skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a simulacrum, in the post-modern sense.

For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a simulacrum is a copy of something that has itself become hyper-real and usurped the reality of the original. The canonical example is Disney World, which is a copy of Disneyland, which is itself a copy of many elements of Americana (Louisiana Bayou, the frontier West, Main Street USA, etc.) Disney World has eclipsed Disneyland in visitors, which itself has eclipsed visits to various small town main streets or the Louisiana bayous. You plan a family vacation to Disney World, you don't plan a trip to Bumfuck, Wyoming. Even though it's a copy of a copy (and a poor one at that), its reality has eclipsed that of the original, just because the original is hard to get to and kind of boring.

Similar with NFTs. Yes, you can make an NFT of the Mona Lisa and claim that you have the only one. Yes, you're a lying swindler and probably a bad person. But your copy is much easier to trade, move around, and store than the actual Mona Lisa. And just as there's only one original Mona Lisa, there's only one original NFT of the Mona Lisa, so your copy still has the same scarcity. As more capital comes onto the blockchain, your NFT is likely to acquire its own hyper-reality and become the Mona Lisa, and the original painting will be hidden away in a museum somewhere and disappear from trading.
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Would you have the same demand for video?
I wish to point out that the hell you're describing is also temporary, and would have possibly been much shorter if everyone had just gone along with it from the start.
We already heavily subsidize rural living in the US, no reason we couldn't just offset the emissions necessary to deliver goods to rural areas and encourage urbanization (which is not where most emissions are coming from).
Armchair and couch are good but should not be abused. Our bodies are not meant to be in the same position for prolonged time. Definitely a good office chair makes things better but the fact that you are still in the same position for too long is not healthy. What i'm getting at is that from time to time moving around, changing positions, moving to an armchair etc... is actually good for you. Being stuck on any one arrangement though especially if its not ideal (armchair again) is a recipe for disaster.
The issue is that china and korea banned porn so you have no other choice if want a pornstar who looks east asian. I'm ethnically chinese and I've been jerking it to japanese porn on mute for decades now.
Surprise, simple protocol with UNIXy roots is simple to implement on UNIX.

Now try HTTP3/QUIC or any of the other "let's just break all layering and abstraction for performance sake" stuff.
Something exactly like this almost got me kicked out of school, first year.

I had just picked up Delphi and being the nerd I was, I wanted to make use of it anywhere I could. At the time, the Windows API was essentially completely open to mess with, and I had discovered a bunch of weird things, like the fact that setting (!) the mouse cursor position was even possible, and I knew the CD ROM drive could be opened with code as well.

I packed those things into a quick Delphi program, removed its main window (so like a daemon essentially) and then deployed it on our school computers (everything was open, I just put it into the Startup folder if I remember correctly).

Well, I had the daemon deployed on most computers eventually and it had a timer that looked up a file on the shared network drive, and depending on what was in that file, it would do something, or stay quiet in the background.

Since our IT classes were mostly just "doing stuff in Microsoft Word" (good old times), I couldn't hold off for too long and just added the magical "shakymouse" to the text file, a minute or two later, you would see everyone's mouse cursor start to wobble. It became next to impossible to hit a button or anything really, and I just had the time of my life as the teacher scrambled around to figure out what in the hell was going on.

I then changed the text file to "cd" and everyone's CD drive opened (one after the other as they all slowly picked up the command). It was SO AMAZING (just the choreography of it all), I literally almost shit my pants out of excitement.

Problem was, there was only one person in the entire school they felt was capable of such nonsense, so they had me at the principal's office an hour later. They made a big show out of it, and told me to go home as they'll come up with a punishment and they'll also need to talk to my parents.

I thought I was in massive trouble, didn't sleep at all that night. Next morning, I'm back at school, principal wants to see me, tells me I am free from having to attend the IT classes, as I clearly don't need them, and this reduces the chance of me getting bored. So it worked out quite nicely after all. Lesson learned... CRIME PAYS!!!
Watched the Jonathan Blow presentation and agree completely. There was just another thread[1] yesterday about developers always reaching for the most complicated tools they possibly can, to the detriment of our industry I'd argue.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662972
How is it that immigrants and especially their kids are a fundamentally unassimilable mass who do nothing to protect or preserve said institutions? As the child of an immigrant mother I find this perturbing.
> Note to the author: the illusion would be even better if you used the user-agent to render a system-accurate mouse cursor ;) (on macOS the real cursor is black and the fake one is white)

You're right, it would make the illusion better. I developed this on Ubuntu where the default cursor is black, and I did consider doing this. Eventually decided to just use the default white cursor from Windows because it has better contrast on the dark color scheme. I guess I could set up 3 different color schemes for 3 different cursors for Mac, Linux, Windows, but it may be a bit too much work. I think most people who notice the cursor is different will just think "oh, this website uses a custom cursor", they won't necessarily realize that it's just an image.
> Today, I'm coming clean.

