skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With so many places in the world with flawed democracy by first past the post, it seems like voting is more or less irrelevant.

The first thing that the digital revolution should have fixed was our variously flawed democratic systems. It might be the last thing.
Stuff I wish I knew before I went Independent
I am sorry to hear about your situation. I have read about others with long COVID finding relief after being vaccinated or catching it again. While I cannot in good faith recommend anyone attempting to catch COVID for a second time, I am curious if you were vaccinated after your bout, and if so, did it have an impact.
A very American trait is to assume something is very American and doesn't apply elsewhere. Usually 'elsewhere' is just defined as a shallow understanding of Europe.
And how does that reputation token change value? Human input, i.e. information which starts outside the blockchain but which has to be recorded onto the blockchain. In which case, what is the point of the blockchain? Maybe making it impossible to fix mistakes in human input, but most professional developers would call that a bug not a feature.
I’m not saying this is a good idea, only that it’s not in the brink of falling apart. And I reckon this is the last thing that would break it. Farming subsidies or carbon credits if anything. Again, the boring stuff.
Suppose your hypothetical was true, and whenever you had a grievance you would speak directly to an c-suite officer. What makes you think the corporate officer in question wouldn't take preventive measures to protect themselves from violence? Business in sketchy neighborhoods place their employees/cash register behind bulletproof glass to prevent this exact issue. If a small business can afford that kind of stuff to protect their minimum wage employee, I'm sure c-suite officers of multinational corporations can afford something equal or better.
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Which noone uses. Even Facebook Messenger supports "secret chats". Telegram is not secure.
Being smart does not equal being rich. Being rich does not mean being elite. Being elite is always "extraordinarily difficult" - from getting "advanced degree" there is still long way to being "elite".

Having a degree does not mean one is smart, it does not mean someone will get a job. Maybe we should put more effort into explaining life to people or actually start making them smart instead of "smart". If people would be really smart they would know how much effort is needed to become elite in any discipline.

I have another article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-12-22/if-you...
Institutions have embedded growth obligations they can't meet, and thus are forced to lie to everyone to stay alive. Is it really surprising that all the people lied to might be upset when they don't get to live the life they were promised?
If I explicitly type "new.reddit.com", it comes up fine.
Hi, I'm Tom.

I'm based in the UK (Oxford). I'm open to a remote co-founder but I'd prefer someone in the UK so we'd be able to meet in person and get to know each other.

I've got a mixed background, I used to work in finance (did the CFA etc) but have worked as an engineer in the data space since 2016. I got to know the data industry and the analytical challenges that finance and marketing teams face really well, and now I want to solve some of the (many) problems I've encountered.

I have spent the last couple of months talking to as many businesses as I can. The goal has been to learn about how others are working and whether they have experienced the same problems as me. I am now quite confident in a few of my market hypotheses and I think I've got a promising direction to take an MVP in.

I've also been looking for a co-founder! I'm interested to meet anyone who is highly motivated, and who has expertise in the industry - either as an engineer or as a PM or in sales. Ideally you'll know what it's like to work for an early stage business, and you need to be willing to commit full time (for the right idea of course!). I will be putting _all_ of my time into this and I need to find someone who is willing to do the same. I think that there is a big opportunity to be had in the B2B data space over the coming decade, and there are loads of great businesses to be built.

If you're interested in setting up a call to get to know each other and see if there's a fit you can reach me at thomas dot d dot firth at gmail dot com.

Cheers!

Tom

edit: grammar
Between having to use GPG or just accept Orwellian dystopia, the choice is... not easy
A commit message should ideally describe the intent of the commit. You can read the diff to discover how it was accomplished. They serve different purposes.
Huh, I didn't realize that we didn't have any issues in the US with people having AC in their house or receiving medical care.

Come on, man. This is simple. I recently got a $10,000 hospital bill for an ultrasound, for which insurance decided I owed $1800. It doesn't cost $10,000 for an ultrasound, that's a made up ratio calculated by accountants trying to maximize their firm's ROI. An ultrasound costs {materials, refinement, assembly, shipping, and operation}, none of which require anyone to work constantly; the market has simply set it up that way because everyone working constantly yields great market valuations in the system that the owners of the markets set up.

A comfortable life-shelter, food, clothing, medicine, border security- for you, me, the asphalt guy, and everyone else does not require all of the labor hours that are presently expended in the world.
> His doctor just decided to not prescribe opoids for any reason.

