skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is no different than two folks on the phone getting interrupted by ATT

Those entities aren't comparable. Internet and telecom operators, much like the post, is a carrier in a legal sense. Not sure about your jurisdiction, but in many countries this is an actual law, secrecy of correspondence.

Facebook however, is operating a publishing service on the web, much like Nature or NY Times. Nature isn't obliged to publish your article just because you upload it, and they certainly do a fair amount of fact checking.

To continue the parable you started, while AT&T isn't allowed to snoop the article you upload to NY Times, the latter is allowed to refrain from publishing it on their web. Stretching the definition of carrier to encompass Facebook and Twitter would have wide reaching consequences and risk making it much more difficult to operate a web page.
Just to save you a somewhat pointless read, they didn't really debug anything but just found the right forum to ask.
You might be interested in Why Books Don't Work by Andy Matuschak

https://andymatuschak.org/books/
This has not been the experience on other platforms, such as Twitch or Twitter.
Ahh someone who can't read for themselves, eh? go away
I am the same. I also started to play a few times, but not knowing the mechanics and not having enough time/motivation to learn them in detail is frustrating. But there’s a nice alternative:
https://youtube.com/c/kruggsmash

Watching someone else play Dwarf Fortress can be surprisingly entertaining. Just start one of his series from the start.
Except "a kind of lightweight VM" is an incorrect answer

It's a pretty reasonable starting point as a description compared to the meaningless rejoinder which says nothing about what the point of them is.
Don't they usually say "It was a magnitude 4.5 quake?"
I've got a couple of Kindles that aren't old enough for that deal. I've ended up with them in a drawer, only using the Kindle app on my phone. The number of times I've wanted to read while out in the sun just hasn't been enough to bother with.
How many hairs do you need to remove from a man's head before you can call him bald?

Many chain restaurants follow this scheme: when they appear and need to make a good name for themselves, they are hell bent on the quality of food and the the customer experience. It's important for them to get the word of mouth marketing. But after they establish themselves firmly and start to grow, the bottom line becomes a priority, and they start cutting corners ever so slightly. The portions become smaller but the prices hike up. They start skimping on sauces. One day you discover that the garlic sauce is no longer made in house, but is of the same variety that is purchased in bulk for hot dogs at gas stations.

But the momentum is still going.

And many other chains in the same price range either don't make the same kind of food, or are worse still. So you have no choice until a new restaurant starts that needs to carve a niche and beat it's competition.
Facebook needs down votes. That would help resolve the issue by the community flagging things, rather than this hodge podge of approaches.
Hey, if NSO hadn't built Pegasus, then an unscrupulous, unprincipled actor like Palantir would have stepped in and made the same argument!
Congrats! Ordered. Been waiting for a physical copy, being able to scribble notes in the margins and bookmark and flip back and forth by hand just works so much better for me.
We have an EU region launching within weeks. Thank you for checking us out and hanging in there.
Can you substantiate this? It seems pretty loaded, and I'm reminded of that fallacy where you state there are only two extremes possible as outcomes, you doing that on purpose or what?
Ding ding ding! Insurgencies that combine small arms, improvised explosives, clandestine cell social structures, fault-tolerant and encrypted communication methods, and distributed fundraising techniques can and have countered imperial military adventurism. This is not a libertarian fantasy; it happens every day.
I’m hearing about roughly 13%+ increases in labor costs here in the west region, for reference.

Recruiting costs have also gone up from 15% to as high as 25% of base per resource.

The going rate for hourly labor was 150/hr per head, but I haven’t talked to my contacts yet to see if that’s moved.

I would expect it to go to 175/hr, and premium rates to go to 200/hr. These rates would also reflect changes from agencies, and so should be in line.

Unrelated, but I was also hearing about a 25% increase in real estate in Albuquerque, New Mexico rent.

In Arizona commercial real estate, contractors had back-to-back single digit percent price hikes which I’m sure totaled double digit increases for the year.

I’m seeing substantial inflation, and anticipate this year’s real inflation to be in the double digits, and not the 5% the BLS is reporting.
Planet Money has an episode about the Onion King
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
I remember when the WashPo was publishing all the articles about Amazon workers pulling 12 hour days and crying at their desks.

All I could think of at the time was "wow, sounds like a mission oriented place, I would love to work there."

Of course Amazon has made it their mission to not hire me, but still.
> I just want to know what he needs done / and let's go make the thing.

"You tell grunts what to do. You tell special forces the objective."
Definitely not - rationality is about a realistic view on the world and effective, perhaps even optimal, acts to achieve your goals, but it's completely, absolutely orthogonal to the nature of these goals. The goals, or perhaps "utility function" in formal terminology are essentially arbitrary from the perspective of rationality; it's generally rational to better understanding of your goals is very useful to effectively meet them, but a key principle is that "the utility function is not up for grabs", rationality is about effectiveness in obtaining what you want, but it does not and cannot constrain what is it that you want.

