skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://forthelifeofme-film.com/2019/07/30/the-most-bizarre-...

"Having negligible military power, Ireland was a neutral nation during the war; Prime Minister Éamon de Valera went to great lengths to maintain that neutrality. As part of this policy, he made a deal with both the British and German governments: combatants of either country could be detained if found in Ireland and interned there for the duration of the war."

"Technically, the men were not prisoners of war but “guests of the State,” with an obligation on the state to prevent them from returning to the war."

"The reason was that Ireland’s neutrality was important not only to the Irish but to Great Britain as well. Though Churchill considered Ireland’s refusal to fight a betrayal, he understood that a pro-Nazi Ireland would have allowed the Kriegsmarine to use its Atlantic ports and wreak havoc on vital convoys from America."
most science is too complex for people to understand the data (e.g. climate change). Therefore science is almost always reduced to religion for the lay public. Ultimately whether you believe is based on if you have faith in the scientists.
If you got to put your name on the card at the museum I'm sure it would sell for something ridiculous.
> Fossil fuel companies aren't greedy monopoly men burning oil for no reason.

But, as in this court case, they are greedy monopoly men advertising dangerous lies to the public to keep selling their product.
Thats true however the reason we have a lot of farmland is to feed people in the cities. It's a collective system that is putting pressure everywhere on all of the global resources...
As someone who didn’t study anywhere near as much math or cs in college as I’d have liked, and had to spend a lot of time asking questions on Stack.* sites, I’ve had an extremely positive experience.

The only even mildly negative experience I’ve had was once a high-level user pattern-matched one of my questions to a much simpler already-answered question and closed it along with a dismissive comment, but as soon as I commented highlighting the discrepancy he apologized and answered my question.
> NFTs remind me of 'buy a star' companies.

Amazing comparison! They are truly the same.
People knew that it would come to this, where corporations are the final arbiters of the truth value of information, driven by people who loudly demand to shut down anything that doesn't conform to their world view.

People demanded we steer into the iceberg while staring at it.
Tectonic[2] is the Rust wrapper around C and C++ code of XeTeX. The fork rewrote everything, also aims to split it into separate crates that might be reused elsewhere, or to use some external crate instead of the own reimplementation.
(For people as badly math-challenged as myself: 365/2=182.5.)
It's funny that you treat the tweet author as a reliable source of information about how the program was conducted.
Considering these questions, have you honestly answered "yes" to the last one?
Of all the potential ways that tit-for-tat "optics" politics could manifest, this seems one of the more harmless.
I love board games. I own Tabletop Simulator, but honestly have never used it; I think a big part of the reasons why are:

1) other people I want to play with don’t own it, maybe don’t even have Steam, and the barrier to entry is just too high.

2) being at a computer feels too much like work. I prefer mobile devices for “play” for this reason.

You are already basically solving both of those problems by being “web native” even if there’s a couple kinks to work out.

You might consider whether or not you would be able to be interoperable with whatever game-definition format Tabletop Simulator uses. It is a similar concept, and allows you to “bring your own” game assets/definitions and share them with others via Steam Workshop (although I think there’s also a mechanism to do this even if you aren’t using it on Steam). If you were interoperable with that format, you would instantly have a huge library of prebuilt board game assets and behaviors available to you. Even if you were only able to support importing the assets, that would open up a lot of possibilities for this concept.
That's no excuse. If they weren't chasing giant growth, then they could have dealt with the issues as they arose, but instead they're largely turning a blind eye. I've seen so many advertisements served by them that were downright trash (as I've said before in other HN threads... I've seen adverts for: outright scams, malware, gambling, mobile games with extremely exploitative monetisation, porn, incest porn games) and they are tirelessly working to take away any privacy I might have to keep showing me this shit. Then they claim that at their scale they can't do anything about it (or downright ignore it) yet they're the ones who chose to become that big, in an effort to chase profits.