From my unerstanding, you can only take them for about a week before they become addictive, and that in itself is fine, but they become less and less effective as time goes on as well. You've got to take more and more to get the same effect.

Opioids are really only good for short-term pain. Also, doctors are really under the gun right now because they have been overprescribing opioids for years and a non-trivial segment of the population (at least in the US) is addicted to them.
The EU is not a sovereign state.

The EU chopped up UK business marketshare, business leadership, professional lives for little more than a gram of power.

I feel like it is necessary to point out the similarities between the CCP and European Parliament.

>72% of citizens oppose digital monitoring, while 77% of their representatives vote for laws they emphatically do not want
While Virginia is not Texas, it gets really hot and muggy in the summer. I lived there with no AC. On hot nights we’d sleep in the basement. It’s definitely possible to make it in the south without AC.
So the nice thing about the current situation is that everybody is remote, so all the processes are remote-first, so remote people get included. After everybody except you go back to the office, the processes are likely to go back to personal-first with remote being an afterthought just because of you. This is where the situation starts going bad.

You go on a meeting and you can't see the slides because they failed to connect the PC to the online system and don't mind trying because "it's just you" who is missing it. Then some in-promptu meeting happens and you don't get to participate nor read the minutes. Then it's time to promote someone and the manager decides to promote someone else since they're easier to manage/coach/etc. You will have less influence over the team than everybody else. If that's ok with you, then it's fine.

Also, management changes (especially if/when your direct manager changes) may make remote working even harder.
Given that this is the kernel, using typical C++ libraries would be out of the question, so it should be easy enough to design things right from the start.
C++ is after all used in embedded contexts where allocations are forbidden and it offers excellent support for this use case.

In such a project where allocations matter one would not stare at class definitions, one would ensure that there are no allocations by forbidding use of libraries like the STL and for example disabling operator new and the copy constructor. If the project is safety-critical there are tools which can enforce such rules.

Edit: I've clarified that I was referring to C++ libraries only.
It's all stick, no carrot. Unsustainable.
Investing in crypto projects is the same like investing in dot com companies back in the day. You invest in concepts not in the actual product or solution and ofc 99% of these projects are unrealistic or team behind them is incompetent.
Access to all peoples communications is simply incredibly lucrative. If it is out there, and it is, those with interest in it will attempt to get it.

If it's not done openly, will be done secretly(like in the USA as revealed by Wikileaks).

Normally I support the position of political progress("We" and the politicians are not different subset of people, EU is not bunch of Belgians) instead of technological solutions. However, this time I think we need a technological solution.

No matter who is in charge, the temptation is too big if the access is possible. They don't even have to have malicious intents, all kind of people's job will get much easier if they had access to the communications of others.
>managing heat for example should be approached holistically

Agreed. Also behaviorally. So many people would tell me I was crazy for living without A/C while they were standing in their house with the blinds open, windows closed, dishwasher and stove on in the middle of the day. If you make your home into a greenhouse with a heater in the middle, yeah it's gonna be hot - maybe don't do that.

But I think my last phrase is the issue. People really hate having to not do what they want, when they want. Like not cooking or whatever until the cool part of the day, when the heat can be managed by ventilation.
none of the explanations here are good enough. It's an absurd scenario that could never happen. Checkmate.
good news is that fs.protected_hardlinks is enabled on debian and ubuntu
Just something specific with the only reasonable interface.

I didn't see anyone claiming that all of reddit was down.
I think that's just a result of most people having the tendency to approach problems the way that most customers want or expect them to. The same stuff happens in software development and plenty of other jobs too.
I am a fiend for novelizations. You can get a lot of insight as to what the shooting script might have been, for example, and sometimes some of your favorite writers are slumming it under a pseudonym. It can be an interesting game to guess the author if their prose has enough of a fingerprint and you care to do a little homework after.

Some of them are so good they bring additional life to the original, and buttress flaws -- Greg Cox wrote a trilogy about Trek's Khan that left me delighted with its ingenuity.

Speaking of, I wonder if the villains at Disney still owe Alan Dean Foster a lot of money.
This was common in our experience as well, without being a HUGE BANK you really do have to actually police this stuff.
> Also, why is it so hard for them to track down ransomware perpetrators? Doesn't the NSA have back doors and gag orders to everything?

