skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My jaw drops for you. Banks are indeed costly. They take your money, earn >5% interest on it and pay you 0.02% interest back. It doesn't even get close to beating inflation. They nickle and dime you on overdraft fees, minimum balance fees, other BS. You're paying them just as much as you're paying credit card companies, if not substantially more. You just don't know it.

> poor people who may not even have consistent network access.

There are plenty of poor unbanked people whoe have enough network access to use bitcoin, especially with the lightning network. You only need network access when paying (or receiving). You don't need consistent network access.

>This just happens to be hidden right now by the fact miners can earn so much profit from the value of their holdings skyrocketing that they don't charge anything

That's not true man. Miners are not empowered to charge anything. Miners can only accept transaction fees that users place on their own transactions. Its a market and miners choose the highest fee transactions. That's how it works. You're implying that coinbase rewards subsidize low fees, but you're very wrong about that. When the coinbase rewards go away, fees don't consequently go up - rather miner revenue goes down in such a case.

> Decentralizing something doesn't make it costless

But it can make it orders of magnitude cheaper. Paying someone on the bitcoin lightning network costs less than a tenth of a cent. Tell me that isn't cheaper than any other traditional payment mechanism.
"[...]but your genuine visionaries who are motivated by excitement about tech and great ideas are increasingly lost in the noise."

Do you have a few tips where a mid twenty SWE can find these type of people in SF and avoid the people who are mostly in it for the money?
The entire idea behind modern network security is that zero-days happen regularly. You should design your security controls around this fact, defense in depth, least privilege, etc etc
And 600 people. (Supposedly growing to 3000.) I doubt you support a school system with 600 people unless it's some communal everyone pitches in sort of thing. You're not going to support much in the way of stores--which I suppose can be built along the outside of the town. And you're not going to supply the town, get people to doctors, have emergency services, etc. without some degree of car access. The fire department isn't going to arrive by train. And I assume most people will be working remotely?
Technically, as a single-core CPU, all operations are atomic. /s
https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/8/8/788bf5ab-0751-...
QNX was almost this. I believe at one point you could even run Firefox or Chrome on it.

> And also for more rigorous work tasks (programming, video editing, sound editing)

Somewhat amusingly, an OS like DOS (or QNX) would probably be better at video/sound editing than any "modern" OS. It took a long time for Linux to be able to do audio processing or other real-time low latency things. Even today you may have to tweak things a bit[1] depending on your use case. A video editor that has complete control over your machine would absolutely scream. A lightweight DOS with support for newer hardware (USB, PCIe, etc.) with a thin Vulkan/OpenGL and networking stack would probably be ideal for these types of apps.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Professional_audio
I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back.

That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was structured this way.
This ignores the time value of money. What if the couple of years prevents numerous security intrusions by foreign entities? It's not as if MSFT doesn't have the expertise or the manpower to fulfill the contract
The current minority party in the Senate, which under the current rules of the chamber is big enough to stop almost all legislation from moving, has no incentive to allow this to happen. In fact they have a strong incentive to oppose it, considering the makeup of their base.
Based on reading an article about detailed work on making a model more accurate you’ve concluded that models are useless? Just because models aren’t infinitely perfect doesn’t mean they don’t have some predictive power. Yes you might drop a ball and it gets destroyed by a nuclear explosion before hitting the floor but it doesn’t mean a model that says it will likely hit the floor is useless!

At large scale climate change isn’t that complicated - sun hits earth, heats it up, some energy escapes. We can get a pretty good picture from models and the details just add to that.
You are talking about homesteading [0] which is in some ways similar to being a "Garden Hermit".

I think these similarities are mostly superficial. The key difference being up-front cost, sustenance (food/water/shelter), and expenses.

A hermit (as described/imagined here) on someone else's property would focus solely on gardening and basic maintenance while enjoying the luxury of not paying for landscapers, electricians, builders, plumbers, etc (and enjoy the time spent not doing all of those jobs themself).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading
It’s time to go into the Latin business
Maybe it was edited after it was posted, but it doesn’t say no AC—it said the town should be designed to function without AC in case of power outages and use as much passive cooling as possible, but that AC can be added in as needed.
Two economies. Two sets of rules
"...and companies that address IT liability by getting a bunch of forms filled out that don't have anything to do with information security won't be secure..."

...but won't see any particular repercussions until they get hit with a few million dollars ransom and some short-term bad PR.
oh wow, downvote galore ITT. Okay, I'm checking out. This is too toxic
Fire it up in dosbox!
No one is harassing you. We're already in a precarious enough situation with all the extreme content auto bans. Maybe we could all filter our own content or create some passive barriers, what you've suggested is an over reaction that would inevitability cause more suffering than it prevented - deescalation is what is needed not escalation.
Ahhh the good ol "Medicine is Art and Science".

