skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never conflated opinion, everything is opinion there are just more or less circumstantial evidences, and it varies widely based on your priors and worldview. I just don’t think YouTube should be silencing them.

If we have to have some private unelected board at YouTube deciding where opinion ends and fact begins, that’s dystopia. People state opinions as facts all the time. “It was the United States gov” is an opinion it’s just a colloquial American thing to say it in that style. Their real belief may be that it’s actually only 90% probable, and their threshold for wording it as certain is lower than yours.

Only a fool listens to a strongly stated opinion, even when it’s worded as though it’s a fact, and isn’t skeptical. If we designed our society to cater to the greatest fool, we’d have ridiculous rules all over. I don’t want that.

I actually think the main difference is I have a lot more faith in the intelligence of the average joe, and it seems people who don’t get real worried that their “better” opinions will drown out. I don’t think so. And I’ve seen the people with the right opinions be wrong too often lately to ever trust them.
Someone tried that once, it was banned by everyone because it could not be controlled or censored to the level people want such a system to be, thus why things have to be centralized because control is more important
If McKinsey is to be taken seriously then the only way forward is to abolish capitalism. It is not what they want but of you pay any sort of attention then it is a prerequisite as it is the compulsion for consumption, that capitalists have, that is going to burn us all.

But they are very wrong. Ever increasing consumption is not a prerequisite for a economy that is good to live in. We do not need to abolish capitalism, but we do need to control and regulate it.

If we are going to avoid global ecological catastrophe then we will need to do some planning. Things that are cheapest in short and medium term will have to be abandoned for things that avert the disaster.

Markets can not do that.

It needs to be done locally for local conditions with a eye for global requirements. This requires people in politics to use their brains and it requires the people to support the politicians in what is going to become a difficult struggle with folks like those from McKinsey - people desperate to maintain their privilege, desperate to monotonically increase their consumption.

In lucky places this will be done by the ballot box.

In less lucky places mass NVDA (non-violent direct action).

In the very unlucky places it will require arson.

I have faith in humans. My favourite species. The vast mass of us will shut down these greed heads from the height of capitalism and bring them back down to Earth.
If that's the case then Instagram should not entice people in by temporarily granting access. It should be upfront about requiring an account.
There are larger, far more interesting collapses (and subsequent recoveries): Titan, Fei, Empty Set Dollar, and more.

Even going with your analogy, it makes no sense that this was #1 on HN. Unless it's also true that HN is just weirdly out of sync with crypto.
That is a Ship of Theseus question I can't answer.
Computational chemistry answers some of these questions.

When you look at just a molecule by itself “what happens if you apply heat” is somewhat simple. Covalent bonds just break because the molecule is vibrating too much - think of a covalent bond as a flexible strut, if you put too much pressure on it, it snaps. This can result in the temporary formation of unstable molecules that then recombine. You could predict which particular bonds in a molecule are unstable based on the total structure, angles, electronegativity, polarity, etc.

But of course those small unstable molecules can further breakdown, react with each other, and react with the parent molecule to form new stuff. So basically the parent molecule is part of some huge “power set” of potential molecules all interacting with each other.
Gas taxes are unpopular. But EPA fuel economy standards are popular! So use fuel economy standards to make all new cars at least PHEV. Increase gas tax only when almost all cars on the road can use electricity.
This is one of the biggest reasons I like Cardano. It's written in Haskell and its contract language is functional and heavily inspired - meaning that code gets many of the functional benefits: it is more concise, more readable, less prone to side effects, and more often than non-functional code won't run at all if mistakes are made.

The trade offs in functional languages seem to well suited for the world of smart contracts, that I almost think of smart contracts as the retro-active problem that functional programming solves. Granted, I appreciate functional programming and good code enough where I wish all code met the standards required for FP, but the real world is much messier; when large amounts of money are so directly on the line though I think its obvious the compromise is worth it.

Smart contracts are like launching a rocket - you don't optimize for development time. FP forces a bit more safety.
This. I have through much pain embraced this approach.
It's also just plain bad business that leads to loads and loads of corruption. It's come to the point where a lot of people apply to essentially get a boost to their own spending power while parading to be entrepreneurs and then go back to usual with no repercussions.

This is also the small kinds of financial swindles. There are others that are much worse and involve already established companies.
The price of giving free access to everyone has been very high though. We continue to pay with our eroded privacy, personal information that's frequently breached, the cost of advertising that's passed on through product pricing, the cost of giving up so much control of the internet to three or four giant companies, the sheer cost of fighting against advertising in our browsers and so on. We're practically held hostage by advertising - a downturn in ad spending leads to content and publishing companies closing down. The cost of free is strangely expensive.