The first thing being hard is evidence that the second thing is not true, and people just like saying it because they enjoy posting the most cynical take they can.
Would either Godot or O3DE be a good choice for a CAD-type application? It looks like Godot deals well with a scene graph which seems like a good way to organize data for that kind of application.
Looks like we're reinventing ourselves, just like with timesharing/the cloud.
xkcd is a just a comic - please don't make it a conversation killer.
>I don't think any of us working as DoD developers give much of a crap what cloud provider you force us to use

The fundamental problem is that you aren't the one choosing or buying these services. The "people who give a crap" is some mix of political and industrial people with a very light sprinkling of high level program management which are driving the requirements.

So it has nothing - literally nothing - to do with what you as the actual person who is doing the work, want or need to be effective.

This is how the government acquisitions process is written into law unfortunately and I've pushed hard within the government to change that in the past (to some very limited success).
Tim is the way.
They could even have a 'reverse shell' type button that the client has to explicitly click to enable temporary remote access.
Sony neckband speaker is making a comeback for work from home
Sucks that this is an AWS project, you know how well they treat the open source community. I would stay away from it as much as possible.
> Climate predictions are complicated but the negative valence coupled with the confidence in your predictions doesn't represent that.

You seem to be making the mistake of assuming all predictions are similar in scope and nature.

To use an analogy: predicting the specific effects of how a blast of heavy radiation will affect a human body is _complicated_. But a prediction of "this is going to hurt you badly" can be made with high confidence.

There's a universality here regarding complex systems, and it applies to human bodies, buildings, economies, geologies, and natural ecosystems alike. Complex, self-reinforcing systems do not fail linearly. Pressure cause cracks and minor symptoms as the system absorbs the initial stresses, and at some point systemic collapse occurs rapidly.

Concrete spalls, metal rusts, and when the time comes the building collapses rapidly as the reinforcing mechanisms fail one by one. Cancers form, mild symptoms are felt, and eventually the body succumbs in weeks or days as the final metastasized stages shut down vital functions. The ground is silent as pressure build, tremors are felt, and in a matter of seconds heaves to spew its burning contents.

The stressors on our world's ecosystems are numerous and myriad and well documented. The seas and fish populations are strained by plastic pollution and overfishing to feed a population that is an order of magnitude larger than existed just 100 years ago. Insect populations are observably collapsing in many parts of the world. Water tables have been severely depleted in many agricultural lands, including in many parts of the USA, but also places like southern india. These are the observable cracks. The article of this subject contains more.

Modern agriculture, at the rate of productivity that it operates at now, relies on the existence and viability of sophisticated supply chains that mine, produce, and deliver fertilizer, pesticides, and other "high-level economy" products that themselves depend on deeper supply chains.

Climate change and the rapid increase in global temperatures introduces a steady grind of increasing pressure - a new stressor to this complex system that is already heavily stressed to unsustainability, and is already showing it cracks.

We know for a fact that the stress will increase steadily and inexorably.

It is indeed possible to make high confidence statements that this is going to hurt us badly. It is wishful thinking to hope otherwise.

What _can_ be hoped for is mitigations. We may be able to mitigate some of the damage, if we try hard and fast enough.
Also to normalize "black boxes" that are run by private companies to monitor thaffic.
I agree it reads that universities making up marketing BS are hurting people.

I think it is the same way of hurting people with YT influencers, where they BS how their lifes are great but never show real behind scenes.
The metadata hosted on Facebook's servers is worth more than the actual content.
I don't use Reddit often, but wow the "new" Reddit design is incredibly jarring and difficult to navigate. Are the majority of users really liking this experience?
The user I replied to literally said that all of reddit was down and I pointed out that it is not all of reddit.
Any reason for ibuprofen instead of paracetamol? Ibuprofen can damage your gastrointestinal tract.
NASA seems to say yes https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
Good point.

Of course every kind of worker has his wishes to change law/rules for work. But the agencies are really good in pushing for new laws (and more work .. perpetum mobile).
If you send a letter, the USPO automatically takes and stores a picture of the envelope, and will show it to law enforcement upon request - no warrant required. Pen & paper has is a meta-data leak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_Isolation_Control_and_Tra...
I think it’s a fair bet.

Cards on the table, I’ve had shingles twice. If you want to get technical about it, I will always have the virus that causes it, but it will not always be able to break through.

First outbreak, didn’t know what it was, it was in a part of my neck and shoulder I couldn’t see and based off feel and texture, I figured “eh, Hives”, and treated it as such. So the shingles progressed, and you definitely don’t want that, until I felt physically compelled to go see a doctor ASAP.

One look, with no reference material, no image searches, no charts, the Doctor instantly knew what it was and didn’t bullshit me about my age. Wrote me an antiviral prescription and I was out the door.

