skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think HN strives to achieve this (as you point out, very high bar) and does a pretty good job with it overall. I do believe that dang's and the moderator teams' light touch has really aided a free-ranging discussion among people of wildly divergent viewpoints, and I for one appreciate this dynamic.

That we're even having such a high-quality discussion now really speaks volumes to the seemingly effortless way in which the HN team has developed into a great place to have such a conversation or debate. To be honest, I do not think that HN is always fair to everyone, but it does seem like the moderators do try to be.

With that said: Twitter and FB have wildly missed the mark.
Good modular design is helpful here. Properly segregating responsibilities means that portions of your code base can become "finished", while other portions remain in near constant flux. For an emulator, for example, if you separate the rendering from the hardware emulation portion, you can leave the hardware emulation portion untouched for years at a time while changing just the rendering code to port to new platforms.

The best "old" (30+ or 40+ years) code I worked on did this. The worst, which forced total rewrites, mingled everything together "for performance" but prevented the software from being easily ported to a new OS (Windows 3.1 hasn't been supported for a long time) or extended to support new capabilities.
>The automaker said Thursday that its Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan will drop to one shift from three for a week beginning Monday, while truck production at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri will drop to two shifts from three. Ford spokeswoman Kelli Felker said both plants are expected to return to three shifts the week of Feb. 15.

So they're cutting production by a few shifts for a week? That hardly seems like a significant change.
You're implicitly accepting the frame that copyright is an inherent right that should be granted, rather than a privilege extended to copyright holders on public policy grounds. If copyright owners do more rent-seeking and offer evermore complicated and user-hostile deals, it's well within the purview of our government to alter the terms of copyright extension for public policy purposes.

In other words, there's an implicit obligation to offer consumers deals that are better than the counterfactual in which copyrights are not enforced whatsoever. Otherwise, why should we have laws that make things worse for us just so that various copyright holders can maximize the rents they extract from us via intellectual property?
also helped design docker (the good parts) and a bunch of other stuff
This statement says that 40+ US States and DC. I have seen 50 states in other articles.

Does this mean that the Feds can still go after them? The Dems are historically very friendly to the Pharma industry in ensuring outcomes in-spite of populist posturing. Can Medicare/Medicaid/VA sue them for recovery of monies spent in treating addictions and prescriptions?
Not just partially, but fully. Until then, it's just an idea, and like most ideas, isn't worth much. Implementation is everything*.

*Not everything, which is a tad extreme, but certainly 95%+. But sometimes shocking statements are needed to jolt people into the reality that their work has positive/negative repercussions in the real world. We hold an arms manufacturer responsible for designing weapons of mass destruction, there's no doubt in anyone's mind that there is culpability.

Engineers who build addictive products fall into the same boat. But, but, but paycheque! is not an excuse. Has never been before, isn't now, nor will it ever be in the future. As builders, we are defined by what we build.
htmx is different in that it stays within the original REST/HATEOAS model of the web, it pushes HTML as a hypertext. All interactions are via HTML, so you are truly using Hypertext as the Engine of Application State.

Since htmx tries to fold in alongside the regular HTML concepts (which you need to know anyway) you need to know less, and your back end can be in whatever language you prefer. No javascript on the front end, no pressure to adopt it on the back end.

Accessibility is a concern, but, like everything else, has to be traded off against other concerns.
> Wouldn't a truly distributed/secure/really-super-hard-to-block protocol rely on non-meaningful addresses (i.e. public-key-derived like a tor hidden service) and some kind of interesting mesh setup (i.e. like tor) to route and deliver messages?

Yes. You just described Briar.
Tangent: Do you see any downsides of your kids using this technology vs writing/painting on paper?
Could the Iranian government also run a Signal proxy?

Can they then read said proxy traffic since it’s on their machine?
Roger Penrose's answer to that is that there is nothing to experience time, and with no time there is no way to measure speed and no concept of frequency and so no concept of distance. Without all that, the enormouse heat-death decayed universe still contains all the energy it ever did (because it can't be destroyed), and if there's no distance then the heat-death universe is identical to the pre-big-bang universe, and so there is no need for a big crunch and it can still be a cyclic thing where it explodes again, leaving the cosmic microwave background radiation as a remnant of the boundary between the previous aeon and the current one.
Humans are systemically dependent on nitrogen in the air, in that it is required for nitrogen fixation.
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Is there an article I'm supposed to be able read? I can't scroll past the title.
What is "correct" today will not be "correct" tomorrow.

You don't reconcile history by pretending it didn't exist.

50 years from now, some young generation will decide that animal-sourced leather is a hate crime, and every movie you've ever seen will be banned to "correct" the social error of seeing shoes that aren't plastic.
This is hard to get into without context.

