skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasoning is to protect customer data held by third parties. Prosecutors are exempt from the law but defense attorneys are not.

> Both GitHub and California courts are sticking by tech companies’ traditional hardline interpretation of an arcane 1986 privacy law the Stored Communications Act (SCA). While the SCA makes a provision for government entities, like the police, to demand electronic communications, it doesn’t make the same exception for civilians—giving prosecutors a leg up while kneecapping defense teams.
It would have to be A LOT of money for people to stop going to their jobs.

In a more realistic scenario: Maybe some people would quit their jobs because they gained some independence. Is that bad?
A heat pump is preferable.
disaster capitalism

Taking egregious sums of state aid is crony capitalism and is market manipulation. And wherever you find egregious market manipulation, you'll almost always find government doing the steering.
If you give everyone free money, why do you think people will stop working?

We justify giving money to rich people because it will make them work harder, but we fear that giving money to poor people will make them lazier.
> You can pretty much be as cruel as you want on HN as long as you don't swear or call people names too much.

That is deeply not the case, and if you or anyone finds examples of it, you should let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. If people are being cruel and not getting moderated, the likeliest explanation is that we haven't seen it, because we don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here. Oh and we don't give a fuck about swearing.

The generalization you're making is so false and so mean that I would call it a slur, both of this community and of the people who work on it.
You dodged a bullet
It seems because the fund is basically a bundle of futures contracts and therefore "The Fund is not a mutual fund or any other type of Investment Company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is not subject to regulation thereunder." But, yeah, I wouldn't have dug that deeply in all probability and I'm sure the details are hyper-technical.

https://www.invesco.com/us/financial-products/etfs/product-d...
The implication there is that equities are long term an adequate hedge against inflation.
I'm not in favor of the solution I posted. I only shared it because it is a solution to the problem that was presented.
Your argument is “when the human species dies, half the deaths will be men and half the deaths will be women”. That is a silly statement. Life expectancy among men is lower than women in every country except Afghanistan [1]. The necessary imbalance caused is that women spend more of their lives single. Either later in life or some women the entirety of theirs.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
It seems that the question you are answering, and that I don’t disagree with and am not asking is ‘can you move to a different service provider?’. Not ‘how do you move to a different service provider without incurring costs to transition to different services?’, which is what my question actually is.
Legislative incompetence is caused by voter incompetence. Why can't the electorate elect competent legislators?
The clipboard is accessible from the javascript runtime from any page in any tab. Maybe disabling paste is intended to discourage the behavior?

I think this is also why lastpass clears your clipboard a few moments after you click the “copy to clipboard” button.
Ah, got it. That's actually hilarious.

Joel, btw, dead/typo'd link top of this list:
https://joelrunyon.com/impossible/

Have a good day, everyone!
The difference between European and American corruption is that the former has an ally in a population that purposefully ignores evidence of the existence of any corruption because it would hurt the sense of national pride.
high inflation but not enough to trigger hyperinflation instead lead to quickly rising asset prices, like stocks, land, and so on.

Also rich people can sometimes take loans with interest lower than inflation, this is basically free money.
Non-sentient life that cannot suffer isn't something I care much about.
Yeah, can second this.
>if every individual had a bunch of free money and decided to not work

It would be predicated on the amount wouldn't it?

Presumably 65M distributed equally among the people of the state wouldn't be enough for everyone to stop working.

One thing we can say without going into counterfactuals, the execs probably didn't work 28M harder, or produce 28M in value.
Given the huge bonuses bailed-out bankers got in 2008, it would be criminally naive to assume that politicians didn't plan on this happening.
- A embarrassing "strategy" document came out in the public domain that was attributed to the main opposition party. The doc might or might not be true.

- A govt minister of the ruling party tweeted it

- The opposition party wrote to Twitter claiming the document is fake and the Tweet should be flagged.

- Twitter intervened and flagged the tweet by the minister as referring to manipulated media.

Two questions:
- Why does Twitter get to mediate and be judge/jury/enforce on a political feud between two parties in a sovereign nation

- Twitter has let many tweets stand in the past referring to demonstrably false documents so there is a very overt demonstration of bias. The opposition party is a leftist party which has failed to win any general elections.
Blame the lawmakers who wrote and voted on the laws and rules.
It shouldn’t just be taken at face value, that’s a really shallow commentary. It should be put in context of the working conditions that led to this kind thing.
Probably true, but for me it's sucking the fun out of developing.
I like optimisation, removing stuff, making to code shorter, clearer, faster. Small neat pieces that are fun to write, like little machines working together.
That to me is the beauty of coding, just as in music, design etc.

The meticulousness, the creativity and the dogmas you set up for yourself is what makes it exciting and fun - it doesn't have to be perfect but at least you "know the code", and can look at the little machine that you built.

