skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whataboutism is already strong in here. Net neutrality is the battleground, but the issue is pretty universal. Corporate actors are signing off on illegal activity to directly undermine the democratic process in a way that should frighten you, and even when they're caught for it they're not being punished.
Investigators with the NY AG's office "said that Broadband for America acted to give Mr. Pai “cover” to repeal the broadband regulations.". The companies fingered by the AG didn't even pay as much in penalties as they made under their contracts with the telecom companies.

The fact that some other corporate actors might be doing similar shit in the other direction is totally irrelevant; if they got caught, we should all want to bring the hammer down on them too.
Agreed.

He is trying to build a stronger case by using an elaborate straw man argument.

Turns out to be quite transparent and poor.
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This could use an illustration or two to demonstrate the differences. It's really quite interesting. I googled and didn't find anything. Maybe because it's a new finding.
Interesting, why does profit seeking work for other necessities, like food (or pretty much anything really) but not in these 3 in particular (I would argue it also works fine in housing, if you take a median house). And how much housing do rich people really consume?

What's special about housing, health care and education compared to say food, cosmetic surgery or tech is immense amount of govt meddling that both restricts supply and boosts demand. Everything from general regulatory burden to explicit things like zoning, certificates of need and healthcare subsidies, housing subsidies, etc. The results are predictable. Nothing whatsoever to do with profit seeking.
You're a good father and what you wrote I agree, I don't know why some people downvoted you. Mutlitasking kills. What's wrong with a man telling his kids to not do multiple things at once and focus on the more important matters first?
I assume you're referring to Fig 31. (I was referring to Fig 32)

"Spherical" clumps of blue dust would crush just the same. Mars is reeeeally cold a lot of the time and has a bit less gravity. Dust can clump. Again, not a geologist.

What's important to me is that they're presenting crossing tracks as evidence of before/after, when it's not. They don't have two images of the same area separated by X days, they have one image of two tracks separated by X days, and are interpreting the crest-clumping as "new". This is a somewhat disingenuous way to present, if I'm reading it right.

I'm into sending a robot to grab some, don't get me wrong, but I'm also not privy to all the details to make an intelligent prioritization of the robots' time.
Gmail's so bad now that I only use "classic HTML" Gmail in the browser, and native clients (Apple's Mail, for example). I have no idea how they managed to make a relatively simple "web app" so huge and heavy. You could add all of full-fat Gmail's features to "classic HTML" Gmail for very little cost in bundle size and active resource use—though the result might not be an "app" in many folks' opinions, I guess. I just know navigating classic Gmail, with its "bad" full-page loads, is way faster than the "efficient" AJAX-style crap on normal Gmail.

Mobile Gmail's not just heavy—it's broken. Whatever stupid, misguided bullshit they're doing with scrolling makes it register clicks where they weren't intended if I'm not super careful.
Regardless of the "crypto" shorthand, blockchains are distinct from cryptocurrencies. A cryptocurrency can exist without using a blockchain to record balance changes, and likewise, a blockchain can exist which is not used for recording accounts or spendable outputs.

The "crypto" shorthand emerged from the cryptocurrency side, which by and large, uses cryptographic primitives in order to spend and receive value. One further bit worth adding is that the market demand for cryptocurrencies broadly has directed massive amounts of resources towards the development of novel cryptographic primitives.
Crystal growth?
Yeah, the way we adopted threading and dynamic libraries for plugins is on the way out and we are back into multiple process with IPC, for more stability and security.

The downside is they are more memory hungry.
This is impressive! For folks who are worried about what this says about App Engine's security - historically the JVM level sandboxing was one part of an overall sandboxing story (not surprisingly, very similar to Chrome's setup) and my understanding, although haven't been on the team for a decade at this point, is that the JVM-level restrictions have been effectively replaced by a gVisor-based solution.
Symlinks finally supported properly by Dropbox
> something prima facie unethical

Citation needed.

You're criticizing the author for not addressing the "actual ethical issue", yet you yourself are failing to even state what you think it is.

There is absolutely zero societal consensus that advertising is unethical, in the way there is a consensus that fraud or murder are.

To the contrary -- there is vast disagreement around the ethics of online advertising, delicately balancing concerns around societal good, access to information, funding, factuality, bias, tracking, privacy, and consent. The incredible complexity of the issues involved is pretty much proof that there is nothing merely "prima facie" at all.
I don't mean to come across as too forward or rude, and freely admit that I know nothing about you personally. Thank you for making such generous contributions to charity!

