skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, the balance of power will inherently never tip to introverts for the simple reason that introverts generally do not want power over other people. We want power over our own situations. We want to be left alone. That social power over others is then claimed by those who desire it.
> In the U.S. 78% of people hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or obese.

According to [0], 70.2% of US adults are overweight or obese. The base rate seems like an important fact when making this point.

[0]: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statisti...
Cilium's Load Balancer became Maglev based last fall: https://cilium.io/blog/2020/11/10/cilium-19#maglev
> The mobile version of Reddit is deliberately broken in order to force you to use the app.

fyi - if you use old reddit, the mobile site is fine - I've never seen a subreddit blocked or threads truncated.

new reddit is a pile of steaming dogsh
It’s not as easy as that. What’s acceptable in test might not be acceptable in your customers conditions. It’s difficult to correctly measure the time for every interaction and humans are extremely bad at telling you how fast something is. Then you also have the problems of regressions that stem from other unrelated changes.
"Don't cross the streams."
Facebook and YouTube are both in the market for users to show advertising to, and generally every minute spent on one is a minute explicitly not spent on the other. If facebook were selling communication with friends, then YouTube would not be a competitor, but that's not Facebook's business, nor would anyone argue that Facebook has a monopoly on talking to your friends.
Just don't use these hostile sites. Your presence on them just adds to their credibility, and the rewards they offer are scant at best.
If you're NBC and you're out to make money from advertisement...would you get more views showing spotlights of athletes from random countries...or spotlight of athletes from the US?

I guarantee you China isn't doing a spotlight on US athletes. Hell, there are some athletes they are taking away the spotlight.

https://radiichina.com/li-ying-coming-out/
It’s slow as molasses to load, and it’s non-functional without JavaScript. It’s text data that would lose nothing by being presented as static HTML.
That's quite a ridiculous claim. Surely they can display ads to anonymous users, That's not hard at all. But then they can't track you and profile you, which is a big no.

Now is it fair for a company to track and shape the behavior of millions of people?
There’s no categorical difference between Knight and Vanguard. If Vanguard fucks up its trading, the exchange is not under any obligation to make it right. The only difference is that Knight was a lot more aggressive in terms of pushing the envelope on its algorithms to reap excess profit. I’m sure Vanguard is a lot more politically sympathetic, but I’d trust that “guarantee” a hell of a lot less than I’d trust battle tested software.

Say the fund managers running your 401k decided to say “fuck it, turn off all the circuit breakers.” Would you just shrug your shoulders and say “no worries, I’m sure FINRA’s got my back if anything goes wrong. Blindly trusting the people running institutions to keep you safe is as misguided as assuming that all software is infallible .
Exactly this about Instagram and Facebook bother me a little bit too, and here is something that most people also don't experience:

I sometimes use a VPS from a popular cloud provider as a proxy for my web browsing. I frequently get asked to "Prove I'm not a robot". This happens on all kinds of sites, including Youtube, Paypal, some government sites, etc. It is annoying enough, but Facebook as well as Instagram won't let me see _anything_ without logging in (which I don't). So can't even check the Lunch menu for a local restaurant on Facebook over this proxy.
It's a rapidly inflating bubble like NFTs and subprime mortgages.
…also I’d like to add… It’s a pity @dakami isn’t around to give his response, I’d have liked to hear it.
It makes sense. On the other hand pharmaceutical companies make mistakes also, just on a bigger scale. Also I imagine that when it will be easier to set up insulin small scale production, than more scientists will be able to do innovate and improve the process.
250k is nothing compared to the biggest defi losses: https://rekt.news/leaderboard/
yes, according to wikipedia[1]

IPv4 is just inefficiently allocated in general. Why does the world need 10.0.0.0/8 in addition to 192.168.0.0/16? Isn't 65k addresses enough? Is there a private organization in need of 16 million addresses?

Not to mention AMPRNet (amateur radio) owned the entire 44.0.0.0/8 up until 2019 (a portion was sold off to Amazon). That may have seemed reasonable in 1980 but now it's just plain crazy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses
> It's not a spam vector

You could certainly sign someone up for mailing lists that send them a lot of messages that they have no interest in and don't want. It might not be "spam" in the sense of ads, but it's unwanted.
And how do you know this. Also, you are referring to the web, not the internet. I have been using the internet since the web was opened to the public. It was already growing like crazy without ads. You make some very strange assumptions. By all means, find the silver linings, but there is no basis for making a causal connection between computer networks and advertising. Ads are not why we have conveniences. Networking technology, continually decreasing in cost, is the reason. There is no inherent connection between computer networks and advertising. The connection exists in your mind because computer network technology is dirt cheap to produce and people have resorted to sketchy behaviour to try to make money from it.1 It would still be dirt cheap without the sketchy behaviour. The argument that the internet would only be for "the rich" is laughable. It must come out of a Big Tech PR department. Sounds like what Facebook likes to say to the press in response to criticism. Yeah, the internet is for the rich: the people who started a small number of oversized, overtrafficked websites and will use whatever means necessary to stay on top. There is nothing egalitatrian about today's internet.

