skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phew, this Austrian town formerly known as "Fucking" really dodged a bullet here:

https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to...

Edit: Damn someone beat me to it.
Sure, I'm not saying the housing market is in an especially healthy position, just that the Gini index measures the wrong thing. Its increase alarms people, but it just puts you higher on a list with relatively very equal social democracies at the top. They go into some more detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot4qdCs54ZE

Note that I'm also not arguing that a large Gini index is good, it just measures something very specific that doesn't really say a lot about inequality.
So you mean the seller doesn't know the final price before selling? They can't relabel products themselves or they can't mention the final price on the shelves? They just don't want to do it.
The first law of thermodynamics takes issue with this. A calorie is a unit of measure for energy.
Really? Are you sure? Brexit? Trump? Viktor Orban and the many others? Left got the monopoly though?
It’s well-known in Europe too, but business devs in Europe are always more conservative and tighter with money, so Heroku just looks too expensive for most of them. When it’s cheaper to just hire one more guy to look after your infra, than to tie yourself to a single provider, people will do that.
At this point the "intelligent" content filtering algos at fb and yt are a caricature of what they were meant to be.

Not so long ago a popular chess Youtuber had a few of his videos taken down simply because of some phrases including words like "black" and "white" alongside "strong" and "weak"[0]. This was of course deemed racist by YT's clever algos. It's insane.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23729156
Interesting! Could you expand a little on what you did?
Exactly. PG's essay completely misses the point of the left: it makes it about some vague idea of labor being a potential path to wealth. The left fights for worker solidarity, power, and people's democracy to end exploitation from the owning class.
I had a similar life and I fully concur to your sentiment - it took me the better part of my life to get out of poverty, and I missed out on so many things that normal people regard as a given.

These days I‘m studying physics and mathematics while having a cushy engineering job and I‘m so genuinely happy that I can sit down and study for hours without having to worry about making ends meet at the end of the month. It’s a blessing.
Facebook needs to take down itself.
The key point being, you know how to do all that. Managing it is easy for you.

If you didn't know all that, how long would it take vs `git push` to deploy your website?

Startups live and die by the ability to rapidly test ideas and go with the ones that stick. Heroku removes the absolute need to have devops knowledge.
The imbalace in observed particles could come from the fact that we move in the same (time) direction as electrons but the opposite (time) direction of positrons, couldn't it?
Wikipedia might have problems, but at this point larry sangar is just desperate to try and reinvent wikipedia with him at the center to stay relevant. He's started an excessive number of wikipedia like sites with some variable changed, some pretty silly like the cryptocurrency one where it was intended you could vote for what the truth was using your crypto wallet (they never actually implemented it but what could possibly go wrong in a plutocracy?). He's just desperately throwing stuff at the wall praying that something sticks.

Like all things, there will probably come a day where wikipedia is disrupted by some new kid on the block, but i highly doubt sanger will be at the center of it.
Unfortunately the dysfunction and poverty may go hand in hand a lot of the time. There is strong indication that scarcity affects cognitive function.

"Scarcity: Why having too little means so much" is a great book on this.

In essence it is not that people in poverty have less innate executive control / cognitive capacity, but that the situation of poverty causes anyone to lose some significant points of executive control / cognitive capacity.

There are some illuminating (but terryfing) experiments in the book, where they show you can literally sabotage a low income persons score on an IQ test by mentioning a hypothetical car repair of 2000 dollars before they take it.
I can see that happening. In my country rich families don't fall for such things, except for the odd black sheep.

Here you see that happening the most with lottery winners, particularly because people playing lotto are generally poor, and most among them financially illiterate.

Top special price of the state lottery is around 500k€, and some stats showed that 90% of the winners lost 50% of that wealth within 2 years, while just putting it in some fund and sitting on that money would easily double their income while keeping their wealth.

On that line, certain wealthy people tend to win the lotto a lot! It's a sign of fraud: they buy the tickets from the winners for a bigger amount than the prize, so they can insta-launder large sums of money. Then the actual winner sits on a slightly larger amount of money that can't be used for anything other than spending it, which financially is a terrible deal. But they all seem happy to do it, because they don't know any better.
> This is largely because families in poverty tend to also abuse their kids at higher rates

Source?
Pretty much every economist thinks "high prices? make more!". That applies to housing too.
No! Not at all. You have to control uptime of the single nodes holistically. That just does not work with Ceph. I can't imagine that there are storage systems that work with that setup.
What Intel is managing to pull off using outdated manufacturing tech is pretty impressive. The low-end and mid-end parts are excellent and well priced. They do not have a problem in the design department. They are behind on manufacturing and they missed the boat on chiplets, but this is not fatal - yet. Also consider that Intel manufacturing capacity is enourmous, and given the current IC shortage, they can probably sell anything to OEMs. If AMD could source more wafers, the situation might be different, but they can't.
This is the anecdote that is most egregious to me in this article:

> This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town's wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy's letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.

