skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's quite that sinister.

Those who spread and consume conspiracy theories have one thing in abundance a lot of people don't: time. They can flag whatever they don't like as offensive or as violating DMCA or whatever third thing. Not just once, not just twice, but all day.

And showing a video of someone taking a shit on a sidewalk to show how people are making videos of shitting on the sidewalk is still showing someone taking a shit on the sidewalk. It falls in that realm of "Well, technically, it's against the rules to show people shitting on the sidewalk."

So even if they are showing the content to then explain why that content is wrong or bad, they're still technically showing the content.

I'd wager that Right Wing Watch gets far more flags and reports than the content creators they show so they can debunk them. And if you're only dealing with reports and flags in a "squeaky wheel gets the grease" kind of way, it'll be a long while before you get to the source, because the fanbase of the source will be overwhelming you with reports and flags on channels with critical content showing the offending content as a demonstration of why it is offensive.
Charging millions for a cure is a also a viable option. See Spinraza vs Zolgensma.
But given the monthly audits conducted, "it's not" is not very likely to happen at all. The auditor would have to be actively lying or misrepresenting for USDC and Gemini both for something like that to happen.

Much more likely a smart contract somewhere fails than USDC/Gemini (the only two I know that do full audits to ensure 1:1 dollar backing, ignoring USDT). There just isn't much risk there, hence there not being much (any) profit trading stablecoin.
> I simply don't think it's possible for human beings to write good enough software for smart contracts.

I agree, but think it's fixable. I believe we have missed a natural platform in between binary notation and computer languages.

I believe there is a 2-D dimensional binary. Simply using a grid (with an array of cells forming a line, and lines stacked on top of each other—a spreadsheet basically), we can drop *all* syntax characters. The only thing you have is your cells and your semantic words.

Not only does this make tooling and languages much simpler (which will have big network effects), but you gain new fundamental complexity metrics which may turn out to be incredibly important in designing simple, bug free systems.

I personally really like crypto but it's not one of my main interests. I have been working with some folks in the space on using these ideas to build a new type of blockchain from the ground up. I bet that the biggest blockchain in the future will be a higher dimensional one, based on Tree Notation or derivatives of the core ideas.
This argument does not help. Those same folks cannot carry around a crypto-buck either.

There are plenty of mobile-only banking solutions that are widely used in non-western worlds, and that's likely a model for emerging economies. When electronic banking comes, OP is saying that standard banking ("perfected over millenia TM") is honestly quite preferable over algorithmic contracts.
Its in beta but element groups were added recently for this kind of thing.

I dont think it has voice rooms yet but hopefully one day.
> I don't know the actual answer because I don't work for Microsoft but I'm lazy enough to assume it is about money. Its financially rewarding for Microsoft to have hordes of Home users online. That telemetry is valuable. Those eyeballs are valuable. That level of engagement is valuable.

Knowing every user is signed in and authenticated means they can develop new features as a (connected) subscription service. They can attribute usage and bill you for it. That's what it's about IMO. All new features, even ones that should be part of the core OS, will eventually be subscription services. I bet anyone using a free account will be getting their last feature update when they install Windows 11.

I've seen the exact scenario play out over and over with SaaS. Windows with forced logins is essentially SaaS and they can use the same dirty tactics to make you pay forever if you want a usable product.

It could backfire with an OS though. I'd be pretty excited for a version of Windows that doesn't get any new features or have any "online" features.
Linux on desktop is very far from a nightmare. Sure, if you don't know what you're doing and you mess around with things, things will break.

If you use it as you would use Windows or Mac OS, then there are no more issues with Ubuntu from my experience.

I actually prefer Ubuntu over the other two as the web developer experience is much better than Windows and Mac OS. It's nice to use native tools. It's nice to be able to trust profiling. The same is also true for the other two where you would have to use replacement software on Linux.
You're conflating the right to express oneself with the right to act violently. Those two are not the same hence the same logic does not apply.
Why not just get a nice phone with good support for unlocking/rooting and run LineageOS instead?

Sent from my OnePlus 6T running LineageOS.
It's a fair point! It's very challenging for many of the reasons already pointed out. I'll just add that a couple organizations have actually tried but haven't yet had success doing so: https://spacenews.com/small-launch-startup-leo-aerospace-sus...
If the contract was “smart” enough you could require an escrow to a third party, but you’re still trusting the contract to be correct.
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I thought it was “basal”, not “basil”.
This is the reason crypto enthusiasts are enthusiastic in the first place.

