skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is they based all their tech on old-fashioned control theory, which will have its ass kicked by deep-learning-based tech when the first serious competitor comes along.
How effective is the DMCA in being a force for good? I continue to see stories where it seems they combine all the fun of a jury summons with the customer service of google.

To me, this SEGA claim seems to border on a perjury violation for false DMCA claims (IANAL). But in practice, the victim has neither the ability nor funding to utilize the legal mechanisms for discouraging this behavior. To say nothing of the second issue which is Megacorporations having no obligations to communicate with the proles. And a third issue naturally consequent elsewhere: the hamfisted DMCA enforcement from the major media platforms.

I'm sure this horse has been beaten to a pulp at this point, but are there any good breakdowns of the merits in DMCA repeal/reform/status quo?
I've read a bit of Peter Zeihan. It's hard to be a good judge of his accuracy - he can come across as a bit of a pompous - but he seems knowing and somewhat neutral.
Strangely, I see a lot of the same people complaining about the critical thinking skills of others and also lashing out at others for thinking critically about whatever conspiratorial narrative the former are selling.
> due to other tools that will need to live with your app like log shipping, load balancers, DNS caches, firewalls, daemons, etc.

some apps are just CLI tools.

Top-level await helps with the rigidity of the ES module systems[1]; I believe they can also be used with dynamics imports giving ES-modules and CommonJS similar expressivity

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> What makes people uncomfortable is that the US is a democracy, and the leaders are chosen by the population.

Well, sort of. They're almost always from very wealthy families with very particular educational, social, and occupational histories, on both sides. We get to choose from within the group that makes it to through the candidate vetting processes controlled by the parties.

> China's military and social power is wielded by a very small group of elites in the CCP, which makes it hard to trust.

Again, it's pretty similar. The rich and their children have time and money to build the connections that can get them into positions of institutional power.

> The nature of US policy has been shaped over the centuries in the open, whereas China's policies and doctrines are sometimes changed overnight.

Policy changes in China get voted on too. They might seem like an orchestrated rubber stamp to us -- and they might actually be!

But similarly in the US, executive orders, agency decisions, and supreme court orders can happen swiftly and have similarly profound impacts on the people and the system. See for example Citizen's United, or the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine by the FCC. Did any normal people vote for those things? They kind of just... happened, and their impacts are huge.

I'm not trying to say I would rather live in China or under its system, rather that our perceptions of the differences between the systems are influenced heavily by our context and our naturally western-oriented media diet, and they may in reality be smaller than we feel.

To put it very cynically, our system currently works by allowing average people to feel like we have control over it, while China's doesn't use that tool so much. In truth, average people don't have any real control over either system under normal circumstances.
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Warehouses usually have rigid, level floors.
I believe it did not escalate to a major conflict because UE carefully avoided it. Ukraine, in my profane view, was clearly a casus belli for UE, as this country, IIRC, was seriously considering joining the UE and UE members were not objecting (unlike for Turkey - some say this rejection was the cause of Erdogan).
And there are those who say investigative journalism is dead.
Putting some stonks your kids name when they are born might not be a bad idea..

There's probably some tax benefits. And a good chance they won't touch it for the first 18 years -- By which time you might have given them a taste for compounding interest :)
What's wrong with ABS and OBD2?
(2015)

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837802
Surely they wouldn't watch the feed during counting hours! Who would go against their word so brazenly?
We need an office pool for the timeline.
It's a failure of debuggers that they haven't cleared the very low bar of obviousness and ease of use of print(). I'm very much a novice, but RStudio was the first environment that made debugging so easy I didn't feel the need to use print().
We are rapidly approaching the automation of most repetitive human labor. Warehouse workers, truck/uber/cab drivers. Fast food workers, etc. What happens when these jobs go away? Historically technology has always provided a means of replacing those lost jobs but I think we are reaching an event horizon now where all of that changes. What happens to all of the people whose positions are replaced? I think we are teetering on the brink of a need for UBI, a massive change the world style project (populate another planet or something on that scale) to keep people engaged, WW3, or mass unrest on a scale we have not seen before. Or perhaps and most likely we just ignore the newly poor and homeless and those of us that can continue to accumulate things and tssk tssk at the people that wont pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
I don't buy the age thing at all. Younger generations are superficially more tech savvy but it doesn't really help here.

Just go browse reddit for 10 minutes if you don't believe me. I recommend the /r/GME cult for instance, but there are many others. People will gladly listen to anybody if they tell them what they want to hear.
The comments are not bemoaning the guy, they are bemoaning the article that implies the way to build wealth is with good habits.

