skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...in the current thread...which is four hours old

Well if we apply your logic to this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27860162, can we assume that "large segments" of the US population are knowledgeable in debating the merits of the rust programming language?

>and mirrors the comments from others in the US....

Mirrors what? I certainly didn't see any reference.
Facebook being an echo chamber.
I don’t think it’s perfect, I think it’s just better than the current system.

I trust society’s laws for legal/illegal more than Google’s arbitrary decisions of info/misinfo.
Isn't the Messenger app a "messenger only app that does not include a feed for me to angrily browse."? They also seem to have standalone web and desktop versions at messenger.com
I found that episode very moving. It captured the feeling I suspect many of us experience, of having started out with simple, blissful naivety, before slowly accreting layers of grown up, professional bullshit until a craft loses its joy. The desire to strip it all away, not just the ways in which your work has changed over the years but also the ways in which it has changed you.

I had no idea Alastair Reynolds was behind the story, I’ve enjoyed his work quite separately.
Demand for $100 bills illustrates the increasingly underground use of cash
> I suspect the actual answer to your question is the updraft around your body

Haha that's what I thought too! But nope, the answer is a bit more subtle.
Yeah I'm really only talking about processing power! I don't own as many computer as you do so you might have a more accurate experiences with that.
P/Invoke is not uncommon either, especially in Windows. Rust and C# offer similar guarantees.
I wrote "mostly siloed" not "perfectly siloed". This is no different from real life where your social sphere is not perfectly insulated from other social spheres. Perfectly siloed also means filter bubbles.
I don’t think Elon could build a pyramid. He might be capable of tweeting about one though.
Let me give a more concrete example. Take the set of uncomputable real numbers. You can write out a formal definition of that set, you can prove that it is infinite and uncountable. But you can't produce any element of it. So you can't actually pick an arbitrary element of it, since you can't know what any of the elements are. Is there even any general rule you can use to pick out a single element? – you can't pick the smallest or largest element, since for every element there will be a smaller or larger one; nor can you pick the element closest to zero, since for every element there will be one closer to zero, and zero itself is not an element.

I suppose, if one had a Turing machine with an oracle for the halting problem, it could produce some elements of this set. And then you could ask, what is the shortest program which generates an element of this set. And then if you had multiple shortest programs, you could order them lexicographically. So that's a way you could pick out a single element in principle, even though it is impossible in practice.

Another example would be the set of numbers that are first-order undefinable. (Meaning, numbers for which there does not exist any sentence in first-order logic which is true only for that number). There is no way using first-order logic to pick out a unique element of that set. But I suppose there is some number which is second-order definable but not first-order definable, and hence we could use a sentence of second order logic to uniquely locate a member of the set of first-order undefinable numbers.

As a generalisation – you can define a set such that you can't pick out any individual member of it using certain resources. But it seems like there is always some way to pick out a unique member of such a set using more resources (a higher Turing degree, higher order logic, etc). Can you define a set so you can't pick out an individual member of it no matter how much resources you use? I think the answer to that is "no".
Not print, but I enjoy the daily Wall Street Journal's Tech News Briefing podcast:

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing
compiling a simple program takes 30 seconds:

https://github.com/red/red/issues/3412
Are they switching mid project and doing the "Rewrite It in Rust" meme? Or only for new project?

If for new projects what type of project that is not some kernel, browser or some low level library is Rust the best tool for the job? For most type of projects I am thinking Python,Java, C#, C++ still is better .
I agree, things people don't value themselves is often dismissed as 'marketing'. No these are just things other people value more than you do, and convenience is massively important. Without a lot of effort put into convenience there are lots of technologies many, even most non-technical people would never be able to even use.
Something like that, yes. Red has macros as well, with a key difference being that at compile time, for all macros, there is no runtime context to bind to. Sometimes this helps, sometimes it's a limitation. For example, interpolation at runtime can be tricky, but isn't as flexible if done with macros.
Amazing story!

In space projects there's no space for human error.

Reminds me of that one SpaceX mission failure, with F9 exploding shortly after launch. IIRC, it was quickly determined that the cause was a strut from a third-party vendor that wasn't up to declared spec.
"we"? No "we" don't. If it bothers you so much, why don't you do it? No one is stopping you.
I was optimistic about cryptocurrency, but the problem I see is that the bad drives out the good. There are so many scams that the very idea is now linked to scams in the mind of a huge number of people, driving away a ton of people who might otherwise use it for things that are not scams.

