skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And is there really anything wrong with that? Every house doesn't need a milling machine. Why should every house need a general purpose computer?

Why not have general purpose computing? Computers are vastly powerful machines that could be useful over very very long amounts of time. By allowing closed, proprietary locked down applianceization of computing, we create expensive high-tech consumer devices which seem to quickly (within 5 years) become unsupported, obsolete, unmaintainable, & unrepairable.

Computers have nearly endless uses & applications, until we artificially restrict that. Society ought to try to keep computing general, because it allows for us to adapt & update systems along with the times. Nothing but general purpose computing seems to be renewable. Why should we have other forms of computing?
IIUC it's a gene that we share with dogs and many (all?) animals. For example here is a paper about mutations in the human version https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11990778/

Perhaps we don't have the same mutations, but it's totally possible.

A relevant paper that compares human and dog versions: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16686372/
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog – or a fake Russian Twitter account
hmm. so if we swap out bitcoin with lumber. and I accumulate a lot of lumber and after that sell it do I need to register with FinCEN? or do lumber KYC?

this is part of the FUD campaign against Bitcoin. If they committed other crimes, etc, sure charge them
if you have proof. If not this is literally a waste of taxpayers money.
You have Johnny, saying you should wear a mask when you go to the store, because it helps you against covid. And Bobby says you shouldn't, because there's no evidence it helps, and it might even be even worse for you, if you wear it wrong.

So you're suggesting we should remove Johnnys fearmongering, conspiracy post, because we should listen to the experts?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...

Experts clearly say that "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,"

Expert knowledge by WHO.

...and a month later, we should delete Bobbys post too? Do we undelete Johnnys post?
Attempted Murder is a crime - so is attempted bribery and extortion.

I'm not sure what your point is.
Because nearly every person has some amount of astigmatism.
This is one of the best explanations of op amps: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/sboa092b/sboa092b.pdf?ts=162646149...
Pro tip: nope
No release since 2018?

They seemed to have been derailed by the focus on crypto-currency as a solution to funding.

In a bitter irony, they were too early to the party. Had they continued momentum on regular work, they could now have used gitcoin to fund work.

I hope this project continues though. I wish them nothing but the best!
Why it’s hard for engineering to support marketing
If it's being used to launder drug money, I'm pretty sure "but it's not money" isn't going to fly in court. Can you launder drug money using gold bars, and you're good because gold bars aren't "money"? I'm pretty sure you can't. It may fall under a slightly different part of the statute, but that kind of loophole has almost certainly already been plugged.
I'll reassert my core point: "You can't meaningfully invest in a community in <5 years."

Being part of a community is about presence and interaction, not anything about deeds or contracts.
Being popular doesn't mean not being suppressed. If anything this story proves they have a need to do so and that they failed.
Interesting, I didn't think the US trusted people like Chalabi to that degree. Since watching Game of Thrones it's looked to me like it was a personal feud between two oligarchical families that had a falling out.
Sacrilegious bit is that it's not disclosed. It's made to be deceptive.
Looking at Guardian and BBC coverage all flooded areas are either flood plains and old river beds where people diverted river to make a bend and build a small town in its place.
So just because someone’s poor it’s ok that Facebook treats them like a chump (invade their privacy and show them dumb ads), because they offer their product for free?

Facebook doesn’t give a rats ass about equity. If they did they’d copy a model like Apple’s App Store: as developer you pick a price tier for your app or subscription. That same tier translates into for example €2,99 per month in Europe, but the equivalent of €0,25 in less privileged markets. So the luckier people of the world subsidize the less fortunate, as it should be.
Keeping in mind that you might understand this better than me, I thought I’d ask.

Isn’t the notion of “things conventionally associated with men” the exact evil of gender based stereotypes that we’ve all been fighting against?

Is there still room for men who like to wear skirts or make up or perhaps some other female stereotype? And if there is, what is the difference created by identifying as a woman besides reinforcing harmful gender based stereotypes?
I think it would feel less weird/unsettling, but I'd still want a disclaimer at least, like any other recreation/reenactment.
I think most rust programmers are aware enough to know that it's not actually 100% memory safe. But it's memory safe-r. I don't actually know anyone who's done even a little bit of rust actually believe it's 100% safe

The stdlib is full of unsafe, I'd much rather they handle the unsafe parts which have been audited and battle tested and I use their abstractions.

It's almost impossible to avoid unsafe somewhere in the chain. But that's not really unexpected. What's nice is that once you have a safe wrapper, it's impossible to misuse and cause memory errors
I have no problem with the entity combusting it if they're doing it to drive their nation's pivot off fossil fuels.

