skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Silicon Valley Thought India Was Its Future

I'm a bit skeptical. I'd imagine SV thought India was one country out of the 200+ their services are available in and if one of those 200 changing governments pass bad laws then whatevs, a developing countries manager can do a press release or something.
> It’s that you understand that before something is believed it goes through a rigorous system of fact checking / experimental confirmation

To be honest, the way you’ve phrased this makes it sound like you’ve totally bought in to state secular scientismic dogma.

The entire concept of “fact checking” (outsourcing your rational facilities to journalists and e-celebs) is diametrically opposed to actual scientific thought.

It’s also completely false that before “something is believed” (by which I think you mean is ensconced as scientismic dogma by the cathedral) it is subject to actual “experimental confirmation” (under any reasonable interpretation of that term). How many times has the FDA changed the official “nutrition science” dietary recommendations over the last 50 years? The entire time, they’ve claimed their approach has been evidence-based, which may be true in some narrow sense, but the predictive confidence of their claims are so bad and noisy that they keep changing the official “scientific” beliefs.

This is not unique to nutrition. Many politically relevant fields have very strong-sounding dogmatic claims made from on high with what is actually extremely weak evidence.
>Use computer models first as much as possible

Are we not doing this already? I would assume this is even cheaper than producing the thing and testing it. And I'm not sure how confident I would be with computer models since we don't know a whole lot about how biology works enough to simulate it (given the simulation would mostly be trying to replicate previous potentially flawed studies)
> You can have forms on Gemini.

As far as I see this doesn't cover most uses of forms, since its result should be appended to the URL with `?` and the URL is limited to 1024 bytes.
> Also my understanding is that quantum can only reduce complexity by sqrt, so 2^256 problem is reduced only to 2^128 which is unsolvable.

The sqrt speedup is for Grover's unstructured search algorithm, which is the only known quantum speedup for breaking hash functions such as RIPE160 protecting public keys in P2PKH. So it would still take on the order of 2^80 quantum steps to find a hash preimage.

But to find the private key corresponding to a given public key, Shor's algorithm provides exponential speedup, so a large scale quantum computer would completely break ECDSA.

There are large amounts of bitcoin protected only by P2PK (i.e. without the RIPE160 hash), or protected by P2PKH with already known public keys (from widespread key reuse), so Bitcoin would be quickly destroyed by successful application of Shor's algorithm alone.

That said, I consider projections of large scale quantum computers existing within 10 years wildly optimistic, even more so than nuclear fusion being "just a few decades away".
Specism is based on several flawed assumptions.

We decide humans are superior to other animals because we are humans, and us>them.

We also decide that because we are superior, we have all rights to do anything to members of "inferior" groups.

But:

- Superiority is at least debatable and strongly depends on the criteria used fot comparison;

- There is absolutely no discernable logical link between being "superior" and having a right to do anything to the "inferior" beings. (For example, a human adult is "superior" to a human infant; but it doesn't give them the right to torture it.)

We torture animals because we can, and because we don't think about it. But it won't last, because the more we think about it, the less acceptable it becomes.
The Christian world is only ~2000 years old. What evidence is there for a 500 year cycle?
And then the MiG-35S came along with an K-74M (or R-27ET) and the F-35 pilot wondered why they were drifting down in a parachute to the ocean. 13SM-1 FLIR FTW.
If the common narrative was that you should jump from a plane, apparently you would do so without stopping to question it for yourself.
What computer models? I can imagine that it is possible to predict some already known toxicological mechanisms for similar molecules. But we're certainly not even close to anywhere where we could predict unknown toxicological interactions.

And in vitro tests are very limited in that area. Of course they're still done and useful, but they can't replace animal tests. And testing on paid volunteers is still ethically problematic, you're targeting pretty desperate people if you remove animal experiments which could detect toxic compounds.
There is no computer model that is even close to being accurate enough. Science actually understands very little about the human body on a very micro scale.
I like how the article starts with talking about software, because I find the case for ethical software, and ethical treatment of animals to be linked.

There should be no animal exploitation. If humans want human things they should test on humans which volunteer to be tested on. Everything else is exploitive to others.
Faith is fine (in god, democracy, veganism, open source or a political party - whatever). Blind faith (= ideology) is a problem.
Much of the problem comes from the fact that there is insufficient incentive for the studies to be effective in the first place. The sample size issue is real and often justified due to a lack of resources, but this results in minimum publishable units which are anecdotal and an over-reliance on meta-studies which attempt to aggregate these positively-biased results. Increasing the sample size is not always possible, but sometimes there are alternative trial designs which can yield different but more reliable outcomes.

