skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it contributes capital to companies that will succeed. How is this "No value to society"?

Because pumping up the market value of a "bad" company contributes negatively (not zero) to the economy. Any benefits that a future innovative company would reap from your capital are canceled out by the same benefits that their wasteful competitors reap for talent and secondary stock offerings (which can be spent on anything, potentially bidding up prices of raw materials, real estate, etc. for the "good" companies).

Is it a perfect 1:1 cancellation? Probably not, but it requires too much data for either of us to calculate it directly. But a fair assumption is that blindly investing in the entire stock market via a passive index, even if you are hugely wealthy, has negligible benefit to GDP, compared to active investing (assuming you are good at it).
Refusing this line of inquiry is itself a principled intellectual position. The structure of such questions invariably confirm the biases of the interrogators. The “evidence” is then typically levied against groups without respect to the individual, as it was in my understanding of the CR. There is only false intellectualism in this manner of social pseudoscience.
I suppose they have their own repository, and can control the updates.
Basically all studies say that Capitalism is killing us.
Airline bailouts? Bank bailouts? Internet provider subsidies? Anything goes in pharma?
WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input
dude committed the ultimate crime

He made someone uncomfortable

But not just someone

Someone with power

And someone with right wing views.
Please don't use HN to perpetuate flamewar talking points. It really doesn't matter what your position is—that stuff is predictable, nasty, and boring.

As if we need to perpetuate war against the Ottoman Empire here. Good grief!

Edit: this is obviously some sort of agenda since you've posted like this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27228927. This is not what HN is for. If you do it again we will ban you, so please conduct these battles elsewhere.
I think you are right. I guess it depends on specificity of predictions. In one white paper I called some of the current trends of 2021 ( granted, I personally believed they were relatively apparent, but I did have some arguments over my assumptions ).
Good reason being JSON is trivial to parse in the browser and webapps exploded in use? It's a valid reason but that doesn't mean something with a strong schema that has a good user experience is bad?

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with XML + Schemas just they are a hassle to deal with being verbose and more effort generating/parsing. XML still has a place it's just forgotten and not cool anymore. Personally I like XML, maybe not for webapps message format but it's properties still hold today.

Protobuf / Thrift etc are probably a evolution of XML+Schemas on the web using a binary format. They are less verbose and Javascript isn't the Javascript of 15 years ago so also easy to work with in the browser.

It seems my original comment is down voted which is fair enough. I've been generally surprised at how much better an experience all round it has been switching to Protobuf instead of using JSON. My code is easier, there's less of it, it's more performant, it's easy to share across the backend/frontend layers, it has a long list of languages it can be used from with zero effort.

I was a bit pessimistic about it but had a API I needed to save bandwidth on for end users so tried switching from JSON as an experiment. I expected it to be a hassle but it turned in to the complete opposite. Any REST service I create going forward JSON won't be my first choice. Protobuf is simpler to work with in the browser (no manual parsing/typing the wrong field) and server side, it's also far more efficient.

For clients they get evolution support, can download prebuilt parsers/deserilisers or create there own from published schema definitions, I see it as win win all round and no drawbacks.

SOAP is probably closer to gRPC?
Even then I don’t get the point of this. Where would one find the time to get the qualifications for a more suitable job if they’re too busy working full time minimum wage let alone two part time minimum wage jobs? What are they suppose to do in the intermediate between working the minimum wage job and landing a stable one? Starve?
Idk. You still get your game to run on both the Deck and Windows if you write for Windows, whereas it'll only run on the Deck and a few bless Linux installations if you write for Linux. There must be a pretty big performance gap (or some financial incentive) to convince devs to switch, and it almost can't be performance: then Deck will simply not take off.
> When I think of minimum wage, I think motel janitorial

I find this really funny having been a hotel janitor. It paid 1.5x minimum wage, but that was offset by them wanting not only a hardworking janitor, but also a skilled handyman who could also do plumbing, fix beds and railing, etc. I've witnessed this at several other jobs as well, where they hire someone for a low paying job, then expect them to use all the skills they have at the same pay rate as what they were hired for.
Perhaps the uncouth voting on HN is a further sign of impending societal collapse.
> pointing service.local.example.com to service.localdomain

Not sure if I understand correctly, but service.local.example.com must point to your internal IP. You do not need a localdomain and the SSL certs will only work for what they were generated for (service.local.example.com). However, you can very much point your local DNS server's entry for service.local.example.com to any local IP, resolving these services internally. For that matter, you can equally simply edit the `hosts` file and add overrides.

For the ACME-certs I suggest using the fullchain-cert that you get from Let's Encrypt for service.local.example.com (e.g. in the nginx reverse proxy). Firefox/Chrome will typically not complain if you do not serve intermediate CA SSL certs, but it is better to provide the full chain of certs.

