skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's seems like it's roughly the equivalent of paying to name a star. Only there's at least a real star out there. Also this statement is kind of weird:

If you've been involved with the NFT community you will know that NFTs are not about money. They are about love.
Theres a pretty good Liu Cixin short story that involves this as well, ashamed I didnt know Asimov set the precedent. Not surprising though :)
> Aren't their algorithms all designed to optimize for engagement? Isn't engagement just the measure of how much time you spend on and interacting with their system? Doesn't that mean that they're not deciding what to keep feeding us, but rather that we are?

This would be true if everyone were the same. However, the stuff that engages with the median isn't the stuff that engages with everyone.

Their prioritization of popular things means they censor anything not popular by pushing it down the feed, in some cases excluding it entirely.

Not everyone "wouldn't believe what happens next!"

It's pushing people's attention toward median melodrama, and hiding things that involve nuance or anything not engaging, like, for example, announcements of deaths of friends. This would be possibly excusable under your model, but they also censor what links you can share privately with friends in DMs on instagram, whatsapp, and fb messenger.
Honestly, I remember getting into computers because everything was getting better. New capabilities made things faster, easier and smarter.

But sometime around the early 2000's businesses started exercising more control over the users.

I think it was basically the iphone that started a lot of bad precedents by removing the ability for the user to run his own software - both through he app store, and strict control by apple of what software could run on the phone.

I think this was initially done for security/piracy/etc, but the power grab self-propagated.

Apple thinks they are responsible for your iphone, but now they think they own it.

And when control was reverted to apple, they decided it was not important for people to see what was running on their phone, what it was doing, and who it was talking to.

At that point, software companies had more control over your phone than the users.

To me, the promise of computers got sort of tarnished - it's a little bit of a dark age.

When I hear of a new convenient feature, or smart-iot thing, I think that it will benefit the business and compromise the user.

But I still believe -- I think linux phones and tablets will be important checks and balances that can return control to the user and return to a more positive future.
Yeah, it was common when I visited Peru 20 years ago.

The tax code wasn't only reason for unfinished buildings. In poorer communities, which couldn't get access to loans, it was common to just buy supplies and do construction bit by bit as funds and time were available.

Homes might start off with as little as bamboo poles in corners and PVC sheets tied between them. I swear I saw some that didn't even have roofs. When they had enough funds, they would buy some bricks and just stack them as walls, throw some roofing iron on top or even PVC sheet as a roof

When they had enough bricks, they would buy cement and construct a solid brick wall. Then maybe some concrete for the floor.

Even in middle-class neighbourhoods, it was still common to construct floor-by-floor.
Well, maybe, but I think you're mixing the everyday definition of "relativity" (i.e., things are relative) with what physicists mean by "relativity" (i.e., the Theory of Special or General Relativity, both theorized by Einstein).
I've heard quite extraordinary stories related to the "grabby kin" problem. Entirely hearsay, but at the same time too common. Most of them keep to a similar theme, that is a combination of entitlement to resources held by your relatives and a lack of emphasis on long-term gains. Probably half of these stories involve someone just getting a small business off the ground and losing it because relatives think they're entitled to anything you own. The food stocks for their vendor cart are eaten by a relative, building supplies are taken to repair a relative's house, seed stock is raided to feed a relative's animals.
> Back in the 80's, when I was but a wee lass, as it came time to choose a college path, my uncle warned me not to get into software engineering because his buddies at IBM told me that it'd be all automated away in the next decade.

> 4GLs happened, but the work didn't really become less. (And 5GL spectacularly face-planted)

Hah. The pipe dream is older than that.

They said that in 5 year's time there would be no demand for professional programmers. You see, there's this new programming languge that's so easy to use that anyone can write the software they need themselves.

That was in 1960.

The language was COBOL.
That! I would never consider running an Ethereum node but btc is well within range and is something that I’m looking at
No. It's certain it's going to fall on Earth uncontrolled.
What's uncertain is where.
r/mildlyinfuriating's custom style is a work of art.
‘Mad’ Jack Churchill
It seems like it hurts like hell when it happens to you in most cases as well, unless it's sudden.
Yup. Rules are enforced against people who fall out of favor. Fortunately, the rules are such that no one can be in full compliance. So there's always a handy excuse.
If you're ever tempted to buy a 4x12, you may want to give the 2x12 format a shot first. It's a lot easier to deal with. I got a 2x12 from Avatar and I'm super happy with it.
full node with pruning.
and gp post is wrong, it's 7 and not 5 gb.

those are nice new features, except bitcoin is no longer relevant except for trading and speculation.
Or the fact that planetary genocides are de rigueur in that universe.
Today I learned the toy recommendations algorithm I sometimes day dream about has a name...
Likely fake costs.

The baseline cost of a military at the ready is massive, whether you use it or not.

