skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would NASA not release detailed topology maps? Doesn't that have a lot of value to al researchers around the world?
A large economic or power disparity between the two may mean that there is not much difference between "coerced" and "bought".

It is just like someone running a sweatshop might be able to hire people for a couple dollars per day. The workers would be consenting to work at that price, but they are being coerced into it due to their own financial situation.
> Now if dai, usdc or usdt had failed, that would be a big deal.

The “Dai” peg did break — both in early 2020 [1], and a few days after launching. DAI’s now 60% backed by Tether like instruments. It’s basically a strictly worse version of Facebook’s Libra, assuming Libra weren’t crippled by state regulators (Libra is now Diem).

Every major algorithmic stablecoin has imploded at least once in times of market volatility. Preston Byrne has written a wonderful article explaining why the concept is clearly unsound and theoretically flawed [2]:

When you make a “coin” which is in form and substance a repackaged
exposure to another underlying cryptocurrency, as Dai is simply
repackaged Ether, and Basecoin is simply an abstraction of demand
for “Base bonds,” and peg that exposure to some meatspace asset
like an ounce of gold or a U.S. dollar, a sudden move against the
underlying collateral – in this case, 12% – can trigger a sell-off
that breaks that peg, and breaks it hard.

It’s perhaps a testament to the frothiness of the cryptocurrency markets — or the sheer number of low information investors — that this concept doesn’t die. No matter how many times the “stablecoin” peg breaks, no matter how many times it costs investors millions of dollars in losses, it just refuses to die. If there were any justice in this world, the concept would’ve been fundamentally discredited years ago.

Unfortunately, when stablecoins break, they get propped up by biased investors in closely linked pseudo equities who limp the imploded stablecoin along by injecting more capital and then powering on the hype machine.

[1]: https://blog.makerdao.com/the-market-collapse-of-march-12-20...

[2]: https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/01/11/epicaricacy/
Aimee Fuller: Olympian tests 'flying surfboard' on Thames
It should indeed sound distant and muffled with the composition and temperature of Mar's atmosphere. Saw a neat pseudo-documentary on this not too long ago: https://youtu.be/OeYnV9zp7Dk?t=551
This is a far-too-common complete misunderstanding of the law.

Section 230 says that web sites are not liable for user generated content. If facebook published a blog post, authored by facebook, you could sue them for that. But you can't sue them for a comment made my another user, much as you couldn't sue the NYT for a comment someone left on their website.

Note that in both contexts, the NYT and Facebook are both acting as publishers, but are still not liable for the user generated content.

One can choose to moderate content, and still retain section 230 protections, in fact that's the entire point of 230, to encourage sites to moderate content without increasing their liability. The legal context, original authors, and judicial history all support that interpretation.

> We had to write laws to prevent that from happening.

Well, you're simplifying a bit here. Jim crow, slavery, etc. were all legally mandated. But you're correct that when the forms of mandated discrimination were no longer mandated, many were also made illegal.
> Should the minimum wage for workers be equal to the wage where the government doesn't need to provide benefits? If it's not, why does the government subsidize low productivity employers?

The government isn’t subsidizing low productivity employers, its subsidizing people whose labor isn’t valued in the market. Mostly, those subsidies go up if people aren't employed compared to where they would be if they were employed at low wages, so the employer is subsidizing the government support system, not vice versa.
I use the crap out of Skype. Have a circle of contacts that have been on it forever.

No way we will use Teams. About half of us could return to IRC.
Frontpagetech.com was created by Jon Prosser, one of the well-known Apple leakers: https://twitter.com/jon_prosser
>deck syncing is error prone

I suppose making it manual might not be ideal, but errors are very few and far between.

>general ui is dated

I don't really know what this means. Why change something that works just because it's stayed the same for a while?
Money is, after all, "speech."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Walk softly and carry a big purse.
Isn't that the problem? SV has too much cash going around so lots of bullshit is funded or companies run for decades on VC with the single mission to drive out all competitors and then hike prices.

SV has given the world a lot but what actually usually innovation has come from there in the past 10 years (not companies that moved there for easy money, but rather actual innovation creation)?
trackbacks and pingbacks stopped working because they drowned in spam.
US Supreme Court declines transgender bathroom appeal in win for student
> The Emperor states himself in his surrender that his decision was influenced by the display of the atomic bombs, and ultimately it was the Emperor who put the final end to the Japanese war effort.

The argument goes that the Emperor's public statements were an effort to save face in front of the country. "No, it wasn't our incompetence that created defeat, they had a Super Weapon!" The Russians could have had ground troops on Japanese territory in days, compared to weeks or months for the Americans.
While the client-side has input validation, it appears that the server-side does not, as I can edit the request body freely and it'll return accordingly.

