skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why just A/B?

Could generate trees of filters applied to your content, with a separate channel output on each leaf.

Breed the filters that work, kill off the ones that don't get the clicks. SEO for your appearance.
NoVa is specifically the northern Virginia part, people here wouldn't consider that to include any of DC or Maryland.
They expect to have six million people on the new city. If six million are elite, then they have a pretty good ratio of elite to commoner in Cairo.

Anyhow, lowering Cairo’s pop by six million should make it more livable traffic and smog wise.
I think the author here misrepresented the JK Rowling thing quite a bit. The idea is not to "scour" her texts for hidden anti-trans sentiment. The idea is that Rowling makes money off of selling her books and has built an empire, and the resultant power is now used by her as a platform to propagate anti-trans speech. Quite a different issue and also quite novel (pun unintended). Death of the Author is a concurrently operating, but in my opinion separate, question.
I thought Looking Glass War was fine, a distinct tale of an ill staffed intelligence group uaing obsolete approaches spectacularly screw up their operations.
> I think all contributors should be paid once a big company starts using the project.

Wait, why would we want to deter big companies from using and supporting Rust? That makes no sense to me. This pervasive big-company-envy is something that I just can't grok here at HN.
How can you compare China (population ~1.4bn) to any EU country (population average ~10mn - several orders of magnitude less, even in the case of the largest country)? Size is an advantage, not a disadvantage!

Pretty much none of the tactics would have worked for a small country that China played successfully. If you are small you can choose to be independent and protectionist - and remain very poor, or join the party, but be pushed into the corner, hoping that with time the playing field will level out somewhat.
What really worries me about the DeepFakes stuff is not so much the fakes -- I'm worried about that, but that's been written about to death -- but that now it adds plausible deniability to anyone caught on camera doing anything.

If we had video footage of, say, a politician doing something clearly illegal on camera, then it's simply the word of the politician against the word of the source -- the latter of whom may need to remain anonymous.

That said... the other way around is still the more dangerous, I guess. If, say, a US adversary creates a great-looking video of the US president doing/saying something really heinous, that has the potential to inflame the world long before the truth can get its boots on.
> The direct advantage to the player of owning the NFT would be playing the card in-game,

"Thinking out loud here", so this may be wrong, obvious, or both.

I wonder how that would work. Presumably, the game maker would create a rare "card" and put it on the blockchain, and transfer it to a player in a transaction. That player could then transfer it to some other player, etc.

To be used in a game, a player would have to be able to prove that they are the rightful owner. The player would be represented as their private key ("wallet"), and any "card" that is sent to the player would need a chain of signatures that lead back to the creation of the card by the game maker. I think that blockchain would only be able to represent the custody of the "card", the barter would likely have to happen off-chain. ie, you send me $100 or 1mBTC or whatever and I will sign over my card to you...
As a daily brew user, I've never heard of that problem.
>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/10/not-suitable-c...

This extends beyond the contents of the book. Here a "white" (but really Catalan) man was fired from translating a poem because his identity didn't mirror the poet's.
For those similarly confused as I was, Gafam seems to be the acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.

I'm sure I would agree to Google and Facebook being bad in this situation. I'm mostly convinced about Amazon, too, but why Apple and Microsoft?
Reminds me of this presentation by Jason Scott, examples around the 24:00 min mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCAL_YgYiP0

Jason has a similar ( maybe the same ? ) Defcon talk, in which the goons apparently mis-schedule something and he starts in, is told someone else is going to present, and just power-speeds through the whole presentation in 3 minutes while the other presenter gets ready. I can't find that video though.
Reminds me of Gay Girl In Damascus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gay_Girl_In_Damascus

Fun fact, the lesbian girl who outed him also turned out to be a middle-aged dude.
> should stop financing horrible dictatorships

When you do that and even take down the dictator (Gadafi), you end up with a worse government, or no government at all. We can all agree Saddam Hussein was a horrible dictator supported by the US, look at Iraq now, is it better off without Saddam?

There is no clear cut, and it seems like whatever the west is doing or abstaining from doing it's going to attract hate. We all hate that the Saudis are free to be horrible, but what is the alternative? A new Iraq?

What if you just let them be, you might say? Then you end up with 8 year long wars like Iran-Iraq. Or with genocide like in Yugoslavia in the 90s.

I think we can all agree China is a horrible dictatorship, how exactly can we stop financing it, since we rely so much on their factories?
> Of course it's a lot easier and less risky to simply post a mocking tweet and walk away.

