skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do more things in total
> the human condition.

Some would argue we don't actually need to do very many more things.
There is no simple answer to "What is the human condition?" While we've discovered tendencies in our our natural psyche to design and build, we have many other needs that, I argue, should be balanced.

Just because we're plunked into existence on a planet, does that mean we must be compelled to ignore our desires for peaceful, sustainable existence and instead turn our energies toward empowering everyone to get more accomplished? This goes double when the things we do to help our brother or sister help those in charge 10 times as much. This desire for freedom from divine or overwhelming rule is part of how my country (US) was (ostensibly) formed. We didn't leave England/Europe to form a hyperefficient economy. We left it to escape the weight of an out-of-control social system. [0]

I would argue that in addition to our proclivity for solving puzzles and building, we're gifted an awareness giving us the ability to pick and negotiate which of our desires we will attend to. This awareness is often blunted by those who have a stake in suppressing it. But I argue that spreading and growing this awareness will result in our choosing the things to do most relevant to ourselves rather than our masters. This would include a curtailing of relentless optimization.

Usually at this point, one is challenged with arguments about ceasing tech development leading to an end of healing of suffering through e.g. medical research. However, we can demonstrate that the majority of human medical suffering is actually a result of our misguided abundance. The bulk of our diabetes and heart diseases cases owing to our poor diet, for example. Nor does it mean we must give up medical research entirely. In fact, with our priorities shifted (slowing the throttle on space exploration, for example), we would likely be in a better position to research rare and painful birth defects.

There comes a time to put one's foot down and say, "I will not participate in x/y/z because it doesn't benefit individuals sufficiently."

[0] Imagine facebook and other corporations taking the place of the medieval church, adjudicating marriages and property rights. Is it really that far-fetched?
Tesla written off by falling slabs, occupants ok
This is the new normal for the US. We had our ~30 years of prosperity before companies migrated their facilities offshore in search of greater profits and our federal government did nothing to prevent it. Now the rest of the developing world is having their moment. Wages will continue to stagnate/decline as those in developing countries rise. We could have prevented this, but our leaders did nothing. They should all be summarily executed in my opinion for raping this country.
You'd have to make it more efficient by either

(a) adding IP (gengineering crops to grow more efficiently

(b) driving down the cost of inputs (light/water/nutrients)

(c) making production really dense to offset the cost of building a skyscraper even more than just buying cheap farmland

I'm curious how much more cost efficient vertical farming can really get.
How did it bring you around? This piece doesn't even contain any concrete accusations. The headline claims that Twitter is waging war on India...somehow, and the rest of the article just assumes this is a) a meaningful claim, and b) true. The actual body of the article just goes through various ways of saying "this is bad," without actually going into any specifics of what Twitter is supposedly doing (are they shooting missiles at India?), or why those specific things are bad. So I'm having a hard time seeing how anyone could go into this article disagreeing with the headline and come out convinced.
Not mistakes like that.
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You are forgetting one big part of the irony of the 2008 crash. The first part of the crisis was that we basically gave free loans to people and anyone could get a loan to buy a house.

Incoming poetry:

It’s 2021, and we are basically giving interest free loans to people and anyone can buy a house. Right now since there’s fewer houses, the check on that loan is that those with cash or higher down payment get the house (the sanity check being that those with actual finances get it). When we make more houses, then it will be the same type of free for all over again.

The economy is nuts. Lots of jobs won’t exist going forward. I don’t think everyone taking out a mortgage today will easily be able to make payments 7 years from now, even with 0% interest.
In this case, the term could mean economic liberalism.
Who thought this was a good idea?

Is this an „all publiciy is good publicity“ kind of thing?

This is disgusting.
The crypto bubble is already deflated, lasting a whole 4 months and then imploding over the past 2 weeks.

Stocks have done really well in large part due to record profits and earnings from large firms. Look how much $ Disney makes for example. Consumer spending , intellectual property, click ads, recurring revenues on high margin digital products ..all that stuff.

The fed is a contributing factor but not the only one. Crypto did really well in 2017 despite the fed raising rates.
Sure but in the interim, high risk people die. Your argument is essentially "I would rather not get a vaccine, even in the face of some high risk people dying". My argument is "I would rather everyone (within reason) get a vaccine, even in the face of some people not liking it".
What is wrong with the Internet is that governments around the world let commercial web sites (.com) operate freely in a network that was created for free dissemination of information. Why in the world would one let commercial businesses from another country operate freely on an information platform that your country maintains, that is beyond my comprehension, but web companies have pulled that off.
See also hard times... strong men... good times... weak men... hard times.
True. But also true that you can't really do quick, impromptu fixes if you have to rent the thing.
> there is no technical hurdle

As someone who has been forced to use ZScaler, there is a slew of technical challenges. 80% of the traffic can be handled "easily" with a custom CA cert, and the rest have varying issues ranging from client problems to server problems to problems in the proxy itself. Just trying to clone a GitHub repo over HTTPS breaks with ZScaler.
I understand now.