What often happens is someone with an axe to grind grabs a portion of this baseline cost and assigns it to whatever it is they are hyperventilating about.

In reality, taxpayers were going to spend that money anyway. It's a false equivalency; it would not have cost $0 to keep that plane on the ground. If they claim this to be the case they are lying.

Simpler terms: You own a trucking company. It costs nearly the same to have a truck parked and ready to roll at a moments' notice. The tank has to be full (or you have to have the money to fill it up when needed), you have to pay the loan, insurance, have an office, receptionist, computers, customer service people, order takes, drivers, mechanics, etc. All at the ready in order for that truck to roll. You would have had to spend and allocate the money whether it rolled or not. If it rolls, then there are some marginal costs that come into play, of course. Not much different with a fighter plane in a hangar.

As to the legal matter, that's a different story and one I am not qualified to comment on.
It's not that many articles, and they're not all favorable. Please don't break the site guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use en-CA because it makes the most sense for me.

- I want spellcheckers to default to American (analyze vs analyse, etc.) because that's the default in computer science. This, despite en-IN using British conventions.

- Metric units

- A4, etc. paper sizes are the default in India

- Acceptable date format (anything but MM/DD/YY will do)

- I definitely don't want my file explorer showing sizes in lakhs and crores (the commas in Indian numbers) so en-IN is out.

I speak Kannada, but I don't think anyone who can speak English here will confuse Canada for Kannada, whether they are Kannadigas or not.
Except the limited-time monopoly becomes an until-the-end-of-time monopoly, and has a more toxic effect on innovation and creativity than what would exist in its absence.
> Am I really going to subscribe to the top 5 news papers? Where do you draw the line?

Whichever one catches your fancy? We don’t all need to subscribe to every newspaper. Does everyone buy each brand of shaving cream?
Oh man, got stuck half way through that one for some reason but hadnt thought of it from that angle somehow. Im inspired to pick it back up... Like right now.
Because native speakers are much more likely to use English every day and therefore much more likely to successfully remember how to spell "successfully"?

I'm not sure why you think that part of the comment was controversial. Certainly you would agree that the vast majority of people who don't natively speak English would be unable to spell such words as "read"?
DriveGAN: Towards a Controllable High-Quality Neural Simulation
I've been looking for datasets related to job descriptions/job postings in the last two weeks. A list like this would be handy.

Feedback:

1. For now, if you can add some text description to make it easier to search for a particular topic.

2. I know it takes time and effort, but if you can create a page for each data type or dataset with price information, datatype (API, CSV, JSON ... etc.) and alternatives. Think alternativeto.net for datasets.

I find these Airtable lists hard to read, lots of information and links in one place, but this is just my opinion, and I'm sure other people find it useful.
I mean we just had an example of one company that would rather lose a third of its staff than allow them to criticise a founder!
This smells fishy. Jones' has lots of assertions (it would be interesting to hear any fact-based rebuttals to them) about misconduct by Baldwin and rather odd behavior; but Baldwin just says "I do not fire people for fictional events. The F-15C narrative is just that, a fictional event."

But there are Guard members speaking out about it; that isn't fictional. He might disagree with the narrative, but it definitely might be a reason to fire people, a reason to fire him that is, if it is true.

He's had previous issues too, including trying the spy plane incident in October. His comment about "his planes" comes across as controlling. And unless service members are just making up stuff about an F15 being placed on standby, then there is something going on. If they just explained what that something is, then it would be fine, but they appear to be cagey about the whole thing. Just based on their outward behavior, I'd be more likely to trust Jones than Baldwin.

Baldwin comes across as dodging having to make any real assertions about facts. He makes a half baked response that a 5 year old with stolen cookie crumbs around their mouth might be proud of, but certainly not a full grown adult leading a state National Guard.
Why would an unauthorized channel exist if it was more expensive than the authorized one? If I want a part for my Maytag dryer I just buy it. What kind of cockamamie scheme are they trying to pull by not selling parts?
> So far, the only programming language I know of that supports this type of crazy data transformations is JAI

I believe zig supports this too, and it's very encouraging that the creator has recently done a refactoring of the language parser taking a data-oriented approach, so that has surfaced pain points to be repaired for folks who would like to do things that way.
I bought a second 10TB harddrive just to be able to run a full eth node, right now even fast sync of eth requires like 400GB+, full archives sits at 6TB+ [1]. When infura went down, the whole network had issues [2]. I'm really hoping the eth2 will somewhat improve the situation, but we'll see.

1: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/

2: https://cryptobriefing.com/infura-outage-sparks-debate-over-...
Well, look at workplace accident rates, injury rates, lead poisoning in the house & at the pump (before petrol was de-leaded), smoking normalized across the board, cities filled with smog (pre-EPA).