So IMHO games are a really good example - buying and playing games is a rational allocation of time and money if and only if the outcome (or, to be accurate, the sum of outcomes over long term) of playing games is more fulfilling than the alternatives; and it seems quite plausible that the enjoyment gaining from playing games may be very different for two completely rational actors and thus even from a completely rational standpoint they should make different decisions on whether playing games is a waste of time and money or a great use of them.
That doesn't change the fact that we have to be able to offer them a better solution other than "you're forever stuck in poverty because we don't want you to use your natural resources while we live a lavish life after destroying all of ours".

Don't get me wrong; I do not under any circumstance support what's going on there. But it's also not fair for whole countries to be stuck in poverty because they're slow to the game.

Why not have first world countries adopt portions of the rain forest? Pay the Brazilian government annual fee's for them to protect the rain forest from being clear cut. The government can use the money collected to pay people who would normally be farming the land to do something else. There's a lot of trust that the Brazilian government spends the resources as intended; but that's another problem.

TLDR; telling them they can't do it from our ivory tower is not going to work so if that's the plan then we better be offering them alternative income sources that don't require clear cutting.
The world isn't a black and white place and there are a variety of more nuanced stances between those two extremes. Any amount of censorship doesn't necessarily and immediately devolve into 1984.
> Is facebook wrong

I think this is an unhelpful framing of the situation, because as you imply Facebook is of course not wrong.

If you have one friend and your feed is entirely full of their posts, Facebook is off the hook. But, for most users, the situation is far more complex. People have many friends, they may also be in groups. They probably will not be on facebook long enough for them to see all of the posts and, if they are, their attention levels will differ over the entire corpus.

In this situation facebook begins to have agency - which is different from being wrong. They didn't make the content, they didn't create the link that brought the content to you, but of all the content they could show they did show you this and not that. It's a relatively new kind of agency, one that we didn't have a lot of practical experience with before very recently, so they can be forgiven somewhat for their difficulty grappling with it. However, they're an important part of the chain of information organization and it would be foolish to pretend they have no responsibility.
> No weird requirements, no deadlines, no nothing, nada

Well.. until you accidentally create a broken release, that is. That's _real_ sweat.
My last few big tech employers have had a policy forbidding me from trading in options or derivatives on the stock, as a lowly software engineer.
Yes, I hate how Facebook (and especially Twitter!) have now chosen to not just show me my friends' posts, but posts they like and respond to. A like has basically become a retweet.
+1 for that sweet Csa climate :)
reddit has a contested mode that is quite nice to balance the winner take all approach that seems to plague all other systems.

Another thing I have noticed is SO, that remove "karma" for each downvote you action (Note that I have seem that behaviour documented).
I guess going to Disney Plus (or whatever other streaming platform) is the modern age equivalent of the old proverbial "going straight to DVD", formerly "straight to VHS".

No wonder she's pissed off, but maybe it's the movie?
Probably one of the information sets I'd care the least about.

I'd rather they have that, for instance, than my face in photos my friends took that they incorporate into their facial recognition.
Not equate, realize that they are both part of a pattern.

We also should not let Elon Musk's actions only be evaluated in their totality. We can argue about the net sum of his contributions, but it should be fundamentally irrelevant to evaluating any individual one. He shouldn't lie or allow fraud. His actions with the Solar Roof launch, Boring Company, Self Driving, and funding tweets all cross ethical lines that we as a country need to make clear are not what we want from our business leaders.
> if it's a DMCA request, there are stipulations that it needs to be made in in good faith under penalty of perjury

I seem to recall those being notoriously lax.
What's the appeal of a Supreme t-shirt, a Star Wars collectable figure, an NFT, a designer handbag? This is simply a famous brand which has looped in famous game creators and media contacts to generate buzz, and they are catering to people with a lot of disposable income who are into consumer tech – so, the exact demographic of this website.
This is cool. Exactly the product I wanted for hosting my side projects without paying the exorbitant price for a MySQL instance on AWS or GCP.
It's definitely a fuzzy distinction. Candidly, I'm skeptical about generalized methods that make claims about the future and pretend to do so rigorously.

The image that comes to mind when someone says "futurology" is those 19th century drawings of people riding flying bicycles to work: breathless excitement, comic in hindsight.

To the extent that someone claims they can forecast something with so much uncertainty, the hair on my neck starts to stand up.

