skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hammers, wrenches!

Rolls eyes.

Screwdrivers scale!

Screwdrivers are scalable, idempotent and functional.

Can't believe you are serving 100 villagers with hammers. Hammers make everything look like a nail. And it's impossible to make comments with wrenches.
That is absolutely the battle YouTube fought that lead to Content ID and the claims system that doesn’t have the leniency you wish that it did. It’s not even ambiguous; this is the system that we got. In fact, the system actually improved vastly since it was initially implemented.

Really. It was all a direct reaction to the lawsuits: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118161295626932114

When I say it has improved, I mean it genuinely has. Back in 2008 the usual outcome of copyright strikes were deleted videos and deleted channels. Copyright cartels monetizing videos they didn’t make due to dubious Content ID matches may seem like an unreasonable response, but it is still a better compromise than content flying down blackholes.

And yes. It would be great if all of these problems could just be solved. I’m sure they’ve heard every idea imaginable. There is no one obvious way to solve everything. So asking “why don’t they just do this?” is not productive. What we could ask is “how did we get here?”

And the answer to that is that copyright is broken. And if we could fix that, or at least make it less broken, some of these problems would literally disappear.

And if you don’t believe me, there’s tons of backup from people more persuasive who have perspectives of being in the direct line of fire. Like Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU

And yeah YouTube could do better, but all too often you get the perspective that this is all their fault because they could solve it with one easy trick. It’s easy to say that when none of the competition managed to stick around to prove it.

Instead, the opposite happened instead, when Twitch had its own copyright reckoning.

We knew copyright on the internet was fundamentally broken in the Napster days. Did we forget?
Musk already has more than one - they all seem garbage to me!
I'd really like to be pointed to someone seriously denying the thermodynamic explanation. I've heard that argument time and time over, it's a strawman.
i think that's the point that the parent is trying to make: the only sites that have "figured out" moderation have erred almost ridiculously on the side of rejecting a ton of content, often in biased ways. the sites that do this generally seem better for it, even if it's not really fair.

moderation that works well is generally not very nice. content moderation that isn't somewhat cruel doesn't work very well.
It was a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Personally, I have never used any of these features.

I'm not even really sure what "Expanded Dark Mode" is.

DOH is probably good for many people, but I prefer to run my own DNS server (and I VPN back into my LAN when not at home with WireGuard).
Isn’t most of the complexity associated with itemized deductions, which at lower levels of income default to a straight-up standard deduction?

Or are you referring to some other provisions?
LOL. It's telling that even in these satires they don't quite get the tone right - it still has a tinge of US- centrism in there
Of course!

It's not like it is a long book.

Now Metamagical Themas is a different story.
I think vegetarianism is about a whole lot more than sentience. I aspire to vegetarianism for energy reasons. It comes down to how many square meters of sunlight-on-chlorophyll is required to support a meat eater vs a vegetarian, vs how many are available.

But even if it were just about not wanting to kill things that resemble us--it still doesn't have to be a false elevation of human sentience.

If there are fungi that make decisions, I'd expect them to look out for their fungus-buddies more than they look out for me. If Jupiter's red spot can be asked, I'd expect that it cares more for the weird hexagon on the poles of Saturn than anything going on on earth. Seeking kinship with similar things and being indifferent to alien things is common in biology, and it gets along just fine without sentience in the mix.
> highly specific immune-suppression

It is being developed and has cured type 1 diabetes in two clinical trials:

1. "Metabolic and immune effects of immunotherapy with proinsulin peptide in human new-onset type 1 diabetes" https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf7779

2. "Safety and feasibility of intradermal injection with tolerogenic dendritic cells pulsed with proinsulin peptide—for type 1 diabetes" https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30104-2

A press release about the study: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/safety-trial-for-ty...

They are currently recruiting for the next clinical trial. Perhaps you could participate?

"An Immunotherapy Vaccine (PIpepTolDC) for the Treatment of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes" https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04590872
A "free" web where you are "free" to say/do anything as long as we think it is ok: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

A "free" web where you pretend to fight against Google, but copy every user-hostile anti-feature from them, take almost all your money from them, and put them as your default search engine.

