skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is great! Fantastic idea. Awesome work on the responsiveness, too.

Unsolicited opinion on the design: The mid grey text on the light grey background (e.g. as seen on the about) isn’t a great design decision imo. I know it’s really fashionable right now for some reason, and while it may meet sufficient contrast for accessibility guidelines (I didn’t check), I found it quite hard to read. That colour text signals to me the same thing the grey-on-grey Ts&Cs footer on most websites signals - ignore this text. Grey on grey is one of my personal pet peeves so maybe I’m reading into it too much.
> (can't reply directly. thread is too nested?)

The deeper a thread is nested, the longer the cool-off period before you can directly respond to a reply. You probably could respond now.
> Why should physical attributes matter less, and how much less exactly cross this supposed threshold between freely acknowledged and taboo on par with holocaust denial?

I believe they matter less because they're not a great predictor for success. You have plenty of very attractive people working the checkout at the super market, but few very smart people. At the same time, the super successful people aren't considered beautiful by most people. The same is true for essentially all other physical attributes -- having great hearing won't teleport you into the top 10% of wealth. I don't think either idea should be taboo, obviously.

Fair point about people with severe genetic disadvantages. I guess most people broadly categorize them into a different group and measure their success relative to that group ("he's doing great, he can often manage his daily chores alone"), not compared to "normal" people. It's more of a achievement vs perceived potential, I think.
Very crafty. Nice. I'm legitimately impressed by every part of that.
If I loan you a chicken today in exchange for two chickens tomorrow it’s a security.
You mean lemmy.ml? All I see is a bunch of science, privacy and climate stuff right now.
>we’re seeking to allow eligible customers to earn interest on select assets on Coinbase, starting with 4% APY on USD Coin (USDC)

My uneducated view of the Howie test is an investment qualifies as a security if you invest, do nothing, and expect a return. That’s my dumbed down definition that makes sense to me, a non lawyer. I do think Coinbase has painted a target on their back, the govt sees crypto as a threat to stability, and this lawsuit is an attempt to create stability.
You can see the teasers for the articles, but clicking on one goes to the Medium homepage.
From the wikipedia article it seems the Howey test is the legal test if something is a security:

"an investment contract for purposes of the Securities Act means a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party, it being immaterial whether the shares in the enterprise are evidenced by formal certificates or by nominal interests in the physical assets employed in the enterprise."

So presumably the logic is, lend is a security because people are "investing" securities in a contract and expecting returns not through their own efforts.

Sec has additional guidance here: https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment-contract-an...
The US military routinely tests recruits for IQ and assigns roles appropriate to that level. They even outright reject some people for being too stupid.

Nobody seems to be up in arms about it, why?

We also already do all sorts of soft eugenics in our own lives, from assortative mating to academic scores and schools one attends, social circles that one enters because of their achievements and so on. At some point it will become a lot more quantitive, to reduce the currently large factor of luck.

Societies that refuse to take advantage of optimizations this could bring will eventually lose out, for better or worse, this is entirely inevitable.

The progress of technology is not always progressive. There is a reason most of sci-fi reads downright dystopian.
> In 2007 the government 'temporarily' banned alcohol and porn for aboriginals as an 'emergency' measure.[0] And apparently it, or some replacement, is still in effect.[1]

In 1976 France implemented a temporary permission to abortion, just to hedge the wave. A lot of social rights come from temporary laws that were never deactivated.
Looks neat. One suggestion: add a simple newsletter signup form to notify people when other platforms are supported (and whatever else you want).

I'd love to follow the project and try it on linux when that comes.
Bank account can only be provided by a bank, in adherence with a million government rules for banks.
Those machines are not comparable, the VIC uses the same memory as the 6510; while the NES uses separate memory and another CPU! (Fun fact: Commodore was supposed to build the NES for Nintendo but Tramiel bailed in the last minute, a great testament to Chucks 6502)

Of course you can build a modern GPU and soundcard with a 6502, but the point here is that the VIC and the 6510 are at 1MHz and the DRAM is at 2MHz so they access it interleaved.

The VIC2 was the first home GPU with hardware sprites.

Also the memory access is 16-bit so it's complicated, but the audio is 8-bit and the video output is generated with 8-bit precision = very limited color = why we get the 2 pixel wide 4 color mode.

So the C64 cheats; in one way it's actually not a pure 8-bit system, but the others cheat even more. The point is "the architecture of the system is as complicated/simple as it needs to be for maximum 8-bit price value and repairability".

I guess that is what I meant.

