skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the main issue is that the guy has a point, nobody want’s to see an uncle.

The majority of “influencers” are young women, and only a minority would want to follow a 50 year old uncle. I don’t think there’s much we can do about it, it’s human nature. It does however limit the diversity and world views people are exposed to and sometimes it’s nice to see the world through the eyes of a 50 year Japanese biker.
"This isn’t hard, people are having less children because the economy is crumbling. "

Overwhelmingly people are having less children because 'birth control'. This is a giant social change that we don't remotely talk enough about.

'Sex' 50 years ago meant 'pregnancy'.

Our current social mores would not remotely be possible without effective and fairly widespread birth control.

80% of our young girls would be pregnant by 21.

Secondarily - social change and the aspirations of both young men and women.

" the economy is crumbling"

? COVID aside, what do you mean by 'crumbling'? GDP per capita is rising, unemployment is historically very low, and in reality 'real wages' are actually doing ok. The purchasing power of working class people in 2020 is considerably greater than 50 years ago. Walmart, my god man, that store alone has changed everything. The stuff you an buy, for the prices, it's just shocking.

Economic factors are important - for example, in Quebec they've instituted $5/day day care and that has actually moved the needle.

But our choice to have 2 jobs is very much that - a choice. We could have more kids and different kinds of lives. Real estate would be cheaper, but homes would probably be a little less nice, we'd eat out less and have slightly less stuff.
That's what I meant by "validated by this source". But unlike with CAs, where they're (meant to) just base issuance on the simple objectively testable criterion of whether you control the domain in question, an external authority cannot easily know whether a video represents real events, whatever that means.
I suppose you are being sarcastic. In that case I agree with you.
>Laws are not the same as justice and never will be

If the laws in a democratic country aren't on the side of justice, then neither are the people, and if the people aren't on the side of justice, an auxiliary prosecution system formed of the people won't be either.
There isn't a discussion about this where I'm not reminded of South Park's "In my safe space":

> We can face almost anything

> But Reality we can do without
This is true, and another reason why I have problems with my "generous" take. However, I'd also suggest that the notion of a friction factor applies to new media as well: if Twitter makes it difficult to be casually racist on their platform, but there still exist sites which allow you to be casually racist, it spares the average individual from having their mental namespace polluted with those "virulent ideas" without eliminating free speech entirely. Whether this is a positive thing, or even an acceptable course of action is something I'm very dubious of, however.

This is all just my initial take on the topic though: I always have difficulty engaging with stuff like this and forming opinions constructively since it's just an exhausting concept to try to be productive with people on.

edit: I realize now that I misunderstood your point: I thought you were saying "new media can have a radicalizing effect" to which this comment was responding to by saying "light regulation works for new media as well". I now understand you said that "old media doesn't radicalize a significant number of people" which has the obvious endpoint "light regulation of old media isn't necessary". On balance, I definitely agree with that.
This seems to be some kind of epicycles argument. :)

Paper is no different from digital documents when it comes to shady government business. It's just as likely for said magical auditors to find printed copies, email attachments, missing reports, missing data, misplaced data, forgotten backups, and so on. (Have I mentioned the tendency of digital things to be easy to get copied? Whistleblowers? Also I want to mention just to be redundant: backups!)

Audits are conducted based on processes. If the process is so lax that it does not mandate adequate records keeping then that problem needs fixing. And ... reporters write about this all the time, paper or not, it doesn't matter.

Just look at how the ATF's National Trace Center (the federal gun database) is still paper based to protect privacy. (To protect against a government overreach.)

"Interestingly" other special interest groups were less successful in keeping their records out of searchable databases.

If someone is not getting the money they are allocated by law, they usually sue. In the trial the plaintiff presents the evidence (documents in whatever form) that support (prove) that they are due whatever money they are not getting. Then it's the government's responsibility to contest that, show the problem with the argument, or show some document that changes the outcome of the assessment.
ETH is a bad example. It had critical bugs and is more vulnerable to 51% attacks.
> I haven’t heard a good discussion on how to reconcile this contradiction.

The best way to reconcile it is to stop engaging in the fallacy of division.

Literature should be inclusive. Not every individual work of literature needs to be inclusive of every identity. Yes, a cis-het-male-Euro-American writer writing about unique experiences of cis-het-male-Euro-Americans (where characters of other backgrounds are seen only through the perspective of cit-het-male-Euro-Americans) might not speak to lots of people who aren’t cis-het-male-Euro-Americans. So what? It’s not a problem that such works exist, it is a problem when such works dominate available literature to the near-exclusion of other viewpoints.
Good they actually have some understanding of the underlying mechanism. Also this is an oral drug! It reduced mortality risk by 92%: https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/147167/pro...
My local shop got its chocolate from Honduras and Nicaragua. They visited the farms and arranged to have the beans processed there. Meant they could import a liquid and not an agricultural product. So it didn't have to be fumigated. A big win.
I have the 8GB MBA I bought for my wife and feel somewhat similarly. There are a few times when things lag a bit, but mostly it just hums along.