As long as other countries continue to willingly comply and bend to the will of the US, the US will continue being the bully that it is.
It's pretty funny, when people are looking for "better c", but "forget" to look at D lang
Especially, when they don't care whether language has GC or not
I have no idea if Amazon does this or not, but maintaining forks of projects is no fun, so it's in a company's best interest to contribute bug fixes and improvements that aren't part of their secret sauce.
The strive for efficiency brought to us by lean management made us terribly vulnerable to supply chain breaches.

I think it is overdue to recognize a degree of slack as a necessity rather than a nuisance.
> Except... that you are.

Hmm, no, you're still not. You are paying for the months as you use them. You merely agreed you'd use the service for a certain amount of months in exchange for a discount.

Is paying rent on a year long contract is a loan? Is paying your monthly phone bill (which is on a 2 year contract) a loan? No. The phone company is not loaning you money. They're just providing the service at a certain rate contingent on an agreement to use it for a certain amount of time.

I don't think the way you are using the concept "loan" is how other people (and the dictionary) uses it. Agreeing to pay something in the future for services they will render in the future is not a loan.
I use this product and this plan. I knew what I was getting into when I bought it.

Scammy companies shouldn't be protected, but if people don't bother to do the most basic due diligence before buying products, it's on them - like forget reading a terms of service. He doesn't even read the product name or description. Gets into a yearly contract for a cheaper price and then complains about the cancellation fees.

At some point either people have to take personal responsibility or should have other adults buy things for them if they don't know what they are doing.
Why Web Filters Don't Work: Penistone and the Scunthorpe Problem

By Tom Scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE
This is also an executive vs shareholder agency conflict-of-interest problem, which is a consequence of limited liability in this context.

The executives have an attractive call option.

Get caught = limited downside (being fired, no jail time), and the fine is paid fully by the shareholder.

Don't get caught = unlimited upside (bonus).
I believe this is going to be a big milestone in raising awareness of cryptocurrencies and making them more mainstream. I would expect a lot of the "but the gov will ban it" arguments to be significantly weaker as crypto exposure of traditional investors keeps getting larger and larger.

That said, one thing that boggles my mind is the fact that it seems to be currently valued at 100B$ which is roughly the market cap of Goldman Sachs.
> Will English speakers police the rest of the world, regardless of their language?

As long as the rest of the world willingly lets them, yes.

> This is not the first time Bitche has been caught up in a censorship crossfire. In 1881, U.S. Ambassador to France Levi Parsons Morton took issue with the location of the American embassy on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honor of the town's wartime effort. Morton, embarrassed by the embassy's letterhead, asked Parisian authorities to rename the square — they obliged, changing it to Place des États-Unis.
There's lots of cloudformation, CDK, terraform scripts open sourced, but they're a nightmare.

The script itself is probably 20-30% of the time, 70% is learning the underlying system/technology. Once you've got the learning out of the way, the scripts start making things super easy/fast.
You can use their blocklist with uBlock Origin. It's a great extension but it wasn't available on Firefox for Android. Maybe that changed.
Yes - GP is right. When they say regulation, they mean preventing market forces from building as much prices allow. This NIMBYism is a global phenomenon and the root cause.

All the other factors certainly contribute, but cheap credit only affects how much the most desperate buyer is able to pay. This becomes the limiting factor almost everywhere, meaning that prices would be equally unaffordable if credit wasn’t cheap.

Building much more is the only fundamental solution, as this will reduce the proportion of desperate buyers. But of course local democracy prevents that - meaning, the problem persists indefinitely and we’re only wasting time discussing it.
Thank goodness they don't know how to pronounce whakatane or whakapapa
> It's odd to make these claims simultaneously. That one, AML doesn't work. But that two, crypto's value statement is in circumventing AML. Which, per the first claim, doesn't work.

The trouble is that the baseline level of inconvenience doesn't phase a criminal enterprise, because to even exist it already has to incur the cost of operating unlawfully and risk being shut down and compensate employees for the risk of being charged with a crime, regardless of AML.

But the AML rules don't only inconvenience people who are really doing something wrong. There are obvious privacy problems with associating every purchase anyone makes with their name, and chilling effects for what people are willing to buy. It creates friction in things that aren't illegal. And since legal activity is so much more common than illegal activity, a little bit of inconvenience multiplied by the entire population is a lot, whereas a little bit of inconvenience multiplied by a couple of outliers is not. So the cost is more than the benefit.
He's more prolific than any person would be. There's no indication he's a person and every indication that his persona is run by an institution that doesn't like anti war campaigners.

