skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand what I'm saying; I know that businesses will do awful things because they are incentivised to do so. I have a pretty poor image of people who think the market will fix everything, almost as poor as that of people who think the government can fix everything. My point is that creating laws is only one incentive-change option, and historically it hasn't worked very well. There's a whole discipline called complexity science dedicated to (among other things) understanding how we can intervene in complex things like the economy or the environment, when they're going wrong, in order to move towards a more favourable outcome. What happens if we make a law saying "ruining the environment is now illegal", and it continues to happen? We just sit back and say "ah well, we did the best we could"? It's simply not good enough; you could give out the death sentence for ecocide and it will still happen because it's not happening out of malice, it's a side-effect of the current state of our world and economy.
I can't see how you'd even begin to think that.
I've got a lot of respect for Kanye. Not only as an artist, but as a public figure who doesn't shy away from the complexity of ideas and situations. He's flowing through his thought process in real time and putting it all on display. It often has a rough-around-the-edges quality to it that most public figures would conceal or hold off on sharing.

We're often watching his sense-making as it happens. I like that. It's vulnerable. It's sincere, and it doesn't settle for easy answers. His candor and honesty are refreshing and it makes him stand out among the rest of us who often fall-short of expressing what we feel or what we want to say. I find it something to aspire to.

That said, I don't think these qualities would be nearly as charming if I didn't also feel that he was fundamentally striving to be an excellent human being. There are many public figures with no filter, but so often I find they're lacking a certain... spiritual integrity or purity of purpose. I say this as an agnostic with no horse in any religious race. I think Kanye's heart is in the right place, where he's trying to be an example for others and also elevate them.
I mean, that’s only twice as fast. Industrial real-time needs far, far shorter response times.
This particular annoyance has made me a huge fan of Elm's (and other languages') JSON decoders, and specifically No Red Ink's JSON decoding pipeline. All the type safety I could ever want and no falling back to writing defensive JS to maintain safety at runtime.
You should do both.
Could you argue your point a bit more than directing people to a book? You've listed what you disgree with, now's the time to back up your claims.
I think these are for footpaths not stations.
You made me laugh. And, spicy. Well you know I would take your bet, unfortunately I think the crypto market will indeed be dead in 10 years, but for completely different reasons. You took my own position, you just didn't know it because you were too busy forcing a position on me. If you read what I wrote, I'm talking impact of blockchains here, not the market for tokens. All of the haters have the same talking points.

So I will take a bet on crypto in 10 years that actually IS in accordance to my actual views. There will still be more than one cryptocurrency in widespread use (endorsed by nation-states or in wider usage) in the world by 2031. I'll call that bet up to $10,000 2021 USD, inflation-adjusted in the year 2031. I've added a way to reach me on my about profile. Reach out and I'll formalize a contract over for you to have notarized and return to me. A cousin of mine is a lawyer so it'll be air tight.

Your second bet is even more vague and useless to haggle over, "scares everyone away", what does that mean, exactly. Too much wiggle room, I don't see a way to nail you down offhand, so I'm not interested in that one.

I wasn't trying to "argue" with the Dropbox reference, I said it simply reminded me of that moment.. as I believe you couldn't be more blatantly and obviously wrong.

Looking forward to taking your money as I have a child on the way that will need it by that point. I'll accept your payment in the cryptocurrency that you'll be using in 2031 as well.
This is so lazy of them. Probably the next phase will drop from the list of priorities and maybe come back if there will be too much noise in the media.
They should begin with the design having disabled people in mind.

I hate when some people are being treated like second class citizens.
Not sure when you last paged into IPFS - the team has made some pretty awesome performance improvements in the past year and seen strong adoption to match (ex, nearly all NFTs are stored on IPFS today).

Definitely check out the IPFS 0.9 release from last week if you haven't seen it! Has some MASSIVE speed ups to IPNS propagation - we're talking less than a second resolution now! There's also a new experimental DHT client that can provide 30M records in about 2.5 hours (which the folks at nft.storage are using reliably at scale). -- https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/releases/tag/v0.9.0
Consider this graph of US healthcare spending acceleration:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

Spending and costs are distinct, of course, but they're related, and you'll see spending track costs directly unless there's a factor that increases/decreases demand for services

What do we see? An acceleration bump in 2014/2015, and then it settles back into data whose variation is much like pre-ACA dynamics. 2014 would have been when the exchanges and wide reach of access went into effect. The spending acceleration bump was almost certainly people who didn't have access before using medical services.

The idea that the ACA drove some kind of unprecedented increase in costs doesn't track:

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...

