skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apollo 13 communication transcript [pdf]
ISPs have shown increasing comfort with delisting sites they deem bad. I'm a huge proponent of commoditizing data hosting, but the culture today leans heavily toward "filtering" information.
https://www.docdroid.net/nGEFnWs/08-sector-externo-2019-cuba...

Page 9 to 17 to see their trading partners. It's in Spanish but I think it's understandable.

It comes from the ONEI website but access is tricy, so I uploaded it.

I mean it's pretty obvious to me where Cuba has to go for trade, and how to avoid US embargo.
For those that believe that intelligent life should be more common within the Milky Way, some author had a good response to that:

It only takes one xenophobic von-Nuemann capable civilization to ruin the party for everyone.
In theory they can... in reality something bad will happen, someone will have written about it in a google doc, and the narrative will read "...they had access, yet evil/neglectful Google did nothing!".
Google can do a much better job of making clear what is out of scope. When I first saw this headline I was also surprised and outraged.

Looking more closely, this is just about distribution, probably in terms of "content hosting". It doesn't target individuals or families storing whatever they want for themselves.
This made more sense in that context.

For example, if I create a fake video urging people to vote illegally, or at the wrong time, and I am sharing it through Google Drive with many many people seeing it, Google wants a policy prevent that sharing.

Otherwise either it's hands are tied or it's just doing arbitrary things. Which is far more authoritarian.

If a document is shared and accessed by thousands of people, it makes plausible sense that Google might not want to essentially be a hosting service if that content is leading to real-world harm.

...but this has not been made explicit enough for such a sensitive issue, with real speech and free expression concerns. (and there are real concerns as always about who decides what is misinformation)
Not cynical at all, this is exactly how Real Time Bidding (RTB) works.
>Do we still teach history at school? I'm talking about history of many countries. No fear whatsoever of information control and government censorship. I'm baffled and saddened.

I agree. We don't spend enough time teaching about the history of free speech in other countries like Germany. And no, I don't only mean in 1930s and 1940s Germany. I also mean the Germany of today. They, along with much of Europe, have laws outlawing some misinformation such as Holocaust denial and their societies haven't collapsed into totalitarianism.

Some restrictions on speech are truly dangerous. Some aren't. It is important to have the historical context to help know which one we are discussing.
How does it compare to GitLab's merge train feature?
This is terrifying and is one of the main reasons I am working de-googling my digital life.
> Google docs etc aren't even Google's inventions, Google just bought them.

That's the same thing as saying that macOS Monterey isn't Apple's invention, they just copied Xerox.

There's years of development on what Google bought and what Docs suite is now and any engineer that had developed a product for years shouldn't say silly stuff like your sentence.
Chromatic aberration may be a contributing factor, but I am surprised the author didn’t mention that S cones (which we use to perceive blue) are only 2% of the cones in the retina [1]. Additionally S cones are distributed randomly when compared the regular lattice of M and L cones. The distribution of the different cone types alone may be sufficient to explain why our acuity for blues is impoverished relative to reds and greens.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell
Almost everybody here cheered when Twitter and Facebook started censoring and 'fact-checking' Trump. Few voices who said that this will end badly were drowned by the rejoicing crowd, not thinking about the consequences.

News such as this is a direct consequence of allowing big tech to become arbiters of 'truth'. And yes, it will be much worse than this.
Did you mean to respond to another comment in this thread where they were talking about YUV? Your comment does not make much sense to me here but would make more sense to me there.
We spend around 800 billion in tax dollars every year for imperialism. Yet so many people find spending even a fraction of that helping fellow citizens some kind of outrageous idea.

Stop funding an imperial agenda that benefits the few and instead use that money to improve our society and the lives of people in it. That’s how you pay for it.
The problem is that if there's any chance an employer will win, there's a cost that the employee needs to consider. If it's not clear that non competes are going to fail immediately, people are going to get bullied by letigious employers, and less letigious employers will actually benefit from the will-he-won't-he of it too.

Also note that there's a fair bit of legal myths floating around society, so if it's not made clear some people will end up backing out when they would have won.
100000%. As I mentioned in another thread on this post I was going to take a look at C++ again and since then started playing about on a little game. Almost immediately I approached the problem like Haskell and started passing data as GameState{} structs between pure functions. Using other languages for enough time has made me avoid global/mutable data like the plague and I _think_ I'm a better person for it.
Why is that obvious?

Because it creates a clear conflict of interest; stock trading apps compete with each other much more directly than do music albums.
Slippery slope not withstanding, your perspective is very utility based but not empathetic. Is a humans value what they produce for the economy or who they are and the life they lead?