Craig Murray graphed his contributions here:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...

In fairness his views do seem to match up with Jimbo Wales (who is, as a good friend of Tony Blair/Gordon Brown, not exactly anti war). He might be an institutional construct but there's plenty of institutions other than the CIA he could be fronting.

It's also possible he's basically a sockpuppet for Jimmy Wales, judging by the way he lashes out on Twitter at people questioning who Philip Cross really is.

So he clearly is pretty influential.
I could also easily carry more than $10k across a border. It's illegal without reporting it (exact number varies). But that's one type of payment.

I've carried $2k USD in just $20s in my pocket across international borders, and had it been in $100s that would be the limit. But if I want to transfer even one million dollars that 100 trips. Or 100 pockets if I ignore the law. I own cargo pants, but even they don't have 100 pockets. And a billion? That's a thousand people each with a hundred pockets full of cash.

What I was saying is that mere logistics makes it hard to move a billion in cash.

So there's a natural prevention of moving large amounts of cash. It's not impossible, but "making it hard" was done on purpose. So cryptocurrencies are not "clever" for "fixing a problem". They're actually removing the amelioration to the problem.
Can't one just counter his arguments without assigning nefarious intent? It feels conspiratorial at times.

- Quoting your comment: "The real sinister psychological thing going on behind the Graham argument is that..."

- Quoting a line from the article: "His seemingly impartial and logical writing attempts to hide his true intentions."
> this meant they had came across Sun’s Project Wonderland - the delightfully terrible 3D virtual workplace of the future (or so Sun thought, before they had to sell to Oracle.) It was terrible, barely a good demo ... It required something like 32 CPUs and 64G of memory to run the server for just 8 players

That brings back some awful memories. Project Wonderland was a great idea, a federated open source second life, but it was plagued by java and the architecture astronauts java so frequently attracts. I thought it would be ideal to setup a training/simulation system for our web based software, it had an inbuilt browser and assets we could script, but trying to run just the client on my 2GB laptop was too much. Second Life was incredibly slow and ugly but this was an order of magnitude worse in every way. I think if I were trying to do the same thing today unity would be a far easier path.
so did the ESA European Space Agency with their Themis project [1]

[1] https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/12/Themis
This is a helpful breakdown of an article that didn’t seem right to me.
"what they were meant to be." is probably not a correct characterization, it's likely that the algorithms are intended to prevent "bad" content at all costs, a high false positive rate is likely, if not intended, an accepted consequence.
US imperialism burning all the world's books.
Luck is, IMHO, a subjective feeling per se. Alice and Bob may feel very lucky meeting each other while Carol is pissed off at meeting both of them.

Out of your questions: "Can you take a vacation any time you want?" is an interesting case. This depends on your career a lot, not just on net income. Some well-paid careers are notorious for being time-intensive and competitive to the threshold of burning out. You can take a long vacation, but your job might not be there when you return. I opted out of this rat race a long time ago.

"Something tells me that Harvard graduates "survive" any and all black swan events significantly better than many others."

Where I live, the Holocaust and the Communist coup were two notable exceptions. People who had a lot of property to lose often hesitated too long before GTFOut and found the way shut after rationalizing the first warning signs away.

It is possible that the USA is protected enough that something like this will never happen there.
Maybe chess masters should do like github and rename their tools to not include those words?
GA Tech’s Online MS in CS Increased USno Production of CS MS by 7% [pdf]
Its not that Sanger is criticizing wikipedia, its that his criticism isn't particularly insightful (imo) and its been getting repetitive.

Like all monopolies, criticism of wikipedia is essential to wikipedia. There is very little effective competition to wikipedia so criticism is important lest it becomes complacent. Sanger is just failing to deliver.
“I don’t trust these people,” Weinstein said, referring to physicists at universities. “It’s an entire system that believes in peer review, it believes in forced citations, you have to be at a university, you have to get an endorsement to use a preprint server. It’s too few resources, too many sharp elbows.”

It gives me the Crown Sterling sponsored talk at Black Hat feelz.

Weinstein. Einstein. Now there was a paper writer he could write four papers in a year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers
If that were true, they wouldn't have defined the equality operators for floating point types. Some numbers are exactly representable and some numbers are not [1]. It's difficult, but you can in fact reason about the exact results of floating point calculations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1847462
Well, you have to offset the cost of living too.
I can’t remember ants to have ever been an issue in Europe but I clearly remember how terrible they can be in India or Guyana: the biting kind in your bed and hamac, the smallest kind in sugar and flour, the large ones under everything wooden...