And lots of stocks rose when Biden was nominated (and elected). Sensible leadership prospects have their own positive effect on enterprise.
So basically FTC got lazy and instead of filing proper complaint with data and proof of alleged FB monopoly, they filed something like "Dude, you know FB is kinda monopoly and stuff, right? That's not cool, dude!". Which is basically means they had one job and they couldn't do it properly. We're living in a strange situation where federal government has vast powers but it's too incompetent to actually use them.
That seems quite reasonable for the NL. At least for myself, here in the States, I'd be happy to push my bike for a few feet rather than have to go miles out of my way or ride on a super busy street to cross a railroad. Of course, if we still had railroads in the US. But crossing busy roads is an issue here.
The answers to questions like this are always extremely simple - it is better for their business.
I had never heard of them so I just went and took a look at the front page of BitChute, and holy shit, that's gonna be a no from me.
If you travel by train in the UK you'll soon realise how many stations are in fact in open countryside or between housing estates
Exactly. I'm not sure how many more 'accidents' or 'mistakes' does it take to realise that they are the problem and it's time to seek alternative platforms instead of YouTube to combat this.

It has gotten to the point where it is affecting everyone, no matter the content.

They just happen to be one of the most aggressive ones and the best part is they frequently change 'The Algorithm' which is a nickname for YouTube's 'recommendation's engine' to enforce this. Thus, the smaller creators are meant to lose against the established channels (Which are the TV, cable networks)
I'm okay with YouTube allowing porn, so long as it's legal. Why not? I mean, I understand why they don't want that as a business, but I feel it would benefit most consumers. You could just choose not to use it. I think there are far worse things (from an outrage perspective, obviously subjective) than porn on YouTube already.
Shrug it's happening throughout technical circles, at least in the English-speaking world. It's one thing to try to push back against politics that you feel are harmful and disenfranchising, in purely political or social forums. It's another when technology forums develop taboos on what technology you can and cannot discuss. I agree it's cultural, but folks who are immersed in the culture don't seem to be willing to call it that. I'm really looking forward for this to be "over" so that the internet can have nuanced discussions about technology again.
I've long dreamed of the write-only filesystem.
You'd hate the iPhone. Wayyyy more updates, ad ridden app store, creepy relationship with China and the US government (PRISM).
On HN it seems like there is a huge anti-US/sinophile presence which seeks to elevate any achievement, no matter how minor or retread, as if it were some major accomplishment done in spite of insurmountable purposeful opposition by the evil colonial empire building westerners. When even the slightest accomplishment is so outlandishly propagandized it becomes hard to view actual ones in their proper light. Especially when it’s unclear whether they’re “standing on shoulders” or simply trying to pass the shoulders off as their own.
What is more dangerous? A government lying to you to protect the country or their power or an obsessed hacker who wants to expose all secrets with little or no consideration of the consequences. The truth is somewhere between these two extremes.
Every place I've ever worked, everyone knew who the slackers were. No assessments were necessary. It's pretty much impossible to hide incompetence from your coworkers.
I did not "paint everyone who supports a certain policy with a broad brush". I specifically stated:

> a lot of my other immigrant friends agree on

A lot is not the same as all. And based on my anecdotal experience, majority of them disagree with this.

> out of the context of what I would consider hate speech. I think this can be handled on a case-by-case basis

"consider" and "think" being the important words in your comment. So you are agreeing that this is subjective. That's the problem with "subjective" laws. They get twisted to suit whatever political party or affiliations of the judges making decisions want.

Christians not wanting to see Jesus represented as gay in a comedy show will use this power to censor it:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-ordered-to-take-...

Muslims not wanting to see Allah in drawings will use this power to censor it.

If you are pro-life, you can make the case that abortion is racist based on the origins of Planned Parenthood and number of black babies which are aborted. If you are pro-choice, you can make the case that abortion is part of women's rights and therefore any criticism is sexist.

Similar to the other examples I already stated about women being hurt and called transphobia for speaking out against biological men in women sports or Palestine / Israel censorship. Criticism of China's slave labour Uyghur camps, or lab leak theory or wet markets will (and has been already) get labelled xenophobic.

When asked about whether CCP could be trusted and whether he would commit to ending research collaboration with China, Trudeau responded with "diversity" and about "xenophobia, racism" and attacks on Chinese people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqo16fveYD0

So can such government be trusted with "subjective" laws?

As someone else perfectly stated:

> "The true test of any bill of this nature is to hand it over to your enemies to run. If you wouldn't be comfortable with the X administration defining "hate speech", you shouldn't be comfortable with Y defining it either."

And I haven't even addressed the sheer impossibility of enforcement of such legislation on the internet without operating a full spying of citizens. How exactly will one track down online comments on anonymous message boards or alias accounts on social media? It's impossible to achieve without giving the government more spying power resources.