Surely Norway sells its oil to nations manufacturing the very things Norway requires to build its green future.

My problem is with frivolous waste of oil and the externalized costs of its use being placed on future generations enabling such waste.
Op-amps are (theoretically) just linear differential amplifiers with extremely high gain (like 10,000x or greater). They appear nonlinear in open-loop configuration because their gain is so high that any realistic input signal immediately pegs the output against the rails. But with negative feedback they start to appear linear again because you can set the gain to something more reasonable. They're marvelous devices.
> You approach problems differently when you expect memory bugs to appear compared to thinking the chance is 0%.

The chance is never 0%, and nobody should be thinking that way. Memory safety bugs routinely arise in JITs (e.g. JavaScript engine CVEs). In fact, memory safety issues routinely arise in CPUs (e.g. rowhammer).

In reality, terms like "memory safety" are rarely ever exact, but they're still useful descriptions. Practically, people should be thinking about frequencies, not in black and white.
Oh, that’s actually simple. Enforcing the “malloc once” rule gets you like halfway there, and using custom hardened code for common stuff like string manipulation finishes the job. Things like that are why some C codebases are large in the first place - you have to reinvent your own safe space from scratch.

The funny thing is that it’s actually harder to protect from certain classes of bugs in Rust. For example, you cannot uncouple from the global allocator as easy as you can in C/C++, and if you do, you do it with “unsafe” code. That doesn’t make Rust a bad language, it’s just that you can see some of the inherent flaws only if you had written safe C code previously and then you find out that some basic techniques don’t translate.
Resources not the point here, the point is removing the possibility that our civ could ever be a risk to them
This statement perfectly describes the last decade in America.
do you mean totally native genuine compiled code, or electron/js?

this changes things on the client side.
I disagree - it isn't just in recent times that dumping waste into waterways that people consume has been discouraged. For most of human history we've been ignorant on how we're hurting ourselves through pollution, but as we've learned how harmful pollution can be we've worked to minimize it. Dying and leather curing was, for a large part of history, about the most toxic thing you could do and so those facilities were usually forced away from the most dense population centers - and sewers have been a thing for a loooong time.

I think the first time folks realized that sending smoke up into the air might actually be harmful is when London started having ash clouds from industrialization, but that's just one sort of pollution.

Humanity actually has a pretty good record for cutting in and regulating things that they know are harmful.
Being laid off is a reasonable basis for claiming unemployment benefits for a short time—long enough to find another job. It's not a reason to stay on unemployment indefinitely when there are jobs available comparable to the one you had before.
It's a hard problem for democracy, the best countermeasures I know of are transparency and education, but those are mitigations at best, you can't really do much if a majority of people believe an untruth.

You could also elect me as your benevolent dictator, I'll be happy to bring the misinformation to an end, but the lie I'd tackle first would be that this has anything to do with democracy.
I have the exact same thing. It always makes me wonder why companies choose to have blue neon lights on their buildings because it's nearly impossible to read them when it's a thin font.
Well there have been several studies which concluded that the economic costs out weight the benifits. This has also nothing to do with density US vs Europe. In fact I suspect that many European cities are hit much worse than most US cities, because they are much more popular tourist destinations (the city with the most Airbnb lisings is London).

Centres of some popular destinations (e.g. Nice) are now almost completely short term rental. The knock-on effect is that, even for the few long term residents the city is becoming less liveable because supermarkets are moving out and tourist shops are moving in.

Essentially, short term rentals are turning many old city centres into something akin to Disneyland, an attraction park with nobody actually living there, because they can't afford to.
slept with all the female board members. jfc. this looks really really bad, even without context
That might be a better description of the miliue, but not of the content of the discussion.
> Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users.

> CrowdTangle’s data showed that in the US the links posted on Facebook to other websites which got the most engagement was to content by right-wing commentators such as Ben Shapiro and the Fox News host Sean Hannity, and to right-wing sites including Breitbart and Newsmax.

Any news site that uses "far-right" loses all credibility to me. I mean Shapiro far-right? Common.
> Climate change is in the process of teaching us that mono-cultures built in the service of a few powerful industries are a risk.

Sorry for nitpicking but... Climate change is an indirect consequence of industrial revolution. Industrial revolution has saved orders of magnitude more lives and fed more people than climate change is likely to affect.
This actually highlights the point well I think. The cost of walking away from Facebook is too high for most people even though they know its' bad for them.

