skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a nice theory at steady-state, but how do you get there?

If UBI is less generous than Social Security, then you have a problem.

You have lots of retirees (15% of the population) who have been promised Social Security and have retired on that basis. You also have lots of people that are relatively near retirement that will be in the streets with pitchforks if you threaten their benefits: Social Security is the original third rail of American politics - touch it and you die.

You basically need to allow people to choose whether to get UBI or stay in Social Security. This creates a gigantic fiscal bulge because you end up funding Social Security for everyone for whom it represents a better deal.

If UBI is more generous than Social Security, then you also have a problem. You are effectively exchanging it like-for-like and there's no extra tax take to spread around.
I think your value judgements show through the things you listed and your assertion of all those things being 100% true. The lethal dose comment has already had solid rebuttal arguments disproving the statement. That mixed in with your comment about him saying “I can’t breathe” also seems to imply more ambiguity of fault at his death and ignored the fact Floyd also stated he was claustrophobic right before that. I’m just commenting this to hopefully inform you that you may not be as impartial as you originally thought
>This article is really attacking a straw man.

I wish that was the case, but it is not.

>And every HN thread about advertising also has a variation of that sentiment.

And it is not just on HN, but across the Internet. Reddit, Forum, Twitter.

Their voice are crystal clear, All ads are bad. And any objection will.... well you know the internet.

It is the same with tracking. Somehow all tracking are bad on the internet.

Another recent example on the Internet. All VCs are bad. ( Although that didn't gain much traction )

Edit: See, Instant downvoting. And if you disagree, go on to read all the comments on HN on the subject and count for yourself how many comments were there to support resonable "ads", and how many were flat out dismissal.
My grandmother has about 10 acres with lots of >100 yo trees on it. It's fairly common around where I live.
This started as a way to make QR codes with text in the code pattern but I found the links and stats to be just as useful.

Previous Show HN for qr.new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25481772
No, CF workers does not use Deno. Workers uses a custom runtime built on V8.
Will be be getting a refund of all the personal data collected in the past?
Wouldn’t we all just rather have someone competent work at our issues? It is not like most orgs can simply hire some perfectly knowledgeable superstar for their next problem. They can just spin the wheel of fortune and get someone who has the correct experience on paper. I‘d go with the person who solved my last 5 problems competently as well.
GCC 11 Performance improvements on AArch64
> No, stoicism is more about determinism of outcomes and being free from emotions like anger and jealousy.

I disagree.

> the Stoics are one group with one philosophy, the chances of them being the “correct” one (if there is such a thing) are nearly nil.

Since this argument can be made equally against any viewpoint and philosophy, it is clearly irrelevant.
You could reach out to the polymarket team on discord and they might be happy to setup a prediction market for this

https://polymarket.com/

They’re crypto based but unfortunately (/s) no token
> we can't do it right now, so it must be impossible

Has nothing to do with anything I said.

I said no systems have properties in virtue of being computers. Nothing is a program, let alone intelligence.

>meat full of electricity

Meat grows. Intelligence is just a strategy many animals have adopted as a means of rapid adaptation to their local environment. It is maximal in humans because our motor systems are maximally adaptive, to the extreme degree that we literally learn to walk.

Each cell of the body is an entire universe of factories. And the body a synthesis of trillions providing a "terminator-2"-like plasticity from-top-to-bottom. Each of these trillion cells is capable of unimaginable scales of adaption, let alone the whole body.

I have no idea why people suppose any of that is a purely formal "algorithm" which any old thing might do. Beads of wood, or electrical switches. I can only assume, like the people to watch films for the first time, we apes are easily fooled.
I agree that it fits here just fine (more than a lot of the crap that hits the front page) but I also agree with the OP that the “cultism” is annoying, not that I expect anything else given his association with the company that created HN.
Sorry but this is not helpful.

Slavery was wrong then and it is wrong now. societal consensus cannot be excused because it was in the past.

Highlighted and rightfully acknowledged but slavery cannot be simplified to just forced labour when rape, murder and unethical experimentation was also performed. I think it’s incorrect to assume that this should not be criticised with the standards of today as to do so is to ignore that it is a very human issue to value the life of another so poorly and assume we were all barbarians only 300-400 years ago which is not the case.
I’m just wondering why I spent 1200 bucks on a camera that got three firmware updates and then nothing nothing else from the manufacturer. The software stack on these things is just getting bigger and it doesn’t give me any confidence to buy another Sony in the future.
This is describing many of the same political problems as you get in any decentralised organisation, such as community volunteers.