If unemployment covers cost of living better than a low wage, no benefit, long or odd hours job where in summer you need childcare and your own transportation then that job can be expensive or even more costly than having no income/unemployment at all.

A lot of commenters on here seem to miss that a good chunk of the nation makes under $10 an hour (<$20k/year) without benefits vs median CS/IT work at $60k+ depending on the state plus benefits. You can't label a segment of the economy "essential" then attack low wage workers for not wanting to contribute to the same economy that screws then six ways from Sunday.
That's certainly possible, but the argument that usually gets made is that they worked harder and therefore earned being a billionaire.

That being said, I think it's also unlikely that they brought a skill to the table that's 8000 times more valuable. My understanding is that people who become billionaires do so by leveraging capital.
Police spending was 0.05% of the GDP in 1980, it's 0.25% of the GDP now.

So, somehow were spending more and the opinion is that were spending less.
Two thoughts.

The first: For the past several months, I've been feeling the effects of supply chain disruptions in my normal purchases of consumer goods. Employment and production fell through the floor while demand in various things went through the roof. From that alone, I'd say we're approaching, if not already in the early stages of not enough hands on deck.

The second: I am probably misuing the word, but for lack of knowing a better one, I'd say there is a hysteresis between policy and other inputs which shape employment and production levels, and how acutely the positive and negative effects of employment and production levels are felt by the population, and the shape of this hysteresis curve is not well understood or characterized. That is to say, economic policy could be set such that production in fact will not meet or exceed demand, but the economy will not reach that state for a while, and we'll have a period where things seem to be just fine, until all of a sudden, holy shit, they're not, what the hell happened. So when inflation has been relatively steady over the past several years, and now over the past months we find ourselves in an increasing rise, perhaps we should start paying attention now, while policy inputs that are less likely to overshoot us into deflation are still an option.
Is that strictly the case? I thought it was more like "if you remain silent initially that can be used against you if you later try to make statements in your defense"
I think your fundamental error is in the fact that you think that a private company (and market competition) can fix these issues. It seems that many people on HN are just waiting for the new Savior company, that will magically have incentives to fight for them instead of making money. It's like hoping for market competition create health regulation in the food industry.

Turns out, not even Apple is that messiah, and perhaps the solution isn't in demanding private companies to be your regulators and defenders of good morals and truth. What happened to having specialized agencies regulate and inspect industries?
> environmental related more than anything.

It is likely both... that's usually what happens. This study also stopped tracking the twins at age 20, which is far younger than most other studies.

Although our study evaluated a subset of subjects who had been daily users over the course of 6 mo to a year, all participants were still young adults at their last assessment. Perhaps regular use over a more prolonged period would result in greater differentiation across groups. This is a possible explanation for the discrepancy of our findings from those of Meier et al. (23), whose subjects were aged 38 y at their last assessment. We additionally were not able to differentiate current heavy users from former heavy users, and thus our results cannot disentangle the acute from nonacute effects of marijuana use on intellectual functioning.

To me this makes the conclusions pretty useless. They are still adolescents, not adults. They haven't used cannabis over a long period of time, which seems to be the real determining factor.

> cannabis leads to a school dropouts

Yeah, well that's my personal experience. I watched it happen in my own life. If that's not good enough for your "modern, scientific, society", why bother making this topic? I thought you wanted personal experiences.
I am. Meta-commenting about HN is a constructive contribution to both the quality of site and, in some instances, leads to quality contributions within a specific discussion as well. The site admin 'dang' certainly does a lot more of it than I do, and regularly links to his own past meta-commentaries, so while I respect that they're uninteresting to you, I disagree.
This language has been under my radar for some time. Recently, I asked a question about "automatic GUI creators" [1] but suggestions were not what I was looking for.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27820141

Then, I decided to google some keywords (like GUI DSLs) limiting it to HN threads. Someone suggested: 'this is essentially REBOL...'. Then I went to this rabbit-hole of REBOL, RED, homoiconicity, DSLs....

Fun Fact: Did you know the whole compiler and interpreter of Red with all batteries included (including cross-platfrom GUI bindings) is a ~1 MiB single binary?!!

Some links:

Red's originator talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqNO_sDqm4

Red sample programs:
https://github.com/red/community/

Especially this `parse` dialect seem to be a "readable" regexp:
https://github.com/red/community/tree/master/parse
Is it "censorship" when they simply choose not to be the medium to communicate that data to you?

If so, that puts the entire search apparatus in the category of "censorship," since it makes opinionated decisions regarding what the answer to your query should be. Choosing to refrain from vending a Drive URL is basically the same thing.

