skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Knowledge usually works like this.

When I first got into home cooking a few years ago, the learning process was painfully slow. It must've taken several attempts spread across a week just to learn how to make basic scrambled eggs the "proper" way. Now after a few years of experience, every ingredient I learn to work with seemingly unlocks a dozen more dishes that I can easily assemble. The rate of learning accelerates evermore.

Software is very much the same. And the cool thing about software is that the domain of knowledge is effectively infinite. No one person can ever run out of things to know in this field. You can only learn more and get even better.
> Doors with a button off to the side to unlock?

It is often power assisted doors that have a button on the side. The button can be difficult to notice, among other reasons because it is low in order to be reachable by wheelchair users.
> But we know where all the planes are, and actively monitor and move them around to avoid collisions.

This is also true for satellites.
It is actually a horrible video. Poor boy.
But of course it shows the saloon door problem.
Why is non-physical activity any different? To me 3x a week sounds like a good idea for starting mental exercise as well.
When corporate and government power are tied at the hip the distinction is meaningless. Its been meaningless for a long time. Look up Banana Republic as a term.

Think of it this way. If AliBaba does something you know China the government is connected. Same goes true for Zoom.

America is no better. (as the Banana Republic example shows) The head of Apple can call the Speaker of the House directly on the phone whenever he wants and that person will answer. I can guarantee you that the same is true of Google. I am also sure if Jack Dorsey wanted to talk to someone with decision making power in the Whitehouse it could happen within the day. (probably slower than Google or Apple though)
???? NZ is a first world British colony, same as USA, Canada and the closest neighbour, geographically and culturally, Australia.
I brought it up because the person I responded to said “technically”. So technically, a US citizen can be refused entry.
You’re almost living my life! My parents were less than thrilled with who I grew up to be. I think they would’ve been mildly happy if I married the first person I met and settled in their neighborhood, living out a life that fit into theirs.

I’m sure that they would’ve found faults, but at least they could brag about how good of parents they were.
The three biggest things I’ve seen cause estrangement are:

1. Coming out. I suspect that gay people always existed, but just didn’t come out.

2. Interracial relationships. Far less common in the past. And society doesn’t view them as negatively now, which changes the power balance.

3. Parental affairs. I suspect this is the one that always happened, but people just lived with it more.

From my anecdotal list the problems are actually new. And except for the third, likely to get better.
> "The only people who are using decentralized tools are the ones that have been kicked out of these big social medias at first place."

Do you honestly believe that? Some of us use decentralized tools because we remember the Internet before centralization and corporate/government control over it started turning it into a cesspool of advertising and propaganda and see the huge corporate properties (Facebook especially) for the societal poison that they are.
Every ton we don't emit makes the problem less serious. Climate change is not a binary thing. 1.5° is better than 2°, but 2° is a lot better than 3°.
An implicit assumption in software seems to be that for it to stay relevant, it must be perpetually evolving. But there is something to be said for deciding a piece of software has reached it's intended potential and simply maintaining it.

Granted, it sounds like the author feels like there are more meaningful things to add or change, but that doesn't mean the software is any less relevant than it was 3 years back.
One of the greatest lessons I took from formerly subscribing to a high demand religion was exactly this. "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
original/source article on Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/bank-englan... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819016)

any other more detailed breakdown of this somewhere?
To expand on this a bit, if you want leverage over companies like MasterCard, Visa, and American Express, it definitely helps to have the data in your jurisdiction. As you noted, they will shut off mobile internet to support the state. If Visa decides that it doesn't want to give the government data on someone's transactions, it helps to have that data in the country.

"Oh, but the data is encrypted." Sure, but the country could literally seize all of the servers and shut down the payment processor. "Hey, American Express, if you don't give us the data we want, we'll simply take your whole payment network offline."

It's a lot harder to pressure a payment network when you don't have physical control - especially if that payment network can challenge you in court. It's easy for the government to shut off mobile networks that are physically present. It's harder for the government to stop traffic from routing to a payment processor whose servers are outside of the country - especially if they have a half-decent security/threat team ready to avoid blocks.

I don't know the laws of India, but it seems likely that the Executive has a certain amount of discretion that can be challenged. However, it's a lot harder to challenge that discretion if your business is offline for a year while you challenge it. Payment processors need to comply with local laws, but if you're a country where the Executive doesn't mind disrupting services, that gives them a huge amount of leverage to get your compliance beyond local laws. If the data is hosted outside of India, it's a lot easier to to simply comply with the laws rather than the laws plus whatever the Executive thinks they can claim the laws support.

