skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all of us at HN are against censorship, but we habitually fail to get to grips with the very real problem of deliberate lying. There's abundant evidence that the 'marketplace of ideas' is in no way self-perpetuating. I think this conception is a side effect of software development, where the computer is a pretty reliable honest referee, so ultimately either your code works or it doesn't.

The problem is that wetware is inherently messier, and it can quite profitable to mess with it. Consider this (graphic and horrifying) example of fake news I saw a troll circulating earlier today:

https://m.beforeitsnews.com/politics/2021/07/tortured-baby-c...

This website is obviously trash, but it pulls in an estimated $30k/mo in revenue: http://www.whoismark.org/beforeitsnews.com

More importantly, there are quite a lot of people who buy into this sort of nonsense, and it's a problem.
GStreamer plugins do not in any way dictate C. C++ works fine. As does Zig; and even Rust, with some annoyance.
We don't want the government to have power! We just want them to be responsible for our education, health care, water, policing, energy, laws, foreign intelligence, taxing, safety, banking, college, protection, transportation, international affairs, court system, prison system, retirement and food supply.
Well, there are two separate problems here.

The first is that top-level classical time-control matches are draw-ish; there's really no solution to that other than playing some other game. If neither player blunders, often chess is just a draw. Top computer chess engines of equal strength draw even more often.

The second is "grandmaster draws" at shorter time controls; the Champions Chess Tour has had dozens of draws with the exact same 14-move Berlin opening repetition. The solution there is pretty simple: 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw.
If a company can achieve 70% margin (apple services), it's a clear sign that there's a lack of competition, or structurally anti-competitive elements.

Why? Because normally if profit is that high, other players will see that and seek to compete in that market, thus driving down those margins.

Certainly legislation shouldn't be based on a specific margin number, but if a company can achieve these kind of margins over the long run, then it's a clear warning sign.

Where to draw the line for anti-trust is philosophical and up for debate, of course.

In Apple's case, taking a 30% cut on all app store purchases is something that probably will be legislated against in the future. For AWS, charging excessively to egress your data and move to another platform is an anti-competitive tactic that will likely be disallowed.

Current law does not appropriately account for the scale, power, and network effects that are of themselves anti competitive.
Hi! Pasteurization is not known to impact the structure or function of human milk oligosaccharides. But there are certain heat labile molecules that are impacted by it, and raw milk may retain those.

But there is a whole another story with raw milk and pathogenesis. If interested, check this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32591006/
I don’t think it’s fair or a good idea to paint all of government (a massive employer) with these numbskulls. Let’s just throw out the bad instead.
> from what I've seen in the wild, no one has written a serious business critical application using it yet.

There are lots of such applications, including:

* Figma

* Unity games on the Web

* Google Earth

* AutoCAD

* Aside from entire applications, crucial features in things like Zoom and Google Meet (filters, backgrounds, etc.).

WebAssembly won't replace JavaScript - it's for different things. Wasm lets you port native code to the Web, and it lets that type of code run very fast. That's even without SIMD and multithreading - with those things, wasm is even faster.
A fire outside vs a fire in an enclosed parking garage are two very different situations.
Why do I keep reading about people who get COVID while being vaccinated like it was not supposed to happen? It was always known that you can get Covid while vaccinated. But you have a low chance of getting in a serious condition. It’s like the journalists writing these things were never aware. News like these are what the unvaccinated people hold on to choose not to get them.

Now the title should be out of these 73% how many have gotten serious effects?
Maybe to send to UCLA? :)
Wouldn’t it be amazing if companies responded by building places to live on campus? They could actually be supporting housing development just to get people there.

This is what universities do with professors at places like Columbia.

We told leadership at our inclusion meetings to transform vast areas of offices into daycares to be more inclusive, I wonder where that will go…
I’m not sure what your point is. This is unavoidable for any company subject to FISA or you know, laws.

I care far more about companies like Google and Facebook taking my information and using it in tracking and advertising, or selling it to whomever wants to pay for it for whatever reason to build a profile about me and using that to take advantage of me.

On that front, I trust Apple far more than any of the other options. They’re using it as a competitive advantage and it’s working.
Popular support would be democratic elections. That's not what happened - it was a civil war, fighting the KMT supporters.
Providing for one's children can be a powerful motivator. How long does that generational wealth last on avg?
Try looking at this: https://github.com/susam/texme

Discussed here if not more recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307747
Yet somehow nearly every house is filled with a dozen or more lithium ion batteries.
Hey alexa win the war on drugs.
Same. Where do I report the Thai PM?
How about programs that insist that the user know what programming language was used? Most users won't care if their editor of choice was programmed in C or Go or whatever. Programming language is not a feature. The language used has nothing to do with the program's functionality. But these days there seems to be an annoying fad of making sure you know what language was used.
Why are we assuming that the private sector is any better?

