skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the basis of the criticism? The employees of MailChimp knowingly and willingly entered into an employment relationship that did not include equity in its compensation.

They have no reason to be unhappy and MailChimp doesn’t owe them anything other than the salary and profit sharing that was promised. Regardless of who the new owners of MailChimp are.

There are multiple other possible motivations for Ellen’s post other than criticism.
That's not what fungible means though. When you start printing numbers on them, they're no longer fungible.
How about saying a large chunk of the population don't want to benefit because there will be a tiny percentage misusing it against them. Lots of rights and freedoms are not wanted because we don't want our neighbors to have them too. We encode them as laws.
Why did it take so long? Seems like an obvious thing in hindsight?
In my experience the distribution of the former tends to increase exponentially with the size of the company.
I don't quite follow your logic. The parent comment pointed out that obfuscating financial transactions makes it hard to enforce laws. You responded by saying Monero improves privacy. That might be true, but it doesn't really address the concern about illegal/harmful activity that a current like Monero would enable.

I do agree that financial surveillance is an issue, but I'm not sure Monero is the best way to curtail it. Why not try passing strong consumer protection laws that ban companies from collecting and selling data on financial transactions as well as tighter restrictions on the access that law enforcement has on this data? If the problem is a government that is abusing its power, it wouldn't be too hard for them to crackdown on any cryptocurrency they consider a threat. Monero feels like a band-aid rather than a long term solution, and one with some pretty significant downsides.
Unfortunately it's not just that. A few years ago a friend reached out to a few investigative journalists with documents about wrongdoing at a big co. No response. This was at the time of the Mossack Fonseca hack when many of those same publications were calling out individuals who owned offshore companies, even when it was perfectly legal for them to do so. Maybe she was unlucky, but my anecdotal takeaway was that perhaps it simply required less work, and got more clicks than real investigative journalism.
Substack > Medium > WordPress > Blogspot

There's always been this huge demand for cheap blogging, and someone who met them then messed up that trust.
Intuit lobbied to keep the tax system complicated. In theory the IRS could do your taxes for you and ask for corrections. For most people, they have all the information needed to do taxes and would save people a lot of stress and money.
> the strategy of stopping viral spread in a given population until there are no new case

Will never happen happen except temporarily. That's just fundamental epidemiology.
Conveniently, I just saw: https://twitter.com/bryanrbeal/status/1437551640559620098
The health experts have deemed cigarettes and alcohol extra unhealthy for covid spread reasons now. Social wellbeing is just not something I would entrust to a sector not very well adjusted to work-life balance and desperate for middle-class admiration.

I also have to wonder if the scientific community even wants to know if cigarettes and alcohol correlate with less covid deaths given their great hex on it. It's interesting to think what level of gain/detriment will bring them to get a mention, let alone advise increased uptake. Imagine a world where they dish out wine & ciggs at the hospital as often as they do other drugs of dependence.
> The best thing we can do is care for the animals with respect, and give them good lives.

Until someone gets hungry, and then letting the animal live a good life quickly stops being a concern, even though letting it live will result in exactly 0 nutritional problems (assuming a normal, balanced diet).

> we're no different.

But we are, no? We aren't dogs, right? Or lions, or deer, or doves, or elephants. We are humans, and can recognize moral worth and weigh the ethical concerns of a situation, such as "Is it really worth having this animal suffer and die, when I could instead just eat a veggie burger?"

> vicious circle

When do we get to the part of the circle where 10 billion humans are systematically artificially inseminated, farmed, milked, culled, processed, thumped, skinned, boiled, and cut every year to sate the appetites of pigs, geese, horses, cows, goats, sheep, fish, sharks, whales, etc?
All countries are various shades of insolvent over a long enough timeline. It’s he who devalues the most last who wins.
Fortran _is_ dead. I work with it professionally. The tooling is next to non-existent, the compilers are trash, the standards committee is in some weird backwards compatible with FORTRAN 66 circle jerk to the point where you can't have a sane modern revision (think the complete opposite problem as Python 2 -> Python 3).

The only reason Fortran is still around is institutional inertia.
> Incredible that “pro free speech” is now a “right” belief.

Incredible in the sense that it’s not true, yeah.
Are you making the argument that decomposing in the ground is "consumption"?

We are animals too you know. If all animals are "ultimately consumed", so perhaps there is no problem if I kill and eat some close friend of yours?

When people start defending their meat consumption, they seem to make all sorts of bizarre claims. Could you explain yours?
> Once you get familiar with openwrt, it does a lot of interesting things.

what's your favorite feature?
up to the prison part, it is largely accurate. The punishment is just more likely to be penalties and expensive audits.
This post is a genX honeypot
Strange that you would twist my words that way. I don't advocate for getting rid of services that the government provides, nor do I have a problem with them offering a service in general.