It's the "bad neighborhood effect." A few people commit crimes, so a neighborhood becomes known as "bad." The people who don't commit crimes move out. Now most of the neighborhood's residents are criminals.

A lot of financial regulation is about maintaining the reputation of markets so that serious people will use them. If too many scams, bubbles, and other nonsense goes down, the market gets an overall bad reputation.
I don't think you understand how contracting works, but ok.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or "Webb") is a joint NASA–ESA–CSA space telescope
> The problem with Russian hackers is the law there doesn't give a damn, so they're untouchable.

Not if they get sick of Sochi and decide to holiday in Thailand one day.
Calls to violence, images of chopped off heads, etc.

If it’s literally just assholes saying “ISIS is great” then that shouldn’t be taken down. Just like if two ISIS-lovers are
IMing each other messages about how much they love ISIS and nothing else illegal it should be allowed. I think.
I think e.g. 2021-07-16-123 followed by 2021-07-17-001 wouldn't fall under "sequential number" though because, well, they're not sequential.

The Italian authorities seem to see this the same way - https://vatdesk.eu/en/eu-vat-news/italy-mandatory-mentions-o...

(Annoyingly the directive doesn't give a definition for "a sequential number" itself.)
I'm arguing I shouldn't have to hedge against the devaluing of my currency (although I do), instead my currency shouldn't be continually devalued. Why is it a given that I have to buy stuff to retain value?
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I never said there was no effect, in fact I said the opposite.

The effect is relatively small (a few percentage points) compared to other factors, which bears out through empirical studies which are cited.
First of all it isn't "proven true". It's just not proven false. Which has been the case the entire time.

One of the reasons it was assumed false was that the scientific community bought into the original letter from Peter Daszak. It turns out Daszak has conflicts of interest regarding WIV and GoF research that, in theory, could have caused the pandemic.

It is incredibly naive to allow people to be the gatekeepers of information that is inconvenient for them.
It's complicated. Generally it's not, we have a few places/clubs that don't care and most restaurants still allow it outside, where most seats are anyway (if the weather fits)
Lol, no. Hypocrisy is a type of lying. You say you care about something for a reason, but actually only care about it for another often less persuasive reason.

You see it all the time in politics where people are outraged at X when the other party does it, but can't be assed to care when X is done by their own party. They're lying that they care about X. The truth is they're using it as a lie for political power.
This is actually pretty interesting because your post is premised upon a massive misreading of what actually happened. It shows you can spread disinformation while thinking you did your research.

The expert knowledge was that mass usage of masks early on in the pandemic could prevent frontline healthcare workers from accessing needed supplies while logistics spun up to meet demand.

"There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage," Ryan said about masks and other medical supplies. "Right now the people most at risk from this virus are frontline health workers who are exposed to the virus every second of every day. The thought of them not having masks is horrific."

This is literally the third paragraph.

When community spread began to drive the bulk of new infections and we've had months to spin up production on masks, obviously mass adoption changes in value.
I'm not seeing the analogy with the Fifth Amendment. The point about the Fifth Amendment is that you can't be punished for refusing to offer self-incriminating testimony (e.g. by being held in contempt of court). So it's not merely protecting you from whatever prejudices the jury might have about someone who refuses to testify. It's preventing you from being punished for the mere act of refusing to testify (whereas you cannot punish someone in the UK merely for refusing to answer police questions – except in a handful of very specific circumstances).

Indeed, yes, prosecutors have more free rein in the UK to suggest to the jury that someone's silence during question is incriminating. I just wonder if this makes much of a difference in practice. Do you know of any examples of cases in Britain where a conviction would most likely not have been obtained if the prosecutors were not permitted to do this?
You are whinging. Stop. FF is so much better than everything else, it's like you are complaining about breathing because you just smelled a fart.
I never said don't allow those things but don't try to justify them with "Red Dawn" type fantasies about "revolution". It's just make believe.
Cmon, is this even worth discussing? There really isn’t any point in debating their “findings”.

People that put these pieces together are constantly on the hunt for anything that will trigger confirmation bias to drive attention and clicks.

Do they care if it is “good journalism” backed by solid research? Of course not.
I think one problem at least is that if an area gets filled with young professionals with cash to burn, the businesses in the area either start realising they can start charging premium rates for things or they get bought by people who do. In addition to this, as the area becomes more desirable and affluent, landlords realise that they can increase the rents. This means that over time, the area becomes unaffordable for those who have lived there for decades, unless there's something like rent control introduced.
EU said, "Do this or you can't do business in our countries." These websites said, "Ok" and didn't do business in those countries. Maybe kind of annoying, but this is explicitly the price you pay for more privacy.
You're attributing the surge in rental supply in a major city during the pandemic entirely to Airbnb?

