skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, she was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew.
By now these VPN providers are like toothpaste, diapers or soft drinks: completely undifferentiated between competitors, and so only able to maintain their market share by spending loads on marketing. Of course the company with most egregious dark patterns and aggressive churn dampening wins.

Thankfully a tube of toothpaste doesn't allow implementing dark patterns like this... yet.
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It's harder to mentally connect white collar crime with real harm because there are so many abstraction levels between the crime and the victims. Whereas with pretty crime it's easy to see who the victims are.
Sure. I've said as much elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047229
Oh! The tubes from Cento, which is a particular good brand, are metal. I understand the acidic substance from plastic concern. Though reducing your own is a good idea as well. If you grow the tomatoes they will be significantly better.
> If you're punching circles out of sheet metal, you'll get more waste with larger circles.

I don't think you would. The design can be scaled up or down without impacting the proportion of the area which ends up being 'useful'.
> Changing a function signature is a breaking change

Not if your language has default parameters and does not allow callers to pass "extra" parameters. Then you can easily add a new parameter with a default value and older callers will work as expected.
take a look at my latest project https://datorss.com
> Please tell me how harsher sentencing on crack cocaine compared to cocaine is not the dictionary definition of racism.
> statistically crack cocaine is used more by black people

Again, if some action has different effect on racism, it does not make it inherently racist.

Wikipedia quotes original reasoning: crack cocaine is way more dangerous than powder cocaine.

Let me give another example. Illegal possession of a firearm is more often applied to black people. But that policy is not racist.

> The good thing is instead of trying to mind-bend your way around supporting a racist policy

Note, I do not support this policy.

I'm arguing the policy itself (regardless of whether it is good or bad) is not racist.
It’s worth a shot. If people voluntarily choose to move there, it’s the right of people to choose how they live. If you don’t agree with this, then you should want to ban communal compounds too, which are very similar cessations of authority to non-democratic institutions.
The white paper lists the set of epitopes, why they were selected, and provides references to the original papers that found them; starting on page 27.

https://radvac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/White-Paper-SA...
Why is anyone surprised when an advertising company stops supporting the flavour of the week side projects?

For the final quarter of the 2020 financial year, ~81% of Alphabet's revenue was from advertising.

They don't break things out much in their financial reports, it's essentially "Google Services" (the only profitable entry), Google Cloud, "Other bets" and corporate. The final three all lose ~$1B+ a quarter.

In the only breakout that has a profit (the vaguely named 'Google Services'), 87% of the revenue is from advertising. There's no indication of what % of the profits are from search, the "apparently not advertising" part of that breakout generates 13% of the revenue, but might easily be generating just 1% of the profit.

So, once again: Google is an advertising company. Everything else is a little side act, and just as likely to be dropped, because Ads are the only thing Google has ever worked out how to make money from.
It's not a conspiracy. Street crime is much easier to prosecute and has far fewer eyes looking onwards. Much easier to abuse the metrics in that area to look good at your job, whereas tackling corporate fraud is expensive, time consuming and likely to attract all manners of unwanted attention, even physical violence and intimidation -- thus making people look worse on paper.
Flutter is great. Still unstable for web and desktop for now.
Also the still older thread linked from there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26031110
In the UK the medical degree that most medical doctors do is an undergraduate bachelor’s degrees. They use 'doctor' as a courtesy title after graduating, but only if they're junior and not a surgeon.
Testing using the customer is pretty much standard in software these days. Did they monitor responses in the vaccinated public? If so, it was a kind of phase 3.
It’s definitely an accomplishment but that wasn't a key differentiator: Moderna’s vaccine candidate was ready in February and Pfizer’s timing was similar, too. The difference was that they did the required large scale phased testing and I’m sure that will be the subject of medical ethics discussions for decades. One of the really interesting questions would be how you could approve something like the mRNA delivery mechanism independent from the targeted protein to allow a quick response, as they’re doing now with tweaks targeting new COVID variants.
I think the bit of paper idea is that it’s so minimal it’s not even a thing, and brings all the pocket-ability, portability, works any time anywhere, benefits of not being a thing.

Your alternative, a 14 inch electronic, or a laptop, is definitely a thing, with all the downsides of being a thing.
Honestly, nothing holds up to Mullvad [1]. They don't even take an email address while creating accounts, and you can pay easily with Bitcoin or even with cash mailed to them.

I'm not affiliated, just a very happy customer.

Mullvad is also who Mozilla trusts for the Mozilla VPN [2]. You can sign up with that if you'd like Mozilla to get a cut.

[1]: https://mullvad.net/
[2]: https://vpn.mozilla.org/
who are these american citizens with non transferable visas ?