And maybe I'm condemning a straw man, but it seems like this is your generalist-class, and most of the other groups who would not be as likely to self-identify as a futurist per se.
Why -would- it tell you? If you live inside a refrigerator it would never be hot.
NB, for other books looking at history through the lens of history:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/ee8c190017d501391a81002590d8e...
> I don't even see the ASCII anymore. All I see is dwarf, plump helmet, magnetite ore

It's even more than that - I can spend ridiculous time in legends mode just reading facts and events going from one personality to another trying to "feel" the world. It's like from these pieces of trivial information a bigger picture emerges, partially consisting of the facts and partially of random connections my brain made. It's an amazing experience.
Haha, sorry friend, but still, memories of cranking up that 56k and logging on to Active Worlds night after night. Well, everything is illuminated I guess.
Good summary, yes, it was simply insane.

Two additional elements:

- Warner manually reviewed the work, so this wasn't just a case of algorithms gone wild.

- Warner's claim was that the infringement was against the primary melody of "Dark Horse", when it was in fact a background melody. Neely makes a big point of this, I'm not sure it's hugely salient, but ... well, it just adds that much more flavour to the manure sandwich.
> I have no intention to stop programming... because that's what I truly like to do

I'm 57, and I completely agree.
Curious, how does Ivermectin fit into your worldview?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronav...
Nice! How about adding sub- and super-script?
I have a dumb question. Could I use flow to import a text file into a postgresql database? The text file is not append-only.

There's a lot of tools to import logs into stuff like kafka but not to import whole files (that can change) to a database.
> I am pretty sure without DMCA and other similar, made to order laws Google would not bother taking stuff down or building any kind of AI to do this.

No, its a result of bog-standsrd copyright infringement claims (the DMCA safe harbor weakened those against hosts generally, but then claims made in the massive Viacom suit—which, before it was settled, resulted on Google being forced to turn over the entire viewing history of YouTube to Viacom—and others involved YouTube being outside the scope of the DMCA safe harbor.)
> So, in other words, their rights to bargain and engage in mutual agreements is restricted.

You can negotiate without union representation.

You're also free to be a non-union actor.
must be some kind of overconfidence bias. Though arguably it probably appears easier to change facebook than philipp morris or exxon mobile (at least if you don't frequent hacker news and read all about how zuckerberg ticks), in that the idea of facebook (connect people) is basically a good one so why shouldn't the corporate version of it work?
Fortunately these problems have a military solution.
Is it me, or have quite a large percentage of links bit rotted for an article a bit over a year old? I haven't clocked on a bunch, just 4-5, but the only one that actually worked was to Wikipedia.
The things have wifi and Bluetooth. Why couldn’t someone write a multiplayer game for the playdate?
> it's even legal for an employer in the US to ask such specific details about one's medical history.

I would presume it's legal in many European countries as well, and I would expect some would go even farther. Note that they're requiring vaccinations for returning to offices that the company manages, not asking arbitrary questions about medical histories. It certainly would be legal in the country where I live, from everything I've read. Just as private businesses are free to require a vaccination certificate for entry to an establishment (e.g. clubs, or in certain European countries more essential services as well), employers are free to terminate an employee if their presence in the workplace poses an excessive risk.
> what's good for the general public.

I personally don't really care what facebook (or anyone else) believes is good for me.

I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much.

And if I want to eat chocolate all day, I'll do that, too.
Having just read this and Zhamak's article, it seems that there may be some incentive alignment issue with this.

I assume a lot of valuable data originate from customer-facing applications, so the team that already has a customer-facing product now has to manage a new internal-facing data product.

My worry is that the data product won't get the love it deserves.
Taking from the populace and giving to specific individuals is not what was meant by that phrase. General welfare in the Constitution has never meant singling out individuals or groups and providing for them with public funds.

Alas, this argument is as old as the Constitution itself. "Madison asserted it amounted to no more than a reference to the other powers enumerated in the subsequent clauses of the same section; that, as the United States is a government of limited and enumerated powers, the grant of power to tax and spend for the general national welfare must be confined to the enumerated legislative fields committed to the Congress. In this view the phrase is mere tautology, for taxation and appropriation are or may be necessary incidents of the exercise of any of the enumerated legislative powers. Hamilton, on the other hand, maintained the clause confers a power separate and distinct from those later enumerated, is not restricted in meaning by the grant of them, and Congress consequently has a substantive power to tax and to appropriate, limited only by the requirement that it shall be exercised to provide for the general welfare of the United States."[1]

Congress has the power to spend federal revenue. The responsibilities of Congress are explicitly defined in Section 8 of the Constitution. The first clause of Section 8 does include "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States". That is for the welfare of the Union, not the individual residents of states. None of the powers of Congress are to distribute funds to individuals with charity programs. In fact, for much of the nations history using public funds for charity was an abhorrent idea.