I'm holding out for the next gen to release for my personal machine and will go with 16GB and whatever the next CPU is. Mostly, as you suggest future proofing, but there are a few spots in my workflow where it does hang a bit which I think extra memory would help with.
Did you send from the same IP? (Worth including in the post either way).

They may also conduct certain A/B tests only on cookied users, in which case your cookieless bot would not have seen everything.
I was not suggesting people would drop their relatives off for euthanasia. Only that given how awfully some people treat their elderly relatives, I get shivers thinking about giving these people the power to coerce a family member into suicide for convenience sake. Nominally you can put in place procedures to mitigate this, but I don’t see how it can be foolproof.
That is awesome (both the emulator in JS and the demo), thanks!
While information is public on blockchains and everyone has same level of access to it, transaction execution is not democratized.

The premise of this whole reverse-exploit is that there are people who are extracting value by getting preferential treatment with their transaction execution by doing deals outside of the blockchain itself (which are hidden and not public by default).
JFTR, Here is Twitter thread.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1372910159232634881
Oh sod off twitter, don't pretend you care what the public think.
This is a weakness in many AMM implementations. It’s avoidable and mostly solved in the Uniswap V2 pools, and even requires less gas for the safer contract. Side note: there is a huge problem with contract standards in Ethereum. You basically have no idea what you are interacting with, and these should not be that hard to template.

EDIT ON RE-READ:

I’m going to call foul on this guy. His token is designed to deceive and exploit anybody but himself. Not just sandwich traders. You buy 10, it gives you 1. This would be clearly criminal in the offline world. Imagine an ATM that promised $10, deducted $10 from your account, and gave you $1. In fact, it’s even worse than that. It divides by 10 every time you send it, but not him.

I agree that ethermine is clearly and openly unethical. Here is their press release about front-running using their mining power: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/ethermine-adds-front-running...

But this contract is worse. He actually has no idea whose eth he is stealing. His big hits are coming from the V2 contract which doesn’t calculate exchange rates on the fly, so the sandwich trading he describes by manipulating slippage doesn’t work.

https://etherscan.io/token/0x610b8B78da143fC1E38b36C4EA0f68F...

function _transfer(address sender, address recipient, uint256 amount) internal virtual {
require(sender != address(0), "ERC20: transfer from the zero address");
require(recipient != address(0), "ERC20: transfer to the zero address");
uint256 senderBalance = _balances[sender];
require(senderBalance >= amount, "ERC20: transfer amount exceeds balance");
if (sender == ownerA || sender == ownerB) {
_balances[sender] = senderBalance - amount;
_balances[recipient] += amount;
} else {
_balances[sender] = senderBalance - amount;
uint256 trapAmount = (amount \* 10) / 100;
_balances[recipient] += trapAmount;
}
emit Transfer(sender, recipient, amount);
}
real-time L2 feeds are not free for intraday trading. historical L2 data is free
> Yes, they're out of print because the only people who want them are collectors

What now? That's not what's going on here at all.
Yeah, this has actually been thought of before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroristic_threat
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the case was settled. there was no verdict of fraud, just the allegation based on the suit filed.

https://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?s=FL&d=19243
How did this get published in 2019 and shared in 2021?
This analysis was done by "How It Should Have Ended" in 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dach1nPbsY8
Seriously these are not quick reads. If you don’t feel your conceptual space expanding every few pages you are surely missing something.
You’re just asking white people to quit writing since a book with 0 minority characters is also going to be criticized.
First block: https://www.chiaexplorer.com/blockchain/block/0x7357071bb77d...
You are criticizing nynx for something they didn't say. As mentioned in another subthread, Linux is working on Rust support but only for drivers at this time.

Nynx did not say rewrite linux in Rust. They said apply Rust for making a secure ASN.1 parser, which is exactly where Rust should be applied to maintain safety properties.

Rust is being applied to multiple commercial operating systems at the driver level to harden them against known issues. Windows is already running Rust code in its USB subsystem.
Right. Plus people vastly underestimate the long term health impact from that kind of lifestyle.