The "porn ban" in India already was a complete failure. Doing the same with speech will end up with the same fate eventually.

Censoring "offensive" things is simply hiding it under the rug. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. More speech to counter the "incorrect" speech is the solution. Let people say offensive things so everyone knows who they are and can counter it with "correct" speech or at least know whom to avoid. Trying to "fine" it will just let them move over to anonymous message boards and even deeper echo chambers. This legislation will create more anonymous echo chambers.
Though it does eventually roll a 6 almost always.

Which is math speak for 100% of the time.
> What is making Scrolldown more 2d than markdown? Is it just the extendibility?

You hit the nail on the head. The extendibility is the key thing. In Scrolldown every little piece of content is in its own little scope. It's like every block is it's own little file written in one of many different grammars. These all compose effortlessly. This is the early days, but I expect there to be thousands of little "micro-grammars" for use by people using Scroll. For example, you might have a microgrammar for making flow charts, or making interactive observablehq/worrydream/jupyter like documents, or quick sims, or blueprints, or audio content, or slide shows. It's sort of like web components done right.

> I also noticed your example grammar often contains a lot of js code.

The idea with Grammar is to keep refining the language and hoisting as many patterns into pure 2D/Tree languages as possible. But I have to use resources judiciously, and strike a balance between research and deliverables. Folks have started Tree Notation implementations in languages like Kotlin and Swift, and when/if there turns out to be a need to have something like a Kotlin Grammar interpreter, then at the time it would make sense to iterate on Grammar so the `javascript` blocks are instead a DSL. You can see that is a bit in progress with the `compiler` nodes; but have gone with the hacky `javascript` bits in many places just for pragmatic reasons.

> So it's not intended as different language but as data model with built in JavaScript? Kinda like a more modern XSLT?

Grammar started out as a POC but evolved into something pretty practical. Sort of an ANTLR for 2D languages. But sometimes I still just hard code the parser/compiler for a language from scratch. They are generally pretty simple.
This design has distilled the hatred of Tories towards disabled people.
Yes it's essentially CorpTube now for any kind of news topics, they promote all the content providers who already have tremendous societal reach over everyone else by default.
Btw, I was going to reply to the other one to say that I think we do agree on like 95% of our stances haha.

Thanks for your thoughts! Interesting read - both here and the other thread!

Re: housing, btw, it's a bit more complicated. On average, on an inflation-adjusted $/sqft basis, housing in America costs exactly what it did in 1973. [1] However, a few things have changed - mostly zoning related.

In rural areas, houses are now twice as big, and the average family is smaller. This is likely attributable to zoning: minimum size, setback, etc.

In urban areas, city councils refused to permit construction to meet demand - to the benefit of existing landowners. San Francisco added half as much new housing stock as necessary to meet the demand in the area over the last few decades. [2]

Japan is a great counter-example, where housing has remained incredibly affordable - even in Tokyo. Likely attributable once again to zoning rules. They have national zoning rules which permit housing in every zone. [3]

IMO housing is not deflationary because you can always build up, so while each square foot of ground space may appreciate, the price of usable square footage in aggregate doesn't have to.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage

[3] https://marketurbanism.com/2019/03/19/why-is-japanese-zoning...
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I too have wondered about this. The only thing I can come up with is that it takes a lot less effort not to reply to the challenge. The urge to prove someone wrong is the other side of the coin for the trolling problem. People wouldn't fish if others didn't take the bait.
>No way around it, they have a responsibility to moderate and monitor.

i'm uncomfortable with the guidelines for that responsibility being decided upon by a third party corporation rather than a state/country level government regulator.

these guidelines are what dictate the citizens perceived reality in many cases; is it sane&safe to compel corporations with biased motivations to be the ones who decide on that perceived reality?

Personally I disagree with corporations controlling thought and dissent; I believe it to be outside of their scope, and I think that their acting as moral judge is both biased and dangerous to society-at-large -- this isn't to say I disagree with the control, I disagree with who is at the reins and what their (probably temporary) priorities may be at the time of control.
We needed a security-first interactive front-end. So we used Phoenix Live View
PipeWire 0.3.31 latency numbers updated
Parachute Pants and Central Bank Money
Would an audit even make sense here? Based on some Googling, I found this as an explanation for the difference:

> One of the things to keep in mind to differentiate each of these services is that audits are performed to discover data, risks, or compliance issues that may not have been known before the audit took place, and attestation is to evaluate and review how true the data or information is when compared to a stated purpose, internal control or system. [0]

Based on that reading, it sounds like an audit wouldn't make sense here, since we're not trying to discover anything new, just asserting a statement to be true.

