skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take objection to the polite tone because it is the kind that only a dispassionate academic could take when discussing the horrors that appeasement of the form of government you're advocating for will cause the citizens of those countries. You should seriously consider the real consequences of appeasement for people not as fortunate as you to live in the U.S. as you go about saying that we can't "prove" that a dictatorship which has suspended the rights to freedom of speech and elections doesn't have popular support.

You seem to frame this as me arguing in favor of the US, which makes it very easy for you to then rightly question the true objectives of the US and even the validity of its supposed moral authority.

I am simply discussing the validity of a government which has no individual liberty nor democratically elected leaders. This is unequivocally a tool for oppression and evil in the modern world. If you made friends who lived under communist regimes, and turned your abstract reasoning into concrete feelings, your feelings on this subject might change.
It gets philosophical quickly, is "consciousness" repeatedly modifying cloud of random floats?
It's not going to stop people from using Chrome on machines where it's not available though, obviously.
> Also watched Tenet in a huge empty theater.

Same, what a great experience. I don't mind the experience of a busy theatre but watching a movie in a comfy centre seat all by your lonesome is pretty rad.
I think that people started to realize, that they can live much better with lower amount of money.

What corona crisis did to me was suddenly figuring out that just, from the pure fact of not leaving home much (or I would rather say, not going into the consumers world any more - I rather went to a forest, hills, rivers, lakes,...), there was an overhead of 500 euros left on my bank account each month. Same life but the unneeded expenses were cut off and interestingly - I didn't miss them at all.

This would (in case I wouldn't love software development) mean that I could go for 500 euros lower wage with a fairly decent life and with far more time for myself.

As time is the only commodity that you cant buy, this seems like a very reasonable way to change my life for the better.

But I am not the one who doesn't like my job. There is probably more than a half of people that don't want to do what they are doing for the wage they get. And with corona, they got out of the system that calls for more money.

Surely they would return back but not under the same conditions. Pay them relevantly more and there will no longer be employee shortages but you will earn less. And it is debatable if this is not what needed to happen.
the author strikes me as ignorant TBH.
Here is what people want when it comes to money: ability to exchange the money for goods. That’s it.

Money is valuable because it can be exchanged and everyone has 1) accepted that you can exchange it 2) is using it for this exchange.

What bitcoin is is captured in its name: bit coin == digital money. It’s not complicated. Also, breaking news: most money (like 90%+) today only exist in electronic form (in that sense the dollar is a digital currency with a paper form and so on)

People hate bitcoin because they don’t understand what it is and perceive it as being somewhat of a threat. It’s not. The ultimate success or failure of bitcoin will depend on how many people use it and what it’s used for.

Also, as a side note, the blockchain idea is revolutionary. Distributed consensus in a zero trust environment? yup. Has this been done before at this scale?
I tracked my productivity pretty rigorously in college for about a year. My maximum sustainable productivity was somewhere between 6 and 8 pomodoros a day. If a deadline was imminent, I could "crunch" and put in something like 12 a day for a week. Interestingly, I would crash afterwards and can only do about 3 pomodoros-per-day until my brain recovers. The average productivity in the crash + recovery cycle was also 6! So I was just borrowing from future productivity.
An ML system generally can reconcile (and also avoid) this kind of confusion, with present technology. The example is more a question of responsible implementation than of a gap in the state of the art.
Collapse the distinction between user and programmer
I don't know a lot about warehouse work, and most of it is second hand, but I don't think anyone works as hard as Amazon warehouse workers. Yes, having robots deliver stuff to you is more efficient, but it sounds more like Lucile Ball in the candy factory trying to keep up with the conveyor belt.

Generally the conveyor doesn't go faster when you get faster. The warehouse robots are just working on queuing theory. However fast you go, they'll just schedule more shit to come to you.
Ahh okay, I somehow missed that, thanks.
It also fails to take into account e.g. Somalia, where there's been no bank for some time and banknotes are printed by whoever can put together a convincing-looking printing operation ... and yet they continue to function as tender just fine.
Maybe growing food is a bad example, especially since you may be homeless, though if you do own a house, you can do subsistence farming in almlst any soil, raise a few chicken etc.

A better example could be that rather than working below minimum age in NYC you would be better off moving to a rural area and working there.
Credit due where credit is due: these project management software companies have done a good job of convincing people they need it.

I've taken to using tools that most closely mimic notepad+pen or whiteboard+marker. Increasingly I am finding that a physical whiteboard, markers, and post-its are good enough. And if you need to create backups, the image quality on any smartphone is very, very good these days.

