skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individualism is a feature, too, but I think he really cared about trying to be more democratic than the alternatives. The core precept and summary of the whole paper is the phrase he used: "one-CPU-one-vote". (Not as good as "one-human-one-vote", but the idea is that that's the closest he could get to it while preventing Sybil attacks.)

I believe he thought that even if powerful entities bought a lot of CPUs, the end users of the network would still have a lot of consensus power distributed between themselves. As far as I can tell, it seems unclear if he foresaw just how huge of an advantage GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs would have and that no one else would be mining anymore. Perhaps he was fully aware and knew centralization problems would occur, but it's difficult to be sure.
Guns, Money, and Cellphones (June 11, 2001):

https://web.archive.org/web/20010813152613/http://www.thesta...

The article is split into 5 pages, but is worth reading, if only to see how little anything has changed in the 20 years this has been a well-known issue.
At risk of throwing a sub thread of chaos, this was what I found interesting in these comments.

Specifically regarding the current Sheikh Jarrah conflict. Who actually 'owns' the land, and what does that mean? It seems like it completely depends on what time frame you look at and what claims the winner of war has or can enforce with force.

In the US, what about the Native Nations and the canceling or flat out ignoring of past legal documents. or the land given to former slaves later taken away.

Personally I lean towards your opinions. if the ruling power won't act humanely then reparations/compensation seems like the 2nd best option.
Yes, most likely. Being VC backed means they will want to be able to show pretty growth charts every few months.
If I were considering buying a Tesla I would 100% wait. Whatever you think of the company, their claims about what will happen in the future are often wildly optimistic in terms of timing. Better just to wait and see what they ship and whether/how well it works.
I think people underestimate how much of offshore manufacturing is done by hand still. The cheapness comes from any factory being able to switch to just about any competitive production quickly. But they are much less likely to invest in equipment and automation.

At scale, there are also complications, like the cost of training, labor laws, or approving role changes with the union.
You don't really need equations, you just need missing elements, or debt. Do I have extra bricks, just enough (0 extra) of them or am I missing some? The case of missing bricks is naturally modelled with negative numbers.
Possibly? Look at his face
You don't need AI, just a few email forwarding rules at most.
This does not seem to work with classical music, though. Probably because there is more money at stake.
It sets a precedent.
Enjoying programming for the sake of programming can end up a yak shaving bonanza! Definitely good advice to find a goal with programming required to reach that goal.
I've been thinking that the most appropriate response to this situation is to send an extraction team to rescue him.
Instead Spain became a fascist power with close ties to Berlin. Hardly less of a threat to representative democracy. Spain was a dictatorship until 1970.

Collectivism might have also produced tyranny but it's not a good thing that a fascist won.
And none of that is relevant to the point that your quote from the Supreme Court doesn't even remotely support the interpretation you claimed.
Yeah but they still don't have a stake in the way that users do. Shouldn't the users have an ownership interest since their contributions are a necessary condition for the continued existence of those platforms?
But if they called it ‘rent’ instead of ‘tax’ there would be far less outrage. Strange value system.
> Also the church runs alot of old folks homes, and thus persuades old people to transfer there land to the church, so in some towns, half the houses are owned by the catholic church

Is the church exempt from property tax in Germany?

If so this sounds like a return to 'mortmain' principle of middle ages which caused a lot of conflict between government and church historically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortmain

England developed quicker than the rest of Europe because the King limited the accumulation of tax exempt real estate by the church. The church was essentially largest absentee corporate land holder in Europe. It left large quantities of land vacant and did not contribute public fees towards infrastructure improvements.
> I suspect that a large chunk of that is money. In particular, the "cost" of things has gone so far down that the money selling those things is a mere pittance of what it was before. But salaries of people to run these businesses, offices, etc hasn't changed.

I believe this is a case of "cost disease", when the labor in one sector continues to get more expensive without matching productivity gains.
I genuinely don't understand what this means. How a beach ball a tree? What about the symmetry group of the beach ball?
It's a pun on crustacean. I think it might be by the same person as ferris?

https://www.aldeka.net/
Haven't we already been doing this for years? JQ has supported this for a long time as well.
I'm in the US, and although there are lots of things broken with the American media and government, I have full access to foreign media from anywhere in the world; no internet sites are censored.

So yes, I have independent media, because I can access the entire world's media and choose what I look at.
Almost all car companies have declared that they're having supply chain issues: they're unable to source automobile chips. As such, various car companies have begun idling plants and otherwise shutting down production.

