skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medical professionals tend to be overly cautious when evaluating threats. The CDC says a woman should never have two glasses of wine in a single meal (or any if she's fertile and sexually active) but we laugh this off as the CDC being the CDC and ignore it. It's their job to be concerned about health risks and so they are. Doubtless they'd ban downhill skiing, driving over 35 mph, and parachuting if they could but thankfully we don't give them that power.

But we do give them the power to ban medicines and that's where actual trouble can start.

And it's understandable. If every time a Japansese person stole something you heard about it sooner or later your intuition would be convinced that they're all a bunch of thieves. If you heard about every bicycle accident you'd be scared to ever ride. US cops do hear about it every time one of their number is killed and we can see the resulting paranoia with which they treat the public. And the people at health regulatory agencies get fed a constant stream of medical mishaps.

To counteract this bias any organization really needs to make explicit cost benefit analyses with real numbers if they're going to make sensible decisions. We force highway safety and toxicology regulators to do this. We really ought to have the medical regulator do it as well but for some reason we don't.
I get this way with Beat Saber. I think I might have a problem.
"Not going smoothly" is weird phrasing - it's not "going" at all. It's still in the technology development phase, and meanwhile there is still insufficient consensus that more dramatic action needs to be taken.

I know the article touches on these points, I am mostly just commenting on the strange headline.
Yeah, last time an employer demanded this. I also suggested to buy mr a work phone or to pay their share of the write off of the phone and the phone bill.

After I calculated that would cost them ~£50/month they quickly changed their mind. They even tried to say that I should not write off my phone in one year
I was surprised to not see it in a field where plants were actually growing beyond a few inches. I think you always care about weeds - they take water and nutrients which are especially important when the crop is coming in, not just the first week.
FBI accesses ProxyLogon target servers to disrupt cybercriminals
> Rolling out of bed in my pajamas and getting back to work with things precisely as I left them was the most underestimated superpower that brought me joy, focus, and speed—I had forgotten how much goes into getting ready for work.

There will be so much resistance to going back to the office.
nextstep and netscape?
You're going to crucify an emerging technology for being where edge groups congregate, even though that's that's been the MO of the Internet since BBS days?!
Yes. I also find myself saying "Sometimes I wonder if...", or "it seems...", or phrasing things as questions that I know will either make the point (if no one has a response), or help me learn (if I was wrong), or it simply quietly tells me that the group doesn't know and if it is very important maybe I should do more to find out.

It seems that there are % confidence levels and keeping those in mind, rather than saying everything like you know it for sure, i.e., an aspect of honesty, makes everything easier in the long run.

Edit: and if I just can't agree with what someone is saying, I find it helps to say "that doesn't seem to agree with my personal experience", or "I'm just not seeing it, maybe there's another way you could explain it...?", or ask them friendly questions like walking along beside them in their space, considering what they really want and how they might get it. Or I aspire to be better at doing that. Much more at my site, including about difficult conversations or where the other person is extremely stressed or emotional and I am tired (so vulnerable to saying something I might regret).

Also, one huge thing for me has been that if I think I have a criticism (or other negativity) to offer, to be in the habit of waiting 72 hours before saying it, in which time I usually realize it wasn't important enough to hurt someone, or wasn't the most helpful way to convey something (with some possible exceptions if it is urgent and critical, but then humility can become even more important).

Genuine kindness & honesty really go far.
If he wasn’t, he was dead man walking
Curious how big of an issue this actually ends up being since they can't be put in a stable higher orbit without a second burn/collision to circularize. Without a change to the orbit perigee it would still decay, just more slowly?
My biggest worry with Coinbase IPO is that it will become too big to ban, as now it will impact the stock market and not just the minority few who own it.
Rendezvousing with, capturing and then manoeuvring with a captured object is an extremely hard and as yet unsolved problem, although there are some experiment. Also it is only feasible to rendezvous with a target on an almost identical orbit, otherwise the fuel and thrust requirements to reach it very quickly balloon to hugely prohibitive proportions.
Given how cheap phones have got I find it appaling that the default isn't to just provide a work phone to the new employee.
Hygiene Theater: Deep Cleaning Isn’t a Victimless Crime
old cyberpunk vibe reminds me of Virtuaverse from Master Boot Record: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019310/VirtuaVerse/
Would be great to be able to have bookmarkable links to individual rooms.
It's presentist to overlook the debate between liberation and assimilation as focuses for the movement, which these days is largely settled but in those was very much an active issue, and the effect it had on the way these events played out.