If you want to see what violence the private sector is capable of, look up the Nisour Square massacre : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre

Anyone acquainted deeply with American history would be aware that yes, the government can tend towards authoritarianism, and often goes fully into it. But the American private sector is even more enthusiastic to commit atrocities and enforce the authority of the few on the many.
Not would have, could have released up to 200mg/Wh depending on chemistry, but nothing says 100% of the battery burned.

Anyway, hydrogen fluoride is nasty but well studied. The 5 minute LC 50 for rats was 5120mg/m3 and at 6 hours of exposure 156mg/m3 is lethal for rats. It demonstrates a rapid fall off in toxicity rather than direct bioaccumulation because the damage is from acidification of water in the lungs. https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

Humans exposed to 23mg/m3 notice lung irritation, but short term exposure is considered low risk. By comparison even a short distance from a 2 day fire in 5km/h winds your quickly talking sub 0.1mg/m3. It’s still toxic just not acutely dangerous from lung acidification.
Why didn't they abstract it, or create a stripped/safe userland option to replace it? If I'm relying on a Mac for work, I can't have them removing essential features from my computer in a simple upgrade. Maybe MacOS needs semantic versioning, or at least some level of communication with the end user about compatibility.
> I think he's a selfish prick

And compared to him you are not because...?
> WebAssembly is a much better target for compiled languages

Depends on what you're trying to do. My language projects are almost always higher-level and garbage-collected, so again, targeting WASM would mean re-implementing fundamentals from scratch all the time. I'm glad to focus instead on interesting language features, translating those to be in terms of JS features.
Consumer-side protest has never worked. Organized labor is the only way for workers to effect change at the workplace.
> You be the judge whether or not that warrants precautions.

You seem to want to say something. What is your judgement?
None of this has happened because people in the government started out bad. It is because there is overwhelming evidence that if you set up a powerful organisation, bad people will do what they must to be in charge of it.

Unscrupulous, power hungry liars work just as hard as any of us. Possibly more so because the rewards of power are higher for someone who is willing to abuse it.

If the strategy is to centralise power, there is not a system nor a will in the world that can stop that power being abused. It is really just a matter of how long and how badly.
Also military, environment, mail, immigration, trade, and my personal favorite: currency.
As a developer it was a pretty exotic experience. Their OAuth service is unlike any other big name provider I'd used. Some day soon I hope to open source my Apple backend integrations in TypeScript, because Apple provides no backend SDKs, at least not for Node/JS/TS.

Lots of people seem to use Sign In With Apple, though. They make it really nice for the user. The email relay thing is pretty neat.

The thing that troubles me with OAuth is that if you don't provide apps with some other way to sign in and you lose access to you OAuth account, you lose access to all your applications.
That's what's so brilliant about this. The database query happens on the client, not on the server. The server side is entirely static hosting.
Yeah, no. Not until this twitter mob bs stops. One off color or worse, misinterpreted, comment can wreck your life.
IMO, this is just proof that WFH productivity is a failure.

No company with a pulse could be this incompetent.
A non-trivial number of people do across the political spectrum. Political memoirs for instance are usually ghostwritten (outside of the first Obama book and maybe the Pete book given he was a nobody) and are only purchased in order to show support for the candidate. It's a team spirit thing.

Plus, I'm sure some have their own niches (satire, exposés like "Frankly we won this election" that have new reporting, etc) and many have their own historical value. I saw an ant-Tom DeLay book in the wild a few years ago well after his fall from grace and considered buying it just as a keepsake of the era.
webhooks to perform buy/sell with support for limit orders on all the exchanges that are on CCXT would be the obvious next step. This feels naked as is ;)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...

> Even before the pandemic, previously unreported data shows, Amazon lost about 3 percent of its hourly associates each week, meaning the turnover among its work force was roughly 150 percent a year. That rate, almost double that of the retail and logistics industries, has made some executives worry about running out of workers across America.
Isn't go that way too?

Erlang is special for other reasons.
Why are you assuming that I want the private sector to grow in power? These aren't mutually exclusive.

> But the American private sector is even more enthusiastic to commit atrocities and enforce the authority of the few on the many.

Shows a keen misunderstanding of American history. The US government commits far more atrocities on a yearly basis than the private sector ever has. I could fill up this whole page with links describing absurd infringements on our constitutional rights by the US government, many of them ongoing to this day.
>Watching the intelligence community go full nuclear to undermine and destroy a democratically elected interloper president in coordination with the media is something that can't be unseen to many Americans regardless of how you felt of trump.