> Not sure how to best distribute certificates though, if I had found a way I could let the router do all the renewals.

My router is pfsense, I added a hook that stores SSL certs to a local NAS folder via script:

Action List: `sh /conf/acme/store_certs_nas.sh`.

From there, it is easy to pull certs through cronjobs on services.
This is the best reason for side projects.
Can you elaborate on this? Anyone and everyone has access to minimum wage jobs baring very certain exceptions. What’s the difference ?
>That being said I dislike tracking not because I might get manipulated - I also prefer relevant ads. I dislike the fact that they can better target vulnerable groups - like depressed people with addictive personalities and gaming - this is the majority of app stores profit, I would bet it's a huge ad% as well - mobile gaming is basically milking people with low impulse control and nothing better to do with their time. It's just like those scamming telemarketing scum targeting old people

It is more push pull thing.
- pull request for relavant ads, when I actively searching for something (and a search engine would be better).
- push request for ads that is random. If I see something I like I'll click it.
Maybe were missing a larger point here. Perhaps Apple looked at the past year working from home and found that it did not work. Employees are happier, but the company has found that the situation was not tenable for their desired level of workflow.
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You can if you install windows, or somehow get it running on linux
You said:

These sites are popular as the function of individual choices, short of authoritarianism you can't dictate which sites people decide to use.

In fact, however, Big Tech oligopolists very much can dictate that people won't be able to use sites they want to use (despite the fact you personally don't like the content there). If I decide to use Parler but Parler is shut down by Amazon, then it's very much not a product of my individual choice.

> I never stated otherwise

And again, you said:

People bring up Parler as if the political context of the very recent (at the time) attack on the U.S. capitol had no bearing on how things transpired.

What transpired is that some people involved in Capitol protest on Jan 6 were using Parler, and many more were using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc. Parler was shut down - very much not a product of individual choice of anyone but Jeff Bezos maybe - and neither of other platforms, who played bigger role in the same event, didn't even bat an eye. So your mentioning the events at the US Capitol only goes to illustrate my point, not yours - the idea that we somehow have a free market here where people are free to choose whatever platform they like according to their individual choice is very much delusional. Some platforms have more freedoms than others, and some are subjected to strictest scrutiny - and sometimes shut down - despite the preferences of their users. That's my perspective, which aligns with known facts.
If a job cannot afford to give its employees a livable wage then it does not deserve to exists. It’s similar to a Restaurant that cannot adhere to safety standards does not deserve to operate.
FB's move to e2e encryption explicitly discusses how they still will have reporting of content so users can report CSAM and send the plaintext back to FB.

Your framing of their motives here is both cynical and wrong.

Novel CSAM gets caught primarily because of users reporting it - not because of outside detection (with known stuff there are some digital fingerprinting ways to block content). They already operate WhatsApp which is e2e encryption and have to apply a lot of these strategies anyway.

Weirdly LinkedIn is apparently a hotbed for CSAM too and they also have people tasked with this. This problem is widespread: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
I think you misunderstood the parent comment's argument. What I believe they were saying is that continuous pumping (i.e. rotary pumps) may be less effective than beat-by-beat pumping (i.e. pulsatile pumps). The former result in a static continuous blood pressure while the latter result in a blood pressure waveform with a systolic and diastolic pressure. The argument I'm familiar with is that peaks and valleys in blood pressure trigger strengthening of arterial walls in a similar mechanism to muscle growth. But, there's a few different arguments and as far as I know, the science isn't completely settled.
> Societies have collapsed for reasons other than resource scarcity. In fact I'd say more often they collapse for reasons other than resource scarcity.

This is a bit moot, considering that resource scarcity is a very, very good reason for societal collapse, as well as potential a root cause of other reasons you cite for societal collapse, and resource scarcity is exactly what we are beginning to experience.
> Hopefully this eventually results in more user friendly Arch Linux installers.

Funny you say that! Arch images now ship with an official installer as of a couple of months ago - which is comparable to the Ubuntu or Fedora installers in ease-of-use.

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall
> Yes, I can, see links in this thread.

No, I really can't. So far you've been unable and unwilling to do so. I see a lot of posts from you with unsubstantiated allegations followed up by desperate ad hominems.

And when you are pressed about it, you hand-waive, deflect, and redirect.

I repeat: if there were a tenth of the cases you alleged then you would have zero problems presenting a single convincing example.

But you even failed at presenting any relevant case at all.

Please read the link you just provided. It states the exact opposite of what you're claiming. That was the best example you could come up with after so many ad hominem and after being repeatedly pressed to support your unsubstantiated allegations. Your dozen of scaremongering posts in this discussion boil down to that, the absolute best example you manage to put together. And it contradicts your claims.