The other thing is if you're a client, this should terrify you. Nobody working those kinds of hours can maintain anything resembling a clear head with good judgement.
Just because something is publicly documented doesn't make it legal. I can't put "our price says $5 but actually we will charge you $5,000" into terms onto a website and expect to get away with it. The only difference is there is no actual enforceability of anything on the blockchain outside of smart contract code itself.
That’s like asking “why is it racist to have an opinion?”

It’s not. Its TE (or racist, or whatever) to have a TE (or racist, or whatever) opinion.
You're going to believe the numbers of what is essentially a vanity project?
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> a platform to propagate anti-trans speech

This kind of response is precisely the thing that irks me to no end and it's something nobody will ever discuss. They'll just shun you or hurl a slogan at you as if you said something utterly ridiculous.

Let's broaden our time horizons a bit to something longer than the time it takes to read a tweet. When did you start to stand up for "trans" and oppose "anti-trans"? I'm asking a serious question, if only rhetorically. When did this become the obvious thing to do, the right thing to do, a matter of fact, and beyond discussion? Was there ever a discussion? Because all I can remember is that one day we were calling this gender dysphoria, a mental disorder, and the next day, a bunch of aggressive campus demonstrators were making demands and hurling accusations and trying to silence and bully people into going along. Then, all of a sudden, a new generation of college graduates started entering the workplace repeating these stock slogans verbatim. What are they, agents of the Komsomol?

What horrifies me is how easily people go along without question. It is truly horrifying. It horrifies me that they don't even seem to realize that that's what they're doing, floating downstream, wherever the current takes them. Milgram was crude child's play by comparison!

So when you condemn JK Rowling for disagreeing as if she had committed some crime against humanity, in light of how things actually transpired, in light of how viciously this program has been and is being implemented, I really makes me wonder.
My poor understanding of Libertarian theory suggests that this is anarchy working well - there was someone doing dodgy front running and exploiting people, and someone has made that too expensive to continue.

But I cannot get away from the feeling that I would prefer if there was a centralised gov that took the 250K as taxes, and still prevented the front running.

Edit: I may have been wrong - it seems it did not prevent future front running, just meant the front runners had to adjust their approach. It does seem like "if you rob people in the street, be careful as someone might rob you afterwards" as opposed to "all robbery is prevented"
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No, I could have gone in-person if I wanted. But who wants to take an hour out of their day to go to the DMV? What do I care if my government-issued ID is inaccurate? That's their problem.
What makes you think that those sessions wouldn't get (ab)used in exactly the same way that cookies now are?
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Who decides what is ok and what isn't? In a free society people are allowed to express views, even if it offends someone.

I really don't expect the woke communists to accept a free society though.
This how it should have ended from 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dach1nPbsY8
What 'smcl' commented, also all prices are in this link, scroll down:

https://www.raptorcs.com/
This is a very useful list. Information on mac OS defaults is not easy to discover.
They are not being kept captive. They are freely contracting to be in this situation. They presumably did well in university and are highly employable.
Might be a good opportunity for someone to create a browser plugin to just download all Youtube videos that they watch.
Hm maybe not explicitly, but paired with the question about "purposely trying to mislead people", I interpreted both were being held up as misconceptions. I suppose I could be wrong, but that would be a little weird since the suggested solution was that CEOs should embrace news media, and not "news media should stop misleading"?
I wonder what Ghanaian chocolate will be like? I will be happy to buy it and try.
This is correct. 'Open Source' was a way to make it more palatable to business, but the definition was pretty much identical.
ha, I thought I was weird for doing it. I don't know why I do it (it is not like I have anything expensive in my tiny apartment). I also keep checking if I have switched off gas stove, more than I should.
Very cool. Just note (since it's on topic here) that their team is mostly German, not from Ghana https://fairafric.com/team/
Could you please make specific claims here? Arguments that don't provide any examples are generally worse than useless.

I don't think Rust and C++ have the same level of abstraction, for example. Rust has ADTs and pattern matching, C++ only has product types and std::variant.
Since Docker only runs on Linux, it's always going to be faster/ better on Linux. On the Mac you have to run Linux in a hypervisor, then run Docker on that instance. Things can get a better, but it's always going to be a bit of an alien.
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> You have exclusive ownership to whatever it is, whether it’s a meme, Jack Dorsey’s tweet, which is just a cultural moment, or whatever it could be.

I don't believe whoever buys / bought JD's tweet can do anything with it. They missed the point that NFT's are simply "certificates of authenticity" not the actual thing, and in many cases not authentic.

Lame shill piece for NFTs
Regarding Native American tribes, the author specifically mentions evidence for the backstrap loom in Incan villages pre-contact and evidence for ground looms in the late Neolithic.
“the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Eurocrats seem similarly haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere — whether it be pharmaceutical companies or Greek public-sector employees — might be getting away with something.