How many people have died because we keep letting physicians tell us this?

I'm pro Evidence Based Medicine, but physicians can't buy mansions if the medicine can be discussed by scientists.
Didi Plunges Below IPO Price as China Crackdown Brings U.S. Pain
The impact on flora and fauna from human development isn't simply from climate change; our localized ecological impacts can be quite severe, as well. I feel like our discussion of conservation and reasonable limits on development have been lost in the last few decades, with environmentalism having become dominated by climate change.
Bluebox Co-pilot – All-in-one smart driving assistant with AI inside
I do something similar that also works 100% of the time!

1. Inhale until lungs are at full capacity.

2. Hold your breath as long as you manage comfortably.

3. Breathe in and out slowly for a couple of breaths. I.e. don't gasp for air.

I also long suspected it may work by reducing the activity/stimulation of the diaphragm.
A corollary of this and the OP's argument is that business-oriented CEOs with an idea that needs building have a lot more free time to carpet bomb prospective funders than engineers already building a product that needs more engineers to deal with the demand that's there.

The idea that being too busy with product or customers to jump the hurdles they set could be a bad thing for funding doesn't reflect well on VCs (I'm the first person to argue the importance of knowing how to hunt for business is often underrated by engineers, but not every business needs networking oriented business developer types, and those that do are still better if they can dedicate more time hunting for intros to customers and less hunting for intros to investors)
Code styling in a link sounds useful, but bold and italic generally shouldn't be combined[0].

[0]: https://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html
Did Pfizer Bribe Its Way Out of Criminal Charges in Nigeria? (2010)
Considering that Linux was driven by people VERY passionate about C, it kinda makes perfect sense.
Attacks evolve, but I remember reading around 2005 on OWASP site about SQL injections and XSS. Database APIs with parameter binding (and auto-escape of these parameters) where available in most popular languages even back then and here we are 15 years later, SQL injections and XSS are still in OWASP top 10.

Though Classic ASP was released much earlier in 1996 and I don't know if SQL libraries offered parameter binding and template engine - escaping of string in template variables.
> I'm nearly certain that there are quite a lot of drivers out there who would be willing to forgo this if it meant taking home the huge share of their revenue that's currently going to Uber.

I wholeheartedly disagree. It's not even easy to get a female driver in certain places because they're afraid of riders. And most women would never use a service where the drivers aren't identified, background-checked, and banned upon their first incidence of assault.

But if you're right, where is decentralized Uber? Or decentralized Twitter? Or literally decentralized anything?

All we have right now is tokens.
So it's entirely possible for one of these rogue planets to cross into our solar system and disrupt the stable orbits of any planet, including earth or the moon...
Didi and Chinese Tech Stocks Fall After Regulator Cracks Down
This reads the second-system effect applied to urban planning, which is a field that does not lack for ego-driven projects of planning-over-natural-growth. (e.g. Seeing Like A State, and the career of Robert Moses.)

I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed that we'll never learn all the fun, new problems that his grand plan would introduce.
To the contrary, it means there was not much material impact on the stock value. It answers the question: "What effect was there on the stock?"
A 150m walk on a bald Texas street does indeed sound miserable.

A tree-lined one, though, can be quite nice: https://twitter.com/brent_bellamy/status/1411133447062441990
I am not operating off any data here, and as far as I can tell neither are you so that seems fair, but it is quite possible that our conception of what is "filling" or "satisfying" is intrinsically tied to the cost of the meal. Processed food and fast food are cheaper and we know it, so if we get less of it, it is possible that that fact alone makes it less satisfying.
I also own a car for which I have almost none of the skills to meaningfully maintain and repair, but frequently exercise my right to contract a third party to do that work for me.

The same is true for software, and I benefit even if I'm not the one paying for the work myself. The modern internet would look very different if KHTML hadn't been a GPL/LGPL project and Apple had been allowed to hold their changes in WebKit as a proprietary secret, and the same for Chrome/Blink. Companies can be users too, and the virality ensures that every user sees the benefits.
When something doesn't have a precise dollar value attached to it, does it not quality as stealing?
> Isn't "unlocalized" the base state? Just translate it, and don't replace the references with others? At least that's how I understand it.

That's not what they're complaining about, because that 4Kids style of release doesn't happen anymore. Except for Ace Attorney/Nintendo games/FFXIV, which are still quite different in English (and often better).