[1]https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI_S8_C1_2/...
This is what pragprog does, but I don't know any self-publishing platform that does the same. You can probably roll your own without much trouble, just using stripe for billing.
Well I can confidently say you are wrong
> southern part of Croatia

That's where I live. Summers get much too hot to be called mild, but it's the winters that are annoying as hell. Everyone pretends that the cold doesn't exist, so insulation is terrible and so is heating unless you want to pay through the nose for electricity every month.

Seriously, winters were much better when I lived in the capital, which is continental and colder but has actual amenities to counter that.

I did have an opportunity to spend a month in Los Angeles on two occasions (in winter and fall) and the weather was fantastic.
I doubt that he had to put up $100 million to be released - probably more like $1m to $2m. When Tom Barack was released on a $250m bond earlier this month, it was secured by $5m in cash.
Academia is one of the worst things that has happened to honest science, in my opinion.
I use those (DreamLite)and they are getting more and more common in the Netherlands.
Every contact lens specialist shop sells them. They around EUR 500 a year including cleaning fluids and check-ups.

Be sure to get checks regularly and practice extra good eye hygiene, because they do have a higher risk of infections, also eye doctors do not recommend them.

Biggest drawback I experience are coronas around bright lights at night, but you do get used to them. I can conformably drive a car at night, because the sight is sharp. The extend also varies from person to person.

If you can tolerate the lenses with your eyes open, you can also already wear them in the evening if you need perfect sight in low light.

On topic: you cannot permanently reverse myopia, but it gets better when you get older for some people.

Ortho-K lenses can however be used by children to stop myopia from getting worse.
Not sure where even to begin; so let's start with airplanes. There are people who wouldn't fly because they are scared. There are also probably many more people who would fly, but have to make a conscious effort to suppress their fear. They may be the same people who would drive, or ride as a passenger in, a car, which is far more dangerous. It would be disingenuous to insist that planes are perfectly safe, because they do sometimes crash. Science can explain to you why airplanes fly and why they fall; it can offer you statistics to demonstrate that airplanes are among the safest means of transportation; yet science is powerless to tell you whether, when you board a plane, you will disembark it alive on the other end of your journey. It is not a scientific question — and yet it has the utmost personal significance.

You mention science a lot in your posts, in a manner that makes me wonder how much of these questions is genuine and how much is just a rhetorical device. A tiny risk of what, you are asking? A tiny risk of serious adverse events — anaphylaxis, thrombosis, myocarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome — depending on the vaccine and the age group. Explain the science behind the concern, you say. Really? Are you really interested in the immunology of Guillain-Barré or in the hematology of a thrombosis? Something tells me that you are not. The numbers? The numbers are tiny, like I said, but greater than zero. Some countries discontinued AstraZeneca over the fear of those tiny numbers. I do not remember whether the same happened anywhere for Johnson & Johnson.

> Do you even have a framework for these risks?

No, I don't. Especially since the numbers keep changing.

> This is disingenuous (or maybe you actually don't know what you're talking about)... And you're completely incorrect about requiring vaccines against other diseases.

From the title of the article that set the topic of this conversation, and from your mention of employers, I assumed that we were talking about workplace, and more specifically, about white-collar office workers. It is true that in some professions (teachers? the military? medicine?) people have been required to have certain vaccinations. For me, personally, the last place that made that requirement was secondary school. Neither the university, nor my employers have ever made such a demand.

As an aside, I find it interesting that you mention a religious exemption. I don't know why it would matter to you that a potentially contagious person sharing your space is such because of their religion; or why someone's sheer fear of the vaccine, however irrational, is any different from a religious belief.

> Why did people go to the office who knowingly had strep or the flu? That was beyond stupid.

Because their terms of employment made it difficult for them to stay at home?
Watching this since BoingBoing made this cool in 2007, from earlier internet forums like Sailing Anarchy, it's great to see the progress to working models. It dates back to at least the 80's, not sure if it is 100's of years old.

But where from here?

Should it be taught in school under internet memes? Or will it be a circular internet conversation forever? Are circular internet conversations bad? It feels like we will never run out.

Comment from 1895 on 'What does "Sailing faster than the Wind" Mean?' https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197614156 which is part of the confusion, since people jump to this other meaning.

It's not clear if these rumoured boats in the 80's actually existed and could overpower the water's drag, I assume not - https://issuu.com/latitude38/docs/latitude3894apunse/162 (1985)
Is it me or is Mexico missing from his country ranking? ( https://leisurepurpose.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/countrycl... ) I was very curious to see where my country fell in that list.