Take myself for example. I only ever get angry when I browse my facebook feed and for some reason I've actually taken steps to ensure I get angry when I browse my own feed (chalk it up to silicon magic). I would like to leave facebook, but if I do I'd lose messenger which is the easiest and most consistent way for me to keep in contact with dozens of people (who mostly don't make me angry).

If facebook protocols were open source, then by now I would likely have dozens of different options to take my friend's list to a messenger only app that does not include a feed for me to angrily browse.

Lowering the cost to leave is a benefit to everyone since it reduces the reach of that anger inducing feed.
I don't see a need for democratic representation in providing funds or services in pursuit of home ownership...Why do I need an elected official involved? I'd much rather Airbnb or others do the helpful work on the home-ownership side by choice rather than some legal mandate.
A 3D printer, chip fab, or CNC mill isn't useful without feedstock, designs/models, and electricity. So even if every household had a bunch of micro-fabrication devices the government could still regulate whatever they pleased by regulating access between your property and the outside world. If everyone had a 3D printer and was manufacturing things the government didn't like then PLA/ABS/resin would quickly become regulated.
Companies should really decide and be either platforms (only remove directly illegal material, when reported, and carry no responsibility for other stuff) or a published (cherry pick what they want posted/hosted, and carry all the responsibility for the posted content.
I think we will win because locked down platforms are fundamentally less powerful and less suitable for innovation than open platforms.

We are reaching a turning point where even the brightest minds struggle to generate major innovations on the locked down web. You can't build "the next Facebook" on the web as it is today because the incumbent powers suffocate you so effectively.

Conversely, the dweb is flush right now with innovation and new ideas, with an ecosystem of builders that are excited to share and compound off of eachother's ideas.

I believe that at maturity, the dweb will run absurd agile circles around the lockdown web.
Call me a deontologist but if it's good then all of them should do it and if it's bad then none of them should.
'eye prescription'?

Bruh. Read the comment of mine you replied to. 20/10 and 20/13 vision. I don't need prescriptions.
> once parler was taken down, I purchased several servers off ebay, rented colocation space, and set up my own services. But I have the technical know-how to actually 'own' part of the internet without depending on anyone else.

You said you rented colocation space. You (I assume) are paying a monthly fee for an Internet connection for your servers. You are absolutely depending on others who can be pressured just like AWS was with Parler. Don't kid yourself.
Supposedly. The rollout is a clown show.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/07/11/el-salvador-...
Yes. Any company with an user base or influence above a certain threshold should not get to make moderation decisions unilaterally without the input of society at large. That input is called "the law".
Considering the obvious inability for anyone to reliably know the astigmatism status of everyone they meet, not only is your anecdata unverifiable it's completely absurd.
That wouldn't change over time. The knowledge required to do well would be a constant.
I've done this quite a bit in Rebol and more recently in Red. The reason these languages work well for this is that you can dynamically build the GUI layout in their DSL for that, which is easy and concise. But you can also build the tree of faces directly (as the DSL does internally), if you need more control.

https://gitter.im/red/red/help is a good place to ask for ideas and examples.

Full disclosure, I'm on the Red team so my biases are pretty strong. ;^)
That was a interesting issue as the defendant has always been extremely vocal about being anti-drug in person and through his social media channels. I'm frankly a little surprised that he went through with that particular transaction, while I hold a fairly low opinion of the guy he at least seemed to be consistent in his principles.

I guess money was the goal and he was willing to compromise himself in its pursuit.
While an interesting read: it's fairly clearly stated that they believe there were no ceramics in early Chobham armors. And some newer ones might, though probably not most, and that it's not particularly relevant to the effectiveness (i.e. it's an armor structural pattern, ceramic is orthogonal).

So it mostly supports your claim, since Wikipedia is rather focused on the ceramic aspect, but it's in a somewhat different context.
Water is relatively opaque at wavelengths above and below the visible spectrum. Air is also much more absorptive outside of the visible range. These two effects compliment eachother - water has a very sharp increase in opacity in the ultraviolet, while air has a sharp increase in the infrared. Our eyes are full of water and we look at things through air. Coincidentally, the visible spectrum matches the peak output from the sun. While you can go a little further into the infrared and ultraviolet ranges, there simply isn't much more to see, it would be as if we were looking through muddy water and dimly lit fog. Any mutation allowing you to see these wavelengths would convey no advantage.
Meanwhile here’s how Google handles present-day racism against Jewish people: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdbHft64/
That is...true. Everything google account backed is now wiped from my iPhone. Just got to download the google drive stuff next.
What do you mean inspect possible futures through science fiction - none of that stuff is real! /s

Stories, when well done, explore interesting concepts and can teach us about how some actions may turn out - yes a lot of writing is lazy and stupid these days, but it's hardly justified to write off all of fiction because of that.
Biden Administration's Admission of Flagging Content to Facebook Sparks Furor
In real time collaboration, like Google docs, merge conflicts can be avoided because you see them play out live, and can react to them.