1 The number of people who became wealthy from this behaviour is relatively small, but news of their "success" is widely disseminated.
Nice. Just checking, did you not go with firebase/couchdb/pouchdb due to pricing?
I believe you and tend to think that myself (my newest PC with ~2 year old parts has a noticeable impact on my home energy usage).

I suppose my critique was more to prove a point that the news can be slanted either way and I find that frustrating.
Yes, I could. You just did it, as did the 3 other replies. You double down and confirm my point.

Like I said, I see the humor in it. It's culture. Every forum has a culture. That's why you came to the defense, even in absence of an attack.

I know I won't change that, but I do want to explain my counter point by means of an example.

You have absolutely no idea how deeply I hate Google. I could write books full of it. Yet I will still not fall in the trap of an absolute closed mind or simplistic binary rejection.

Same for crypto and for anything large and impactful. It's a hard thing to do these days, to be a technologist for technology sake, and to cleanly separate it from the maker's reputation, personal politics, and so on. Very few things in life can be sorted into good or bad.

So when you have topics that are close to taboo, yes, I do think that's odd.
Mexico’s Finance Minister Confirms Cryptos Are Banned from Financial System
Tell me you’re a naive and idealistic capitalist without telling me that you’re a naive and idealistic capitalist.
Hypothetically, Facebook has a monopoly in social networking, but then they decide to launch a roblox clone tomorrow. Since they have a new product line where they don’t have a monopoly, we should look the other way? It’s true that Facebook exists in many spaces where they are not dominant but that does not diminish their dominance - in fact it’s their platform dominance that makes them so dangerous to smaller companies in other spaces.
ECS isn’t the same thing as data-oriented programming is it? I’ve worked on AAA games and this whole discussion is quite confusing, lol.
It's been my impression that eliminating meat consumption would produce less need for farmland and fertilizer, not more.
You mean like this billionaire philanthropist? https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/programs-resources/open-s...
> You need to know how to make solar panels so that it will work on Mars. It’s different than those you would need for the moon.

Can you elaborate on this?
If so they should not even show the page to begin with. I'd be fine with that.

(It's an intentionally public page about cat pictures, by the way, so it wouldn't be creepy for anonymous internet users to look at. It's only private Instagram pages that would be creepy in that sense.)

Letting you browse public content for 5 seconds before asking you log in is a "fuck you" pattern.
I simply don't understand the healthcare system in the US. Its meant to be a free market, yet insulin costs a ridiculous amount. However Opioids and synthetic opioids are cheap as chips.

To put it into context, In the UK the NHS buy Insulin at <$35

you can see the prices here: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/insulin.html They come from the same companies and are produced to the same standard. How can a bureaucratic "socialist" care system get better price, and a much better availability than a "free market" system. (thats rhetorical, I know why)

Given the number of non and under insured, I just don't understand why its not swinging elections.
Ha, thanks for picking up on that! I was hoping that someone would notice. :-)
> According to [0], 70.2% of US adults are overweight or obese[0].

This is really a lot. The last time I was in USA, it did not look like so.
They said it wasn't hard, not that it was necessary in all circumstances.

Banks and gold deposits re-lend money because it makes them money and they can sell the storage service for cheaper. If you want something that won't be loaned back out then you can buy that service pretty easily.

And stock prices changing is a very different thing. The actual supply is there, and entire markets caps can and do get sold in things like mergers.
I recommend trying to hit Reader mode button to defeat Fuck You patterns. This simple trick works on surprisingly many websites, because they need to conform with Google SEO rules.
That’s pretty close to the definition of science… form a hypothesis and test it then report your results. Not every test has to be microbiological or geological in origin to be considered “science”. They’re also getting to test the resiliency of consumer grade computers and electronics in the Martian atmosphere and probably many many other experimental ideas that aren’t public knowledge.
Cliff Click, aside from being a brilliant programmer, is a great technical communicator. He came out of a fantastic department at Rice that’s produced some of the most readable academic papers on compilers and VMs I’ve encountered.
But considering how the Chinese government brutally oppresses its own people, those advantages aren't worth much.