But, it must be worse to deal with when you have profit as a motivator rather than social benefit.

Sounds like a recipe for burn-out and a risk to mental health.
Unlimited just means your speed is capped more and more as you move into higher usage tiers. Nothing is unlimited.
> We have no answers. We have no understanding.

This is factually incorrect. We have plenty of answers and understanding.
>The reason is that everyone is too conservative.

Everyone isn't too conservative: veterans in a field are conservative because they have earned the war wounds they carry. Which is why you tend to see "disruptive apps" targeting younger people. They don't have the life experience to understand, at first glance, why an idea may be extremely dangerous.

I'm young enough to remember being that way myself: Who cares if someone gets my bank account info, what are they going to do, pay off my student loans? Spend the $25 I have in my checking account? Oh no!

I abhor people who throw around the idea that someone in tech being "conservative" is somehow wrong or bad. They're conservative because they know just how much is at risk for the folks who don't know any better.
"Our services: [...] Identity Matching", "Hundreds of data points to create cross device profiles", "215M emails collected". Hallmarks of a company you definitely want to embed on your site...
I use kondo already, and while it's a nice tool it doesn't solve my problems.
Are minimum wage employees given healthcare they can afford? You know... since there's a pandemic still going on
That is such a simplification of the actual history as to be basically meaningless.
Is it just the price that's the problem? What if Might were $30 to $50 per year?
That "paying with money" but with extra steps.
I don’t think you understand what network effects mean. Of course discussion happens elsewhere. It is less valuable because those other networks have fewer nodes.
I started on ads at Google in 2017, and have been donating since 2008: https://www.jefftk.com/donations
Just to nitpick some more. Alt-Right is a new term, a neologism. In current research it’s seen as a conflated term. This is due to it not actually being an “alternative ideology” since it matches to already existing ideologies. It’s a set of ideologies that are under Far-Right politics on the Left-Right political spectrum. [1]

While there is literally not an “Alt-Left” there are 100% Far-Left ideologies that a a hypothetical “Alt-Left” movement would most likely match to. The Left is the entire spectrum of the left, which is many things. [2]

Liberalism as a whole is not Centrism, . Social liberalism fits in Centrism which is a subset of liberalism.

Mind you also the Left-Right political spectrum does not equal the American Left and Right. It is a long history of observation including Alain’s reflections on the French Revolution and the study of international relations today. Hypothetically, the American Left could very well be on the Right and the Australian Left could be on the Left.

[1]: A mix of references from Timothy Snyder, and his book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” and George Hawley’s “Right-wing Critics of American Conservatism”

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Thank you for these comments they are super interesting to me as a relatively new Clojure programmer.

Can I ask two related questions -

1. Reading between the lines it sounds like the mutability issue arises from interop, both in the core code and any dependencies that wrap Java?

2. If yes, curious why did the folks involved did not write native Clojure libraries to eliminate the (worst?) blocking dependencies (or patch the Clojure wrapper libs)?

I ask 2 because my understanding is interop was partly a bootstrap strategy for the language and there was always (I think?) an assumption that the native Clojure library ecosystem would grow and make interop less necessary. Is that not happening enough?
Silk, Puffin, Opera Mini, Opera Turbo, Maxthon - are all predecessors.
> In other words, do GDPR countries claim jurisdiction over non-GDPR countries' websites?

It's not that uncommon. As a concrete example, I know that US expats in Germany are having problems with some banks because FATCA[1], a US law, imposes more controls over every bank in the world dealing with US citizens. At least one German bank [2] has stopped taking US citizens as customers, and I have informally heard of more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

[2] https://americanexpatfinance.com/news/item/612-german-bank-t...
That combined with zoning and other land use restrictions preventing larger buildings that can have more housing.
I live in Iowa and our unemployment rate pre-pandemic was only 0.3%. There were no special generally available assistance programs available, so I do not think COVID Relief is the cause for the present situation, it's just what returning to normal was always going to look like. There is more demand for labor than there are laborers.
Where are people finding these high contract rates? I’d like to get out of full time employment and into contracting, but literally have no idea where to start. Relying on my own connections is useless and not sustainable, I’d like some serious work, not references to people who “need an app”.
I work in adtech. The actual ads themselves aside, the backend part of it ticks all the tech boxes:

- high QPS feeds

- massive volumes of data

- interesting problems to solve everyday

It's an industry that doesn't stand still.
A simple solution to this problem could be employers paying more than unemployment.