Tesla has not done this. Instead, Tesla suddenly stops shipping Radar units in their cars and then tells the customer that its an upgrade.
any recommendations on learning assembly?
The only reason people care about newlines for a stream is because they've arbitrarily chosen to fetch bytes from the stream until the next newline sequence (readline instead of read). But you could just as easily look for a different sequence, like the ASCII record separator character which was invented exactly for this task, and then you wouldn't have to destructively strip newlines from your input.
Fish does that by default
I didn’t say there was no need to be alarmed, I said civilization isn’t going to collapse.

These also aren’t the same things. Cloning is a technology that will likely continue to be more and more possible. It’s not really a question of if, but when. Even then it was just a creative suggestion.

Modeling civilizations responses to climate change is basically science fiction. Yes, bad stuff will happen. No, you can’t predict that society will collapse because of it.
Claiming that Tesla is an irresponsible company is pretty strong in the absence of evidence. Do you have evidence that I can review to see in what ways Tesla vehicles are more dangerous than other vehicles?

From what I can find Tesla vehicles are significantly safer in terms of accidents per mile, deaths per mile, and they have the highest safety rating of any vehicle.

Of course I could be misled and you have evidence that suggests that Tesla's are not only more dangerous, but that the company releases vehicles so dangerous and irresponsible that it should not be in any way trusted.

I'd like to see how you came to that conclusion.
I was talking to a lawyer friend about this the other day. I was curious where the lines really are in terms of false advertising and misleading consumers. I know, for example, that part of the case against the tobacco companies was that they misled consumers about the risks of things like "light" cigarettes.

Anyway, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Elon Musk."

I really hope we move back away from having a set of people who aren't subject to the same rules as everyone else. I realize that life has always been like that to some extent, but it seems worse these days than in the (recent) past.
The dark side of economic interdependence.
We also live in a much more competitive world than before.

Just look at the number of spots at top universities (didn't scale with population growth) and the number of applications the average student sends.
I am actually not sure I 100% agree with that take on it.

I would argue that much of the sales of 1975-1985 places like Radio Shack/Tandy/etc. were around early adopters of home computing. And I would also assume that the vast majority of the sales/items they had were finished projects, not "maker market" type of stuff. Many of the magazines of that era are "how to build $x for your home" or "program $y".

I would say that what we are seeing is the market getting much more mature and specialized rather than the makers market going away. I don't think it was ever big enough to be sustainable to begin with, it just so happened that products required bits here and there that those companies had any volume from the general public on maker type of stuff.
I am a big fan of Fig. Some of my favourite specs are `docker` and `git`. No longer do I need to list containers or commits before performing an action, the autocomplete provides all of these values for me.

I'm excited to see more command-line tools provide metadata about commands close to the source code. Our CLI at Fastly provides JSON output in the help command, so it was really easy to generate a Fig spec automatically: https://github.com/kailan/figly
Users Notice Blooming Effect on New iPad Pro's XDR Mini-LED Display
The sad answer is that they can't be bothered to meet the quality standards expected for upstream kernel code. Easier to just throw garbage in a tarball and ship privesc vulnerabilities to millions of users.
And do microscopic and subsurface diversity count? If they do the proportion of anthropogenic diversity decline might look a lot smaller. Or do we only care about visible flora and fauna for this purpose?

Human pollution creates new niches that didn't exist before. Microbes in particular can adapt to them in dramatic ways, increasing genetic diversity. Surely we don't want to promote diversity by finding novel ways to pollute. Biodiversity can increase as a sick ecosystem decays, so sustainability is a crucial consideration. Below some threshold more radiation increases biodiversity. But is it worth more mutant babies?

So changes in absolute quantities of biodiversity might not be a good way to measure the health of the environment. Optimal biodiversity probably depends on for who, and is different each species and niche.
Rust can be "native" on any platform that supports C/C++, provided only that the necessary pieces on the LLVM side are in place. There are even folks who will help you deploy Rust on console hardware where no publicly-available support can ever exist because the official C/C++ API's are kept secret and only made available to those who sign highly-restrictive NDA's.
It will certainly be run by people who will accede to the Indian government's requests to remove anything the Indian government does not like. Ironically you started off upthread complaining about removal of 'true, important information about the pandemic'. You'll never guess what the subject of most of the Indian government's removal requests have been lately...
The best approach is to not track unauthenticated users at all. Make people consent to GPDR to create an account.
I think you've been reading too much left-wing propaganda. Certain groups within the political and media class love calling Tom Cotton and and Mike Pompeo racists, but that doesn't make it true. You can read Tom Cotton's April 21, 2020 op-ed[0] where he says the lab leak was a theory.