If you want numbers, there was a 3x decrease in mortality from heart/cardiovascular disease, 5x decrease in mortality from cerebrovascular disease (1960s were actually one of the most unhealthy decades to be alive in):

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/25/morta...

Sedentary behavior, obesity and diabetes are more signals of stress rather than our current environment - look at the top 10% by income - those risk factors are nowhere to be found in that subgroup.
“ It is possible to configure your node to to run in pruned mode in order to reduce storage requirements. This can reduce the disk usage from over 350GB to around 7GB.”

From [1] in the parent.
I really dislike it when people describe other people they disagree with as “shills”. It turns it from “I disagree with this person” to “this person is implicitly pushing a narrative for nefarious reasons”, which makes the conversation less productive and more toxic.
attempting to paint the founders as ablist because they don't yet support captioning is both heartbreaking and absurd. One founder has a daughter who was born with a genetic defect

This isn't a good point. You can have a disabled daughter and still produce an app that excludes large groups of differently abled folks.

He's literally the last person you'd accuse of holding a prejudice against the disabled.

No, he's not, because that's a naive way of thinking about prejudice. Also, hilariously, you are saying he's even less likely to be prejudiced than people who themselves are disabled.
I believe this will happen too. It might be happening now - there seem to be tesla folks who have messed with their cars.

But it will be a struggle back and forth.
Seems to me to be very different from the OO concept of inheritance: You're copying values between variables, instances of a type. The OO idea is about the type definition; it affects all instances of a type without any per-instance boilerplate code at all.
I have also enjoyed reading these progress reports.
> The onus is on naysayers to rovide proof that a system that lacks these components is better.

This is true only if they are arguing another system is better.

I would argue that our current system - including taxation - is immoral. Whether or not it’s “better” by whatever standard you choose to apply has no bearing on that argument.

This is the difference between the deontological and utilitarian perspectives.
Yep. Also mini disc and DAT and a dozen others. I don’t know why people focused on my Betamax comment when the portable dictation device is more to the point.
> When in history did people get their news and information from a large and diverse set of sources?

Lots of people get information from friends and family and their community directly.

Facebook is now mediating these private communications in DM, and censoring them. There are whole sites you simply cannot link to in DMs to your friends and family.
Is the BBC subject to EU GDPR since Brexit? They may only be subject to UK law, although I'm not sure what the differences are: https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/eu-gdpr-uk-dpa-2018-uk-gdpr
You can even point VLC at a .iso file on a web server, and seek around in it.
I don’t get why this is downvoted. It is technically true and raises an interesting legal issue.

Edit: Isn’t this also what happened on some exchanges with the previous big forks?
Depends on what’s being served. Any decent static file server should support it, but if the content is at all dynamically produced then the authors would have to think to implement it and rarely do.
I was looking for a coffee mug that could keep my coffee warm.

I saw one in the store - it would keep the coffee heated and... bluetooth + app required. gah.
The whole point of "traditional OOPS" is to avoid per-instance boilerplate code.
It’s a feedback mechanism. The fed will always worry that if they get too loose the rich will dump all their money into gold and land and art and whatever pristine investments they can buy to avoid inflation. Guess what is the perfect digital equivalent to these things?
I've played hundred of hours of gaming online, and ni all plateform with a voice chat, you could do that.

Even before voice, we could do that on text chat (Wow and SC were quite political if you wanted to)

And of course IRC and forums.

But don't worry, as soon as the CCP realize Clubhouse is a place for talking about this, it will take actions.
That's great if you ignore the fact that almost all our ideas are borrowed. Copyrights work against the movement of ideas - the ground culture springs from. It is artificial scarcity, like DRM, unnatural in the domain of information.

> as soon as you start trying to write derivative works in the same vein as the original then you're damaging the original author's ability to market his existing work

That seems ridiculous. How would expanding literature hurt it? It would be like free PR for the original. Art (tales, legends, stories, music and potry) used to be orally transmitted, we forgot that too, with every retelling it was reinterpreted and adapted. Even Tolkien didn't invent the elves and Rowling didn't invent sorcery.
> The other thing for which OO works much better than plain data is GUIs

I think the absolute dominance of React and its functional style (especially among juniors) is pretty good evidence against this belief.
But Canada mainly uses letter instead of A4 IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong, not Canadian myself).
> In today's "cargo" culture, that's considered "being negative," or "being timid, and only the bold survive," etc. ad nauseam.

