skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might not even need AI if the copied phrases are precise enough (which they’re incentivized to be). Just a regular string search, with annotations and/or a mapping to phrases used by human beings.
What’s Real Behind Commodities
I wonder how much Australia is influenced by people who loathe the US and move from it to Australia because it's far away and yet Anglophone and "western".
> The more I read comments on subjects I am intimately familiar with, the more I realize most people who comment on HN don't really know what they're talking about and mostly make things up.

HN doesn't look exactly like SlashDot, but it's absolutely just like SlashDot.
One of my friends recently had her car damaged in a hit and run accident while it was parked. The cop who came to take the report bitched about how "the laws" make it hard to catch criminals, but pointedly didn't do anything about actually trying to gather evidence other than take a report.

This is typical of most police reactions to crime: they'll fill out some paperwork so you can file an insurance claim but they won't bother to do any actual investigation. We don't need armed people roaming the streets to do that, it's a clerical job.

After watching cops openly ignoring mask mandates over the last year and a half while they take their half-hour coffee breaks (drinking coffee for which they don't pay), I think that yes, we should literally abolish the police and replace them with something better. Right now, we're giving guns to the guys who were bullies and jerks in high school and acting surprised when they continue to bullies and jerks.
As millzlane said, how could she have not known? So it's not like the reporter asking her about her son is the first time she learned about his lack of attendance. Today, six months from now, six months ago, it wouldn't have made a difference.
"Hustle culture" is about a social norm, not how any one person spends their time. The toxicity comes from people expecting a high level of dedication from each other instead of simply themselves.

If the author is happy with what they're doing, good for them, as long as they're not applying the same set of expectations to others.
How original. Then can I fire someone that works for me who advocates for access to abortion? If not, what is different compared to your example?

People love to advocate for "freedom" when it agrees with their interests, and advocate for "accepting the consequences of your actions" when they disagree with something. Actual apolitical freedom means having a single standard to apply.
> Zero is all-bits-zero. Its biased exponent is 00000000, or 127−127. ... 2^-127

Isn't 127-127 = 0, so it should be 2^0
That very same kernel runs on the majority of smartphones, tablets, smart tvs, servers, routers and 100% of the biggest super computers out there. This very same kernel literally flies on Mars. Although my sample size is small it is not biased neither are the referred market segments.
Hopefully brongondwana reads this (CEO of fastmail)
Well, you seem to be rather obviously making a character judgement here. Choosing to value something doesn’t imply a value judgement is being made on all other things of potential value. It certainly doesn’t imply that all other potential values are lesser. Describing the values of others as being for certain gross is most definitely judging them as lesser.
This seems like a lot of complexity unless "just spin up a Docker image" is something you normally do and are comfortable enough with to fix when it breaks. Not everyone is a developer, even on HN. Frappe Cloud's pricing page says "simple," but the numbers don't mean anything to someone who doesn't know what all this stuff is and how it relates to the software's resource requirements.

And that's if you're Good With Computers. Most small businesses are not run by people who grew up messing with EMM to get games going.
Here’s the update from Fastmail on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28410178
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper Explained
"Commoditize" not "democratize". If it were democratized I'd be able to spin up my a local instance of their API. With the setup described in the article they are the unilateral arbiters of access to and usage of the technology.
I don't recall mine having a light. It definitely wasn't my cousin. It may have been something malicious I installed without knowing. Maybe I downloaded and installed something from Kazaa or whatever the current P2P file sharing network at the time. I thought it was weird that it happened right after I exited Diablo 2 though.
It started everywhere, for every liberal hippy mom there was a christian conservative mom home schooling their kid to avoid vaccine requirements of public schools.

This transcends politics, humans are dumb fearful critters.
Same, maybe it's µblock Origin that fixes it? I'm using mostly stock LibreWolf with its preinstalled µBO on a MSW 10 library computer (though btw AdNauseum is a better µBO fork).
I was a card carrying member of the ACLU for a decade. Not necessarily because I agreed with them on everything--probably vaccine mandates are something I'd have disagreed with their original stance. But they were an essential part of civil society in how they consistently advocated for civil liberties, even for the benefit of unpopular or unsympathetic causes.

At some point their goals changed when they became an auxiliary arm of the Democratic Party. But why bother to support them when I can just give to the party directly?
It ain't all men out there
> Are you suggesting that there is something inherent about the "Portuguese, British" etc that gave them the power and influence needed to enslave other races? Of course not.

No. I’m saying they made a conscious choice to enslave other races, just as abolitionists eventually made a conscious choice to oppose it.