You should really reflect on what you're doing, because if you have a problem with reality not backing up your firmly held beliefs to the point you get so emotional about that delta then some contemplation is in order.
if you want to be extra confused, look at the HalloWing:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4300

it's a feather mainboard, but with the 'wing' nomenclature.
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Virus / bacteria outbreaks have been common throughout history. They come quickly and often enough. About 3 or 4 come every 100 years. So you can expect one every 30 years.

Our last 4:

"Spanish Flu" in 1918-1919
"Asian Flu" in 1957-1958
"Hong Kong Flu" in 1968-1969
"Swine Flu" (H1N1) in 2009-2010

History teaches us to bet on viruses happening at anytime. Climate change deaths will be much slowier
Your answer makes no sense. There is no peak wheat, it's not a non-renewable resource.

The difference between peak oil and shale oil is the EROI which is very bad (between 1 and 2) compared to conventional (20 to 50). This would make it absolutely useless as an energy source, except we also get free Nat. gas out of it.

Once the EROI on all our fossil energy sources gets below 1 we won't be able to use any, despite some of it still being in the ground.

A better analogy than peak wheat would be: this is like peak fish except we now have better bottom trawling fishing nets, and electric pulse fishing to be able to get the last remaining fish out there.
> we'll discover some magical bullet, that we haven't thought of

Surely there are in fact, many technologies that we have thought of, that could help in a number of ways, if only we could realize them as practical and/or get them adopted in terms of politics and the economy.
So? I don’t see the point of going down such a rabbit whole as if all jobs or even all high paying jobs are morally acceptable. I’m sure a VP at Exxon does a lot to earn their bread. They’re still apart if a piece of shit company that puts all of humanity in danger with their actions and lies.
Spoil it. I don't feel like watching the documentary.
That's also trivial. Continuous growth of anything tangible in a finite system will eventually hit constraints of that system.
Except if it was way more expensive than before.
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What Is New Retail and How Data Labeling Service Empowers New Retail Industry?
Some people will cheat in any multiplayer game, even when there are no persistent "rewards" for winning. They are just maladjusted losers who get off on being the center of attention at everybody else's expense.
Apple terminates account of security vulnerability reporter
The company I currently work for still actively uses classic ASP in production and they still actively develop that product. Currently trying to get away asap, because I don't wanna touch spaghetti vbscript from '99 with a ten foot pole.
Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare
I remember not being able to buy milk last year. It felt like a war was going on.
Yes I see no reason for it not to. It’s all still USB in the end.
>First of all, what makes a bra only suitable if you are over 50, other than discrimination?

Breasts tend to sag with age. As natural elasticity declines, a woman may require additional support.
i would guess that anything that works for coding/computing use cases is a long ways off. like speech recognition, these things rely heavily on language models...

i suppose we have language models for code now, but i suspect it would still be frustrating- at least in the short term.

but, we shall see...
You could argue that when the largest superpower loses the will to mine or process rare earths, or stops making pharmaceuticals and precursor chemicals, that a collapse is in progress.
I don't even know how to actually check what I have on my Epic account without going to past purchases. It's baffling how a company that's trying to take more marketshare from a platform as polished as Steam without focusing more on UX.
If I were able to count them out loud, in order? 999 nonillion, 999 octillion, 999 septillion, 999 sextillion, 999 quintillion, 999 quadrillion, 999 trillion, 999 million, 999 thousand, 999.

That is (after consulting a table), 1 decillion - 1.

I clearly come from from a short scale culture. If I switched to the long scale and Chuquet names I could, of course, go to 999 nonilliard, 999 nonnillion, 999 octilliard, etc.
I was more referring to places like McDonald’s. I have a friend who technically makes tips at Jersey Mike’s but people don’t _really_ tip at places like that, especially since it’s just a tip jar, so cash only.

Tipped server jobs are actually in somewhat high demand around here since people generally tip well, especially with restaurants moving to those Toast PoS systems that prompt customers to tip.
I thought the original judge was removed at the last minute and replaced with a judge willing to make that call?
Your claims would benefit from you substantiating them.
The little bit if gaming I’ve ever managed to do has mostly involved their games and then later their platform. I really couldn’t agree more.
Ah, that makes sense - If the universe of orders that can be given w.r.t. technology is closed, then yeah, there's theoretically no ambiguity and there's no way for the superior and the technician to disagree about whether an order can be followed. Thanks for the detailed writeup!
k12.XX.us isn't a state school district, it's an organization of school districts within the state. For example, I used to work for ggusd.k12.ca.us (they no longer publicize that domain), and there were other districts registered under that heirarchy too.