The way I look at it is like so:

I think most people want to bring a net positive value to society. One way of doing that is working on something whose intrinsic value to society is neutral or nebulous (or just not thinking about it too hard), and compensating for that giving the money we make to other organizations that are definitely contributing positively. While this is better than not doing so, I think it misses out on the leverage that exists in what we build vs. the money we're paid for it.

For example, despite making over $500k last year, we know your employer thinks you are producing more value than that, because otherwise they wouldn't pay you that much. You would be a drag on their income statement otherwise. What this means is that even if you donated 100% of your salary to charity, you still aren't taking advantage of the leverage of what you can build, vs. the fixed amount you can earn.

If instead, you choose to work on something which is inherently good for society, society at large benefits from that leverage. You might be paid less, say $200k instead of $500k. But since the positive value you produce is leveraged you could be contributing, let's say, $1M of positive value for society - $200k to pay you to live in the bay area ($800k net positive value).

Just something to think about.
You get to take the language for granted; you don't get to take your own code for granted. "String reverse" is an easy function to write and the same instructions end up in my binary either way. But if you write your own, you'd better test it. If you import one from the standard library, no need, the stdlib has already done that. Functionality being in the language does not just save you typing; it also saves you testing. That's my point.

I agree, given that Go is what it is, it's a bad policy.
By analogy, automobiles would be cheaper if you could only by green sedans using an online portal. Sure it would be less expensive, but you also eliminate many choices.
No way for you to prove your assertions, either. There's a ton of presumption that goes on regarding this topic instead of examining NN from first principles and seeing what its consequences would actually be.
I'm pleased to read that Octopus has "gpg integration", but regardless of which OpenPGP implementation Thunderbird uses, I hope that there can be more convergence with the Autocrypt standard.

The differences seem to be mostly philosophical right now[0], so maybe someone will come up with a UX for opportunistic encryption that the Thunderbird team is comfortable with, and/or future versions of Autocrypt will support modes of operation that overlap with Thunderbird's approach.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-how...
I am also not en expert in this area, but I agree with this assessment. This looks like classic anomaly hunting rather than careful science, but I would love to be proved wrong.
Super useful! I would have loved this in undergrad when I was taking linguistics courses
> Why? An apples-to-apples comparison would be to see how long it takes to become a general physician after completing secondary school.

Because if the requirement in the US is indeed "bachelor's degree required, any will do", then it exists solely for gate-keeping and says nothing about the standards of education.

Edit: looking at wiki, the requirements are actually a bit more reasonable, but it does seem strange that they are not just rolled into the first year (or two) of medical degree. Why force people to finish undergrad studies if only a few courses are relevant?
> I hope it's all fungi and I hope it's edible.

I'm not sure I do. If we can eat it, it can eat us.
You can't post personal attacks like this to HN, regardless of who you're attacking. Perhaps you don't feel that you owe $person better, but you owe this community much better if you want to participate here.

You crossed badly into bannable territory in this thread. I've responded in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27066921.
I never said that would make them bad, just that they are in a different class.

There are plenty of good engineers who can't pass LeetCode style interviews. This effectively removes them from that FAANG compensation level and allows companies to hire them at a lower compensation tier.

Basically, there's no point in competing with FAANG compensation since you can get their rejects, many of which are still great engineers.
The 't' and 'd' (dental & postalevolar plosives) sound so close together.
Trying to label a group or to talk about polarizing donors instead of their actual argument are just low effort attempts to poison the well.

The Tax Foundation is backed by ultra-right wing donors that funded, among other things, challenges to votes in November 2020, the seditionist protests in January 2021, and are are currently funding the vote "audit" in Arizona. As such, the fact that these ultra-right wing donors make up the bulk of the Tax Foundation's funding indicates their political bias is toward extreme far-right positions in which all tax cuts are good, and all tax increases are bad. And that is indeed what the Tax Foundation has spent the last ten years publishing. Yes, decades ago they were a nonpolitical organization, but that hasn't been true for longer than either of us have been alive.
Net neutrality is not about the speed your ISP can provide you. It's about ensuring ISPs don't privilege some traffic over others.
Would be fascinating if Mars had a different way of making life, I wonder if in the vastness of space time there are different formulas than DNA...
So he is a Bitcoin shill? lol. Nothing to see here boys. You get all you know already.

