skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - what a great story!
Westerners so enthusiastic about “China’s demographic problem” would be well advised to worry about their own, local sub-replacement birth rates, in particular for natives (you know, the ones who built the countries everybody else seems so hell-bent immigrating to), as well as for the educated, the middle classes.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095925
Even without ad fraud, you have things like user wants to install Uber, so searches for Uber in a web search. First link on the page is an ad to install Uber, maybe a couple more ads, then first organic search result is a link to the Uber home page, and maybe the second result is to install it. If the ad weren't there, the user would probably install organically, but since it's there and at the top of the page, it's likely to get clicked and cost money.
In the case of sensitive pdfs, it's enough to check you network is not inexplicably in use, and I explain how to do a network audit in the notebook (yay literate programming). BTW this is "sign" as in overlay an image of your physical signature, not certify with a digital signature.
Sadly, that comes up in any search for Wordstar or WordTsar.
Much of this stuff is needed in some form. It's the kind of things that random Internet volunteers don't do well. And with the unique opportunity that Wikimedia has of establishing the broader free-knowledge and free-content movement as a leading force in global education, I think we should be happy that significant resources are being used to pursue this strategic goal.
> Nothing about blockchains, DLTs, crypto, at its core is a scam to me

No, the scam part is the idea that crypto is going replace fiat and as such will be worth many times more in the future than it is now.

I'd also be very, very surprised if there wasn't price manipulation going on with crypto trading.
It also surprises me how triple platinum status customers are in disbelief that some people who don’t make hundred or thousands of orders don’t get the kid-glove experience and are treated less well.

Amazon can both treat a large number of people well and treat other customers badly, there’s enough customers to do both to millions.
Joyce's “Ulysses” w Ernest Hemingway’s signature – uncut pages imply book unread
Show HN: ShellPiper – An editor for shell pipe one-liners
Wikimedia Foundation is headquartered in SF, so probably safe to assume a lot of executives getting those salaries are based there.
A free account on Adobe Acrobat online can sign PDFs, you don't need to have any kind of subscription. I'm not sure why the author felt they needed to subscribe if they were just signing PDFs. https://documentcloud.adobe.com
It doesn't really matter. Spotify just doesn't pay that much per listen in the first place. There is only so much money you can squeeze out of a $10 subscription.
I think a tipping system would be a better solution, preferably one where 100% of the tip goes to the artist. Spotify still gets their cut from subs and I get to make sure I support the artists I actually listen to.

Clarity edit: I mean a tipping system on top of the existing system.
I can't find a specific example of a business that has used a blockchain to achieve something in any of these links.
In all fairness, it's running on a Raspberry Pi. There's plenty of ways you could improve latency and audio quality just by scaling the hardware to fit your needs. Plus, it's not like someone's going to flip their shit when they realize that one of the electric guitars was recorded at 44.1khz instead of 48/96/192khz
I get pop ups from sites all the time asking me to try their site, every darn time I visit. Mai it stuff like Reddit, Imgur, most news sites. I’ve tried the apps and they’re worse.

I’m not sure there’s any explanation other than more ad/data revenue.

Are there apps that give superior experience than web sites nowadays? Even not accounting for privacy, the apps are generally just shittier with less functionality.

I used to give the Google apps as examples of apps being better, but the gmail app is more buggy than just using gmail in a mobile browser, not to mention the integrated phone mail app.
I know she is divisive, but Ayn Rand lays out a pretty good model for universal morality.
Hey guys,
I created a tool that helps you comfortably compose pipe one-liners. You simply run `sp` in the terminal whenever you need to compose a piping one-liner and a convenient GUI designed especially for the task pops up. I sure needed such a tool a while back when I was writing such one-liners for a living.
ShellPiper is designed to make the tedious task of writing such command chains as easy and as convenient as possible. The output of each command is saved and can be viewed and even be used as cache later on.
It's cross-platform (based on electron), so both Linux and Windows are supported, and there's even a Mac version that I haven't tested if you're into it
You should give it a try!
I hope ShellPiper can help you and I would love to hear some constructive criticism
I don't think the USA is particularly reliant on any external supplies of oil these days, whereas the same cannot be said for Europe and gas.
£44k according to the April 2020 release of the Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings by the Office for National Statistics.

That is the figure for "programmers and software development professionals", anyway.
Whoa. Calm down. a) I'm not in China, and yes it would be reasonable to mention Chinese economic progress lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty by shifting towards a capitalist economic model under Deng Xiaoping, starting around 1979.

b) I said nothing of the sort about the current system in mainland China being 'good', or the CCP being a 'good thing' (I would be the last person to say something like that about a communist party anywhere), so stop putting words in my mouth and don't make it personal. Capitalism has objectively propelled China's economy to where it is now and made it overwhelmingly more prosperous than it was before they tried it.
I'd rather we threw whatever guaranteeing stake the UK government owes into supporting Hinkcley instead to the likes of Rolls Royce and modular small-scale nuclear, which seems to me a better use of fission nuclear in the [hopeful] interim between now and fusion hopefully becoming A Thing in a decade (or five).