64K DRAM is the most effective cheat saturating 16-bit while everyone else was struggling with worse workarounds, the NES has a pretty bad solution; shipping memory chips in every cartridge (what a waste of hardware for only anti-piracy/anti-development "gain")!

Just look at the NES dev. community today, even if the NES outsold the C64 by 3x it's almost non-existent!

As for sound the SID is still unsuperceeded, it's the pinnacle of 8-bit sound.

Lastly the fact that you could copy software is really a big point on the + side. Piracy is the feature!

Nintendos legacy is non-piracy only, even today with the patching of the bootloader bug in the Switch!

Fortunately I have an original Switch and can run linux on mine! Xo
The continent was home to a very large number of difference language groups and languages prior to settlement. There is not one common demonym - in southeast Australia "Koori" is often used, but more commonly people are referred to by the language group to which they belong (eg an Arrernte man).
Maybe that's how you can help - start a website that links non-profits that need software with volunteer devs that want to help.

Like workaway.info but for software devs.
They're guaranteeing it in the same way that when you buy a corporate bond with a 4% yield, you're guaranteed to get the money[0]. A bond is still a security.

[0] Right? Counterparty risk!
CNN - ha!
Are you absolutely sure that you and Bill Gates live under the same economic system? Because I suspect that you describe some other economic system than capitalism.
Well, they wouldn't be throwing it away. It would have come back with them or via dropped pods.
Teams is not a service. Is a program used to talk to other people, like buying tickets for the train or talking with the passengers. Teams has to run in an environment when it is not alone. You need to get on the train, search for a place etc.
TBH teams behaves more like a service than like a program. Using teams is like talking to somebody at the other end of the train.
Are you talking about https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neo-1.3B?
Weird. I see the post in the link above as well but when I click the link, it got redirected to medium.com

Edit: if i click "Read more" at the end of the article, I am able to see the whole post.
In my experience with Laravel, it is often the transformation to JSON that takes some time for large responses.
Hmm... disturbing?

The United States leftism leans heavily to the contemporary idea of all other developed western nations rightism... so are we to be seen as a bit disturbing by the rest of our nation peers? (hint, they mostly seem to :D )
Ask HN: Is it wrong to negotiate a standard new grad offer?
Hey HN,
I recently completed my internship at a 1000+ employee public tech company. I did great work, had stellar performance reviews (my manager and teammates liked me and had no constructive criticism), and I have years of other internship experience. I know for a fact other interns that did far less work (read: slacked off) got the same new grad offer as me. It’s a very generous offer, but out of principal I feel like I should be entitled to a better one if I can / did provide more value to the company. I tried negotiating and will hear back soon, but I was ultimately told they give new grads the same package as they know we talk offers and they wanted to remain fair. They say that my performance reviews once I’ve joined will determine my raises/promotions, but I’d rather start with a higher base than expect on a potential promotion. Some people have mentioned pay equity to me (I’m an upper class white cis male), and while I understand my privilege got me to where I am, I still worked hard to get here. Am I wrong to expect more?
So does Reddit heh.
U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics[0] and ECL from HPCC Systems[1] are two I have fairly extensive experience with. There may be other such platforms, but those and Ballista are the three on my radar.

[0] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/master/arti...

[1] https://wiki.hpccsystems.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=28...
The same situation in many developing countries around the world. The local taxi cartels have been using lobbying and outright violence to keep ride-sharing services away / banned.
Yea, let me just install this big binary blob and trust a random folk on the internet it will never contain any "ad sdk" that will collect my ssh key and gcloud token.

Cool idea, however.
>direct conflict with other peoples rights

What the hell? Nobody sitting at home in their house has the right to prevent other people meeting peacefully on the street. People like you are what's wrong with Australia, you authoritarian monster! Nobody has the right to stop other people meeting because they might spread a virus to eachother with a 99%+ survival rate that might somehow eventually find its way back to them.
The Forever War: 20 Years After 9/11
> Chilling, and I suspect that western governments will do very little to prevent this kind of extra-territorial control exerted by the CCP.

The US literally locks down countries that they think misbehave.
For Mac, there's yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
For the same reason all the orthodox authoritarian ideologies are disturbing. Why would I want to join an online discussion forum where free thought isn't welcome?

Having "leftist" in the description makes people (at least myself) automatically jump to the conclusion that one can get cancelled/banned/deplatformed for posting any thought or argument that disagrees with the mainstream. I'm not a conservative or anti-vaxxer or anything like that, but this culture really creeps me out.

Also in the About page the author of the software says things like:

> [Reddit's] libertarian founders have allowed some of the most racist and sexist online communities to fester on reddit for years

(Implying that this community wouldn't permit certain types of discussion, defined by very broad and ambiguous terms that were weaponized such that they can be used against anyone who disagrees with the leftist ideology in any way).