It would be the alang Ada compiler similar to the clang C compiler.

Thank you for clarifying.
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It's much better if you train yourself to ignore that sidebar. I'm sure with the right plugin you could just hide it permanently via css if it's distracting.
My point was if you’re exposing your build system to untrusted individuals inputting untrusted data then you’ve already lost the game. Rust won’t save you from a RCE bug because you’ve already granted them RCE from the beginning.

An overflow bug in awk is only exploitable if someone can craft input into awk. And if you’re allowing people to do that then you’ve already given them access to remotely run code without them needing a bug.
Obligatory: this is Intuit's fault (turbo tax, mint).
Because even within intelligence agencies, knowledge is strictly controlled.

To monitor actively, you have to ask for related content. Asking about related content in a context where you have something to keep secret is an implicit acknowledgement there is something there.

It's a trick I've seen used in intelligence gathering contexts quite often. You get close to a researcher and technical expert on classified matters, then ask questions and gauge responses.

Sometimes you don't need an answer, you just need to know you're asking the right questions.

Knowledge of this practice and regular experience doing it will not make you many friends in either the intel or counter-intel dept.

t. Apparently a professional insider threat given all the DoD documentation that describes how I fix places by actually communicating with people and ensuring effective information dissemination through an organization.

Makes interviews awkward. All the periodicals in the waiting room basically explain what I do better than I can.
> The good news is: They pretty much succeeded with that. We're all still here despite revenue generation for whole industries being frozen for more than a year.

I don't know. Lots of stocks and indexes that they are a huge % of are up because their revenue is actually really, really up.

"The FAAMGs reported aggregate 1Q sales of $321 billion, some $24 billion or 8% above consensus, for year/year growth of 41%." (via zerohedge). That's huge.
Thank you, this is fantastic advice that just worked for me to be able to redownload an old app with a new signature without losing its data.
So neat! Where are the left/right controls on iPad?
Remember ChaCha? It was basically that, but you could also do queries via SMS.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100428182234/http://www.chacha...

Now it's a generic Chinese domain parking page:

https://chacha.com
3rd class service. Jules Dupuit rides again!

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/why-does-air-travel-suck-...
I think blaming this on government spending is missing the big picture. Yes, it was a contributing factor, but the primary driver of price increases in most sectors is scarcity.

The pandemic brought about a scarcity of raw materials, scarcity of labor, and scarcity of shipping, all of which have contributed heavily to price increases. The trade wars brewing between countries have also contributed to scarcity.

We've had times of massive government spending that coincided with strong deflationary pressure too. So it cannot be the case that all government spending leads to inflation. If we work entirely under that assumption, the we'll never address the problem because everyone will continue to keep wacking on the wrong thing.

If we want lower lumber prices, the solution is to boost lumber production and imports. Not to halt government spending.
The discount is not as much as you’d think. They’ll do it for some high margin services like storage and gpu (where markup is just ridiculous) but won’t budge on network for some reason. In the end they gon getcha anyway
At the client, trust me when I say that basically everyone else didn't want us to be there apart from my immediate line manager! Wasn't a fun experience getting grilled by the adjacent team lead, my boss's boss and the other developers on the team on things that I didn't know I didn't know.

It was quite harrowing to be frank, to feel like no one wanted you there but without any choice but to turn up to work under threat of a 20k fee for my 'education' if I quit.
I'm in the same boat as the person you replied to; breaking causality never made sense to me.

In the case of your explanation, what sticks out to me is the "Suppose their was a way of instantaneously communicating" part - it seems more intuitive to me that the warp bubble would not allow any communication across the threshold, effectively becoming a pocket universe.
Because there is nothing wrong with twitter. Few weeks back they dared to point out that one of the tweet by a government employee was fake. He photoshopped an official document and the opposition found out it was fake. Twitter labelled his tweet as unauthentic and this ruling gangster party wants to ban twitter.

The rest of the media, like this post, have been bought out.

In more ways than one, modi is much much worse than his Chinese counterpart.
> IMO QUIC was far too influenced by the legacy of how HTTP works when there was an opportunity to leapfrog a generation of bad decisions.

I don't think this is fair. IETF QUIC doesn't have any references to HTTP anymore. It mostly provides bidirectional flow-controlled data streams - just like TCP. From an application point of view QUIC is pretty much TCP with the ability to have multiple concurrent streams after the connection was established. And reliable streams empower most higher layer networking protocols - not just HTTP. Implementing reliable flow controlled streams is not an easy task, therefore I think it was the right call to standardize this.