Liberationism and bathhouse culture were closely intertwined, and bathhouse culture had been a bête noire of the assimilationist faction for some time before AIDS showed up. Demands to "stop having sex", or at least to stop having sex in this particular style, were a longstanding feature of that internal conflict, and it wasn't unreasonable early on for folks on the liberationist side to regard this newest call as essentially just more of the same. As the scope and gravity of the problem became obvious, people did gradually change their behavior, but the relatively long asymptomatic period and relatively high transmissibility of the virus meant that, by the time that happened, it was too late to do all that much good.

Sure, an early and assertive response within the community might have had a real effect on the outcome. But this is well within the territory of expecting people to act on the basis of perfect information which, at the time for action, neither they nor anyone else actually had - or, put more succinctly, of presentism in the historiographical sense. I don't blame Shilts for that; he wrote in 1987, when the crisis was still in a very real sense ongoing. We, by contrast, have the benefit of a quarter century's distance and study from which to look back on those days now. We can do better, and should.
Well, worries about what? I'd certainly be worried if I were in charge of a post-Soviet state with unresolved separatist movements, but I'm not sure that's really an issue the international community can solve. It's not as though these regions would be safe and peaceful if Russia weren't taking advantage.
One-liner national putdowns are nationalistic flamebait. If you had written substantively about "standard practices" that would be different, but you didn't.

As for your GP post, if you read the site guidelines you'll see immediately why that wasn't acceptable as an HN comment.
It’s obvious that a promising startup can fail, eg great idea but bad execution.

It’s really not obvious that an unpromising startup could succeed, though.

What were the main factors in those unpromising startups doing well?
This has escalated from the claims of being "simple" and "fun to use", and a bunch of other highly subjective, and distracting, terms.
> If you accept defamation laws...

And there is the problem. While you propose an interesting academic question, the chain of events starts from a law that I see as harmful. Therefore, there's no value in justifying the legitimacy of the next steps.
Yeah, but what you are saying now is more like that academic/professional non-philosophers are easier to reach an agreement on particular philosophy-adjacent questions from their field of expertise. Yeah, this is totally possible, but I think, this is not the same as your original statement.
The thread says they show ads and also charge weekly for service.
One of the changes going into the July update is a transaction fee change that burns (throws away) part of the transaction fees. That will put some deflationary pressure on total issuance, while at the same time, when they switch to the staking chain total new issuance will be drastically cut since running a validator is far more efficient then mining.

What the long term inflation rate will be then is really set by the demand for transactions and how much congestion there will be on their network, driving up transaction prices and fees burned (or not).
Actually, this used to be the norm, back in the day. The Algol 68 standard, for example, is language-independent, i.e. it admits representation of code in any natural language.
Minnesota cop will be charged in shooting of Black motorist
Coinbase Direct Listing Discussion (Brian Armstrong, Marc Andreessen)
Part of internet skills is increasing your prior that someone is lying to you.
I’d also like to see more fines in the range of multiple years’ worth of revenue, but it wouldn’t change directors’ incentives since they still have limited downside exposure and therefore asymmetric payoffs. Even if a CEO runs a company into the ground they’ll probably still be rich since they only have levered exposure on the upside (through ISOs, etc.) and comparatively limited exposure on the downside.
Nope they just need capital to exit.

Unfortunately there’s no liquidity in crypto hence why they want USD.
Hate speech being a crime is not the problem. The power of the arbiter of what defines hate speech is.
Not a native English speaker either, and I prefer languages the way they are, but - I don't think of them as English per se. BASIC or C or Java could have "blargh" loops for all I care as long as I internalize them they work fine. I guess you could easily accomplish that in C, heh.
I generally agree with you. I think a better solution would be reputation-based. An account created 4 seconds ago that posts dozens of videos that people generally find distasteful should wallow in obscurity. Still there? Yes. Findable? Yes. Promoted? No.

I recommend this solution because I think this is generally how human societies have traditionally worked. Humans have always been free to say whatever they want (meaning, it's physically possible to say any words), but there has often been a penalty for promoting ludicrous or hateful ideas: You weren't respected and were often ignored. If you gathered followers around you who threatened to become violent, you were removed. I don't see why the same system couldn't work for content moderation.

Of course, the fundamental problem is that controversial things trigger emotional responses which trigger engagement, and that's what social media's business model relies on.
On the GitHub Readme Page? It's working for me.
TL; DR: almost nothing of substance. Some hard numbers out, but experimental predictions not feasible wth present technology level.
How a WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
> Sometimes when I start speaking and if people are silent or if I can not read their expressions, I start loosing confidence.

Ask them a question when this happens.

* Do you understand what I mean?
* Have you had that experience?
* Its crazy, right? What do you think?
The Paradoxes of Coinbase
While there is some benefit to a physical office space, I can't imagine the 9-6, 5 days a week grind will ever be back for most knowledge workers.
How so?