And criticizes reddit for being:

> liberal, and pro-US, not left (leftism referring to the broad category of anti-capitalism)

I wouldn't be comfortable with participating in a discussion moderated by a person who says things like that.

Also, as a person who grew up in a country ruined by "anti-capitalism", I find that trend in American culture extremely disturbing. Can you think of any anti-capitalist country (now, or at any point in history) that you'd like to live in?

Luckily this is a free software and anyone is free to run their own instance.

Politics aside - I wonder if it would be possible to create an instance focused on free speech, without automatically attracting all the worst people?
The Vault of the Atomic Space Age
All of the financial regulatory bodies are tasked with investor protection...that's not something unique to the SEC. The SEC has jurisdiction over securities and some types of markets. These aren't tradable entities, and if you can't trade it, it's definitely not a security, and there's no market to regulate either. The SEC may have jurisdiction over cryptocurrency markets and some types of cryptocurrencies, but this product is neither of those. It's an interest bearing lending account.

There are far better equipped agencies for regulating these lending accounts than the SEC, with actual jurisdiction that makes sense. FINRA and the FDIC immediately spring to mind...they both regulate interest bearing lending accounts for retail investors. FINRA for retail investment accounts, FDIC for retail banking accounts.
I wish you had written "intow your post", such a missed opportunity of recursive irony :)
If other people aren't afraid of the virus, you have no right to stop them; it's their choice. Now maybe you could argue you have a right to keep them out of your house, or your personal space, if you don't want to be infected, but you have absolutely no right to stop them meeting on the street far from you.
The blog post says they did not give a rationale. That is the entire essence of the post. Did you read the post?
if he uses the word "leftism" he can't say anything coherent about politics
Boeing: Directors to face investor lawsuit over fatal crashes
Perl is sometimes "better awk".
and resort to cryptocurrencies
For desktops pretty much everything will be compatible, in my experience. Never had an issue. Got a custom build about a year ago with a slightly older motherboard f450/Ryzen 7 3700x & 2070super / nvme /ssds

It's not like modern laptops with all kinds of hacks needed for Linux.
Lemmy implements the ActivityPub protocol, a W3C recommendation.
You're a fricking genius.
> western governments will do very little to prevent this kind of extra-territorial control exerted by the CCP.

For the sake of discourse, could you list the countries that are allowed to extert extra-terratorial control.
My options are "Run a server" and "Join a server"

This is not an alternative to reddit, where you would see a front page with content on it.
> the effect sizes from deliberate practice far dominate when compared against innate talent, genetics, or other factors

We won't settle this in the comments section of HN so I'm not even going to try.

I'm just curious how this is percieved by ordinary pepople in your home region.

I'm from Romania and generally people here see innate talent as a higher limit to performance, and practice is the way to reach it.
Democracy is not majority rules. Democracy is rule by the people. Minorities matter too, and if minorities are railroaded by majorities it is not much of a democracy.

Voting is important, but much more important is the rule of and access to the law.

"Australian Indians" means the same thing as "Australian Aborigines" Indian and Aborigine are synonyms.

You schooled me on the right to vote! My prejudice leaked out!! I will not let it become bigotry. But I think it is at the federal level. At federation (I thought it was 1905) they really wanted NZ to be a state, and in NZ Māori electorate was a thing, not a particularly democratic thing, but a thing. So to make NZ a state Māori had to able to vote at a federal level.
In general, it seems like the SEC now has a mandate to reel in many players in the shadow banking industry and crypto happens to be in the cross-fire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/us/politics/cryptocurrenc...
People make you are the reason I look forward to the day I have a second citizenship and can renounce my Australian one.
Not all loans are bonds though. How does the law define the difference?
In July, NASA said they are targeting the launch for Oct 31, 2021.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-new-james-...
No, it's people deciding what will and won't receive funding. It's not that much different from today, where people vote with their money. The number of votes would just be the same for everyone. It could even result in better investment, since the voting process would guarantee some level of demand for the product as well.

You don't really need competition if anyone can influence the organization by making propositions, debating issues and voting. If there's a problem with the media, you can propose a fix for it. That's already much better than what we have today, where very few rich people own most of the media and therefore decide what most people think and talk about.

Even if you need competition, it can be done in such a system. There's no reason there couldn't be multiple competing collectively owned, democratic banks, newspapers, etc. Capitalism is not a requirement for markets.

