skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out a “services based” economy is a euphemism for austerity based economy.

Adam Smith claimed that “…landlords' role in the economic process is passive. Their ability to reap a revenue solely from ownership of land tends to make them indolent and inept, and so they tend to be unable to even look after their own economic interests".

Look at dollar rich rent seekers destabilizing their value store.

Dead guys already had human economics figured out.

Humans haven’t literally evolved that much in 200 years.
I would agree in some ways and disagree in some ways. Yes, the book imagines a richer world than OP's blunt characterization. But the book is also more frivolous and escapist than the OP's characterization. Dystopia has always been cool, offering readers consequence-free entry into a world where decisions matter more than in real life. Cyberpunk authors understand this well. The goal is to be real enough to suck in the reader, but not so real as to be a drag or buzz kill. So it's not surprising that Facebook would find cyberpunk a useful recruitment tool.

Looking towards the next 200 years, it seems likely that there's a lot more hardship and privation in humanity's future. Whether due to climate change or the need to colonize Mars or some asteroid or whatever. Tech that can help make immiserated conditions more tolerable may well be hugely valuable to humanity. In a manner analogous to Christianity's role during the long decline of Ancient Rome. This may well be the greatest boon of the internet, when future historians look back at this time.
SQLite was not designed for arbitrary execution with control over queries and internal state. Someone demonstrated that you could redirect the pointer address for various callbacks and potentially exploit it.
The solution currently is compiling sqlite in webassembly. Though I am certainly saddened that browsers don't have some sort of web-made equivalent natively.
This made me chuckle as it reminded me of an older employee referring to another employee as “one of the good interns”. Except the guy he was talking about was in his late 30s and had been with the company for over 5 years :-)
Even if you look up "skeptic" on dictionary.com, it will suggest the alternative spelling.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/skeptic

English is not just spoken in 'murica.
Not a coder, but had similar feelings back in 2017. Didn't see a realistic path to full-time employment that checked all the boxes. What I did was started my own "group," aligned my group with the EFF'S Alliance, and started working on issues locally in my spare time.

4 years on, what seems possible to me now would be to have a non-profit that is capable of doing hard and soft work for community groups and non-profits at discount, while also offering market rate services to paying customers. Especially as a one-person shop, this seems achievable and sustainable in theory.
> Obviously it’s Tinder posting the fake profiles because they want men using their software.

How is this at all obvious? I mean, even if we assume they're definitely fake profiles, wouldn't the more likely explanation be that they're individuals engaged in catfishing?
Centenarians have a distinct microbiome that may help support longevity
If one were receiving treatment for lead, wouldn’t that correlate with socioeconomic status? I’m sure many poor people went untreated and poverty leads to violent crime. Which page addresses this? I’m too lay to understand.
> Plastic waste is not nearly as endemic as you describe in North America

Plastic waste isn’t really endemic to North America. Surely there are some locations with plastic waste problems, but I do a lot of hiking and local travel and I can’t remember the last time
I saw huge swaths of plastic waste. People around here are generally good at picking up behind themselves and even picking up waste that others mistakenly leave behind.

That said, I’ve been to some developing countries and been absolutely shocked at the quantities of plastic waste I encountered in certain locations. Unfortunately these are the same places least likely to switch to use degradable plastic bags if they’re more expensive.
The second time is much easier because you can put the hardship in perspective. The first time around there is a lot of uncertainty and self-doubt -- you've never had to deal with the issues before -- and you tend to imagine the bad parts being far worse than they actually are. While it is still hard, the certainty of "been there, done that" greatly reduces the psychological stress in my experience.

Also, being able to anticipate the hardship in concrete terms also allows you to get in front of it and mitigate the adverse effects. You make fewer mistakes, so less of the hardship is self-inflicted.

Entrepreneurship is very difficult even in the best of circumstances, but it is also a skill and experience makes the job significantly easier.
I'm blown away by the depth and intelligence of all these comments. So unlike other social media.

As for personal experience: I went through two startups. The first cratered and was a horrible experience from start to finish. The other IPO'ed.

Did the first make me a better person? It would be hard to make that argument. I spent 10-15 years recovering from it. However, it made me realize that the startup is, as the cliche goes, "the lengthened shadow of one man." The folks who ran the second one are not just smarter than I am, they are better people.

The old-fashioned notions of "character" really do apply here. You can also make money in a place led by bad people, but you have to more careful because they won't hesitate to screw you.
The concept is not new, 232 years old now, it shouldn't be that strange to you.