Because foreign work visas are already restricting to a specific employer, and do not seem relevant to this conversation
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Any recommendations for books on the subject? I read Simply Complexity and hungry for more!
What is your definition of "conspiracy"?
This is pretty spot on
TikTok is in the business of giving people what they want.

If you heard a TV or movie producer say "I don't hire fat people" would you really be in the slightest surprised or even angry? If every actor was replaced with plus sized, differently abled people what do you think would happen to their earnings? Would you really go watch those blockbusters now?

Folks skirt around this uncomfortable truth anyway they can but it's a cold hard fact of human nature.

In the end it's their platform, anyone is free to go make their own tiktok full of dilapidated houses if they want.
This website was a neat resource. The whole point of complexity science is that there are domains with computational irreducibility where in order to estimate system behaviors we can not rely on formulaic models, in complexity science we instead make use of computer models via simulation to try and approach dynamics.

As potential further reading, one of the cited authors gave a lecture on intersections of AI and complexity science that I captured in this blog post.
https://medium.com/from-the-diaries-of-john-henry/making-the...

Also recommend writings of any author affiliated with Santa Fe Institute, a lot of books to choose from.
You Don’t Want an Apple Car
In the meantime I'll continue to use my RTX 3070. The GTX 1060 is sitting in a box.
I can see the appeal. Those services might be designed for petabytes of data analysis, but the flip side is that you have something ready to go with little maintenance.
I have two rebuttals to that:

1. You punish the murder not the speech?

2. No one on earth can predict what speech will lead to murder or not unless you have a pre-cog from that Tom Cruise movie. So at some point you're leaving it up to humans to make the decision. Humans with agendas.
With *aas, the vendor ends up paying for the electricity.

Also, paying an army of incompetents to modify a codebase isn’t a sustainable development process.

Eventually the code spins out of control. Worse, one of the incompetents eventually accidentally gets promoted, then rapidly hires and promotes more bozos. Ultimately, they eat the organization from the inside like a cancer. (This is well-documented, and has happened to many organizations. Search for “bozo effect” or “bozo explosion” for more information.)
> don't even know [...] QuickCheck and similars

True, but in my experience this kind of testing tools do only complement testing. They should never be used to replace proper manually written tests as they are probability based and as long as the input domain is large enough it's quite viable to miss very obvious bugs not just in one rune but repeatedly.

Through if you are under time pressure it can be a good idea to, replace writing some relatively unimportant test with writing generative tests. Just only start doing so after you cover the most important parts with your manual tests.

It's kinda sad but for a lot of applications making the main features in their main use-case work right, and bringing out more main features, is more important then making all features always right but have less of them. In the end a imperfect but reasonable well working product (especially if all the small demo cases work) sells better then a perfect but very constrained product.
Interesting about the glasses he uses to avoid getting car sick.

Looks like they're round tube frames, filled with a liquid dyed blue. Which apparently tricks your brain into thinking it's the horizon(which moves with your vehicle).
https://cdn.pocket-lint.com/r/s/1200x/assets/images/148075-g...
Same here sorta, I like software engineering when it's my product, I don't like it if I have to do it for someone else and bend their demands as to how their software should be engineered.
From First Principles: Why Scala?
> examined the characteristics of more than 250 U.S. public corporations that were involved in financial securities fraud identified in Securities and Exchange Commission filings from 2005-2013. They were then compared to a control sample of firms that were not named in SEC fraud filings.

Alternatively, the SEC might be more interested in looking into larger companies.
Complexity theory is fascinating in itself (talking about how efficiently solvable or complex a problem is in an absolute, mathematical way), but also can spur a lot of research. As an example, integer factoring is strongly believed to be hard for classical computers (in a well defined complexity theory sense). When Peter Shor presented an efficient quantum algorithm for integer factoring in 1994 it was a breakthrough for the field and triggered huge interest into the field of quantum computing and quantum alogrithms. Serious widespread research into quantum computing more or less started then. Quantum computing is estimated (by BCG) to create a market value of 450-850 billion $ by 2050 (mainly in chemistry, optimisation and cryptography).

So, the academically interesting aspect aside, it can spur research for useful things, it can act as a guide to what is worth / not worth researching (if something is proven to be in a "hard" complexity class, then you won't find any efficient algorithm to solve the problem, ever (assuming P =/= NP).) and is generally a great framework for algorithms research. And evidently, algorithms create a lot of value (good and bad, unfortunately).

It's just very much "under the hood". 100 years ago people could have also, rightly, said "how does quantum theory benefit people, what's the value in that". Yet, without the fundamental research in quantum theory we would not have modern technology. Understanding the behaviour of electrons in materials on an atomic level requires quantum mechanics.
On Time Everytime
This is icky in lots of ways. In a fashion-industry-sense with skinny bodies. In beauty-industry sense with preference to light to medium skin tones.

