skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about:

- Instant loans without paperwork or credit agencies, algorithmically collateralized

- Micropayments to websites you visit rather than ads

- Electronic payments that can remain private if participants are smart. Much better privacy protections than electronic payment options like Visa/Paypal.

- Truly democratic governance protocols in which important decisions can be voted on in real-time by participants with skin in the game.

- The ability for a code itself, not associated with a human, to earn and hold money.

- Algorithmically enforced contracts that are more resilient to bribes and other forms of subversion compared to traditional court systems.
It feels like you're picking numbers out of the air (or basing them on historical experience) either way. Unless you actually have historical data on certain types of problems--but then it seems like you're pretty much back to a safety/fudge factor.
see, the trick is not minding that it hurts.
Storm shutters?
I’ve measured an instantaneous 56 dB(A) and 52 dB average in my living room, all appliances turned off and central air not running.

I use the free NIOSH SM app for Apple iPhone.
> do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding

Some people for sure assume this and it’s a testament to the work YC has put into marketing and PR. Just look at HN — a mammoth content marketing project — for a VC fund. Just enough YC propaganda mixed in to where people still believe it’s impartial Hacker News.
The funny thing is a safety factor is a factor after all. Just one needs to be small enough, and the whole construction (pun intended) may collapse in the worst imaginable manner.

This happened recently in Italy: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219737. "Engineers" didn't consider the safety brake essential (i mean, why do you even need it?), and Murphy took his chance.
Welcome to HN.. made up of kids for the best part with none to little actual world experience spouting of their world views whilst on the righteous passage.. I wish them all the best.. it ain't gonna get any easier than it is now.
Do you have a cite for the suppression of US intelligence prior to the attack? The mainstream history sources I've read have suggested no such thing and led me to believe the US really was caught with their pants down. The Japanese sent an envoy to alert the US after the attack started, but while trying to maintain plausible deniability that they tried to make contact beforehand.

Also why would you pin the fundamental blame on FDR cutting off the oil? Japan was running a pretty brutal occupation of China at the time. Continuing to supply oil would be supporting that occupation. It's true though that part of Japan's motive for the attack was that oil was running out.
If cops want to be political lobbyists, they should do it on their own time. That's not what they're paid for.

(I am aware of the lobbying of police unions, and I don't like it. Police unions are actually a great example of why you shouldn't want cops to be lobbyists, because the shit they inevitably lobby for is in their interests, not the interest of the general public.)
> too embarrassed of chewing-gums

In case others don't know, there are nicotine lozenges that are smaller than the gum and require no chewing. And if you happen to swallow them nothing happens, the nicotine is destroyed by your stomachs without being absorbed. They are really very discreet to use.

(Even the gum isn't actually chewed like regular gum; you just chew it for a few seconds and let it sit on your gum.)
Great to see a company try to truly innovate in this space!

For too long we see too many just copy Chrome, swap in their own telemetry, add some adblocking and then hawk it so aggressively.

The one bright light remains Firefox and it is sadly fading since its core is blocked on its most important platform.

Maybe this is the beginning of a new era of innovation.
The venerable joe editor (https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io) is apparently very comfortable for Wordstar users. I used it for a few years in college before I could afford enough RAM to run emacs and although I never actually used Wordstar myself and cant compare it that way, I really liked using joe and can still remember a lot of the keybindings 20+ years later.
> "Total foreign imports are only about 11% of American consumption, and Chinese imports are 3%."

What sort of evidence does he cite for those numbers?

The denominator in a percentage matters. Once you take out housing, food, fuel, insurance, education, etc. -- how much of our remaining expenditures are goods (mostly) made in China?

While less than 3% of my household expenditures are electronic goods, the vast majority of those goods are made in China -- this despite a concerted effort to buy domestic products.
This item is on the front page on the US holiday of Memorial Day, when we remember those who died so others could be free. That count, of course, includes 36,516 Americans who died fighting in the Korean Conflict.
I use Leela with the Lizzie frontend [0]. Leela is just the "engine" and Lizzie, the gui, does make it shine. It does pretty well on my end with a budget GPU and midrange CPU. Strongly recommend playing against it and using it to analyze games.

[0] https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie/releases
They didn't completely rely on that though, as they, for instance, ordered the Yamato class battleships in 1937, at great expense and years after the wargames mentioned.

The IJN seems to have been quite obsessed with their Kantai Kessen doctrine, where battleship fleets would slug it out in one decisive battle.
Software dev, then manager.

