skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is frankly not true in a lot of European countries. Google, Facebook and every other company cannot advertise things like toys, tobacco or alcohol to children here in Denmark, and they have to clearly tell you which parts are advertising and which aren’t. This is why Facebook has an “suggested” and an “advertising tag, that you can even click on to be told what metrics decided that you should see it. As well as options to ignore advertisers or setup personal preferences.

I’m not going to defend Google or Facebook, but they didn’t add those things because they wanted to. They added them because their platforms would be banned from Europe if they didn’t.

Influencers are actually some of the only advertisers who aren’t well regulated in Europe, and it’s honestly a real issue when they have more reach than national television stations.

In Denmark alone we’ve had issues with influencers advertising plastic surgery or sugar dating to teenagers and below. Things that are extremely illegal through any other medium, but because “influencers” fall outside of traditional law, it’s been very hard to stop them with the legalisation that we have. In fact they have only been stopped by being publicly shamed in other media, causing them so much bad press that nobody wanted to pay them to advertise things.

So it’s actually quite the opposite, but I’ll be the first to agree that the platforms should also be held into account for the things they allow influencers to post. Not a very popular opinion on HN, but as far as I’m concerned Europe would lose nothing by kicking non-EU software companies where it hurts.
The MMR vaccine required by school is sterilizing, once and done. Intramuscular Covid vaccines provide blood/serum antibodies that can reduce the risk of severe disease or death, but they are non-sterilizing. They never promised to prevent infection and the CDC has updated their definitions to make that clear.

Why would employers need legal immunity? Their lawyers may want to look closely at the legal immunity protections of the PREP act, which extend to healthcare professionals who recommend "countermeasures".
Oh come on, what do you think a leading question is?
This would absolutely never happen, but if we were serious about completely removing the possibility of a Chinese mainland invasion of Taiwan, we could just publicly give Taiwan some nukes.

It would be a global political shitstorm, but even mainland China would not be stupid enough to invade after that.

Nuclear proliferation may be bad for all sorts of reasons, but MAD really does appear to work.

Also Taiwan already has nuclear power plants, so it's not that crazy. They are capable of developing nuclear weapons on their own if they really wanted to.
I have a quick example: the former president.
Calling the whole computer "the CPU" was very common in the 90s. I believe the author of the article deliberately misused the term to invoke 90s vibes and moods.

Edit: Also common at the time was calling monitors "the computer".

If I had to guess, Intel's marketing department played a significant role in quashing the misuse of 'CPU', with their "Intel Inside" stickers and marketing. "Intel Inside" got people to understand that an Intel CPU was something that existed inside their computer, and was not the computer itself. The general public gradually became aware that their computer was "a dell" and inside it somewhere was an Intel CPU.
In that case you have more terrible scenario where you have certain companies who are not interested in becoming too large. The innovation happens outside the parent company as a separate entity. You end up having lego pieces that come together to build something bigger which becomes economically wasteful. You are imposing a cost on folks to think big. Tesla or SpaceX be vision are trying to be super large behemoths.

Among all these calls for "regulation" what is lacking is the broader principle that we will use to regulate not just big tech but for anyone. Google is different than Exxon but I would like the principle that regulations them to be the same. When you look at Texas or Florida trying to pass regulations around tech, they seem pretty terrifying where as California's regulation appears to be a big time nothing-burger.
For some reason the website did not load for me

https://web.archive.org/web/20210909100116/https://aasnova.o...
> Each neutron in an atomic nucleus is made up of three elementary particles called quarks.

Well and tons and tons of virtual particles popping in and out of existance. Only a little over 1% the mass of a neutron is the three quarks normally listed.
Why would that change liability requirements?

My fundamental question is that schools already have tons of vaccine requirements, so why should this one be considered special?
Sending some people to jail, probably.
Good thing they shine a light on those evil troll farms. And not on the "internet activists" of political aligned NGOs in their own home countries.

This month Germany elects a new Bundestag and almost every party recruits their own online activists. E.g. they form "discussion intervention groups" to dynamically flood any online discussion, to ensure their narratives are protected.
In most places I worked that used translation systems, all languages where translations including the default one. Within code using message keys like "thing.title", "thing.add_action", "thing.on_save_error", etc or something like that.

I really like this approach because it makes the code and especially templates much more readable. You usually don't care about the verbose form of the text that should be displayed and those type of keys give you just enough information to understand what it is.

