skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a very romanticized view of capitalism. I like the free market as much as the next guy, but in the real world corporations will employ children in coal mines, sell you random chemicals as panaceas, and dump nuclear waste in the neighborhood river unless we agree as a society to punish people who do that. In other words: laws absolutely work.

What you're describing is in the realm of a natural feedback loop. And yeah, it would be great if that were good enough. But what happens when it's not? The ONLY reason Tesla is where it is today is due to massive govt subsidies in its early years. So it's only a natural feedback in so much as it's an attempt at artificial stimulated natural feedback.
The logic for that generator is particularly basic: https://thisnumberdoesnotexist.com/js/main.js
> I'm saying no policy could ever be defined well enough to cover all possible contingencies of a messy, human world.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
With sites like this one, I'm always left considering what happens when the site "helping" me gets bought out (or changes business models) and sells me out anyway.
> Bitcoin doesn't hurt the poor

The impacts of climate change, which Bitcoin unquestionably contributes to, skew significantly towards poorer countries.

And the consumer protections built into the regulations around fiat currencies are there to protect people who can't afford teams of accountants and lawyers.
The bait and switch. You used to be able to view links of public post.

The bigger the userbase grows, the bigger the fuckyous they can give the rest. It’s no longer “hey join us, we have cool stuff”, it’s “fuck you, we already got your friends, whatcha gonna do”. We can complain about that, right?
Regarding reddit, you can replace "www" with "old" i.e. https://old.reddit.com and it is still functional. There is also a firefox (perhaps chrome too) extension that replaces it automatically.

I don't know how long it will last, but if it's gone I think I'll be off reddit. I tried to use regular UI few times, and the experience is absolutely off putting. It reminds me of digg right before people flew to reddit.
Clearly unconstitutional, they're going to waste money on going through the federal courts, cry when the big bad feds tell them to follow federal law, and some politicians get a pat on the back from their votebase.

Make your own social media that is actually moderated and legal. There's no monopoly on servers, anyone can do it and have been. There's plenty of rack owners that vote red.
The employer is benefiting from a lower labour market clearing price due to government subsidies.

The government benefits from increased employment, even if some subsidy must be provided.

Those two things can be true at the same time!

However the subsidies distort the labour market and incent low productivity labour.

One question is whether raising minimum wage beyond the subsidy level would cost more in increased unemployment than the value of the subsidies provided.

That's a deeper question about labour market structure and demand, and the answer might be different in different places and times.
So many conversations like this wouldn't have existed if the internet had been designed for zero-trust from day one. Imagine if all icmp / igmp had the possibility to sign requests.
My favorite example is "login before you know what's here". I'm always amazed by this. I hear about a new website, open it up, and there's a sign up pop-up.

100% close and go away.
They altered a state of a smart contract with consensus, although I believe this to be a mistake, they didn't roll back blocks or reorganize. Some miners used that opportunity continue a non-edited fork. I personally find this technical understanding to be distinctive from the common narrative.

I also don't think it matters and there is no consensus to do the same thing any longer.

The explanation for why they did it was because the transaction would have a very large percentage of Ether in the hands of one actor who would eventually be able to alter control of the future Proof of Stake network. If it was any other asset they wouldn't have bothered, and now much larger $ values are captured from people without any notice or fanfare. They didn't know it would be 7-9 years before Sharded Proof of Stake or the Beacon Chain would exist, and its likely that the means did justify the ends at that point in time as many of their supporters and institutional supporters had their funds in that contract.
I think you're misunderstanding, so here's an example:

The rules might be set up to allow 4 excuses of "building couldn't be accessed" per week before a warning, and 3 warnings in any 60-day period before firing.

If you don't know this, then you simply do your job, and report when a building can't be accessed.

If you do know this, then sometimes you're feeling lazy, want to go home a bit earlier and not do your job, and you lie and report the building can't be accessed, because you know you're under the threshold and so won't be fired.

This isn't about requirements. It's about setting thresholds to catch people who are intentionally not performing their job.
This gets very tricky when you think about JavaScript.

What if you only pop up important information via an onBlur event in a dynamically created div element that is overlayed on the page, only after asynchronously querying a REST endpoint to get information from a database?

How would a crawler even know that this element is shown when you leave a specific input field? How would it know to wait a second while the database is getting the data?

Like it or not, we're well past the days of complete HTML documents being served for a request.
Doesn't work for Canada? Only lets me put in US states
There's still a middle-man to deal with in that process. In this case, you extract a decent amount of 'money' directly.