This is really lazy, unserious analysis.

Housing supply in cities across the entire western world shrank because people were working remotely and fleeing urban centers which were shut down and huge centers of spread.

So no. Not just Airbnb.
This appears to be class-conditioned, meaning it only works for images that show objects in one of the 1000 imagenet categories.
AirBnB is the reason the short term rental problem exists. It exacerbates it. Short term rentals were nowhere near as popular as they are before AirBnB. If AirBnB doesn't exist, they won't be anywhere near as popular as they currently are.

And the issue is these aren't short term rentals. They're long term rentals that are being used for short term. That's the whole issue. These were never short term until AirBnB made it super easy to make them so. Without AirBnB, or some other similar service, this isn't as big of an issue.

Also, in several cities AirBnB allows owners to operate short term rentals illegally because they don't enforce anything or aid in much enforcement at all.
> Bed Stuy is a neighborhood in New York City. It is currently facing gentrification, where long term residents (like local shop owners and families) are competing with short term residents (young professionals and tourists).

My friends just bought in Bed Stuy. If one of them hadn't worked for the city's planning department for a few years, there is zero way they would have gotten their paperwork approved in the timeline and cost envelope they needed. They would love to add a story to the building and rent it out, but that's impossible under their community board.

One of the most insidious unions in recent history is large landlords and anti-gentrification activists. Activists increase regulations and the cost of building and new entry. Landlords get asset appreciation while paying for "affordable housing. The latter creates multi-generational, heritable voting bloc to keep the whole mechanism in motion.
There's some great answers to your question below, but I'll add mine anyway. Because of the way our eyes see blue (as highlighted in the OP), and especially Yves Klein blue, it has some slightly magical properties in art. The flat blue canvases are absolutely uninspiring at first glance, but stand in front of it for 30 seconds and it starts to recede - it becomes hard to tell how far away the canvas actually is. You're unable to make out texture on the surface because the brain is struggling to actually work it out. It's most striking on the sculptures though, they almost entirely lose their depth and become a flat thing that changes shape as you moved around it. Imagine a 3d rendering of a gallery scene where there's one model that is untextured and unlit - it's like a brilliant blue silhouette.

I took my then 5 year old daughter to the Tate for the exhibition and it had the same effect on her, while almost everything else on show had no effect at all. The only other thing she loved was Bridget Riley, and I think Yves Klein's blue work is somewhere in the same realm - the art is in defining something that makes the viewer's brain do some of the work, that is going to be experienced slightly differently by everyone who sees it.
You are downvoted but this is exactly what happening in the Arabic sphere of discussion and nobody really cares because Google, like most of the discussion here, is very America centric. This is not even about truth but rather about calls for murder which are against the law in many countries.

In some way though, I am happy that this "diversity of thought" exists because that's the only thing that can stop companies like Google from becoming the arbiter of truth. It is just sad that a lot of those countries are also ok with calls for murder and violence.
Young people ARE a nuisance that must be put up with when en masse. I live in an area that went through the full extent of gentrification, from being colloquially referred to as a "slum" to being a place where single-family homes go for $1M+.

The first wave of gentrification were college students because they are the group that would pay $1,000/mo per bedroom in a 4-bedroom house (which is a common way for developers to flip a property into a rental). They did not give two shits about the neighborhood, and would constantly litter, trespass, and be noisy at all hours of the night... and as the density of students living in the area increased, it got worse (careless landlords renting to them is also part of the problem). Apartments change hands every year, so you're not even consistently dealing with the same nuisance neighbors.

I agree that neighborhoods need to change, but they need to change in a way that isn't unbridled gentrification. We need diverse multi-generational communities of families, young people, and old people because we keep each other in check (same goes for race and class). In my experience gentrification creates waves of homogenization.
> whose best interests are provably not aligned with that of the general population.

I intuitively I agree with you, but can you provide sources so next time someone argues against it I can back up that claim better?
This is, incidentally, one of the kinds of use cases that informed part of our product functionality.

1. A way to write down fairly complicated system/behavior-level specs for distributed systems.

2. A way to instrument implementations to get the necessary signal out of the system to verify it nominally.

3. A way to automatically explore adverse conditions to validate that the system keeps behaving as needed and specifically isolate contributing factors for when it doesn't.

The very first prototype was leveraged (in-part, as there was much more too the system under test) in a consensus mechanism that was central to the correct, stable, and most importantly... safe... operation of some critical software infrastructure. It was necessary to try to explore where the model assumptions broke down in practice in a real system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/nyregion/as-new-york-rent...