Crypto enthusiasts want to defect from the system of democratic law in favor of algorithmic law.
Could you link this?
" they come across as having tailored their emotions to fit the desired tone of the presentation."

They are coached and it's scripted.

Watching an Apple Presentation is like watching really bad actors try to read a dramatic script, which is fine, because they're not actors and there shouldn't be a script, but it's still funny.

It's sometimes a little bit comical - when Tim Cook raises his voice to say something more poignant - you can just see the 'forced' nature of it. I can imagine the poor coach, like a high school choir director flailing her hands, trying to get 'a little more emote'.

Watch their hand movements - sometimes it's really overly expressive and unnatural.

In particular, listen to the pacing. For a long time now they've really slowed down the cadence, it's almost odd.

In the end I don't think we should ready any of this into anything. It's basically irrelevant.
To be clear, TSX does not work and has never worked. Anyone depending on TSX "for performance" is actually getting incorrectness.
Depends on the terms of the contract. Contracts must be executed in good faith. That is the law. If you with your SaaS vendors or Amazon with its Flex workers isn't conforming to that part of the law then there is the potential for legal liability.
1) Why CPU? Mainly we used CPU because it's easier to get working. A lot of this graphics stuff requires deep understanding. It’s just easier to get CPU mode running. I do have many GPU experiments though. I even have a macro that translates a subset of Nim into the GLSL - GPU’s shader language. In time if the GPU path becomes better we will switch to it.

2) Yes, Pixie will render Fidget. Current system is that Pixie renders to a texture atlas. Then Fidget just deals with the textures. Pixie does work only at “load time” or when a new element comes on screen. For most screens Pixie CPU rendering will not be called that often. At this time the CPU render for text is faster than my on-the-GPU render. More things will switch to GPU as it becomes faster.

3) I am still working on Fidget, but I really wanted to get Pixie done first. I have this idea that I am exploring. But I don’t have anything for sure yet. One thing for sure Fidget 2 will be a total paradigm ship from Fidget 1. But Fidget 2 is still ways off.
One thing though, most material we need has been extracted already. New cars using old steel doesn't require more stress on the biosphere for metal.
CVS net profit margin is in the 2% to 3% range:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/pro...

Cigna purchased Express Scripts in Mar 2018, and has profit margins of 3% to 5% over the last couple years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna/profit-ma...

If these PBMs are making lots of profits, then they are simply subsidizing losses elsewhere in the MCO. The total costs paid for insurance premium plus out of pocket costs by the end user in the US would not be affected.
So, deal with things changing all the time. Exactly the thing we were trying to avoid with this exercise.
> You keep saying this, without giving evidence to back it up

I have, repeatedly. But like in this thread you just reply with the same question asked one more time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653716

> People are still running Linux in memory constrained environments

So why do they have all these memory-hungry services they don't need on standby?

Does that mean that I can DoS these machines simply by connecting to all the open ports, thus starting up the heavy daemons in the constrained environment?

Why is that a good thing?

>> You check if the service is turned on (systemctl or whatever), you check if the process is running (ps, etc), and you check listening ports (netstat, nmap, etc...), they all agree that the service either is or isn't running. And if it's running, it's successfully run its initialization and should be usable.

> This isn't really correct, netstat or nmap won't show process status at all.

This is HN, not reddit, so I'm going to assume you're not just trolling.

netstat -na | grep tcp.*443

Yes, actually, netstat will show you if you have an HTTPS server running. It will show you if you have an SSH server running.

Same argument with nmap.

Compare this with the fd-passing model, where you can have every port on your system bound, and it tells you nothing (while troubleshooting) which services are actually up.

Do you not see how "all the ports are bound" then becomes completely useless in troubleshooting and checking status?

Will it tell you if you're actually running SSH on port 443? No, of course not. That's not how troubleshooting works, like at all.
Not sure if I really buy that the Switch security bot is a serious project, given that over-the-top security theater seems to be one of Switch's main marketing points. Their employees wear military tactical gear; their facility walls and gates are designed like they're meant to house a prison; they have racks of what appear to be real guns and riot gear displayed prominently behind the security folks that check you in. Factor in the Bond-villain architectural aesthetic and it's really just too much to take seriously.

Bizarro security roleplaying aside, Switch is probably the most professional and competent data center operator I've worked with.
Were you dropped on your head as a baby?
Although... I needed to buy a vial of the newest fast insulin in Spain last year without an insurance. One vial was 28 euros, which is much less than people in US have to pay.