In an offline collaboration system merge conflicts are a feature, they bring attention to inconsistencies you might otherwise overlook.

This has very little to do with how the data is stored.
You clearly don't have kids that consume content on the internet.
Signatures used for very important purposes are only decoration. They must be used in conjunction with something else (a notary, an independent exchange that confirms that the signature is actually binding, etc.).

The electronic signature is completely different: there is no visible artefact anymore, but a process that seals a document and (under appropriate legislation), certifies that the signer is who he is. A visual object is sometimes added for aesthetic purposes.
the point is that this shit is turning into Minority Report.

It’s one thing to accuse someone of attempted murder when they actually tried killing someone, it’s another thing to accuse someone of attempted murder for suspecting them about thinking about killing someone.
I would have. English is a frankenstein language, adopting words from all sorts of different languages. Kowtow means what it means in English, it's a perfectly reasonable word to have used there.

I tried really hard to see if this wasn't the case, but the consensus across the web seems to align with this SO post: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/314900/does-kowt...

IMO, he was being downvoted because this particular instance is just as much a show of kowtowing to the US government as the Chinese government.
> you've misconstrued my comment

You are misconstruing the other person's comment is the point. They were talking about how laws might change, and the consequences of how platforms acting more like what are commonly called publishers might be.

And it is how platforms acting more like publishers, in the colloquial sense, is absolutely a thing, and it has nothing to do with the law.

You called it propaganda, when there is actually a point to be made here.
> It's simply one among many possible resolutions to soil erosion. There need not be a single solution. Soil erosion won't kill all traditional farming practices, and vertical farms can simply make up part of the difference (and progressively more if soil erosion isn't tackled directly).

I think vertical farming is a great idea, and I think crop rotation and planting native species are great ideas. I just think all the sustainable long term solutions are a hard sell in the short term, and people tend to think and invest on the short term. Theoretically, a government could used sticks and carrots to get these things done, but I don't see the American government pulling that off effectively.

> You just described that regulations require demonstration of any new development's water access for 100 years, which is exactly the kind of planning, cooperation, and commitment you said we need. Clearly we are capable of it when necessary.

You got me. I think that resolution is an exception, not the rule. In any case, water shortages are a real thing.

> Cultural views on nearly every issue have changed dramatically in each generation.

I don't see that from my perspective. I see a lot of the same taboos and biases perpetuated from generation to generation, across all cultures. Young people lean progressive, and then they lean conservative twenty years later.

I don't think circumstances effect people's behavior until it they affects them personally, but then it's too late.

Obviously this isn't true for everyone. Some people will not change their behavior under any circumstances, e.g., Representative Steve Scalise fighting gun control after getting shot in a mass shooting.
There is a long history of people in the USA and elsewhere being mad that companies host certain things - pornography was illegal to distribute for decades because of such beliefs, and is still segregated from non-pornographic content, and shunned by all regular advertisers (you won't see Coca-Cola ads or Beats headphones on pornographic sites) for precisely this reason.
I think a larger component of it is that when you're living in a neighborhood with a large transient population it's a lot easier to justify the kind of bad behavior they wouldn't do to people they'd have to deal with again.

This is basically how a tourism economy works (granted the many people getting fleeced are doing it willingly) to normalize dishonest business dealing.

In the case of AirBNB and short term rentals you get an increase in crime.
I don’t know what Gates did, it’s possible the worst accusations are true but without evidence I won’t take it seriously. However, we do know that Epstein was essentially a very good conman. I can absolutely believe he figured out a way to ingratiate himself to his most important targets- it’s been suggested Gates thought he could help with a Nobel prize - something that sounds comical, but is absolutely the sort of ego trip you would sell to the worlds richest man.
>"The Biden administration is playing an active role in flagging Facebook posts it considers to be “problematic” or “disinformation,” according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki"

Where's the outrage and hysteria about this? Such a thing would have been an intolerable attack on democracy if the last administration did it.
The results in the article are based on 1st-order logic,

which is inadequate for the foundations of mathematics.

Mathematical abstractions need to be characterized up a

unique isomorphism as in the theory Ordinals described in

the following article:

"Theory Ordinals can Replace ZFC in Computer Science"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3457802

Mathematical questions can be properly addressed only by

using adequate foundations.