> You're saying that even though we can clearly see how past societies drew their lines when determining how to stunt the "wealth building" of future generations, we should rotate that line so that it's orthogonal to race and only focus on the people who have had the most trouble building wealth.

Yes, why not?

This is what it means to stop being racist. You stop enacting race based policies, and you take steps to counteract the impacts of past racism on people in the present.

This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge that racism was a cause. If you claim that is what I am saying then you are just lying.

Consequences of racism are the largest historical reasons black people as a statistical category have had trouble building wealth.

There is nothing wrong with recognizing this as a priority. As I point out, the groups with the biggest problem will benefit disproportionately by default if we address this.

However black people are not the only ones who have suffered from impediments. Racism is one cause, but there are others.

A person who is struggling today should be helped regardless of their own skin color or the skin color of the grandparents.

What is wrong, is to continue the racist practices of past societies by enacting race based policies.
I once met someone who lived and breathed "hustle culture". They even had a giant poster about "the hustle" framed in their living room. They were all about business, (allegedly) making money, and "legacy building". They had endless stories about their luxurious lifestyle and vacations, since work hard and play harder was their motto, after all.

I later found out that it was all a ruse. They didn't own any businesses and weren't employed. They didn't even own/lease the apartment, they had convinced an elderly couple at a church they were sleeping in the basement of to put them up in the apartment for free.

To me, that person was the living, breathing personification of hustle culture as I know it.
My reading of the front matter is that, in essence, our present regime of student creates a problem of adverse selection. Adverse selection exists when two parties want to make a deal (sign a student loan), but one party knows much more about future performance than the other (the student). This makes transactions inherently very risky, as anyone who has taken private student debt understands as a fact of their interest rate. The US government bears the adverse selection risk in the interest of macroeconomic strength.

But what if private parties could accept equity? That's to say, a percentage of all future salaries, as opposed to debt, which is a fixed amount per year on some schedule that produces interest income for the payee. The authors of this paper primarily found that private information — i.e. I know that I can earn a good salary with or without college, or conversely, I fear that I cannot — drives "Willingness to Accept" loans and thus prevents private markets that fund college tuition from taking hold. They appear also to support an expansion of college equity positions on the part of the government, although I did not dig deeply into that position.

This is not an authoritative synopsis, I am merely an MBA with a long history in tech and an abiding interest in economic policy.
The Australians voted for these parties who then pass this policy. This policy is extreme. That sure seems like extremist politics to me.

I don't get why you are talking about the US. This policy was passed by Australia. I am not saying that non mandatory voting will avoid extremist politics. All I am saying is that mandatory voting is not a silver bullet to avoiding extremism.
Peter Singer Wins $1M Berggruen Prize
Are you saying it could take a snapshot of the webcam view? The message dialog was an un-closable window and it was very plain from what I remember.

What do you mean someone checked my IP to find me open? I had a certain port open?
Vote.

Protest - particularly direct action

Challenge them
> Try having a calm and balanced discussion with an Australian about bicycle helmet laws for a wonderful example.

As an Australian I’d be curious to know what the argument against them is? (Keeping in mind that most Australians don’t see ‘freedom’ as a terminal goal.)
The problem is that this legislation wasn't introduced to deal with COVID.

The intense international focus on our public health restrictions is a huge distraction, and undermines the message we want to send regarding authoritarianism.
Some ICE car receives update for ECU and of course for infortaiment system, so it's not EV specific feature.
Some people like working, either they like the work, prefer it to alternative uses of their time, or like earning more money. Taking it as a point of pride or boast is no better or worse than people boasting about their hobbies or children or anything else (that is to say it can range from interesting to obnoxious depending on the setting).

I think we should stop caring about how others spend their time.
Are you Australian? I’m asking because I’m not aware of of that(very American) tactic being employed in Australia. Imho the requirement of voting moves the window of what’s acceptable in terms of voter rolls - I can’t think of one time I’ve heard of purging being employed inappropriately in aus. And I can’t really imagine a party getting away with it.

I could of course just be blissfully unaware, and it actually occurs all the time.
What is the reality on the ground though?

For instance:

"Texas ranks number 10 overall when it comes to engagement among African American voters, including being first overall in proportional representation of blacks in state legislature and national party conventions."

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/african-americans-in-texas-...
I largely agree, even though you're being downvoted.

What we really need is to standardize as much of the telescope as possible.

Communications? Don't need to be bespoke per satellite.
Guidance/Navigation? Doesn't need to be bespoke.