I do think that if you take an existing market with competition, and you nationalise one or more actors in that market, competition becomes very difficult for any remaining private actors in that market or any future entrants. The reason is pretty simple: the rule-setting body is now playing the game against you. The end result of this is that new actors are less likely to enter the market at all, which limits innovation.

Because of this (and because of the historical record of failure almost every time this kind of thing is tried) the decision to nationalise should be taken very carefully. You list several things such as fire departments and roads which are arguably best provided by the government, but I don't think it's obvious that retail financial services should be added to that list.
Fence-sitters already switch in droves, Firefox lost 250M users in the last ten years. So keeping the status quo already clearly leads to demise.

And how can you claim you are free* when 90% of your revenue comes from your main competitor?

Maybe making a paid browser is what they need to become truly free* and reset to a user-centric product development culture, which could then actually make it an exciting product again (even if they initially lost 90% of users as a consequence, those would be lost with time anyhow).
Resources and copypasta.

Today's apps are meant for things like 4K screens and have graphical resources to match.

Then, everyone loves to bundle in third-party frameworks and libraries, which bloat individual apps and cannot be shared.

If you look at the actual application logic code, it has grown much more reasonably in proportion to apps 20 years ago. It's just that there's a lot more junk tagging along with it. If you look at typical Linux packages, where library reuse is still the norm (though perhaps not for long, with containers...), you'll find fairly sensibly sized binaries.

Modern Linux kernels don't fit on floppies any more, but if you look at the actual code in there... there's good reasons for it to exist (and of course you can compile time disable a lot of it, though probably not enough to get it small enough for a floppy any more). Complexity is unfortunately necessary for things to work and perform well on modern systems (e.g. think of how much more complicated things got once SMP/multicore became the norm).
Adobe Reader/Acrobat used to be go-to surface for exploits back in the day. It’s a huge specification.
The lack of a network of competing dealerships and independent mechanics means that Tesla gets to charge whatever they want for repair, with no ability of the market, or competition to drive down costs.

This isn't a good thing.
Orion will be paid https://browser.kagi.com (Mac only though)
There is nothing wrong with well-implemented telemetry. It's an extremely valuable tool for improving software quality. I don't understand the antipathy some people have for it.
It seems to me that if it looks totally procedural, then most programmers are going to reason about it totally procedurally. Using monads under the hood isn't going to buy you anything. In particular, it isn't going to make FP any more accessible, because the programmers won't be doing FP. They'll be doing procedural programming. Sure, the language may turn it into FP under the hood, but that's a detail of how the compiler generates its intermediate forms. That's not the claimed magic of FP; it's all in how you think. And if you think you're doing procedural, well... you don't get any FP magic that way.
Some would argue that your comfort in allowing the government to see all of your transactions is borne of a lifetime of privilege.

Almost all governments throughout history except for now would have abused that privilege.
The problem is not the browser, but a lazy mgmt. Selling user privacy to Google for easy money instead of asking users to either pay for ensuring their privacy. But that will take real work instead of easy “royalty” payments from Google.

Between telemetry, safe browsing, sqlite database with all sites you visited & gvfs they siphon off some serious data.
So bad for privacy but snappy otherwise, particularly the new versions. MDN is pretty good too, but they chopped off their tech team to “save money” for a top heavy mgmt team.
I had an 8830 and I absolutely loved it. The keyboard was magnificent. I still do not understand how, despite being a daily user of iPhone/android on-screen keyboards for about ten years, I can barely type a single word without typos, backspaces, and functional-idiot-grade autocorrects. This was never, ever a problem with the BB. If they’d kept the physical keyboard form factor and added a reasonable touch screen/OS/UX like the iPhone, I would still be using it.
> Imagine, as the article mentions, a person that has a daily calorie excess of exactly 10kcal per day from a potato chip. CICO with a 100% fat conversion dictates that person will gain 8lbs of pure fat every year.

No it doesn't. One of the factors that determines your BMR is your weight, so adding any constant amount of calories every day only affects your weight by a constant amount. Eating an extra 10kcal every day might give you 2lbs, total, ever in your life.
H1B seekers. But that is a whole can of worms.
I really don’t understand your insistence here. Firstly the original claim isn’t “regardless of any level of harm”, and I’ve already given examples of profiting despite harm to others. Secondly even if you insist on an extreme level of harm there are still examples. We can use any of a number of dictators that are literally willing to kill millions to stay in power.

Do they actually say out loud “I am willing to profit regardless of how much I harm others”? No, probably not. But actions speak louder than words here.
Is it? I thought mining was something like 6% of our GDP.

