skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really a fan of IRC (a federated network where some OSS projects were on their own servers or different ones would have limited the blast radius of a hostile takeover of one server like this), but Matrix is bloated and slow and the protocol makes no sense for chat (though it may have other applications); it's not a great fit for a large network with lots of people who may or may not have modern hardware. Not to mention that the servers would take a lot more resources to run on Matrix (assuming it eventually gets roughly the same size as Freenode was).
Why did people object? Because "purchased" makes it legitimate?
>When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

The success of JEE in selecting excellent students year after year is evidence to the contrary.

When the measure is set high enough, it actually becomes an excellent motivating factor in itself. Do you think the people participating in the various Olympiads (IMO, IPhO etc) not benefit from the experience? How about the Olympics?
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I think internal ethic commissions are basically useless.

Maybe there are ethical concerns of working for an advertisement company independent of this issue though.

Many people I talk to do not want to work for Google anymore. That is a change from 6-8 years ago, when almost everyone really like the idea of working there. Maybe it was just another company then, or people have become more disillusioned with their believe in technology for a good cause.
That's exactly the sort of post that reinforces their bleak world view. Nobody talks about helping these people achieve some measure of happiness in their lives. When they voice their difficulties, people reply with things that amount to "just be better" and "just be attractive". In other threads responses ranged from straight up dismissing their desires to have relationships as unnecessary to suggesting "cuddle parties" as if that could replace real intimacy. It feels like nobody cares about their problems and they just want to placate incels so they don't turn violent.

The fact is there's massive inequality in dating. Just like inequalities in the economy, this leads to radicalization. Here's some articles that have been posted here on HN, they offered far more nuance than the typical media post:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...

I don't know what the solution is but writing these people off as terrorists just doesn't seem right to me.
He already did: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1394001894809427971
That last line is fucking legendary. Thanks for posting it.
What if he was right and we live now in a world worse as a result?

What if he wasn’t right and we live now in a world better as a result?
You can ask for one at #libera.
This is highly dependent on university - I didn’t notice it much where I went (RPI), but it’s a lot more obvious at Stanford.
Fair, but one significant advantage of having a specific legal form is that the way the organization is set up is immediately apparent from the legal name. This also means that any non-profit that is not set up as such will automatically be subject to much more scrutiny.

On other other hand, when I read "Signal Messenger LLC" or similar I have no way of easily knowing whether the organization is in fact set up in such a way.
The author is complaining of being poor and talking about a lifestyle that her coworkers enjoy that I, who am quite well off, can't afford either. That doesn't make her poor, it makes her not wealthy.

While I'm sure if I met her in person I'd feel very sympathetic, it is difficult to read about someone being unhappy because they can't take a 3-day holiday in Greece; can't collect antiquities or be driven to work by a chauffeur every day. These are not goals I'm sympathetic with either.

I honestly don't care if someone is poor in relative terms to their co-workers either. I'm only interested in what my coworkers earn in the first place because it strengthens my bargaining position.
Went from almost x4 profit to x1.5 overnight. Gotta love crypto.
It is societies responsibility to nurture law abiding citizens. Thus, criminals are societies burden to bear, for the unimprisoneds failings.
I think they're going to see why stock exchanges implemented circuit breakers. Negative feedback loops are really bad.
>the existance of a legal threat to freenode has become apparent. We cannot know the substance of this legal threat as it contains some kind of gag order preventing its broader discussion within staff.

Is there any more context about this? I'd be interested to read logs. Are they saying Andrew Lee got an NSL for freenode?
> Do others greet every single person they see in the building?

Yes I always did. Would get into some long chats with one of the cleaning ladies actually. And if someone came into my office to do maintenance on the aircon unit I'd of course greet them.
Nice clean look. Isn't the ESV version copyrighted though? You should probably switch to a version that isn't.
Part of why it didn’t come off as elitist for me is that everyone had their own story; his dad was relatable, his mother supportive and he wanted to not disappoint them. The car dealer guy sounded awesome and not at all like someone he looked down on.
So is Gemini.
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I thought it was pretty funny that I was browsing wikipedia and saw a picture of my tractor

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Holland_TC30_HST...