Every place I've worked I've seen the same thing. Work/life balance is stressed as being important, BUT you will totally end up working extra hours if you cave to implicit pressures others set on you (oftentimes the business, product, etc). Someone will try and schedule you for a meeting at 5 PM, or say "we need this by next week", or whatever. And every place, I've said "No". Sometimes it's "I can't make that, I have to be home", sometimes it's "That isn't what we committed to this sprint" or even "That's what we committed but the sprint has been broken because (other thing)". Occasionally it's even been "Hey, we ran into something unexpected; even though we committed to that it isn't going to happen by that date".

On call pages happen; I always take time off the next day. As a manager, I -tell- my team to take time off the next day if they get paged.

Even where I am now, where I will have meetings scheduled at 7 AM, and 6 PM, routinely, I just close my laptop up in the middle of the day. Sometimes I'll even book time pre-emptively just to prevent people from trying to schedule me straight through (and thus leading to a > 8 hour day).

Etc. The perverse thing is that by doing this people actually get a -better- impression of me. There's an element of confidence; couple that with the fact I do deliver, and they don't question it or push back on it. And ultimately even if they wheedle enough I say "okay, fine, yeah, I have to talk to the guys in China; 6 PM meeting it is", I just book time 9-5 for my own stuff, or (when in the office), leave at like 3 so I can get home, unwind a bit, have dinner, and take that call, and still only work 8 hours.

I can't speak to Philly; you might be right. If you're tied to the area, consider remote. If you're not tied to the area, consider looking for things outside of it.
YouTube Consent Form Broken (?)
Hi there!
Just a quick survey if you don't mind because I am not on any other forum and this is really bugging me.

I am using Firefox on Linux and wanted to watch a video on youtube the other day.
1. Open Containertab .
2. Enter youtube.com .
3. Get redirected to consent screen consent.youtube.com .
4. Click on customization .
5. Disable all options given and hit enter.
6. Continue, until you close the tab, with point 3.

I have access to a Mac and it works there.
I was wondering if any of you experience this as well as it is quite peculiar; The POST-Request is sent and the server is redirecting to the consent for again.

Cheers

P.s.: I have had all but the multi-account-container plugin disabled.
WEIRD is an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic:

I find this thesis enormously compelling and largely optimistic. I predict that we -- the West -- are going to WEIRDify the entire world, within the next 50 years, the next two generations. We will do this not by converting non-WEIRD people to WEIRD, but by getting their kids. Their kids, and their kids' kids, are going to grow up on the Internet at least as much as they grow up in the real world, and the pull of WEIRD culture will overwhelm all existing non-WEIRD cultures. I realize this is a very strong claim, but this process is already underway; at this point I think it's inevitable.

I think he is about 5 years behind on this. While WEIRD culture has definitely been influential worldwide since ~the collapse of the USSR, I think it has reached its local peak. American culture is increasingly seen as something entertaining or strange, not as an aspirational role model. Democracy is losing its prestige and other nation states are starting to construct their own Great Firewalls to keep WEIRD out.

Instead, I think we will see something more akin to the Middle Ages. Distributed authorities and sources of power, each with its own internally developing cultures. There will be connections between them, but not the universalizing homogenization he claims.

Just my opinion as an American that has been living abroad for the last ~6 years.
Is there a software equivalent of safety factor? How do you/would you calculate it?
The Jeju Uprising is mentioned just shortly, it's even more neglected in the public memory – it's a massacre that happened before the Korean war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising
If anything your comment is as tribalistic as one could get. Black and white viewpoints on topics, presenting your picture of reality as the correct one, with no alternative explanations allowed, cherry picking data and examples that help confirm your ideology while conveniently ignoring those that don't. You'll never admit that anything your side does could be seen as similarly "bad", just as tribal, etc. If anything, you're the one defining sides, pronouncing that either people believe the same thing as you or they're just evil people that have rejected reality wholesale, which completely eliminates all shades of grey in the issues, all discussion, all discourse.
That says a shibboleth is a word or phrase "that distinguishes one group of people from another". What is that group, here?
Only under the assumption that no alternatives to advertising exist.

Ban advertising, and suddenly this statement is not true anymore: "If you start a new B2C business the only way to do inbound sales is advertisement, as by definition no one knows about your company/brand/products/services."

... for the simple reason that people will look for other means to find products online. For example non-biased search engines, product catalogues, review sites, etc. etc.

And no, listing your product with objective info is not the same as advertising.
Submariners have long had a saying that there are two kinds of ships, submarines and targets.
Also Taiwan

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

Brazil

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

Argentina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

Chile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

Paraguay

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

Well, I guess I'm just missing about 40 others...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship#Former_c...
Oh :) Yes, that's right. Fixed it now.
Everyone always says WinForms is dead. And yet it is consistently the go to GUI year after year for a lot of people.

WinForms is alive. And will be for some time.
If in doubt, надо бомбить Воронеж
> And? I'm assuming you're not saying "software should not be signed", in which case I'm missing your point.