Copyright (and patents) exist "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The purpose is to promote the progress of science and useful arts for the public's benefit, the means is a limited time monopoly.

The limited time rights are intended to be the minimum necessary to incentivize people to create for the public's benefit. Originally this was 14yrs, required registration, and could be renewed once.

The intent has been twisted by those with an interest in perpetuating copyright indefinitely (rights holders). Now copyright is 70yrs after the death of the creator or 95yrs after publication for contract work. [0]

Why does someone need to be incentivized to create after they're dead? Why were these extensions retroactive since you can't incentivize someone to create something they've already created?

This has been argued in the US courts, the end result of these extensions was because each one is still for a 'limited time' they're okay - even if they're repeatedly extended at each expiration. This isn't the original intent or spirit of copyright law.

> "Pirating it now deprives the owner of some amount of ability to make money from it in the future."

The rights holders have lobbied to twist the law for their own self-interest and then play victim - I have little sympathy for that.

I think if we had something sane (5yrs, maybe special protections around certain types of adaptations, maybe longer time frame to reward authors specifically up to some dollar amount if adapted for-profit, restrictions on for-profit distribution by third parties?) the law would be more aligned with its original goals and there would be fewer issues.

Today you can't even declare something 'public domain' if you want to since copyright is reserved by default. The best you can do is license it permissively.

[0]: An aside, at one point it was until the author's death. This gave me an idea for a B-movie where a serial killer goes around taking out pop groups so their music goes into the public domain.
Is it possible to get the inline inferred type annotations to show up in Vim the way they do in VSCode?

I have been making a strong push to move to 100% Vim for development, but those inline annotations in VSCode with rust analyzer are amazing, especially while I'm still learning Rust.

I'm currently using YouCompleteMe with rust-analyzer, plus rust-vim for autoformatting
Some wishful thinking here...

> For one thing, the promise of being able to stream the ENTIRETY of the classic shorts could generate a tremendous amount of publicity for Max, in the process providing strong incentive for T&J collectors, animation fans, historians, and adults to subscribe to the new platform.

That is a very small audience compared to the very large audience of families who would be upset if the their kids auto-played into unexpected blackface.

Yes these problems can be solved with UX, yes it would be nice if we can access everything as it existed forever... But the reality is unfettered yet contextualized access to archival Tom & Jerry episodes isn't going to be high on their backlog.

For the purposes of access for historical archive purposes...why focus your complaints on streaming? Streaming is great for ease of access, cheaper price points (at least monthly), and breadth of selection. As a format, it's doesn't deliver well for archival purposes.
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Consider trying elvanse / vyvanse.

While concerta did help in some sense, I had the same side effects as you. In my experience, Elvanse feels more like it "cures" my ADHD while retaining my personality and creativity. Oh, and (almost) no side effects!
I spent some more time thinking about this and wrote the following.

Modern scientists move small amounts of biological materials using a tool called the pipette. Pipettes can work with very small amounts of liquid- down the microliter. When you're running a delicate experiment being able to deliver the precise amount of liquid is critical.

Pipettes need to be calibrated. How do you calibrate a device that works with volumes of liquid? Volumes of liquid are hard to measure. Fortunately, water at STP (standard temp and pressure) has a known mass, so you attempt to draw 1 mL, and weigh it. 1 mL of water weighs 1 gram at STP (this is not a coincidence- it's by definition).

OK so you're weighing 1 gram of water and adjusting the pipette's calibrator knob so that 1mL on the pipette weighs 1 gram.

I guess that means your weighing scale needs to be calibrated, too. Huh. These sorts of scales aren't just "weigh some flour for baking", either. They have to be accurate to the hundredth of a gram, and have walls to avoid fluctuations due to air currents(!!!!) and minor temp changes. The scales are calibrated using calibrated test weights.

Oh dear. Calibrated test weights? If you follow the turtles all the way down, you find that there is actually a tracebility chain from your calibrated scale back to one of the defined weights held by NIST, the NIST equivalents in France and Japan (they all share their weights). So you can actually calculate- using those weird rules of error propagation you forget in high school- the error of your scale as a product of the errors in that chain (often, knowing your error bars is more important than knowing the accurate answer).

But that's not all. Those defined weights? They're obsolete. Le Grand K (the origin of the kilogram, still kept under lock and key) changed weight over time due to subtle metallurigcal details.

The new definition of the standard is created by an obscure machine at NIST, just like the time standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibble_balance is the tool used to do it, and it depends on the NIST time reference.

So, turtles all the way down until you get the rubidium fountain.
> Are you really suggesting that Churchill was the singular character who determined the outcome of the war,

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that this is correct.