Regarding the datagram extension: It's very easy to implement cocmpared to streams. If you have a need for it, consider contributing it to the QUIC implementation of your choice.

For the datagram extension: If you have
Safari has supported grid-gap since March 2017, the exact same time Chrome and Firefox has. Your statement is completely false.
I mean it is pretty simple. If one is not serving the cause of justice then they need to be brought to justice via social media.
Anecdotally, I've noticed that management tends to consider interruptions more acceptable for anything related to web development. It's usually not as bad for the web dev team to slip their schedule as for the hardware team or the legal department or whatever, so interruptions happen more often. I was briefly embedded in such a team and that aspect drove me nuts. You really have to enjoy being essentially a point of contact as part of the job.
Even the website is very Apple-esque. How long before they get acquired by Apple and the Mail app acquires this feature set?

That’s just to say it looks lovely!!! Cheers! I’ll give it a try.
I saw saw a chart that showed the change in prices of stocks, bonds, real estate, consumer goods, and wages over ten years.

What economists call inflation, wage and price inflation, was something like 13-17% total over 10 years. Where everything else more than doubled.

We get gaslighted to only think about the wage and price inflation year over year rate. But not the the total relative change in prices over time. The latter is the important part.
Exactly. But every flow still uses memory, and with TCP you know when the connection has ended and can reuse it immediately. With general UDP (and QUIC because they intentionally put this in the encrypted part) the only way to do it is with timers. So you have both problems of state sticking around for a lot longer than needed if the timer is too long, as well as the state going away too early and breaking flows that wouldn't be broken otherwise because the timer's too short.

I get why they made it hard for middleboxes to modify the connections, but they didn't have to make it hard to observe the state of the connection in order to do that.
> Nothing would indicate that unvaccinated would lead to mutations

It's actually how viruses work [1].

[1]: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-does-it-mean-that-th...
Been following him and this project for a while. Son of a gun (and the awesome community) finally did it
Yeah, lazy scheduling is an easy trap to fall into. People have the wrong cost optimization function in mind while scheduling meetings -- moving an existing meeting is too expensive to consider, while breaking up an engineer's 4 hour block of productivity into 2 1:30 minute blocks is considered totally okay. In reality, the actual cost is the opposite -- moving a meeting costs nothing, but breaking up that block of free time costs an entire day of an engineer's time (something like $1000).

I have a plan for this. I'm writing a small program to move certain meetings to an auto-scheduled state. You pick some blocks on your calendar where you'll accept auto-scheduled meetings. You then say "I want to have a meeting with X, Y, and Z", and the system will use a constraint solver to find a time. The cost function favors bin-packed meetings, keeping entire days free, etc. If existing meetings have to move to optimize the cost function, so be it.

I don't actually know if people will tolerate this. People are creatures of habit, so if you're used to a biweekly team meeting on Monday, it will be weird when it gets replaced with a postmortem review that starts 30 minutes earlier and the team meeting moves to Thursday or whatever. I also think it will be hard to get people to commit to giving the bot a slot to work with. We shall see. If anything interesting comes of this I'll write up something about how it went.
All the time! Often you'll need to come up with a modification or variant of a textbook algorithm for particular applications.

For example, node-based editors in game engines and other media software need a few key algorithms, but the ordering of incoming/outgoing edges have meaningful semantics that might need to be considered.

You may need to use a custom algorithm to write a solver for a particular problem, for example latency/delay compensation in various networks (audio, distributed sensors, etc).

Other times you may want to combine multiple algorithms into single traversals, which is often used in single-pass compilers or parsers. These can be tricky if the traversal modifies the graph.

Then there are hypergraphs, which are so generic you probably need to treat your application as a special case.
Twitter have picked the wrong customer IMO (readers).

They should be selling features to writers, not readers.

Writers/Broadcasters of content would pay a lot more than $2.99 a month for extra features to curate their feeds and followers, publish content automatically, weed out spam and trolls, schedule posts etc.
> A community of air traffic control roleplayers gets torn apart by a lawsuit, and the founders scatter, trying to pick up the pieces.

it's kinda fascinating such a community exists
Let's say I wanted to add HTTP3 support to my web service - perhaps a NodeJS one, for example. What's that look like right now, practically speaking?

Is it supported at all yet in stable web servers? Is it as simple as flipping a config property in my web framework of choice? Does it only work on Linux, or all major OSes? Or none of them yet out of the box? Does it perform as well or better on all axes, or are we waiting on hardware support or library refinement? How much of a problem will ISP infrastructure be? If I get it working, will it significantly benefit users right now?