If there are other writings or speeches from these 2 people that were talking about the lab leak theory where they were being racist, I would love to see it, but I don't think it exists (I'm happy to be corrected).

[0] https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/-cotton-op...
They've set up a PeerTube instance and moved their content there: https://video.blender.org/
How is Google's Closure Compiler these days?

The last time I tried CLojurescript about 5 years ago it was the source of many a cryptic error, non-existent documentation, and no connection to any of the Javascript outside of Google-flavor javascript (such as not understanding either `require` or the then-new `import`s)

It looks like the documentation is as non-existent today, but it would be interesting to know how it fares in modern world.
Insurance firm LEMONADE gets backlash for suggesting visual AI can detect fraud
Expede Group – Transforming universities for tomorrow
Tesla is eliminating radar. Yet at the same time they're testing with LIDAR which Musk once famously called 'a fools errand'.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451404/tesla-luminar-li...
Okay, but having a stable interface doesn't fix vendors shipping bad code, it just decouples it so you can run terrible drivers on a less-terrible kernel. Better yet, Fuchsia removes any obligation for vendors to share code (by both separating drivers from the OS and having the OS itself be permissively licensed), so third parties can't even start from vendor code and try to improve things.
Why did people flag this thread? Strange one to flag.
> Yes. For the life of me I don't know why we passed Q's test in TNG.

Because in that universe, we eventually grew beyond trying to acquire wealth.

Somewhat ironic given our current phase of ever-increasing divides between rich and poor.

But it's also worth remembering, that version of humanity saw the worst things that some of our current paths are or may lead us towards (Genetically Engineered Dictators, Nuclear war, putting economically challenged people in a compound so the rest of society doesn't have to think about them).

It's what we do with our choices that determine whether we pass or fail.
Pretty sure they can't pull this in Europe. Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance is now mandatory for cars so not having this until some future update won't fly there.
GP is defending the possibility of the Indian Government banning Facebook, Twitter & Instagram on the basis that these platforms are "enforcing" some very particular issues that happen to be currently salient in certain American media, and implies that they are counter to India's social order. However, at no point does the linked article make any mention of the Indian Government being concerned about any of these issues nor social order in general, so asking GP about their thoughts on the current social order in India, which is purportedly being "controlled" by these American platforms, is very relevant.
If it's IAP for digital items then you can't use Stripe for IAP on iOS/Android, it has to go through the respective store's IAP logic.
Cool. Well you just wasted at least ten minutes of your life thinking about something that I posted disingenuously in order to demonstrate that whataboutism is about distraction rather than have me trying to stay on topic and directly address your points. In a meta way I suppose I did.
"We take in some visual scene. But when we describe it in human language we’re always in effect coming up with a symbolic description of the scene."

Human mind works in a qualitative manner, we need symbols to translate qualitative perception into a quantitative abstraction. This started as an economic and social organization need (geometry), but later evolved into Mathematics and got to overcome the shortcomings of natural language to describe reality (philosophy became science).

Numbers are just symbols that map human perception to a reality that is inherently quantitative.

I fail to grasp what Mr. Wolfram tries to explain here, but it looks to me as if he is regressing into philosophy.
Needing to have evidence to not have your theory marked as misleading doesn't disincentivize research into conspiracies. It does the opposite. There would be more research into these theories so that their purveyors could say them without being labeled misleading. Anyone would still be able to do their own research under this model too, they would hopefully just know not to blindly believe what they read.

Investigating wrongdoing and backing up findings with evidence is extremely important. Spouting unfounded lies is not.
theyre gonna pump the meme culture for sll its empty worth
Sorry this is off topic, but you seriously don't respect a single charity?

There are a ton of amazing charities doing incredibly underfunded work. Even small amounts of money can make a big difference.

I'm an academic researcher that studies nonprofits. I could recommend a few if you like?
You can but only for physical goods or a small handful of other uses (person to person and 1-2 other special carve-outs I can't remember).
It's always interesting to me what kind of stuff Siemens gets into these days. My grandpa was a Siemens lifer building power plants and actually lived in Siemensstadt before and during WWII.

Hard to imagine what the connection to hobby electronics is.
One difference is that web assembly is typed and is designed to make these compilers possible.

In the context of Javascript, V8 did the opposite. Originally they had a baseline compiler for Javascript but now they use an interpreter, which reduces the startup latency.
Is 33 million dollars of revenue per year considered small?
Google's Page Experience Update Algorithm Demystified
This is another episode after Twitter offices in Delhi were raided by Delhi Police (that's in the control of Central Ruling Government) after Twitter labelled some of its (ruling party's) Tweets as "Manipulative" - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451271/police-india-rai...