Ironically this post happens near top as well lol http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html
I believe MindStorms was my introduction to the general concepts of programming around the age of ten. I actually remember it running off DOS, I believe.
Attempting to extrapolate off a sample size of n=1 is dangerous. I think that puts this in the “requires extraordinary proof” bucket. Especially when considering how many times we’ve looked but failed to find proof of extraterrestrial life.
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I might be wrong, but what you have mentioned as businesses are only mediums to achieve a (business)goal.
For eg. - Goal can be 'showcase your expertise on XYZ topic to attract specific kind of people' and the medium would be podcasts or newsletter. That way, if your medium is unsuccessful, you can always change the medium without losing sight of the goal.
This happens a lot. In the early 2000s, the news program 60 Minutes was involved in a major controversy that put its fact-checking practices and the reliability of journalism as a whole in the spotlight. The evidence for their reporting came down to some (now known to be forged) documents purported to contain revelations about a scandal involving George W. Bush during his years in the National Guard. It was a big deal, and it had a huge impact on the public image and career of Dan Rather, who was otherwise widely respected at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
> A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a “Medicare for All” program through incremental changes to the private health care market.

Why not just implement Medicare for All, instead of trying to band-aid the private healthcare market?
The first author on the paper is associated with cosmology.com. I visited the website and got the "We want to believe" vibe.
You can easily verify this in your specific code base but I believe the compiler prefers not-taken jumps for paths it predicts to be less frequently taken.

You can provide hints that the path is a cold one to ensure the compiler uses the most efficient conditional branch layout. On some architectures the compiler will also provide this hint to the CPU (with a prefix, the instruction it selects, or a flag bit in the instruction) which avoids the perf hit on the first iteration.

Both Clang and GCC recognize __builtin_expect which can be wrapped in a macro easily:

#define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
> In-process sandboxing is falling out of favour.

Javascript and webassembly still aim for for in process sandboxing, though browsers add process level security as defense-in-depth.
> these "facts" if their primary use wasn't to be woven into otherwise fictional narratives claiming to be coherent justifications of racism and homophobia.

So, the same thing mainstream society has been doing for the last 6 years, just for different races and groups?

If they criticized things like Outreachy (which literally discriminates people based on race and gender [1]) with the same energy that they criticize the "alt-right" then I would believe them. Otherwise it's just hypocrisy.

[1] https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/
Free goods have infinite demand. Medicare for All will simply degrade outcomes a lower common denominator. Interestingly, will the government allow private medical practices to exist in a Medicare for All regime? If so, it seems we would simply end up where we are now.
Letting Google manage my passwords to Google. Thanks but no thanks. Great fun awaits those who would fall for this and Google later decides to cancel their account for whatever reason their AI will have managed to concoct by then.
NN isn't about the raw speed. It's about ensuring content from ISP's competitors is available at the same speed as your ISP's content.

If ISPs were just a dumb pipe, this wouldn't be a problem. But most of the major players are part of massive media conglomerates and have incentive to throttle/restrict certain content.

https://i.insider.com/5887a523f10a9a2a768b6ac9?width=700&for...
But the Earth is entirely unique in the solar system for almost everything we know is important for life - especially liquid water (maybe with some exceptions on a few moons of Jupiter) and temperatures above freezing.
YTs counter had was even signed. So the first dirty fix was very easy, because there was an unused bit. This is different, because all bits are used in the stock price, so no easy dirty fix.
You seems to be laboring under several misapprehensions.

> Japan would subsequently go on to ban American beef again, before allowing imports of American beef once more in 2019,

1) The Japanese rules on beef exports did not change significantly between 2006 and 2019. The ban on old beef that was imposed in 2006 was not lifted until 2019. While an argument relating to this was brough up in the original case (that the USDA lost) but not in the appeals case (that the USDA won.)

2) Nothing in the decision in favor of the USDA that I saw was justified on the basis of the purposes of the testing. The decision came down that the judges readings of what authority the USDA has under US law.

So yes, the USDA has the authority to prevent testing and has used it in ways that directly harmed a US business and I don't see how they protected anyone in the process.

Just because our laws give the USDA that authority, doesn't mean that is a good thing.
Trebuchet MS is an okay choice for distinguishing between l and I. I like it as a happy medium between Arial and Verdana as far as "basic" fonts go.
Isn't the real solution just to use a bigger int?
I think under "administrative costs" they might have hidden consolidation of the providers market. Anecdote: I wen to podiatrist about 4 years ago and now. The same doctor the same place, everything is the same. Except 4 years ago it was ~ $200 per visit, now I am looking at ~$350. What's changed? His practice became part of the big group footandankle. Similar situation happens with other specialists and family doctors, hospital networks consolidate all they could find in vicinity under their roof. There's no promised administrative cost reduction. Everything goes up in price. But apparently it's a "faux pas" to criticize hospital networks because somehow it reflects may reflect bad on the doctors.
There was a caption on one of the photos:

> perhaps fungi may have been transported to Mars already attached to the rover

And another photo of a dark patch emerging from a seam on the rover. Seems to be to be pretty suggestive of Earth being the source.

