skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My primary problem with this article is that the author assumes that consumers get no value from ads. While the author may not personally like ads, it is undeniable that thousands to tens of thousands of consumer brands (the same ones who are now suffering with iOS 14.5 changes) now exist as a result of Facebook’s distribution. These brands mostly would have failed in a pre-FB-ads world. The idea that there is zero consumer value from Facebook ads or ads in general is absurd. There is a real cost to disabling tracking and blocking ads, it’s just often not borne immediately, or in a directly measurable way.

Also, while I understand the general aversion to tracking. If one believes that any advertiser cares about tracking their behavior individualy - rather than in aggregate - they are suffering from delusions of grandeur.
The deep sea terrifies me enough [0] that I wouldn't be too surprised if a fish would return from down there with an arrow through its body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_creature
Is hello world’ a minimal program? Yes

Are all minimal programs ‘hello world’? No.

Hello world is a straw man introduced by you - not the commenter I was relying to.

As I pointed out, even if we consider hello world, the proposition is still not true - it’s not easier on a TI-89.

So what do we have in summary? You spoiled the discussion by introducing personal attacks, your argument is a straw man, and even the straw man version is simply not true.
An excellent and very thoughtful review that touches on both the strengths and most important criticisms of Jaynes' work.
I sometimes fall into the trap of bookmarking interesting content but failing to go back to read it, especially long form content, although I find such content to be the best for learning about interesting things.

There were a few articles I kept coming back to but couldn't get through because of distractions, so yesterday I decided to print out the articles I wanted to read. 30 mins later, I had gone through 3 three great reads (plus made notes).

It was great. I learned a lot, and they spurred some ideas as well. I think I might start doing more of this.
I think it is more a vocal consensus. Granted, most folks don't care.

I also think most of the dislike came from bad pdf rendering for a long time.
>you are telling me you shouldn’t be held responsible when it’s used?

No? This has nothing to do with my post about how their denial of having customer data includes them saying they have customer data.
Rodents enjoy chewing on them and the chemicals they use to discourage them only last so long.
Might be that he killed 33 children that day.
Reading is my life, I spend the majority of my awake time reading. However to be honest, I can only read endlessly when I know I won't have any extra gain from it.

I can read everything except what I have to read for work or study. Otherwise I am immediately bored.
> [...] repeated descriptions of death by drowning. My favorite example is in Jacob’s Room; a scene of some people at a party is interrupted suddenly with a description of men drowning in a World War I naval battle before returning to the scene. To The Lighthouse has similar fragments and stories.

I don't recall anything similar in To the Lighthouse. What have I forgotten?
Did you miss yesterday's post about the gay priest being outed by his advertising data? It's not just advertisers that have access to that data.
I agree that at some point there will be a decrease in risk taking and investments but I don't think that risk and investments are inherently more important than all other factors.

I am also not arguing for 1000:3 or any other specific ratio. The only reason I brought his net worth up is to show the ratio that we have right now (not even including the ratio compared to amazon workes which would be even higher). And even if he doesn't do anything evil with his money its money that other people dont't have. People that could use that money to provide for their families or put their kids through school. People that could have the potential to create something new or come up with new ideas who never get to do it because they barely make enough to get through the month. For Bezos it is indeed just a number but for others it could mean a lot more.

For all of those people it suddenly doesn't matter how hard they work or how skilled and talented they are. We do not live in a meritocracy and its probably impossible to achieve that so the only answer can be a more socialized system.

You are right in that it would not help to just split the money up my point is that we should not allow this to happen in the first place. As for prices increasing - If our system only works if a few have a lot and a lot have very little I think we should think about the sustainability of this system. If we do nothing things will get out of hand sooner or later (if they are not already).

People wont stop investing or taking risks just because they cannot reach bezos levels of wealth. Bezos has absolutely no reason to aquire another dollar but he still keeps going. Again I am not arguing for 1000:3 the number can be a lot higher but there needs to be an upper limit.
Both LPARS and z/VM look more like hypervisors to me. Things like containers and chroot probably don't make much sense in the mainframe world since they already had granular facilities to limit access to networks, data sets, etc.
> To be clear: I think the poor job regulating tools like Pegasus by governments is due to their incompetence in regulating this sort of weapon not to gain something.

What data do you have to back up this belief? Because as the number one customer for these types of tools, it sure doesn’t seem like incompetence to me.

What exactly changed after the Snowden leaks? The US government isn’t in the business of protecting your secrets.
I feel like the rule for these kinds of features goes like this: if it would be fine and useful for a self-hosted version of the app to do something then it's fine if a cloud-hosted version to do it as well.

