skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is it exactly what I’ve been saying about twitterführer Dorsey ever since he blocked the NY Post. Though in his case he went so overboard with banning and blocking everyone with a viewpoint he didn’t agree with that he made all the other world leaders take notice and be concerned that they could get blocked just as easily. I expect that after the next G7 summit we will start to see the social media companies broken up and/or regulated, or countries may just bleed them with fines to enable new players to get a foothold.
What will happen when all good usernames are taken
what goes up and never comes down? The number of usernames on HN! The internet is a ticking time bomb. The number of good domain and usernames is finite in nature. They are also quite permanent . As i speak more good, concise and witty names are being snatched up. There is a disaster looming up on us, what will happen when all the good names are taken? The next generation will be deprived of the privilege of a clever virtual moniker. I pity the new generation whose options are steadily dwindling. I fear them as well. Who can predict the havoc that millions of disillusioned youth can visit on an internet that has relegated them to second class? what can be done to stop this?
I think what will doom Bitcoin is the uncertainty around the identity of Satoshi. Imagine bitcoin growing by a few orders of magnitude, now it's 10s to 100s of Trillions. Is it close to becoming a world reserve currency? At this point, just who is Satoshi becomes a matter on the level of nation states.

Bitcoin grows by a factor of 100x, Satoshi is now a Trillionaire. He has vast reserves of money he can move around anonymously. Does he still exist? Well his coins haven't moved. Will the world be okay with the mystery?
I guess whoever controls the definition can do the required gymnastics.

However, even if we define "memory" in terms of artifacts like buildings and books, the place where these United States as such actually make decisions is unclear.

Jokes about Congress aside, those chambers are comprised of 535 arguably sentient individuals, not a single hive mind driving the country.
I've had good experience with TWise, sending money can be such a pain. WU was okay but after you exceed some amount start to get blocked/have to prove identity etc... I'm not rich/not sending massive amounts but was still getting flagged early on. TW is working pretty well so far, so is WU after I sent some docs. I tried a few other companies too but yeah settled on TW/WU.
Heh. I can only imagine the reaction you'd get if you tried to report to the front-line support staff that their NFC shortlink domain registration had expired.
Because it is annoying pearl-clutching.

Nobody is hurt by this hack, and I'm sure he would give the link back if asked. It's just a bit of fun.
Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things
This has been explained so many times that it has long since become off topic.

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

Besides the FAQ that mtmail linked to, there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
One critical factor in Australia was border control. This was not just limited to national borders - there were state border control involved as well. If you came through a border (and if you were allowed to come through at all) between a "red zone" and a "green zone" you HAD to undergo quarantine.

Now imagine telling citizens of Germany that they have to quarantine for two weeks, unable to go anywhere, etc, if they crossed over from the Netherlands. Or imagine telling a citizen of the US that their quick trip between NJ and NY means they are now stuck inside for 2 weeks.

The islands locked down and locked down hard. This might be because it is easier on an island, but it might also be the island mentality that everywhere is a long way from here and we don't want there's troubles coming here if we can stop it.

Edit: Another bullet in the "Islands do it geographically" theory also come from Australia.

Australia had 700+ new infections a day at one point. This occurred in only one state, with all other neighbouring states seeing near zero infections due to state border controls. By quarantining and mask compliance and curfews within that state, AND a social welfare system which picked up the economic fragments and put them back together, Australia was able to bring this down to zero daily infections.
As in god help you if you ever need to resolve a dispute with Adobe, whether you screwed up or they did. I think they have several dark patterns baked into their servicing and support flow. Like it’s so bad it must have taken work. I don’t often think of companies as assholes, but Adobe is right there.

But yeah, I can see the year-long commitment for line of business apps as pretty rational, but for commodity tooling software, it seems like there’s room for more competitive subscription terms, like maybe 30-day adjustment windows after initial/renewal billing event, or 5-10% flexibility in license commitment over the term, things like that. Like everything, small businesses feel the pain of these things more acutely than large corps., so maybe it’s a matter of designing targeted/qualified price plans that think more like an actuarial. Pay a buck extra per seat but have more flexibility, with the idea that the majority of customers are on point the majority of the time?
Nuclear was considerably cheaper when it was built at scale. Both the US during the 70s and France both built plants at a cost of 1-2 billion per GW. Which, in the context of 24/7 carbon-free energy is fantastic.
We'll just add qualifiers like '_12' to the ends of our usernames. Problem solved.
The guy you are knocking is throwing you a life raft.

Take it.