which I took myself but it got sucked in from Flickr.
Just letting people know, if you or a project you know is looking for a new home because of this, I can hook you up with chatroom over XMPP and web + optional IRC bridging, no charge for open source or free culture: https://cheogram.com/freedomware-muc/
Tl;dr Poor people (and racial and ethnic minorities, and women, and queer folk) are not dumb. They just have to turn their equal cognitive resources towards things other (and more fundamental to survival) than their magnum opus/business idea/etc. Those who overcome this are HIGHLY effective, but it's not fair that we ask it of them. That's not how an effective or efficient or just society runs, and we leave money on the table and room for any adversaries we might have to maneuver when we doom whole classes of people to constant, pervasive desperation.
Congratulations on finishing your game, that's a huge accomplishment!
Here's mine. I'd just coming to take my GCSE's and decided to audit the school's website which was a Frontpage '97 powered site. I found the passwd file in the _vti_cnf dir (iirc) and ran it through a brute forcer. Found the password quite easily but instead of defacing decided to inform the webmaster. They were impressed and ended up getting me some paid work experience at ICL for the summer, working on an NT4 rollout (those were the days). If I'd defaced the site or done something a teenager would have perhaps done to impress his peers then I wouldn't have had that experience which definitely helped to get another job. It's funny how so much of life can pivot on quick, seemingly insignificant choices.
Just leave it up for a couple hours kthxbye.
This is one of the big issues with Matrix that doesn't get talked about enough: it's not managed by a real standards body. It was previously run by a company who kept trying to monetize the IP, then it was run by a few people who split off that company (and still kept trying to figure out how to monetize it and pay themselves a wage with it). I'm not against the devs being able to pay themselves, that's great, but the specs themselves shouldn't be run that way. Existing standards bodies have more experience, more legal protections for the users, and are just generally better at developing standards.
People over-estimate the scope of the Drake Equation.

fc - "the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space"

This term for many people, is near 1. They assume that "detectable" means that WE can detect them with our current level of technology, and/or that "releases" means that it would be something familiar like radio or laser beam transmission.

...but the scope of this assumption is based upon a scant hundred years of human history. The rate of technological and AI advancement (on galactic timescales) is so brief, it is imperceptible. ...and recall that if life exists, the average age of such civilizations would be hundreds of millions to billions of years older than ours.

When we look at popular sci-fi media, one thing that is blatantly obvious is our inability to even imagine what our "civilization" will look like beyond a few hundred years - and often those shows are even superficially wrong.

If AI surpasses us (or integrates us, or exterminates us), our technological existence to "release detectable signals" will be a relative flash in the pan. Remember that AIs aren't limited by our meat lifespans. To them, taking 100 million years to populate the entire galaxy, is a reasonable amount of time. To them, WE may not be the life they are looking for - the emergence of an AI might be of some significance (or perhaps even not), and we are just the slime on the surface of the rock. ...the precursor to what THEY consider THEIR abiogenesis.

...and if AIs encountering one another in space are constructive rather than combative, then the rate of abiogenesis may not be all that relevant. It might simply be like adding another drop of water to an already full glass.
Yes this is exactly my understanding as well, from inside the US.
I wish they'd instead fix the compiler to not require .then

But in absence of that this is a huge QoL improvement.

tap though... OMG yes!
Gould is known for placing ideology ahead of science, so it's refreshing that he admits as much.

Stephen F. Blinkhorn, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, wrote that The Mismeasure of Man was "a masterpiece of propaganda" that selectively juxtaposed data to further a political agenda. [..] Jensen also criticized Gould for concentrating on long-disproven arguments (noting that 71% of the book's references preceded 1950), rather than addressing "anything currently regarded as important by scientists in the relevant fields"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man
assembly probably /s
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It's amazing how much information is contained in pre-Internet, unscanned maps.

In college, I built a military model of the French Weygand Line in June 1940. There was very little digital map data as of that date.

A trip to the library, and I was able to find a high-resolution map, including larger buildings and vegetation in towns.

Which makes sense, because maps were more or less the pre-Internet Internet of synthesized data.
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I kind of like the way it was done in several instances in 2008. The shareholders are wiped out, the management is gone, but the institution was protected (and therefore the depositors were).
Addictiveness isn’t the primary issue with drugs. Caffeine is quite addictive (61) almost as much as Alcohol (81) though notably less than Nicotine (100), it also has withdrawal symptoms, and occasionally people even OD, but it’s a also much safer because it doesn’t have significant health impacts or impare driving.

LSD is mildly addictive (18) slightly less than MDMA (20) or Marijuana (21). But MDMA is inherently much more harmful. That said, when LSD was legal it was quickly becoming popular and caused users a lot of issues. As such the more addictive nature of alcohol (81) is just one property and not enough on it’s own to compare it to other drugs.

Research by John Hastings. Relative rankings are definite, numbers given are (+/-)1%

While addictiveness is not the same as habit forming, it does link to overall useage.
It only counts as moral weakness if you're blaming your own obesity on somebody other than yourself. Most people people who are fat are quite happy with eating a bunch of junk food, so they just have different priorities.