Frame it up as "I'm just putting on DiBono's black hat here so that we can succeed, team" and suddenly you're a Thought Leader.
There are already complaints about militarization of police departments, etc. Having the National Guard just keep F15s ready for "earthquakes" opens up the natural desire to expand them to other uses--- which could lead to things like the matter at hand where the planes are instead used against civilians. I think it is good to resist the expansion of military equipment in the civilian context. Even if there is nothing dicey about it now, just wait until the next guy dreams up some new uses.
I'm sure it's still very popular in engineering. It's still very much the lingua franca for numerical methods applied to engineering problems - there are decades of materials solving engineering problems written in MATLAB.
Airbnb employs dark patterns for their booking process. The daily rate isn't the all-in cost for a booking. You have to open the detail page to get cleaning fees, etc that add up to 30% of the cost. It'd be challenging to get big, successful companies to buck the trend because it's too lucrative. Dark patterns exist for a reason, and it's not for consumer benefit.
A rule I have to prevent that is to always terminate a service before getting a new one.
Such systems will always work much better for undifferentiated labor than specialized labor. Uber’s workers need protection because they’re so replaceable; anyone with the same class of car in the same city can replace them.

YouTube creators are irreplaceable and wildly unequal in their reach and impact. The issue here isn’t that content creators need a minimum wage, the issue here is that the algorithm needs tweaking. This is possible with regulation, but minimum wage and holiday pay won’t do it, especially since they’re not paid by the hour anyways.

YouTubers would be much better served looking at what NFL players and similar organizations do to protect players rather than what factory workers did to protect themselves, since their labor looks more like sports players rather than service workers.
China cracks down on ‘excessive’ user data harvesting
Thanks for this tip! I have the opposite problem of GP; I installed Edge, and though it has never been my default browser, it's now the default browser for .html files... This fixed that issue.
One thing I never understood about bitcoin: doesn't it require mining a block to transact bitcoin? It seems as though even if it's infinitely divisible, once you mine the 21-millionth block all the bitcoin is rendered worthless, since you can't trade it anymore
Patents expire all the time...
> If The Illiad is to be trusted, open warfare still has plenty of soap opera.

During World War II, some Royal Navy battleships turned their anti-aircraft guns on their own torpedo bombers, because they were determined that carriers not get the credit for sinking the Bismark.
I think this is a systematic issue with Hacker News, Reddit etc.

While low quality comments are easy to spot, low quality votes are not.

I often think HN should have the requirement to explain a downvote. I would think that downvotes like these have low quality explanations like "Shut up, idiot!". So these low quality votes could be dealt with and the voters future votes could be discounted.
They're telling you to use the unsigned executable because they screwed up renewing their signing certificate. Bad excuse. Very bad security practice for a Bitcoin wallet. They do offer SHA-256 hashes for the executables, so people can check by hand, but the download and the hashed check come from the same site. If someone can spoof the download site, they can Make Money Fast.

Somewhere, someone is probably working out a way to exploit this right now.
> Why would I even buy the smallest priced thing with deflationary bitcoin, ..?

Given the inflationary dollar, you probably wouldn't, but otherwise, you'd need to transact at some point.

Perpetual debt against assets is a common trope in tax avoidance. People do use/abuse this. If enough people abused it inflationary money would fail.

Deflationary money isn't bad, but the common belief says it is. One example that changed my mind was business investment.

Why would you loan money to a business if the money itself might be worth more later? Well you probably wouldn't. Instead, you'd buy a share of the business itself.

We've all live in a system of inflationary money and were educated by a system that teaches it's use. We should acknowledge our bias here and keep an open mind.
Literally never had this problem.
> but I think you're mixing the everyday definition of "relativity"

Well, yes.. because Einstein's theory beautifully makes all the math work out, explaining one interpretation of motion as the real one. But what it did at the same time was show that there is no "fixed grid" of space independent of the objects themselves. Which is what leads to my uneasy feeling of how we ever can say one interpretation is more real than another -- i admit it may just be a nonsensical perspective.

As for what all physicists mean by relativity in general... I can highly recommend this old series from the National Science Foundation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75kEf8xLxI
Agreed but how often does the LAT win this battle. I'm assuming this is a winner(s) take all scenario and they are mostly a loser.
England called theirs Domesday (Doomsday)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
Well it's a lot like a doctor fixing your sneezing :D

The difference between tech and other machines like cellular life, is that we built it from scratch in a giant writing civilization so to absolutely lose the ability to reverse engineer or reproduce by copy would require quite a dumbing down of the humans or a catastrophic loss of resources.

Something I saw somewhere is that in engineering you can copy without even looking at the thing. If you know it s possible, all countries seem to somehow access it the next decade. Sometimes it's just a psychological block.
> The American patent office assumes that if there is no prior patent then the new patent describes something new and novel.

They don't just look for prior patents, they look for prior art (which includes any public research papers, presentations, products, etc.) as well. So if someone else did the thing you claim to have invented (even if they didn't patent it), you can't get a patent.

And even if someone didn't do the thing you're claiming, but they did something that makes your claimed invention an obvious thing to do, you also can't get a patent.

The obviousness standard is generally harder to overcome than the novelty standard.