This tweet seems to be from Jason Donenfeld, who worked for years to refactor linux kernel crypto APIs as part of upstreaming wireguard, apparently with some success. (Random link for some context, though I haven't followed the whole arc of that story: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Crypto-A... )

If you're aware of that context and think that Donenfeld is too critical of the kernel and hasn't done enough to fix it, then OK, but from an outside perspective it sure looks like he's put a ton of time into fixing things and earned some right to point out remaining issues.
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The "conflating" is addressed just a couple of paragraphs later:

>The above cases are each distinct. You may agree with how the book world responded in some instances, and disagree in others. But what these cases convey is how much the literary establishment is struggling with a dread of “harm,” related both to content and authors. It speaks to the spreading sense that it thinks of itself as carrying out a moral mission, whose standards are those of progressive activism.
Linus is a cool guy. Check out the Chipophone. An 8-bit synthesizer built form an old electric organ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU

http://www.linusakesson.net/chipophone/
i’m not familiar with JKR’s anti-trans speech. got a quote?
I got a bit late to the party, but I have to say it looks awesome. It seems an ML + APL descendant. Looking forward for more as I see they are puting good design and pragmatism together first.
Well it probably helps only one of those is sterilizing muslim women while keeping them in detention camps?

Fighting a multi-national ground war against ISIS is a bit different then genocide against your own citizens.
I do have locking issues with some sqlite files. I guess it has to do with the fact that the filesystems are shared. I wish I had time to investigate more.
> The reality is that some cultures are better at it than others

That's extremely lazy reductionism. You're talking about countries of wildly different sizes (Taiwan is tiny, Japan is medium-sized, China is gargantuan), starting from wildly different levels of development (Japan was developed pre-WW2, India and China were in abject poverty), with wildly different levels of homogeneity and diversity (Japan is highly homogenous, China less so, India not at all), diplomatic alignments (Japan with the US, China with the Soviets, India in the third world), resources (Japan with zero, India with quite a fair bit), availability of capital (Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with quite a fair bit, India with very little, don't know about China), political systems (government-managed free market in Japan, autocracy transitioning to a democracy in Taiwan and S Korea, socialism in India, full communism until 1980s-1990s in China).
Perhaps, but possibly not - once she was "married off" she was no longer her parents' responsibility and had to marry again at a young age in order to survive.

My point is that multiple generations of people need to have children at very young ages - often under conditions where they lack agency - for you to know your great-grandparents. It was a great experience for me, but every generation before me had a hard life.
I do believe that this is the kind of thing that should be a constitutional right afforded to the individual and not a power that may be exercised over you by anyone else (not even by proxy or process).

Some power a government can exercise is toat least prevent life insurance companies from putting suicide clauses into plans. These clauses withhold paying out benefits due to suicide.
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The point is the essay conflates allowing all voices to be heard with being ok with credibly accused sexual offenders. More generally though free speech goes both ways. Are you arguing that you should be forced to amplify positions you find repellent?
I stopped at Yosemite.
Ask HN: 3x leveraged ETFs – The winning long-term strategy?
I recently read an article that suggested that 3x leveraged ETFs (or even higher) make perfect sense as a long-term investment: http://www.ddnum.com/articles/leveragedETFsandDCA.php

What do you think?
I'm surprised more writers don't advertise with slogans like "read the dangerous book they don't want you to read."

It's also possible that the most interesting writing is happening in the self-published world, or the near-self-published world. That's where current classics like Lolita or Ulysses came from. Or much of D.H. Lawrence.
That saying is strange because cow paths usually represent the most direct path somewhere that the designer of the space failed to imagine.

Is this picture a bad thing? https://i.redd.it/uj5ehfdxn5o31.jpg
Who is going to trust Chinese companies with things like 5G infrastructure and CPS, when they're all basically an extension of the CCP when it comes to security?

They're going to try to compete on price and quality. If customers think that the Xiaomi phone is good and cheap, the governments will have a hard time banning it. Customers don't really care about turning over huge amounts of information to Tiktok as well as to Facebook. That puts the western governments in a bind, to either ban wholesale or piecemeal, and it looks bad for them either way.

That's not a guaranteed win for China. It's hard to compete on both price and quality, and they're going to have to work hard to win a reputation for the latter. It's possible: both Japan and South Korea have done it. But they did so with a friendly US, not a hostile one.

They have the advantage of an enormous internal market, but it's not a wealthy one. They're going to look to Africa, which is also not wealthy, but there is money there, with less focus on privacy and more on price. Perhaps India and Latin America as well.
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see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20596454
What exactly do you mean by making "tough decisions", "fight for the market" and "make itself extremely appealing"? I've just re-read both of you messages in this thread and didn't find any single specific technical suggestion.
Alarmism over cancel culture is weird because cancel culture, which has always existed in one form or another, from one side or another, is what creates something to transgress against. The great, transgressive works of yesterday are so just because they caused controversy and challenge.