If you don't like that o365 is scanning your emails for todos and potential calendar events but it would be a non-issue on your Mail-in-a-Box then you have a problem with MS not the scanning.
If you set up Gmail on your phone you’re not being advertised to at all when you check your mail. It seems hard to imagine any way providing that service for free would be worth their while if they couldn’t harvest the data.
I can't help but think that if the actual impact of gun violence (and violence in general) was shown in the media, we'd have a lot less of it to deal with...
Yes… that is the risk. He was already comfortable and could have had a guaranteed easy life but he decided to throw that away to start Amazon that could have failed after many years of foregoing his cushy salary. Most people wouldn’t have taken this risk in his position and that’s why they will never have a chance to be wealthy like him. Your foot stomping won’t change that.
Ten years on, and it's chilling to consider how much more widespread Brevik's ideology has become worldwide. Ethnonationalism has elbowed its way to a seat at the table, demanding "toleration" for itself that it would never reciprocate for pluralism.
I always use the San-serif fonts in the catalog. It makes the document looks presentable and makes more readable.
Sure, there's ample opportunity for everyone in the industry to throw money into the sea.

The comment that I was replying to specifically referred to employee time per month. That's naturally going to be different from some high-rate consultant, so this is totally an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Furthermore, it's a large market and there are plenty of consultancies in Europe charging significantly less than that.
I don't think it's unfair. The number of services that will stop spying on you because you are paying money for them is distressingly small.
r/history is heavily moderated, and primarily political positions need to be backed up with actual historical facts and discussion (and not out-of-context common talking points) or it'll be called for what it is and deleted.
sorry, are you railing against freedom of association? because it sounds like you are. if you're an insufferable ass (hypothetically speaking) and no one wants to work for you, and so they do not, thats freedom baby.
Twenty years ago I did typeset a 440 pages or so book using LaTeX. Sadly the editor wanted a "conventional" look and not the LaTeX one. I ended up using the "Utopia" (it's in the catalogue) font as the main font and sneaked as much "LaTeXism" as I could without getting caught ; )

The editor also had zero familiarity with Linux / LaTeX (it was all QuarkXPress back then) and hence wasn't confident in the digital files produced by LaTeX and the converters (say ps2pdf etc.) so in the end a high quality print copy ended being flashed. So it was still a partly "analog" process even though the computer-to-plate age had already started.

Good memories.
Not aplogising for society's understanding of how relvance to art vs artists' life is different between the sexes. The article is right and society can and should be plastic.

However, the single relevant data point that for me has been most surprising and most enduring is this:

Of all the female humans that have ever lived, 80% have living descendents today. For males, the equivalent number is 40%.

If this data is factually correct (sorry I don't have sources right now), then it goes a long way to explaining though not justifying, why people tend to focus more on early death in females: "What an unnecessary waste."

Edit: I still don't have a very strong source for this data, but the discussion here is relevant.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cHEQSEPz4eipGHFy9/differenti...
> I don't think you can expect the institution to implicate themselves like that.

A) Why not?

B) If not, then you can and should expect the people within the institution to implicate it: Everything is a decision, even the decision not to make a decision. For them to not make the decision to become a whistleblower, is for them to make the decision not to become a whistleblower -- i.e, to condone research fraud. If you really, really want to insist that institutions can't be black-balled, then we'll just have to start black-balling the people within them. (If the world starts to do this diligently and systematically, I think you'll rather quickly see a lot of people denouncing this kind of shit at their institutions, probably just as swiftly followed by a developing consensus that maybe you should expect institutions to police themselves.)
Not under normal export control laws that legislate the sale of dual purpose weaponry. As per Wassenaar arrangement the producer is liable for abuse by the buyer. Its the sellers obligation to monitor that it is being used according to all applicable national and international laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement#2013_ame...
I'd argue that they're like those manufacturing companies and a militia rolled into one.

They don't simply develop the malware and give it to customers to deploy, they operate and deploy their spyware on behalf of those customers as well.
It is helpful to get the perspectives of "un-notable" people from a historical perspective.

For example - the graffiti at Pompeii is interesting (and is pretty much at the same "quality bar" as Twitter):

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie...

https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
Also TextPattern, oldie-but-goodie:

CMS: https://textpattern.com/about/

Plugins: https://textpattern.org/

This site’s curation is … eccentric. :-)
I have a cynical view of how this product is going to turn out. Instant, easy access to wages is going to form habits in users to live on a day-to-day basis instead of budgeting for a month. With no headroom they will be that much more desperate in an emergency and that's the time to attack them with loans. The end game is always loans. That's the only way to make money in finance.
Did I mention natural behavior? Did the comment I responded to mention natural behavior? How is natural behavior relevant to the discussion between OP and I? What is the point that you are arguing and why are you taking it up with me? Further, how are you defining natural behavior? Can natural behavior change over time, in response to external stimulus?
> Tyranny happens when governments have a monopoly on force.