[0] - https://www.ispartnersllc.com/blog/defining-attestation-assurance-auditing/
Twitters new-ish feed refresh with out ask on mobile is a good example of this. While reading a tweet your feed will refresh shoving you anywhere between 10 and 100 tweets up on your feed. If I really wanted to see what I am reading I have to scroll back down through my already witnessed feed.
I haven't written about it before, but happy to share.

The way I made the crossover work is that normal text was all lower case alphanumeric. This is similar to Teeline shorthand, from which I borrowed ideas heavily. Because all symbols were alphanumeric, it could work in either medium.

The next step was to figure out how to make this effective in handwriting. Typing letters is easy, but writing them varies in difficulty/time. Again I borrowed from Teeline. I created a written symbol for each character that minimized pen strokes. "k" for example is just a sideways "v," which saves the vertical stroke. "m" is just an arch. I also ignored unnecessary letters, so the word "letters" could be shortened to "ltrs."

The final step was finding a way to shorten the most common English words and character strings. I came up with 2 mechanisms: capitalization and spacing. This turned out to be really flexible. A "g" just means "g," but "G" can mean different things depending on whether it's in a word or spaced alone. So in a word it replaces "ing," but standalone it is the word "get." So let's say I wanted to write the sentence:

"I am going to the store to get a bag of potatoes."

I could type this:

i gG t T str t G a bg ptatos

(A final question you might have: how did I capitalize those handwritten symbols? I decided not to make a whole other set of unique symbols, but instead just put a little apostrophe, as in (m'), or "m prime.")

EDIT: I have also started using some of the symbols on the keyboard to symbolize project planning, and I use these in handwriting too. "%" is chance or odds, "!" is an experiment or prototype, "^" is a decision.
The solution is simple either remove all moderation including AI/ML based from YouTube. And let people deal with it.

Or if you will moderate content, then be held liable for your mistakes. Both censorship or recommending false information should make YouTube liable for damages.
And at some point it gets more efficient to just wait until the universe randomly starts to repeats itself to recreate the content you wanted.
I feel like a lot of people are commenting without much context. These bridges are for legal footpaths. They’re usually in the countryside. The paths aren’t maintained they’re just a legal right of way through the countryside and they have a legal obligation to put a bridge so as to not obstruct it for people on foot. It’s not like a trail as in the US. The paths aren’t even remotely wheelchair accessible for miles either way they’re usually mud. You would have to climb over stys to get to the bridge. The bridge would be the least of your problems.
Because no one wants their content appearing alongside white supremacist propaganda?
The people plugged into the solar utility co-op on Kaua'i actually end up having a smaller carbon footprint than those generating solar power off the grid.
The model might need some more training. Seeing a Fluorine bonded to 4 other atoms is a bit ... odd
I think the claim is that it's not intelligence (yet). It's artificial like tools, the human is still in charge (by tweaking parameters, repeating experiments, etc).

This is bound to change though.
It's odd that so much focus on dams is often directed at power generation, when flood and drought control is one of the primary purposes of these dams.

The Yangtze River likes to flood, and when it does, it can be highly destructive. Just last year we were seeing dramatic videos of floods from the area. But more significantly, a Yangtze flood is arguably the worst natural disaster of the 20th century:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yangtze-river-pe...

This dam, along with the three gorges, provide a huge amount of flood control and will dramatically alter the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Dutch inflation inclused cost of living (woonkosten) [0] as probably in most (all?) other countries. I read an explanation once. IIRC the actual cost of living did not increase so much. Prices of houses went up while interest rates went down. Rent went up (because inflation based), but by far not as much as prices of houses ;)

[0] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/faq/specifiek/hoe-wordt-de-inflatie...
Columbus, OH's failure to revolutionize transit with smart tech
So... how am I going to see the aggregate of all comments from all sites on that story? Is the story site responsible for managing pingbacks? What if they don't? Or a third-party aggregator? But what's their business model?

Why would people want to pollute their own site with seemingly random one-line comments on stories entirely unrelated to the rest of their own site, that nobody wants to read out of context?

How are people going to upvote comments so I can read the best ones first?

How will this system prevent it from turning into 99.99% spam comments on everything?

The idea of decentralized commenting is great, but in practice it seems to fall apart completely.
> OOP was envisioned as a way to manage software projects with many contributors at a time when we didn't have half the tools for hiding context that we do now.

> Micro-services and micro-kernels are far far far more prevalent these days.

I think that's a good analysis. If OOP was a solution to an organization problem, then microservices are the "new" way to do it. Microservices respect late binding, message passing, encapsulation. I don't really know how inheritence would fit into the equation, as I don't know exactly how companies with hundreds of microservices do it. And since we don't care about what's inside the objects (services), we're now free to write them in Java, C++, Smalltalk, Erlang, Haskell or Pascal.