The vocation of tyrants is to have their head cut at some point, more or less figuratively.
> In fact, if the vaccines specifically only target spike, that would, if anything cause a selective pressure for the virus to mutate it’s spike protein.

My understanding is that changes to the spike protein significant enough to escape vaccines entirely are likely to also render it unable to enter the cell.
Using this logic, in a market economy there can never be a shortage of anything.
Still, it is mostly a cosmetic problem, while we are supposed to believe that global warming will kill us all in a short amount of time. So the priorities should be clear.
Those are all general thoughts and results would be different for different problems.
Some can be parallelized for millions of people, some can not be at all.
Parallelization is as much about throughput as latency. Nine women can not gestate a child in one month, one can apparently gestate eight in nine months.
Yep, it's still possible but they are disabling these flags one by one.

I don't get it, why they force the grouping instead of making it optional.
Without tweaking it's impossible to just open a link in another tab.
I find his comment about hallucinating faces in the snow amusing given that humans hallucinate faces in things all the time. And then either post it to Reddit or have a religious experience.
> Plus it costs a lot more than salary to employ an engineer.

Yes, the operational costs can be substantial.
The link in the very first post I made was about the US and EU literally shipping their plastic to other countries as part of their "waste management" program.

> Upon implementation of the policy in 2017, plastic imports to China plummeted by 99%.[9] This led to waste stream backlogs across Europe and North America.[9] When they could find buyers, most European plastic was diverted to Indonesia, Turkey, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam.[9]

Western governments are sending trash to these places knowing it's finding its way into rivers just so they don't have to spend money processing it themselves. These impoverished countries are overwhelmed with trash that isn't theirs. It's a problem because Western countries are selling trash that they claim is recyclable and a valuable resource, but is literally useless trash. The moment one country bans the system (such as China), the EU and US find another place to dump it instead of processing it on their own.
Unfortunately there is no winner take all solution for environmental impacts, it is a many-fronted theater.

So better plastics solidified and made useful than released as fumes, but your decisive line of argument omits the carbon sequestration possible with large-scale paper for one thing (just not the kind that spills outflow directly into waterways), and the general degradation of the living oceans.
Prior eng from Tinder/Match Group here. Opinions are my own, not my previous or current employers'. I haven't worked there for a few years but I can tell you with strong confidence that doing something like this would throw public metrics out of whack, and would cause massive brand damage across the Match Group family. They take security pretty seriously and this kind of initiative is very unlikely.

What's far more likely as a source of random bot traffic is that a click farm is using real devices (it can take a bit to get abuse banhammered), and I'm guessing you're in a major metro area where a few bots are more likely to sneak under the radar. Elo[1] is deprecated these days, but much of ranking leans on 2nd- and 3rd-degree evaluation of both yourself and the other person, implying those users are generally evaluated as real and not reported much. Bouncer[2] helps the engine take this kind of data into account.

All this is to say if someone seems suspicious, leverage that Safety Toolkit. But Tinder seeding in fake users themselves would be quite visible externally after a quarter, cause a big spike in reports over time, damage user retention, daily sessions, and stickiness massively, all of which negatively impact ARPPU and paid conversion rates. Throwing tons of standard KPIs isn't worth a fractional boost in sales with the kind of revenue and growth factors[3] they're driving.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/15/18267772/tinder-elo-score...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/tinder-tests-limited-right...

[3] https://ir.mtch.com/overview/default.aspx
And the least harmful is not to dump plastic in a landfill, but to not produce plastics at all.

And all of the human advancements in sanitation, food safety, and transportation energy afforded by plastics? You'd significantly increase CO2 output of transportation if every plastic item was replaced by something heavier. Stopping all plastic production would be very harmful.

As for people bringing reusable containers to the store, this was stopped because it's a health hazard.
> Murray deliberately published information to doxx the sexual assault complainers.

That's a strong claim that i haven't seen before. Why do you believe it was deliberate?

> The court order Murray broke applies to everybody.

What is your explanation for why the order has not been applied to any other journalists, when we know that other journalists contributed much more more to people learning the identities of the complainants?
> they still seem so fast as to be unfun to watch

I mean... yea I could see that, if you haven't fenced a lot.

It used to be so much worse though. Like a bout would literally be over in 45 seconds of match time, with a score of 15-10 or something.