When/if the CCP is overthrown and a democratically elected government takes its place, then maybe China will become the new world leader.
What kind of “majority of services”?
This whole conversation becomes a lot easier if we realize that two things can be true:

1. Facebook has an uncomfortable level of power in advertising, eyeballs on screens, and proprietary data

2. Legals definitions that were created over 100 years ago mostly focused on price gouging are not going to address this neatly
At least in the cases of Standard Oil and Bell, you would have needed to define the markets as energy and communication (including the post office) for them to not have had near total control.

You could state the generalized product they sold and their total control was evident.
Mixing Covid vaccines gives good protection, study suggests
I don't like stikcy header,s so I use the Kill Sticky bookmarklet ( https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/ )

When I do this, some websites do the same thing, i.e. don't let me scroll down.

I think calling this the Fuck You pattern is entirely appropriate.
Citation for this??
that's just how ontario thinks.
Why am I the only one who likes all my devices in my house having one IP address. It's no one's business if I have 10 computers in here or 1.
> Submarkets over a certain size

This moves the problem of defining a market to defining a submarket.

Please don't interpret this as my being facetious. In the days of good and services being sold to consumers, we had metrics to measure this. The government measured and the courts incorporated said metrics into antitrust law. Those measures don't work well in the digital era. These cases are about proposing new measures and getting them to stick.

Mind bogglingly, the FTC didn't propose such a metric. That's why its complaint was dismissed. I'm curious to see what they propose, if anything.
China turns on world’s second-biggest hydropower dam
I believe it can be made easy, if you have an easy way to profile your GUI. Test the feature, get a timer. If it took more than 20ms on your killer test machine, it might be too slow for some users. (Adjust your heuristic with the context of your application of course.)
The history is well-known. Gödel started it. The "anglo-part" was mostly Church (decision problem). Turing simplified Church. At the same time, Zuse built the first real computer. I like this key part of the text:

What exactly did Post[POS] and Turing[TUR] do in 1936 that hadn't been done earlier by Gödel[GOD][GOD34] (1931-34) and Church[CHU] (1935)? There is a seemingly minor difference whose significance emerged only later. Many of Gödel's instruction sequences were series of multiplications of number-coded storage contents by integers. Gödel did not care that the computational complexity of such multiplications tends to increase with storage size. Similarly, Church also ignored the spatio-temporal complexity of the basic instructions in his algorithms. Turing and Post, however, adopted a traditional, reductionist, minimalist, binary view of computing—just like Konrad Zuse (1936).[ZU36] Their machine models permitted only very simple elementary instructions with constant complexity, like the early binary machine model of Leibniz (1679).[L79][LA14][HO66] Emil Post They did not exploit this back then—for example, in 1936, Turing used his (quite inefficient) model only to rephrase the results of Gödel and Church on the limits of computability. Later, however, the simplicity of these machines made them a convenient tool for theoretical studies of complexity.
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> You could go outside at literally any time during the past year regardless of orders.

If you talk about Europe and parts of Asia, I can tell you from experience that, no, you couldn't go out of the house for long periods of time in certain hourly intervals during the past year.
> If they have that data anyway -- and hundreds of companies do -- I might as well benefit from it, and Instagram's ads were the first ones that I actually found interesting.

I always feel a little depressed when someone describes being more effectively manipulated as "benefiting."
Same goes here, again ESOPs or RSUs. You do need the correct legal entity. And I don't see any reason why stock based compensation would be the main reason holding European start ups back.

Edit: Thinking of it, you can even do that with GmbH in Germany by handing out equity that is tied to to the employment, at least for directors and the like. Don't ask me about the details, obviously it never came to it in my case.
The Parity wallet bug from 2017 is the classic example so far, where someone who was just messing around with the smart contract 'accidentally' locked up $280m in assets[1]. I've linked to the GitHub thread below...this person didn't get anything from the exploit, and it wasn't for street cred (they deleted their account).

https://github.com/openethereum/parity-ethereum/issues/6995#...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/accidental-bug-may-have-froz...
> there are often some pretty extreme opinions

I just feel like the sentence structure doesn't make sense if they were suggesting that opinion. I'm not basing it on whether I think someone might actually have that sort of opinion. But if you don't want to elaborate on your thoughts then that's fine, have a nice day.
> Since I’m a technical person, I tried to simply remove the modal in the browser Inspector. It sort of worked, but I wasn’t able to scroll any further on the page.

^ try finding the container of the content that has its overflow set to 'hidden', and change it back to auto. Then you should be able to scroll again
While these are solid points, I'm not talking about Western Europe (and I'll note, that black Africans and African descent people do _better_ than Pakistanis on UK achievement tests). Why are you skipping over the fact that Muslims are middle class in the US? Why ignore Sikhs in Canada in the 80s (Air India bombing, etc) which Trudeau got in hot water over when visiting India.
> Knowing a vaccine is considered by experts to be effective is sufficient. The exact rates of reinfection aren’t important and can be confusing.