The guy didn’t write the article, he lived a long life and donated a lot of money to charity after his death. I’m sure he’d be the first to say that he was lucky to have inherited so much wealth.
‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’
A new one is planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_French_aircraft_carrier
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There are wallet like Wasabi and joinmarket-clientserver with a single UI for managing coins and anonymize coins that are then difficult for an outsider to connect to each other.

Even without these privacy-focused wallets, you can use an HD wallet, where "child addresses" derived from a never-directly-used root key cannot be connected by a third party, unless you do something to connect them, by e.g. transacting with coins from both wallets from the same IP or in the same transaction.
That would have been a killer easter egg (possibly literally).
Well thats pretty blatant
I think I'm complaining in my own way right now :)
No way a company with the resources of Amazon is using several day old twitter accounts with first google result profile pictures. This is the equivalent of someone spray painting "We hate workers! signed, Amazon" on a wall

I don't think even twitter can verify who made those accounts because it's so easy to vpn and use google voice numbers. You can choose what to believe, though
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VW is really pushing EVs. In my neighborhood in Germany there are already many, many ID.3 and ID.4. It's a city near Wolfsburg (VW HQ), that might influence that as well.
Turkey was already involved in recent hostilities. Armenia alleged Turkish troops and air support were involved in the fighting in December while Azerbaijan claims Turkish involvement was limited to "military advisors".
Dupe of this post, which is currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26636021

Can an admin merge them?
Votes are anonymous, people can watch the count all they want.
Youtube Music.
I protested YT premium for so long, finally caved and switched apps. It's worth.
> Well that's part of the point, China is obsessed with territorial unity, not expansionist policies

They are not directly militarily expansionist but are very economically influential by bankrolling the new silk road and lots of developments in Africa.

> The American perspective is that everyone is secretly trying to expand

A huge & growing society seeks resources - which requires expansion; it would be more surprising if they did not given their capabilities and size.
The Surname Problem
Indeed. The abused spouse syndrome. Although that's probably a more apt name for when you believe the same company for the nth time.
Robots dont get ill? Talk to anyone who maintains complex moving machinery such as aircraft or industrial machines. They have bad days. They have lifespans and old age. Some develop long-term diseases (corrosion). Some even get viruses. They can be down for months, even years, as such faults are corrected.
Guaranteeing employment by creating bullshit jobs is one of the big mistakes made by the late USSR. Doing so represented a fundamental shift in ideals from the egalitarian "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to the puritanical "the who does not work, neither shall he eat". I keep thinking recently that the US looks more and more like the old jokes about the USSR.

There is no fundamental reason that you need to "keep people busy" with unproductive labor. Due to increases of productivity, we could all be working 20 hour weeks today and enjoying the same standard of living as 50 years ago.
>what will people who are satisfied with the basics do?

The devil makes work for idle hands.
Visual studio does trace points [0]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/using...
Lance Armstrong deserved it though.
I wouldn't call that an expression of uncertainty, though. The fact that it is not clear who made the statement cannot be deduced from the quotes.
Assuming this is a genuine comment and not a troll, how would a blockchain solve authenticity? Never mind the fact that we already do have a way to verify authenticity in the form of digital signatures. The problem is: how do you know the signature signer is who they claim they are? The best solution we have to that is the “web of trust” and “key signing parties”[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party
There is a huge different between Greece and Armenia in that case. Greece is EU and western. Armenia, I don't think most people even know where it is (I certainly don't, no offense to anybody from Armenia).
I had a Corrado, which was sold to make room for a minivan. Thankfully the minivan days are behind me and now I have a used Nissan Leaf.
> But if there's no way to control for authenticity, online sentiment will just be an arms race for who can pay for the best astroturfing.

If you strike the word "online" this statement works for most of history.

The only things that have changed are the sheer scale, speed, and cost of it. We have small teams that can generate more noise than a nation state could have prayed for just a generation ago.. and they're doing it faster and cheaper than ever before.

Unfortunately, most of the proposed solutions - real names, verified identities, fighting "disinformation" - come with catastrophic downsides.
I use C/C++ for my day job these days, instead of OCaml. That's probably the primary reason. But also I wanted to remove a couple layers of abstraction.
Multipolar (4+) power balances tend to be the least stable (see: WWI & WWII), due to temporarily alliances believing they possess superior force and making a first strike.

Afaik, tripolar tends to be the most stable, with a default-neutral third party, who may choose to side with either other major.