I know you'll and half the US will never accept it, but Trump was only destroyed by his mishandling of COVID and his fulminating paranoid conspiracy theories about the election. He stood a chance at re-election, otherwise. There was no deep state/intelligence community/media conspiracy against him, his real enemy was always himself and his own ego.
That's a little confusing. The red (Labor) states are the more progressive ones (both are very centrist and tend to steal each others policies). In Australia the conservative party is "blue".

NSW is a conservative-leaning state and has had a few missteps (Ruby Princess and now). Victoria (Labor) had a bad period last year because their contact tracing was not good enough, and they left lock-down to long rather than going hard (NZ style).

QLD and WA are both Labor and have both done well and got lucky with their missteps. Queensland* has ~5 million people mostly living in the SouthEast metro areas and 7 deaths from about 1,800 cases.

*About to go into lockdown again in 3 hours, but these short sharp ones are fine and then we go back to living like there is no Covid.
"Exactly-once semantics is virtually impossible to achieve".

Impossible to achieve for a broker, yes. Combination of at least once delivery everywhere upstream and deduping in the consumer gives that consumer exactly once processing.

Lots of people don't grok that and they can be duped into buying certain products with claims that they offer "exactly once". Kafka does or used to do this, SQS (FIFO) also gives this false impression although they are a little more subtle about it. As soon as 1 vendor does it, they all have to do it.

"Did you hear Rabbit doesn't dedupe messages?!"
These are like iterations towards solving Info Asymmetry problems.

The politicians under pressure are always going to come up with a bunch of hacks cause there are no great solutions.

You in 10th grade dont take advantage of the knowledge gaps of that kid in 3nd grade. But its all hazy who is in what grade.

Frightening shall continue. Maybe Musk will frighten Bezos and Bezos will get him kicked off the internet.
>There are a huge number of products that benefit from use-before-you-buy. Brick & mortar is innately profitable in this scenario.

Unless that scenario turns unto "use (in the store) before you buy (on Amazon)," which retailers have been complaining is often what happens.
Ask HN: Became wealthy – how to meet similar people?
Hi HN,

Spent ~15 years in tech startups, worked very hard, got lucky this time. I'm worth about ~$25 million and will likely 10x this in the next funding round. I was raised by a single mom / middle class and this amount of money is not something a single person I know has. I'm all over the tax planning / wealth advisory, not concerned about that.

Where do very rich people hang out? Should I seek out the most exclusive social club and buy my way in? Start investing? Try and join corporate / non-profit boards?

I have very young children and they will be put in elite private schools, so they will network and make friends in this sphere. But does the hustle never stop? My goals after exiting the 70 hour tech exec grind are to invest aggressively and start a non-profit focused on some unique ideas I have. Should I just keep stumbling from thing to thing and meet people on the way? It seems like a lot of very rich people I know also know a lot of other very rich people, and I'm unsure how that happens except through schools I never went to, frats I never joined, parents I never had, and networks I seem to be unaware of.

A bit tongue-in-cheek, but what is the guide for a new hundred-millionaire?
Might the solution be an independent agency which centralises whistleblowing? Whose decisions are appealable to the courts and legally required to balance public interest and national security?
Yeah, some version of "pro-CIA progressive" is a common political identity in DC. It is very weird.
It's only been ~27 hours since it started. Still burning.
https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/incident/ESTA:21...
> Spreading negative implication and opinion about a third party is and should remain protected expression.

In the U.K. it is. You can publish the truth, and you can publish your opinion. You can't publish lies.

For someone to sue you in the U.K. they need to prove loss, and there are two defences for libel - the truth, and what the solicitors call "fair comment". You can say that your experience of XXX was poor. You can't say XXX is an idiot.

> Otherwise we quickly approach a world where we can be sued for negative product or service reviews.

I grant that is a definitely problem. This gets talked about in the U.K. I can't say I've heard about it as much in the U.S., and to be frank I am a little surprised, as often those with money use the courts to get bully people. Just brainstorming, but maybe that's a big chunk of the problem?

But I can't help thinking about how much the internet has changed everything. Our laws were designed when people actually interacted with each other face to face and there were a handful of printing presses per town. Now everyone has a worldwide printing press in their pocket, and it's all archived on the wayback machine, etc. High stakes stuff, especially if you get on the wrong side of it. Anybody can be arrested, or have the bad luck to be harassed, and that follows you for years on the internet, looking for dates, looking for work, apartments, people at church, your kids friends, etc.

