skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the more interesting things about this article: although it starts out along the same tired, bogus blame-the-super-wealthy lines as a lot of these arguments, it does kind of admit that the cost of what it's calling for will come out of the quality of life of relatively ordinary people:

"But those in the economy with the power to do the dictating profit from the desperation of low-wage workers. One man’s misery is another man’s quick and affordable at-home lunch delivery.

...

Most Americans don’t think of themselves as benefiting from the poverty of others, and I don’t think objections to a guaranteed income would manifest as arguments in favor of impoverishment. Instead, we would see much of what we’re seeing now, only magnified: Fears of inflation, lectures about how the government is subsidizing indolence, paeans to the character-building qualities of low-wage labor...

...

Nor would these costs be merely imagined. Inflation would be a real risk, as prices often rise when wages rise, and some small businesses would shutter if they had to pay their workers more. There are services many of us enjoy now that would become rarer or costlier if workers had more bargaining power."

“Ultimately, it’s about us as a society saying these privileges and luxuries and comforts that folks in the middle class — or however we describe these economic classes — have, how much are they worth to us?” Jamila Michener, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, told me. “And are they worth certain levels of deprivation or suffering or even just inequality among people who are living often very different lives from us? That’s a question we often don’t even ask ourselves.”
Exactly. People shouldn't be free to do things rusty cans don't approve because our society is at stake here!

There's only one solution to each problem and it's what this wise, moral person is selling because if it works for them, then it's the only possible truth.
Thought experiment:

Imagine this spike protein, either from COVID or a vaccine causes a chain of events causing ones children to be infertile.

There are various environmental things that can cause offspring to be infertile, so the scenario isn't totally unreasonable.

We probably wouldn't figure that out for ~20 years.

By that point, probably 95% of earth's population will have been vaccinated or exposed.

For a newborn to be fertile, they need two non-affected parents. So the chances of that might be 0.05*0.05 = 0.0025.

What would society look like with a generation where 99.75% of people are infertile?

Luckily the chances of my hypothetical happening are nearly nil... But it's still scary!
The pro wrestling fan in me feels like freenode is purposely playing the heel to make people like libera. No idea why they would do such a thing, except maybe to drum up interest in IRC again?

But back in the real world. Some of the /. Comments are mentioning trademark infringement for seizing previously official channels. I wonder if any of the companies/orgs involved would care enough to bring their lawyers into it.
is that even a real quote? couldn't find a source in a google, except for quoting sites without sources.
doesn't sound like the pascal I've read on the Pensées at all, but maybe I'm wrong
I know for sure Shakespeare and Einstein have a lot of fake quotes atributed to them, and also Chaplin
It doesn't. It just sales ads well.

1) Report on a minor issues in Israel
2) Make it "world news"
3) Escalate the tension
4) Rip those clicks.

Do you think reporting on some stone throwing or a house eviction should be the top headline in CNN? These don't remotely compare to what's going on in Africa, Yemen or east Ukraine.
Well, you read quite a few comments of the form 'if they learnt from their own history'. Lets leave aside for a moment debates about Israel. This is a perverse attitude regardless of how innocent/guilty it is.

When people have been historically wronged, usually the moral burden is placed upon the perpetrators (and perhaps their descendants) and not the victims' descendants. Some African Americans act very badly (every population has its own criminals), but we don't ask them to 'learn lessons from slavery'. We ask white people inasmuch we ask this.

But in this case, it's only Jews that get this reply and somehow almost never the descendants of perpetrators of historical anti-Jewish atrocities. And this reply doesn't help Palestinians at all (I suspect it's strongly counterproductive), so it's not about them either.

I suspect the root of this is unresolved guilt, the unspoken argument is "see, you're as bad as we are!". Despite that the worst accusations against Israel don't come close to the scale of several historical atrocities against Jews.
Do Google/Alphabet/YouTube have an on-staff biology team who are actively publishing in the field to counter his information? Or are they doing take downs at the request of anonymous dissenters?

It is always strange the dichotomy of views here. Since COVID it seems to be trending towards "Question everything, except the current dogma".
> I know all this is true because my kids love the internet and find their place in it with all the joy I used to.

Yup. "Today's IRC" — the place for kids to idle around and make friends — isn't Discord; it's Minecraft. (Not that weird; Minecraft is a low-stakes graphical MUD, and MUDs have always served double-purpose as chatrooms.)

And "today's GeoCities pages" — shrines for an individual's personality, beliefs, and curated tastes — are now sprawling multimedia affairs split between a Twitch/YouTube streaming channel for community-engaged events; an Instagram/Snapchat for live stories/high-engagement lifelogging; a Discord/subreddit for async community engagement; and a Wordpress/Tumblr site with a comissioned custom theme to hold evergreen reference stuff, longform supplemental materials for videos, etc. (And maybe a Squarespace/Shopify/Redbubble store, too, if there's anything to sell; or a Bandcamp/Patreon, if the published online material is itself the thing to be sold.)