Or have fun staying poor.
Re: going from management back to IC, yes I’ve done it, not within the same company though. It was a good experience for me. Later, I swung back to management.

This resonated with me and made me excited to fall back to an IC role for a period: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...
One of the reasons to prefer SQLite even in simple cases is that "filesystems are hard" and "transactionally written back to the backing csv" has a ridiculous number of failure modes, many of which SQLite handles correctly: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/

But in many cases, yeah, simple file use is good enough, as long as important stuff is backed up somewhere / a human can easily re-upload and repair anything needed. It's a <0.1% optimization, it really only saves you noticeable effort when you're doing like millions of those operations per day.
Are you perhaps on an out of date version of iOS/iPadOS?
And https://web.archive.org/web/20210220145345/https://www.nytim...
If you're using "western" to mean predominantly white, then what about New Zealand?
All public incinerators in Japan burn wastes in such high temperature to handle the issue. Is it impossible all countries to use such incinerator?
For example, SQLite is excellent for making an email client. Even on old embedded Arm devices with 64MiB memory, it’s fast enough to handle a gigabyte of messages and an address book with thousands of entries, provided the SQLite DB is located on a good CF or SD card. SQLite is really quite remarkable for the number of occasions where it has been immensely valuable to me and countless others, on such a variety of platforms and in such a variety of circumstances.
That's literally what windows does, for the most part, actually.
I didn't downvote you, but potential reasons:

1. No harm was done (at best you'd get a Site Cannot be Reached, at worse someone with more malicious intentions would recreate the site prior to the expiration and steal information).

2. It's not really "public shaming" - I'd argue the company is not really an entity that can be "shamed" since it's a human emotion, but even if companies could feel emotions it would be more of embarrassment than shame.

3. The post itself says they will give the domain back.

4. Not that much time passed (at most 21 days per the post)

5. The publicity of the post increases the likelihood it will go back to the rightful owner.
you can get 80+ in Germany in big cities.

what problem are you solving? no, you cant get rich by coding as an employee, anywhere. you can try to sweat your balls as a contractor + do tax magic and have a 'decent' living, or start a company and make a product - very risky.

as job coders are 21st century factory workers, its not on lawyer/doctor/accountant level.
Griddy claims[0]—a claim I don't have the knowledge to verify—that this price spike was a political intervention, not a natural consequence of the market, and thus something they couldn't have predicted.

[0]: https://www.griddy.com/post/griddy-update-why-energy-prices-...
In fairness the advantage from going first in chess is really significant at high Elos, so a design improvement that resolves that imbalance would be pretty good for the game anyway. It would save playing two games to get one result.

But given that the only patch to chess in the last century was to prevent playing 0-0-0-0-0-0 with a promoted rook, I doubt I'll live to see that happen.
> It's interesting you say that, I last decided to skip US citizenship due to the fact that the IRS will haunt you for taxes (Double tax treaties, foreign tax credits yeah yeah but it's a hassle) and as mentioned in other replies, being a "US Person" is such a hassle for opening foreign bank or brokerage accounts.

Sorry, but this is not true at all.

I was being dead serious about suggesting that you might as well naturalize as a United States citizen.

You are already liable for US taxes for at least the next 10 years abroad, from the date you have been judicially determined to have abandoned your green card. You do not acquire this status by not fulfilling the requirements of your green card, either: you need to fill out an I-407 form or a Letter of Intent to Abandon Residence Status. Then, at some point, you receive a judicial determination and have to pay taxes for the next 10 years to the US, from that date, while abroad.

See: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/visa-green-card-hold...

The worst part is that due to FATCA, they can literally seize your bank accounts that you hold abroad.

Anyways, this is a good overview for "playing your cards", with respect to pensions and taxes, while abroad, as a green card holder or an American: https://www.goldinglawyers.com/green-card-holder-foreign-inc...
The virus is going to mutate regardless of what any politicians do, unless the immunity provided by vaccines and natural infections is sufficient to fend off any new variants. The idea that this can be prevented somehow with lockdowns and controls is just a classic case of illusion of control.
There already are competitors to YouTube, and technically there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own video hosting site. Except overwhelming first-mover advantage and network effects, of course.
Many ours later the same article was submitted again and spawned more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203853

I hage always wondered why HN does allow to submit duplicates. It might makes sense years (or maybe months) later, but why hours?
Funny, I've always viewed that behavior as more conducive to learning than trying to follow a proof or lecture exactly.
Dang actually considers the comment fading an absolutely essential feature:

> The fading is an important element of HN's design—I don't mean its web design, I mean its community design. It's one critical way in which the community signals that it has found something wrong with a comment.