No, he's not. There is no author name in the story.
It was Kindai (Kanazawa Daigaku). They moved from the castle inside Kanazawa to a new campus outside the city. It might be a stretch to say deep in the mountains, it was probably a 20 minute bus ride from downtown Kanazawa. I haven't been there in 25 years and I imagine it has all changed significantly.
The only reason you've had to endure this for over a year is because you never once tried to do it properly. 6 weeks of hard (proper) lockdown followed by sensible plans to manage outbreaks and boom you'd have been done. But no, Americans absolutely refuse to work together, to pull in the same direction, to achieve something.
Don is a somewhat uncommon verb, To put on clothing. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don#Verb
Using "bad look" as a derogatory term is also a bad look. Focusing on optics over substance is a big part of the mess that is current discourse. I expect the vast majority of people who practice what they preach are doing a lot more practicing and very little preaching.
Good perspective. This blog post is a start. If I were him, I'd try to get my fifteen minutes in the press. Whenever a prospective employer searches his name even years in the future, they'll see "this guy made a really popular website!" That's great marketing.
I don't think that's obviously the case. What _is_ the case is most people dating people who are 1. in close geographical proximity 2. in a similar socioeconomic position, not necessarily because they prefer that, but because that's the most natural way (at least historically) to find someone to date.
Interesting premise for a novel. But you tied this to your theology. Do you believe that?
I can't find anything stating how he was eventually caught, but the six year period between contact and arrest is a decent sign they did what they could to protect the source. Either way, they're hardly the villains here.
I just figured people would know me by my work, and I make a point of "signing" it, just... it doesn't go out very far. And yeah, I'm feeling kinda low on self-worth. The thing about giving oneself credit is, is it useful if the credit you give yourself doesn't match the credit others give you? (Regardless of who is right objectively). Doesn't that just increase the amount of cognitive dissonance in the world?

The people I mentioned are currently mildly worried about my mental well being. I'm not. I just don't see the point in continuing to do stuff like this; maybe I'd be happier being a fisherman or a cobbler, is all.
I think we're going in circles. I"ll let it rest. I appreciate that you engaged in a civil way. Are you still at Microsoft ? Is Azure the alpha org now ?
> "We're achieving peace by expanding our global war." You're using scary 1984 logic here.

Funny, I feel like you are the one doing that. "Ending systemic racism is racism" is basically what you are saying. Except your argument is that wealth inequality by race somehow isn't systemic racism?

> Not necessarily. The existence of inequity does not mean the system is inherently unequal. This is the fatal flaw in your logic.

Okay, so let's follow this. The system is equal meaning that it's a meritocracy you mean? Or what do you mean? If the system is equal, why is there a wealth gap between black people and white people? Is it because black people are inherently worse at earning wealth?
> one in eight of patients dies in the same period

Another nuanced and striking peculiarity of the English language that writers for this international paper may not have mastered yet!

"Eight of them" is grammatically unremarkable. "Eight of the patients" and "eight patients" are also unremarkable, although slightly different in meaning.

"Eight of patients" is jarring. It sounds like "four of clubs."
> and watch our institutions crumble under the force of 'woke' people who have never created any value in their short, pointless lives

Well, this is incredibly inflammatory. Imagine trying to engage with this. HN is becoming more and more hostile each day...
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Your AI seems to have two hands on a standard QWERTY keyboard :)
> It's always possible they missed a factor

in public health medical science? you don't say.
That is a problem, but with the algorithm or its flawed application.

I don't think it's too far-fetched to expect one of the largest and richest tech companies worldwide to be able to tell with decent accuracy how the word "asian" was used. The sophistication of their blocking method is basically on par with a basic word filter that doesn't even attempt to avoid the Scunthorpe problem.