Necessary but insufficient condition.

Tyranny happens when ... tyranny happens.

[ EDIT: actually, it's not even a necessary condition. Plenty of tyranny has occured even when non-government actors have recourse to use force ]
I find it hard to believe in this day and age that people don’t understand the basic business model of these services.
> Why is the private sector expected to be the guardian of civil liberties in other countries and the public sector let off the hook?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement#2013_ame...
Thanks for this article. It reminded me of the times I fixed my old air rifle as a kid by doing nearly exactly what he described.

My kid method was to use the original seal as a pattern (Mom did a lot of sewing so I totally understood how to fit things and allow for seams, etc). I would use a leather hole punch to punch the hole for the screw and just re-use the screw. Then with a pattern made, I'd oil the seal with neetsfoot oil, sno-seal, or whatever I had handy for softening the leather. You could also just use water but it will dry out eventually. If that's what you got today, that's what you use. It just meant that I would have to disassemble the thing again to wet the seal.

Once the seal is wet and screwed to the plunger you just shove it into the chamber and reassemble things. It doesn't take long.

Leather punches can be purchased for a few dollars from Tandy Leather. There are many styles to choose from. The multi-punch wheel style is super useful around the house for punching holes in just about anything. For many of you, the time you spend sitting while you work will eventually cause you to need an extra hole in your belt. Be prepared! You'll eventually need a new belt though so here is a link to Tandy.

[Tandy Leather Hole Punches](https://tandyleather.com/collections/tools/punches-&-setters)

Another thing I discovered over the years is that leather seals were also common on hydraulics. I had an old Farmall Cub tractor with a hydraulic pump that began to leak furiously. After I tore it down I found a worn leather seal and a couple of rubber washers that were bad. I just made a new seal and a set of washers from old leather that I had bought 30 years before to do saddle and tack repair back when I had a horse. It all worked great with no leaks when I reassembled the pump and mounted it back on the tractor.

The important thing is to match the thickness and shape of the original seal as closely as possible. Then lube the seal so it forms an air or fluid tight seal and you're good to go.
Long term this is definitely something I want from my personal AI assistant, filtering out all kinds of annoyance/tedium from my life, so I totally understand how your father could like it. The difference for you and I right now is that we don’t view the AIs as personal enough and thus don’t trust them.
Which seems like a rather reasonable measure to keep people from spreading a dangerous disease for which they refuse to get vaccinated against.
"Common sense" does not always equate to facts or relevance.

While, yes, the cost to dig up a line is likely to be higher than the cost to repair a hanging line, that's just one cost and consideration. Economic loss due to wildfire as well as rolling brownouts to try and avoid wildfire are both costs you'd need to consider. You also have the cost to maintain vegetation around powerlines, vs basically no pre-emptive maintenance on buried lines (and little to no weathering).

And you, of course, have differing likelihoods of the line breaking in any case, which means the per-fix cost is only part of that picture. Lots of potential reasons, but I'd be curious to see a full study on those reasons for both above ground and below ground, their potential solutions, and their potential costs, but without that you have a very fuzzy picture.
Many businesses don’t get paid right away.
Which illustrates my point - law has nothing to do with proper morality and ethics. Slavery was once legal. And runaway slaves were criminals. Justice is by and for the people. By all means, for the best outcomes, proper channels are desirable. But right is right, and one should strive to do what is right even when it is illegal.
The only logical solution is to make all the pieces the same color.
> If one believes that any advertiser cares about tracking their behavior individualy - rather than in aggregate - they are suffering from delusions of grandeur.

Maybe advertisers themselves don't care about tracking people individually, but the advertising industry builds & funds a tracking infrastructure that can be (and sometimes is) co-opted into tracking people by other nefarious actors, whether private or state-sponsored.
It was solved long ere that: no votes.

There are many boards were ranking is simply decided by recent activity of replies. I find that DeviantArt has the ideal forum: a tree-based structure like Reddit, and H.N., and the top comment within a branch of the tree is simply the one which had the most recent reply to a child recursively, and any new replies always end up at the top.

This achieves two important goals:

1) visibility is dictated by activity and nothing more: a good comment is a comment that generates discussion

2) visibility is statistical in nature: less active trees still sometimes end up in the most visible spot, simply less often than more active trees

I dislike votes and the idea of “soft bans”: a comment is either against the rules, in which case it should be removed altogether and appropriate actions should be taken against the user, or it is within the rules and should not be “soft banned” by being faded out or something similar.
The terrorist also chose to not shoot one guy because "he looked like a right-wing person, due to their clothing etc and that he saw a little bit of himself in the guy"[0][1]. Raging madness.

0, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https:/...

1, https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https:/...
It’s a typical non-disclosed denominator issue.
Ground moves, especially in California. Sometimes it’s subsidence, sometimes landslides, sometimes it’s seismic related, sometimes it’s frost heave or the like. Properly studied and buried (with proper backfill) usually is protected, but big enough changes will cause problems.

Throw in backhoes, erosion, etc. along with it being more expensive to fix when it does break, and overall it isn’t always guaranteed buried will be cheaper maintenance wise.
> These brands mostly would have failed in a pre-FB-ads world.

Perhaps they should have.
Macros on Steroids, Or: How Can Pure C Benefit from Metaprogramming
If you define those brands as being the consumers, then yes, I guess, if they say so (did we ask them?). But I as a person get absolutely no value from those ad networks. Zero.
It doesn't really matter to me if the study is factual, because it is not about whether this study actually took place. It is not even about having a general law that bugs are always more expensive to fix in production.

It's just an idea that you can use in an argument. When you invoke this idea, what you are actually saying is: "I want to prioritize this bug now, because my experience tells me it will save cost and/or effort." You use this rhetorical device to put weight behind your argument. It's like invoking "80/20 principle" or "technical debt".

Maybe I've become cynical but the longer I've been working, the more I like the postmodern theory that almost everything is a language game. I start to recognize bullshit, and to recognize when it's the right time to use BS myself. (Not saying that truth doesn't matter. Just that sometimes you have a correct but not convincing point, and you can support it with a not-100%-scientifically correct, but more convincing point.)
You think that's devastating? Go check out what happens at 6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd, San Ramon, CA.
He says he had an adverse reaction to the AstraZeneca shot.
There's also a lot of knowledge we used to have and which we've lost. I believe past humans had a lot of knowledge about e.g. ecosystem dynamics before the agricultural revolution which we eventually stopped passing down to younger generations once our lifestyles became fully dependent on our own artificial ecosystems. Now we are slowly (re)learning things about natural systems that we sadly neglected to consider in our hubris during the industrial era. Sadly, since we may have destroyed too much at this point.
You're saying self-hosting is easier now than in the past?
I was going to interject, but I learned that the American definition of Weapon of Mass Destruction is actually wide, and not limited to what is actually causing mass destruction like an atomic bomb or a biological attack.

> In its criminal complaint against the main suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing of 15 April 2013, the FBI refers to a pressure-cooker improvised bomb as a "weapon of mass destruction."

In this context, classifying it as a WMD could make sense (especially for a ransomware which can disable hospitals and sensitive infrastructure), but I think that using WMD to describe it is really watering down the word : an atomic bomb is creating orders of magnitudes more destruction than a spyware
Less to do with that and more to do with it being infuriating that you can't install or do tiny things you need. It can be less frustrating to hop jobs.
And yet, most of humanity still seems to be only vaguely aware of how much things are breaking all around us. And politicians are unfortunately not an exception.
Twitter was a mistake
I have yet to find anything that reads as nicely as Latex generated papers with Computer Modern.
Fear Always Trumps Greed
Right. And like evolution, given the necessary conditions and enough time...
How to develop a real estate software?
For “random websites” there are laws around cookie approvals.

For emails, you can’t drop tracking inside that can follow you around, at best you can determine an email was opened (think certified mail, for an IRL analog)

If you don’t want your friends sharing your contact info that seems like a problem between you and your friends. Sharing contact info without direct consent is not a new problem in the internet age. That’s been happening forever.
He was attacking a youth camp and shot many young teens(I didn’t read every slide but one example I saw was a 14 YO girl hit four times) so I don’t see a difference. I guess I’m just shocked at seeing a weird attempt at “ethics” from someone who would do something like that.
Well, just for the record, I'm dismissing it too - "systemic" racism is completely imaginary.
The whole article took about a minute to load because apparently it’s being loaded from some decentralized network called lbry.

I would rather be the product and get a great user experience than a shitty user experience that sells itself based on some ideal that probably will not work economically in the long run. If a decentralized network you invested a lot of your life in becomes irrelevant, it’s worse than using a centralized network that actually stays around. And most “decentralized” networks have failed to show enough traction for me to feel secure about their future.
> I do think it's worthwhile to figure out which companies you do trust.

I have yet to see a for-profit business that I "trust" in a widespread sort of way, although small mom-and-pop ones can come close.

The problem is that companies tend to have a strong desire to make as much money as possible by any means that they think they can get away with. That makes anything like actual trust impossible.
So... is the ;) an admission that you copied theirs? Does YC know about this?