The more time spent working on the thing that manages your work, the less you are working!
She's not claiming she's the victim. She was a victim of a miscarriage of justice, and continues to have the story retold as though she was guilty. You're trying pretty hard to misinterpret this fairly straightforward situation.
Yeah I found this project several years ago and concluded it was the most holistic solution. Problem is it doesn't have as easy onboarding as projects which only seek to replace singular TLDs with non-ICANN-centralised DNS such as Namecoin and the Ethereum Name Service.
What's strange to me is that while YouTube seems to be stealing a lot of attention, the creators on the platform are so often complaining the platform and having to build out non-platform revenue streams in order for it to make sense.

Is it that they expect more than their fair share, or is YouTube leveraging their creators more than they should, or are adblockers the issue? I'm not sure what it is, it just surprises me that there seems to be unwavering consumption and creation on the platform but the numbers aren't lining up for the creators.
Maybe with robust social safety nets and mental health services available (Portugal model).
I love his blog and I'm curious as to why he's getting rid of his books.
They could not collect the information in the first place, especially for free customers who just want to download free apps.

Or how about this, be able to install free apps without any apple ID!
There's something to be said for poaching workers your competition has trained already.

The downside, especially for the managers, is that they bring their toxic attitudes with them. Diluted of course, but removing it entirely would be a huge effort.
Does redis not have replicas?
"MONTHLY"
Every ~3 weeks I print a ~3 week calendar with just 'one word' goals for that day. Double sided. If a project can't be subdivided I just repeat it. M-F of this week was just "Stripe Integration"

All of this is just to make sure my trajectory is generally correct.

WEEKLY
Then, on Sunday I print out a weekly calendar broken out by hours, ~7a-11pm. Not because I intend on working that whole block (yikes), but so that at the end of the week I can see where my time actually went.

DAILY
I start each day with an hour of something that has absolutely nothing to do with work or coding. The last two months I've been learning Ableton, and I make myself generate a song snippet every morning. It can be crappy, it just has to be done. Turns out, that time adds up (WHO KNEW) and now I'm pretty decent at Ableton. Before that I spent time on a (rented) piano. If I save it for the end of the day I never do it or I'm too tired to enjoy it, so why give my 'joy/curiosity' the crappiest version of myself?

Then the next ~4-5 hours I dedicate to mentally engaging tasks. "Hard" attention heavy work. 25 minute blocks w/5 minute breaks to stretch, email, text, drink water etc. After each block I write on the hourly calendar what I worked on, both to keep myself focused, but also so that I have a sense of having done -something- besides grind endlessly.

By then it's ~1-2pm. I take a 20m coffee nap (most days) and then give myself the freedom to consider my workday done (if I want), or if I wanna work more, the next ~4-6 hours I do the boring brainless stuff. Minor bugs. UX tweaks. Email templates. Blah blah. A lot of this time ends up being "eaten up" talking to users, but that's fine.

Then at the end of the day I take a glance at my hours and see how I felt about it, and write down, on the back of my Monthly/Sprint calendar what my day actually ended up being about.
Lunatic?

https://lunatic.solutions
The biggest value is in making physical space cheap if not entirely free. The people that will be served by this are the bulk of the population who can't afford to live or work in spaces that provide enough room to pursue their interests or ambitions. The fidelity of those spaces will start off fairly far away from reality but will steadily approach it over time.

With the right feedback and props almost any pursuit could be closely simulated. VR could transform practical education and training and make it so easily available that anyone wanting to learn any skill could progress through the most difficult and expensive stages of learning for essentially free and then go on to complete their training in real life if they so choose.

The ability to meet with people from anywhere on earth instantly with all the nuances of physical presence properly simulated would provide the equivalent network effects of living in a vibrant urban centre, again for practically no cost.

The benefits of really well executed VR are almost identical to the invention of a sci-fi teleporter and replicator. The places you could visit and activities you could perform would probably provide 80% of the value of the real thing. For people who can afford to do these things in real life it's a pale imitation but for those who can't it's revolutionary.
I was wondering if even The Economist was so out of touch as to fail to notice that the trend was moving away from lockdowns lifting, but I see that the article is from July 3, when things looked rather different.
That’s a genuinely good person; was definitely expecting a “can’t believe these idiots” kind of view.

I think even if you start as a pseudoscientific astrologist, as long and you can be proven wrong, accept it and modify your viewpoint, eventually you can work your way to some sort of formal understanding of physics.
No paywall version: https://archive.is/mHcUw
Counterexample: https://mobile.twitter.com/auren/status/1419149796284145667/...

I see hiring signs with dollar amounts on them all the time.
> what is that?