If you have have access to $1 frozen veggie bags, $2/lb chicken thighs, and assortment of different legumes, you have it better food options than the majority of the world. You can certainly achieve a healthy diet if you really want to.
#openbsd is already there, it was the first channel I joined. Not sure about #linux but #debian is there on the new server as well.
Look, they need to mine crypto somewhere.
IRC seems like drama central. I can’t say I understand the detail of this takeover and split. But the tone of all the messages are very dramatic.

Why is that? Is it something inherent in the aggregated community of mods, channels and servers? Some communities seem ripe for drama and I have no idea why.
Also quite nice are the atlases published by SPV https://www.spv.co.uk/atlases.shtml - they're available for many locations and show historical and live rail lines.

Once you know where a rail line was you can often still "see" them on satellite maps - even if the rail was pulled up decades ago (as it still will affect property lines, etc).

Also see: https://www.railstotrails.org/ - many rail lines have been converted to trails.
No, he didn't https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1394170030741413888
Exactly what I'm talking about. That's awesome. Of anything it could've been, love that it was your tractor.
This was the big issue from a design perspective. Scrape a readable version or scrape a version in the public domain:

https://github.com/barbinbrad/the-perfect-website/tree/maste...
This hits hard. I can remember landing my first job in SF as a poor kid from the midwest who had only ever worked menial labor before. For the first few weeks I would leave my Macbook at the office every night, because I was incredulous to the fact that an employer would let me take home a $3,000 laptop.
Sounds like it's time to find a new CRM

PHP 5.6 has been out of support for 4 years - https://prototype.php.net/versions/5.6
I am not necessarily anti crypto BUT considering it has become a speculative vehicle to try and make quick cash along with ransomeware friendly, I think it is no good to me at least for now. May be some day. Until then, I will wait. The idea that it was supposed to be decentralized and change how payments are made hasn't happened YET.
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If we're talking about the obesity rate, statistics make it clear that it's easy to be obese when poor, not that it's not easy to not be obese for the poor.

Or are you talking about statistics that asked if poor people tried to not be overweight but couldn't do it? If so, could you please send link to that - as I'm not aware of any such large-scale study and quick search didn't reveal anything significant?
Similar things exist for rail right-of-ways - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207984 for a few.
>Do people in the US go around wishing prison for others?

Yes.

Lock her "Hillary Clinton" up, and lock him "Donald trump" up are very real wishes of many Americans. The war on drugs, poverty, and in general garbage tvlike live pd, Jerry Springer, dr Phil, has helped to breed this retributional bent into American culture.
"This summer, the British Standards Institution will, for the first time, issue guidance on bird bricks, making it simple for architects to incorporate them within their designs."
I don't disagree in principle, but often you need the API anyway, and it makes little sense to duplicate the effort just for the sake of purity.

If you are in that situation, GraphQL is actually worse, because you end up with less control over the SQL you end up running.

I can see that idea working very well for content-driven, interactive but mostly static websites, something like HN.
Those following the GME saga believe it’s Wall Street banks scrambling to find liquidity in response to emergency rule changes by the OCC.

It’s fascinating stuff to follow — watch the VIX today, a measure of stock market volatility. It’s absolutely soaring already.
I’ve worked “poorer” jobs. They’ve been concerned with office supplies walking off. Never a concern at higher paid tech offices in my limited experience.
Use a demo mode to disable eye tracking and follow your ARcore/Vive puck located camera ?
Or just ask the guy to close his eyes and put googly eyes on your camera...
Except Crypto isn’t regulated like stocks, so what your likely seeing is the exchange themselves shutting off service to lock in their customers while the exchange liquidates its positions.
I checked. "Matrix chat" does not have a single movie reference in the first 3 pages of results. It's really not a problem.
Over the past 30 years, grocery store prices have risen 4.5 percent above economy-wide prices, indicating that food has become relatively more expensive than some other consumer goods... Real prices for fresh fruits and vegetables grew the most among all major food categories, increasing just over 40 percent... Over the same time period, real prices for fats and oils, sugar and sweets, and nonalcoholic beverages grew less than overall inflation.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/july/growth-in-inf...
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Yes I know where you stand on this, I don't need more information about your opinion.

I asked if you see the conclusion of this view, and if you endorse it.

To be very very clear it goes like this: if poor are fat because they make bad choices and for no other reasons, then you can reasonably conclude that that is also why they are poor. That they deserve to be poor for that reason.

