skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Im not sure why you bring him up.

Because saying "it's a representative democracy" is doublespeak. If you have one person representing tens of millions and another person representing a small city (~150k people), and they have the same vote, it's not meaningfully "representative". Saying "it's a representative democracy" doesn't tell you anything about the fairness of the system.

> I agree with the way it was designed.

Because it favors you. It would be a bad system even if it was the other way around (i.e. it favored the other side).

> It prevents big states like California and New York from calling all the shots.

I'm still to hear a good argument for why it's better for small states to call shots instead.

> I agree with the forefathers. You do not. Simple.

I'm fine with that. They were as fallible as anyone else and could not have foreseen that their system might have flaws. There's no need to deify them and think that everything they did was right.
Nice to meet you, now you know one :)

Tacos de lengua are quite popular in Mexico, probably catering to the Mexican-American community over there.
Best educate your kids and peers on how this is all done old school.

I like nav apps, but can tell you my life impact without them is very minor league.

Priorities?

How about we end a war or two, fund GPS, do some space and make sure our future scientists, leaders, inventors and the parents raising them have a home, food to eat and are able to see the doctor.

No joke.
This mainstream concern with privacy is somewhat ironic, considering most people already put all their personal info on Facebook and Instagram
You are propagating a false narrative yourself. This narrative has itself been roundly refuted, which you decided to omit. See [0][1].

[0] https://cafehayek.com/2013/09/ritholtz-and-the-big-lie.html

[1] https://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/RUSS-fi...
Abundacia
In Scala (and I assume many other languages), this is exactly how it works in the popular libraries. You design, or automatically derive, the mapping from your domain objects and a JSON AST. As the author mentions, the mapping between the AST and the string encoding is something you can consider to be a black box, unless you want to change settings like compact vs pretty printing.

To me, the most interesting question is what the author alluded on how to manage the coupling between arbitrary business objects and JSON AST. Writing a ton of boilerplate code is not at all fun. But as he points out, attempting to automate the translation through metaprogramming results in a problematic coupling of internal system details and the external contract.

An idea I like is something more like code generation. Macros where the expansion gets written to disk, so hand edits can be made. There should be automatic verification of any changes to the contract, which can be done by generating an OpenAPI spec and version controlling it. Also, it should be really easy to differentiate between the default generated code and hand edits. There shouldn't be any need to crawl through all of the mapping code if there are far fewer changes relative to the stuff that was autogenerated.
Being watched and served recommendations is not the revolutionary paradigm for computers imo.
BTW, I believe Oregon started VBM in 1996.
As a British person I half expected that to be a porn site.

Does American English have "streakers" and "streaking" meaning "to run naked in a public place, particularly during a sporting event"?
Perhaps it would at $10K USD/mo, but at truly basic levels it’s often a productivity boost to allow people to not spend their free time doing things they could easily outsource. It’s expensive to be poor.
Anecdotal: my tight group of 12 tech-unsavvy friends very trepedatiously migrated to Signal after the terms update and I said I'm bailing on WhatsApp whether you're coming with me or not. As soon as the group came over, I got tons of "wow, I like Signal better!". Then the outage happened and I was worried, but everyone stayed and I strongly doubt will go back. Though some do keep WhatsApp for other friends, I think our litte migration will actually cascade into more.
As long as corporate greed continues unhindered, computers will remain a way of controlling and monetising the population.
"back of envelope" estimate (which you didn't actually share) "

If you are interested: going from v to 0 or going from 0 to v uniformly with acceleration in time t is related by v=at. The distance traveled is s=1/2a t^2. Plugging the first into the second gives s=1/2 v^2/a. So a=1/2 v^2/s= 1/2 (10m/s)^2/0.1m=500m/s^2~50g

Interestingly this directly follows from the definition of acceleration and doesnt use anything like Newtons laws.

Looking at the Video, why didn't they just do it in a controlled environment? Some gauges/meter marking and high speed cameras. The time it takes for the stop is in the order of t=v/a=10/500s=1/50s so only one frame in normal video rate.
> I can’t shake the suspicion that people who complain about lack of community, in actuality just have a lack of social skills.

Along with social skills I think it's the lack of other hobbies or interests. I have friends from local bars but I also have ones from various sports clubs and other activities. Whether it's churches, the local chess club or sports a city will provide a lot more of these niches for community.

Community doesn't just happen, you have to go out and get involved in them, then you have to talk to people instead of sitting on your phone.
Before we jump to conclusions:

1) Downloads are not usage.

2) One month _in one country_ is not a pattern.

3) If we believe WhatsApp has two billion users, "millions" - while subjectively significant - is objectively minor (at this point).
Any data can be serialized with JSON.