Problem is, it makes it harder to outsource the translations, and well, as it is known, naming things is hard.
if they try to pull this here, I know for a fact my 65-year-old coworker—who has been working from home ever since we were mandated to wear a mask only in the building lobby (this ended July 1st)—won't put up with it, and I won't either, so that's 2/3 of the school district programmers they'd have to fire. thankfully our governor has already stated she's going to take any such actions to court.
For one, it's well known in tech that you're putting your job/livelihood at risk by speaking contrary to the political groupthink. Many people who didn't vote for Clinton or Biden are effectively in career hiding. Threatening someone's job over their beliefs/opinions is very effective censorship.
ABBY is really great... but I was sorry to see they stopped offering it as a subscription based webapp :(
As someone in tech I always thought the core experience was a quality product.

As an extinct user, the experience increasingly diminished the more "creators" were enabled / whatever started becoming of the "creator-first" mantra. It last felt like i was on a TV guide scanning through a bunch of paid programming, c-class doctor phils, and had lost the connections I made / ability to do the whole collective learning that felt really powerful at one point.

Clubhouse felt like "something else" for a bit, and then suddenly it didn't. I stopped using the app right around when android was released. I think Android users missed out.
How placebos work: an alternative theory of consciousness could hold some clues
> Aside from the loss of potential carbon storage from allowing trees to grow on the hillside, which very well might offset any carbon-related gains from using solar,

It is incredibly unlikely to offset the carbon related gains of solar, because the carbon sequestration efficiency of plants and trees is very low to begin with, far lower than solar's capacity to displace carbon emitted from coal when area is held constant.

Sure, it's better to put the solar where there is no existing tree cover, but it seems like most of Appalachia is covered in trees.
Thanks for sharing, that's great! I watched the railway video and it's just what I mean- fascinating things that are too often ignored.
I've used Haskell for a few personal projects (GHC 6.8-7.0 timeframe). It is great but I stand by my statement that the community's obsession with complexity (even if it's simpler from a category or maths sense) is the issue. Haskell's community is almost *obsessed* with increasing cognitive load IMO.

I want to make things not argue about the best, or most technically correct, way to make them.
Silly rants about the GPL aside, why can't you use (LGPL) libelf, following its version of addr2line? The binutils-static rpm doc even says to use elfutils instead in new code -- no BFD? A quick look suggests RHEL's perf does so, but I'd need to check.
While I can understand trying to get larger payouts and I still think what the researcher did is unethical, I'm even more disappointed with the security process of those downstream companies, they have to be pretty incompetent to not immediately burn the vulnerability by reporting it upstream. Unless of course they were planning on exploiting their competitors using it, which is even worse. Probably more likely is employees are forbidden from contributing back to open source, which means they each have incompetent legal departments.
Got it, yeah that's clear. Centralized platforms can certainly credit accounts for BTC that don't exist, on a technical level. Will this happen in practice? Will it be legal? Will it be possible to transfer these fake BTC to other platforms? I don't think so.

In the case of USD, the answer is yes. Banks are incentivized to accept fractional reserve dollars from other banks, because in practice they are exactly the same. Why is that the case? Because the issuer of those dollars, the government, has specifically deemed it to be a legitimate practice. There's no risk in accepting fractional reserve dollars. Fractional reserve dollars can be withdrawn as cash, used to pay taxes, used to pay debts etc.

Let's think about Bitcoin now. Fractional reserve BTC cannot be used to pay on-chain transaction fees. It cannot be used on the lightnight network. It cannot be used to participate in smart contracts. Would Coinbase accept fractional reserve BTC from Gemini? There would be no way for Coinbase to redeem them for on chain BTC, without trusting Coinbase to fulfill it. There's no government that can print extra BTC to fulfill Gemini's debts..so it would be surprising if Coinbase accepted these IOUs from Gemini. The issue with fractional reserve BTC is that they are completely unportable. Usable within the issuers ecosystem, sure, but not beyond that.
Vaccines can bring the R number below 1 from above 1, which means that it really doesn't spread out of control anymore, and becomes much less common in the population.
Because it alters the risk/benefit calculus. A sterilizing vaccine that stops transmission in its tracks, has a clear public health benefit to every part of society, even if there are risks. A non-sterilizing vaccine does not provide that society-wide public health benefit, leaving the employer to bear risks without benefit.
I love that our fundamental reality is built on virtual particles. Physics rocks!
In Australia's case, the same-sex marriage law was approved by 61% of voters in a national plebiscite, a non-binding referendum (officially it was called a "postal survey") before Parliament enacted it.

Legally, Parliament could repeal it tomorrow and ban same-sex marriage again. Politically, that would be impossible without another plebiscite, and there is no reason to believe a new plebiscite would deliver a different outcome; it would almost certainly return the same result, and likely by a bigger margin.

No conservative politician in Australia wants to talk about this. I'm sure some of them are still personally opposed to same-sex marriage, but they all realise trying to repeal it is hopeless, and so they'd rather talk about things that they have some hope of achieving.
Tesla Model S Plaid just set world speed record for a production electric car
> but it seems entirely reasonable that asking for select people to be killed is crossing a meaningful line.