A crazy scenario would be if Mars becomes covered in mushroom-based life that evolves distinctly from life on Earth.
So you’re saying people who have committed a crime more than once tend to commit crimes more than once? This doesn’t sound particularly surprising.
Do you know why efficiency is such a problem? Its because people put off going to the doctor because THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT!. Thats why vists sky rocket when people become eligible for Medicare.
https://www.uclahealth.org/u-magazine/u-s-ranks-near-bottom-...
Does anyone know if Gameboy Tetris had any code in it to attempt to give you bad pieces?
For sure, nothing to do with the rising inequalities, the economic perspective of the younger generations, and of course the whole climate and resources consumption issues the last decades have brought that maybe make some people question if we are on the right trajectory.
Nope, but I understand it's more convenient to think that.
Well this got real quickly.
> I hope it's all fungi and I hope it's edible.

That reminds me of a passage from H.G. Wells's «The First Men In The Moon», where the narrator protagonist is so hungry that he can't help but take a bite out of some fungi-like lunar vegetation, and convinces his colleague Cavor to indulge in it as well... but the fungi happens to be psychoactive!

If anyone's interested, it's at the end of Chapter XI, «The Mooncalf Pastures», from the paragraph that begins “We roused ourselves...” onward: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1013/1013-h/1013-h.htm#chap1...
>Any wallet could offer the same thing.

No, its not a wallet at all its a protocol like TCP but for money. If you are interested go read about it first. There is no point in arguing about something you dont know what it is.

>PayPal could offer it

Yes, they could but its not lucrative and if it would be they would not be interested in using a public interoperable protocol where everyone can offer the same service and compete.

So you have some sites that use PayPal and other sites use 15 other payment companies. You just recreated subscription hell. Its completely missing the point. If its decentral and standardized all systems work together. If I have the wrong token or currency the decentral system finds a way to swap them so I can use any services no matter what "wallet" or currency I use. I cold stream Netflix and Amazon Prime and only pay what I watch and when I watch.

Also why would I want PayPal to know whom I stream money?
If its central its impossible to hide such data.
If its p2p no third party know what content I pay for. That's how it should be.

>Nobody's ever actually wanted micropayments

We already have it.... its called ads. Ever page load, every click, every interaction and every data collected about you is a form of inefficient micropayment. One that does not respect your privacy, tires to maximize the time you waste and tries to trick you into buying stuff you dont need. And the cost of that is slapped onto the product you may buy.

Don't you think there are tons of people out there who would rather not annoy their visitors with ads?
They would rather have them pay a few fraction of a cent directly to them without the ad-mafia taking a huge junk out of the revenue.
And dont you think there are people who would rather pay a few fraction of a cent than see ads or block ads knowing that the content creator does not get paid then?

>Further, this is just revisiting whether people are willing to pay for content online. They are not. They would rather be subjected to ads and not pay anything.

That's your personal opinion. The facts are not on your side. People already pay to not see ads its just cumbersome because every service needs a subscription or pro app or whatever. It does not scale to the number or services the average user wants to use. And it hardly adjust to the actual use. Its objectively just so much worse than if you could stream for what you use in real time.

You could go a long way without ads for a few bucks if you would replace them with the actual revenue they create.
Only if your time is worthless you would rather watch a 15 second ad than pay 1/10 cent or whatever to not see it.
If those are the standards of ethics then ethicists are just a bunch of pretentious tossers who should be disregarded on principle. It fits with the absolute shit that comes out of the mouth of any "AI Ethicist" who takes any spurious correlation as creating robo-Hitler and clearly have Hollywood as the basis of their credentials.

There is no "consent of awareness of events" and frankly that would be a nightmarishally exploitable situation. It is a rationalization of being afraid of retaliation usually from being sued.

How on earth would Liveleaks be hypocritical for saying it is for free speech even if voyeurism is the main purpose?
Upsetting as it may be to you it needs actual contradiction of itself to be hypocritical. Accusing it of being a cynical facade is the the closest casting in a bad light stance.

The whole fucking point of free speech is recognizing you don't get to decide how other people think! It can be both things at once.

Better person is a matter of interpretation and context - there is never a guarantee that /any/ action will make somebody "better" to any framework much less the fuzziness of defining better.
It has been seen in the CEO's office of a big pharma company and the title is "All money extracted?" /s
I know how posting a phone number destroys privacy.

From the article, Google "standard" 2FA uses your mobile device. So by your own admission, giving others (and particularly Google) your number or access to your phone destroys privacy.
> The fuck are you on about? Why would you think this?

This is the high-brow content that brings me back to HN time and again.
I don't know if it was mentioned here but another issue that many people have with Google specifically is it's perceived monopoly position and market power.
I don't think tax payers have the same view as you.
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