But nah, just force people to accept shit wages.
Did the Norwegian fishing (salmon farming) industry have a big part in the EU vs EEA decision? From what I’ve seen lately about Norwegian Salmon farming I wonder if it would get past the EU regulations, if they even have any related to fish farming.

Some documentaries even call it the worlds most toxic food.
> it probably can't hurt to work on something new without dragging along all the baggage of the past

Ignoring a century of relevant research is not a recommended scientific approach though. The "baggage of the past" are rather the "shoulders of giants".
Because it works?

With those 1 or 2 percent raises being a norm almost everywhere, it's hardly a reason to actually leave the company. And saving for not doing 5 to 10 percent on everyone every year are much bigger than an occasional hiring and training costs.
Also... unless I'm wrong in the reading of the spec, data-uri href values would be allowed, which means an attacker could just use that to inject a full document that isn't sanitised.
Because you're not simply "wrapping it in an app". You're now paying rent to Apple for the privilege of wrapping your otherwise perfectly functional application in an app.
Agreed, it wiuld be more accurate to say it is not possible in companies that are optimizing finances short-term. Bell invested a ton of money with the hope it would bring results long term. I have yet to see a company's board authorizing that now...
Over the last twelve years, the federal minimum wage has been constant. Over that same time period, the cost of a Big Mac has gone up by about 25%.

Since 1997, the federal minimum wage has gone up by 40%. Over that same time period the cost of a Big Mac has gone up by 100%.

Perhaps the relationship between minimum wage and fast food prices isn’t linear.

In addition, the federal nature of the US means that we’ve had lots of different trials, and the results are that your expected result doesn’t happen in states with higher minimum wages, but only by a small amount. In addition, a whole body of scientific research has found that your expected effect doesn’t happen.

Minimum wage history from https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history/chart.
Big Mac prices from https://www.eatthis.com/big-mac-cost/ with some interpolation to match the years that the minimum wage changed.
It's a similar dynamic to how widening a road only provides temporary relief for traffic. More traffic fills the newly available space until it reaches homeostasis with the number of people avoiding the road due to congestion.

Similarly, developers take up the space that better hardware provides until the user experience starts to degrade and they are forced to optimize.

In both cases, you end up with the apparent contradiction that the user's experience doesn't seem to change despite improvements that on the face of it should translate to them.
The whole "amazing roman concrete" speel is kind of ridiculous: https://ascconline.org/Portals/0/Technical-Article-Aug-2017_...

I wouldn't be surprised if many of those 500/1000 year old wooden houses are like the ship of Theseus. How much of those buildings has been replaced or repaired over that time period?

Same thing with brick houses. When they are repointed every few decades, how many of the bricks are swapped out when they crack or crumble?
I literally said that they are allowed. They just can’t JIT the JavaScript, so performance suffers compared to Safari. So, if you don’t care about JS performance, then yes, you can make your own full browser with your own rendering code.
> I don't know many people who think advertising per se is morally objectionable (annoying, yes).

Tbh, that kinda seems like a minority opinion (that I share, but still) around these parts
People wo believe that "tool makers aren't responsible for how the tool is misused" (for example, with cryptocurrency), do you feel the same way about adtech?
I would strongly argue that crypto does present genuine value to the world...
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- This is insufficient for the same reasons unit tests are not enough and you also need integration tests. The moment you cross namespace boundaries, you will end up not setting keys /entries in maps , missing logic etc and end up needing something like Spec/Schema....
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GDPR applies to processors or controllers not in the Union if the processing activities are related to:

1. the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

2. the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

(See Article 3).

I believe that in most cases the point of geoblocking is not so much to try to actually stop people in the EU from accessing the sites, but rather to try to ensure that any data processed falls under #1.