Yep, by writing ad-hoc and context-dependent formats on top of JSON for every language on your system. JSON set of types are just too limited.
Not gonna happen, happy to see Republicans block everything Demos try to pull off
One example, Enums. How do you parse them? by number? or by text values? or even both?
looks like facebook is getting a lot of pushbacks recently. VR too.
Signal is hosted over centralized servers, I don't think it's that much of a break from the status quo in terms of control.

That's not to say it's not the best out there. As a company, Signal is a million times better and more deserving of our trust than almost any other option on the market, but if we want to break out into open communications, the Signal protocol needs better decentralization.
"Inbreeding"
Printing this headline is downright irresponsible given the study population:

> Researchers recruited 900 individuals to take part in the experiment, 59% of whom were female and 98% of whom were university students.
email is federated, Signal is not, it may not be a company but it still is one entity that is pretty much in control of the communication and contact discovery...
I agree few people are going to switch immediately and permanently, but I reckon they've created a long-term drain on their userbase. The policy change prompted me to finally download Signal (as apparently it did a lot of people), and while I'm currently using both side-by-side and will continue to for the foreseeable future, given the choice I'll be suggesting Signal from here on out.
Oh geez. Until now, I thought the "Peter" in the Peter Principle was the biblical Peter, and I interpreted it as an indictment of Peter eventually getting promoted to a quasi-Jesus role as leader after Jesus...left the scene.
It seems like similar to folks wanting something like XSL (or is it XSLT?) for certain uses, but CSS seems fine for just styling.
The shift over the last few days is that where WhatsApp was seen as the default way to communicate, Signal now became the default. I'm still on WhatsApp but reduced my usage by 95% in favor of Signal now that most of my thread or individual users switched to Signal. It will take time but hopefully WhatsApp will become irrelevant in the long run.

It was very entertaining seeing all my group chats move one by one to Signal now that there is a critical mass of users that agree that it is the right choice. I tried to make it happen in the past and it was too much a pain to convince people that Signal was way better than WhatsApp.
I wonder if it's really lost users, or conversations. The article only cites download numbers declining in the various app stores.

Lots of people seem to have downloaded Signal or Telegram, but how many deleted WhatsApp? I don't plan on deleting it and I'm going to approve the new T&C or whatever it is, but I'm quite happy to migrate to Signal for my contacts who use both.

Presumably losing x% of conversations is just as bad as losing x% of monthly users for Facebook, so maybe this is moot, but it's still lazy journalism.
the whole "nobody is gonna work with UBI" was started by people who benefit from this endless exploitation of serfdom.
I'd agree with this - so many of my non-tech friends are now on signal and seem to like it. The traction that Signal is getting right now feels like its the classic word-of-mouth organic growth that snowballs quickly. I bet their engineering team is getting stretched right now.
If MS were to write a new bespoke OS that requires new everything and maintains no backward compatibility (that's the point of a new OS, isn't it?) and launch it to the world, the amount of people who'd rush out and buy it can be counted on one hand. It could be absolutely revolutionary, but it would lack one major thing:

Momentum.

Look at every OS that's on the market right now. It solves a problem. Right now there are very few people who can't pick an OS off the shelf that will solve their particular problem. Be it an RTOS or a fancy gui that your grandma is comfortable with, the software already exists.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that unless you can upend the current OS landscape while maintaining compatibilty, then a new OS for the masses doesn't solve a problem. It creates one.
XSS is only a problem if you make it one.

Maybe if you stop forcing your users into your authoritarian ideals, people might start to change their perception of you.
In "The Body Keeps the Score", Bessel van der Kolk discusses the effects of psychological trauma and how important it is for people to process traumas via dreams which essentially remove the emotional component but leave the learning. When, say, veterans wake up from nightmarish dreams of a trauma, they don't complete processing it. Then they keep waking up from the same extreme nightmares stuck with that trauma unprocessed. He found a medication that helped veterans stay asleep through the entire nightmare, and within weeks the veterans moved past their traumatic dreams. There may also be non-medical interventions to help get past that trauma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score

Another book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker also goes into how important various stages of sleep are for learning and good health: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep

So, while you have found something that seems to work for you to prevent regular dreams, I wonder if it could leave you stuck somewhere emotionally with a trauma or otherwise may also interfere with other healing and learning aspects of good sleep? On the other hand, maybe your approach help keeps you call enough at night, and so you are dreaming OK but don't remember your dreams (which is fine), and so you do have dreams and do process memories through them, and so your approach is a breakthrough in that sense? Anyway, there remain a lot of unknowns about sleep and dreams...

"Sleeping pills" in general are bad news for healthy sleep (as Matthew Walker explains in depth), so good to avoid them. This is because they interfere with normal sleep (as do many other things like alcohol late at night).
I think it's only a couple of percentage if you round up.
I really don’t get the excitement about UBI. The US is not that rich of a country. Giving everyone $1,000 per month will cost $39t per year. US gpd is $21t per year. Maybe 50 or 100 years with some quantum leap in AI or something in likes.