> These signals are extremely important for calibrating users' perceptions of the community—especially new users.

> I think it was one of pg's master strokes actually. For all its annoyance, it creates important feedback loops, both within the community and between the community and the outside world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24334263
And lets not forget Finland shares a border with Russia, a country that has struggled to control COVID-19.
I would love to have a salaried job. I hate tracking hours and I am very aware that any kind of creative work is inherently hard to track in that manner.

Dilbert has done a number of comics mocking this. In one, he flicks his fingers at work and talks about "Look! I am getting paid to flick my fingers!" I think in another he is getting ideas for work in the shower and the comic makes the point that if you get paid for ideas, it's really hard to say when work ends and when it begins because you can't turn the brain on and off like that.

I currently try to do paid freelance work on a project basis because I don't like tracking hours. I also blog and do various projects online and I try to monetize that with Patreon and tip jars.

Out of respect for the many valid criticisms of online ads I have seen on HN over the years, I don't think I currently have ads on any of my sits. I also tend to not have Amazon links, though I think I did add one of those to something recently and I am not averse to using them. I'm aware of the criticisms, but it's not so much a "moral" stand on my part, like with the ads. It's more just that I have never figured out how that works.

If I were making sufficient money from Patreon, tips and other paid work, I probably wouldn't bother with Amazon links. But my income remains stubbornly below what I really need and it's an avenue I'm willing to try given how poorly other avenues are doing.
I think it’s even more complicated than you lay out. There are so many ways to exist on this earth and many of those ways approach consciousness or intelligence “but different”. We could say the brain is conscious but what about all the unconscious influences it apparently receives from gut flora? And gut flora are affected by what we eat and our culture. So where do we draw the line? Are you sad today because of brain chemistry, gut chemistry, a feud with a family member, cultural artifacts, the weather, or the machinations of the stars themselves?

Slime molds have a kind of intelligence that lots of people know about, but did you know that the vast majority of the mold lifecycle is spent as microscopic spores that permeate most of the world’s atmosphere? They exist in Antarctica, in deserts, and in underground caves. There are likely mold spores in your blood, certainly in your lungs. Any time conditions are right the spores in an area will activate and begin forming “intelligent” creeping sheets. There’s evidence that the cells in a sheet transfer “learned behavior” through as-of-yet not understood mechanisms to other cells. So is the entire atmosphere one giant hydra of fungal intelligence, with heads popping in and out of existence as the need arises? The sheet could be assigned a kind of consciousness as it seems to be self-modifying—-there is certainly something “like being” slime mold, but is there something “like being” the entire earth-spanning mold computer, with spores emitted from old sheets carrying memories of previous conquests in past lives?

I think any dichotomous distinction between conscious and non-conscious (or even living and non-living) systems on Earth falls apart upon closer inspection. The whole planet is a single interconnected system. So sure, the US is intelligent, what isn’t!?
Why not just a downvote?
My intention is for it to be returned, whilst also sharing an entertaining, and educational message with the community. Don't let your domain names expire otherwise anyone can have them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know about Finland off the top of my head, but didn't Norway's king just blast the government over their slipshod handling of COVID? Norway [Sweden actually] thought they could have the best of both worlds and shoot for herd immunity, and they ended up with a load of premature deaths and an economic malaise because no one wanted to be the person to take the viral hit for the good of the economy.

Edit: Wrong country.
> men are better at some things than women

You are a Misogynistic man.

/s
We also should not forget that Australia takes any seaborne migrants trying to come into the country and puts them in refugee camps (and New Zealand largely does not have to deal with such migrant flows by virtue of being more distant and isolated than Australia).
The deal breaker for me is the fee for bank transfers, something I've never paid for before.
It's hard not to read this and not feel like a little bit of it is some maintainers worried about losing control. When I get on irc and say the words "pip" they certainly send me those vibes.
A border is a border. You need permission to get across a border.

It's not more draconian to restrict cross-border movement in Germany than it is in New Zealand, Fiji, or Mali.
Anecdotally I noticed QR codes all over the place in East Asian countries (on receipts in Taiwan for example).

Then here in Australia we now have a QR code system for 'checking in' to an establishment (for Covid tracing). I'd say at this point the vast majority of the population must be using QR codes multiple times a week/month. I've also seen quite a few bars/restaurants implement NFC/QR discs on tables that then point you to the menu/online ordering. It works surprisingly well (and I believe some countries in Europe have done the same in terms of menus at the very least).