Bipolar comes in second.
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Financial worth absolutely has to do with the fairness or lack thereof. Bezos has created nearly 200 billion dollars (!) of wealth for himself since founding Amazon, so debating the moral value of those gains in comparison to how everyday employees are compensated is well within reason.

And if my employees said I was treating them unfairly, I would try to understand their perspective and make changes to improve working conditions. But maybe that's why I'll never be a CEO.
The question is: are they fake accounts or fake fake accounts? The latter would be a pretty ingenious smear campaign.
I fail to understand why someone would decide that Hacker News is the appropriate site to ask this kind of question.
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> I'm quite skeptical of the idea that there's whole classes of people actually _unable_ to learn skills needed for better work

According to Jordan Peterson, around 10% of the population has an IQ below 83, (at which point the army will no longer take you).

> but as a replacement for having any job at all

I find it unlikely UBI can properly account for the market if it's just a flat rate. Instead a more complex version of "food-stamps" might be better i.e. discount items of food, clothing, accommodation etc with category specific UBI. If people can live on basics without working, so be it - just as long as there is no competition with taxpayers.

That said, there are some things that are still difficult: insurances, medical and crime for example.
Apparently Volkswagen of America is seriously renaming itself:

https://media.vw.com/en-us/releases/1499

Who's the genius that thought this was a good idea?
That's me! Probably.
adam savage, who many probably now grew up with on television, has always emphasized the point that "the difference between science and fucking around, is writing shit down."

it lowers the barrier of entry to science. anyone can do science. it should be easy and accessible. don't let good be the enemy of perfect. not everything has to be done by academics in lab coats—anyone can participate. I think it's important to keep the scientific process open and understandable to everyone.
> "However, a multi-polar world is appealing."

A multi-polar world is one where a bunch of nation-states have a realistic shot at becoming the new global hegemon. The likely situation is something like what occurred in the 19th and early 20th century where all of the major powers were locked into a blisteringly expensive military and arms race. And when you have a military that stands on an equal footing with others, the temptation is there to use it to advance national interests and, as the old quote goes, "of course you realize this means war!"; the list of wars that occurred in the 19th century is surprisingly long. Absolutely nothing about that scenario is appealing.
They recently started putting ads in the management console.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628198
Hmm, USA isn't governed by a relatively small group of elites? You have elections where the presidency can either go to a slightly right-wing candidate or a much more-right-wing candidate. Until January the president's family were all employed in political positions, weren't they? How's that for a small group of elites?? You've got major political and financial dynasties that seem pretty good at preserving power and keeping it in a small group.

>The nature of US policy has been shaped over the centuries in the open, //

That really doesn't seem to be true. Do you teach in schools about all the democracies that those in power have chosen to meddle with? Is it in election manifestos? Like "if elected we will depose the democratically elected leaders of country X in order to impose a dictator who is covertly in our employ".

>China's policies and doctrines are sometimes changed overnight //

Exactly like presidential edicts? How much of the population voted to leave the Paris Agreement on climate change, for example?

I'm not saying China ain't bad, their leadership clearly aren't great either.
Googling for critical thinking curricula and high school district returns Henrico County (VA) on page 5 or 6.

One would think if it were integrated with other studies it would be mentioned somewhere other than Edutopia and Walden adverts.
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> China is obsessed with territorial unity, not expansionist policies

I don’t think the evidence supports that - they’re literally creating new islands to gain more territorial water, for instance. They contest their borders with India and Japan regularly. Their international economic and development policies serve to expand their global influence.
> How are you still doubting that this is anything but astroturfing?

Because the accounts are so obviously fake. It seems like they're designed to be deliberately identifiable as astroturfing, rather than being genuine astroturfing. People are suggesting it's fake-astroturfing, in other words.
I really wish Subaru made plug-in hybrids

I assume the lack of hybrids and pure electrics is because Subaru is tiny, as far as auto manufacturers go.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/249375/us-market-share-o...

It’s a lot of R&D to make a hybrid, and the non-Prius sales have been…less than stellar. Now, Subaru has an environmental outdoorsy image, so they could probably market better than most, but it’s probably awfully expensive for them. And in the short term, they are selling everything they can make, and they might not want to mess with the production lines that much.
I don't know if this comment is sarcastic and I should up vote for it giving a good laugh, or my second realization that it might be serious and I just hold my head in my hands.

I swear I'm one step away from asking for a chili recipe and someone responding 'blockchain?'. It's beyond parody at this point - I feel like I'm in some Kafkaesque reality.
Oh, that's nice!

How is Nyxt? I've been meaning to try it out. Is it usable for day-to-day tasks? What are the remaining 30% of your use?