Not expecting comprehensive answers, just trying to get a feel for the current state of things
IMO Google should not try to become an arbiter of truth either. Nothing good can come from it. Provide context yes, reflect the discourse yes, perhaps even bias to academics & take a clearly marked official opinion/positio, but never ever ever censor much do so when there is no overwhelming long standing consensus.
Indeed. As one point of comparison: Solid scientific information showing efficacy for AA gets routinely upvoted here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493182

Compare this to Reddit, where some high-traffic sub-Reddits (/r/atheism cough cough) delete links to scientific evidence showing AA efficacy: https://archive.is/gEXfA Why let facts get in the way of a good social networking rage fest?
Not to mention Turkic invaders and East African pirates.
We use Moqups (moqups.com) extensively for quick scratch-pad designs. Moqups includes commenting tools and collaboration. What are the benefits of NextUX over Moqups?

The screenshot feature looks helpful, but taking screenshots isn't really a pain point for us as there are a ton of tools that do this for us and make it easy to drop into Moqups (including a Moqups chrome extension that does exactly this). If you say scrapped my entire site, took screenshots of everything, and gave me a digital copy to work off of, that would be interesting. Alternatively, if your design tools were directly embedded into the site, that would also be really interesting.

These are both big asks, and they might not be feasible, but the more you can close the gap between taking an existing site and turning it into a design space, the more attractive a tool like this would be for our org.
Can you be more specific about what you think is illegal?

These questions are standard on most job descriptions in many countries. I can't speak to Berlin in particular, but it's generally not illegal to ask these questions in most countries where I've posted job descriptions.

Companies are expected to confirm that candidates are legally authorized to work in their country, and companies are also freely able to choose if they want to engage in the sponsorship process for candidates.
Which part do you deem illegal? The questions seem fine. I think in Germany the parts about immediate termination won't work.
Well if Canadian housing prices are anything to go by, things can get a lot crazier in the US.
Correct. The rest of the media has been sold out. Now these gangsters are going after nytimes and twitter for dare questioning the government
> discouraging users from copying their passwords into their clipboard

Yeah, but what happens in reality is that the user copies the password, and then discovers that paste is disabled. By that time, the password is already on the clipboard.

I don't log in to any particular websites often enough to remember ahead of time which ones let me paste passwords and which ones don't.
Slight quibble, but the original needed more negative mass than the universe, it was one of the subsequent improvements which reduced it to only Jupiter.
No, there's not.
Economics does take that into account. Look up velocity of money.

One of the easiest ways to increase money velocity is to have progressive taxation BTW
This is also a philosophical problem. What exactly are you optimizing? Which optimizations are most important? I could become the most dedicated worker on earth, but I might destroy my personal life to the point I have a breakdown and can no longer work. The world doesn't work in this clean mathematical way where we can see all of the variables, how they are trending, and any approaching discontinuities or emergent phenomena. What does it even mean to optimize a life? Economic output? Happiness? It's hubris to imagine we have any idea how to optimize these things even in a local way, much less a global one.
Sorry I probably wrote too much I didn't want to be that person who just angrily points something out without explaining why. Some might take it that when a Spanish speaker opposes latinx they're opposing LGBTQ and I wanted to clear that up.
Yes this is accurate in the sense that these are the basis for the modern enforcement tools in use

The state has never had a right to understanding the financial flows or private property, it found a convenience with the electronic financial system and deputized all financial intermediaries to data mine and snitch for it.

This has subsequently become conflated with a right of the state to have all of this information, as the people running it now are unfamiliar with not having these conveniences.

The market, on the other hand, is simply reverting to a mean. It has developed and chosen an electronic financial system that doesnt require financial intermediaries.

So the state is going to lose its power to criminalize transactions. If there are any actual criminal behaviors with distinctive victims, then it has to do an actual investigation and find the individual and prosecute them. It really isnt that absurd of a concept.
> Instead, they try to solve everything analytically...

This seems like a common refrain it lots of things I see (not just this one paper). Can anyone give a lay man's explanation why we can't just numerically simulate general relativity? As in, plug a simulation with 100 billion stars in to a super computer and see what comes out.
I already have hand curated my Twitter and make full use of the `lists` feature. I have roughly 30 lists for different categories. One for techpress news, another for world news, another for quotes & inspirational messages, etc

This attempt to serve curated feeds to people is too late. I've already put in the hard work of organizing my feeds to my liking, and this has the bonus of me not having to give Twitter money.

(I will happily be their 'product' in return for me having insight into my interests and being abreast of world affairs, and local news too).
Yeah for sure, famously. I think the evolution of like, KYC and the global financial surveillance system probably came about for Cold War or War on Drugs reasons though.
And yet some people say that C++ is not a productive language :)