Maybe it would be better to fund more useful things, like sites that give children access to knowledge through direct contributions. Like how Wikipedia is funded.
id beg to differ. i've had plenty of bugs happen myself and you can find tons of posts around the web of people experiencing similar frustrations. I'm sure there are decks that people make that are less error prone when syncing, but that is not my experience with the decks i make.
Hi! Co-creator of Optery here.

We do not sell data. We are not a data broker. We do not have any financial relationship with any data broker. We are not affiliated with any data broker.

We are privacy enthusiasts who believe consumers should be in full control of their data. You can learn more about our mission, background and values here: https://www.optery.com/about-us/

There are some bad actors out there unfortunately. The most well-known is OneRep, which has an opt out and removals business, but are owned by an ownership group that simultaneously runs the People Search Site data broker Nuwber. It's almost certain that they run off the same data spine, meaning your data is co-mingled. Another one is BrandYourself, which includes data brokers as part of its affiliate program. So if you pay them for removals, you are indirectly paying the data brokers. There are others that I have a strong suspicion of, but don't know for certain, so I won't risk sharing their names.

But please don’t lump the rest of us working hard to protect people from data brokers into that same bucket. Along with us, DeleteMe, PrivacyDuck, and Kanary and a few others are above-board with no affiliation or financial relationship with any data broker (to the best of my knowledge). Just working hard for consumer data rights.

The data brokers most likely already have info on you. There is a catch22 where in order to opt out, you have to tell them who you are. Other services use your own private email address to submit the opt outs. We do not share your private email address with any third party, including the data brokers we submit opt outs to.
Wouldn't it be easier to specify the minimum wage in real instead of nominal dollars?
I actually really like this idea (and once created a browser extension to at least make URLs look like that in the address bar), but I still think there is a benefit to having domain names distinguishable from paths, so it would be:

https://com.ycombinator.news/item

Having just checked, I see that ycombinator.news has already been registered, so maybe the lesson is that everyone should register "palindromic" domains, like com.ycombinator.com for example.
Compartmentalization. Company A produces mix containing ingredients 1, 3 and 5. Company B produces mix containing ingredients 2, 4 and 6. Only a handful of people at Coca-Cola even know the details of what companies A and B produce, and everyone below just knows "we combine the two mixes we receive"
oh, i just realized that maybe you don't know i'm referring to the movie "idiocracy".
I hear you, but the problem is that such systems also add cost, not just benefit. I don't only mean dev and maintenance costs (although those too), but the cost to the culture of making this place more bureaucratic. We've always avoided that. HN is a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law one: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Edit: oh one other point: there will always be "wiggle room for interpretation". The idea of eliminating it is a fantasy, and trying to make systems to eliminate it is a wild goose chase.
If the lawsuit were in Brazil, it would be clear: It is impossible to access a majority of services without Whatsapp. Most phone numbers / chat services have no alternative except through Whatsapp, even in the administration.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues...

It's not totally clear about how this works. It looks like I've been shadowbanned from making new posts at least temporarily, since when I tried to make a new post yesterday I was met with this error despite making no posts yesterday.

I am not sure what the goal is. I already hit 500 so I've got the downvote, but maybe there's more rights and privileges that they want to keep me from obtaining with a higher upvote count?
> “The server rack is more than 50 years old. There is no other piece of technology in data centers that has survived for so long," Zsolt Szabo told DCD back in 2016.

Quick, someone tell him about floors, walls, ceilings, doors, and electric light.
Absolutely true, but I would say that MUDs and IRC and Usenet are the definition of pre-Internet boom culture. It was a big deal when my parents were able to get online and use a browser to engage with other people. My dad could have been playing chess online via IRC and email for years, but it wasn't until he had a browser that it was within his technical comfort level.
Exactly, it's to not pay anyone that has terms in their contracts that say something like "earns 1% of the film's profits". If all the revenue is paid out to the studio in the form of "consulting fees" then voila: no profits.
That's largely a good way to discover that anti-"cancel culture" folks tend to engage in quite a bit of "cancel culture" of their own.

Parler, for example, had a bit of a hair-trigger on left-wing accounts trolling on the site, as well as being stricter than Twitter itself on porn/swearing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/15/parler-... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/pa...
Pangloss knew what was up
This is a great point.