The routine would be:

1. Allez!

2. Both fencers charge full tilt at each other, running

3. Some sword stuff as they pass like jousters

4. Both fencers turn around, look at the ref, and yell loudly

5. Ref tries to piece together what they think they saw

1-5 used to happen in like 1 second every time

Now 1-5 happen in like 5+ seconds, and importantly there's a rule that prohibits actual running.
I intend to point that that that is what the data in this report implies at a surface level. I think that alone makes it very important for professionals to carefully follow up on this data. The worst thing to do would be to brush this away and ignore it.
The treatments in question are administered by the state, at no charge, and some of them are mandatory.

It's really not a long paper. Go read it.
The Chinese used to manually process imported western recycling, they stopped in 2017.
https://youtu.be/jnNNnHTLjmg
It's a complicated global issue far greater than the use of oil to run vehicles via petroleum/gasoline which is highly energy efficient.

We are focusing on ending this instead of the use of oil to make tires (22 gallons per unit,Tire particulate pollution in cities is a huge issue for clean air) and plastics which produce a lot of pollution and waste and which vehicles are increasingly made out of. .

There are bio product alternatives for many plastic packaging products but little pressure to evolve...
The grandparent talks about going from 1,000 to to 10,000, not a single researcher. Are you implying the law of diminishing returns doesn't apply to research?
Almost feels like what is meant here is some kind of effectiveness at solving problems and coming up with new "stuff" - not productivity in a classical sense,

From my observation there is something to it as most efforts are directed towards efficiency which is much easier to tackle (removing frictions etc.). Effectiveness is often a far less certain endeavor and therefore a tougher sell prior to having the solution.
Huh, this is a funny one. I had this idea a long time ago when doing some napkin design of a "static wiki". Problem was the querying didn't fit how software optimizes content delivery, so millions of people requesting from a single database would most likely be difficult to accomplish in a performant manner. Secondarily writing to said database would of course be impossible because locking, and you'd need a server anyways to do any sort session based submittal of data.

Very nice for read-only static data sets for small sites though. Infact this may be very useful for county mapping systems, converting over the GIS data to tables in SQLite.

If at all possible it would be better if this could be in ES5 (no async await) javascript, only very very modern browsers are going to be able to access it. People with older phones (which is many) wouldn't be able to use it at all.
This is incredibly well realized!

Currently I'm working with a sensor homebrewed from a reverse-biased LED with a Darlington-pair amplifier - not what anyone would call accurate, but precise enough to calibrate reliably over the range of light values to be found in my office as long as I keep direct sunlight off the transistors.

Between that, a Pi, ddcutil, and the currently unoccupied DisplayPort input on my monitor, I'm hoping to brew up something that'll serve well enough - not terribly optimistic on that given that the monitor seems to maintain per-input brightness settings, but worth a try at least. (Also, if it does work, I can add an encoder with a built-in button as a manual override.)

On the other hand, it seems likely that, by the time I find that approach to fail, Lunar on Mac mini will be able to do DDC via HDMI - I thought it'd take a year at least after the M1 arch came out for anyone even to get as far as you already have, but clearly I failed to reckon with your dedication to the effort!
> I wish it was, perhaps may be by numbers i.e. websites vs native software but if we take mobile ecosystem, native applications rule and many of the web pages are just landing pages for those mobile apps.

Largely because iphone doesn't let you install a proper browser that doesn't lack most features from the past decade, and iphone users is where the money is at so that is what companies targets.
That's an environmental thing, the program itself can't protect against the class of attacks those sorts of environmental setups protect against.
> What is the case for exposing them to the greater risk presented by the vaccine...

They tend to live with adults.

> it has been shown that vaccinated adults will still get Covid either way?

This hasn't actually been shown, at least not anywhere near as universally as you're portraying. Breakthroughs were expected; what we won't know for a while (and is subject to change) is how common they are.
I don't know if it's necessarily the English language to blame here, but this reminds me of an experience I had while talking with one of the Chinese international students in college. He pronounced the first few syllables of the word "amazing" and "Amazon" the same as there aren't really any obvious pronunciation hints. It took a few minutes to sort out what he was actually trying to say and figure out where the confusion came from, even with the -ing suffix.
I've been a solo-founder for the past 12 years (currently: https://divjoy.com). I use a kanban board in Notion and work about 4-6 productive hours a day on average. Some days it's 2, some days it's 12, but I don't force myself to a super strict schedule because that has led to burnout in the past.

I try to take a day off every week, but often it's random based on whether friends/wife want to do something fun on a given day.