It's interesting to see how the model fails at extreme values. I can see why they chose the cutoffs they did!
Maybe Mark Cuban’s company can produce it: https://costplusdrugs.com/
Actually I think it's the opposite - online advertising is so ineffective all this micro-targetting is the minimum required to persuade people to throw their money away. In reality how do I target someone in New York? I buy an ad in the NYT.
The pattern is real but in this instance
they're blocking bots and scrapers.
Thanks for clarifying that. Yes, I mixed up the strike and content ID thing.

Still you loose money, something that should (IMHO) not happen just because a system / copyright holder _thinks_ you _might_ be infringing.

After watching Tom Scott's video linked somewhere here, I get where this comes from and that it is more of a problem with copyright in itself and the way entities with money can leverage that.
If no system of rules can ever cover the policy space, then the policy itself is necessarily ill-defined. That alone is a problem before automation considerations. I'm arguing that automation provides the opportunity to make good, open assessment part of a process of improvement rather than opaquely driving firings.
I don’t think it is weird we are talking about it now. The last year was mostly about getting through it, and only now can we start putting data in context.

I can only say what is needed : a medicine is number one. Making society resilient against airborne viruses and we need absolute data on what tools we have to stop a virus in a room with people.

But last but not least it’s also a behavioral problem (which you allude to from a different angle) where people are making decisions that allow the virus to spread. I talked to a red cross doctor and he said that distancing and masks in a hospital setting is pretty much enough to kill transmission. It was his opinion that truly honoring the guidelines would have stopped it.
Windows 11: It doesn't matter, and you shouldn't fall for the marketing
Hm why do you make the distinction? Is the implication that the earthworms were brought in at some point or does native not work as a word in this context?
Human Behavior During the Pandemic Is More Important Than Any Covid Variant
> It's not okay to just say that only the old, fat, and vulnerable are at risk of dying so why should everyone else have to take all these precautions? The lack of empathy is staggering.

Nobody was saying not to protect those people or lacking empathy for them. In fact, the opposite is true. We were saying that we should have focused our measures on protecting just them, rather than treating everyone as equally vulnerable.
sK1 Project
"*"="Jack of all Trades" in my old folk lingo, but this revised and modernized fork was terrific.
ISO 8601 is a serialisation format. What's your point?
I did a version of this by Googling my name (as a phrase, with and without middle initial) combined with city names or street address fragments I’ve lived at. I then submitted removal requests for anything I found.

I ended up submitting about 10 requests, 7 or 8 of which were online.

Of course, not all data brokers have publicly indexed page, but a lot do.
You don't have half a million dollars invested in the thing you claim to be, to then blow. Unlike a VC or this coin. That analogy doesn't work.
would you say that about games that are designed to run at 125+ fps?
Hot Take: There should be no secrecy at all (FOSH) and instead let companies create real competition.
This strikes me as an example of the legalistic sort of thinking that is popular with a vocal minority of internet forum users who like to make litigious arguments, look for problems that don't actually exist in practice, then demand bureaucratic systems to "solve" the "problems". I don't believe that we're violating human rights by operating HN, and the idea of building software to address such cases as "someone taking over the domain and making it a porn site" is an example of what I mean by problems that don't exist in practice.

I don't mean to pick on you personally—it's a style of thinking that pops up a lot. Being a moderator, and thus a sort of bureaucrat, attracts arguments from the bureaucratically minded. All I can tell you is that it's the opposite of how we think about HN. In my view it would be a big mistake to let it direct how we operate HN or what features to add. The way I look at it, HN users have a right to an interesting forum that doesn't suck (or at least relatively doesn't suck), that's a hard problem, and anything that detracts focus from it is a really bad idea. I get that you think differently and I don't mean to be disrespectful. But yes, I am thinking about the culture of HN.
Handling errors with grace (and sometimes without it)
However, since you're effectively brute forcing a match on an unknown key, the universe may go cold and dark before your content arises, for any content larger than 128 bits or so.
You going to do that with every company?
I tried to present the arguments around here in a nuanced way. I don't think that there is much of a closed mind or a simplistic binary rejection, or a taboo, on technical topics here on HN.

The onus is on crypto boosters (who are usually invested and would benefit from more hype) to present better arguments and demonstrate the general benefit/feasability of crypto.
In related recent news, Congo selected Australia's Fortescue Metals Group to develop their proposed "Grand Inga Dam" project, which will be the world's largest power plant if it gets completed:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australias-fortescue...
What aspect of stablecoins makes them a bubble?
> We also shouldn't put them in the fridge next to the bottle of coke no matter how well labeled.

That's a great analogy, Perhaps to extend it -- there could be a "discards" section where the comment gets moved to should it be warranted, along with a note on why.
recent AWS Frankfurt event when the datacenter was flooded with gas to push oxygen out seems to make a good use case for the robots there.
> "Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic.

> Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 3000 average sized 1 GW nuclear power plants.

That makes it sound like GP is several orders of magnitud wrong. Throws the rest of the post into question as well.
For sure, we will never see the full picture. I personally find the whole situation a bit strange, like ... something about it doesn't make sense. Time clears everything up.
More details:

- https://twitter.com/sK1ProjectOrg/status/1407954175976218624

- https://github.com/sk1project/sk1-wx/issues/282

- https://github.com/sk1project/sk1-wx/issues/306
Is there any way to get there from where we are now? Seems like even with ipv6 we still have to use routers.
Even though I have the app and an account, I still despise using it. They break things like zoom and saving images. Clicking on something interesting takes you to…a site that doesn’t actually have that.

I truly don’t understand how Pinterest is so popular when it’s also so awful. Tumblr was so much better until Verizon destroyed it with management incompetence.
I suppose remembering to sync is an issue, but I've just built the habit of always syncing when finished. Anki will also sync automatically when you exit (this might be an option you have to enable in the settings).
https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php is indispensible.
Linkedin has one of these too. Displays your full information to Google to index you, but if a human user visits, up comes the login wall.

F you for treating bots better than humans, linkedin.
> people trying to game those rules for their own advantage once they figure them out

I mean, good for them. They deserve my money for obeying the letter of my requirements. That's exactly what I want them to do. If the letter of the requirements don't accurately and precisely represent the spirit of the requirements, that's on me.

IMHO that sort of adversarial relationship is extremely helpful at developing a good formal spec for the requirements in the first place. It's TDD, but with a monetary incentive on the part of the developer to "code to make the test pass" and nothing more. You don't get to rely on the developer's charitability—the only knob you get to turn, is what test you write!

Of course, in the end, the "tests" might need to be Sufficiently Advanced for this to work, e.g. a spec that specifies something as "what a layman would understand X to be" — where actually evaluating that in an automated way would involve automating a "jury of your peers" type setup to act as the "layman."
That comment doesn't explain anything. It just says: spam? Remove the incentive.

The incentive is money. You can't just wave a magic wand and get rid of the incentive to spam things. Asserting that you can is wishful thinking.
> The company I work for apparently doesn't allow employees to sell shares (after exercising the options) to any of those third party marketplaces.

But once you're no longer there, you're no longer an employee. Can you sell then? Or am I reading too much into your words?
This broadfork is interesting. I have a garden fork that could probably serve the same purpose. I'll give it a shot.

Also thanks for the recommendation of using coffee grounds. I have a couple local shops nearby I think would be willing to offload that on to me haha.
Home is just a feeling, part two
let's put ideology aside. It's quite interesting to watch different societies, governance, cultures evolving, cooperating,competing among each other. Eastern world is more likely have low entropy societies while Western have high entropy societies.

Both have strength and weakness. Low entropy societies are more efficient, extremely good at building physical things. But tend to have less varieties. High societies are more chaotic, but also more innovative, more productive in spiritual domain. Not only in technologies but also arts ,etc.

It would be ideal that both societies can cooperate and share the benefits leveraging advantages of both worlds. But in reality it's quite complex and not going to a good direction in short term
Under no circumstances should you buy anything by Elisabeth David (which is a pity, they're great).
> it's rare for gigantic new flaws to emerge

There are countless instances of rouge traders, high level financial crime and corruption.

Wirecard is one recent example costing billions. The Libor scandal another that comes to mind.
I want plug-in which lets users highlight content on a page and mark it as "not malicious". It would use a CTPH algorithm to call out the non malicious bits from their context (same tech that virus scanners use). I call these annotations "brushstrokes".

Other users could "follow" my brushstrokes, so when they land on the page, instead of implicitly running whatever code it finds there it just fetches the known-non-malicious parts. I.e. the cat pictures.

I'd totally pay $5/month if $4 of it went to people who are annotating the web in this way. You could get paid in accordance with how popular and trustworthy your brushstrokes are, and together we can fix the web.

I guess the goal would be UURL's, where the both the reference and the referent are uniform--rather than a uniform reference to a who-knows-what-this-site-will-do referent.
I know people trade NFTs, I didn't realise that counted as dApps though. Are any other, more sophisticated dApps in use?
>Nothing of value is backed in our world. If a mere 7% of bank account holders go to the bank to collect their money, the bank collapses. They don't have your money, it's not there.

Considering negative interest rates in the Eurozone you would be doing the banks a favor. They don't want your deposits.
My dad, career Air Force, was once given the job of coaching the privates on the Air Force base. It seems that about 50% of them were unable to pay their bills, which caused friction between the base commander and the local merchants.

The privates were all paid the same, every two weeks.

Half were able to pay their bills and did well. The other half would spend their paychecks as fast as possible, and would run out of money after 1 week. The 2nd week was spent begging, borrowing, and in general being a deadbeat.