It’s difficult to imagine the impact such little creatures can have on our daily life at tropical latitudes.
Most mindblowing is that in honor of the "enlightening intervention" they even renamed it to United States Square.
> Countries that haven't solved identity are ones that either don't want to or can't, generally due to a mix of corruption and poverty

It's not a known problem because each country has its own context. That's like saying US healthcare problem can be solved just by doing what nordic countries do.

I'm not arguing for blockchain.
It’s a valid point that a lot of rising inequality is due to the expansion of the wealthy class as it is no longer restricted to hereditary elites but is being infiltrated by meritocratic newcomers. That doesn’t really mean labor has won though - since the average worker is not getting a better deal.
Why the yuppie elite dismiss Bitcoin
This is just the sort of thing that we say, "That's not right. It's not even wrong!" about. He is wasting our time. Garrett Lisi might be wrong, which would put him well ahead of Weinstein.
>nor does one's attitude have any bearing on ones' truth claims. Newton was famously an asshat

I never said that it would. I have nothing bad to say about Newton, either--- either personally or otherwise. I'm not sure about the exact meaning of the term, "asshat", and I don't care to research it, though.
It's likely better to remove a chess master's video than to let an offensive one stay online
That's what I was thinking. If you want to get out of a contract early, you'll usually lose some money. That's true for rent, public transit passes, and many other types of subscription.

If there are no consequences for bailing out of a contract, it makes them rather pointless.
> Ever wonder why AMD can use x86?

AMD can use x86_64 because they invented it.
"Download the GU Draft - Add your email address to our waitlist to get the latest version of Eric's Geometric Unity manuscript."

At very minimum, this is a giant PR move.

When was the last time you saw someone use the release of a paper to build up their email marketing list?

Because of this man's side-story problems which may lead many to be cynical and laden his work with a kind of political or emotional criticism, it would be interesting just to hear the dispassionate on it, i.e. does it have any merit at all, is it at least interesting, does it have a little bit of value as a theory even if implausible etc..

It's so hard to get beyond the cacophony of people pushing pro or anti this or that these days, a dispassionate look at it by someone qualified, under the assumption of good faith acting on the Weinstein's part would be welcome.
Truly useful in combination with https://www.pianojacq.com/ !
Well, not bending to the will of the US used to be a lot easier in the 1800s. But the way it looks now, hopefully it'll soon be a lot easier again.
This is super ridiculous :-))

Edit: why is this down voted? It IS ridiculous! ...
I really think that lumping forcible rape in the same category as a 17 year old successfuly seducing a 21 year old in California (as opposed to, say, Spain) is bad for discourse.

Even if we grant the latter is harmful and wrong, the mechanism via which the harm happens is different, as is the amount of harm.
The Netherlands food industry absolutely depends on imported oil though, so that might not be a good example of self-sufficiency.
SkinDeep: Remove Tattoos Using Deep Learning
Like this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_aN8NnoeO0 (at about 1h in)
I for one am totally looking forward to a match between green and pink! Pink goes first.
CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange wants prices to go down so they can pump some more.
I remember when antirez announced that he was leaving redis in the hands of the community. Didn't expect it to take such a blatantly commercial turn, but guess it shouldn't be surprising in retrospect.

Are there any meaningful or developing alternatives to Redis that are truly free?
A facebook page cannot be "Official", it is owned by facebook.
The type of tax fraud that requires money laundering is drugs. Or some other highly profitable criminal enterprise the proceeds of which have to be laundered to use in the regular economy without suspicion. As long as there is profit to be laundered it will be profitable to launder it.

Money laundering is a consequence, not a cause. You have to address the cause.
At what point do we recognize that privately owned social network is completely incompatible with the governments need for communicating with it's constituency and pull all government organization off those platforms?

It could easily be argues that any organization that reserves the right to ban users/contents outside that have yet been determined to be illegal by the courts cannot be considered electable for government contracts for communication services, as the government have an absolute duty the principles of due process, and have to give all of it's citizens equal access to all government funded services.
> The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer
and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress
which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from
without express permission of the author.

Yikes.
When was the last interesting computer science paper you read where the computer code or the instantiation of it onto a physical machine was the interesting part of the paper?
Likely how?
Who pays dang? He can't be so cheap to maintain.
If you pay the fee and keep using the service, it's not a fee, it's a cancellation period.
Yeah we should probably just remove everything that is either black or white from the world. Yellow too while we're at it. And of course brown. Maybe red as well?