Heck, given how much money the current administration's spunked, we could just add some more zeroes to the deficit and double up... .

But yes, you're not wrong :)

- ed - the loss of the British Nuclear industry's one of the last generation's stupidest mess-ups.
http://wordstar.org/index.php/wsemu-documentation/wsemu-comm...
Why is every string in all lowercase? It reminds me of tumblr..
Why would you not do it yourself? It's literally webdev 101.

If you offload it to a 3rd party you're giving them access to your entire customer base (regardless of what they say), you're also introducing multiple points of failure and increasing your attack surface.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
why recommend a location to buy a product on the other side of the city when you can recommend a location across the street or next door
On the client, use the gql tag, a GraphQL code generator to generate TypeScript types from the gql tagged queries and the appropriate editor/linter tooling.

Then everything is checked when building or directly in the editor.
Building Folly:Coro with GCC
>Assertion: The right to free speech means the government can’t arrest you for what you say; it still leaves other people free to kick you out.

>Answer: No, the popular xkcd cartoon below is wrong. The First Amendment limits what the government can do, but freedom of speech is something much bigger than that.

The article attempts to address a legal argument with a cultural and philosophical one. This doesn't change the law but it does lose credibility with me.
There are many threads on reddit filled with comments like that. This doesn't really work here on HN and I was sad to find this as the top comment. I have no clue what you are referring to.
I could see that. But you can still effectively target niches with contextual ads.
100% agree with this. It's such a BS narrative. It's like the world wants not for profits to not be able to support staff or to pay them the bare minimum so that at some point the staff go leave for the private sector and rob the organization of its talent/knowledge base. FWIW I don't work for a NFP but both the public sector and NFP world are not well funded enough.

Instead of complaining when a top shelf global organization get paid a reasonable wage in California for the scope of their work maybe focus on how we can redistribute incomes more appropriately.

Also - I am obviously against wasted resources or overly bloated organization or corruption but nothing in this report seems to point anything of that nature.
/end mini-rant
> "Union of ex-Soviet States"
Like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union

Isn't that great? We're not going to allow non-democratic countries like Russia into the EU. Certainly not when they are so clearly documenting that they have zero credibility, no treaty Russia signs can be trusted.
So it's probably fine that they make own club.

I mean what else would we expect them to do?
Why would a site hosted outside of India respond to a legal notice from India?
I think e-signatures with strong auth will make it valid. Not sure signing a doc on preview will make it legal. I mean, could anyone sign my sign using preview and get the contract done? Who ensures the signature belongs to me?
They could have also just blocked the user from ordering at specific restaurants.
Another mediocre article on morality. If you're interested, research universal morality in Buddhist sutras. By far the best analysis of morality, even compared to purely logical works. Modern-day stuff from what i've seen has been low quality.

For this article, it fails to remember that for every unbiased observer there is an equally biased human at the root.
The main point of the blog is that the current programming languages do not allow much automation by compilers in building enterprise systems, that is why much of today's enterprise architecture has to be created and optimized manually at the application level by developers.
How to laugh?
I usually hear that LLVM is a bit faster than gcc in compilation time (and a bit slower in program efficiency).
The "fire in a crowded theatre point" is an appeal to authority. The Supreme Court said you couldn't do that. The fact that the case that quote is from has been overturned is directly relevant.

> Well sure, but what the article doesn’t actually do is give a good answer as to why you should be allowed to make false statements in the knowledge it will cause harm to others.

Now you're making a different argument, and the problem with it is that without the specific example, it just becomes a fully general argument in favor of censorship. Censors always claim that whatever they want to censor is false or misleading or harmful.

Who gets to decide what's true before anybody has had a chance to hear what it is? How do you build popular support for not censoring something that is true, if you're prohibited from asserting it because the censors say that it's false?

The answer is that you let them say it, then you tell everybody why they're wrong. If you can prove them wrong then everybody should believe you and not them. If you can't prove them wrong then is it reasonable for you to assert that what they're saying is false?
This is a classic problem (traffic analysis) that in principle can only be solved by having the browser access random wikipedia pages in a continuous manner, to create cover traffic.
>I did watch it. (And I have watched it once before years ago.)

This is a total and deliberate lie. The video came out march 2021. There is no way you watched this years ago. You didn't watch it at all. I recommend you actually watch it.
It sounds like the hair transplant trial is much more feasible than fixing blindness.