Ultimately, if the data is stored within India, the Indian government can be an existential threat to their business in the country beyond what the law allows. A company will hand over data rather than seeing its servers seized for a year while a trial ensues. During that year, they'd lose all their customers to competitors and they'd be shut out of the market. Likewise, what if the government "accidentally" damages the data when they lose the trial? If you have 100M customers in a country and each is carrying a balance of $100, that's $10B that people owe. If the government has seized all those records and then damages them, your business is in a lot of trouble.

Data residency gives a government willing to bully companies a lot of power. It's simply a lot harder to access information stored abroad and you have a lot less leverage.
Sure if we are talking about doing the dishes or organizing my desk or whatever.

But I like running, yet do it infrequently. Those 30-60 minute HIIT workouts? A blast. My gym offers a 30 minute one every weekday during lunch and is a 5 minute walk from work.

There's a 3rd category of things I don't particularly like doing (but don't hate) and I'm always happy to have done them afterwards. Journaling would be one example. I'm actually worse at these than the necessary things that I hate (the sink eventually gets full of dishes, preventing me from avoiding it).
> Develop software that can fly the planes autonomously from strip to strip (I assume this is the really hard part, but I am under the impression that autonomous flying is a much easier problem than autonomous driving?).

As a software developer, this part is what I don't like.

We're still quite a ways from fully autonomous driving cars (as in: don't rely on a human taking over for backup). A bad bug in an autonomous car could drive you at high speed into a wall, but there can at least be an "emergency stop" button that disables the main processor and jams on the brakes.

Planes have no such ability to just "stop". At best, they could deploy a parachute, but even then landing safely is by no means guaranteed.

I think we need a decade or so of fully autonomous cars being accepted into daily life before this can be attempted with anything that flies.
Windows 365
A similar monitoring applies to satellites as well. We're not launching spacecrafts and just hope that everything goes well.
How reliant are banks and insurers on cloud outsourcing? https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/how-rel...
(January 2020)
That's an often-quoted statistic that really doesn't mean what it looks like. The main reason their conviction rate is so high is not that they have some bloodthirsty kangaroo court, but rather that charges are very likely to be dropped by the prosecution if there isn't compelling evidence certain to end in conviction, rather than the prosecution risking losing the case.
The trick is to aggressively dive headfirst into a project, such that it becomes unconscionable for you to give up :)
We know where all the satellites are and they are actively tracked by both governments and private citizens.

Every satellite is in a very deterministic orbit which requires energy to change (enormous amounts of energy for a significant change) so they don't change their orbit significantly nor often.

Ref: https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/space-trash-and-satell...
I've noticed the same pattern - people are usually very polite if you address them - and it makes me more reluctant to strike up a conversation with nearby strangers. If they really don't want to interact with me they might not give me a clear signal, and I might be causing extended discomfort for someone even though they are acting like they want to continue the interaction.

I'm trying to get smarter about reading social signals, but for now I just try to make sure not to corner people. I will not attempt to interact with you unless I can see that you have an easy way to get away from the interaction.

Are there classes or something available for people who know they're lacking in social skills and want to get better?
I wouldn't call the effectiveness unreasonable. I would instead say that incorporating something into your routine is the most reliable way to make sure it gets done.
The related alternative that has worked wonders for me is to commit to getting something done every day, that is all the way to completion. This may be a well defined partial bit of work like defining a data structure or implementing one part of the CRUD code that will be needed. Targeting some level of completion doesn't always work out but has an effect on goal setting and chunk size of work parceled out which improves the hit rate for every short working session.
BTW (and I'm replying to directly so you see it), I think you might like to see this:

https://github.com/yallop/effects-bibliography

Lots of information on varieties of effect systems
The power of consistent effort over time is staggering. Small choices compound into dramatic gains.
That sounds like fun.

Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year. Just remember that the 90% doesn't like talking about their jobs. Hope you know the latest sportsball news...

That being said, there's usually other commonalities to discuss.
> "new communication control channel in biology"

Not necessarily new, "The Body Electric" which Levin himself cites as his inspiration, has been around for almost 50 years [1]. It's sad that something so revolutionary can be sidelined for half a century, but it's exhilarating to see the rapid progress that really smart people can make when they consider some fringe ideas.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Body-Electric-Electromagnetism-Founda...
At least the EU is trying something. Rather than curling up in a ball and complaining that someone else isn’t fixing problems for them.
It's not 1:400 -- it's 100:400 which is equal to the 1:4 you mention.