They chose profits over people, that makes them evil and makes people who work for them, knowingly making it worse in order to collect a higher paycheck, also evil.
It’s a joke about the pattern of questions
now compare that to Bitcoin
It was a huge mistake for them to do this in the first place. Youtube similarly took down videos which were scientifically valid, but not mainstream. Yet, realistically, this was always a plausible hypothesis, there just wasn't evidence to decide one way or another.
Not every jurisdiction has CFC rules. There are a few countries that simply don't care if you control a foreign corporation abroad. Now if you pay yourself a salary or dividends from that corporation, that might be taxable on a personal level, but that is another story.
Selling everything from dildo's to long term storage while having delivery drivers urinate in bottles is so cool, eh?
At a large site I used to work for circa 2011, before everyone had gone fully HTTPS, we received similar panicked reports from users: "I'm logged in as someone else!" Turns out an ISP in the Philippines decided to just ignore `cache-control` and `vary` headers and forcibly started caching logged-in responses along with auth cookies. Bad times. Made it clear to me why the whole web would have to go HTTPS.
So they have no rights to use the video.

I'm not sure what the difference to this and an NFT I made of say the Mona Lisa or a Vincent van Gogh painting.
Singleton Malt? Me too!
> Why post images of tweets rather than link to the source?

Because at least one of those users had already deleted their twitter account.

Because if any other of the users delete their accounts, the tweets will disappear too.

There's nothing strange about posting an inline image of something.

> Seems like cherry-picking out parts of a conversation to me

?? It is a) better than not providing proof like the accusers failed to provide and b) those same accusers can post their own proof if it's contradictory.
Right

Worked for euroradio

https://euroradio.fm/en/anarchists-describe-their-arrests-i-...

https://euroradio.fm/en/young-man-imprisoned-drug-related-cr...

https://euroradio.fm/en/girl-you-better-go-do-some-work-and-...

https://euroradio.fm/en/lithuania-prepares-potential-belnpp-...

Moved to poland fearing arrest. Joined Nexta. Biggest belarusian tg channel.

https://t.me/s/nexta_live

Enjoy, most of the stuff before september 28th.

edit: Anarchists in Belarus are actively persecuted by kgb over the last 20 years. They are seen as enemies of the state and are constantly watched. Police brutality, election fraud, are themes that are very taboo in state media, and journalists that write about these things are often arrested because of treir work.
Depends on the job actually. (I know this will be unpopular but in my experience hiring for certain roles it is correlated)
The problem with "more evidence" is that much of it has been hearsay. Person A tells person B something. Person B repeats person A's claim to person C. Person A then talks to person C, and person C says it must be true because they've heard it from multiple sources.

I have no doubt there's good evidence pointing to the lab leak origin, but virtually everything I've been exposed to over the last year are typically rumors or graphics shared on social media. Hearing something a lot doesn't give it additional credibility.
As long as they're not using the donation money to fund the paid option (which, to be fair, Mozilla has an history of doing), I don't see how.
Agreed. Normally I wouldn't be that surprised at this, but I thought of Mozilla as a nonprofit that wouldn't just gatekeep access to some information to those that have the money to pay for it (Could someone in Iran or Cuba even pay for this if they wanted?)
Microsoft and Google are the top financial contributors to MDN: https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs
Strongly disagree. Always stand by your friends, even if it's hard and costs you a lot.
Why would you want the government deciding who gets funds?
> an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached.

What I find confusing is the following:

Rights are meaningless without enforcement (in the real world). Who is going to enforce NFTs? There's no government or other authority standing behind this tech.

Compare NFTs with patents/digital rights - in both cases I "own" the artwork in some sense, but digital rights/patents, there are entire mechanisms that ensure these rights can be enforced.

With NFT, I can just ignore them without any issue.

My question is: how are NFT rights enforced?
Thanks for the candidness. Hopefully I can pick the best university (for me) in the future.
I hope he'll find some time to ramp up his review game.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9558417/Jeff-Bezos-...
I think this oversimplifies things. Would you “buy” the Mona Lisa from a random website with the condition that you have no rights to the property? I wouldn’t. If the Mona Lisa was put on sale by the Louvre with the aforementioned clause, I would be intrigued.
On the flip side, corporations that make a ton of money off of this information, rarely, if ever, voluntarily pay for it. It's a hard problem to solve.
I know that I'm late to this party, but what would Clean Coders think about algorithm heavy weight code like "TimSort.java"[1]? (This is the Java port of the famous Python stable sort.) Since Java doesn't have mutable references (pointers) or allow multiple return values, it gets very tricky to manage all the local variables across different functional scopes. I guess you could put all your locals into a struct/POJO, and then pass it around to endless tiny functions. (Honestly, the Java regex library basically does this... sucessfully.) Somehow, I feel it would be objectively worse if this algo code were split into endless 1/5/10 line functions! (Yes yes, that is an _opinion_... not a fact!)