In framework/service hell, you have zero idea what's going on. It's like directing an orchestra on the other side of a valley, or clicking a button to create a painting instead of painting.
I'm not doing any more work for you. Follow the instructions I already wrote out for you to see the proof. I'm done here.
Internship Idea for Post Covid Harlem
I hope to offer a paid internship to local youths (up to two) for Summer 2021 to learn to draw. Asking for funding ideas for them, as I am unemployed but highly skilled and full of heart zeal. First a painter, then a JPL fellow and now again a painter. Upper West Side, NYC. Alison
It is an important paper. However, it is also important to realise that superluminal solutions introduced there are still prohibited by the laws of physics. Making such superluminal drives is at least as hard as making superluminal matter, which we believe requires infinite amount of energy. In physics, they say that such spacetimes violate the dominant energy condition. The issue is relatively clearly stated in E.Lentz's paper accepted in the journal, but not in his arxiv paper or the press-release.
Related, I emailed Tim Cook about iPhone sensor future plans, and a high-level exec of like 25+ years wrote back to me within a week. Apple is remarkably good at getting back to cold emails to top execs.
I don't think memory safety bugs are the most widespread kind at all, unless you add the qualification "in languages with manual memory management".
Some perspective from someone who has worked in hospitality: Some brands have fought back in creative ways.

An essential part of being listed on Booking or Expedia is to agree to never advertise lower prices anywhere else, including your own website. That means you can share a $100/night rate on your own brand's site (with no commission) and you can't tell Booking or Expedia to show rates over $100. Thus, users have no advantage in going to a hotel's own site, which only shows their own brand's hotels. Expedia/Booking on the other hand show you all the hotels in the area and you can be confident in price-shopping (the one exception is loyalty points, but if you're a price-conscious, non brand-loyal customer, that won't matter to you). Worse, competing hotels can get better visibility by sharing even lower rates and promotions on these aggregators, and it becomes a race to the bottom, really hurting hotels long-term just for visibility.

Choice Hotels had an interesting response a couple years ago: they show a "member-only rate" on their website. In the above scenario, technically, their public rate is $100 so Booking would take around $20 leaving $80 for the hotel. But Choice might also show $93 as an option on their website only for members (which is free to join, only takes an email/password). This way, technically their members-only rate isn't being advertised for just anyone so they don't run afoul of their Booking/Expedia agreements while only losing $7 as opposed to $20.

Last I checked, Booking and Expedia didn't like this and they docked Choice Hotel visibility in their searches because even if it didn't run afoul of the agreement, they still have discretion over their search ranking.

These aggregators don't need to disappear. They just need to lose some of their leverage over hotels. If all hotel brands banded together to offer their own "members-only" rate and customers became aware of what's happening, I'm sure it would really help out hotels long term.
> It’s pretty awful.

I will not talk about the ethics and privacy issues of Twitter but about user experience and quality of content on feed.

The quality of content on your feed is as good as the people you choose to follow. Choose selectively, block and mute liberally. Keep doing this, and your feed will be fantastic.

I use Twitter only for work. I set my Trending country to some country I have never heard the name of outside of trivia books containing nation capitals.

And my Twitter experience is fantastic. Have meaningful discussions, learn new things, gain new perspectives.

I keep away from politics and such.
Look up "do the needful". It's not a myth, just regional.
Why would a person who did what they did stop for a bit? It's just not part of their personality.
I mean, how often do you hear the name of the jockey in horse racing?
Get involved in youth... whatever. Sports, robotics, scouts, chess club, something. Spread knowledge and problem solving skills. Buy a spot on a lake or a river. Doesn't have to have a house - somewhere you can camp. Put up a yurt if you need something more solid than a tent. Float down wild rivers. Go fishing. Restore a car. Learn how to work with fiberglass. Don't sit there for 20 years and hate it.
They did see it coming and in fact they were trying to increase inflation.
> Whining about how your "flow state" can't be interrupted because of how extraordinarily creative and artistic you are is just pretentious.

No one is saying that. Programming is plain hard work that requires deep concentration to keep a lot of parts in working memory, and is obviously more cognitively demanding than most other jobs. It appears you don't have experience with programming non-trivial things.
I really liked book by Erin Meyer "The Culture Map" it gives a lot more insight into those kind of things. She is American that moved to France and was working with multicultural teams.

"Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd."
The political struggle is legitimate. A sustained agreed upon agenda is unlikely. Unfortunately.
Oh, this is too good.
My shorthand for all sorts of loosely related lazy thinking like that is “just skate better”[0]. Applies individually and collectively.

[0]: https://youtu.be/jE494P5gQaY
Reminds me of the gangs in the Northwest who clear out Salal from public and private forests to send back to the Netherlands for the global flower trade.
Gerard O'Neill – The Movie
So charge every woman who gets an abortion with murder. And miscarriages should be...what, second degree murder, I guess? Be consistent - how long should we jail women for, for terminating a pregnancy?