Another aspect of effectiveness comes from whether the animal studies are actually designed to advance anything at all. For example, if the goal is to develop an imaging technique in humans, then the purpose of animal experiments is primarily to confirm that the idea is not wrong, debug the machinery and protocols, and generally get things to the point that the system is no longer the point of failure when running experiments on humans. Instead it is common to see series of publications on new imaging methods and contrast agents which grind away at small animals with no visible attempts to progress upward, which pushes back the time at which you can actually learn how the system works. Publishing this way is far safer but ultimately pointless: drugs for Alzheimer's is a classic case of optimizing for animals and completely missing in humans.

This is at least partly why pre-registration of experiments is becoming normalized, as it is in human clinical trials. The goal here is to require basic statements of purpose and methods prior to execution, such that it is possible to improve the (often quite expensive and time-consuming) experiments beforehand and not during the manuscript review process. Many research groups lack this internal quality control and as a result some institutions are stepping in to require or provide it.
IIUC, you are proposing

computers -> petri dishes -> people

Whereas the status quo is

computers -> petri dishes -> animals -> people

So you think safety testing should be less rigorous?
And my point is that your personal annoyance with the nature and content of information in public forums isn't a valid basis for legal censorship.
What if the human dies in 10% of experiments? What if it's 90%?
Remember Zip Drives and the click of death? MD would have been amazing especially if you could have just bought the same MD as the music.
Teaching an online programming course: my experience
Million Short is a nice way to find some of these old websites. It lets you remove the first million search results from your query:

https://millionshort.com

The thing I really miss about the old Internet are forums. Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and other social media sites lack a certain intimacy. Everyone is somewhat hostile by default and there is no incentive to contribute to the community. It's very different and a lot less fulfilling than the Internet forums circa ±2000-2005.
There's still ~75,000 results on google for that string. At least a few thousand are still /guestbook/ pages.
One solution would be to have desired levels of zoning and base taxes on desired level of zoning of the plot. Each level of zoning would have a per m^2 value and is assessed for the entire neighborhood.

For example, you start with detached single family home zoning. As it is not very dense the rate will be very low so that it is affordable. Once house prices go up in value and row houses and duplexes become viable you raise the desired level of zoning so that duplexes and row houses have the minimal tax burden. Next step would be x stories of apartments. Again the tax is set so that x story apartment buildings have the smallest tax burden per unit. There would be a tax burden per unit (2 different rates for houses and apartments) for the neighborhood on which the actual zoning prices are based on.

E.g. One apartment pays 5k means zoning for 10 apartments will charge $50k. You can still build a single family home if you can afford that tax. Most won't.

This forces popular neighborhoods to provide more housing and punishes land owners that do not improve the value of the property built on top of the land.
I have been playing with the idea of making good old internet portal. A curated list of links to the good stuff. No FB, medium, Instagram or anything like that.
No, editions require explicit activation and the "default" edition will remain forever at 2015, i.e. Rust 1.0.

This is in contrast to C and C++ compilers like GCC and Clang, where the default "std" setting is often updated with new releases.
The title of the article when I visit is "America without God" and it's subtitle is one of many sweeping statements about humanity that I've seen debated by Americans that seem a bit parochial when considering the global context.
Or human rights
...any performance measurements from before this transition aren't compatible with those after it, since I'm building different things with a different toolchain.

Yes, but this would have been true even if there had been no rust errors or incompatibilities. You upgraded your rust compiler, so you're no longer comparing like with like.
Rust editions aren't supposed to break old code, the entire point is that unless you modify your Cargo.toml (or the arguments you pass to rustc if you aren't using cargo) then everything keeps working like it did previously.
It's been that way at least since the mid-sixties. I recommend going back to the early written material. By learning which parts of what was hard then are still hard now, we get a sense of where to focus our efforts.

(As far as I've been able to tell, only three real problems have been solved since 1968: we have faster computers, higher level languages, and version control.