Churchill was the only one talking about the danger of Hitler since 1935 and the need to re-arm. Everyone else was in the appeasement camp. No one wanted war and they did everything they could to avoid it before Churchill was PM and then continued after he was PM.

The alternative to Churchill taking over from Chamberlain was Halifax who had huge support in parliament, and was who everyone wanted, but who was an appeaser, and whilst in Churchill's cabinet pushed for peace talks even after being wrong for the past 5 years on Hitler. It's not a large jump to say that if Halifax was PM, after the fall of France he would have pushed for peace which Hitler would have welcomed because his ideological nemesis lay with the Bolsheviks in the east. If Hitler had a treaty with the UK he could have committed all forces to the East and defeated Russia. Europe - game, set, match.

If you study the events of the time, it does start to seem that he was a singular force.

> If we could redo the war a million times and change tactics/leaders each time, the Axis powers would lose close to a million times

The mistake here is that its not about redoing the war...its that the war between the UK and Germany would have ceased very prematurely without Churchill.
It’s an interesting attitude. Of course, if everyone thought that way most of the the things we buy digitally would never be made in the first place.
Full details, and info on a fork or using an old safe version here: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1...
ape speech.
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Yes. https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index_video....
Yeah so this latest attempt seems to want to “fix” that.

“Hey, let’s distribute connections (proxy servers) to our central point of failure so that we can get around the central point of failure. Genius!” /s
Electronic text formats conveniently also work with screen readers and refreshable braille displays. The great thing about text data is you can display it in a whole bunch of different ways depending on a reader's needs, much more so than with a paperback.
sorry I meant memory management not garbage collection. again they're just convenience methods wrapping those exact methods on NSObject
Couldn't they just show trigger warnings

Or people could just grow up and realize that you can't judge people who lived a hundred years ago by today's standards.

Imagine what ordinary things you do every day that people a hundred years from now will consider a social crime and want you banned or cancelled for.
Note that you can also use pandoc[0] to convert a markdown-like file to a reveal.js or PowerPoint presentation, among other formats.

[0]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows
Not only that, but Parler ran directly afoul of contract provisions they agreed to that specifically gave AWS the right to terminate without notice. People making these arguments about Parler's relationship with AWS don't seem to have actually read the AWS terms.
he accidentally falls in black dye though. Of course his face would be black. why is that bad?
Signal could learn a lot from Telegram in this regard.

Russian govt had tried to block Telegram but telegram servers just keep jumping over various cidrs and users got the ip addresses for connecting over push updates and the only thing the govt succeeded in was blocking a wide range of subnets including AWS ranges and GCP ranges thus disrupting a whole lot of businesses and even some government services.

They gave up and lifted the ban eventually.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censo...
The OPs argument is bad/stupid, but there is a real argument to be made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028392
Growing up, it was acceptable to shoot a Rodian before giving him a chance to shoot you.

But blackface is clearly prohibited today. So there's two choices for art like this: edit it, or it doesn't get shown publicly again. I'm only arguing that I'd prefer the former to the latter.
Instagram disables hundreds of accounts tied to hacking of 'OG' usernames
> Enrollment != graduation and licensure.

> More people may be interested but nobody can practice until after residency, and you have a large pool of hopefuls basically in a lottery for residency slots.

But my understanding is that residency capacity is matched to graduating class sizes, at least in the US. The selectivity is intentionally placed up front (at med school admission) so the path is clear to residency and licensure as long as the student doesn't totally fall apart (which the selectivity is supposed to guard against).

IIRC, it's foreign medical school graduates may have trouble getting a US residency.
This is one of the best arguments for federation/decentralization, is it not? It's not impossible to block a protocol, but it's harder than blocking an IP.
That is beyond fucked up.
And yet it hasn't become big yet.
worthless-to-outsiders is more concise to me that conveys what the author was intending.
And if that stops being true, it probably won’t happen suddenly. Sp500 with a trailing stop seems like easy mode, until ww3 or some other sudden drop but there are circuit breakers for that. What could do more damage than global sars pandemic?
Subaru recalls 314 Outbacks due to a single employee undertorquing a single nut [pdf]
>so the agreed solution was to estimate the best time of the month when the client had received their paycheck, but before they had used it to pay rent and other expenses.

The Purdue OxyContin's 12 hours higher dose and thus higher addictiveness "solution" instead of the 8 hour based lower dose cycle similarly bears all the hallmarks of being produced by MBA consultants.
But there is demand, and in many times, social interest.

I'very much in favor of some ruleset that compells the rights owner to either distribute something for reasonable prices[0], or make it available for redistribution and relinquish any distribution rights to it. This should apply to physical products as well - either sell it, or give blueprints to others.