That is, you 2x the height of the target which results in the probability of hitting being 4x less.
My understanding is that at least Chase, Blackrock, and Visa are rapidly raising their pay for new engineering / analyst hires. Is this not true?
It's not rhetoric. We're seeing the effects of global warming unfold faster than we predicted 10 years ago. Everyone thought that we had until 2050 or 2060 back then but it's becoming painfully obvious that it's simply not quick enough.
And they applied for permission to launch additional 30k satellites, bringing the total to 42k.
Amazon Kuiper is a toy by comparison..
I don't know if this works for anyone else, but in Firefox I can switch to reader mode and then reload the page. Then I can read the whole article. This only works with nytimes.com and a very small number of other sites.
What about having regulations updated instead of bending the industry backward to fit the outdated regulations?
We probably will need to start actively mitigating and adapting - the ship for carbon neutrality or even moderate carbon negativity has sailed as they probably do not address arising issues fast enough. Politics are - as usual - a little bit behind.
> Martha Stewart went to prison for lying to federal investigators

Kids, if the FBI comes a-knocking, shut. Your. Fat. Fucking. Mouth.

Ask for a lawyer and the shut the fuck up. It doesn't matter if you're innocent.

If you talk to the Feds and make a mistake, you can be charged with a felony for lying to to federal agents. Did you talk to that guy on Saturday, May 20th, 2017? Who knows? The Feds do, and if you don't remember precise details, you got yourself a felony charge. Felony. Even if you are innocent of anything else, you lied to a Federal investigator.

Shut up. Ask for a lawyer. And shut up.

(I'm OK with the downvotes, if this helps someone remember to shut up and get a lawyer)
This really is excellent. I can see a lot more sequence diagrams and illustrations getting into my code comments in future. Well worth $10.
I love seeing this kind of tutorial, that isn't just a step-by-step guide, but also an exploration of the thought process and trial-and-error that goes on in crafting each step, so thanks for sharing.

Looks like a lot of the work on the Doom port (https://github.com/diekmann/wasm-fizzbuzz/tree/main/doom) is about getting common functions from the C standard library to work in WASM. Surely this seems like a good opportunity for a new Free Software initiative - something optimized, properly licensed/credited and easy for everybody to use?
Yes. Do you have a point?
> They do comic books, they are clearly hedonists

Are comics significantly more hedonistic than other media? (I'm genuinely asking; I've never been interested in comics but I've also never heard that they were all that different from other entertainment media.)
Are these global internet initiatives targeting faster internet (10+ Gbps) or just more accessible internet for poor regions?
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Adding a little bit of extra productivity to every day is great advice. The challenge can be finding the time, which means you need to subtract time from some other activities.

Trading sleep for extra productivity is a losing game in the long run. It’s much better to swap out some time waster activities like watching TV or, yes, browsing HN. It can be tough to reduce time spent on vices, but after the habit is established it’s much more satisfying to do something productive with that time.

I found it helps to streamline other parts of my life to recoup free time. Simple things like meal planning, using flex schedules to commute during low-traffic hours, working out at home instead of the gym, and doing grocery shopping in bulk only once per week have been great ways for me to recapture 30-60 minutes every day.
Sorry to be a downer, but at this rate of speed isn't it possible that their tech will become outdated before it becomes widely used? Maybe they're 5-10 years away from being widely used? Machine learning is advancing rapidly.
Yeah, a better question might be: "How can I convince a VC that there's a buck to be made when the user can just take all their data and leave?"
That. Is awesome. Sorry I missed it!
Psychologists talked about unintentional gaslighting at least 40 years ago. "The motiva­tion may be conscious, although it is usually unconscious; and almost invariably the conscious motives are rationalizations and/or distortions of deeper, more complex, and less acceptable motives."[1]

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21674086.1981.11...
A fascinating story. Thank you for sharing. I love these tales of human interaction. The thing I find surprising is that if you stop and interact with random people, you'll have a plethora of these kinds of stories.

That is, they sound rare, but in reality they are super common. And the only thing stopping you experiencing them is playing the odds.
The enemies of decentralization will use things like "climate change" as an excuse against PoW. I personally believe that arguments against using energy are ridiculous. Humans will be using 100x the energy we use today in 20 years. However I do believe we should do it as cleanly as possible! Solar, Wind, Geothermal -- all good! Trying to limit how humans spend energy is like trying to dictate what they will eat for lunch. All we can do is generate that energy cleanly, safely.

Energy usage itself should be an orthogonal issue to climate change -- indeed, for the survival of human race we need to spend lots of energy, as cleanly as possible!
Probably not, DMCA takedowns are not from the government, but from non-governmental entities that claim copyright is being infringed.