It wouldn't be ok for my school district to have set a cookie for all school districts within the state, and that's why k12.XX.us would make sense to be in the list.
Proposing bad but popular legislation isn't treason, and you can't use the legal system to ensure good politics.

The US shows the limits of that approach - many important civil rights are the results of "judicial activism" in the face of legislators, and the legislators remain really upset by that.

Also the UK constitution really does not work that way. Formal censorship was only abandoned in the 1960s and "official secrets" are still illegal to publish.
I had a warning for 'extrem erbiebigem dauerregen', I think since sunday or monday in the Nina app. So something like extremely plentyful sustained rainfall. I think putting 1 and 1 together, you could expect some flooding to occour. But of course the details (where do we actually need to evacuate) are more complex. It seems for example my city, while inside the region wasn't hit nearly as hard as a few years back, which was already a once in a century flooding, but not so widespread.
> For smaller architectures https://diagrams.mingrammer.com works really well, but it often breaks for more complex layouts.

I'm curious, can you share some examples about when/how it breaks? So far I have had nothing but success with it.
Metal valves are only used in the young (i.e. under 50) because they are the most durable and can last a lifetime. The caveat is that lifelong blood thinners are needed because the metal provides a surface for clots to form. Bovine valves are the typical favorite because the body does not form clots on a bovine valve. They're usually sterilized and all cells killed so that it doesn't trigger tissue rejection. In the end, it's just a connective tissue matrix. Unfortunately, this means it is less durable and cannot heal from damage so they only last 10-15 years.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear, I’m specifically talking about detecting PCIe cards that modify RAM, as the parent comment mentioned. I appreciate the need for anti-cheat software, but surely the number of people who will not only cheat, but also do that kind of modification is vanishingly small?
As far as I understand the leading edge nodes are a rather small percentage of global production. The demand for less advanced nodes is still massive e.g for automotive. For intel the know how of working for 3rd party clients along with the tooling is probably much more valuable.
There are a few reasons that military tech turns out this way. The largest I've seen is that the military doesn't actually make any money with it's tech. From a classic business perspective, it's just an end user. There isn't a monetary incentive to remake entire systems to work well together.

Another big reason for the strange and overbearing standards is that there are so many different classified legacy systems that need to function, and no one is really allowed to alter, that newer systems need to be backwards compatible to work with them.
This is an apples to oranges comparison. Roman civilization lasted a good deal longer than the Roman Empire: ~2,200 years of civilization (753 B.C. to A.D. 1453) versus ~500 years of Empire (27 B.C. to A.D. 476). And that's if you don't count, as other commenters have, the Roman institutions (including the Catholic Church) surviving the Western Empire's political collapse as the continuation of a broader Western civilization.
Your intuition isn't flawed. People are both willfully dense, and typically unable to grasp extremely complex systems, and both are at play with regards to climate change and energy shortage.

The one that always gets me is how people expect us to even develop those new technologies. With what energy? The ones we're running out of? The ones that are already more and more expensive to find?

And the fact that we'll be doing that...during increasing droughts and extreme weather...water shortages...crop shortages or even widespread failures...the associated political instability...refugee crises far beyond what we've experienced in recent years...all while the population grows...

And that doesn't even mention the fact that, just as when a privileged group of people lose that privilege and call it persecution, those of us in the developed world will see any drop in the standard of living as more extreme than it necessarily actually is. I fully expect right wing terrorism to increase; even now they're running around screaming about "Jews replacing them" -- what happens when their lives get very clearly worse? Who do you think they'll blame and how will they respond?

I could go on.

That's just, like, 1% of the different angles and interplaying variables involved. It's enormously complex, but all paths lead to serious instability, perhaps societal collapse.
> Yeah. This is the problem: we've abandoned the hypermedia architecture of the web for a dumb-data, RPC model.

I'm not sure that's the issue at all.

The article complains about boilerplate code used to convert results to JSON. To me those complains make absolutely no sense at all, because that boilerplate is used for two things: validate data, and ensure that an interface adheres to it's contract.

It makes absolutely no sense at allto just dump JSON from the outside world into a db without validating or mapping. And vice-versa. That's what the so called boilerplate does.

What's more astonishing is that nowadays the so called boilerplate is pretty close to zero, thanks to the popularity of mapping and validation frameworks. Take .NET Core for example, and modules like AutoMapper and FluentValidation. They map and project and validate all the DTOs with barely any noticeable code. Why is this a problem?
Lol, completely agree. Scarlatti?! How silly! I have a very nice tube amp sitting on my desk (#pandemic-hifi) so I thought I'd take your rec and listen to Mr. Davies instead. The long bass strings produce a better sustained note which creates very nice harmonics!
> talent flight from Neurallink

Who left?