Would you rather win $100 and have to make a phone call to claim it, or find a $100 bill on the street?
The Lost Art of Data Modeling
The hierarchical order and flat namespace is logical, but for privacy reasons you may not wish to make a DNS query on the full path. So we might want to leave it split:

com.ycombinator.news/item

On the other hand, you could do an incremental query perhaps and cache the path length.

But I wonder about having the protocol name in there. Couldn't DNS return the ports for the supported services and then you could pick whichever one you want?
Because the issue is not putting content online. It's the discoverability and organise marketing only YouTube can provide in the foreseeable future.
The previous comment was about not handling bicycles in the Netherlands. For the Netherlands it's important that it handles bicycles properly, by being able to cycle. Pushing a bike or getting off isn't an acceptable solution (for NL).

Though doubt making it less steep and longer would really be an issue.
Should they allow porn? What kinds?
> The "People also searched for" popup causes layout shifts nearly every time you go back to the search page

I've also noticed that particular bit of irony. In fact it's the longest-running CLS issue I've seen anywhere.
How do you see that? I couldn't find the logs in the article.
A hash of a unique identifier? Most of the "databroker" APIs I've worked with only use hashed identifiers..
Miners are necessarily 'long' due to the capital investment in mining gear. Granted, this cost is less than the marginal electricity costs for mining, it is nevertheless significant.

The risk associated with colluding for a 51% attack, the risk of financializing such a huge short position, and the near certainty of your capital investment becoming worthless all mean that this isn't a compelling proposition.
You don't think there's a closed mind because you're never on that other side. So you likely never experience it.

Yes, there are self-serving crypto maximalists. But even if you add nuance, you get downvoted and standard replies debunked years ago. Doesn't matter what you say, the arguments aren't even heard.

That's absolute closed mindedness. And the quality of many of those replies shows how extremely little those people know about it at all.

A massive problem? No. But I'm just telling you it does exist.
I've seen far too much malice feigning stupidity to ever take this concept seriously. There's a lot of stupidity, but there's also a lot of corruption parading around as stupidity.
This falls apart the moment you're pulling remote data at runtime. You're right back to defensive programming since there's no more type system to help you at that point.
Not sure how that's relevant, 5G is an entirely different topic.

The reason advanced chip factories are located in China is that they are expensive and Chinese authorities can't be trusted.

Adding to that is that sending your chip designs to China, is a sure way to get them stolen.

Lots of companies don't sell the latest tech in China. And don't manufacture in china because their designs would be stolen. This is not a problem for cheap manufacturing, but for high tech stuff it might be...
One of the largest owners of Bitcoin, reportedly held over 1B dead at 41
Welp, american “capitalism” has officially jumped the shark.

Jk it jumped a long time ago.

But this is great stuff.
This feels like an overly broad interpretation of the first amendment to me. The first amendment states that government shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, but doesn't specifically address whether it can make a law mandating access to certain forums. The supreme court decision (thank you for the case references btw - this was new to me and I found it to be an interesting read) rejecting the right of access to newspapers feels like overreach to me.

I think it could be beneficial to society if forums of a certain audience size and nature might be compelled to provide some limited access to everyone. In the case of newspapers, for example, if they were able to charge a fee for access to cover their costs, bury it on the very last page with a clear disclaimer that it is not their opinion, and even publish their own rebuttal as desired - I don't see this as abridging the newspaper's right to free speech. And I think it could potentially expose people to a more diverse set of opinions than they might otherwise get without such an access mandate.
> It just realised (or remembered) it's a business.

Exactly, it became evil!
I'm ambiguous about the need to create laws to regulate services like youtube. In my view, it is a private service and they have their right to instate their own rules.

What we really need, I think, are options. Peertube seems like a good one.
I haven't seen any evidence that he was more of an asshole than the typical person of his power (i.e., garden-variety colossal).
They explained it well enough in the article, not? What's missing?
> but if I no longer get any benefit (or much less) from saying so, then I might not bother with all the (tedious paternalist) paperwork to get counted as 'unemployed'

AFAIK there is no paperwork for this survey. They call people up and ask a few questions to classify you.
This Mcdonalds had a rather extensive line, I wouldn't be surprised if they're paying overtime to keep serving customers.
I'm guessing it's to minimize the space taken up on the sides of the tracks. Train tracks are often next to things, so I assume that's what's stopping it -- not having available space.
There obviously is a reason for merchants to eat the losses, or else virtually every merchant in the modern world wouldn't accept credit cards. The reason is that merchants (on the whole) agree with credit card companies that it is better for customers to feel safe and comfortable shopping, and thus increase transaction volume, even if doing so means that merchants will occasionally eat losses from fraud.
I feel for this. I run a free website, I sell physical books and give away the digital books for free.