Sufficient to whom? Experts often disagree and if they disagree, I want to know where and why and what the data is. Just because I am not expert on the topic does not mean I can't make judgements on incomplete information.

You are seriously underestimating people that may want to read mainstream sources, as if they need to be told what to think.

True, MSM unfortunately regularly does that instead of impartial reporting, but how could anyone be a proponent that all MSM articles being like this is desirable for informed society. The increased focus on narrative pushing from MSM is the source of distrust in MSM and the reason why people turn to alternative sources.
Even being able to grind a smart contract to a halt would be very profitable if you shorted it right beforehand.
Dwarf Fortress is one of my favorite games if not my favorite so props for citing its internal representation. I definitely think ECS makes sense in many contexts, and I think it's at its most powerful in tandem with a more encapsulated actor system. Example -

struct Player: public Actor {
Component<Sprite> sprite;
Component<Transform> transform;
void update() override {...}
};

Where Component<T> is a handle to some backing storage indexed by an Actor's ID.
This way, you can go the traditional route of having Player update itself in its own update() method as well as being able to Component<Sprite>::iter() along with other components for the render loop ECS-style.

My point now and my point then was going all-in on ECS as the basis for your entire architecture rather than taking a more principled approach drawing the strengths of OOP and DOD is dogmatic and difficult.

It's interesting that you mention web services - I have a lot of respect for databases and I enjoy the process of using them, however, I wouldn't ever program a web app in SQL. That's what pure ECS feels like to me. I agree that having objects manipulate the state via upholding internal invariants is the way to go. Whether you call them Actors, or Systems, or Controllers, it's kinda one and the same. That's why I love DOD as a base architectural layer to be abstracted upon, but dislike ECS as a programming paradigm.
Hah, is this naivete, or just obtuseness?

And the CEOs or their lobbyists go to state and federal capitols to lobby for destruction of these programs, or "donate" to politicians' election campaigns with "wink wink, you know what we want."...
You're right: continuous refinement will indeed have to continue indefinitely.

This is true with and without policy automation because policy itself has to evolve to address, as you say, a changing world, as well as the organization's changing goals and its outlook on the effectiveness of the existing policy in meeting those goals.
If they release a car it will start again…
As opposed to passing function pointers everywhere, callback hell and friends? Or which language does it well in your opinion? The fact is, dynamic dispatch is needed, because not everything can be known at compile time. And as in a recent thread a HNer rightly noted (could not find it where I read it), the actually expensive thing in programming is flexibility.
My comment has nothing to do with implementation. We're talking about ECS in the context of DoD so I'm not sure what relevance being data-oriented by default has. It seems like you're just confusing the concepts of ECS, DoD, and composition.

Your entire post on ECS is, "If you don't use DoD with ECS than you're not using DoD". Well yeah.. obviously? If you implement an ECS and then use it without data-oriented structures, then yes obviously you don't have data-oriented design.

You're creating a strawman. You're saying if you take ECS, remove the idea of storing components independently of entities, and pass them in an inefficient manner to systems, then you don't have DoD. ECS isn't inherently DoD, literally nothing is. Arrays aren't inherently cache friendly. There's nothing stopping you from making a language that allocates data randomly throughout reserved memory and every array element points to each location. No one is arguing ECS is inherently DoD, but it is a good design to facilitate DoD.

> For example we might want to do damage to another entity entirely.

Add a damaged component to the entity to damage. Consume damage component in a system.

> Or we might want to look up the properties of the piece of ground we're stood on

Use a position component on the entity standing on the ground. Consume the position in a system and look at the properties of the terrain map at that position. Even simpler for grid based maps.

> We're also ignoring interacting with other components or the world and how that might work

You interact with other components by defining interactions in systems based on those components.

You've created an ECS in a way that doesn't take advantage of any of the benefits, and complaining that all you're left with is the disadvantages.
Another one is the "can I help you" chat box that pops up.
Intercom and the likes.

Thinking about making a Chrome plugin that intentionally asks some nonsense questions programmatically in the background to waste their time and disincentivize that behavior.

(To be clear, I love having chat channels for sales and support, just NOT unsolicited "Can I help you" popups.)
Everyone everywhere has realized throughout the ages that conversion of anything is higher when you get a demo of the product.

This isn't a "fuck you" pattern. They gave you a social media Costco food sample.
How could it not be 1.5bn? Every business desktop and laptop computer runs MS Windows and Office (yes we all know there are exceptions but they're negligable relatively speaking). If anything, I'm surprised it's that few.
Kinds of side businesses you can start
I've no idea if you're legit or not,

but wouldn't a bad actor say the same thing?

why should people trust you with their information?