A new consent management tool for website owners. We're currently in closed beta. Learn more here: https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners

> the idea is to modify those URLs before they get rendered on the page

These overrides are applied before the URLs are rendered on the page or trigger any requests.
> The negatives are often theoretical

They are not theoretical. Too bad webapicontroversy.com has been shut down (it looked like this [1]), but you can scroll down to "defer" and "considered harmful" in Mozilla's positions here: [2]

There are more, of course, but they are not visible unless you're willing to follow thousands of issues across hundreds of GitHub repositories. One that springs to mind is, of course Constructible Stylesheets. Mozilla and Safari: the spec describes an algorithm that leads to deadlock in trivial code, we wont implement it until this is fixed. [3] Chrome: ship it, because lit-html (developed by Google) wants it and is already using it. And then procedes to gaslight people and misrepresent their positions (cant' find the relevant link, but at this point I can't find the will to dive into the cesspool).

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32768/108985355-3f...

[2] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

[3] https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu...
In Paris an Munich it is similar i think.
I bet one could get some good traffic on a blog or podcast focused on interviewing the other Olympic contenders who didn't place, to hear their stories. Those people would likely appreciate being able to tell them. I'd definitely subscribe.

As a recent case in point, it was a fluke that Anna Kiesenhofer won for women's cycling. If she hadn't, few of us would likely have heard about her, which would have been a shame because her background is quite interesting. I imagine there are many other competitors like her. (Well, maybe not exactly like her.)
Only in monopolistic situations or situations causing everyone to raise prices at the same time would the possibility of "just raise their prices" be workable.

If the price gets too high people will seek alternate suppliers or do without.

Example: We pay a private company to haul trash to the dump. There's many such companies, so if my company raises it's prices, I'll switch to another. We had one company raise its prices recently and everyone switched to another. I'm not sure this company is still around.

Example: Comcast kept raising my cable TV bill. I eventually just ditched it and went Internet only. $200/month for TV isn't worth it.
> Some places (for example, academics and government employees

Got a list? I've got a list of incidents of government employees intentionally lying to their overseers that just keeps growing, so I really have problems with the assertion that these measures exist in any other way than mere unenforced notional statutes.
Edit: yeah he was warned by the court multiple times. He should have edited his pieces.

Original comment: Wait, when was he warned?
Yeah me too, I was thinking crimes that precede other crimes. After seeing "Does lead pollution increase crime?" in the linked paper it all became clear. These articles should always, at least briefly, describe the subject that the meta is about.
Breaking news: rich libertarian tech bro from a republican has harsh opinion on poor people.
This exactly the kind of snooty academic dialogue that is subtractive. A personal attack couched as some kind of psychological diagnosis. "You're being emotional." Please deal with the substance of arguments, and don't make the person the subject of discussion. That's textbook distraction and is a logical fallacy.

I'll be getting back to my representative sampling of the world's beaches. And you made a mistake in that I didn't claim that "all beaches are littered". Someone else posted that. I wrote, "I've been to beaches on four continents and every. single. one." That's about my experiences.

> appeal to emotions; I'm personally sorry to hear your local beach is in heartbreaking condition

You also misattributed this as an appeal to emotions. I have a local problem. People are arguing about problems in other countries as excuse to block action here. Stop doing that.

> overgeneralization:

Again, I didn't. I pointed out the scale of the problem is at least as big as my personal experience. It is, in fact, larger than that.

This side turn is subtractive from the discussion and I hope you would consider not replying again with how wrong I am and how my arguments are so bad.
Is that a public high school with an admissions test? Can you provide some info about this?
First is politician who is known for ... "scoring partisan political points" on this topic to put it mildly
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ron-john...

Second, IIRC is a clearing house for self-reporting unverified claims. Not a group of people that OP personally knows.

Basically a big old nothingburger, thanks for wasting 5 minutes our time.
My relatives come from a town of <10k people who got a Walmart around the time everyone was figuring out Walmart's tactics. They tore up the side of the road from the highway to grandma's house to install bigger storm drains, and as we know now the town usually never recoups those costs.

My aunt went to be a manager at the Walmart while everything else in town slowly went out of business. They carried sewing supplies until Franklin's went under and then they got rid of that section.

It's the same story with louder music.
> It’s not. The ultimate success or failure of bitcoin will depend on how many people use it and what it’s used for.

Bitcoin has already failed as money. Even most coiners admit that nowadays.

> Distributed consensus in a zero trust environment?

The whole cryptocurrency environment still relies on plenty of trust (exchanges, programmers, apis...). It's just less regulated, and this is why it is full of scams (https://www.rekt.news/).
What is quantitative in understanding the meaning of a name? We don't know that the brain runs on "numbers" (and no, it's no just like a "computer").

To respond to your edit: That is not brown... there is a whole science of color perception, have a look.
> No, IMHO they should be forced to comply with web standard

The problem is that they ram whatever internal Chrome APIs they want through standards bodies and call it a standard.