You would think the currency of the future would be liquid enough to provide capital for their growth no?

Why resort to raising USD?
>favour

Hello non-American. The Supreme Court has ruled that "hate speech" is protected by the First Amendment, because of court it is: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Do processing speeds really still increase 10% every year?
A high speed collision in low orbit can change a circular low orbit into an elliptical eccentric orbit that intersects a higher circular orbit, but unless there is an additional accelerating event at that higher altitude, it cannot recircularize its orbit at that higher altitude.

There are thus two takeaways:

1. By definition, this means that part of the orbit will always be at low altitude, regardless of the collision dynamics. So this means that it will continue to decay over time, albeit perhaps at a slower rate (decay being proportional to the time spent at lower altitude).

2. While that eccentric orbit will intersect with a higher circular orbital plane, it does so in a predictable fashion that can be routed around. The higher orbits are also much sparser, so the chance of this intersecting with a satellite that is already present is very, very small.
It looks like you've created a new account to do ideological battle on HN. That's not what this site is for, so I've banned it. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you want to use HN as intended and will follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Imposter syndrome is not your fault
Interesting, thanks for the link. My comment however was in response to the comparison cave/hut, not caveman lifestyle in general. But I get what you're saying. Maybe we're just fundamentally unable to live sustainably, by design so to speak.
>edit: my concern is the long chain of the curve of low-orbit satellite companies as price continues to have downward pressure.

While this isn't entirely unreasonable, consider a few things. First, this is one case where even natural incentives line up pretty well. For the foreseeable future, no one is going to have more economic incentive to prevent the loss of usable LEO than companies that build themselves around usage of LEO. There are also virtuous spirals in the very technology that makes low cost possible, ie., the only way to reach SpaceX's targeted launch costs with Starship are to have a full reusability, and that itself cuts a ton of orbital debris (spent stages).

Second, much cheaper mass and higher cadence changes everything in space engineering, and that includes giving regulators significantly more leeway in what they can reasonably require. Things like more redundant controlled deorbit systems, requirements for lower orbits by default with higher orbits reserved, requirements for materials, and so on all ultimately boil down to how much it costs to get a kg to orbit and how regularly it can be done. More leeway there makes a lot of things easier without destroying utility, which in turn raises the chances we can make solid systematic changes.

Not saying there isn't plenty of room for error overall, or that regulators shouldn't be thinking about it too. But I do think the "mega constellation commercial" focus is mostly misguided. If anything the biggest risks seem to be from government actors, in terms of things like a-sat weapons and Old Space big companies not feeling the need to care.
That sounds good. :) Would you like to share some of the other things you've done to improve your life (if it's not too personal)?
> Of course I'm not at all surprised to learn that the feds would rather take more unchecked power for themselves than use their mouthpieces to pressure Congress into forcing an industry wide focus on security that has teeth.

I'm not sure this was an exercise of unchecked power, they got a warrant. I'm also not sure that the FBI has the ability to tell congress what legislation should or should not be enacted. To me, congress seems to be more beholden to their constituents around election time, then lobbyists and the rest of their party the rest of the time.

Yes, internet security sucks, but that is the world that we and the FBI find ourselves in. Legislation to fix that fact is somewhat plausible but I don't see it being that simple to enact. Security has always been about making a decision that balances risk with the amount of resources it takes to mitigate security risks. Sure, we could push towards perfect security with legislation, but productivity of companies and the economy will take a large hit and I don't see that as something that legislators can push for and expect to be elected again in the future.

Again, yes, our internet security sucks and that is the world we live in. A nation state actor infiltrated the networks of thousands of companies in the united states. The FBI is charged with protecting the citizens of the united states. I'm sure there are a few not so great members of the FBI, but the majority truly believe in fighting to protect our citizens. They followed the law and got a warrant for this action, and assuming they kept their word about what they would and would not touch, they took actions to kick those bad actors off systems of companies in the united states. If a nation state invaded a few thousand residences of our citizens, I would expect nothing less than FBI swat teams going in and solving the issue.
A a great podcast that has started a personal hobby/interest in linguistics and etymology.

I love that history is able break your notion of what is or isn't possible and this podcast is great at that; it repeatedly shows how no language is set in stone, it is a human construct, and how languages are interrelated.
They’re saying “we don’t have any data on long term studies of such vaccines”, which is an important point. There is a risk there, and there’s no obvious way to manage it.
Or the employee does this work in its own time. Assuming he is employed full time.
AD: I completely agree, value > ego's.
Good for them. I have been a Lifetime Plexpass user for several years, and have found it well worth the cost (I think I paid like $60 when it was that cost? But I would still consider the $120 worth it).