Ultimately only the actual optical payload really needs to be bespoke. Commonality of components and design can drive down prices and reduce time-to-launch.
Very frequently in this type of conversations a layman suggests "just make a constellation of low/average quality telescopes that acts like one big telescope". Presumably because they have heard of "long baseline telescopes"[1]. No, that does not work in the optical and infrared because you can not keep the signals from different telescopes coherent with one another (the technology to do that is science fiction today and it would be crazy expensive the first time realized). This is not to say there is no merit in the idea that many cheap telescopes can be useful in some other (non-visible-or-IR-spectrum) way, but the typical bombastic suggestions are simply wrong and are a disservice to an otherwise interesting idea. We will continue needing big-mirror optical and IR telescopes for quite a while if we want to continue studying the universe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...
Yeah I had never heard of ECS until about a year ago, yet if you could look at the whiteboard on my wall from 2 years ago you'd find a diagram for a primitive version of an ECS I came up with as a hypothetical. Idk understand how tf that could be patentable if its something a former 2.7 gpa CS student could come up with on a whiteboard.
Sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Famine is a terrifying word to brandish so flippantly. God help us we don't find ourselves in a JIT situation with our staple crops. A famine would make COVID-19 look like a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon.
What if an AI is unbiased but makes decisions people don't like?
All I want is a way to add tasks as items in my gmail inbox just like Google Inbox had, before they killed it. Does anyone make a Gmail plugin that adds that? I don't want to use a whole different email client or add tasks to a separate task-only list off to the side.
> But Wisconsin law requires that the results of those absentee votes be reported all at once, Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe explained Wednesday.

If that graph didn't have a big spike for Milwaukee's absentee ballots, it would be a sign of something nefarious.
Rhino escapes enclosure at Omaha zoo
Why would you assign 100% of the ‘real political economy’ to capitalism, given the very obvious existence of non-capitalist forces that exist in the ‘real political economy’?
20 years in Sydney. I do not feel Australian any more.
This would mean hardware/software tricks like those below wouldn’t work directly and would need additional gates/operations, because they’d noticeably change the meaning of NaNs.

-x => x xor 0b100…00
abs(x) => x and 0b011…11
But masks work (at least N95) at completely stopping transmission. The covid shot does not. If you have a breakthrough case you’re just as infectious.

So mandate better masks. Incentivize contact tracing and properly following quarantine measures. Governments around the world are picking the most authoritarian, least effective option out of mitigation policies. ACLU should be ashamed supporting it.
I hate how the File menu in all the office apps turned into some weird thing with no text on it. And when I do remember that's where it went and click it, not a menu but a whole fricking nother version of control panel slides out covering what I was doing...
Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
Choose your own golden calf.
Lung function appears to be unaffected after Covid-19 infection in young adults
What's the longest text you've ever written that you can judge 'it's not that hard' to write a 500p standard textbook?

As a corollary, only very few professors actually have their own textbook and thus don't make any money whatsoever from choosing a specific textbook.

Finally, why would you deny someone money for work they did, typically in their spare time? Who else do you think should give away their work for free? Musicians? Doctors? Carpenters? Bakers? Do you accept money for the work you do?
A slavish one.
RAW is such an underrated author and thinker. I don’t think there is a book of his that I have not read. I started reading him when I discovered Principia Discordia, Church of the Subgenius, etc. That whole scene of counter culture thinkers had a pretty major impact on me and my world view. Great to see others that appreciate the ideas just under the weirdness.
So using too much battery for car (or shortage of gigafactories) is current primary problem because EV production is constrained by battery supply, isn't it?
It's snark but it's relevant. All of this shit has been pushed through during a climate where people are willing to let the government get away with a little more to help fight covid. And look what they're ramming through.
In Australia people are compelled to vote, so the problem looks like the majority having a different take. Not that I agree with their votes, but you can’t say they don’t vote.

Ultimately what is one supposed to do in a democracy (never mind Australia for a moment) when you’re just not part of the majority opinion on something?
> I see countless tweets every day about how "hustle culture" is toxic, and they anger some part of me every time.

And there's your problem. The "culture" changes you so that you see things through the lens of this culture. As you identify with it, then you become that position vs others who don't view the world as you do. It's you who hustles and those who don't. The separation can degrade into a toxic mindset where you see yourself as some sort of doer king, and frustrated why other people can't appreciate it and you expect people who work for you to work like you do.