Edit: I could see an argument that they're being a bad steward of other people's data if they choose not to honor share requests on content they host or choose to remove content they've previously hosted. In which case, I'm glad they're putting the fact they'll do that right in a public disclosure, and it is something people should consider when choosing Drive to host their content.
I can see how information that contradicts the CDC falls under "Misleading content related to harmful health practices: Misleading health or medical content that promotes or encourages others to engage in practices that may lead to serious physical or emotional harm to individuals, or serious public health harm."

Of course, it wouldn't actually fall under anything since it's not misleading, but such things get interpreted by social media censorship boards as misleading.

Also, the gun violence one may fall under "serious public health harm". There have been plenty of attempts to control guns using public health claims. https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/gun-violence
Mindblowing, simple and effective.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -George Orwell, 1984
Because there isn't a left/ right distinction with socks.
To add, for hutzlibu and others like them: as soon as infinite sets (or sequences. See https://plus.maths.org/content/when-things-get-weird-infinit...) are involved math gets counter-intuitive.

In this case, at most one of these two a priori quite reasonable statements can be true:

- if set B is a strict superset of A, B is larger than A.

- if you can map the times in A to the items in B in 1:1 fashion, A and B have the same size.

Giving up the first is deemed less problematic than giving up the second (probably because that means giving up comparing sizes of infinite sets at all, but I’m not familiar enough with that to be sure about that)
I'm pretty sure a lot more doctors, engineers, and lawyers lie in a professional context than there are doctors, engineers, and lawyers in jail. Maybe they go to jail more than police, I have no idea, but surely a majority of the time they get away with lying.
Is this 2500 taxed or tax free?

Imo after all taxes, a lot of 40 hr/wk salaries are a meaningless gain over $2500
> On Earth, successful civilizations have been capable of trade and cultural exchange in addition to force.

Forget about what monstrosities we have done to other human
civilizations throughout history. Instead, think about what we have done to animals. We have hunted many animals out of existence, or we have farmed them and made them basically the equivalent of the Matrix, sources of energy and food.

We are trying to eradicate mosquitoes for crying out loud, and entire species, without giving it a second thought. I will use insecticide to kill today entire colonies of ants without blinking.

All it takes is for one advanced alien civilisation to come across us and deem us the equivalent of their mosquitoes to eradicate us and take all the resources from the
Earth. That's the whole point of the Dark Forest theory. If there's an infinite number of civilisations out there, and one of them is so advanced that we are insects to them, why wouldn't they just exterminate us, or use us as food?
A device for measuring the final grinding had been miscalibrated (by a known, constant amount). The result was a spherical aberration, of a kind that is familiar to a lot of users of cheaper lenses and mirrors but on a much smaller scale.
It’s one of those things where you can probably just use your better judgment and nobody will care. I mean people smoke crack on public transit here. Who cares if you find some secluded corner of a park and light up? I see people breaking the “15 ft from entrance” smoking rule with cigarettes all the time.

Anyway if the smoke is really a concern look into making your own edibles (way cheaper than buying them) or vaping. If you only want to smoke small amounts then a flower vape is the way to go. If that’s too slow for you then vape oil.
Aren't you making assumptions about my comment and motivations? What you're assuming is incorrect.
And yet university enrollment is down 25% at my local uni. If you’re poor and have nothing to do for months and aren’t making your labor worth more by gaining skills, why should people have sympathy. Are people born entitled to live off society without contributing if they can?
San Francisco's Top Irishman [Tommy Collison] on His Conversion to Judaism
Luma is an approximation of perceived brightness. All the conversion formulae weigh blue substantially less than the other primaries. This supports crazygringo's assertion that "we perceive primary blue as a much darker color than primary red or green".
No I don't use org. I find it too slow to load on my computer. Up to 30 seconds load time for a feature defeats the advantages of a lightweight text format.
And the death toll of capitalism far exceeds that of communism, so by this metric capitalism must be more dangerous still - right?
EFF – Don’t Let Police Arm Autonomous or Remote-Controlled Robots and Drones
Export M1's do not have Chobham armor.
> Basic Paxos, is well, too basic and people mostly run modifications of this to get higher throughput and better latencies. After those modifications, it does not look very different from Raft.

Alan Vermeulen, one of the founding AWS engineers, calls inventing newer solutions to distributed consensus an exercise in re-discovering Paxos.

https://youtu.be/QVvFVwyElLY?t=2367
This is my greatest fear, more than death: to stop learning, to stop creating, to stagnate. I wonder if nutrition or exercise has an impact on this. I would eat broccoli every day if I thought it would improve my chances.
Because the activists want tech companies to censor and control information.
It makes sense to me here - GP discusses how we see perceive blue as a dark color, and parent comment corroborates that with a low luma coefficient for blue.
Which is why countries like Canada are looking at $10/day subsidized childcare. It frees up lower income people to work more and is paid for using the taxes on middle/upper income. Which effectively makes it a wealth transfer "for a good cause" so people will vote for it.
Timestamps have monotonicity issues as well:

1. If you create it in the application, clocks need to be synced well enough between all application servers. If you create it in the database, this shouldn't be an issue.