Come to think of it, is the original C code for Python's timsort equally non-Clean Code-ish?[2] Probably not!

[1] https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-jdk11u/blob/master/s...

[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/listobje...
I understand your motivation. The thing is, there were many attempts to reimagine TeX, and none of them succeeded. Not because there were bad ideas, far from that. It's a huge project requiring a significant development team.
Sure, but nothing helps it either, and you're going to take a decent performance hit if you do that because you're turning one function call, possibly inlineable, into three that aren't going to inline, even with new Go generics you will not have enough power to write a "ToCurried" function that converts to a curried version at compile time (I think you could theoretically do it with reflect at runtime, but now you're taking an even bigger performance hit...)

I would not normally say any language "support currying" just by having first-class functions. Python can do several of those things I said Go can't do and I still wouldn't call that "supporting currying". It sure isn't anything like the experience of using curry & uncurry in Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.15.0.0/docs/Prelu...
Did the family sell an NFT of the digital representation only, or the representation AND the copyright?

Furthermore, there are numerous problems with digital archival that need to be addressed.

Some pages have complicated backend dependencies (APIs, tokens, dynamic content) that make naive mirroring effectively useless for preservation. Example would be some of the old versions of patches and KB articles from the Microsoft Windows support site when it wasn't as simple as visiting a plain webpage but redirection to dynamic content. Downloads often required an extra redirection to a mirror or some sort of analytics check-in to get a concrete (one-time token authorized too?) link.

Does digital archival require a right to be forgotten?

Media players, converters, and complete documentation about formats need to be preserved in order for media to be useful indefinitely.

How about describing the encoding of plain text documents so that that's preserved too?

Capturing as much metadata as reasonably possible so that it can be useful for future users and researchers.
According to the article, it's both:

"researchers had assembled an archive of cave-bat-borne coronaviruses"

Researchers were studying viruses that had an animal origin. The lab leak would be from not following proper safety protocols.
Thanks for mentioning Melissa Butler and Yvon Chouinard.

I Will check out both of them and their work in an extensive way.
It’s possible to be impressed at how Bezos grew the company while still being upset at how their fulfillment employees are treated.
Perhaps this program is actually part of a scheme to divert the company's money to an unqualified friend or relative. Or, perhaps it is the result of a superficial HR-driven attempt to be seen to be doing something.

Indeed the content of the course looks feeble-minded at best, and not grounded in any sort of study or academic basis.
I think part of the confusion is that they were referring to archive.org, which is a service of the Internet Archive. Archive.is is a separate site run by someone else, operating under different guidelines. There is no need to be rude over a misunderstanding.
I'm very excited to see all the people who said they would pay for something like MDN find a reason why they won't pay for this.
I can explain this - a lot of people miss the point of NFTs so I can illustrate the value here.

Buying an NFT is kind of akin to buying an autographed photo (so in this case, the person has paid the money to buy a signature from the person who shot the clip originally).

If you buy a signed photograph from Taylor Swift, you don't own the rights to Taylor Swift, her likeness, or even that photograph - but you still have a photograph that Taylor Swift herself (probably) signed. You don't care if someone else uploads the same signed photograph of her or she sells the same signed photograph to thousands of other people. It doesn't matter - because you wanted a signed photograph of Taylor Swift.

Would anyone really pay $760,999 for a hash that references a YouTube clip and expect that they then "own" the video because they have the hash? Of course not. No-one is that naive. They just really wanted an autograph from the person who made the video, and thought their signature worth $760,999.

Does it matter if it's not worth anything to anyone else? No more than it matters to a Taylor Swift fan if other people are not as excited about the photo they could have looked at for free but decided to pay $760,999 for.

As long as the buyer is happy with the autograph, and the understanding that it provides no rights whatsoever and is likely not worth much to anyone else, what's the problem with them spending SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE DOLLARS for an autograph from the Charlie bit my finger dad?

Now, you may think to yourself that almost $800K USD is a bit much for a single autograph from a person that shot a YouTube video one time that got popular by random chance, but you have to remember that no matter what happens that buyer is going to be telling their grandkids one of two really interesting stories on their deathbed that both centre around that autograph.
In theory, possibly?
But for things like vehicles, and especially land, the existing processes work OK in the places where they are well developed, and where land registries are unclear, NFTs probably don’t help much because the bigger problems are things establishing who exactly is the owner and do you have an effective court system with fair rule of law.
An NFT would also have to accurately describe the asset which gets trick with land since it tends to slowly move in places and at the same time old records remain important. Eg in the UK compulsory land registration has been rolling out since the 1920s and the register has existed for nearly 160 years, but title to something like 10% of the UK is not in the land register, and may never be.
Curious as to why you say that.