Is that a fair summary of your view?
He was responding to the "I wouldn't blame him" part - the following day he posted that Tesla had not sold any, and he's stated that they plan to accept BTC as payment in the future once more of the mining is transitioned to renewable energy. [0][1]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1394170030741413888

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/16/elon-musk-suggests-tesla-is-...
Dammit. I was just browsing commercial database protected by one inverted bit. Map tile coordinates are integers, but XORed by 010000 producing weird and mysterious errors.
It’s what happens when the entire vehicle is speculation. I know the plan and the desire is for Bitcoin to be used as an alternative payment method but it isn’t fit for purpose. The people investing in it are doing so purely on a speculative basis, so you’d better believe plenty will cash out at the first sign of a dip.
It is too easy to churn out negative results though. If someone were to hit this at an incentives level, I think it might be fruitful to require that anyone getting tenure has to have had a major study replicated by an independent researcher. That'd have complicated ramifications and probably encourage a very insular community.
Good for Germany. I'm glad their prisons are well run.

You know how when a politician gets asked a tough question they avoid answering and immediately pivot to a trope where they have a couple talking points they can hit?

Well that's what you just did.

Prisons should be rehabilitating prisoners but the punishment vs rehabilitation debate is an almost completely tangential issue from public vs private.

I don't think private prisons are necessarily good, they seem to suffer from the same "the government doesn't cut and run from bad vendors" issues that many other things government contracts out do, but there is a legitimate pro/con debate to be had over whether the entity sending people to prison should be under the same umbrella as the entity administrating and in some cases profiting off of (massive conflict of interests!!) prisons.
Crypto markets are manipulated AF, nobody knows how much the "real" volume is.
It seems that much of Chapter 6 of Wigan Pier is still pretty relevant: http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/5.html
Become a friend. That is to say, make their worries, concerns, happiness, and joy as important to yourself as your own.

It's easier for a friend to come to you with questions - not only about work, but about life in general.
That we have strayed from the virtue of self-restraint is beyond all doubt, root and vine. Our consumerist, ignorant population and our egoist, shameless leadership proves it. That doesn't mean its not a virtue that we once cared deeply about, and or that it wasn't definitional. And it doesn't mean we won't start caring about it again. I'd like to think that its in our DNA, just recessive right now.

The elite schools are populated by smart people who are well on their way to mastering the rules of the game, like their parents did (speaking broadly), but in general they aren't interested at all in changing the rules for the betterment of the broader society. I'm generalizing, but it's basically true. (There may be some idealistic instinct in college; but that quickly evaporates when the hard choices must be made that impact your families income and safety within society.)

How many lawyers build a successful career on mastering the corrupt rules vs how many build a career speaking truth to power and calling out the corruption? Reforming a corrupt system, succeed or fail, will destroy you and everything you love, and these days you won't even get the paltry victory of public esteem. It's worse: half of our public will take the system's side, insofar as they even know about it, because the system can afford great PR and produces endless distraction.)
How is this ok? A market crash multiple exchanges go down and/or withdrawals certainly become very hard - this was submitted earlier to hn about Binance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/binance/comments/nea291/weekly_bina...
He clarified later that he did not. Let's not over estimate his tweets, other forces are at play.
Not impossible, just impossible for them.

First, the difference between the television blaring and my office talking is that in office chatter I'm constantly picking up bits of sound that make my brain think I should be paying attention to them. The sounds of a Simpsons rerun I've seen 90 times don't distract my brain in the same way.

Second, we're talking about what works for MOST people, Peopleware has actual data to back this up, the majority of people need quiet private space to do deep work.
In this case the volume is pretty irrelevant. If nobody wants to buy at the current price, and there are people willing to sell for a penny less than the current price, the price will drop. $1B or $10B of outflows can have the same price movement.
> - PIA is much better designed for privacy than many competitors

I used Private Internet Access for a long time. When they merged with Kape Technologies (resulting in the ludicrous situation of having Mark Karpelès as their CTO) I lost all faith in them and immediately switched to Mullvad.

Having used both, I can tell you that Mullvad is far better designed. Mullvad has only account numbers, no usernames, emails or passwords. Creating an account is one click. Mullvad has an all-in-one VPN check page. Mullvad provides easy preconfigured OpenVPN configurations for any of their servers (you don't have to add your credentials among other things; as I understand PIA still just offers an "openvpn.zip" with a bunch of files you have to edit, which is error prone.) Mullvad is based in Sweden, not America.

All of these things provide much better privacy than PIA. And on top of that I don't recall any scandals with Mullvad than resemble the merger with Kape or the current situation with Freenode. These events should make you question whether you should continue to trust PIA.
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Thank you. It sounds like it's something between a peripheral access lib, and HAL, in terms of abstraction level. A minimalist HAL.