(Tangent: the number of different pieces of "heavy infrastructure" Internet plumbing required to make the modern approach to a "shrine of personality" work, should be a hint as to why people don't just make plain websites any more. They want to interact more with their audiences/fans/communities, and with higher fidelity, than a plain website / comments section / forum can offer; even more than a heavily-built-up Sandstorm.io instance could offer.)
I had a 25-pin parallel port version of Zip Drive. It worked great, but it was SLOOOOOOWWWWWWW. Burnable CDs were more practical not too long after & then I only used it on computers w/o a CD-ROM.
> No one is paying for studies where there is no money to be made later

A number of public and philanthropic groups write grants. I’ve written grants. And just because a commercial interest funds a study doesn’t mean it’s B.S.
> I guess you just won’t get traction on HN writing ‘Disasters I’ve seen in a monolithic world’.

Though I think mostly that is because the discussion there has been well trodden already. Microservice Architectures are relatively new, less completely explored, and less familiar to many.

There are new and interesting mistakes to make (the biggest two being to use this model where it is not at all appropriate, or cargo-culting and not really understanding what its advantages are so not actually taking advantage of them) where most of the "interesting" problems to be had in the monolithic world have been well documented for quite some time (which is why new models pop up, to try remove the potential for these problems in some, many, or even most, cases (anyone who says method X is better in all cases should be treated with deep suspicion)).
Yes. Ethical review boards, patient confidentiality, and modern clinical studies did not exist during any other pandemic comparable with SARS-CoV-2. Like in wartime, when the threat is to society as a whole not just individuals, individual rights take a back seat.
You mean figuratively, not literally.
if anything, for alienating so many users.
I trust them to respond to incentives, chief of which is to do things they think will keep them in office.

The problems come when doing right by their constituents is no longer the biggest thing that keeps them in office (e.g. instead of outspending opponents on marketing). Or when there are incentives that are hidden from the public.
Unless you show me a picture of him dressed in a clown suit, no he is not literally a clown.
Unfortunately, stale hashes are a worse problem in content-centric networks than dead links.

So Alice links to some content in Bob's site, but Bob made an embarrassing error and wants to update it. Very well, and Alice has to update the hash pointing to Bob's content: but now any hash pointing to Alice's content is stale, and so on, ad infinitum.

There are ways to solve this problem, but none of them force a linear forward history. Basically, you can request all Merkle chains featuring a base hash, and verify that Bob signed all of the branches, but only discipline can keep this collection in a linear order.

This is probably fine in practice, just follow the longest branch.

And now you have Secure Scuttlebutt!
That is really good news. Which makes it rather puzzling to read about the UK, where 62% has begun vaccination and 44% are fully vaccinated, still has concerns about removing restrictions on the 21st of June.

Seems like the issue is more psychological than rooted in science at this point.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/uk-could-delay-june-21-lifti...
The entire conversation has been uploaded to Bitchute

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qHjNQIynVb5O/
This is all about making money...including the covid vaccine. Covid is even more of a goldmine because they locked in special liability protections.

Big money has a decent amount of influence over what information is accessible to the general public. We're witnessing the modern version of burning books...but many are too WOKE to realize.
Ask HN: Has anyone got effbot.org archives?
As you might be aware, effbot.org went down sometime in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25254066 The Internet Archive didn't get everything.

Does anyone have a copy of any parts of effbot.org? I'm especially after the tkinterbook, but really the whole site's important. (The content is the most important part, with the original HTML coming second. A dodgy PDF rip of a mirror is better than nothing.)
That is probably true. Maybe "lasting friendships" was not exactly what I meant, anyway; maybe "sustained interactions" would be more like it. I think about the way people in the past, like the Wright brothers with Octave Chanute, Jefferson and Madison, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, corresponded over decades, bouncing ideas off each other and honing their arguments, encouraging each other and keeping each other grounded in reality, and I don't know if that happens to the same extent today, even though it would be far easier and faster. Maybe I'm generalizing from outstanding examples in the past, and it never happened on a broad scale, but I'm inclined to think it did, and we're the weaker for not carrying it on.
I'm willing to accept that people are going to believe whatever they would like to believe.