The insulin in question is Lyumjev from Eli Lilly.
Why is this comment being downvoted?

This is absolutely the correct approach to take. If there is content that you value, you need to personally archive a copy, because it may be gone for hundreds of reasons next time you try to access it.
You might enjoy this essay from 1965, "A City is Not a Tree": https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
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I certainly take notes, specifically so that I don't need to remember things in detail. I know I can checkout my repository and have everything to hand in one-place.

But that said for learning a language these kind of tools are very useful.
Ironically that's not far from what SafeMoon purported to be. But people would "invest" in it as a form of a lottery.
If your question is truly serious, the answer is: nothing. It's almost certainly impossible to fix the US healthcare system given the enormous number of people who profit so much from its current dysfunction. Unless there is some sort of major disruption that completely changes the landscape (very unlikely), you can expect pharma in the US to be extremely expensive.
But do they also control your healthcare?

Your boss does.
> algorithm could not be based on that. what you described is highly personal and doesn't make sense when optimizing for profits.

That's irrelevant. My point is that no bias is eliminated at first place, since the algorithm is still man made. You could argue that since there is no human intervention the same input would lead to the same output, but again, neither you or I have read the code to claim that it is somehow "bias free" or even completely deterministic, especially if the input relies on computer vision.
Excuse me if I doubt they were purely honest good actors themselves. The article and name of the “watchdog” have so much partisan vitriol baked in it’s impossible for me to assume they were much better than their targets.
This appears to be a very good application of AI. With 2-dimensional puzzles humans can sometimes do a reasonable job. Reconstructing pottery is essentially a 3-dimensional puzzle and we are not really good at this.
> maybe you noticed in the article that the landing happened May 14 but the footage showed up just now.

Communist party centennial is on July 1.

The propaganda ministry have a reserve of "highly patriotic news," which they throw on around big events.
That's a very specific number for an estimate :)
Meanwhile on Windows, the setup for that is:

* Plug in monitor 1

* Plug in monitor 2
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> Also, American milk chocolate proper tastes like vomit to some Europeans/Aussies due to the butyric acid formed during the lipolysis phase of the milk fats. It's exactly that which gives American chocolate its unique (vomit-like) flavor.

American milk chocolate and American chocolate aren't the same thing.
>Do you think their business would collapse,

It would depend on the project's margins and/or sunk costs. A project that had very little invested in it or is a breakout success might we able to weather a 50% cut in exclusivity period, but a marginal product might not. Most of the already developed drugs are probably going to be fine, assuming that the financing for them was already secured.

>or would they keep trying?

For the projects at the margins? most certainly. That is not to say all private drug development would, stop. If some sort of unpatented-but-super-cheap-to-perfect-but-still-not-patented drug showed up it might still be developed, but in aggregate I'd expect drug development to drop significantly.
I think that's just human nature.
Does greasing significantly impact braking performance?
Have you tried low-carb eating? I've been doing it for years and it seems to be an easier method then insulin(type2 borderline when I started, so not exactly the same).
That it incentivizes human trafficking and crime is pure hyperbole. Also turns out that the barrier to entry for crypto is lower in the 3rd world than you might think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvHN0MEBoZo
I don't see the point in this. The constitution doesn't require the government to enforce copyrights and patents, it only allows it to do that. You don't need an amendment to stop doing that. And if you can't stop doing that using the normal process, you won't be able to pass an amendment either.
Good point, what is the top 3 energy user in computing ? Communication ? Replicated storage ? I guess bitcoin can be listed.
Unsure, I'm afraid - let me know if and when you find out; hopefully a good place to work :)
This was a stablecoin backed by two other stablecoins? What's the point? Now you have multiple points of failure and no upside.
* The web vitals themselves are unquestionably good for the user*

Fast pages are good, but Google is using their tools like Page Speed to push you to adopt Google’s ideas of fast, like using WebP for images. So now you might have a bunch of cruft in your page to support multiple image types.

Also, as user, I hate lazy loading. I can scroll faster than images load. I’d rather everything load in the beginning, and have images there as I scroll.
I mostly agree with this point. The only way it’s true is that iPhone is so popular and is both a higher-spending consumer and less fragmented platform compared to android, so most mobile software goes iPhone first.

But IMO there really isn’t a single dominant platform right now, with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux all being highly relevant in different niches.
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Hi!