[My bad my math here is bad. Should be $3.9t not $39t. My initial point stands though. It's just too much money.]
If there's one thing Covid related shutdowns have shown, it's that vast numbers of people, in not very productive jobs, could be unemployed with minimal economic impact. Unemployment and labor (non-)participation rates have risen drastically, sometimes by 10s of percentage points, but overall GDP has dropped by only 5-8% in the most impacted countries, including the US and EU.
how is fax 150 years old?
If we're doing anecdotes, I deleted my account after all my contacts moved to signal.
> Or is there a better open source program?

XFLR 5. A nice graphical UI using XFOIL for 2D section CFD and basic algorithms for 3D flow analysis too.

http://www.xflr5.tech/xflr5.htm
I think Facebook would be unwise not to care, and whatever else they may be I don't think they're unwise.

All of their products trade on enormous network effects, so I think they'd be very aware of maintaining that barrier to entry for new competitors. They've stumbled badly on that front here, and once competitors gain a foothold it'll be hard to keep them out.
This whole academic branch is the included the reproducibility project.

Papers sit at about flip of a coin repeatability.

In either case, if there's no change in net productivity, why spend the money to do it?
What is expensive is having to live on a financial cliff where even responsible actors occasionally fall off, devastating their productivity for years as they re-establish themselves, and for those that do suffer from other destabilizing conditions, they may never recover to become productive once again. If a financial disaster hits when you have children, those children will suffer its consequences, perhaps for decades, further inhibiting productivity. It is my strong opinion that a basic income stabilizes a productive population that will likely enjoy generational compounding of the basic income investment.
I am not sure a single "cooled beach" even exists. Do you have a cite other than a 13-year old article from a clickbait tabloid?

Also there aren't really all that many mansions and palaces. The median home size is larger in the USA than it is in Dubai. Add R-1 zoning and the longer average driving distances and it becomes clear that the average American has a bigger carbon footprint.

Finally, there is a difference between what is possible in theory and what is achievable in practice. Retrofitting every home and building to go from gas heating to electric heating is not very easy.

Moving electricity to cleaner sources, on the other hand, is well under way with nuclear and solar.
John Does don't read the terms in the first place so are probably still unaware of the changes
Why should it matter if it impacts worker productivity? The whole point is that as more jobs are automated people work less and can still live.
>most prospective parents would rather delay having children until they can achieve career stability and afford a reasonably-sized house, which is happening very late in life (if at all) compared to previous generations.

I think this was the premise of _Idiocracy_.
All the way back to 1843 - fascinating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax
Your math is off by a factor of 10. Giving 330 million people $12k/yr is only $4 trillion/yr.
They don't need phone numbers. If the code is running inside an app, it can snap location data and send it to a server. Along with that, they pull in whatever other data they can link. This includes things like what model device, current battery level, home zip code, Facebook id, etc. With these data columns, you can match users pretty easily.
This isn't a surprising outcome but it goes against a commonly used argument against everything from a UBI to a social safety net to a cooperative society. People want to work, they want to produce and they want to feel accomplished.

If our economy's only hope relies on threatening a large class of people with homelessness, destitution, starvation and even death unless they work, then our economy is immoral at its core.
Double-check your arithmetic.
a common argument against UBI is 'They'll just become lazy bums.'
UBI is a death sentence within direct democracies short of robot/AI provided abundance. Introduction beforehand sows the seed for a direct transfer of wealth from the 49% haves to the 51% have-nots.
Sure, but it's not to hard to think of examples of things which signalling theories would say shouldn't happen. For example, people should not be impressed by signals that are known to be easy to fake or that are in no way impressive in the first place.
This may seem trivial, but it does have implications. For example, if you claim "I did X over the weekend" and I reply with "I call bullshit", it implies not only that I doubt your claim, but also that at least to some extent I care whether it is true, and also that you care whether I believe you or not (or at least that I think you care).
You're right, it does not seem ARM-acquisition helped or damaged NVDA stock both ways over the past 5 months.

"Moving away from ARM", to where? X86 does not seem like a good destination, RISC V is not there, MIPS/AI-chips etc are not a trend either, I honestly don't know where else the CPU industry can move to.
No, that's not how it works. The 1st, 2nd, etc. Amendments are reinterpreted, but they are never done away with unless another amendment modifies or nullifies it. Laws that are not part of the constution on the other hand are nullified by the courts relatively frequently.
If you're talking about monospace fonts well, eliminating layout variation eliminates noise. Spacing is predictable, so that gives you hints at a glance that your code is correct, line from line.
I've been curious about how to do this, I assume you install an ActivityPub plugin and connect it to an existing platform like Mastodon or Pleroma?
...at least in the short run. And in the long run, to paraphrase Keynes, we're all dead anyway, so we might as well try it in more places and with more groups of people who seem "stuck" in poverty, and measure the results.
$3.9t not $39t.