I mean, we're not talking about reaching 99% accuracy or really advanced linguistic detection. When a company sells smart home voice assistants surely they can be expected to tell "asian food" from more lewd content apart. Keep a list of naughty websites, track what web searches regularly return those as result and then target those specific queries. Or throw some Machine Learning at it, might as well put their enthusiastically marketed AI processing unit to use.

Accurate content filtering is hard. But completely blocking anything using one of the most common words in the language just because it frequently links to porn sites? Come on.
People like to rag on teaching grammar rules. While it's certaintly not what makes you fluent - that's an intuitive grasp of grammar, it allows you to start understanding and enjoying native content much faster. Learning a language from a book has another issue, though - I just can't sustain the enthusiam. For me, taking formal classes (so there's something on the line) allows a foundation to be built without me having to delicately balance overenthusiam and underenthusiasm when pacing it.
fMRI is used for planning in neurooncology [1] and epilepsy surgery [2].

[1] https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/48/2/...

[2] https://n.neurology.org/content/88/4/395.long
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>used the printing presses in unauthorized ways

Who gets to authorize what? <- That's largely my point in all this. We can joke about Bill Gates' specific view on the incident. And we know its relevant because (at least at the time) he was a majority shareholder. So we know his opinion would've been closely correlated with the entity Microsoft's opinion. But MS isn't Bill Gates and his opinion would have just been one among many.

Presumably there's a document somewhere that can trace itself back to the first charter establishing 100% ownership of a corporate entity as held by one or a few who then (following the rules set in that charter and subsequent ones) built an organization known as Microsoft with many rules and stipulations to distribute and represent that ownership (all the while giving away pieces of it left and right).

The question of who is and isn't Microsoft strikes me as a Ship of Theseus problem. As for the answer to that problem: we have society's answer in its legal precedents even if they're ever moving and then we have another nuanced interpretation for every human on the planet who bothers to think about it.
I think you're misusing the search. If I enable nsfw by adding `nsfw:yes`, both 'asian' and 'european' show ONLY porn results both for content and communities. If I omit the `nsfw:yes`, but allow my profile to view nsfw content, both 'european' and 'asian' don't show any porn in the search results.

The search filter is either a binary, or there's just so much porn for everything that it doesn't matter.
> both in terms of technical implementation and economic adaptation.

Can you elaborate with an example? Most industry has managed to completely transition from coal -> natgas in the last decade and a half so I find it hard to believe that the transition is just so complex it isn't possible.

If we price carbon at what it actually costs, seems like they'd figure out how to transition again.
Once you've seen a bunch of surfers fighting over the perfect swell, the cultures can seem pretty similar. Especially since both share a fondness for mind-altering substances (cannabis vs alcohol)
I worked at LexisNexis Risk for years on the engineering side of the credit scoring, fraud detection, identity verification, etc. That was almost ten years ago, but I suspect the core value prop that LN offers here remains unchanged:

1. Buying like datasets and combining them into a single, national dataset, and

2. Linking those datasets together

The former is a challenge for anyone to do because you have data like property records that come from county assessors. Vehicle data - which is what seems to be relevant to this article - may be at the state level, which is easier than county, but it's still dealing with 50 states instead of one national registry.

The latter is important because connecting "JON SMITH" in one dataset with "JOHN SMITH" in another is a nontrivial problem that LN has addressed quite well by virtue of many different datasets.

There are (or at least were; with insurance data, this may be different) broadly two categories of data: FCRA-encumbered and non-FCRA data. FCRA data is more heavily restricted, and you're entitled to correct data that are wrong. As I recall, there are also legal limitations on who can use these data and for what reason. So my assumption is that not only is ICE buying this, but they also have to assert that they are legally allowed to do so. I'm not saying I'm cool with this contract, but in lieu of LN choosing to not to business with ICE, there's also the option that legislators could make it illegal for them to do this.
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> I don't understand how this is a demonstration of a color-blind policy mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color; it's not a color-blind policy.

It’s a demonstration to the communities in question and their advocates that what they would get in a GMI would mitigate problems in those communities, as a way of overcoming the resistance in those communities to the approach. The approach that is being advocated is color-blind, the issue this program is targeted at overcoming is not.