They've just started calling it "localization" whenever the few things they recognize look slightly different ignoring all the things they can't recognize because they don't speak Japanese.

Another reason professional translations might have changes is just for legal reasons, like copyright avoidance, or just because Japanese authors tend to be into possibly illegal sex stuff.

> Localized vs unlocalized is a different debate from amateur vs professional translation I think.

The original post said "fansubs". Which is weird because nobody does those anymore.
Oxford, and the place out in the marshes.

It's not that there aren't massive lectures, tutorials are in addition to those.

Not bad value actually, despite what I said earlier. You do get to ask about whatever your mental block is, and the tutor is gonna know. But studying is time consuming, an hour is not as much time as it seems. You probably learn the most on your own, which nowadays ought to mean on the internet.
Not to mention some theatre and empire-building.
the Secure Information Technology Hub™?
They shouldn't, but it's clear we're not at that stage of societal development quite yet.
Wasn't expecting this part of the story, but super interesting

"And more often than not, it wasn’t students—or parents—at elite colleges purchasing papers. It was students at community colleges working for minimum wage who didn’t have time to write them."
What's the point of interstellar colonization?

It's possible that will never be interesting to us given the expense, time, and hardships involved.

We have more than enough space and resources in this solar system to support north of a trillion humans if we start building space habitats. So even if we start procreating again after our population is predicted to stabilize, we won't run out of room here very easily.

My feeling is our digital worlds will get so engrossing we will turn our attention inwards rather than outwards. I don't think that lends itself to either population growth or interstellar colonization.

If intelligent civilization is sufficiently rare, that could easily explain the Fermi paradox. They're out there, just too far away and too uninterested in expansion for us to meet.
There is a difference between “allows hardlinks to directories to exists” and “allows user to straighforwardly create them”. As for existence most unix filesystems have exactly zero issue with that, while on systems that allow you to link(2) to directory you have to be root to do that.

Hardlinks to directories not only break bunch of userspace expectations, but more importantly create a structure that cannot be unlink(2)ed (unlink(2) does not work on directories and rmdir(2) works only for directories with st_nlink==2). So even on systems that allow creation of that it is restricted to root.
The most likely form of non-generational inerstellar travel is finding high efficiency methods to accelerate ships to high relatavistic speeds so that time dilation reduces the on-ship time to sub-generation scales.
Ask HN: (Meta) What causes all of a user's posts to go dead?
> assuming that "because privacy" is not an argument that will sway me, can you explain why i should default to the less-useful option just for the sake of appeasing the people most likely to change the defaults?

No, I can't. I think that ethical principles like respect for users' privacy are more important than collecting data to fix bugs/features. Shareholders may disagree, of course; this is where developer agency and collective bargaining can come in, but that's a longer discussion.

> telemetry is useful, and most people don't really care enough to change the defaults one way or the other.

This sentence is correct, but it isn't enough to justify making telemetry opt-out. I don't think this is a situation where the apathy of the majority can overrule the rights of the minority:

- People can't always choose to use or avoid software; they have schools, employers, an inability to make informed consent, etc. that can prevent them from using your software with consent to its terms.

- Privacy is often a need, not a want. People--including their future selves--are often at-risk, and need software to respect their vulnerability by default (as auditing all transmitted data for all software is beyond unrealistic).

- A person should not have to justify having privacy. Others should have to justify taking it. That's how rights like privacy work; privacy is something we have by default until it is infringed upon.

- Rights like privacy, speech, and information access without censorship (from books to newspapers to the Internet) aren't driven by will of the majority. They're driven by the fact that preserving them for the minority is necessary.

Users have lots of things that would be useful to developers, but that doesn't mean developers are entitled to them.
I understand that there are a shocking amount of lab leaks in the world. Hundreds in the U.S. in the last decade, for example. Scary stuff.

> In this case, with the first known infections occurring in Wuhan

Do you have a source for that? I was seeing sources stating the opposite, based on genetic sequencing of collected samples, like this [0]:

> His research determined that A was the founding variant because it was the version most similar to the type of SARS-Cov-2 (the scientific name for the virus) discovered in bats. Many experts suspect that the virus migrated to humans from bats, probably via some other animal. But he also discovered that the A strain wasn't the predominant type in Wuhan.

> Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types.