Personally from what I've seen of him I'm not a huge fan.
A shirt-tail relative worked on a metal press in the one-button days. It cost him part of a finger or two.
Had to get that last PTO day in.
I would say a fairer title could include ‘still on schedule’. It reads a little like ’surprise!’, which this is not.
>> Does every new Windows update count as a “cancellation” to you?

No, but replacing android or chrome OS with a new OS built from scratch should right?
Not gonna lie.

This is the first time I’m ever coming to know about Stephen Wolfram.

Will search and learn about him in the upcoming days.
how exactly does this read like surprise?
Yeah, I'm glad I already know the campus / area. I'm guessing you're talking about the absolute behemoths that are UfT, McGill, and UBC. I was thinking of choosing between them, so knowing that I (and other people) will have a more personal experience is nice.
I introduced a similar bug into one of my products in the past (Be honest, who hasn't?). But I'm surprised here because Klarna is a quite mature product and something like this shouldn't really happen at that stage.
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Just. Say. No.
Based on the available data [0], it seems like this particular breed of ant not only lives but thrives in a non-specialized environment as long as humans are around.

Just to make it clear, I am talking about an accidental release of an otherwise wild virus. I'm not implying the virus was engineered.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_deaths
I also tried to do this manually using the same resources from Bazzell and eventually just got tired of dealing with it and paid for Deleteme. To their credit, they did a pretty solid job removing my public data from data broker sites.
Here’s a post on the topic from a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153244
How can I scrap social websites like Facebook or Twitter?
The fact is that the actions by the Chinese authorities in the early part of the epidemic created a global disaster. Lab leaks are a distraction from this fact - folks are obsessing over something that is possible (for which there is no real evidence that I have seen though) and ignoring the facts that having a massive party [1] in a city in the middle of a pandemic outbreak was criminally negligent.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/fa83463a-4737-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...
> People aren't in academia for the money.

I agree overall with what you wrote, but have to comment here, because I think this is already not the case in many settings. I can only speak for the US, but in my experience with some other places overseas similar issues are developing.

There are many legitimate hypotheses for why this is the case, but in general at many universities, as far as climbing the academic ladder is concerned, publication metrics are no longer relevant. That is, some baseline is required, but beyond that, most of the focus is on money and grant sizes. I've been in promotion meetings discussing junior faculty that are not publishing and this is brushed aside because they have large grants. I've also repeatedly heard sentiments to the effect of "papers are a dime a dozen, grant dollars distinguish good from bad research."

Again, there's lots of reasonable opinions about this, but I've come to a place where I've decided this is incentivizing corruption. Good research is only weakly correlated with its grant reimbursement, and regardless, it's lead to a focus on something only weakly associated with research quality. Discussions with university staff where you're openly pressured to artificially inflate costs to bring in more indirect funds should raise questions. Just as it's apparent that incentivizing (relatively) superficial bibliometric indices like publication count or h factors leads to superficial science, incentivizing research through grant money has the same effect, but differently.

So yes, going into academics is not the way to make money if that's what you want. However, I think nowadays in the US, it's very much all about the money for large segments, who are milking the system right now at this moment.

Also, in theory, yes, management is the solution, but really management is how we've gotten into this mess. Good management, yes, bad management no. But how do you insure the former?

Fixing this mess academics has slid down (in my perception, maybe everything really is fine) will require a lot of changes that will be controversial and painful to many, and I don't think there's a single magic bullet cure. Eliminating indirect funds is probably one thing, funding research through different mechanisms is another, maybe lotteries, probably opening up grant review processes to the general public. Maybe dissociating scientific research from the university system even more so than has been the case is also necessary. Maybe incentivizing a change in university administration structures. Probably all of the above, plus a lot else.

How to get things to go well again is achievable in theory but how to get there is less clear given the amount of change involved.
>Corny team-building things

I would not characterize mandatory redefinition of employees' personal identity based on their racial group as corny team-building.
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So he can focus his full-time efforts on greasing wheels in Washington to ensure that Amazon can continue 2-digit billion dollar acquisitions on the way to becoming the first internationally-recognized corporate state.
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