Maybe we could discuss not only what constitutes libel and the burden of proof, but also where we draw the line on private vs public speech. You can say anything to your family and friends in your house, but maybe you shouldn't be allowed to post lies to the global internet. Maybe those are the rules while talking about a normal person who doesn't have a national or global internet presence, but the rules are different talking about a large company who does. Maybe publications are held to higher standards than individuals - they can play by the rules or don't play. Maybe something like dcma take-down notices for libel, so nobody is surprised with a lawsuit. These are just some ideas, more brainstorming.

Admittedly I don't know the judicial history behind lies being defended as free speech in the U.S., but it seems to me there are some interesting things to think about here.
Public schools have sucked for more than half a century. The "let's throw out the bad" just never happens.

Terrible government services are hardly ever allowed to fail and disappear
> ...private military company contracted by the US government...

Damn the private sector and their evil ... of wait the government was stumping up the cash. Was the government perhaps acting in its private capacity when hiring mercenaries to "support democracy" in oil rich nations?

This is not even particularly a private-public thing (look to the East India company for what a private company is capable of, although the situation was complicated). The invasion of Iraq wasn't a private enterprise. There were private interests involved, but I think most people would agree that is curruption.
They're impetuous children who need to be held down and injected for the safety of others. They can't smoke indoors either. Too bad for them if they don't get with the program of protecting lives.
How, practically, do you want to limit government power in a way that doesn't increase the power of the private sector?

I spoke of enthusiasm, not volume. The private sector commits less atrocities insofar as the government prevents them to. If you want a good historical example, recall that one of the main reasons for the American Revolution was that the private sector was angry at the Crown that they couldn't commit as much atrocities and steal as much land from the natives as they wanted to.
I realize I wasn't clear. I used 2 sqlite databases just to store the article titles and offsets into binary files (<2GB) that had chunks of compressed data. Each chunk contained 10s-100s of stories, so that the decompressed around was around 20megs I believe. I had planned to store everything in sqlite, but there were too many issues. The FTS extension to sqlite is excellent, it made whole classes of problems literally melt away.

Recalling now, the article text itself, I stored in groups of articles concatenated together so that that data compression could take advantage of similar texts. This data was just Lua data structures, with the article title and article body in an array. So I knew which chunk it was in, but I had to decompress a whole chunk at a time and then iterate through the list of decompressed articles to find the specific one. I was trying to tune search time, decompression time and compression ratio. I had a handful of parameters in the job that would take the xml dumps and create the sqlite and compressed blobs. Memory consumption would spike as a chunk was decompressed, but after a call to the Lua garbage collector after pulling the article out of the decompression buffer, everything was fine again.

This was late 2010 or so. The job that processed the XML into database+bin data took over an hour to run on my laptop.

If I did it again, I'd use a compression library that was tuned for decompression and used an external dictionary. For the index, I'd use fst [1]

The project stalled out in parsing the wikitext, there are now libraries that can handle the parsing. I have considered resurrecting it, with jpeg2000 or other image codecs, one could include the images as well. The system did not have FTS over the article text itself. I had planned to use some sort tree of bloom filters, something similar to [2].

I was really trying to keep the total footprint of all the data under 10G or so it could fit on the majority of devices. Now with larger flash sizes, better codecs and better compression libraries, the functionality and performance could be greatly enhanced.

I learned a ton from this project, I really recommend getting deep into something, but also working within your limits and having fallback plans when something looks insurmountable. There were plenty of times where I thought I was a dead end, only to say, "what if ..." the next day, run a quick experiment and be on to the next insurmountable roadblock.

[1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03057
Paint Everything Everywhere
Sorry, that's just dumb. A lithium fire is hard to "put out", it's objectively safer than pretty much everything else that burns. It flames and sputters for a few hours, then it's done. Standard procedure for these things is to do nothing but keep it cool and wait. If your fire department can't handle that then I fear deeply for what happens in the next house fire they face.

This is just ludditism. New technology brings out a combination of people afraid of The New and people trying to look smart by pontificating about new New and Scary failure modes.
It's not just bullshit—it's diabolical.

On your iOS device, you are logged in with one Apple ID at a time. This Apple identity is the one that makes In-App Purchases ("IAPs"). So if a user makes a purchase in your app signed in as "bob", and then logs out of your app and signs in as "alice", they still have that IAP. Therefore, the simplest, most correct way to have an app with IAPs and third party auth is to exclusively use Sign In With Apple, because Sign In With Apple is tied to your device's currently signed in Apple ID and all of its IAPs.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63272699/how-do-you-hand...

I considered removing my other third party auth methods but have kept them in to see how it goes... :|