Some of those things are influenced by technological constraints of photography and printing. Singular body type at runway shows so you can swap an outfit onto any body.

There are beauty norms for any culture at any given time, but media and technology have strange effects.

Now with TikTok and the virility of videos users are playing with, I’m wondering about memes.

my memes and stronger than your memes.

BLM is serious and heady material for kids. In the same way every nerd fantasies about light sabers but after Star Wars kid, they might think twice.

Push to the middle. Round off the edges.

My2c
Dave Weinberger's Everyday Chaos.

Also, the fbook Santa Fe Institute Complexity Explorer's group is a daily stop.
Uber is still useful however, as are Google and Facebook. I don't think they got as much flak as other companies.
Agreed. When I learned that bit about the rocket equation and gravity - that just a little more gravity would make all known rocket tech unable leave Earth's atmosphere/gravity - my thoughts of life zipping around the universe dimmed greatly. Maybe we should look at it as our duty to devise ways to 'rescue' other biomes from their gravitational jails? (if only we weren't space orcs.)
Who is the victim when people illegally smoke cannabis?

Who is the victim when banks steal from millions of people?
> C# 9 is at the same level as D and Nim

What do you mean? How does one reach D/Nim levels of performance (or did you mean expressivity) in C#? I'm experimenting with Nim for gamedev these days, I might be persuaded to take another look at C# depending on your answer.

Also, what is the HPC# subset? Any resources to read about that?
Systemic issues/consequences don't need conspiracy to manifest, they're a manifestation of misplaced incentives/causes. I don't think OP implied any conspiracy on any part.

I'm sorry to get the big name out, but. It's really part of the Marxist framework that there's mostly no willful conspiracy against the worker class, the balance of power is a result of a complex but understandable system, with some corrupt actors but they don't need to be, they just have conflicting incentives.
Got to include investment bankers in that list too
It’s amusing how we are so improbable yet here we are. It’s like in novels where the book starts at an interesting environment for the protagonist. I often think “this is all pretty unlikely”. But it’s fun for the story and the story is about a protagonist in such a situation so it all works and as readers we can usually suspend disbelief. A similar principle applies to humans. We are incredibly improbable yet here we are doing our thing. I like to imagine other alien civilizations encountering us some day and marveling at how unlikely we are (and they are).
>Supply Chain and Logistic Management isn't hard. All it needs is some logic and common sense.

I find your comment very ironic, since I remember when Apple was notorious for logistical problems that led to shortages of new products. They are very strong in that respect now, and that's how they got to be a >$1T company.
Seasteading and Bitcoin have an interesting shared memetic history. In 2007, ship prices were down to almost nothing. An almost-new first-rate cruise ship could be had for about 10% of original purchase price. I saw a 400-person seaworthy vessel selling for $500k, which was ~100x my wealth, but still interesting. The Seasteading Institute popped up around then, founded by Peter Thiel, whose libertarian bent was previously SV mainstream and now openly reviled by journalists, led by Milton Friedman’s grandson iirc, and rose to popularity with the Tea Party. But of course there were big gaps in any plans for offshore viability. For completely different reasons, I had spent a year learning about the ocean and how to live on it indefinitely (see “A Sea Vagabond’s World” by Bernard Moitessier), with less success actually doing it. But theoretically, it was freedom, and cryptocurrency was a big part of that. The big issue was connectivity to prevent double-spending. Okay, maybe this is more of my personal history, but I was making cubesats at the time, and in 2008 I met the NASA Ames center director (at a golf course bar I was told to go to), who was looking for nanosatellite concepts to fund, and I pitched a simple bent-pipe re-transmitter to the bitcoin gossip network enabling access to remote or censored users. The design itself was simple, but imagine the confusion about the concepts around that idea that one would have to explain when BTC was just an idea. He didn’t like it, but it was probably not a good idea anyway, because ground-ground HF is probably better than ground-LEO-ground ISM for the use case.
But if you write defensively, like the post suggests, you won't be surprised by bad library writers.
I'm in pakistan and censorship here is... weird

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like... on reddit, govt of pakistan banned some subreddits... but there is some bizarre pattern and it's not clear exactly what is banned, leading to some hilarious discoveries,

it's not just all subs tagged "nsfw", coz some of them are accessible, strangely enough (thank goodness for the RES nsfw filter)

/r/trees is banned... but /r/marijuana is not, nor is /r/cocaine for that matter ;p

quite a few porn subs are banned, which is understandable... but also banned is, and I shit you not, /r/handholding

it's literally a sub about anime characters holding hands, I mean....

just checked, /r/exmuslim is accessible, and so are various ahmadiyya related subs, (for now atleast) so huh...