The content on the website requires in person data collection, it's very expensive. Yet after a few years the data has changed and could use updating. Sometimes people send rude emails that the data is old. I explain that I can get it updated for $30, and there's a donation button.

I'm personally not interested in updating the data, the prices are similar to before, everything went up in price, the best values are still the best.
the government doesn't want want a Chinese tiktok to take this market share.
Even with IPFS, you're pushing off infrastructure to someone who probably has some hidden incentive to provide that infrastructure.

Why not just charge the 100th visitor per minute or something? Someone will be motivated to pay the cost. And, if people don't want to pay? Well, even those with less motivation will find a way to the content somehow.
Nah its just a small, irrelevant project falling apart. That has nothing to do with the cryptocurrency space. Amounts this small rarely makes the news in the crypto space and happen every day. They also barely make the news in the fiat space and happen every day.
Parallel prefix sum is the most underappreciated parallel algorithm in my opinion, and this paper is the best explanation and visualization of the concept I've seen.

A few years ago I worked on a deep learning project using parallel prefix sum as a new way to accelerate recurrent neural nets on GPUs[0]. The paper in this post was the most important reference and source of inspiration. I'm happy to see this paper shared on HN in hopes that it also sparks ideas in others.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04057
At least it is somewhat civilised. The comment section of the newspapers down here in Australia now how the lowest signal to noise ratio I have ever seen on a forum in my life and I am old, first using BBSs in the early 80s. Almost every comment is completely senseless with by far the majority blaming every issue, related or otherwise in the article directly on the prime minister or his party.
Scientists Discover 'Time Cells' in the Brain That Enable 'Mental Time Travel'
Google/YouTube is so predictable.

Make an uproar on social media for their unjustifiable action and they would reverse it.
Not sure if the parent comment has been edited, but they did say they're already "permanently logged in" to a bunch of the services in question.
This makes me think of the part of the GDPR that deals with automated decision making: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

"The UK GDPR gives people the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions, including profiling, which have a legal or similarly significant effect on them." I guess that would probably be buried in an employment contract at Amazon, but it might form the basis for a court case if it wasn't actually spelt out.

Just because a human has designed the algorithm doesn't make it non-automated: "A process might still be considered solely automated if a human inputs the data to be processed, and then the decision-making is carried out by an automated system. A process won’t be considered solely automated if someone weighs up and interprets the result of an automated decision before applying it to the individual."
I've so many ideas for this question.

So so many protocols (history), but how few could we get away with, and what would they look like?*

Why don't we have constructive computational contracts for computational work?

How do we make the Internet easier to understand?

How do we manage the agency problem? We yield far too much agency as a matter of daily life, our data is not our own, our decisions are shared with barely knowable third parties.

How do we design human computer interfaces with health, especially mental health, as primary constraint?

How rapidly can the EU coalesce around a combination of a RISC-V general purpose CPU (with suitable trimmings) and a SEL4-influenced-kernel, perhaps in Rust (https://gitlab.com/robigalia)?

How do we standardise on constraints of discourse such as those pertaining to offensive language or hate speech? How do we make it easier for people to communicate with kindness? Autohinting everywhere? Like a shellcheck for human bashfulness?

VR and AR are coming very soon and without care they will be shatteringly destructive of human life. Humans addicted to computationally modeled utility functions mediated by multi-sensory computer games?

How do we embed the lore in the experience? How do we make available all the references as delightful marginalia?

What areas of Mathematics and Physics do we need to study to get ahead of our problems? Category theory is beyond trendy, what's trending? How about rigorous dimensional analysis to match the type theory, or sumthin? How do we invite the world's smartest financiers to apply and share their thought more generously?

Can we settle on a basic curriculum? What functional minimum of linguistic, mathematical, physical, visual, and other skills do we need? Is lisp or a variant the first language we should learn, and if so how should we be able to learn it? If not lisp then what? APL? Fortran? Compiler forbid, Haskell?

How do we ensure that code and documentation are always in sync? How much time will this require?

How do we guarantee a standard of professional attainment and delivery of ICT expert that is globally effective? How do we standardise how we do, not just what we do?

How best can we help each other make our Internet an even better place?