I suppose it doesn’t really matter if it is or isn’t our whole economy because either way it needs to stop; we need to stop voting in people who are happy to destroy the planet so they can further increase their personal wealth regardless.
I think mastodon can work for social media.
Solana has done more for Rust adoption than either Amazon or Mozilla
Pure Functional programming’s cost comes up front when you are trying to solve and express your solution. Imperative programming’s cost comes after you have written code, because it is inevitably buggy and incorrect. Imperative programmers and managers don’t mind because fixing bugs feels and looks like productive work, and they don’t believe bugs are largely avoidable.
Indeed, and therefore it reveals that enforcing guidelines is not the priority.
Don Quixote in Spanish households is like Gödel, Escher, Bach for techies. You bought it when you were young, it sits proudly on your bookshelf, you talk about how meaningful it was... but you've only read a chapter or two.

(c'mon, you gonna pretend you really read the entire GEB on the bookshelf behind you right now?)
Great question and how do you propose they do that?
UniHertz Titan (kind of janky, but has a good hacking community), BlackBerry Key2, fXtec Pro and a few others. There is an audience, and we're out here being weird!
I don't necessarily disagree with your Microsoft comment. I'm merely trying to say that I think Firefox needs more than features to reclaim some of its popularity.

Where we're at, is that most people are happy running a Chromium variant. It's open source and there are enough downstream consumers that you can pick your poison.

If Mozilla is going to push the "private browser, for you" angle, they are going to need to push harder on the "for you" angle.

I'm still a loyal Firefox user. It seems to me that its users would rather have more say in its direction - give the people what they want.
I think Intel's mid-range Ethernet card are quite nice.
The specific incident he talked about was some serious historical revisionism - portraying early religious Americans in an extremely unjustified negative light (and he's not even a Christian).
> I don’t think it can be made clearer: YouTube fought the battle and lost.

Oh? When did that happen?
Changed to bulletproof https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066
It's a well known piece but it's from 2014 (or earlier), and the world was different back then.
I think the actual problem is that a lot of the functional programming discipline is about writing code to be understood by machines (eg: compilers, theorem provers, etc) in ways that can trade off against the convenience of people reading and writing it. When I have to write a program that computes functions of programs, I always reach for my FP knowledge, first thing, and start using the more "theoretical" branches quite quickly.

But program analysis and synthesis are different actual endeavors from writing some bog-standard, everyday code.
Self hosted eCommerce tools which can help small businesses do their commerce without being held hostage by the monopolistic platforms are always in need. Congratulations for building one.

I have added Vendure & Medusa to my curated list of startup tools at StartupToolchain - https://startuptoolchain.com/#website .
Show HN: Orakyubu, a game about 2D puzzles in 3D space
By that same math, there is 0% chance of complications from COVID.

There is not a 0% chance of complications from vaccines. If you believe that, you need to look at the CDC's own data, as well as data from other countries.
Bounce on a dick
My response was to parody the statement I was responding to, specifically "Veganism has no solid basis in that there is no precedent." I was hoping replacing just one word would have made the connection as clear as possible. Is having no precedent enough of an argument to stop change? It's absurd on its face.
I switched jobs to Google shop. Google keep is straight trash compared to one note. There is reason Microsoft makes bank of office. Outlook, word, one note and the best excel are miles better than anything else for basic use. Yes I use vim alot.. but still office is pretty great.
Say what you will about Elon but this move is such a gangster move, such a finger “on both hands up” to the face of the dealership lobby. I’ve a ton more respect for him now.

Dealerships are places where one has some of the worst experiences.
50 million users lost in the last 2 years alone.

Sorry Mozilla, we love you, but all the good you think you're doing means nothing when you end up with no one using your browser.

Of course, Mozilla can continue to arrogantly ignore its user base.
I don't know the chemistry. What I do know is that if you start searching for food-grade storage containers you'll mostly find plain white HDPE, and that other colors of the same containers, from the same manufacturers, are not rated food-safe. I forget how I formed the impression that black was least likely to be food safe, except that black is what I otherwise would have wanted, and I could not for the life of me find food-safe black containers. But I think there was something else about that specific colorant as well. Sorry I can't find more specifics. I might be motivated to find a real expert now.
I'm for expansive, but limited versions of these things.

I think your love letters should be private from the gov't, I don't think your income should be private from the gov't.

I think nearly everyone should be able to own a rifle, but I don't think any private citizen should be able to own a tank.

There are many aspects of life where I think the costs outweigh the benefits for citizen in society. Since there are trivial numbers of alternatives, I see a highly anonymized digital store of value as bad for the public welfare. The limit is typically where public access to the good is necessary to prevent tyranny, but universal access causing a tyranny of the minority is typically the where things should be illegal.

I think the conditions in which Monero would benefit society existed, the legality of Monero would be irrelevant.
Yes. In both directions: 'Low-profile' advertisers (millions of dollars per year is still low-profile) meanwhile get the nonsensical AI rejections and shadowbans
> the week before the parties were to appear in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a settlement was announced in March 2014, and it was reported that no money changed hands.