All the other software engineering problems are just as hard now as they were then: We're still struggling with skill drain to management, thinking knowledge workers are fungible, team organisation, verifying features with users before building them, choosing proper abstractions, testing for reliability and understanding, resource management, documentation, modeling the domain clearly, prototyping the right way, and so on.
Yes true, but that's not required. You can still distribute apps, and your users can just "right click" and click "open", though this might be a little secret, since most people think they need to go into system preferences.
Summary: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz
You are correct, if you could build a computer model that could even somewhat predict the efficacy of a drug you would instantly become the wealthiest person in the world.
I do believe you're conflating high-bandwidth content with high-quality content.
And that poor people who take up these positions should be the first line of defense in testing.
Lets also consider how much more money and brainpower would be redirected to the development of significantly more advanced technologies if experimentation on animals was to be even partially banned. Things like more advanced simulations, tissue/organ engineering and better non-invasive testing of humans. "Necessity is the mother of invention" and currently animal testing is often the "easy" and "obvious" way to do something.
NFL theorems aren’t an argument about noise, they’re an argument about the uncountability of real numbers. NFL states that over all problems any optimization method performs equally poorly to any other, or equivalently, _that if an optimization method does well on some problems, it must do equally poorly on some other problems_, and those others aren’t necessarily noise, they could be anything. The problem is you don’t know which problems it is going to do poorly on in advance. You hope it does poorly on noise or on problems that you don’t care about, but you can’t tell. That is a very different statement than what you’re saying, and it’s as equally non-trivial as Godels and Turings statements in decidability.
Yes, this is the whole reason they designed Raptor and get methane via the Sabatier reaction [1]. If you want to get back from Mars, you won't find tanks of RP-1 but you can make methane from abumdant CO2 and water (with solar arrays) which is available on Mars

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Unless of course your goal is to benchmark the difference between rust compilers, or maybe between software built with up to date compilers in general.
> if it is to extend that ban to other countries the author should say so

The article explicitly states this in no uncertain terms as the final sentence in the paragraph you are talking about: "I see no good reason that [animal testing for cosmetics] should not be banned totally and everywhere."

I agree that the article is unfocused. However for the specific issues you are mentioning here, it is simple to search the article to see if the author has covered the relevant point you are making.
>At least you're totally wrong thinking we buy manual because they're simple enough we can modify them :D We're 70M people where I come from, 95% of cars are manual, never ever heard this one.

And 400M people with manual in Europe, where an equal share (95% or so) is manual. And 99% of the people seldom if ever "modify" or hot-rod their cars.

That's more of an American thing, in the country where they have the automatics as the first choice.
I wonder how uneasy this sort of nicely documented and packaged user-space networking and nat traversal is making IT admins. It seems like it's pretty easy to, for example, create an internet facing service that pulls from internal company data sources. With user-space tunnels that probably aren't very easy to find from the IT admin perspective.

I get that Tailscale didn't invent this capability, but they do a nice job of showing how it would work, some of the pieces (wireguard-go), and so on.

They do seem aware: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/204
>New York is a wild place.

I had family in the East Village, spent many a summer in the city throughout the late 70's - 80's. It was very different from what most folks experience today, I don't think the under 40 crowd understands what Giuliani did for that city and how he basically made it safe and livable. It was like an insane asylum before him and anyone who spent some time there can attest to that. The experience was sort of like a war you fought, the place tried to kill you but fuck no, you were going to do everything you could to get out alive. Haven't been back for around 30 years, still have a little PTSD when it comes to that place...hahaha....
It's covered in the post linked to in my comment.
No, 'printing money' does not mean physically printing banknotes.
> history of successful testing on animals that led to drugs that help reduce human suffering

By causing the suffering of living, sentient beings. There's a clear and obvious slippery slope here.
How would you have done this? USB wasn't around in the mid-90's, so you would have needed something that plugged into a serial port.

Would that have been that much worse than just running a 3mm cable from the MiniDisk headphone out to the computer's mic/line in? Or was Sony somehow preventing that?

I played around a lot with music trackers (production tool) during this time and often did the reverse so I could hear my productions on other stereos or in the car -- that is running computer output to a tape deck and recording to tape. This was obviously before CD burners were affordable.
> if there would be no commercialization, internet for masses would still be a silly toy.

Sure, but part of the fun of the old internet was that it was a silly toy that people didn't take too seriously, at least most of the time, there were definitely still some flamewars stemming from people taking things way too seriously.
I appreciate your reasoned response and agree with you. I would add, though, that there seems to be enough evidence that, at least for some people, that the vaccines can cause significant harm. Additionally, for many age cohorts, that risk of harm outweighs the benefits of the vaccine.
I think we will never know what the reasoning behind the two bombs really was. I could imagine that after using large scale carpet and fire bombing against civilian targets, a nuclear bomb with a similar effect doesn't make much of a difference.
The author insinuates that the breakage is intentional, but I'm not convinced that it is. For instance, one of the cited issues is that newer cargo versions cannot parse the old Cargo.toml. However, as far back as 2016 cargo was maintaining backwards compatibility when making bug fixes to its TOML parsing. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2680
The algorithm is buying when the market cycle is low and selling when it is high.

Right now it is high. So the algorithm suggests that you must hold until it is higher.