However, I'll just add that, having tried to design such systems in the past (for large-scale Mechanical Turk work), it is fiendishly complex. Not only is it incredibly difficult to turn our intuitions of "what's fair" into formulas, but then you've got to deal with people trying to game those rules for their own advantage once they figure them out, which ultimately means you can only ever be partially transparent at best.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's impossible for all pretty much practical purposes that need to be cost-effective, sadly. It's a really tough problem.
I'd consider getting a ham radio license for more distant communications and buy some bulk packs of the family radios. Program your radios to use the local repeaters, and take note of which repeaters have solar+batteries. Join a ham club that maintains said repeaters. Talk to neighbors, discuss your ideas, and offer to give them a family radio with a card of instructions of when to listen, how to listen, what channel, etc to keep neighbors communicating. Contribute towards or host neighborhood watches, bbq's, social events of any kind that involve neighbors. Maybe even start a news letter, maybe online and print them if necessary for anyone without internet/computer.

Get a bike, maintain it yourself, keep a generous number of spares and tools around.

Participate in any "nets" held, emergency prep, get to know the hams in your area, and map out as much as you can how the local city/state orgs plan to communicate with the public. Ideally you can act as a conduit to let neighbors know when there's going to be water trucks, food delivery, shelter, communication of evac orders, etc.

Regularly go camping, note what is useful, what is not, keep notes for next time, involved any friends/family/neighbors as much as possible. Keep a month or two of dried food around just in case. Eat at least one meal of the dried food per camping trip.

Try anything to improve the neighborhood, organize a park/road/sidewalk cleanup, buy a basketball hoop the neighborhood kids can share, etc. Meet people, shake their hands, learn about their family, offer to share yard tools, etc.

Keep at least a few weeks of water (at least a gallon per person per day), food, etc. Buy a UPS or keep an older UPS just for USB devices, so instead of trying to keep a 600 watt PC up for 10 minutes you can keep a phone charged for a week or two. Get a portable solar panel or two and inverter/charger to share phones, family radios, etc. Ideally enough for you AND some neighbors.

Vote in favor of science and schooling (at all levels).

Discuss emergency logistics with more distant friends/family, plan exactly how to evacuate, what is important to take, multiple routes to get where you are going, do not assume that wifi/internet/cell towers are going to work. Consider storing fuel if needed to get to a safe location, rotate it as necessary. Exchange keys and plan on a reciprocal agreement in case either household has an emergency.
Install an app on your phone that allows offline maps. Print any important maps and ideally download at least your entire state, and any others you might evacuate to.
Thank you for the suggestion - as a med student, she has an iPad that can access certain medical resources, and is already an iPhone user, so I don't know if SyncThing is really an option for her.

I'm not sure that most users can be expected to figure out things like "does this update include a database upgrade?" "which devices are running an old database?" and "what do I do when the software told me the database on disk is corrupt?"

And I think SyncThing would still suffer from the issue of needing to make sure only one device writes to the Anki sync at a time. I really think some sort of cloud service that handles multi-headed sync of cards/notes (and makes it hard to take permanently destructive actions) would be a real competitor in this space - if they can overcome the Anki network effect.
What is the point of a smart contract that its owner might update on a whim? Just deploy an HTTP server.
I suggest the Lucy pattern (as in the football running gag from Peanuts).
> The amount of things you can view on reddit on your phone without creating an account or installing the app is dwindling daily.

Like what? The phone browser works just great. IIRC there's a nag dialog that prompts you once to install the app, then it caches the answer and shuts up.
Yes, you sign up for a chip implant on page 5.
Most people don’t really use Instagram, it’s more like Instagram uses them.
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Free Book)
And then somebody makes a substitute UI that calls the api, then reddit tries to take it down, then someone builds an open source version, then github gets a C&D letter and the creator makes blog post about it that reaches the front page of HN. I'm looking forward to the journey.
I use a Vim extension in my browser which converts 'j' and 'k' into scroll keys. I've found that on many sites which employ the modal overlay and suppress scrolling I can still scroll around using these keys even when arrow keys and mouse scrolling don't work.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

Possibly that section. It's not about OOP specifically, but about type hierarchies generally.
> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear.

Hmmmm. Now that I think of it I'm fairly sure that serving different content to Googlebot compared to what you served ordinary users used to be a good way to call down the wrath of the SEO master upon your (or your clients) website.

Then again, that was before. Back when Google was a nice company and acted in the best interest of its users.
In the case of C++, you can do that via templates and static dispatch, now with C++20 is even better as each entity can be modelled as a concept.

something like,

template<typename T>
concept Player = requires (T p) {
p.jump();
};

class Factory {
public:

template<Player p>
void register_entity(p player);
};

Just as seed for the overall idea.
>What we need is the technology to make climate action politically feasible, ie without making people materially poorer.