Good luck trying to form your fascist theocracy.
> What other method is there to get ahead as an individual other than out-competing your peers?

I think there are a lot of assumptions in that statement that highlight the problem.

What does it mean to "get ahead as an individual"? The phrasing implies that you mean earning as much money as possible, but should that really be our primary goal?

It also implies that for one person to "get ahead", somebody else needs to stay behind, but why should that be? Why should I work 60 hours a week, and another person zero, when we could both work 30?

The problem with making that our culture is that most work is not very enjoyable or fulfilling, and so we're basically peer pressuring people into miserable lives, and that causes other problems like drug addiction and mental health issues.
While it perhaps seems a bit heavy-handed, it's an easy way to ensure people notice the channel has moved, even if they haven't been following the news, and thus minimize damage to your community. I don't see how this action is "contempt for the community".

"How many people actually moved?" .. I'd presume everyone who wants to be in that channel and who has noticed that it has moved. Why would they not?

Also note that this example seems to be the exception, many channels that got hijacked merely mentioned the move in topic or even just mentioned libera in topic without any decision to move being finalized (though the hijackings did a great job at finalizing those decisions ;)
The execs who benefited are US-based:

"As a result, the total remuneration for the three-member U.S. board of parent company Booking Holdings last year converted to more than 28 million euros. Some 5.8 million euros in shares and cash went to CEO Glenn Fogel, and 2.8 million euros went to Peter Millones, the vice president. Nearly 20 million euros, mostly in shares, went to CFO David Goulden, according to company documents reviewed by NRC. The company was concerned they could otherwise lose the three top executives."

Also, LMAO at "concerned they could otherwise lose the three top executives." They always use that excuse to plunder.

Meanwhile "Fixed salaries of the management in Amsterdam headquarters were however cut by 20 percent"
The Ultrabook brand was Intel's idea but I'm pretty sure it was created to make sure that the Wintel ecosystem could stay competitive with the MacBook Air.
I second this. I've lived off and on in Washington, Oregon, Northern California, and there are many medium to small towns that fit the description.
interesting thanks for writing this out
Servo is miles ahead.
It's not even focused on prices. Charter charges a lot for what they deliver.
Money was specifically earmarked to retain employees
There's no "Unless" there. If the government regulates it as a utility, the government has become the de-facto owner of that pipe who can screw you in whichever way they see fit. The fact that government typically noticeably screws you in different ways than businesses (Spying on your flows, playing morality police) than businesses (mostly extracting cash and providing low quality of service) is almost artifact (because both government and business do all of those things and more).
The reasonable short notice caused the government to decide the lesser of evils: allow some abuse to help most, (un)fortunately this exposes the excesses. Booking.com "decided" to not take part in the second round three months later mainly due to the legal work being well enough established and in place to force the company to forgo any firing of people and any bonuses to executives.

Yes an error, but as always there is some nuance.
Following politicians is fine. It's the replies to politicians that are never going to be worthwhile. There's no discussion there, just rants and cheers.
Fox, 'Rick and Morty' creator plan a blockchain and NFT-enabled animated series
Or, instead of funding either corporation, just give mom and pop money. Instead of business bailouts, we should've done regular, recurring stimulus checks that would help business owners cover bills while they're businesses were closed, and help employees cover bills while they're unable to work.
So, yeah, I remember those.

The principle issue I had with them was that they scale poorly. A few dozen principle feeds: OK. Hundreds or thousands, not so much.

You effectively see the same problem with Reddit forums, as a parallel. A smallish community of a few thousand subscribers, following the 90/10/1 rule meaning maybe 10 members submit 50% of the posts, another 100 contribute the other half is OK. A sub with 100k -- millions of members, both the submissions and comments are simply a firehose, and the temporal weighting (even with vote-based ranking) means arcane subjects slip off the page rapidly.

Algorithmic ranking => algorithmic gaming.

Temporal ranking => temporal gaming.

That is, the feed is dominated by the most-frequently-posting users.

Fixing this in a fair fashion for a large number of users with a high variability of interests is ... difficult.

In any large-audience medium, the default "show/no-show" decision for a piece of content approaches "no-show". Attention is finite.

(I'm not saying algorithmic social media is better. I'm saying the problem is hard.)
I saw people buying firearms with stimulus checks more than anything else. I saw a couple buy 2 identical $1300 handguns at once. They were joking about the stim checks. And annoyed they'd have to wait a week to pick up their purchases.
The appearance is intentional. The author (https://github.com/leonstafford) is very into minimalism and accessibility.
Seems cool - though feel way to hide welcome pane would be nice as seems unnecessary once started and no obvious way to hide
All sorts of explanation scheme can and have be added to existing processes. They just tend to fail to be what an ordinary human would take as an explanation.