If transgressive works dropped without a squeek, they wouldn't be transgressive, would they? It's nonsensical to to try to preserve a space for challenging works by removing the challenge to them.
People are buying them to resell to all the chuds. It’s not some grand plot.
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Friendly reminder: It’s typically a good time to do some self-reflection when you find yourself saying “I support the positions of the mob”
Did you try archive.org? I was curious what the concern was with some titles and was able to find a couple there.
Government can never be anything-only. About 20% of adults in the United States are considered functionally illiterate and 10% are almost entirely illiterate. There will always need to be the option to speak to a human who can assist you.

https://nces.ed.gov/datapoints/2019179.asp
I lie to myself...

I say I'll work on this thing for just 30mins... It gives me a quick out because after 30mins I can say at LEAST I did 30mins... which you figure will compound over time.

But normally, I tend to say 30mins and end up spending +1hrs..

so yea.. lie to yourself a bit
> whether or not a white author should be writing black protagonists

Shouldn't be a question. Anyone should be able to write whatever they want without involving identity politics/purity tests.
The big skew started when trump was elected (check historical polling data to see that). Basically the media abandoned the pretense of neutrality and turned into a full time informational army trying to take out Trump, which democrats responded to in massive numbers.
That must be a tough thing to do every day. The sadness in her voice (in Mark's) video is gut wrenching. Both when she's telling the scammer how fried her brain is, and then when Jim tells her she's been scammed. Truly awful people are scamming these seniors.
Let's not create more bits for fingerprinting.
What's actually happening: society is justifiably deciding that some things that used to pass without notice, because people were very racist or sexist or homophobic or whatever, are now recognisably and irreparably awful. And we should probably stop doing them because they are hurting people. Both directly, by being the constant micro-aggression wallpaper of marginalised lives, and indirectly, by sustaining a cultural environment that comforts bigots in their bigotry.

I don't expect HN to understand this. But it is fundamentally different from the various tirades of the Moral Majority and friends. This is not an attempt to impose a religious set of restraints. This is an attempt to make the world kinder and less awful. And it is a good thing.
White isn’t a culture. Also BIPOC have made contributions to all those things. Way to erase them.
I know it shouldn't be a question. That's why I'm baffled that they're being conflated here.
Yes, in fact, you cannot even use async Rust without writing your own executor or bringing one in via a library. It is very, very much opt in. That was a hard constraint on the design.

However, I think what the parent is getting at is the feeling of the total package, not the technical details. If every library you want to use is async, you can't really "opt out" exactly, even if technically the feature is opt out.
Might be this is the kind of thing you’re looking for: https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk...
so are you mainly refering to state-owned assets rather than privately owned assets? State-owned companies are notorious for being badly run...no wonder they are overrun by foreign competition. Would it not be possible for a state to IPO these assets or give shares directly to the population rather than sell?
I've been doing that for 2 weeks now.
Personally I think this might be a good thing. The alternative is a squeaky clean politician that has no character, mistakes, or experiences.

> I guess. If, say, a US adversary creates a great-looking video of the US president doing/saying something really heinous, that has the potential to inflame the world long before the truth can get its boots on.

By the time this becomes possible, it will be widespread knowledge that deepfakes exist.
I think it has more to do with the type of audiences. I was lucky enough to have access to my dad's Atari 8-bit computer, as well as a 286, both that allowed me to connect to BBS systems. I was exposed to the ASCII/ANSI art early on. Most of my friends did not have PCs until the late 90's or early 2000's. Their experience with the art was through .NFO files in warez. I imagine how old you are, and when your first experience with computing, dictates your connection to the art scene.
A few days ago they were one of the top torrents on a high seas themed site. I archived them if for no other reason than because I’ve been told that I shouldn’t.
| if one of them does happen to be available, the prices are astronomical

Yes, they're out of print and the only people who want them are collectors, so the prices for collectibles are high. That's not unusual.

What are you proposing be done? Force the Seuss Foundation to publish books it doesn't want to publish?
KeepingYouAwake is nice (and I'm not about to pretend the following solution is good for everyone), however, I've found on the last couple of McBook fresh installs using caffeinate [1] from the terminal is sufficient.

I usually have a terminal open anyway and `caffeinate -d -t 999999` usually does what I want (stay awake until I come back and tell you to go to sleep). Usually it's two keystrokes away (up arrow, enter), if not, that's quick enough to type for my purposes. That said, it's a bad approach if you want to suggest it as a tool for someone's workflow who _doesn't_ have a terminal open all of the time.