The "Livestream" seems to be a bit on the hit and miss side personally for me, but at the same time, I use it primarily so I can digitize all of my Movies/TV Shows and use the DVR feature.
Regarding the WHY question...

> El desarrollo y administración del lenguaje Latino para que escuelas, universidades, maestros, estudiantes y profesionales encuentre en Latino una herramienta para resolver los problemas del día a día.

The development and administration of the Latino language so that schools, universities, teachers, students, and professionals find a tool to solve day to day problems.

It seems to be targeting teaching and learning as well as some simple business use. Interesting idea, I wonder if it will catch on.
Yes, I teach a Greek student who told me exactly this. His first introduction to programming was Greek Logo, and he attributes his entire trajectory to learning this one language.
Anyone remember Thin Clients?
None of that really matters; RMS is a serial harasser, he has no place in any self-respecting organization.
I don't know—we can't come close to seeing all the comments. If there are specific posts that you think should have been moderated, you can always let us know. But when a post hasn't been moderated, it doesn't follow that we must somehow approve of it—that's a big non sequitur!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
If software is “eating the world”, it is inevitable that local dialects will arise. I wouldn’t be surprised if the world of 2100 is full of popular non-English programming languages.
The more fundamental problem is that interest is usury and usury is theft. And naturally, the entire modern banking system runs on interest (which is probably the least egregious of all the wacky financial instruments out there). You'll hear nonsense about the opportunity cost and risk, none of which have any relevance to or rebut the notion that charging interest (as opposed to just fixed administrative fees) is theft. Time isn't a commodity, so why am I paying you more the longer it takes me to pay back my loan?

Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shylock cannot tell. He makes it breed as fast.
I'd say it's infeasible without AI moderation based on their revenue model. They will never make enough money off intellectual content in order to pay for enough humans to moderate their system. Content for the lowest common denominator is not only easy as hell for an AI to moderate but it makes orders of magnitude more revenue than anything about technology, science, philosophy, etc.

The answer is to simply not rely on YouTube for anything besides lifestyle and self-help vlogs, marketing, instructions on how to put together your IKEA bookshelf, and of course cat videos. There are plenty of other video hosting sites that won't ruin your day as a creator because you accidentally used the word "doodie" or because the AI thinks your video on writing "hello world" in Rust is teaching people to hack computers.
WASM can be faster than JS but you need a language that doesn't shoehorn a GC into the compiled binary. I'm not really sure what the author expected here. Modern managed runtimes usually give you the benefit of bump allocation in the nursery for free with a generational GC and the runtime has a lot more room to optimize the GC phase. None of this is possible without a native GC for webassembly.

This isn't WebAssembly being slow the benchmarks just show the overhead of the GC. If you are writing a computationally expensive algorithm in Rust or C++ wasm can be a lot faster but its hard to get close to native performance(i.e. running on bare metal x86/arm).

Our webassembly prototype is about 3-4x faster in raw computation(and that is targeting webassembly exclusively) but has a much higher overhead when interacting with the DOM. That is basically the limiting factor especially on mobile.
If every student were free yes, but that would incur further “debt.”

Also every student is quite expensive. We gain nothing and lose a lot by enrolling students who don’t get hired.
There is literally no problem with plastics that stay in landfills forever. Landfills are underground, like the oil that the plastic is derived from.
I dont vant tu teik saids, but German haz diklention und konjugation, vich maiks it a suboptimal lingua franka. Not tu mention meni iregular verbs.

Mai vot gos tu som nordik languag like Svedish.
> a strawman that the rules _must_ be evaluated in a specific order.

I'm not the one who wrote "literals have to be evaluated before names".

> rules are not evaluated concurrently

Strawman yourself. I didn't say they were evaluated concurrently, I said that your claim that they can't be evaluated concurrently was wrong. They could be, because they are disjoint, and regardless of order only one of them can match at input starting with a '0' character.

Anyway, I'm done here.
Leyendo el resto de los comentarios, sigo sin entender porqué habría de ser más difícil aprender de una manera u otra. Estoy de acuerdo con la idea de que sea estándar. En el peor de los casos (si fuera cierto que es más difícil), los empleadores en LA (Latino América) lo tendrían en cuenta, pero a nadie le importa. Eso refuta toda la argumentación.
I think you've made a distinction without a difference. Bitcoin assets, and income that is denominated in Bitcoin, is every bit as taxable under US law.

It's true that attempting to conduct your entire financial life in Bitcoin won't save you from receiving tax bills that are denominated in dollars. I think your more immediate problem, though, would be that it's probably impossible for someone living in the US to participate in Bitcoin without owing someone a bill that they will expect to be paid in USD. It's difficult to transact Bitcoin without Internet access, for example. And that'll get you long before the IRS sends police to knock on your door.