Note - I never argued that "extras" (including formal "explanations") can't be added to deep learning system. My point is you absolutely can add some steps at generally high cost. The argument is those sequence of small steps won't get you to the ideal of broad flexibility that the OP landing page outlines.
> I wonder if there might be some way for a developer to post their own hashes somewhere

Twitter, JSON/ATOM/RSS feeds, apps in privately hosted F-Droid compatible repos...etc
"taste of the wig"? I don't know that saying.. is it "wine"?
I disagree - the truth should never be harmed because lies are dressed in fancy clothes and the truth is a madman running through the streets in rags.

I am totally fine with bad faith actors making ad hominem attacks since it weakens their argument, but responses made in good faith should keep it civil to not erode their own argument. By the way, I can sympathize with you somewhat as this can essentially lead to sealioning[1] and that is extremely common elsewhere on the internet. But with strong moderation and flagging mechanics that actually work quickly on HN obvious sealioning can be quickly called out and quashed. I understand that some folks get their jollies by making low effort arguments and forcing others to put thought and time into crafting a well formulated counter argument - this will happen on the internet and it can be depressing to realize it after the fact but I think it's still worth it to try and craft well structured[2] responses when you can.

I don't actually disagree with this statement:

> Falsehoods do not deserve equal footing to truth.

and if I were running a talk-show called Hacker News then I wouldn't invite on folks with obviously racist viewpoints, but this is an internet forum where we can't pre-emptively screen participants. So I'd argue it's less about putting falsehoods on equal footing to the truth and more about making sure the truth of the truth isn't eroded by it coming out of a poor mouthpiece that biases opinions against it.

If someone wrote a comment that's obviously in error to you please do write a response highlighting what you think the problem was in a calm voice so that other people who might not notice the error can see it clearly spelled out. And do that because you're options are:

1. Respond in a sane tone

2. Respond with personal attacks or a poorly formed argument

3. Decline to respond

On that list is not the option to delete the comment you think it incorrect so, of the choices, I think #1 is by far the best option.

1. http://wondermark.com/1k62/ if you're unfamiliar with the term.

2. Well, except grammatically, I make no claims that my grammar is in any way well structured - sorry if it makes it hard to read!
Unreal Engine 4 FPS in the browser
The reason people like flashcard apps is not simply because they don't want to write with pen and paper, it is 1) they like spaced-repetition algorithms and 2) if you have a set consisting of many hundreds of cards (common in language learning) it much more convenient to carry one phone around than that pocket-bursting stack of cardstock.
I wonder if this post will be deleted
> looks more like some misguided worship to a single language

this pretty much sums up Rust atm. There is a lot of hard-core evangelizing which is off-putting imho. I still like the language but wonder if a rewrite for rewrite sake will convince the majority, considering this is a community effort and not a large org controlling the future of the language. Especially that there are other ecosystems like Zig or Nim that are pretty cool too and fit into a similar niche. Hard-core evanglism just feels like advise from somebody who's only tool is a hammer.

on the other hand I do remember the amount of marketing and advertising budget that Sun and later Oracle pumped into Java to make it fly in the late 90ies. They made deals with University professors to make sure the language is favored. It was a hype-shit machine unmatched by anything we've seen since (and when I use the word shit I mean your browser being hi-jacked and reconfigured with a new toolbar and a search engine simply because you installed a JRE. not too different from how malware behaves). It's not that early Java was terrible (though it certainly over-promised and under-delivered for over a decade) but if Java would have had to grow organically back then like Rust/Nim/Zig do today, then Java wouldn't have stood a chance. There were even ads at airports and on TV. Ads for a programming language during a time most people watching TV didn't know or care what computers are for!

So I'm quite glad that this is just a couple of people who are overly excited about what they do. We've had a lot more asymmetry with larg-corp sponsored garbage. Go Rust!! (and Nim and Zig)
If it didn't come with string attached why are people mad at the companies? Shouldn't they either be mad with their representatives who allowed such things?
Or businesses can increase their unlivable wages.

I am certainly willing to pay 30 cents more for my Big Mac so that the employee gets $15/h instead of 8
'syntax' is actually a useful term in this context. But this syntax works on token tree data. The token trees is the code as s-expression data.

The Lisp syntax then is defined for these token trees.

For example the syntax for an argument list in Common Lisp is defined with an EBNF syntax description form:

lambda-list::= (var*
[&optional {var | (var [init-form [supplied-p-parameter]])}*]
[&rest var]
[&key {var | ({var | (keyword-name var)} [init-form [supplied-p-parameter]])}* [&allow-other-keys]]
[&aux {var | (var [init-form])}*])
"2.8 million euros went to Peter Millones, the vice president. Nearly 20 million euros, mostly in shares, went to CFO David Goulden"

Goulden & Millones. You could not make this shit up.