I remember when /r/mapporn got banned once upon a time, but that was lifted

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same for websites, you are browsing and suddenly you are met with a "surf safely" warning, and there is no rhyme or reason, there is nothing in the URL or the website content that resembles anything bannable, but yeah, until some fuck updates the filter, we are stuck

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still, I make sure to NEVER EVER EVR say anything that remotely even touches any controversial subject even obliquely, it's a death sentence for your entire extended family, and accusations fly all too freely

https://twitter.com/search?q=blasphemy%20(from%3ASAMRIReport...
Ahh ok. I’ve been experiencing sporadic peripheral neuropathy and cold sensitivity for years, which my doctor has been unable to diagnose, so I was just curious if it might be a symptom of something else somehow.

Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.
Also they reposted the story wrong, assuming cans were short.
My AWS Credentials Got Abused, and Their Response Made Me a Customer for Life
And if you want to understand why they are recurrent, then you'll find the commonality in the shape of the system's components' causality - how they influence each other, often in loops. These are the subject of control theory, cybernetics (also a systems science), and systems dynamics (if you like maths).
Ok look, another website that doesn't work on desktop.

It's so frustrating that we seem to have lost any understanding of how to to put information on a screen.
Not adding anything to this conversation, but...

Such a delightful find, thank you for sharing!
There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’
I have a ton of files I can properly delete, but which I might need back at some point, possibly decades down the line. I would love to have an affordable tape machine that I could copy the files with, then store one tape at home and one at my parents place.

The tapes are affordable, we need the machines to be affordable too.
This is ... the future.

I am going to start off with a few this week - well done and good luck !
Oh you wanna have a go? Let's have a go

function add({ ...args }) {
const { a, b, ...rest } = args;
if (typeof a !== "number" || typeof b !== "number") {
throw "no";
}
if (Object.keys(rest).length > 0) {
throw "no";
}
return a + b;
}

function _add({ ...args }) {
const { a, b, multiplier = 1, ...rest } = args;
if (
typeof a !== "number" ||
typeof b !== "number" ||
typeof multiplier !== "number"
) {
throw "no";
}
if (Object.keys(rest).length > 0) {
throw "no";
}
return a + b * multiplier;
}
add.toString = () => "nice try";

_add.toString = () => "nice try";

Edit: OK I think we are stretching HN comment ettiquete to far with this much code. This was fun though. Thanks.
It is difficult to observe the belligerence from both sides, properly. You may not have as solid a grasp on how the Russians feel about American aggression, as one might allow would give a balance to the issue.

Fortunately, others were able to find that balance, in a culture of distrust and hate.
It's still used in England -- my accountant (old school) writes to me as "Mr M xxx, Esq" -- and I'm not a lawyer. It is supposed to be a form of politeness when mentioning someone else's name.
I already pay contractors with corporate scrip every time some telegram moderator wants to get payment in one of my project’s tokens. I think it’s funny and it works. It’s very convenient because I keep my actual revenue, I haven’t diluted any shares of the company, and the payment is still a deductible expense that occurred. (The best analogy is if Sony paid a $600 invoice with a PS5 and the contractor accepted that, or if Nike paid a sneakerhead influencer with shoes. These are all liquid assets easily convertible to cash at the same price they were earned).

The liquidity possibilities is what makes this different than prior corporate scrip and how that was a pejorative.

In some circumstances I’m the only contributor to the liquidity pool so they’re selling directly back to me. Some think they are punishing me by selling when they don’t believe in an outcome, and I’m like you just sold ... to me ... at a lower price than you earned it.... paying contractors that immediately sell is more like having a put on your own token! it’s an unparalleled amount of control.

Not too far of a stretch to bring back the corporate towns too.

The 20s are going to be fascinating.
That seems like trying to figure out the plot of a book given a histogram of its letter frequencies.

A mass spectrometer is not going to be able to distinguish a rich mixture of compounds. Nor can it distinguish molecules with the same elements.

But it's been done, and apparently might still be in limited use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectrometry#Respired_gas...
I see articles like this all the time relating to Nazi Germany (well maybe at least once a month). I just wonder how much longer I'll have to be seeing it. It just seems like propaganda at this point. When did people stop caring what Caesar did in Gaul? When did people stop caring what the Teutonic Order did to pagans? There are many recent examples of plundering that I rarely see either. For instance US looting during WW2, the destruction the US caused in Iraq (such as Tanks crushing the 2,500 year old bricks at Ishtar Gate), US bombing of pretty much every city in North Korea during the Korea war unnecessarily, I could go on.
What are interesting CTO topics to discuss?