You're right. I'm not saying "software should not be signed". What I'm saying is the current trust industry is providing almost no value.

When I run an application on Windows that passes SmartScreen, all I know is that some company somewhere paid for an EV code signing certificate. In most cases, I don't know who the company is and don't have a way of finding out. That doesn't benefit me at all and most normal users misunderstand it to mean the company is trustworthy when that's not the case.

I've seen enough malware and adware signed with EV certificates that I personally place their value at zero. That's also influenced by my own experience in getting code signing certificates where the process used by CAs for identity verification are not anything official, but seem to be a rigid checklist of items that needs to be followed by someone with no cultural or local knowledge of my jurisdiction. IE: Easy to game once you know the process.

So, for me, the way code is currently signed tells me that someone had $2k USD to start a company and buy an EV certificate. That's it.

When I say that simple, domain validated code signing would be more useful for devs and users, I mean that I'd prefer to have the (ex:) UAC prompt tell me "This application is distributed by example.com" rather than "This application is distributed by Example XYZ LLC". I have a much better chance of determining the trustworthiness of the signer by knowing their domain than I do by knowing their registered business name.

And when I say Google and Apple are worse, I mean they've created systems that are completely opaque. It's "trust us" and they've both demonstrated repeatedly that they aren't worthy of being trusted.

As a specific example for Apple, there was a fake Fall Guys app on their store when it was at peak popularity. The fake app used the IP of the real one to trick users. Starting with the assumption that Apple's capable of ensuring that doesn't happen, you assume it's a legit app. If you expect to see what "website" (aka domain) is distributing the app it gets much easier.

Distributed by fallguys.com vs distributed by fallguysapp.com is the worst IP squatting you'd see and I could visit both sites if I wasn't satisfied enough assuming the more valuable domain is the real app creator.

In addition to that, IP squatting via a domain has a well established set of rules for trademark disputes, so a publisher can take action immediately to protect their trademarks rather than begging Apple or Google to take down a fake app.

The problem with a "good" system is that Apple, Google, and Microsoft have to give up control in order to let publishers self police their IP / trademarks and none of them will do that.

IMHO, anyone doing curation should be liable for IP theft and trademark violations. I have that opinion about _all_ online providers. As soon as they start curating or moderating they should be liable as if they're a publisher / distributor.
CUIDs are a good example that tick all these boxes
It is as if people keep thinking of the military as this altruistic organization staffed by pure self-sacrificing people willing to put it all on the line for the defense of country. Sure, that is somewhat true of the troops. But the generals and leaders are political beasts that know the true purpose is to call coddle the status quo & divert gargantuan sums of money into private pockets with as few questions as possible.

This is why when real wars happen and the stakes actually suddenly matter there tends to be a large upheaval at the top to discard the political animals. When was it the last time you heard of a US general being fired for incompetence when a procurement projects they led goes totally off the rails (as they almost always do), blowing any notion of budget, time & preparedness ?
The weakest link is absolutely the residential class last mile contended access networks. I've regularly seen 0.00% packet loss for weeks at a time on business class connections between two points in the continental US, but when one end is slightly flaky, all bets are off.
This is exactly what Fractal has achieved. They took actual amps and modeled the actual circuits. Basically, this work was done for a massive number of amps by one dude. And he sells this device for $2k - which is ~ the cost of a single good tube amp head.
IMO the use of aircraft isn't even the most interesting part of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Having an aircraft carrier isn't very useful if you can't load it with enough fuel to get to a target and back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underway_replenishment
Hukou (Household Registration in Mainland China)
"the idea being that one only needs to rely on one's own reason in order to judge what is moral and what is not" - I would argue that this is fundamentally impossible. A commonly used (and IMHO generally accepted) counterargument to that is "Hume's guillotine" or is–ought dichotomy; you can't derive "ought" statements (i.e. morality) solely from logic reasoning and factual "is" statements.

Of course, you definitely can derive a full system of morality logically if you start from a few "ought" axioms - many proposed systems of morality are done this way, and likely Ayn Rand's proposal as well. But in such cases these axioms are the subjective and potentially questionable part, and we don't have an universal agreement on them. If your system has 99% of logical reasoning based on 1% intuitively assumed axioms, that 1% carries pretty much all the weight.

We know where many particular "moral axioms" lead, but that only leads to disagreement about them when seemingly reasonable moral axioms logically lead to various outcomes that intuitively seem unacceptable, so we don't have anything approaching consensus; for every proposal there is enough substantial critique that it doesn't seem suitable to be the One True Perfect morality - perhaps we should keep looking, but perhaps it's futile, there's no strong arguments yet to say that an universal morality must be possible in the first place.
Fiat money is legal tender, so "acceptance" suggests a choice that isn't there. Regardless, enforced or not, wide acceptance is of course no lie for hard fiat currencies. Fine.