The only exception is if I'm leading up to a big product launch and need to grind through that "last 10%". In that case switching into hyper planning mode seems to help me a lot. AMA!
I'm not passing a value judgement on whether it's a good or bad thing, I'm just saying it's a common thing in the human psyche
Repulsive Curves (video)
Depending on the technology used by whichever incinerator, they do go through multiple passes and filtration steps but I am not actually sure what that does about CO2 emissions.
The alternative to amalgam is commonly composite fillings which are BPA.
Ok yea but then you've just turned epee into foil

Which, as a foil fencer in a prior life, I am totally on board with. But I don't see it happening lol.
News websites are asking if I'm a robot instead of showing the headlines.Is it common? https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g
Actually we solved a ton of problems by throwing money at it: poverty dropped significantly.

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/2021-poverty-proj...
Agreed - swords were also ineffective against spears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLv8E2pWdk

It does seem like swords were more decorative than actual effective weapons...they do look cool when wielded though.
I found this to be a very succinct, sober analysis of ML ("AI") techno-solutionism. Cory is a great writer and knows how to explain ideas in a simple, no-nonsense way. This article reminded me of Evgeny Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here", where you can find many more examples of how focusing on the quantitative aspect of a problem and ignoring the social, qualitative context it around it often goes wrong.

https://bookshop.org/books/to-save-everything-click-here-the...
Rachel Walensky's face needs to be beaten with a sledgehammer.

Fascist cock-sucking liberal piece of shit.
Powerful :)
Are there any approaches to artificial intelligence that do involve qualitative data or don’t rely entirely on statistical inference?
how is the vaccine greater risk?
I'm starting to see the benefit in it, in that I will use it less and get life time back
This whole thread started with you giving an example of how people don't actually have these rights.

So even you know they aren't actually universal or inalienable.

232 years of pretending people have rights that they demonstrably do not have.
With equity, E6 is much closer to $1m / year. $250k is easily achievable at E4.
One small thing: Firefox developer edition can’t edit files like chrome or their old firebug plugin. Therefore, apps get developed on chrome; therefore, they work better on chrome.
This article is interesting and all but I think it is missing some

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> The point is that plastic takes many centuries to degrade

So?
Is there a shortage of centuries?
Do you really think—300 years from now—they’ll be using plastic?
There's a big difference between "this thing comes from the CDC" and "I am qualified to accurately interpret this thing that came from the CDC".
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment, but why does the expectation of growth in a pizza parlor come across as absurd? Dominoes had 13-14% Q1 same store sales growth over 2020 numbers.

https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/do...
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Why not throw some covid into this thoughtful discussion?

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The ASCII-art formatted version is pretty nice looking.

I was going to say that I don’t however get why the “almost readable version” is weirdly formatted. But then I ran it through clang-format and it looks the same still and I saw that indeed it’s because it’s made to do lots of things on the same line and so it is not for lack of white space that it looks so messy.

In conclusion, the “almost readable version” is exactly what it should be in this case.
Given how prevalent and light they are, I suspect some of “your” bags have actually ended up as pollution (blowing out of trucks, being mis-managed in waste processing, or otherwise escaping the system that you dutifully turned them over to).

It’s not like all the trash out in the ocean was dropped off a boat by the original users.
During school I'd immedietly do all of my assignments. Id spend anywhere from 2 to 6 straight hours getting the entire week of assignments done. By the time I got tired I was done with most of it and had time to do what I wanted. Worked wonders, while everyone else was struggling I was able to get straight A's and work on side projects/video games.

Is the "real" world supposed to be different than this experience?
I'm not there anymore, I left a few years back. These are my opinions and I'm sure things have changed pretty drastically since.

Cosmos was expensive. I mean, really really expensive. Microsoft promised it would solve a lot of our problems and I'm not fully convinced it ever did.

The client was insanely bizarre, the protocol was very complex and convoluted and the library code was almost (or maybe it ultimately was) transferred to ZEIT's ownership since we were pretty much the only ones working on it at the time. Microsoft certainly wanted to have some agreement about that; to what end, I'm not sure.

I remember a lot of headaches. We were also entirely on our own with it as it was pretty opaque to work with. Very little public examples and we had to contact Microsoft quite a lot for help if memory serves.
"Run the queries and see for yourself"

Be sure to ignore the big disclaimer on that page, though, right?

> The number of reports alone cannot be interpreted or used to reach conclusions about the existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines.
Son, you need some covid in this discussion - hacker news rules.

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I switched from chrome to firefox on Android for this reason.

It is behaviour that has earned many recent one star reviews.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ch...