As for Guix, I've approached it twice, both times installing (what was then known as) GuixSD. Couldn't really make it work. What are your experiences? And your configuration? :).

Emacs, that I swear by.

Still, what's missing in this picture, and why I mentioned PowerShell, is a typed integration with entire OS. Operating on objects / typed data, invoking functions - instead of passing unstructured blobs of text around. That's what I like about PowerShell approach - my scripts don't invoke CLI utilities, they ask system for objects, inspect them, call into their methods. This is similar to the Lisp Machines, where you could code against objects representing your OS runtime state.

If we could somehow bolt that on top - replace existing Unix tools with ones accepting and producing structured data (or even wrap them) - then the picture would be complete. And I wouldn't mind using four different Lisps, if that's what it takes :).
If we do eventually move back to in-person conferences, I hope they keep recording the keynote ahead of time. I have enjoyed the amount of depth they get into, the transitions and overall polish, and most importantly not having to pause every 2 minutes while the part of the audience that is Apple employees claps for more Animojis.
> Every Supabase project is a full Postgres instance, so you can connect Prisma to it (we provide the Postgres connection string in the Project Settings). There is a potential issue if you are using serverless functions with Postgres (because connections are expensive in Postgres), but look out for an announcement soon which will solve this ...

This is the first approach that I could think of, so it's good that you also mention that -- I was slightly worried that I might be missing something. Definitely looking for the mystery announcement :)

> You can also choose to use a single part of Supabase (just the Auth). I'm biased, but I think we are a lot simpler to use. We have a long way to go to catch up to their enterprise offerings though (compliance, SOC2, etc).

Regarding simplicity, it's something that occurred to me as well and one of the selling points. The happy path for Auth0 is simple enough, but when one has slightly different use-case, it's a tad too complicated for my taste. Fortunately, I don't need enterprise features so I'll experiment with integrating my project with Supabase.
> US has to stand aside now and let anybody do anything they want.

Reducing three countries to rubble (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) in just the past 20 years means exactly that the US has no place in international politics and should be treated as an extremely dangerous country, sanctioned by the United Nations for warcrimes, made to pay trillions in damages and slowly be re-introduced into the global village once they are demilitarized.
Imagine a world where cryptography doesn’t exist, so we have to trust volunteers to hand-count easily-forged pieces of paper.
Unless they wanted to have evidence that they tried to do something about it (but in much smaller proportion to the accounts they let slip by)
An online conference for me is as good as a lack of a conference. This "like real thing except you stay home" doesn't work. At an IRL conference, you're able to focus on a talk much easier than when it's an online stream. And as others said, the networking and the overall atmosphere are of extreme importance.
> how would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly?

Not sure how "richest man in the world" version of myself would react. Certainly I wouldn't use my corporate Twitter account to attack (badly) US politicians.
Intimidation is the name of the game when it comes to union-busting, I think it is pretty obvious that this is one more attempt at that.
(Note i still think the author is right) -- If eating that pizza kills one in 100,000 though, you'd have no idea. But the USDA saying "Go ahead, eat the pizza!" would kill dozens of people a year.

Advice to huge numbers of people skews the odds of "this is probably fine", which I think is the root of this. Aside from the fact that quantifying just how many zeros are in front of that probability hasn't (can't?) be done. It probably _is_ reasonable to estimate based on prior science that if 300,000,000 people leave pizza out a few times a year, there's a one in a billion chance of warm cheese making someone super sick.

I also wonder how much lawsuit culture plays a part in this, it only takes one bad luck case.
I'd rather we redesigned the internet to make sock-puppetry so difficult and costly as to make its legality irrelevant.
I've definitely seen Facebook posts that appear to be weaponised alignment with one particular view I happen to agree with, but which really just seem to be there to stir up conflict and create division.

It's gotten to the point that I don't really trust anyone on Facebook in certain contexts - although I'm more likely to trust someone if their position shows some flexibility and avoids purely tribal thinking, and also if they show some evidence of background knowledge and general thoughtfulness.

I'm less likely to trust anyone whose position encourages extreme polarisation, who appears to be disguising intent, whose posts are repetitive, and who tend towards inflammatory emotive language and insinuation.

This isn't infallible and I know I've made mistakes in both directions. But I hope it's better than just getting astroturfed.

Edit: I don't think critical thinking skills help as much as they should. This isn't about assessing evidence, it's about assessing intent - which is a different problem.
Market efficiency doesn’t mean prices always exactly match current value. Only that they reflect all available information and take expected future returns as well as risk into account.