That's true. What matters is their underlying facts or beliefs that lead them to believe so. I choose to believe that Apple is being duplicitous here because historically, corporates have never been known to be ethical in their business practice nor benevolent when it comes to their competitors. There have been similar issues highlighted here on HN, and elsewhere, that shows that Apple is no different from Google or Microsoft or Amazon or any other tech corporate in hesitating to abuse their status against competitors or anyone disparaging them.
Does this account for slippage and taxes?
> Israel receives a disproportionately unique generous backing on all fronts by Western governments, therefore they deserve extra scrutiny and should be held to account above rogue foreign regimes

I just don't see how this has anything to do with it. News should be about important and influential events happening in the world (in theory, in practice it's about getting clicks), who cares about "unique generous backing" (which you are definitely exaggerating btw), the media shouldn't really care about that when deciding what is important.
Yup.. you don't really start to get hit by federal taxes bad until after that 150k mark. You'd still be getting wrecked by property taxes or rent and sales tax in my state though.
So you are asserting they don't want to benefit from both?
Can someone explain this in plain English? What's this fractal structure about? And what's critical state?
Sway isn't written in Rust, all C as far as I know. It's really great though! Highly recommend it if you're looking for a minimalistic and very practical window manager.
Thanks god doctors don't wait to have a random double blind experiment peer reviewed and published to act. I understand the practice of putting ICU patients on ventilators was found to be more harmful and following word of mouth, ICU specialists switched to less invasive care. Was that unethical?
This obsession with trying to somehow make the Buddha and his teaching as a branch of Hinduism falls flat on its face when you look at his teaching even cursorily. The central tenet of the Buddha's position was his exposition of anatta (not-self), which is directly opposed to all Hindu doctrines which preach that finding one's 'true self' is the goal of existence. Instead, the Buddha taught that the search for a 'true self' (including God, Brahman etc.) is futile and pointless. This is an irreconcilable cleavage between Buddhism and Hinduism.

You really need to look into the Buddha's teaching properly before trying to appropriate it to fit your agenda.
> testimonies from doctors all around the world that say it works spectaculary

I have no view on this drug. But this standard of evidence is useless.

Every substance-disease pair has positive testimony from doctors around the world. Ground tiger bones for cancer? Paprika for polio? Leeches for fever? tons of testimony. Totally worthless. What you need are quality studies.
I spent the entire day discussing this in a flame war with some arrogant asshole on Wikipedia, he seemed quite involved in tech so I hope that he sees this just to spite him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kory
To be very clear, I am not inviting a continuation of the flames.
Half right....
Their after tax is $70K. What’s their rent or mortgage? 3 kids, what do they pay for childcare?
Unix man pages are the pinnacle of documentation, and you'll never convince me otherwise.
Your regular homeowner's insurance policy covers diy everything. You've been talking to too many insurance salesman.
Perhaps I'm out of the loop but what does k-line mean?
I think they want to use freenode.net for something else. Maybe something blockchainy
Almost every blog I used to read 10–15 years ago has transitioned from a hobby to a form of content marketing or self-branding social media get-followers game. In that sense, a lot of the magic has disappeared. Maybe new people have taken their place and I just haven’t found them yet
Prescribing for what? Prozac, for example, is on-label approved for depression, ocd, panic disorder, bulimia and bipolar.

I do believe doctors use too many medications off-label although I acknowledge that FDA on-label approval can be a large barrier.
This looks like the same algorithm posted 2 days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477412
The author has 3 children, and that's a _household_ income of $150000. 150 grand is not a huge family income to support 2 adults and 3 kids; as a country, we give people tax breaks to encourage having children and to help support people who make that choice.

Calling this "Houdini-like" (author's words) tax hacking seems like a bit of a misunderstanding of deliberate social policy!
The only downside your possibly protecting people from is “false hope”, as the medication is very safe.

The possible up side you’ll miss is an actual treatment that prevents an unnecessary negligent massacre of elderly people.

Ivermectin was so effective early on that India gave it put for free to citizens early on in the pandemic. Many studies show it works well. The negative studies from the centralized institutes are possibly explained by regulatory capture and corruption.
If you want to screw Sony, there's no better way to do it than to buy a Playstation and use it only as a dumb media player. They make money licensing games, not selling the console itself.
A type of IRC ban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_operator#Ban_Types
I looked the man up, found an interesting tidbit, and posted it.

I can see how it comes off as me not liking him, but I really have no idea who he is, so I’ll explain why I posted that quote I saw:

If an individual is in question for taking non-standard stances in an academic field, then any history of non-standard stances from said individual in other fields, and responses to them, are relevant IMO.

If you disagree no worries, downvotes can reduce the opacity to zero.
This seems to say his proposed "Theory of everything" is lacking in several regards and not a good candidate for scientific or academic research. I don't see how that makes him a clown. He's interested in physics, educated in it, and made some effort to contribute that doesn't seem to have panned out. That strikes me as laudable behavior and not like a "clown".

Perhaps you'll say he is a clown because he really believed in his own theory or tried to promote his work. Again, I'd disagree. He should believe in his work, if he didn't believe in it he should do something else. If he does believe in it then advocating for his own seems natural and appropriate.