There is enough legal and philosophical body of work around that question. But either ways it is not a meaningful reason for "regulation". All platforms already have restrictions for such things and very likely government regulations will force platforms to allow for "kill all X" talks but not "kill all Y" talks making the platform very toxic.

For example, American company's response to Jan 6 appears to be far more mature and useful to American society than that of American federal government and FBI.
The numbers get REALY bad when you look at vaccinating kids.

486 kids dead from covid [0] over almost 2 years. For reference, over 24,000 kids died during that same period from various accidents. 6,488 kids committed suicide in 2019 alone [1] and those rates have supposedly gone up since, so at least 13,000 kids killed themselves during this pandemic.

There have been at least 250 myocarditis/myopericarditis VAERS complaints (that's inflammation of the heart or heart sack) in kids [2]. When accounting for the much lower child vaccination rates, that's very bad. They were looking at 2.5k reports at that time, but they are now up to 5-6k myocarditis reports now (and kids are being vaccinated at an increasing rate).

Normal VAERS reporting rates are estimated to be around 1% of all people with side effects[3] if for no other reason than people just don't know it exists. Despite this, there have been over 650,000 reports including 14,000 deaths, 18,000 permanently disabled, and 76,000 hospital visits [4]. If the VAERS statistics hold true as they have historically, there are more like 60,000,000 people who actually suffered side effects.

[0] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

[3] https://digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-sup...

[4] https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data
> This is also true of American slaves.

Bullshit. By the 19th century (which is the century everybody talks about) it was almost legally impossible to free a slave in the American south (things like, say, a $200 tax in Florida... which was more money than most people saw in a year).

Even when possible it was essentially never done.

> So is this. You think the child of a free black was enslaved?

In many of the US slave states, if you were a free black person, regardless of who your parents were, you had to either leave the state within a fixed time, or you would be enslaved. So, yes.
> Posted on August 25, 2021 by Rebecca Skinner

> This blog post is a long-form article based on a talk I delivered at the haskell.love conference on 10 Sept 2021

Today, as far as I can tell, is Sept 9, 2021. Hello traveller from the future. Is time travel possible with Haskell?
> I understand why someone would want to buy an NFT to support an artist and I support that behavior.

If you want to give money to an artist, then... give money to that artist. Cut out the massive extra fees to crypto middlemen and staggering environmental damage, and just send them some money.
Suppose the algorithm could update itself with new information. Then you can formulate it in one of two ways:

1. The process of updating the algorithm can, itself, be described by a Turing machine. Think of it like an emulator / debugger (since a universal Turing machine exists, i.e., you can write an evaluator for a Turing machine as a Turing machine). The outer Turing machine can run the inner one partially, realize it needs changes, update it, and then continue running it and return its output.

But then the outer Turing machine, which is self-contained, is itself subject to the halting problem, and you can construct the counterexample based on it. You've just made the machine bigger.

2. The process of updating the algorithm cannot be described by a Turing machine. Perhaps it involves some sort of higher form of intelligence which itself cannot be represented as a Turing machine (so, if you want to say "a human updates it," you're working on the assumption that the human brain cannot be implemented/emulated - however slowly - on a Turing machine, and the decisions of how to update the algorithm require this supra-Turing computational power).

But then, as before, the actual machine is this combination of the extra intelligence and the Turing machine. You've made some stronger non-Turing machine to solve the problem, and the statement "No Turing machine can determine whether any arbitrary Turing machine halts" still holds true. You've introduced a new class of machines with additional power over Turing machines. And the halting problem now applies to these machines when evaluating whether a machine of their own class halts, even though they can determine whether simpler machines halt. Your human-Turing mechas can solve the halting problem for Turing machines, but they cannot solve it for other human-Turing mechas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_jump

In fact, this model, applied to Gödel's theorem, was explored in Turing's own Ph.D. thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Logic_Based_on_Ordi...
That's also what I thought, but without the "30 years of libraries tools" part.

As soon as I read it, I went like "so...you want Rust?" lol

It will cost a lot to migrate their existing code base to Rust, unless they figure out a way to interoperate between C++ and Rust, until they migrate bit by bit to pure Rust code...I don't see any other way to be honest with you :/

Update: Seems like they are already doing something like that [1]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
The Matrix Resurrections trailer is here
Soylent for two?
I believe the latest news on Mochizuki’s work is that Peter Scholze and Jakob Stix identified a fatal flaw, and Mochizuki has not convincingly rebutted it. See e.g. the first item here: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12429

Both the claimed proof and the disproof have now been published in journals, and neither has been retracted! That’s a rather unusual situation to say the least. But I think people in the field generally agree that the proof is flawed and unfixable.
A land war against China over Hong Kong would be ridiculous. They have the entire country as a base. The western countries would have to fly/sail everything in. Not to mention the legal situation. It's their soil already. It would be an invasion. Against another superpower no less. Really bad idea.