What if this isn't physically possible?
I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or whatever will acquire it in the near future (or have they already?) because there is just no other explanation for letting Pinterest poison image search that much.
Surprisingly flexible algorithm. I threw a headshot illustration of a comic villain into it and it was able to successfully do all the rotations and even manipulate the eyes despite it not being photorealistic.
Cute babes. It's like the point of contact now for them because none of them want to be on facebook with their mom commenting dumb shit on their page.

if it wasn't for them i would so delete this shit
> Wouldn't it be easier to specify the minimum wage in real instead of nominal dollars?

Yes, but then you couldn't do nothing and use inflation to reduce it without political host.
China releases new footage from Zhurong Mars rover
Quick question: What's the benefit of this approach vs using org-drill?
Oh, I knew the reference,I just had you confused.I thought you meant Amazon was the idiot running out of money in this situation, but I think now you meant the workers working for them are? That makes more sense.
The channel has now been reinstated.

Source:

https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840
The dark patterns are not a sign of misunderstanding good UX, nor are they a sign of pure evil by their makers.

Big social networks only come into existence via an aggressive, exponential roll-out. The main feature of such a network is having your friends on there. None of the other features matter as its plain to see how they copy concepts from each other all the time. It's about getting you in there.

Once in existence, producing revenue means keeping you in the experience for as long as possible. Which is best done in an app and preferably logged in. This allows for the personalization and notifications.

Put another way, publishing all of this on the open web, with many users using ad-blockers, just doesn't cut it. Further, you don't want to give away all content to the open web (cough...Google).

We gave them this power. None of us want to surf the open web. We want 3 apps that do everything. And we won't pay for it, not a penny.
Tell him about the SR-71 (entered service in 1966, and it’s still the same instances that are flying). Most Cessnas flying are also 50+ years old, because if you purchase a more recent one, it has to comply with all the newer rules.
It's also why I think crypto is suffering a bit of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome. We've had well over 2000 years of banking and it's always the case that protecting your money then becomes a legit business-case. The business plan is ages-old and always the same: take the money under protection, ensure a certain percentage in reserve, and profit off the venture by using a percentage of funds for investment and speculation. Just, not so much that you can't pay people back.

The latter point is a stickler, so get regulation in there and ensure anyone doing banking is protected up to a certain sum. Any money beyond that... you put all your eggs in one basket, sorry. Other people need to be made whole, too.

Use the same regulation so that banks that embezzle protected customer funds can be prosecuted, too. This equally applies to insurance, credit cards, loans, and other industries that make money out of offering money.

You can't stop a run on the bank if everyone loses confidence at the same time, as we saw in 2008 (Northern Rock in the UK) or in 1929 (Wall Street). But as you say... that's when bigger shit is going on.

But now... to me crypto feels like a group of upstarts thinking they can reinvent millennia of economics and come up with something better. All I've seen so far is a skeuomorphism to a scarce resource, essentially treating silicon as if it were gold.

It's making a handful of people filthy rich, people who would have been well-off in the first place, but it's not changing the world for the better. It's siphoning another resource for a wealthy elite.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Automated policy like this will be bad until we have general purpose strong AI, because there's no room for people to be edge cases in human ways. You need to automate room for life to happen.
For all the uninitiated, Jacob also runs Findka Essays [0] which is fantastic. My daily reading is Findka Essays and Thinking About Things [1], which is more than enough interesting reading material that I can get through.

[0] https://essays.findka.com/

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
I'm not much for utopian visions, though I respect some people who are.

I do notice that, at this moment in history (but I grant, not at all moments) the political processes (tactics like voting, lawsuits, etc) seem to produce changes that concentrate privilege. And I also notice that change agency outside the political processes seems to be much more humane. Crypto is just one example of this; mutual aid in the broader sense remains an example.

I've gone back-and-forth on this in my lifetime (including the 5-year period of formal study for my polysci degree), but from where I stand now, I don't think that the marginal safety conferred by sticking to the political processes alone is worth the sacrifice to our suffering friends and neighbors.

It's 2021, and we still have two million people in prison, six million in various phases of the carceral system, wars for profit around the globe, and a currency controlled exclusively by the already-wealthy for their own purposes (which, by the way, I don't think are actually served in this configuration either).

So yeah, I think let's start to build things to allow the state to be relieved so that we can take care of each other.
In my country, and I guess otherd in western Europe, we often fail to appreciate the sheer power of those "other" countries such as Russia or China. Many are still stuck in the colonialist vision of things where Europe and US were vastly superior. This is not true anymore. And as you point out, intelligence is uniformly distributed.