One of the Recitals for that section says:

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union. Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.
The legacy of Napoleon is much more complex than that.
Want it or not, he's both a terrible conqueror animated by a thirst for power at all cost and also a builder of modern institutions still in use today.

The same things could be said of most kings, queens and emperors of Europe across the ages. Reigns without mercy, enslaving and conquering, abusing and torturing, yet they cemented the future and a good portion of the institutions they set up are still in use today in one form or another. And yet people still honour their memory and their legacy.

Napoleon's reign caught up because the state was in trouble at the end of the XVIII century (insecurity, lack of funds, a general state of disarray). The rapid change in political structure -with all its instabilities- after the Revolution made (some) people yearn for stability. And thus Napoleon seized power through a coup.

And that's how the country got governed by a dictator, who proclaimed himself Emperor and started to chip away at people's freedoms in the name of stability.

A somewhat still-current cautionary tale...
I'd work on advertisements for high six figures. That being said, I'd also be a terrible culture fit in an advertising shop. I can't stand ads and a hobby of mine is criticising the ads, and companies, forcing me through them for the duration thereof.

>I must be fun at parties

Parties with ads, or any paid "guests" are not fun...
There's more than one crazy new idea floating around, checkout cituzenshareholders.com reimagining of capitalism and their (ok, our) crazy, yet feasible, plan to democratize corporate governance.
With $40 trillion in shares owned thru collective investments Larry Fink's wish for a new form of shareholder engagement will come true!
The solution is decentralization, like https://d.tube, https://joinpeertube.org, https://www.bitchute.com or https://lbry.com.
I said most because indeed most of the innovation, both technical and cultural originates from Ethereum.
But DOGE, XRP, ADA, LTC, BCH, TRON, ETC. EOS, NEO, BSV are all in the top 25 and have nothing to show for it despite being some of the oldest players in the space. The L2 projects on Bitcoin are not new and they've never brought anything revolutionary. And I think BTC is fine without L2, it's a very different philosophy from ETH and I can respect that. I just don't think it does or will ever deliver the typeof value that ETH and the projects hosted on it do.

Polygon, Cosmos or other innovative L1 projects like Avalanche, Algorand or HBAR all sit at 9 digit mcap - which is certainly very high but still annoyingly low when you consider that DOGE is worth 77 billion dollars and BSC, whose sole purpose is to make scams out of ETH projects and run them on a centralized chain, sits close to 100 billion dollars.
The google content marketing division are really going hard trying to foist this flock-of-sheep stuff.
>The Mighty model is timesharing CPUs.

It's not. It's literally spinning up a VM in the cloud to run Chrome and stream a video to you

> At least 80% of the time my computer isn't even used.

Yes, but Mighty isn't running (and will never run) on your computer.
I'm in a relatively rural location "in the sticks" and the local businesses have been offering $15/hr or more for evenings/weekends for over four years and I assume because they still have the signs up they're not filling enough positions.
Now take us through the individual and collective consequences of mass data collection.

You seem to be deliberately focusing on the beneficial parts of advertising, at the exclusion of the harmful bits. If you want to maintain your credibility -- let alone give the impression of someone striving to live ethically -- you'll need to give that second part its due attention.

Addendum:

If I were offered a generous salary to work on Google ad technology, I might accept. I'm not 100% sure, but the temptation would very real. As such, I want to make it clear that my criticism does not stem from any feeling of moral superiority, but rather from deep-seated respect and sympathy for someone engaged in an ethical dilemma.

I believe the comments would be much more charitable had your position been something along the lines of "I do it because it's good money, and I sometimes struggle with the dilemma. Here is the nature of the issue as I see it." As a general rule, people respect earnest introspection. Not so with playing ostrich.
I suspect they wrote thousands of lines of code "Agile" style, without nearly enough upfront design. Now there is too much code to rewrite and it's too hard to change. I would be more sympathetic if it just lacked functionality, but instead the marketing claims all these features that are likely to eat your data. IMHO, it's an example of where open-source and the "bizarre model" failed to deliver.
I don't think he gets hundreds of likes because he's amazing (though some of what he's written has been). It's because his writing is an insight into silicon valley and VC culture. Even when I completely disagree with his opinions they're interesting to read because they give an insight into how him and many of his peers think. And as someone interested in this industry that's fundamentally interesting even when it's not great. Arguably more so.