My dad would sit down with them, go over their spending, and prepare budgets for them. Literally none of them were able to adhere to those budgets.

Again, 50%.
These people would achieve more if the time were spent picking up plastic in a park.
On Discourse (open source forum software) we default new install to downloading hotlinked images so we can prevent this very specific problem.
Do you think it was bottom-up for the at-risk students, or were the bottom-up actions associated with people who had the luxury of telling their boss that they are working from home and watching their kids. There are many jobs where working from home is not an options.

So yeah, in some circles it was bottom-up, but there were also people harmed by "authoritarian" top-down measures. It's important to remember that not everyone's experiences and circumstances are the same as our own.
I try not to ever use inline equations. Text is text, code is code, maths is maths, keeping it scoped to their own blocks tends to work better for readers.
I had to double check, the last Occam release was in 1994. I think the language was way to niche, and global communication way too poor still (compared to the '00s and '10s with ubiquitous or near ubiquitous internet access) to catch on. It was nearly a decade later that the first consumer multicore x86 processors started coming out (2003 if I've tracked down the right dates). And multicore didn't become common for a few more years and then the baseline near the end of the '00s, beginning of the '10s.

That time gap and relative unknown of Occam pretty much doomed it even if it would have been wildly useful. By that point you had lots of other languages to come out, and Google pushing Go.
Mass environmental destruction that persists beyond a single human generation should be seen as worse than mass human murder, a human life is ~100 years but many forms of environmental destruction tangibly damage the planet, its life, or its capacity to support life in ways that will affect multiple generations of humans.
Of all the big tech, Facebook seems like the least monopolistic to me. They have a totally different set of issues (ones that we may not have laws to deal with yet), mainly around having disproportionate power over society and the psyches of individual citizens. But "monopolist" feels like a pretty weak case.
Yep. Works on many paywall sites, too. Whenever you hit a paywall, turn on the reader mode, then refresh.
That first image is a strong incentive to not get involved in mining!
It's almost amusing how effective "our" government can be at pushing certain things through "their" courts, while at the same time being almost comically ineffective in other areas. Same government, same courts, different outcomes.
There were plenty of instances of state leadership (not sure if you are in the US or not) asking people to stay in their homes and not go out or meet with people. This is message from the Wisconsin governor when he signed the Executive Order for staying at home:

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/governor-tony-...

And here's the actual order
https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVID19/EO094-COVIDRecommenda...

It actually calls out staying as close to home as possible and not even travelling to a second home if someone owned it.
> Not sure how to accomplish it

I am hoping that the same technology that transported me back in time and made me director of DARPA would help me solve those issues.
This is such a weak(and frankly untimely) analogy, sorry.
Dollar Digitizing
I use Reddit is Fun app on android and haven't noticed any changes in UX for more than 5 years. When a I rarely go to reddit.com on my pc, I can't even recognize the original site.
Here in the UK we technically had a "1 hour of exercise a day" rule at one point, but it wasn't enforced at all (people congregating in groups was, but someone just taking a 4 hour walk instead of a 1 hour walk wasn't). I think it was mostly a case of having to make the rule a bit stricter than it actually needed to be so that the level people actually followed it was at the correct level. I've heard that there were stricter restrictions in France/Italy/Greece at points.
> If you want to rebuild your soil, let the weeds grow and then either use them for compost which you'll later top-dress your soil with, or just chop them and leave them be for the cover crop effect, or work them in slightly, up to you.

This has been my primary approach. Letting the grass and "weeds" grow relatively tall then trimming them down every month or so, letting the clippings rest where they are more or less.
Telegram Channels for Cybersecurity Professionals
Docker could also enumerate the IP addresses on the host, and alert if there are any that aren't in RFC1918 space.
A few of your points seem right but several are just wrong or misleading. E.g. GDPR is a great tool just maliciously implemented by companies that have an interest to do so - 90% of the banners you see are purposefully designed to be annoying and delivered by a small group of ad networks. The aim is to grind you down and make you just click anything to get rid of them. But it has also given us Google/Facebook takeout and the right to actually delete your accounts.
I'll bite.

> thereby increasing the likelihood of adverse COVID-19 outcomes.

Assuming they get the virus! Which the lockdowns were supposed to prevent! If you do the math and the benefit of the lockdowns were small, and the risk from gaining weight was large, then fine, but the pathologic case of this logic looks like: "The government wouldn't let me drive to the store today because of the tornadoes. They say I should go tomorrow, at which point I'll be older, and therefore statistically a worse driver, putting me at an increased risk."

I'm VERY open to critiquing the lockdowns on these kinds of grounds, I'm just getting sick of folks with an agenda bringing a condescending tone and the false appearance of logic to a complex discussion.