Bitcoin in its current form should not be seen as a payment currency, instead as digital gold. A new asset class similar to actual gold/silver, real estate, stocks, etc.

Something to put part of your wealth in, hoping it appreciates over time. And as Bitcoin appreciates over time so well so far (12 years of 200% appreciation per year on average), it doesn't really make sense to spend Bitcoin. It is deflationary by design.

Bitcoin already is a killer "app" as such. An accessible way for anybody to preserve/grow wealth, a hedge against inflation and the lack of return on a normal savings account.

Your take on crypto for payments is needlessly pessimistic. It's inevitable, the winner just isn't clear yet.
Yeah, this sounds like a very early 90s post-Soviet perspective, i.e. at least 30 years late. I'm a Fukuyamaist when it comes to historical development, but even Fukuyama has argued that the long-term trend towards liberal democracy may be upset by authoritarian backsliding in the short term.
Agreed, see this thread here on HN that was posted recently about how much of a scam it is...YC backed it too, which is embarrassing to say the least!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319457
True, but does it expose you to liability if you later do engine dev work elsewhere? Actually curious how that works
The thing about smoking is that when you quit smoking you quit it every day. Imagine a light switch on the wall. You turn it off by quitting smoking and you can always go back at a desperate time for instance and turn it on. And some time later off again. Smoking your first cigarette implants that light switch on your mind and you can't make it go away. Since you know how it makes you feel good when the switch is on, you at some level desire to back to it. Whole idea of quitting smoking is then finding ways to stop yourself from turning it on again and this is true until you die. So do yourself a favor and avoid any substance that creates such light switches in your mind.

Edit: Of course this is not the case for 100% of humans. Everyone is different. Some weak some strong in willpower, discipline, etc. But we can all agree that it is an addiction that sucks life out of you slowly. You wouldn't want to test your willpower your whole life against such a sneaky enemy.
And they're all used, to some extent. If your Wizzy design based on the latest everything doesn't pass the grumpy old partner's YTLRD review, you're going to redo it till you do.

(In my case, that was Bill. He was one of those guys who knew where to put the $50k mark)
Dictatorship is very common today:

https://planetrulers.com/current-dictators/

January 6th was close to creating another dictatorship here.
It's bait. Certain people were probably never going to give the interview a honest read anyhow, but here you are giving it free advertising and also putting on demonstration one of its theses (tendency of the WEIRD to insist on hyperconformity)
Ah, but is git on dos 1.25?

Asking for a friend.
But a large number of guestimated fudge factors all added up will approach the true value as long as there is no bias.

The same does not apply for factors of safety - a 1.5 FoS is always between 0 and 50% too much.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gouwe-aqueduct

Must be a nice view, both ways.
Post-communist Albania offers a interesting parable: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.ht...

Various pyramid-like enterprises sprung up in the new, underregulated markets. At their peak, the schemes were worth upwards of half Albania's GDP, were participated in by 1/3 to 1/2 of the population, and enjoyed support from the government.

For a time, all investors enjoyed good interest payments. But all the popular adoption and shared belief in value couldn't fix their underlying insolvency and the ensuing collapse once new deposits dried up.

Whatever quantifiable value, if any, Bitcoin produces for being a BFT ledger is not nearly enough to offset the constant, massive value drag require to pay for mining costs. That x% of the world's wealth is currently tied up in it is not proof against its fundamental insolvency.
First Sea Lord (Head of the Royal Navy) Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson described submarines as "Underhanded, unfair and damned un-English". He also suggest that enemy submariners be tried as pirates and hanged if caught.

Thankfully (for the RN...) reason prevailed and submarines were in service for the First World War. The pirates association lives on today though - RN submarines returning from deployment still fly the Jolly Roger.
I think that she means chewing gum to mask off the breath. I'm a smoker and do that very often, it's kinda rude to speak to other people while having a breath of thousand cigarrettes
Call your senator and demand force field legislation now!

Space Force Fields!
Wanting to buy goods that last a lifetime or four seems like a good motivation, and I agree that it's harmful that we build crap that we fully expect to be thrown away in 5 years.

However ... there's plenty of solid hardwood furniture which can survive multiple generations of regular use, but which would not survive being pitched from an upper floor window. And arguably, depending on sourcing, wood has a better environmental footprint of aluminum, which involves open pit mines and energy-intensive refining.
Go back a generation before that and check out TV POWWWW.

Yes, this was pretty hi-tech for 1979:

https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/tv-poww-the-earl...
Well they have a team of 50+ people and spend god knows how much on marketing. They gotta make all that back and then some. It never made sense how they would offer this for free without having evil monetization techniques like this.
Do you know any websites/resources with more info on this?