In 2015 the average length of stay was 22 years.

In general the idea that folks would wait years on a waitlist with the intent of leaving ASAP doesn’t pass the smell test.
Remigration
The toxicity on HN is a strange combination of vitriol and superiority complex. I can't really think of many other forums that spew such hatred while morally grandstanding to such an extent.
Didn't the Carrington event start fires too? I wonder how likely it would be to start fires today, like inside a home.
Did you notice a) that the ticket is closed, and b) it was a bad ticket to begin with? See this comment in there: https://github.com/red/red/issues/3412#issuecomment-39595136...

Yes, if you rebuild the runtime when you compile, it's slow. If you use dev mode, because you're not changing anything in the runtime, it's fast.
No, it was a good chunk of AirBnB: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/world/europe/airbnb-dubli...
> crime proliferates around the public housing in New York, including in Bed Stuy

Could you provide support for that? I know many people suspect it and it's a well-known stereotype, but I don't know that it's true.
This reminds me of the story of the man who put hidden compartments in cars [1], or the man who trained people to beat polygraph tests [2].

Whenever someone tells you about All the Crime They Are Doing, I think you should assume that you are dealing with an actual cop, stop doing business with them, and cut off all contact.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/indiana-man-accused-of-...
Fantastic post, thank you!
Evidence like this?
https://rumble.com/vh52u9-watch-u.s.-capitol-police-gave-pro...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1347596278583197698
> It seems to me in order to use an algorithm from the set of all algorithms you need to invoke the axiom itself.

Nope, you don't need the axiom of choice to define the sequence of all algorithms. The axiom of choice allows you to order any arbitrary set, but you don't need it for things you can construct an explicit order for, like the natural numbers. In the case of all algorithms, it's somewhat straightforward to construct the set of all of them. You can construct the sequence of all strings, right? You can construct them as "", "a", "b", "c", ... "y", "z", "aa", "ab", ... "ay", "az", "ba", "bb", ... Now, pick a programming language, like C. Given any valid string, you can determine if it is a valid C program in finite time, and if so you can convert it into a set of instructions to use in the dove-tailing procedure in finite time. Take the list of all strings in the manner described above. For each one interpret it as a C program, or if it's got invalid syntax interpret it as a program that immediately halts. Now you've got an enumerable sequence of algorithms. Since C is Turing complete you'll find every single algorithm in that sequence. There will be a ton of duplicates (for whatever notion of equivalence you want to use) but all the algorithms will be there, and in a well-defined order that you can enumerate through.
If hosting-companies become responsible for determining what's legal/illegal, then they'll have reasonable cause to become an authority on the topic.

It'd probably make them more influential and powerful rather than less, because their judgements would carry the implication of legal-determination, and in popular perception, be law.

They'd essentially be elevated to the status of being lower-courts.
Don't quit, organize with other google workers to fight against the policies you disagree with from within until they fire you, then take a fat unemployment check until you find your next gig - somewhere hopefully with fewer moral compromises.
>Because as far as I can tell people mostly gain/lose energy based on whether they like the people they're interacting with

I was responding to this comment, which seemed to imply that introverts don't have a problem spending time with people they like. Or, at least, they don't have a problem with it any more than non-introverts.

I'm saying that's not the case (but it's possible I misunderstood what you were saying to begin with).
Offline support is def something I want to add in the future.

Right now, it’s partially offline: if you load kinopio but lose your connection while editing, your changes will sync up when you regain connection
I literally quoted the paragraph, where they said that there's no evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit.

They didn't say "it helps, but we're unable to call wallmart and buy all their stock, so we're asking you not to buy them, so we can", they said that there's no evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit... those are two different things.
There’s a really great short story by Alistair Reynolds about an artist that’s obsessed with a certain Zima blue (name of the story) which is essentially an extended meditation on the above, I think you might like it. :)
A long running documentary, masquerading as an humorous sitcom.
> Who's complaining?

We know more about gentrification than starting the discussion from scratch. What is your experience with the downsides of gentrification?
I disagree. I think the algorithms are fundamentally immoral because they promote content that gets "engagement". Which includes and in many cases prioritizes content that people have engaged with because it causes a negative response. Rather than pushing good* content, it prioritizes lowest common denominator, reality tv, desperate pundit, fast food, self congratulatory, outrage porn garbage.

*By good, I simply mean thoughtful, high quality, factual, educational, or otherwise uplifting content regardless of politics