Maybe he chose what he thought would work.
> The sky high executive compensation

After looking, I realized that I made more than them at my previous job just being an engineer.
Hopefully they'll output trait information for GDB to use. Right now, gdb can't call any struct or trait methods e.g

let string = String::from("something");
// string.len() doesn't work in GDB

Debuggin rust still involves a lot of println! or debug!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/33014
> Those who say it's not a lot are disconnected from the way that most people in the country and the world live.

I live in Canada. I earn much less than USD $375K/yr. But can we agree that I am very connected with how people live in other parts of the world?

Good. Now let me tell you that were my employer to ask me to move my family to the US, ANYWHERE in the US, I would want way more than $375,000/yr to duplicate the lifestyle we have now.

That’s just how it works when you move from a place with a safety net to one where losing your job could mean certain death.

And in my family’s case, I am not exaggerating: My partner is a cancer survivor. What would we have done if we were living in the US? Hire lawyers to fight with insurance companies for her treatment? What if I was laid off and lost my benefits right when she was diagnosed?

SHUDDER.

Were I to live in the US, I would want to be stinking, immorally rich. It’s the only way to insure yourself against disaster.
Except 16bit 286 code is dead as a doornail. The platform he's talking about (16 bit DOS) really did die on schedule. You'll have trouble running anything from that era on modern Windows. And if it ran, it wouldn't integrate with anything else (networking, printing, character encoding, etc.)
The jump from highmem to win98 was very disruptive and had many winners and losers (e.g. Wordperfect). The next jump to 64bit was less painful, but still disruptive.

x86 is a marketing term used to paper over 1-2 extinction events and create an illusion of historical continuity despite users having had to throw out their software twice (at least), and developers having had to rewrite their software several times.
> the rich users are subsidizing the app for the poor users

That would only hold if the majority of paid ad placements on a social media site targeted rich people. As is evident by the ads that appear surrounding elections, the ads targeting average people to dump their savings into crypto and all of the gambling (might as well be gambling...) gaming ads that doesn't seem like a safe assumption to make although I have no data to support either assumption.
The space race seems weird to me. Russia won most of it (first satellite, first peraon in space etc). Then the US rushed to catch up, but Russia had basically stopped competing already. They had no interest in the moon and did a bunch of science based missions instead.

Its like having an Olympics where Russia won half the events and went home early and the US arrived late and won other events. But they didn't really compete directly ever...
sure, but can it model my amp? i doubt they will ever add it!

correct, ml requires data, but you don't need to capture every possible position to do a good prediction

only a handful would suffice and let's be honest, how many presets do you really need (average guitarist probably uses 5?)
Get an iPhone. Whatever else you may think of them, Apple is deliberately working to prevent this sort of crap from happening without your knowledge and consent.
Why host the project on SourceForge? Just force of habit? Other code forges don't look better enough to justify the effort of moving? Or are there actively good things about SourceForge these days?
> Its workers rules from the 80s are just not adapted anymore

I once spoke with an Air France flight attendant on a domestic flight (Paris => Rennes) and she told me that her employment contract was governed by Irish law. She was French.
I don't know if this is representative of all the flight staff status.
But for me it is a bit weird that a French company, owned by the French state, employs French people under an Irish status.
Thought experiment:

If a group of around 20k-800k ultra-rich people became so blinded by greed that their actions were the equivalent of aiming a gun and squeezing on a trigger at every other human today, every future human, and every other living thing, wouldn't murdering 50 people to make a sufficient point to change the course of enough corrupt plutocracies around the world to ensure the survival of the species, wouldn't that be morally-justified?

Does pacifist non-violence solve everything when the opposition responds to nothing short of threats to their personal security and cedes nothing without a harsh and bitter fight? Should the American Revolutionaries have held hands and hoped the British would leave out of the kindness of their hearts?

In this context, your comment seems like self-righteous moralizing on the wrong side of history.
Interesting, as it does not hijack mine.
Flexure Tip Steerable Needles
This is not a core belief that precludes universal morality, it is simply a belief educated into the masses (Ie the Sovereignty of Nation States).

Which means that other views can similarly be “educated” in.
I've had to explain this to non-techy family. GPT3 is still a monkey at a keyboard. Only, the keyboard is huge, and each button is a whole phrase. Maybe the keyboard reconfigures itself after each keypress, to make the phrases scan a bit better. But it's still a monkey at a keyboard.
For me the title was misleading: Reading the title I tought that the article was about digitally signing documents (with your keys not your signature) :D
your linked article simply shows gross deaths above baseline are not entirely accounted for by covid - that's not surprising in the least when you disrupt the entire world you'll have deaths from the disruption alongside covid. It makes no attempt at showing covid is undercounted.