Yes, a broad color-blind GMI itself would be an even-better way of making that point, but its a lot more expensive for donation-funded charities to execute, especially when a large portion of the audience they hope to rally behind the idea is resistant to it.

This is a tool for chipping away at that resistance. And its specific shape has been shaped by interaction with the exact people whose resistance it is targeted at.
Frankly, any discussion about this invariably becomes a critique of capitalism. If you further generalize “software” to “organization”, your examples would include the various decisions companies make to increase profit: polluting, exploiting their workers, etc. At some point, we just have to acknowledge that a free market simply does not work.
>For example, a company can lease an apartment for you to live in. That expense is a write off and isn’t subject to FICA taxes.

I'm not an accountant or a tax lawyer, but it doesn't look like that's the case according to the IRS's website. Housing is only exempt if it's "Lodging on your business premises"[1]. A tesla would also likely not be exempt for a typical office worker[2]

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2021_publink1000...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2021_publink1000...
I feel like the Bay Area consistently has the resources and brainpower to do the right thing, yet it always does the exact wrong thing with the best intentions.

A fundamental issue with UBI is getting broad support for it. The U part of UBI is universal for a reason. By making the income universal you get broader support. All human beings want the guarantee of some baseline support to fall back on in bad times ... even the wealthiest people can imagine losing everything. That's why they would support UBI.

But if you make the U stand for "Us Only" as in some small chosen group ... then there will not be broad support. It will literally be seen as taking from Sean to pay Shanice. It won't be sign as a baseline right for everyone.

Oakland has basically set back UBI by doing this nonsense. First of all, I'd like everyone to stop calling Oakland's program UBI. Its not UBI. Its just a bribe to shore up this particular politicians base in a city that is majority Black voters.

I'm so glad I've moved away from the Bay.
> Eliminating the potential for brain development deprives my clone of a possibility of independent existence just as much as abortion does.

This is a silly argument. Not reproducing during every ovulation and spermatogenesis cycle does the same.

Likewise in your argument, cutting someone that is braindead from life support could be depriving them.

Persons come about through learning and experience. Cells alone aren't persons.
This makes it clear to me that a16z are in the same league as penny stock pumping grifters. It does seem obvious in retrospect.
The influx of relatively privileged, relatively boring tech workers is seen as destroying the city's unique value as a haven for counterculture, artists, activists, LGBTQ, etc. A common complaint is that "mainstream" people want to move here because those things make the city special, but in doing so they cause a regression to the mean.
I actually have a problem with using "Asian" as descriptive of people. Asia is the largest continent with almost 60% of the world's population. It includes such diverse countries as Turkey, Russia, (east of the Urals), Armenia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, China, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia. There really is not much of a common culture across all those, nor is there a common ethnicity or language.

To me, Asian just seems a word that was coined by British, French, German, colonial empires to describe something "other" and to lump a bunch of peoples and cultures together.
Generally with any Apple first-party app. Apple doesn't make it easy either.
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It’s not far fetched to think Japanese porn producers could cause an increased global attraction to Japanese and Asian women.

The porn industry in Japan is the largest in the world, and is sold internationally.
Could that Sony screen really have existed in 1996? It's definitely not a CRT. It's also fishy that there is no mention of the author anywhere, domain registration intentionally unrevealing. The domain was created at 2:00am on the 1st of April.
Interesting. I have a blog. I deleted my Facebook presence in July 2019. Readership went up, same as sales of my books.

Is it possible that Facebook sells you an audience that would have found you anyway?
> The COVID response showed that governments (not all) can take drastic action when needed,

If this is our rubric and measure of good governance, why don't we all just become fascists already? At least in that case we could pretend to be unified and proud of what we're doing, instead of this chaotic, bungled, arbitrary response that takes hints from authoritarianism without getting any of its benefits.

> There are no technical or economical hurdles that stops us from strongly mitigate the climate change.

This statement is absurd. Do you have some magic wand that is going to solve the car problem, or the international shipment problem? Have you got some secret battery technology that you aren't letting on about, perhaps one that doesn't require extremely expensive rare materials to produce?

Remember, as you drive your Tesla around, that nigh-indentured Chinese workers essentially engaged in mining actions arguably worse than classic colonialism in Africa are responsible for providing you with your "clean" vehicle, which will probably never make up for the emissions created in its production....