You can work your ass off without identifying with that work. As soon as it becomes "culture" then you're on the wrong track.
Not work twice as much put in twice as many hours. No one wastes as much time at work as someone who works 12/14+ hours a day.
Ye, how people spend their time should definitely be up to them

The problem arises, however, when overworking (or bragging about overworking) becomes part of the culture within a company

e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56452494
Sorry about your experience, but here in America it's not much better. We imprison more people than anywhere else in the world, including the USSR at its height, in raw numbers and per capita terms as well. Our system is one built on a concept of punishment and retribution, rather than rehabilitation and forgiveness.

Here's a glimpse at how our ruling class views the role of prison in our society:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman

The other half of that of course is that prison is highly profitable in the United States, making the incentives to imprison people incredibly perverse. Housing people involuntarily is an industry in America, and people are working very diligently on optimizing and perfecting it to be as profitable as possible. This leads to insane situations where prisoners are being used to fight fires with little to no pay, which may sound like slavery to you, but... well. It is. The 13th Amendment which "abolished" slavery even carves out an if someone is convicted of a crime.

I'm sure you witnessed and were subjected to terrible things. I would be careful though of concluding the problem was with "socialism" rather than powerful people abusing their power to maintain and amass more power. That dynamic is pretty universal and happens under any system with psychopaths in charge. Whenever it happens under one "-ism" people from other "-isms" will use that to point out how flawed the opposing ideology is. But really, all the system determines is how hard of a time the psychopath-in-charge has pulling the levers of power. We just put a psychopath in charge of our Democracy here in America 4 years ago, and his term ended with him instigating an insurrection on the country's Capitol in an attempt to maintain power, bringing an end to 240+ years of peaceful power transitions. It can happen anywhere.

TLDR; the American ruling class will pretextually raid your home and throw you in prison if you opposed their agenda of invading foreign countries and segregating the population by race. Not only will they put you to work and not pay you anything, they will actually charge you for the privilege of imprisoning you (again, for pretextual reasons), making a profit off of your misery. I guess we can conclude this is Democracy?
I mean, stop repeatedly voting for blatantly corrupt parties, for one.

The current LNP are so actively corrupt with their corporate interests, religious interests, repeated exposed in-house scandals, etc, yet the majority of the population continue to vote for them because they ignore it all and just keep supporting 'their team'. The Labor government tries to suggest that they're different, and end up with their own dramas of a similar style, but are kind of not as bad. Kind of.

There are other options out there, but we're all lead to believe that only the 'big parties' can form government. Which only remains true due to the self-fulfilling prophecy of people only voting en masse for the big two parties (and the preference system that funnels votes into those parties).

The likelihood of that changing? Low.

The other solution would be to dismantle the corporate media monopoly that glosses over the actual issues the country is facing, but that's probably even less likely to happen.
Luxury buses are a thing. Vonlane in Texas is a great example. Downtown to downtown, reasonably fast, and more space than a business-class air seat. The whole coach only has 22 seats, and charter rates - to the extent that I can find information on them - are very reasonable. I found one Houston Chronicle article saying that a charter from Houston to Rosemary Beach, Florida - just over 600 miles/1000 km each way - was $6600 round trip. That includes driver and attendant. For $300 per person, very reasonable. Or for group outings for sporting events.
Some feedback:

* Your terms of service (as linked on the "Sign-in" prompt when signing up) leads to /terms which doesn't exist.

* It's not very visibly obvious that the sign-in prompt will lead to a sign-up flow.
quote: "this number should *almost always* be small".
"case by case" basis. What use case have you have this 4GB calloc requirement?
If you don't even know what you are making, why would someone else use it?
One would think the legions of overpaid university administrators would be able to form coherent policies. Undergraduate education and K-12 seem ripe for disruption.
The wildlife at VAFB is also tremendous, whether you're armed with a fishing pole, a hunting rifle, or just a pair of binoculars. It's an incredible place.

Similarly, the exclusion area around Diablo Canyon Power Plant just a bit north is spectacular. I worry what will happen after the plant shuts down. This area's politicians like to sing Progressive songs but they unfortunately get caught up in graft just like other places (the mayor of San Luis Obispo recently resigned in the face of an investigation over bribes for marijuana dispensaries and grow ops).
You're making a false equivalence. It's okay to call out and have a low opinion of someone who you believe is behaving poorly or acting in bad faith. The parent is making a character judgement, but they explained their reasoning for doing so.

This isn't the same as a hustler making character judgements left and right, pretending not to, all while trying to gaslight their employees into doing more work for them for free.

The parent has a moral argument for their character judgement. A hustler wields character judgements along with guilt and shame as a tool for achieving their own ends.