2. The transaction completes some time after the the timestamp was created, and that time can vary between concurrent transactions. This is a fundamental problem.

The MAX + 1 approach should guarantee strict monotonicity, but might lead to scalability issues for highly contented counters.
The embargo is in place as a political football. It costs very little political capital to keep it in place. The Cuban embargo is how local politics can manifest at an international level. There is a vocal Cuban American voting bloc that want it kept in place. Losing this bloc can have big repercussions in the nations 3rd largest state. Neither Democrats nor Republicans want to piss off this voting bloc so for the sake of keeping the party in power the embargo stays.

Now Obama did try to roll back parts of the embargo in 2016. And Trump added additional constraints. in the 2020 elections just enough Cuban Americans voted for Trump over Biden to lose the FL electoral vote.

While most of America agrees the embargo should end this is the reason why politicians don’t want to touch it. It’s political kryptonite.
The product being discussed here doesn't solve the issue of merge conflicts itself, but rather of eventual consistency. Merge conflicts is only a part of it, and there are some heuristics that can be used to reduce those, but eventually require manual review. Perhaps with Github Copilot this can improve?

An example of the problem we are describing is explained here: https://blog.mergequeue.com/managing-github-merges-for-high-...
I wonder how many folks have access to a submarine fire control tech manual compared to a manual for a tank?

I'm guessing simply based on the numbers the likelihood of a tank manual leaking in some fashion (even accidentally), for any reason, is much higher than a fire control technician manual.

I would expect individual folks to do their job and not say 'well this will leak anyway'. But more generally I think expecting that 'this manual that we gave to thousands of people won't leak' would be absurd.

That second part is what I was getting at.
This happens every wintertime for me as blue string lights are put up, and they always appear “fuzzy” compared to other colors.
Why are you not outraged, lmao.
My mind boggles that people have opinions like this. It is so anti-liberal. Every evil regime in history takes it upon itself to define and eliminate hateful content, using the contemporary unconscionable act to justify this evil.

To be a good liberal, Google has to decide if it's a publisher or platform. IF it's a publisher, then the hateful content is coming from them and they must take editorial control of google docs and whatnot. If they're a platform provider, then they get the same protections as telephone network operators and others from the actions of their users.

This current situation is the start of the road to tyranny.
It is also slowly becoming illegal to criticise Islam.

Taking Islam out of the equation do you think it’s a good idea for any religion to actually be off the table in terms of discussion?
Tesla bucked expert opinion on electric vehicles and lithium ion batteries and charging speed and vehicle speed and… on and on.

And SpaceX bucked industry opinion hard on many other things as well. People dismissing SpaceX’s rockets as “just the same rockets” have no idea what they’re talking about.

Industry experts dismissed Falcon 1/9, they dismissed Dragon, they dismissed Falcon Heavy, they dismissed landing rockets, they dismissed reusing rockets, they dismissed landing rockets on drone ships, they dismissed Starlink, Raptor, Starship, etc. there’s almost nothing that SpaceX does that wasn’t dismissed at some point by industry experts.
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Sizing Up Types in Rust
> are the ones pushing FOR these changes.

Because the goal isn't to deconstruct those systems of power (as it probably _should_), but rather to put someone else in the center.

I once heard a Silicon Valley VC say on a podcast: "If you hear someone utter the term 'equity,' then run for the hills. Because it's really a power grab." (Not obviously talking about stock compensation, of course...)
The propaganda wouldn't work on its own unless the employees were dumb or mindless, which they aren't. They are intelligent human beings who want to look after their self-interest, just like everyone else. So, what is in their self-interest? The last paragraph of the article gives the bigger picture. It identifies the stark difference between the blue collar work environment of yesteryear's steel industry, and today.

Today, an unskilled worker doesn't face the prospect of being blue collar for life. There is no permanent employment at the steelworks or the motor vehicle company. Companies aren't permanent - they come and go. So instead of relatively secure, low paid blue collar careers, they are funnelled into warehouses, call centres, and sales, which is a pathway to entrepreneurship, however bleak or mild, or promising or exciting.

Today's unskilled workers look out into the future and sees sink or swim - it's all up to themselves. That's not a recipe for collective bargaining - it's a recipe for looking after number 1.
There was no appeal to free speech. You’re creating a straw man
If rights are a human construct, then cops, who are at the top of the power pyramid, can just give themselves the "right" to shoot whoever they want.

Yet the fact that we still say it's wrong shows that no, rights are not a human construct.