Regardless, this tweet is about YouTube censoring a discussion on the usefulness of ivermectin for covid patients. Eric Weinstein's physics ambitions hardly seem related.
I have heard lots of hand-waving arguments for why a deflationary currency is bad, but they have never made much sense to me.

A deflationary currency doesn’t mean no one will ever spend or invest. It simply means that there is less forced incentive to spend and consume in order to avoid inflation.

Inflationary currencies are like a tilted playing field, they artificially force savers to spend or invest in risky assets while skewing economic metrics to make the economy look better than it is.

While the gold standard was not deflationary, the relatively fixed supply resulted in strong stable economic growth until countries in Europe began secretly debasing their currencies in the run up to WWI.

Inflating fiat currencies gave the European countries the power to perpetuate the first endless war - I strongly believe if they had been forced to tax their citizens to pay for WWI instead of stealing the wealth of the people by inflation, the World wars would not have been so severe and so prolonged.
> I find this description quite unsettling because it is so common.

More importantly, the description isn't just found in trip reports. It's found throughout history, in reports of people who have had what are called peak experiences, sometimes involving trauma. There are many stories of prisoners in the literature, for example, who come to the realization that both the jailer and the jailed are the same.

Jack Kornfield is one of many who is famous for relating the story about how the person being tortured suddenly observes that the person torturing them is the same entity. I believe there are also many reports from concentration camps coming to the same conclusion. It's difficult for us to admit this, because normal waking consciousness would have us sort things into us and them, but there is a level of perception that one can reach, where the interconnectedness of all things is seen.

Many people tend to toss these things into religion or spirituality, but there's nothing supernatural about it at all, it's a biological and ecological reality. The question, however, that doesn't go away, is why are these peak experiences trying to communicate the same or similar ultimate truths to us, truths that seem to contradict and oppose the conditioning and programming of our dominant culture, which tells us we are separate from each other and should be fearful, aggressive, and violent.
I would think the recent concerns around myocarditis indicate there may be some reason to take the article's speculation about potential cardiac effects seriously.
Have you seen an increase in productivity?
Hey everyone, been working in quantitative finance for years professionally and for longer as a hobby.

In light of the WSB "movement" and the increasing power of retail traders, this is an algorithm that trades on the sentiment of WallStreetBets! More info in the repo readme on how it works, but would love to hear others' thoughts on this fun project :)
Just the wrong ones
I don't know much about the economics of drugs, but I've seen this type of statement a few times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496008
If McDonald's mistreats me, I can go to Wendy's or Burger King and get a similar meal for a similar price. When Youtube mistreats me, where am I supposed to go? BitChute? Vimeo? Neither of those have even half the creators as Youtube. And if creators want to migrate off Youtube, how are they supposed to do that when they'll get less than 10% of the audience on the other sites? Youtube's moat way is too deep to be threatened by any competition no matter how technically advanced the competition is.

Youtube is a monopoly and needs to be regulated as such. The electric company can't cut off my power because I was using their electricity to discuss experimental medications, so why should Youtube be allowed to deny me access to the online public square for the same reason? If Youtube wants to be the thought police of their users, they need to first allow an alternative to survive.
Well, I'm not a downvoter, but I would disagree with the idea that this is related to the OP. OP is looking at mathematical properties of informational structure of brain scans, whereas this is just describing what people see when they trip. There's no reason the geometry of what you hallucinate should be related to the geometry of cortical activity while you see it.
I agree with you and wish that were an option, but I do think most build tools will tree shake for you nowadays.
Love it when Wikipedia states something as authoritative fact and then links to a biased opinion site by an uncredentialed author.
What's wrong with having a theory? When did science start to mean scientism?

The guy is clearly very bright. Perhaps you missed where he talked about the same theory with nobel laureate Roger Penrose.

Just because he might not be right about an extremely complex and hard to follow idea doesn't mean he shouldn't be studying it, discussing it, and engaging about it.
You're right, PyUnicode_InternInPlace (which is called by sys.intern) already caches results using a regular Python dictionary, so @functools.cache wouldn't add any value.

It happened a long time ago, but I think I misread something about sys.intern not being able to handle lots and lots of strings, so I added an extra layer of caching, but it looks like it's not needed anymore.

[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Objects/unicodeo...
I think the whole situation reminds me a little of what happens with the monetization of OSS.

Awesome developers create some OSS that catches on. They gain a huge amount of traction and goodwill. Monetization follows, forks happen. The OSS is forked into a crippleware "community edition", and a premium version.

Except in this case:

Numerous awesome folks create groups of communities on a service. They gain a huge amount of traction and goodwill. Rogue monetization effort follows, forks happen. Community flees a new not-so-benevolent dictator.

Such a sad situation, particularly for the folks that invested so much time in nurturing these communities, and the platform itself.