Second time, shingles being one of the circles of hell, I figure it out before it progresses, and this time I go to a an urgent care clinic because I don’t need a diagnoses, I need a prescription vending machine. Young guy walks in, quite a bit less experienced, I all but tell him exactly what I’m there for, and he’s a bit unsure because of my age, but he walks into another room, looks at a chart, and vends me my prescription. If not for a chart on the wall and my prior and convincing experience, he would have wanted a blood test.

Now I’m sure the latter is a fine doctor with a few more years under his belt now, and can reference this event in his own mind the next time he’s feeling skeptical, but sometimes being a doctor is just having the experience to know what’s up, and knowing that maybe it’s been too long since med school and maybe you should cross reference it from somewhere, or ask a colleague. And some doctors don’t need to look at anything at all, and can pronounce a diagnoses on the spot.

I looked at the chart, it just showed the different patterns of different skin conditions, and these weren’t photos but illustrations. Couldn’t tell you if that’s better or worse than Google Images, but I wished I didn’t have to go to a Doctor in the first place to ask permission to buy the same antivirals I used before.
- this is not new, it only is an urgent law to enable continuation of current practices as a previous law ran out

- this is temporary legislation limited to 3 years

- hopefully we get some real dialogue on the final legislation
That the European Parliament didn't spontaneously disappear in a massive vortex of cognitive dissonance can only mean that most MEPs either don't understand GDPR or this new law, maybe neither.
Australia has a pretty bad drain to the US.
This makes the EU look pretty hypocritical for striking down the "Privacy Shield" agreement that they had with the US for GDPR.

In fact, I have to wonder if this will put that ruling in danger of being overturned now?

(And how much do you want to bet that the lawyers at Facebook are gearing up for that very fight right now?)
maybe some smart people are at the root of those problems. The huge bureaucracy is composed of mostly educated people. That was his point even though I don't agree with him.
> We as a society deem it a fair use of energy to have dryers, and christamas lights all year long, which use more energy that a decentralized monetary system that brings sovereign banking to the masses.

It... really doesn't. It brings wild speculation to a few. And ransomware to many.

But banking? To the masses? Hah! Sorry, no. That would imply Bitcoin is useful for, you know, actually engaging in day to day monetary transactions. It'd imply large numbers of commercial and government interests to be willing to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. It'd imply a stable, reliable, regulated, insured location where people could store their wealth confident that it wouldn't be stolen. It'd require reversible transactions to deal with fraud, fat fingering, and so forth.

Basically, it'd require Bitcoin to be something completely different than what it is.

> look what bitcoin IS, how it works, and what problems it solves in the world.

I have. I've been watching it for ten years now. And it's still just yet another speculative "asset" with no merit as either a currency or a store of value due to, among many many things, its massive volatility.

As a form of digital gambling, though? Unparalleled!

> A comparison that always comes to mind is like someone saying that the internet is a big waste of energy.

And if all the internet was was a giant digital slot machine, they'd be right.
Oh good lord, just when I think I've found the perfect job, you have to go and shatter my comfortable illusions!
>And what good does it do me to have three months, six months, or heck 3 years worth of living expenses saved if the financial institution I've saved it with tells me that the account has been closed and the funds have been confiscated

You have those funds spread out across multiple accounts, so if one goes down you still have access to some cash. you know, like a high availability cluster.
Having negotiated thousands of contracts in my career, and litigated several dozen times when things didn't work out, I hope cruel experience never dulls your enthusiasm for how contracts should work, as opposed to how it all does work in practice.
The whole stack needs to be open source and user modifiable, though. Signal is open source, but if Apple is one day compelled to ban non-backdoored versions from the App Store, nobody can use it on an iPhone.
I live in a UK town a hundred times that size, and still have reasonable access to proper green space. This does require:

-modern multi-storey buildings;
-public transit. Which requires similar infra to cars.

Economically, a town this size supports a train station to other towns, which is... huge. I've gone to after-work drinks in a different, similar-sized town. So has my partner.

And environmentally, there's no real objection to building up a bit (it might be a net positive, by shoring up aforementioned train station). Adding a whole new town anywhere in the region would be a nightmare. And frankly, for all the current (deserved) bad press on flats and the romanticism of single-family homes, an awful lot of the latter are terrible. Leaking, creaking, cold, subsiding, dangerous wiring and something else rhyming.

I'm not meaningfully further from nature, either.
I’m genuinely curious how you think that will come to pass. All those things existed before the internet and will continue to do so after this. Is there a missing /s?