Governments have the ability to require a request not be made public, so a repo of their requests would not be complete, and I suspect some large offenders would be absent entirely because of that.
> I don’t understand what is difficult with WebRTC videos.

It is difficult to scale a pure p2p model to multiple participants. Each participant would need to create multiple WebRTC streams, one for each participant. So if some call has 10 participants, each one of them would need to broadcast 9 streams and receive 9 streams with the assumption that each one of them have their microphone and cameras turned on. This would consume a lot of CPU and bandwidth. There are alternate models where you send your stream to a central server, and that server distributes the stream to other participants. This reduces the CPU and bandwidth required per participant, but requires a central server. This looks like the model google follows. So I don't think keeping such a service unauthenticated would be a good idea.
> But we know where all the planes are, and actively monitor and move them around to avoid collisions.

Do you think they don't know where their satellites are?
I'm all for thinking and acting big on big issues.

In my opinion however the EU as is is hopelessly underpowered to effectively address big issues. They just don't have the mandate to actually get all 27 states to act as one.

The moment EU policies go against high member nation interests they are shut down. See Poland, Hungary, Netherlands, Malta, Luxemburg, etc for examples of this. Every single one has the power to basically veto all decisions.
"Freedom of speech" is a political and philosophical principle. It doesn't mean the exact literal text of the First Amendment to the US Constitution and absolutely nothing else. It's going to ring rather hollow to everyone to gleefully censor your political opponents and then say that it's not technically censorship since it doesn't violate the First Amendment.
Can you explain why?

If I am launching a rocket, and there is a 1x1 meter satellite orbiting 1000km above me. What is the probability that my rocket hits that satellite compared to an identical satellite at 2000km above me? The area of the angular sector of the sky that the 2000km altitude satellite is 1/4 of the 1000km altitude satellite.
I use a CBD + THC cream called "momma canna cream" (You can find it online and easily see what's in it and how to acquire something similar, the only thing I don't know is what strand they are using in this cream specifically, but I suspect it's a indica dominant plant) - I cannot stress enough how much of a life saver this has been for me, seriously. I used to be super skeptical of topical CBD, especially without some THC in it, but this stuff has totally changed my wrist pain situation. Every time I get a sore wrist (rarely these days) I put a healthy slathering of it on, rub it in like crazy, and then do hand stretching for 3-5 minutes. I know it sounds snake-oil-esq, but I swear it's been huge for me. If you wanna email me an address, I don't mind shipping you a jar.
I highly doubt this is true of any country. All countries are full of humans.

Anyone making this claim has a severe sampling problem. If you personally don’t talk to people, you can be under the impression that nobody talks to people. The people that do talk to people can read signs for who wants to talk and they talk to each other.

The false impression is further reinforced if you go outside the country because as a foreigner people are more likely to talk to you, offer help, etc.

Your evidence would be stronger if you were a person who did care to talk to people but found that in a certain country nobody replied.
I don't really see your point then. Why bring this up at all? Just to show that the worst fears of extremists have come true?
Honest question: When did you last try using Google Meet for this purpose?

At the beginning of 2020, I agree with you that Google Meet was a pile of hot garbage.

It got drastically better at everything you mentioned throughout 2020 (when I assume people at Google had to actually start using it regularly).
The last century was by far the best century in the whole of humanity history. Specifically switch of China from centrally planned economy to "socialism with Chinese characteristics" [0] was the biggest miracle ever. Especially after the absolute disaster of the Great Leap Forward that caused the Great Chinese Famine and other failures of centrally planned economies like Holodomor.

The default for humanity is ever-present death due to diseases, hunger and thirst.

In 1820 6 out of 10 kids would die before they would get to be 5 years old.

Imagine having 6 kids just for 4 of them to be dead before they got to be 5 years old.

Today poverty is the lowest it has ever been, basic education and literacy is the highest it has ever been [1].

If this is how the collapse will look like then I'm all for it.

I also recommend "Don't Panic" by Hans Rosling [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/01/Two-centuries-Wor...

[2] https://vimeo.com/79878808
NASA & the ESA actively monitors all satellites and actually maintains a database of every little piece of space debris they find (payload fairings, failed satellites, etc). They determine the orbit and track it until it falls back to earth.
Meanwhile the CEO volunteered early on to dox people at Harvard pretty much for funsies[0].

Yet TFA contains a quote about how abusing personal data is "against Mark's DNA". Horseshit.

Facebook is the enemy.

[0] https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...
The counter-terrorism system they've conceived is worth learning about. They basically erred on the side of "too much surveillance, but alive" over "bomb them all 'til they're dead."

Given the near complete absence of terror in the region over the last few years, I'd say it worked to some end.
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