IMO, This is more like a signal to threaten foreign companies (who anyways die to capture Indian market due to its startphone penetration and population) to comply with Government.
What is the significance of separating online retail from all retail?

Amazon might have 50% of online retail, but online retail is only 15% of all retail.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/379112/e-commerce-share-...
YouTube's profiteering from this is sickening.
Yes, I think it's literally what was meant in the original comment, but I've given it a slightly broader definition because I think this aspect is a huge factor in Rust's popularity.
Unpopular opinion, but one might argue YouTube was a better place when people did videos out of passion and not to become an "influencer" and get money.
You can see the details at https://www.tesla.com/models/design#overview:

>Basic Autopilot ...Included with every new Tesla, Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically for other vehicles and pedestrians within its lane. There to assist with the most burdensome parts of driving, Autopilot works alongside features like emergency braking, collision warning and blind-spot monitoring.

> Full Self-Driving Capability $10,000...The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous. The activation and use of these features are dependent on achieving reliability far in excess of human drivers as demonstrated by billions of miles of experience, as well as regulatory approval, which may take longer in some jurisdictions. As these self-driving features evolve, your car will be continuously upgraded through over-the-air software updates.
Websites with auto-play.

Always a joy at 0:16am when everyone's already asleep.
LSPs and Large JSX file highlighting seem slow to me.
Huh. Well, learned something today; I'd never even have imagined this, particularly about Singapore!
Do you think questions like that can ever be answered?

There's a YouTube video I like, called "The Chinese Farmer," by Alan Watts.

The gist of the video is that reality is so unimaginably complex that we cannot know if a given change is going to be a net positive (over what time frame?) or a net negative (again, over what time frame?).

This pretty much informs my thinking these days, and when something happens that I notice, I find myself more able to refrain from labeling it as either good or bad.
The "capable" weasel word is pretty deceptive. But the sad thing is that these weasel word are becoming just common and standard enough that I, someone who sort of studies this stuff, can understand them and warn friends that "X capable" mean less than X. And that situation gives the marketers some amount of push back - "see everyone knows X capable isn't X".
>> If you have to dig into the details of a function to understand what it does, you have failed to sufficiently explain what the function does through its naming and set of arguments.

> This isn't always true in my experience. Often when I need to dig into the details of a function it's because how it works is more important than what it says it's doing. There are implementation concerns you can't fit into a function name.

Both of these things are not quite right. Yes, if you have to dig into the details of a function to understand what it does, it hasn't been explained well enough. No, the prototype cannot contain enough information to explain it. No, you shouldn't look at the implementation either - that leads to brittle code where you start to rely on the implementation behavior of a function that isn't part of the interface.

The interface and implementation of a function are separate. The former should be clearly-documented - a descriptive name is good, but you'll almost always also need docstrings/comments/other documentation - while you should rarely rely on details of the latter, because if you are, that usually means that the interface isn't defined clearly enough and/or the abstraction boundaries are in the wrong places (modulo things like looking under the hood to refactor, improve performance, etc - all abstractions are somewhat leaky, but you shouldn't be piercing them regularly).

> If you define complexity by the sum total of possible interactions (which is itself a problematic definition, but I'll talk about that below), then complexity always increases when you factor out functions, because the interfaces, error-handling, and boilerplate code around those functions increases the number of possible interactions happening during your function call.

This - this is what everyone who advocates for "small functions" doesn't understand.
It looks really awesome. It would be helpful to have a mobile app so that I can take a pic of stuff.
The way I see the universe is that all this complexity is just the interplay of a finite few axioms (the fundamental laws of physics). Given enough time and scale, the seemingly unique complexity converges back into a few (relatively speaking) patterns. If that wasn't the case the universe would be pure chaos.
So the question is who decides. Do you let rich coastal Americans determine what you're allowed to talk about or do you let local powers make those decisions? Indians aren't very fond of foreign rule, and no control is more potent than control over information and ideas.
I did a two week contract for a defense research institute once where a senior staff developer had to babysit me like that. He was nice about it, but it must have been really annoying. It was simply easier for them than going through the bureaucracy of getting me a visitor pass for a contract that short.
I’m not sure we can count on the governments that keep JA rotting in prison to rescue a journalist.
> Fig's standard format

How is that a standard when you just came up with it? Any other existing autocompletion format is more standard than whatever you just released.
Then how does the below statement workout.

> Next thing you know they'll be blocking credible sites to spread their own misinformation agenda.

I assume courts will act against it, So that is not really a complaint.