That's not fighting the battle and losing. That's fighting the battle and surrendering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y...

They won every time their case was argued. When did they lose?
My thoughts are the same. Jekyll “just works” for me, why does it need further development?
Sue the companies making false claims for damages. Time spend by employees sorting out the mess after fraudulent ownership claims has a measurable dollar figure. And then there is the damage to the brand and loss of business, which a lawyer with chutzpah would claim at billions. If they don't do this, they will just keep bleeding business to companies that do push back or are in better jurisdictions.
> This suggests an enormous opportunity for Native American land, normally mired in poverty. Establish free trade zones, not subject to the anti-business, heavily taxed rest of the states.

What's the opportunity there? The opportunity to attract economic activity without capturing revenue from it, while incurring all the environmental costs?

Seems to be an anti-opportunity.
Interesting, what you describe as the motivation of the law sounds suspiciously familiar to what Amazon does to 3rd party businesses.
Sounds like some classic elitism. If you don't like it, it is because you don't get it or didn't finish it. Even though you likely didn't finish it because you didn't like it. You see this kind of thing in a lot of different mediums.
> then this is even more true for the kids who are less intelligent

Disagree. Kids who are smarter can take better advantage of improved education. I think diminishing returns would quickly kick in for most kids.
A polite request from Lightspeed's author to colorscheme maintainers/contributo
I think GP was referring to geopolitical alignment and intelligence sharing rather than membership per se.
Someone still had to discover it though!
Clever idea!

I have no knowledge about any of this whatsoever, but would venture to guess that in states where this kind of thing happens, licensing to become a distributor may be very difficult. For example, the total number of licenses may be constrained.
>but we aren't doing this yet

Or anything at all it seems ...
When it was a problem?
The entirety of https://octavian.substack.com/ is hilarious. Is it here because it was composed by AI?
that's for sender anonymity, and recipient anonymity is via one-time (stealth) addresses
My kids attended a "very good" school. It was a crap shoot. There was a large population of kids who were children of professors and doctors. Some kids did very well, others fell through the cracks. There's only so much you can control through selection of a school, and other factors, and then it's a crap shoot.

Possibly the only predicting factor I was able to discern is that highly disciplined, self motivated parents tend to have highly disciplined, self motivated kids. People in professions that select for those traits will have "successful" kids.

One thing I noticed is that I had vastly more spare time as a kid -- enough that I was able to play music while also teaching myself electronics and programming. On the other hand my school paid very little attention to writing, and I think my kids got a lot better preparation in both writing and critical thinking.
First, "4G" non-LTE is actually 3G.

T-Mobile's 3G network will shut down on October 1st, around two weeks from now. For obvious reasons T-Mobile doesn't want you to activate devices that are about to stop working.
The carbohydrate-insulin model:a physiological perspective on obesity pandemic
I didn't read the book, but from the summaries I don't find Graeber's thesis any more convincing. It's not like people who lived in pre-money societies sang Kumbaya all day. They pillaged each other all the same. Sure, money was able to finance armies that did this with more efficiency, but you can say the advances in metallurgy were made with nefarious motivations. That doesn't make the advancement bad in itself.
It's not a problem that there's a different technical solution to high-profile users. There's no problem with FB hiring more (or more skilled) moderators for higher-profile users.

The problem is when the rules are not applied evenly, especially when high profile users with greater audience can abuse those rules.
C++ is pretty much the opposite of moving fast and breaking things. It takes like 10+ years, lots of academic papers and debates, lots of peer review, to get a feature into the ISO standard. The reason it's so bloated is just because of age.

Rust is just a single implementation that's CI'ed with nightly releases.
I disabled push on master for everyone (includes myself). There are just damn so many `forgot to create a branch and pushed directly on master` type accidents.

A auto approved PR at least allows you to know who made the change at when. Push directly don't really preserve the information.
when a monetary system lacks privacy it also gives up fungibility (meaning soundness goes out the window too)
It was very weird to go the other way around and have read Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More before HyperNormalisation came out.

I love Bitter Lake and The Power of Nightmares, but cannot stand HyperNormalisation for having almost nothing to do with the book's concepts, regardless of whether it stands on its own.
I found this study where gene therapy was used to alter alpha cells to behave more like beta cells quite interesting:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757249/

I don't know if much has happened with the research since, but the theory was since only beta cells are targeted by the autoimmune response, perhaps these "pseudo Beta cells" might be left to produce insulin without being attacked. Does mean you're potentially left with inhibited glucagon production though. Perhaps gene therapy altered alpha cells could be implanted rather than altering the ones you have.
What are the use cases you've seen functional programming in real business?