Generally, real-estate is a way of preserving wealth rather than creating it. Good luck.
I had a friend with zero programming experience who put up a simple webpage for her small business in 1995 with just a text editor and some photos.

Yes, it was much simpler. And it was encouraged, because most ISPs offered free web page hosting - including a free URL, and email - with an access account.

Wordpress is a nightmare in comparison. And a fully engineered blog stack is far beyond the reach of most users.

You could argue that the modern equivalent is a Facebook page, but of course web pages were fully public. You were in a public space, under your own name, limited only by your willingness to learn some very basic HTML.

It's a completely different experience to being in a privatised space with its own content management tools, which you only have very limited user level access to.
+1 for "Welcome to the Internet". I was thinking exactly of that song when I read the post!
Ada has been around since the 1980s and works in this space; see for example Muen separation kernel: https://muen.sk/
What did the researchers eat in medieval Sicily?
I imagine the only real way to do such a thing would be to simulate physics on an atomic level and have a perfect atomic map of the body. Which we are no where near achieving yet. But once we have that sorted, all kinds of incredible simulations could be done.
It's pretty common that I have to deal with support issues that were fixed six months ago, but the client has never taken an update in all that time...
The worst of those I've had was a message that asked "What is your current salary?", while saying nothing whatsoever about the role they have. Not even whether it was a tech role.

To add a cherry on top, they began with "I'm a headhunter and my client has asked me to contact you specifically..."

I engaged with that one, but only enough to confirm that the client hadn't asked for me, that nobody had read my profile, and the recruiter was not a headhunter.
If I had to distill four decades of "mass Internet" transformation into one phrase:

Independent creator culture (1980-2000), converted into mass consumer culture (2000-2010), and then back into taxed creator culture within walled ecosystems (2010-2020).
Yes, but suppose I'm on a 200 bytes per second long distance radio link. One average UTF8 encoded page would perhaps take 10 seconds to load. With zstd or brotli compression it would take half the time.

For ultra low power computing (for solar power) with zstd or brotli decompression support in a gemini client it would for example be doable on a raspberry pico running fuzix driving an e-ink display with keyboard.
https://liliputing.com/2021/05/picomputer-kit-turns-a-raspbe...
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-qt-py-2040
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adafruit-qt-py-rp2040-r...
The roman analogy to 4chan is bathroom graffiti, not Tacitus. The modern analogy to Tacitus is not 4chan but, but today's establishment journalist or historian.

So this exhibition, this essay, and your comment are way more subversive then you suggest. To use bathroom graffiti as evidence against Tacitus is like using a 4chan post as evidence against something written by an establishment journalist or historian.
> Powershell has some improvements on top of the Unix model because it saw the benefits of the Unix model and the costs of it.

yes, the pattern is to have some internal normalized generic-enough data structure on which pipes will operate.
Then all you need is the ability to convert non-normalized input sources into it, and the same with the output formats.

BTW: the UNIX pipes forks the processes, but Windows' CMD.com was executing the stages in the pipeline sequentially, not sure about PowerShell.

> the gui world has nothing like the productivity of either system.

I think Tcl/Tk is kind of GUI glue. It's very easy to build a GUI front-end for an existing CLI commands / scripts.

EDIT: also COM/OLE, ActiveX, JavaBeans were promising code re-use for GUIs
Oh, I see. I only vaguely remembered some changeset regarding it. I must have been mistaken, then, and it's still in use.

In any case, sneakily using nightly features can make using a different Rust version problematic, since these features are free of any stability guarantees.

Arch Linux carries a rather large patch updating some vendored dependency in order to make Firefox 78 compile with a newer Rust. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages...
Some (most even that is relevant day to day?) is quite easy to validate and yet we still have flat-Earthers.
No doubt that S. Jobs met criteria for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder 2012
I assume they are talking about the USB-enabled MD players of the early 2000s
I ran across this little gem recently:

> Git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.

* Isaac Wolkerstorfer, https://twitter.com/agnoster/status/44636629423497217
Apologies, if I had pegged you all wrong.

> manager makes a huge and arbitrary change

This is a violation of agreed upon terms, though. Same as feature creep. Again, most managers are just looking for work theatre, rightfully afraid they'll be found out for the imposters they are.

This behavior is extremely demotivating. "why I couldn't motivate myself to write html." - maybe you are right and you can't write html under these circumstances?

Leave out the adhd, maybe customer support is just something you absolutely do not want to do, so where is the motivation supposed to come from?
This, and especially #3.

Having the same cookie used on a different computer should be the reddest flag of them all. This could be identified by the user agent (different version of the Slack client) and a different IP (cookie accessed from a different country than it was originally created).