[1] https://ss64.com/osx/caffeinate.html
it's not true that JK Rowling was or is doing that. that's a misrepresentation.
Look at many of our popular online comics for examples of this. What do we call this, "populist fascism"?
Awesome, look forward to seeing how it goes!
My understanding was that was a caching issue and you couldn't actually do anything. Unless maybe I'm thinking of the wrong thing?
The key is inserting “widespread” as a qualifier.

It’s like saying, did you steal a million dollars? No, I didn’t steal a _million_ dollars! (leaving blank they stole ten thousand thousand).

A member of the police force died. It’s uncertain he was killed.

If you listened to the media it was an armed insurrection. In reality it was a bunch of idiots a half dozen of whom had weapons. If you believed the media hundreds or thousands or armed goons were on the cusp of taking over government. It’s so far removed from reality but people believe that is what happened.
Because the lines that do something are nicely categorized with documentation included. Instead of running it all, you can take a look what’s possible and apply it individually.
> not to mention the opinionated tooling of cargo, rustup, etc that follow the same flawed principles as npm, rvm and even cpan

Can you specify, what are these flawed principles?
And what would be a better system?
Thanks!
I'm guessing the post you're replying to is sarcasm, or trolling, because it seems too perfectly absurd.
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>Part of the offender is terrible UX of iex (like, why the heck can't I cancel multi-line command and not loose all my context?).

#iex:break?

But I do agree that it would help if there were just a default helper module that collected Ecto.Query and all the app schemas. It can be pretty annoying to have to re-alias schemas.
Superior being defined as sociopathic, but rich.
I think it's more (and it's not just Apple playing this game) that the entry model/price is horrifically under-powered. It's there to hook you in on the price, and that's it. The rest of the pricing is then designed to pull you along the upgrade ratchet.

i.e. You've paid the absolutely necessary $249 to get the 512Gb... then it's only $200 to get an extra 512Gb. Once you've overcome that first hurdle, the 2nd looks almost good value.
Totally agree. Docker for Mac performance is just unbearable when dealing with a semi-large webapp. I recently moved to remote development – macOS with Ubuntu running in VM (VMware) via Vagrant. I edit code using VSCode & Vim (via SSH & tmux tabs in iTerm2).

Based on my benchmarks it's more than twice as fast as Docker for Mac – and only minimally slower than native Docker running on a Dell XPS.

I'm enjoying this setup so much that I'm considering moving all my dev-related tools to a VM (which will hopefully allow me to get rid of homebrew too).
I think saying that it's a "progressive activism" struggle to protest giving a credibly accused child molester money by purchasing his nonfiction is extremely weird, especially when it's being compared to something so innocuous.
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Also, it's not like "NYTimes Best Seller" is the gigantic accolade people make it out to be.

https://scribemedia.com/get-best-seller-list/
This line of thinking has me gravely concerned for the future of liberal democracy.

I don't know where parent lives in the world, but from my perspective in the United States, I deeply fear that there are many Americans who would support an anti-democratic coup (or mob) in a heartbeat so long as it aligned with enough of their political sentiments.

Edit: maybe parent is a little too-secretly sarcastic, but even so I suspect many others think like this unironically.
They hired me because they have no experts in their framework.

I asked if there was anything I should focus on and if not I could do an a11y analysis. He replied with spiking on upgrading to 3.0
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will show you all of them but it's a pretty long list
A few notes on message passing
I am well aware that many people don't agree with me.
When I was younger tariffs were popular in developing countries but they seldom seemed to produce much prosperity - quite the contrary really.

Maybe if you apply the tariffs very intelligently but most developing countries are not blessed with great non corrupt governments.

The

>pressured into free trade agreements (for example by making aid dependent on this)

is kind of telling. A lot of the long time free trading countries like HK and Singapore don't need aid. It's often the tarrifs that make places poor enough to need that.
I still think it as "where-ez".
> The idea is that Rowling makes money off of selling her books and has built an empire, and the resultant power is now used by her as a platform to propagate anti-trans speech. Quite a different issue and also quite novel

People building fame in art and using that fame to advocate for causes, including the cause of preserving the marginalization of particular marginalized communities, is not novel.
2 weeks is nothing, that’s not even enough time to learn the inner workings of the company and understand it’s business well.

Many companies have an onboarding process that can last a couple of months until you are put into a full rotation, the more senior the role the more time it takes because senior roles require much more understanding and information before decisions can be made.

The biggest thing you can do as you climb up the ladder is to rush things.