And this [1]:

> Upon further investigation, the first case detected from December 1st was found to have no connection to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Also, that patient was never linked to any future cases of COVID19. A third of the first 41 cases had no connection to the market, including 3 of the first 4 cases reported. Given this data, we have a new hypothesis: The first human cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection must have happened before December 2019 and likely did not originate at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

I'm not sure of your sources. I went back and re-read your original reply. You stated that "previous epidemics of this sort in Asia in recent decades a host animal was identified in a matter of months". Did you know that it took 15 years to identify the source of SARS, from 2002 until 2017? [2]

I don't know if any of that might change your thinking on this. I've paid the most attention to genetic evidence like the above. Ultimately I think that's what will lead to a definitive answer.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...

[1] https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
Thank you. You read me correctly. To be fair to dang, my original comment had my personal opinion on dogma laced into it. I removed that portion.

I hadn't felt I was launching into any arguments even with my opinion laced in, but it may also be that I don't tend to be patient with my wording. So what seems only matter-of-fact to me may come across more cold-hearted to others than I intended.

Either way, I appreciate your insightful additions. You'll probably be more helpful on this subject already than I've been.
The ratio is really what matters more than absolute numbers; it tells us where the bottleneck is (supply or demand).

If the STR is 2:1 and you've got 1000 teachers, it means you've got 2000 students. If only 5% of teachers are good (see: sturgeon's law), you've still got competition centered on the student side, as 2k students fight to get into the classes with the 50 good teachers.
> But "survive impact from a 747" is not part of our building codes

It basically is for skyscrapers now.

https://global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/1017-evol...
What we can definitively say is that CO2 levels have increased dramatically since the industrial revolution, and their cause is humans burning fossil fuels. On the models themselves, if you look deeply at how they are created and how they are updated, they involve a ridiculous amount of "tuning" where basically they don't line up with historical records so they have to continually modify them with fudge factors.

I think the central problem is that the way they divide the atmosphere / oceans into 100km square grids is too large for local weather, but if they shrink the grids it takes way too long to run the simulations, so they are in a bind. I am of the opinion it's better not to risk increasing the amount of CO2 because we don't know what will happen. But I wouldn't consider any of our models even low-confidence. It is impossible to solve given how chaotic nature is, the number of variables, and how slow our super computers currently are.
Buying a Windows laptop is a horrible decision.

I always recommend people to buy either a Windows desktop or a Mac laptop.

Yet everyone wants a "gaming laptop" for some reason. Possibly the worst option you could buy.
> the original mission of DNT, which was to request that sites not harvest a user’s data for targeted advertising

It was a lot more amorphous than that. Some of the people behind DNT did have that particular meaning in mind, but others had different sets of things they wanted to prevent. There was enough disagreement on this point that they didn't manage to get consensus on anything more than "this specification does not define requirements on what a recipient needs to do to comply with a user's expressed tracking preference" -- https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/
Intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Qh5Q8AAAo
> Legislation could be passed yesterday that would add arbitrary pay scales for special purposes such as these.

Or maybe add real progressive taxation that would get the $500k comps back into normal territory (by, among other things, taxing dividends, share options and the like accordingly).
This is aggressively myopic. Banning a cryptocurrency is akin to banning HTTP to prevent the attacker's connection for their shell.

All ccs are just a protocol which can send verifiably discrete packet w/o a central server verifying the discreteness, and with some fancy branding on the packet type. It's as if people felt very tribal about POP3 vs. IMAP, and the IMAP foundation put out branding and POP3 was a FOSS project. Protocols in that sense can't really be ever banned. It's like banning a math proof.

CCs play a role, but they are not the single factor that enables rware, by any means. For instance, it's a lot harder to pop a meat processing plant or coastal pipeline if they didn't hook up IoT to anything and everything OT-related, and ICS was awful at integrating vis b/t IT and OT networks in their plants. Or, for instance, if cyber insurance companies are forbidden from paying ransom, then the economic pot is suddenly dry. And so on...
Asked to 500 ppl about crypto everyone replied "Noise".
> there are very, very few left with the power to make the jokes they want.

I guess Spike Lee (Blackkklansman, 2018), Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You, 2018), Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, 2019), etc. are one of the few people left with the power to make the jokes they want. Or are those not the kinds of jokes you were thinking about?

(TW: next paragraph) I get the sense that you are simply wrong about this. I don’t know of any examples where a good comedy was ‘cancelled’ because of a twitter mob. If you are afraid that the era of the prison rape joke is over, then I hate to brake it to you, that joke was never funny, and even if it was, it certainly isn’t any more[1].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6QxD2_yQw
Perhaps, while it is still a tough field, Nowadays there are plenty of successful companies in this space : rocket labs, astra , spaceX , virgin orbit have all launched payloads in the last 10 years then there are new players like Terran .

It is still not easy , but as difficult as say 20 years back.