If anything I would use that as an argument to show lockdowns may very well be doing substantial harm and causing massive death.

This hypothesis is further supported by the fact that not a single country in the top 30 excess mortality during the pandemic is a country that avoided stringent lockdowns.

Correlation != causation of course, but it's a logical thought to investigate and there's plenty more evidence towards lockdown's doing more harm than good (considering the evidence they prevented spread at all is lacking)

as for your request - I never said the article agrees with my point about car crashes counted as covid deaths, I said it agrees with me that the correction happens later.
Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder oversaw the shutdown of Germany's nuclear industry. He is now chairman of the Russian gas conglomerate Rosneft.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41447603

The shutdown of Germany's nukes is a result of corruption at the most senior level, and represents one of the greatest betrayals of the German people, of Europe, and of indeed the planet given the additional emissions.

If the EU is really serious about Russian and energy independence, they should be begin a mass program of nuclear power building across the bloc.

But its more likely that all of the senior European bureaucrats and politicians are corrupted at some level.
On the contrary, the article defends the idea that you should be prohibited from making “false statements in the knowledge it will cause harm to others”.
GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now–and Dupe Human Readers
Yeah this is the best argument for rewrites. Rewrite what your group no longer understands.
They Chinese fishing fleet is also overfishing in international waters, so don't expect the CCP to care much about driving fish into extinction.

The Soviet fishing fleet also massacred a huge amount of whales just to meet dumb quotas imposed in a centrally planned economy. There was not much real demand for whale meat or oil in the Soviet Union.
I encourage everyone to publicly document companies like doordash punishing you for the crime of asserting your rights.
I first read it as that too. But upon more careful reading, I understood what he meant is that since Adobe has bad subscription practices, he doesn't want to use any Adobe products, even free ones. This type of signing (image signature as opposed to cryptographic signature) is supported in free Adobe Reader software too, on all platforms, including Android.
No problem at all.

The only reason I mentioned the earlier discussion is because I thought it had some interesting comments.
For sure--it's kind of sad they don't even have to hide it.
So I haven't actually said anything comparing US to China. I see you want to answer your own question unrelated to mine - which is alright.

I simply asked, and continue to ask without anyone being able to answer it: Are there any organizations in China that have any real power to do anything to protect the ecosystems critical to animal life or is it unfettered development >> ecosystem.
Please forgive me the stupid question: How do people use this? What role does it play in your projects?
To mirror fsflover's comment:

> Does he go through every single line of code on every single application he uses to ensure privacy? Does this mean he is an expert in the Linux kernel? And chromium, and sendmail...

You're misunderstanding it. You don't need to go over every line to benefit from the source being available. It's very rare for bad actors to publish outright malicious source code and just hope no one spots it. People who want to release malware just about always insist that you cannot inspect the source code.

Of course, it's possible to release good source code and also introduce malware into the official binaries, lying about it corresponding to the published source, but that's another matter.

> It's just not feasible to have 100% confidence that third party software is ensuring your privacy.

It's rare to aim for absolute perfection and absolute guaranteed trustworthiness. Insisting on Free and Open Source software is a pretty effective means of avoiding many forms of malware.
They could import it from US. Not sure how much more expensive that would be, especially since Russia has a strong reason to have a very competitive price (since supplying EU is also a strategic asset)
60-percent keyboards you can buy
It's a messy market. If they weren't paying such high fees to Amazon, they would be paying those fees to Google (Pay per click) or other marketplaces that came and went over the years (those old school price shopping websites - pricegrabber and such)

Walmart does offer a 3rd party seller market and its largely junk in comparison - however, I don't know their fees.

0% is an imaginary fee btw... It costs money to staff/warehouse/sell/distribute/ship/package - i'm willing to bet the 30-45% fee includes amazon warehouse sellers who use prime shipping...

per the post below, a company like bose knows they only make 50% if even that much selling to any retailer, if they can make 55-65% selling direct on amazon and reach the market of people who just default to amazon then they're ahead of other sellers... Prime now for a speaker company is a godesend considering UPS shipping rates and last mile for heavy items are why they depended so much on brick and mortar retail traditionally.

I don't think the system is perfect by anymeans, but Amazon is just playing in a market that was previoulsly dominated by others and a market where fixed 30-45% is much cheaper, than everyone doing payperclick and hopoing for coneversions (googles market)
>>The minimal superficial changes to living fossils are mistakenly declared the absence of evolution, but they are examples of stabilizing selection, which is an evolutionary process—and perhaps the dominant process of morphological evolution.[4]<<

if you want to talk about genetic modifications that is sequitorial however the framing of the statement involves anatomical structure, thus the confusions that have arisen over time.