(much spelling, apologies)

*4
At my startup we have been relying heavily on the cloud version of this open-source service for our customer data. [0]

I'll try to convince my manager to see if we could deploy this on our K8s cluster.

[0] https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
There's already a defense for truth, so I imagine the religious belief defense is there to avoid the Crown getting stuck in an argument about whether or not a given religion is "true", and the courts having to rule that it is not.

For a secular belief, you'd probably stick to arguing that it is true, seeing as you sincerely believe it to be true.
I like faces. Why deny a key part of being human?
> Yea except that it's been demonstrated over and over that unmitigated, unrestricted content can and does radicalize susceptible population demographics.

Two things:

A. Even if true, that is still a price worth paying to avoid having a central arbiter of truth that political factions can fight over and eventually control.

B. Lack of access to good counterarguments/innoculation to the radical ideas is a consequence of those ideas being supressed. If people don't even know what a radicalized person believes how can they help dig them out of the hole they are in? It's one of the reasons why "scientific racism" continues to grow.
You're moving the centralization problem to google, then.
> at which point everyone goes back to audio-only

That defeats the entire purpose of using facial and body expressions that only video provides.

We already have video filters that remove wrinkles and blemishes in videoconferencing to make you look better.

Even if we replace ourselves entirely with computer-rendered images, they're still going to be reproducing our expressions, movements and gestures, which is what matters.
Scientists Discover Dozens of Frozen Lakes Beneath the Surface of Mars
Thank you. This is exactly what we are trying to do. It is difficult for us to get rid of the mad scientist label.

We have a team in fact that evaluate the FDA requirement and looking at what would be the best way to do it.

Also, Open IP means for us that we will share the modified strains which are optimized for the expression of the insulin, and ideally, we will be able to provide scientific knowledge and resources to help the creation of local manufacturing plant.
> But so many people act like the response should have been perfect.

No, no one is demanding "perfect" here, just a media and governmental infrastructure that responds to changing data to accurately inform the public and enact policies which properly balance the risks of the virus with the potential harms of the intervention. Instead what we're getting is constant overhyping of the threat (e.g. emphasizing that the % of children being hospitalized by the Delta variant is higher as a way of downplaying the reduced hospitalizations in the older, vaccinated population) to support various power grabs like restricting freedom of movement and assembly, mandating pharmaceutical interventions, and consolidating the economy into the hands of large, entrenched corporations.

The fact that this pandemic is nowhere near the level of 1918's and yet we are blithely accepting the proposition "we can never go back to normal" should be giving everyone serious pause right now.
Transaction fees are what kill this. That and moral police / "fraud" charge-backs caused by insufficient user authentication.

I also don't want to be nickle and dimed to death, given the transaction fees there's a huge push to subscriptions and other models. Where if I could instead just pay exactly what a generic ad I'd _never_ click on anyway pays to get placed (like 0.00001 dollars for all the ads on a webpage stuffed with them) I might actually pay instead of using adblock for all of the security, usability, and bandwidth saving reasons.
In general, everything in our society that can be turned into software code, will. Every company, every institute is a tech company, they just don't know it yet.
The former is a general statement about Javascript itself as a whole while the latter is describing a set of examples.
That's nowhere near "falling apart". That's just the simple fact there's no silver bullet.

Someone arguing a little defensive programming is equivalently strong to a type system is clearly unaware just how much work a good type system does for you. I of course agree with you: when you're fetching data that you don't know the type of, recklessly casting it to some type is going to cause issues. This is true in every language that has ever existed. It's also why tools like IO-TS[0] exist, and of course you can enforce this with JSON Schema techniques or custom validators or a million other options.

Edit: in case the ultimate point of this comment is not clear, by using a type system and some type validator on your fetches, you are able to reduce the need for defensive programming exclusively to your fetch points. Clearly, defensive programming at the fetch points was already needed, so this is why I do not agree with the claim TypeScript's value add disappears from remote fetches.

[0]: https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts
Why would you expect to be able to bicycle over a footbridge? They follow footpaths. You shouldn’t be cycling on a footpath. They’re for people on foot. It’s not a bridleway or cycle path. Clue is in the names!
> The amount of work that goes into maintaining a yacht far exceeds the financing available to public infrastructure.

This reminds me of some family members that lived on a boat. As soon as they finished maintaining one thing (e.g. painting), they could immediately start over again. It was an endless cycle of doing maintenance to the boat. They really wanted to live on a boat. Eventually they sold it and bought something else, though unsure if the maintenance was the cause.