So this might be the year of the QR code!
You've no idea how much I regret the free apostrophe
It wasn't a downvote it was flagged so others could no longer see it.
Sure, but those were the travel cards. Likely the marketing department is in charge of these signs, perhaps even outsourced to some agency, who may not consider this
UK is an island
My email was set but I guess not in the about. It is now.
It was a great time to buy in March/April, literally anything. What did you do then?

I’d analyze that first before anything else!
I'm listening ...
boto core/boto/boto 3 are the libraries, which awscli drives.
It doesn’t seem like anything unlawful, fraudulent, or even just shady happened here. Where is the threshold where you see the need for regulation superseding the freedom for people to transact with such risk exposure? Some people may want to pool into something amortizing risk as described but others may want to just reduce their usage. Shouldn’t they be permitted to do so? It’s like how some people may want to hold their savings as cash, some may want to invest in individual stocks, and some may seek mutual funds. The article’s final conclusion, that this episode highlights the necessity of collectivism over individualism, seems like a major logical leap.
I'm not talking about consciousness adhering to logical consistency (I think it actually requires completeness). I'm talking about all parts of a given mind needing to agree on what the current focus of attention is. Failure to have such agreement is a hallmark of dreaming, psychosis, or just having two separate brains.

How do you explain split-brain phenomena if consistency is not required? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
Hate to break it to you, but a zener diode on your ECM can fail short, which burns up the pcb trace for the power. And the ECM is glued together, and it's ridiculously hard to open up without damaging it further, and it has a flexible pcb that can split if you flex it too much once you get it open. (I have one sitting 5 feet from me).
13 inch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeC3LIFTaho

25 inch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qrURPAtnY
> When you look at different US states and different countries it’s really not clear which measures worked better than others

Only if you ignore the countries where measures actually worked, like New Zealand or Fiji.
You'll figure it out eventually.
Realistically, buy solar and wind but never drive fossil fuel use below 40% because there's not enough energy storage.
It is quite easy to be "not even wrong" intentionally. Bullshitter often are, in that truth is irrelevant.

A good example comes from Cialdini's "Influence". He describes a study where they had someone come up to somebody using a library copier and ask to use it. Compliance went up significantly if the asker gave a reason, even if that reason was, "because I need to make some copies." That statement obviously ads no new information; the circularity makes it invalid as an argument. But it's effective persuasion. It's not even wrong, because it doesn't rise to the level of trying to make a decent argument.

Another clear example is America's foremost bullshiter, Trump. He clearly doesn't care about being right. His goal is not to make an intellectually coherent argument. He cares about influence. Like Siskind, his goal is manipulation, not the shedding of light.
The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than whether a submarine can swim - Edsger Dijkstra.

But it keeps academic philosophers employed I guess.
Nuclear can handle variable load by more aggressively cooling the reactor. Same thermal output, lower electrical output.
I am not familiar with this topic, so of course there is something I don't understand:

I don't understand how the United States is reasonably bounded for this example. I'm bounded by my body, which travels together. I can communicate with others, temporarily, but then we separate and I am again alone to some degree. The United States is always in communication with other countries, it is never alone, so what are its bounds? I like the idea very much (that the Earth is conscious for example, or a classroom of students) but I don't understand how the US makes sense here. Maybe that is the point, it being spatially distributed?
I experienced the same issue and posted it elswhere on the page. I am writing here just in case the owner catch this thread !
2020 Industrial Capabilities Report to Congress [pdf]
> In practice, this happens so infrequently it can be ignored as a risk.

Well I disagree there. Security issues or external protocol changes (e.g. TLSv1.2 to TLSv1.3) are rather frequent, not to mention usually customer wants to upgrade their machines (old ones broke) and existing operating system no longer supports the new hardware.

> An update to a dynamically linked dependency which breaks my delivered artifact is an extremely common event in practice.

Again, I agree. A "surreptitious" dependency update breaking the software is much more common. However, I have already acknowledged that _two times already_, and the point that I'm making is that it doesn't matter if you are pinning dependencies or not: customer CAN FIX these issues without help from the developer. They just have to roll back the update!

On the other hand customer CAN'T fix the first issue (e.g. new hardware).
This is a fabulous idea and if the transit folks don’t bother to recover the domain name, it would be a neat side project.
I didn't flag you, so I can't answer that.
> Why not fix Courier?

It isn't "broken".
Bitcoin did not break any "technicality". Technically speaking, the chain with most work is to be considered valid. What they did back then was, a bunch of miners got together and created an alternate chain with more work. So it's still technically the correct/longest chain. On the other hand, Ethereum just plain broke the sanctity by basically creating a chain that contains a transaction without a valid signature.