting with some very real consequences down the line. Maybe they are bold due to democrats winning both houses and presidency. But that will not last forever. The CEOs of these companies are not stupid, so my theory is they are being strong armed. Either by their employees or directly by the democratic party.
It's not harder, it's absolutely impossible for a huge portion of the EU population (the eastern half, basically). In the USA the economy enables even the poorest people to start selling at scale and for much bigger margins, and to get investment capital easily and way more of it. In the USA even the poorest people can own property in big cities, that's absolutely not the case in eastern EU, poor people are locked to small towns and villages here.
What prevents Big Tech from occupying the Chinese market is the fact that the Chinese leadership does not trust them to toe the line perfectly. That won't change with a change in the White House.
Slightest misstep LMAO look at the parler dump and search for hitler, kill, hang Pence/Romney/AOC/Pelosi and you find over THREE million hits. The hyperbole is on you or you are complicit in inciting violent action vs the president elect, the vice president, the senate and the house.
> So yes, you can theoretically spread it, but once vaccinated you're about as effective at spreading it as a doorknob someone sneezed on

You should most definitely point out that yours is a conjecture. A reasonable one, but still completely unsupported by clinical data - not because data refutes it, but because there is no data. All trials only examined the reduction of symptomatic infection; they didn't even try to measure whether vaccinated people were able or not to spread the virus.

I would expect your conjecture to be true, but humans are weird, viruses are weird and medicine should be based in evidence, and evidence isn't in yet.