Think about it, US GDP can't be less than $1k per person per month.
Lengua is great - you just have to get it from a place that sells enough of it so that it isn’t old or bad.
It's called game-farm photography -

https://qz.com/969811/game-farm-photography-love-wildlife-ph...

It's the natural progression from David Attenborough's fake-ish style.

Like WWE it is an art in itself.
Not that I disagree necessarily, but to play devil's advocate: kids don't learn any formal grammar rules before they speak their first language fluently.
Privacy policies are unenforceable because social lock-in means you can't leave even if you eventually decide the new policies are bad for you.

I don't want Facebook to get my list of contacts, but I also don't want to lose touch with my extended family. Guess which one is more important to me?
Other cars can steer around a badly stopped car. Satellites can't. A better analogy would be if once they entered their lane, cars would have to travel down it at their maximum speed, without being able to steer, or brake. Under those constraints, I, uh, wouldn't get into a car.

Cars are also not phased if they run over a loose bolt. The same can't be said for satellites.

> We don't do it yet with satellites.

Basic orbital mechanics indicates that we won't ever be able to clean up Kessler-syndrome space debris in a remotely-economical manner. There'd be too much of it, and it would travel at vastly disjoint orbits.

Orbit changes are extremely expensive.
Not even "One study suggests..." in the title!

This was highly artificial experiment with college students who "were asked to work on a set of tasks and were paid based on their performance".
Should that be 3.9T per year? (330,000,000121000)
This also implies that device-side firewall rules (if Apple allowed them to exist) could cut off the data brokers' business model.
I'm probably missing something, but 12,000$ * 328 millions = 3.9 T$, not 39?
I think you're being sarcastic, but in some Asian countries disallowing romance is actually pretty common, even in high schools.
As I recall, killfiles couldn't keep up with the glut of spam that happened.
Are they only cheaper because nobody uses them? For example, BCH?
Not to mention the threat of becoming ill bankrupting us. Even someone who has saved a goodly sum can lose it all if the insurance they have purchased taps out.
That money gets spent and comes back as tax revenue.

If you think UBI is expensive, wait until you find out how expensive it will be to have a hundred million unemployed (as a result of automation for one).

You give people money, they spend it on goods created by robots which are taxed, earning money to hand out to everyone as a dividend for being an owner in the national enterprise.
Woah yeah. That skews things drastically.
In addition to the missing zero, you'd hardly have everyone on UBI. Only those without jobs.
$2.8t was the estimate for Andrew Yang's 1,000/mo for all adults. US gdp is 21t, so roughly 1/7th US gdp.
I was expecting the clickbait to have the classic flaws, small sample size, participants knowing it was a limited-time experiment, and other actors in the economy not being on UBI.

This study is so comically limited that they didn't get to those classic flaws.
There are some indentation styles where you don't lose consistent indentation in that situation.
There's a datasheet that covers it.

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/hardware_design_wi...
> One thing I dislike about language group classes is that you learn with other non-native speakers (and, in general, with the same experiences that you have).

> In other words, you learn and re-enforce each others' common mistakes, misconceptions, mistranslated idioms, and ambiguities in the language that native speakers find instantly jarring. This worsens if the teacher is non-native: I wouldn't place much value in such a class.

I absolutely second this as someone who has taken 3/5 semesters of Chinese. Some classmate's pronounciation is so objectively wrong that I have to pay attention for when they're called on just to mute my volume output. Obviously I can't do this in-person.

I've taken one-on-one courses in another language and it's (believable I suppose) how much faster I've progressed.

Another fault is that some classes are structured so that nobody fails or falls behind (whether they're night classes, at a school, or in a corporate environment). The fault with that is that many other subjects simply don't care if 1/3 of the class fails, but language group classes tend to go at the speed of the lowest individuals.
It's always about trade-offs. For our use-case, I trust it well enough to prefer it over something cloud-hosted in another country. But I don't doubt that Seafile contains security holes and I wouldn't be surprised if there were backdoors. But I assume that for quite a lot of the gear I manage, so... :)
> I loved his little book on Objective-C.

Do you mean: "Object-Oriented Programming : An Evolutionary Approach"? Its 320 pages!
Call it toc insensitivity, or habit of last 20 years, but as soon as I saw that new TOC when I opened whatsapp about 20 days ago, I didn't even look at the button text, just clicked it as soon I read app.. of Approve. Wonders of auto pilot brain.
As disaffected as it is, i think Neal Stepheson's "Diamond Age" has programming book "backstory" that carries weight many years later...sort of a 3rd decade insight class of wisdom...