Let me know if there is anyone/anything you'd like to see on Friday! Looking forward to releasing nvim 0.5 :)

Thanks,

TJ
sudo apt-mark hold intel-microcode

I will reconsider once a PoC comes out that affects either nginx or sshd.
Compounding the problem is that much of the knowledge we hold today was once considered outlandish and false... often with great conviction from those in trusted positions of power. Plate tectonics, doctors being required to wash hands, babies cannot feel pain and don't require anesthesia, and so much more. This doesn't mean all fringe theories are true, of course, but I do caution people in thinking that our current understanding is unequivocally correct just because there is a scientific consensus.
LMFAO. Express Scripts (the biggest PBM) was bought for 67 billion! They have never saved a patient life but are bigger than most pharma companies.
> I think I agree with you. However to the parents point: i think the implication is we might be enlightened about why Alan defines OOP the way he does when we contextualize it with Smalltalk, the language in which he used it. That's a fair point.

I absolutely agree that understanding Kay and Smalltalk can help one become a better programmer and give context into the history of OOP. But it can't be interpreted as anything other than a semantic deflection in the context of a response to substantial criticism.
The issue is replacement cost and feasibility. As roads got better pavement (or were more reliably paved) speed limits could increase. I still have some 20-30mph dirt roads near my home here (actually quite a few), but highways were specifically made to support higher speeds (longer straight sections, in sane places smoother curves). Notably, improving road quality did not obsolete the Model T (though it did become obsolete) on its own. It just made them particularly outdated when other, faster, options were now viable.

Nothing has stopped making faster cars just as nothing (fundamentally) has stopped us from making a "better" Internet (supporting more addresses and other features). What hasn't been done is to say, "Ok, so we already have this massive hardware rollout but we're going to literally obsolete 99.99% of it overnight and cost everyone, home users, small businesses, governments, megacorps, billions or trillions to replace their hardware."

Why didn't that happen? Because it would've been stupid. Instead we ended up with what's amounted to two Internets with bridges between them. The transition hasn't been smooth, but it has been happening.
I don't think any major DBs use TSX
Can someone please point me to an example of a well-designed (modular, maintainable) FP project (e.g. on GitHub)?

I've only had negative experiences so far and I can't imagine how to use FP in a modular way (high cohesion, loose coupling) so I'd like some examples to look at. A simple game would be nice.
No, Microsoft reserves odd numbers for good versions. That's why there was no 9. 11 will be brilliant! ;)
There is also US/Pacific, which is just an alias for America/Los_Angeles. America/California is ambiguous, because there are several Californias in the "America" area, which encompasses North and South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Location

> Country names are not used in this scheme, primarily because they would not be robust, owing to frequent political and boundary changes. The names of large cities tend to be more permanent...

> Usually the most populous city in a region is chosen to represent the entire time zone, although another city may be selected if it are more widely known, and another location, including a location other than a city, may be used if it results in a less ambiguous name.

Basically: globally, regions and countries change, but cities are much slower to change. They don't just pick up and move like borders can.
the EU has twice as many diabetics as the United States yet they have no "shortage" or "demand" related problems.

Our situation has nothing to do with demand and everything to do with corporate greed. Many western European countries empower their governments to set upper bounds on the costs of medication to reduce the ability of pharma-bros to make disgusting amounts of personal wealth off the suffering of others.
The Maillard reaction is protein browning,separate from sugar caramelization
Perhaps you don't cook for other people.
I actually know a guy who does both. Nothing further to add, just thought it was funny that I actually know a lawyer who does some programming.

I think he was going to college for computer science and then switched to law. Last I heard from him, he was running for a judgeship.
And the transcript: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
I want to be able to run a lan cable from the street and basicly join the worlds largest LAN. Free open access
No, this was purely a bug in the SafeDollar code.
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I don't see how this vulgar reduction of the problem in question to just size of binaries has anything to do with what Wirth is talking about in that article, which are among other things the factors of maintainability, cognitive load, reusability and such.
AFAIK the common case is that it's just "whatever is in ICU/CLDR", there is no "standard". And I've seen them renamed many times - OS versions don't always agree with each other, for example, much less different OSes.
Agree duration is an important factor, an nobody would suggest this was a "real" climb in the tour-de-france sense.

I think we are differing mostly on semantics. I would say for a serious cyclist, it will register but would not be any kind of challenge. Not sure why you are bringing elite cyclists (cf again, TDF) into it, there is an absolutely massive gap between the average serious cyclist and the elites.
The fact that this is trending on HN shows how little hacker news knows about the cryptocurrency space. A relatively unknown, recently launched stablecoin collapsing is not big news in crypto.

Now if dai, usdc or usdt had failed, that would be a big deal.