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[0] - reasonable meaning commensurate with other products in its category, and not e.g. $1,000,000 for a movie they want to suppress.
This is a huge problem! This looks very promising!
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This is an absolutely incredible work of historical musicology. Are there any similar works for other styles of music with examples?
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> It's frequently faster for people in Argentina to connect to Miami than it is to hit Sao Paulo or Santiago.

Yeah, most networks in South America don't interconnect with networks in other countries. They mostly connect in Miami, because international connectivity is difficult to arrange, and if you can only manage to connect to one other country, it needs to be the US. Africa likely goes to Europe rather than the US? But same thing, it's hard to connect, so first you have to connect to where the content is. And there's not (currently) enough network stability and capacity to just connect to your neighbors and rely on them to get you to the US/EU either.

I don't know if it's current, but in Japan there used to be two dominant networks, but they weren't both available at the same PoP. You would need a Tokyo-A pop to get to one, and a Tokyo-B pop to get to the other; and it was difficult to interconnect those pops.
When Parler reviewed the AWS terms, the vagueness of "offensiveness" would have been a good reason for them (of all companies) not to select AWS as a hosting platform. Anyone who pays attention to this space could have warner Parler; similar things have happened to other sites, like Gab, on AWS. They weren't diligent, they selected a provider incompatible with their business goals, and they suffered the consequences.
Let's not forget, these are the same consultants that did work for Enron, work leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.[0] McKinsey is also advising various government agencies on optimizing their Covid-19 response[1], generating revenue of $100m and counting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Controver...

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-is-making-10...
Same is true for compilers. and actually, modern compilers already include the LSP business logic. Therefore, it is not a waste. Especially since languages exist outside of a single idea system like IDEA
There has been a lot of progress in the past 20 years on antineutrino detection. Antineutrinos are produced by fission and so there's been a fair bit of interest in detecting them to detect covert nuclear tests as well as potentially a new modality of detecting nuclear submarines.

I think it could become possible before too long to use this to transmit data. It would probably be a ~billion dollar project, but the HFT arbitrage market is essentially winner-take-all, and may be large enough to support this size investment.
As best as I can tell, the timeline of these data is lagging and inconsistent...

I believe it's (now) listing UK up to 2020 Week 51, and Bulgaria to 2021 Week 3.

That's a 5 week difference in which Bulgaria was hit pretty hard. We don't see the effect in this data set of the British variant yet.
A bit unusual of a topic for HN, but I think the chronology on page 3 is interesting from a product quality/root cause remediation perspective across industries.
Since men make more than women generally, if the nth percentile earning woman marries the nth percentile earning man, then the man will make more money, yes. That also means that if they divorce, the woman may take out more dollars than she put in. In the less common scenario where then woman makes more, though, she will take out fewer dollars and may have to pay spousal support going forward.

Meanwhile, custody of children in most jurisdictions is in fact gender neutral, and based on the best interests of the child. However, since more often the mother is the primary caregiver (whether stay-at-home or working full time), courts more often grant custody to the mother.

The first problem would be solved by eliminating gender wage disparities. The second problem would be solved by men providing more of the childcare during the marriage.
EXACTLY

Look at it in tech: Some FB engineers are INCREDIBLY smart and good - but the, as you say, "diffuse harm" they do is still *harm*

FFS when I was at Lockheed and we got audited for SOX the execs were stealing stocks from the newer employees and giving those stocks to the execs

and the auditors, I think it was PWC, gave use a green passing grade and employees got fucked.

Some of the execs went on to Solyndra and we all know about how they stole 700 million from the USG...

(look at the SEC claims for Solyndra, where weeks before shutting their employees out without notice, they were giving out huge bonuses to execs and certain employees - e.g. they gave a $40,000 bonus to the IT manager that locked out all the accounts of employees)

Source: That IT guy worked for me at lockheed, the IT CIO was my boss at Lockheed - and I know their level of corruption....
I don't see an @autoreleasepool anywhere in the source, which I believe means calling some AppKit APIs from Go-managed threads will silently leak memory (due to memory allocated internally by the APIs that will never get released).

In my own projects, I had to wrap calls from foreign threads into AppKit APIs with an @autoreleasepool {} block or my app would leak memory. [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...
I have to say it doesn't strengthen your case to say "the damaging ones are public, the good ones are private."

That's asking for a lot of trust in an organization with a public history of doing damage to societies, like with the opioid thing or the Canadian bread price fixing agreement.
"Correcting" seems just as dystopian as banning outright.

Put a warning label on it and people can choose to not view it.
Well...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-hac...