And China can hurt the city enough by just turning the water off. It will only hurt the people of Hong Kong more.

No, this change won't be driven by the military. It will have to come from within. Probably the most durable way anyway (see how this worked out for Afghanistan).

Taiwan would be a totally different thing though. They have been independent for so long and they have no wish to join communist China (which they've never been a part of). And it's much more defensible. I do hope we will stand by them when it comes to it.
Ouch. If you are writing user interface for something that doesn't need to be "correct" (legally, or whatever), I find it best to accept whatever decimal separator (what you want, or change by locale, or both, whatever), and never use or allow thousands separators. Bonus points if you document it somewhere on the interface.

If you really, really, really need a thousands separator, use spaces.
Thank EFF.

https://www.eff.org/sv/deeplinks/2020/12/how-we-saved-org-20...
Portugal gave up their perpetual lease of Macau in 1999.
> Society now recognizes cryoto keys on the blockchain as a form of ownership

It really doesn't.

> The world has fundamentally changed

It really hasn't.
The problem is, the devices themselves do have inherent value. The manufacturers literally spend extra effort to nerf that value to make sure your continued use of the device is one way or another dependent on them. The iPhone is a very capable general-purpose pocket computer that was turned into an appliance that Apple controls remotely.
> I could imagine making a single CPU core's job to be simply ordering all incoming writes relative to each other

Calvin is an interesting alternate design that puts "reach global consensus on transaction order" as its first priority, and derives pretty much everything else from that. Don't even need to bottleneck through a single CPU.

http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/calvin-sigmod12.p...

Like VoltDB, the one huge trade-off is that there's no `BEGIN ... COMMIT` interaction where the client gets to do arbitrary things in the middle. Which would be fine, if programming business logic in the database was saner than with Postgres.
In today's environment it seems more apt to say stagflation. I'm sure there is a coin for that.
I was predicting hyperinflation from 2008 and for years after, but the evidence just isn't there.

Maybe things will eventually pop. The actual happenings of the economy (people buying and selling) are insulated from financial markets enough that a huge rally can happen without affecting lived reality for people. Maybe a pop in the financial sector can happen without actually affecting the economy? I don't see why the fed can't just make that money go away if it really needs to.
Well, I think the point here is that you don't become good or evil, or do harm or not do harm, by virtue of being big or small. Yet that seems to be the primary axis on whether legislation pampers its target or not.
I visited in 2016, too. The fellow there recommended that to learn more about China I should visit Taiwan. At the time I thought that was a pessimistic point of view.
The populace is easier convinced to fund a war if it is in defense immediate or perceived imminent threat to sovereignty of their territory. Vietnam and Iraq wars were no such threat. Afghanistan arguably so only to the extent of suppressing the forces responsible for the Twin Towers attack. For instance, I'm quite sure America would have defended any attack on American soil in WWII under any conceivable currency scheme.

Taxation is an explicit act that is visible on your paycheck; something you sign on at the end of the year. Debasement is more subtle and the common man who has little in his bank account may not even consider the effect, thus rationally would be more likely to go along with a war based on implicit debasement rather than explicit taxation.

>This is social policy not monetary policy. Japan has a soft monetary system, struggles constantly with deflation and has no army.

War is a social and monetary policy in a fiat currency nation; including a tacit approval for debasement to pay for that which cannot or will not be paid via other means.

In the past you have argued that illegal immigrants / criminals should not be aided with easier monetary tools for their trade. If that point follows, that could be extended to the criminals who authorized the latest Iraq War and last decade of the Afghanistan war as well. Fiat debasement is just one tool in the toolbox of the criminals in legislature and Federal Reserve. [*Note: personally I do not agree with your hypothesis that we should restrict the monetary tools of criminals. I think instead we should focus on the underlying crime itself.]

Of course, the rich already know all this, and seek to hold most of their wealth in assets and then hide any capital gains with any shell game they can.
I have read a comparison about the structure of the Spartan society, basically consisting mostly of slaves like no other culture that used slave labor. Today we know what early experience of violence may do to a person and as far as I now, Spartans hat to kill one helot to be finally admitted into adult Society.

So we get two things.

1. A worrier based elite society, consisting basically of psychopaths

2. A society structure that seem more to resemble a concentration camp with guards.
That's an obnoxiously large font, especially for a .design website
Explain Mother Theresa, as well as the flagellants and other penitents.