You don't need everyone to vote on everything. You just need the process to be open to everyone and fully transparent. If any small group were to start abusing the process, it would immediately be visible and fixable. People would notice and start voting against the group. Mostly they would vote on things that interest and affect them. If that's not enough, you could have randomized voting duty on issues that need it.
To clarify, donkey votes are perfectly valid. This is where the voter simply fills the boxes the same as they are displayed (first presented candidate gets number 1, second gets 2, etc.). A donkey vote is a formal vote, just one typically driven by the same factors that would drive an intentionally informal one. An example of an informal vote that I encountered during scrutineering a local council election is when one voter drew their own box, labelled it "Tony Abbott", and voted for that.
b, e, g, h are all 1..3 ;)

https://gist.github.com/EriksRemess/62f946bda713da80c7905d1c...
The USA is hard to gauge because its much bigger and more diverse. Housing affordability, access to nature etc all vary heaps by region. Culturally Australia has the most in common with the USA, although the general populace in the USA seem less apathetic about politics.

The Netherlands has rubbish weather for 2/3rds of the year and not a single mountain/hill/beach worth mentioning, but is extremely liveable. Income/CoL ratios tend to be higher than the Bay Area for a given quality-of-life, although you might be earning less in absolute terms. Cities and Towns are very well designed, even Amsterdam (outside the center) feels like a cosy village but you still get access to big-city things. Probably more socialist than NZ, with things like this happening https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/02/dutch-cities-want-ban-property...
American rightism essentially leans towards Christian theocracy.

Does that lend itself more to your intellectual curiosity?

There are obviously other political spectrums, but those are all extremely insignificant minorities. Surely you don't only find satiation to your curiosities in said extreme minorities, that seems rather unfulfilling as any meaningful advancement in them is highly statistically unlikely in you or your direct childrens lifetimes.
You do so have a right to take measures for public health, which may well involve arresting people who ignore the necessary measures.

In a pandemic there is no "street far from you". We are in thios together
Did you have ever found that a Perl oneliner is slow so rewriting by awk meaningful?
When you put your money into a saving account, you're lending the bank your money with an 0.04% interest rate. Is that a security?
The "American leftism" that promotes universal healthcare and reining in Wall Street is shared by a large chunk of the population of Western nations.

The "American leftism" that promotes changing the genitals of 3-year-old children is completely alien to 99.99% of human experience throughout time and space.

Hope that clarifies it.
Abstractions: The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’
I don't know if it's general consensus in the states, but this is my mental model as well.
Human virome: scientists say 380T viruses live inside of us
Interest bearing lending accounts are widespread...you can find them at banks, brokerages, credit unions, and even grocery stores. They are not regulated by the SEC, but by other regulatory entities, which is the whole point that TFA is making.
I'm not sure it's so much about fetishizing, and more about realistic expectations around software development in larger teams.

If you are the sole developer working on your own site - be it a side project/hobby/labour of love or your source of income - you have complete control up and down the stack and have the leeway to tweak performance wherever needed - whether that's indexing and optimizing queries in the backend, reducing the size of your static assets, caching, whatever. You can even yank whole features if you feel their inherent complexity and load outweighs their usefulness.

In anything including and above a medium sized company, a single developer will rarely have the leeway to do anything beyond tinker with their small slice of the stack. They might spend some hours carefully optimizing a query, but it's for naught because the frontend team have screwed up the webpack settings and the JS load runs into many MB. Or you have both done your jobs but the PM wants a ton of analytics on every page. And the CEO's pet feature is a maintenance and performance nightmare but nobody has the clout to have it removed or even simplified. Nobody wants to waste sprints on paying down tech debt in a feature factory, so it becomes progressively harder to fix performance issues.

At that point, the cheaper and politically easier option is to just fire the money cannon at expensive cloud services and hope the extra spend squeezes out some performance gains.
And if someone posted a link to a page about the reddit software (which isn't open-source anymore, but was for a long time), you'd also say "this isn't reddit", because the descriptive page doesn't show a front page, but you need to actually go to somewhere the software is installed to see it? That's two clicks!
> It's a shame because Perth and even Melbourne used to have a relatively low cost-of-living and high quality-of-life.

I'm British and have just moved to Perth. I am looking at being able to get a house 2-3 times as large here compared to the UK, for similar outlay.

Add to that the weather and the sheer space... the QoL here seems so much higher than back home.

I have spent time in some parts of the US (about 4 months in Texas, probably about a year in other parts in total), but haven't lived in NYC. It always seemed nice, if you like the big city, but I had my fill of that in London some time ago.

Now over east? Yeah housing seems utterly inaccessible in Sydney and Melbourme. But out west here it doesn't look that insane by my (British) standards.