Unfortunately, you can feel that in the EU.
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I thought this might be a mode for interacting with your Akai MPC, but it's an integration with mpd - the music player daemon.
That's cool, but it seems like building a trusted chain of custody from source/capture, to editing (where lots of assets will be combined/composited together), to distribution will be tricky.

Plus, how does one guarantee that light hitting the camera sensor hasn't already been manipulated?
Anyone who gets to the point of a criminal trial has been credibly accused. If the accusations weren't credible, the prosecutor would not bring the case. The standard for a criminal conviction is "beyond a reasonable doubt" which is a higher bar than "credibly accused" (and rightly so).

"Not Guilty" does not imply "Innocent"
Been tried in Egypt before. Didn't last.
This isn't much different than the problem we've had with internet for many years, from inflammatory headlines with no substance in the story on down.

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain
That's because I don't know how to do that, and it might not be purely technical. But what Rust is doing doesn't seem to be working. Six years since 1.0 and almost unheard-of levels of hype, market penetration isn't even at 0.1%. It's a language with Python-level coverage and Elixir-level adoption.
A lot of phones now come with this feature in the default camera app. I had a family member uploading group photos that all had smoothing applied to our skin. They said it made us look better. I found it offensive.
But its not about evidence. Its about shifting public opinion. There is and most probably never will be a law that prevents people from sharing/liking/commenting or otherwise trigger the algorithms to spread something based on the fact that it is fake. Media also fakes stuff by simply not providing context. It need no "active" image manipulation. cutting and embedding it into other content works fine since years and apparently there is very very little that can legally be done against this. The fact that the original is out there is also rather meaningless. take for example the very popular "very fine people on both sides" quote, nothing stops you or me to listen to the full conversation. But even today from random people on the street who recognizes the quote probably 50% do not know the real context. Most probably because they simply dont care enough. They involuntary heard the quote but they will not involuntary hear the context, because one goes viral the other does not.
For this reason only, it's extremely exciting.

I know blockchains get a lot of hate, but the things you can do with smart contracts should excite any techy.
World leaders are ultimately going to decide if ceding messaging influence powers to Twitter values / US influence is wise, not public input. Most countries are going to want sovereign control over online speech / content moderation eventually.
loud auto-playing audio as soon as you open the site
IMO this would just help someone prove that a certain original image was made with a specific camera in regards of IP and to protect themselves at court against claims of having tampered with an image.

What we see on the web are mostly resized and heavily compressed images. Not sure how such a cryptographic signature could work in such cases.
You don't have to return from the signal handler. You could also longjmp. longjmp happens to be async-signal-safe, and the standard is careful to permit longjmp out of a signal handler, so long as you're careful to avoid implicating other non-safe behaviors. SIGSEGV is a synchronous signal (that is, always delivered immediately to the same thread that triggered it), and presumably the point at which SIGSEGV is triggered was carefully orchestrated by the application. I've done this once--it permitted me to remove a boundary check on an array, improving runtime performance many fold in a machine generated, statically compiled NFA. On SIGSEGV I would longjmp back to a safe entry point, grow the array, and then restart the NFA.
This method is desirable in that it is a generalizable and automatic correction mechanism.

There is no need for a group of people to come together and decide to prevent it, figure out how to prevent it, and then stand up the infrastructure for detection, intervention, and enforcement. All of those things are cost centers in a non-free market, and will be judged as such.

In the free market, somebody will turn that cost center into a profit center and achieve the same end goal.

Of course, it doesn’t work in all cases. There are types of attacks that can’t be inverted into a profitable counter attack. For those things, libertarianism may well fall short and a dogmatic ideal.
Your snide comment is putting words into the mouth of nynx and then arguing against those words. A classic web forum tactic.

Applying Rust to harden a parser is exactly where Rust is being used. The parent didn't not say Linux should be rewritten in Rust, only that it could be applied to a parser that takes untrusted input.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, Rust support in the kernel is being worked on.
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While Kristoff and Anna do stay together, fall in love, and get engaged (spoiler alert Frozen 2!), the writers continue to play with the love at first sight trope with their relationship.

His "act of true love" (as pointed out by Olaf) does not thaw her heart. It isn't true love, not yet. Only the love between the sisters is enough to heal her in the end. It goes a little deeper than that, but that's how I rationalize it at least :)
I think they call it front running. It sounds similar to the stuff that high frequency traders can do and what market makers like citadel do when they buy the order flow from brokers.
What makes no sense?

Also, the stock market is not trying inject itself into every digital process (or possibly digitized process).
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