Others just can't keep up: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
Ask HN: Small, open source, C based, file encryption?
I'm using cryptomator for file encryption right now. I'd like to use a small, portable, C-based (for familiarity and guaranteed future support), open source, command-line/terminal program to encrypt txt files so I can read it and potentially make fixes if it ever stops being supported. What should I use?
Or do the Olympics always in the same place, instead of wasting energy building new installations around the globe every 4 years that will never be re-used.
I'm looking forward to returning to a movie theater. Though only Alamo, which was really the only one I went to pre-pandemic anyway, because the rest of the industry was already in shambles. Alamo is the only chain I know of whose experience has evolved past "big screen and big speakers and overpriced snacks".
If you are Google, a multi billion company, pushing your own browser with a marketing budget in the hundreds of millions range (seriously, this was important to them, the only ad important enough to reach the front page of Google AFAIK)

- then you better make sure you make it work everwhere instead of this constant "ooops"-thing that shows that Google doesn't even do the smallest amount of testing in Firefox, or they do it deliberately.
We use Google Meet at work, and I use Firefox.

The "Change background" feature was not "supported" in Firefox, then suddenly I could use it so I thought they finally implemented it for Firefox as it was working perfectly.

Two days later the feature disappeared, and I keep getting that "your browser doesn't support this feature" popup since.
I am looking for solution for collaborating online with my math research colleagues using a virtual whiteboard. Unfortunately, most browser based whiteboards run out of memory or have other issues - I am talking about 3-4 hour long sessions consisting of dozens of pages of math. Right now, we take turns sharing our screens on zoom and writing on our own whiteboard software (OpenBoard, some Mac whiteboard etc.). This is less than ideal because only one person can write at a time, which is not how we work in person on paper or actual whiteboards.

The best I have found is http://www.styluslabs.com/ But our one session with it ended with repeated disconnections and one person couldn't even connect. Not to mention it is completely insecure (http connections), and the whiteboard part of the software is not that impressive.

Any suggestions?
> Like Rai stones, immutability comes from the work and risk, but the value of the object is itself held in the population's mind. This only "works" if everyone agrees it works. If everyone agrees it doesn't work then it doesn't work and isn't worth anything and the risk taken to "make" it is lost.

Deep. Very deep. The exact same thing can be said about money. It only works only if people agree it works. When you exchange your work for money, you are taking a risk. When you keep your money in the bank you are taking a risk. What if all of a sudden everyone stops accepting money?

I really wish we would stop with the Ponzi scheme non-sense. Nobody believes that there is some sort of economic activity that is sustaining the growth. It’s really no different that buying stocks on an exchange. Risky? yes. Speculative? yes. Ponzi? Nope.

This Bitcoin - Ponzi scheme association is used to fear-monger and to stop people from ever learning about it (you don’t want to be the sucker that falls for the scheme, do you?)
Happily returned to firefox a couple years ago when they jumped ahead in speed and have been happy to stick around. I experience absolutely no bugs nor compatibility problems on desktop and mobile is A-OK as well.
Most likely that senator is from a net-taker state like kentucky or arkansas, one that would be bankrupt without california and new york overpaying the fed to subsidize poor republican states.
Your initial statement that job losses led to an increase in homicides is not supported by any data though. You’d have to establish this first before we can talk meaningfully about the financial status of households during the pandemic. Also, why would homicides be different than other crimes due to job losses?

Here is data showing that homicides did not go up during the pandemic in other countries: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/covid/Prop...
I don't know if this is a case of fair or unfair, so much as there is a lot of potential value that isn't captured by YouTube ads, which the creators would be silly to leave on the table, but which Google has not historically been positioned to capture. The ability to join channels is an attempt to make inroads on that value, but it seems like it will take some doing before that vehicle catches up to Patreon if it ever does.
Today's quantum "computers" are not big or reliable enough to perform "scalable quantum computation" which is the promise of solving some very particular problems exponentially faster than classical computers. However, they are now sufficiently versatile to showcase demos in which they work as analog computers, mimicking very complex states of matter that are otherwise difficult to prepare in a lab or study in classical simulations. It is not particularly practical yet, but it is a convenient benchmark of versatility and "quantumness" on the way to trully scalable universal quantum computers. Think of it as a cool demo of some small part of the required functionality. I imagine demos like this one will one day be part of a benchmark suite for the low-level hardware of a complete quantum computer.
I do something similar to yourself for all age ranges. Three thoughts; as someone else said dial back what you expect to get through. My second thought is sort of related to the first. Don't underestimate the level of insecurity you may encounter. Set your students up to succeed i.e. don't brain melt them so much that they feel rubbish about themselves.

Finally, if you do good work be pleased with yourself. The government money meets unrealistic business expectations for short term training is not a new story :-)
By the same author.