Mozilla deserve every bit of their recent problems, just like they deserved their meteoric rise in the 2000s.
Amplifying content means other content is reduced in spread. This means some people won't see the content that they would have otherwise seen.
I would recommend to advanced Spanish learners Lathrop's Spanish version with English footnotes. They help with the trickier and mostly uncommon words or historical context.
“Fact: functional programming takes more time to learn”

Is there evidence/studies about this?
I guess some people don’t welcome butt caps. The world is a complex place.
I prefer Firefox for Android as well, but there is a Chromium fork called Bromite which has adblocking built in, too.
I agree. I had to provide tech support for Blackberry users before the iPhone. I personally was a Danger Hiptop user which I found to be much better.

The primary interaction on the Blackberry was the scrollwheel on the side and every action felt like scrolling through contextual menus endlessly.
Couple of other books I would recommend: Revolt of Angles, Candide, The blue peril.

No particular reason other them being obscure (on HN at least) and pretty good reads.
I apologize, I didn't divide that number by 9, so it's a bit less than a lb a year, but that was meant to illustrate what you ended up pointing out.

BMR is variable.

It's why when we talk about deficits and surpluses we are actually doing hand-waving around something critical, on any given day, how do you even know what your BMR/RMR is?

Contestants that starved themselves on the biggest loser showed a 500kcal reduction in RMR 6 years later. If they'd just plugged themselves into a calculator and eaten the prescribed allotment daily, they'd be gaining the weight back quite rapidly. And that's exactly what happened to most of them as it turns out.
I completely agree with the author. A few months back I examined the number of network requests required to populate the data for a page I was trying to improve performance on.

Let's just say it did not go well. Despite best intentions of being API-first with a SPA front-end, when you have a data-heavy and query-heavy application, it is absolutely the wrong choice ten times out of ten.

It leads to (not so) hilarious situations where the older, server-side rendered version of your app that uses jQuery absolutely demolishes your new hotness in performance. Try explaining that one with a straight face.
Successful businesses always attract an ecosystem to support them in providing goods and services to them.

I.e. plenty of opportunity for the locals.
ah, but you are assuming that the inconsistent enforcement is an accident. "for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
dating apps have been doing this for years
I'm not seeing how they benefit even in the short term. The businesses would all be owned by people outside the tribe, the entire point is to have low/no taxes, and the infrastructure built is unlikely to be useful after the business is gone.

Maybe they hire some tribe members for jobs, but I would bet only for the untrained jobs. Possibly they'd benefit some from selling/leasing the land and other set up fees, but even that they might pull the usual corporate "tax break" scheme.

Besides, it's entirely possible the way the state fixes this "loophole" puts them in a worse position than currently. The history of renegotiating often doesn't end well for the Natives.
I totally agree with the idea of catering your BE to service your -- most likely -- single FE client. Every rails project I have worked on has this 1:1 mapping between endpoints and entities and it drives me insane. We set up these APIs to have clean lines between models and endpoints and consequently we push all the complexity of combining all of these related entities onto the FE. Then we wonder why the FE is so complicated! If I have to make 5+ API requests for one page then there was a severe failure in planning the API.

What's even more frustrating is this is the rationale for moving to something like graphQL. We have engineers advocating for it because then it's "just one request per page" and it doesn't click that the framework we are using is pushing us into a less than favorable API design.
It was common law copyright, not derived from the copyright clause of the Constitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_copyright
Notepad++ - generic note for everything, it can keep the contents through restart without saving

Google Keep - on mobile, used features like checkbox, voice recording, take photo

Evernote - archival for searching in the future, content like snippets and tips
Also:

>” Unlike communists in China, Latin America or Eastern Europe, party leaders in Kerala never seized factories — the “means of production,” in the words of Marx — or banned private property. Instead, they competed in elections with the center-left Indian National Congress party, winning some years and losing others.”

The key thing is they didn’t expropriate private property (seizing the means of production) which is one of the main things communists do. So they are more of a hybrid. They may have communist roots and ideology but it appears they are practical and not dogmatic, and, as attested, they are not afraid of making money and becoming rich.
It's not too esoteric, fortunately. The short explanation is they are a part of the Israeli gov, as with all tech companies in that territory, so that gives certain material advantages to their preferred companies, just like how USA does with offense contractors like Northrop.

Basically, they are propped up by their gov, and that is the major problem.
Another use case where you are very probably better to build a general-purpose API: when you want offline support, especially if you want sync. Ad-hoc offline support will cause you far more trouble than the effort of making a principled design. (As far as foundations for a sync-capable web protocol are concerned, I’d suggest JMAP as generally a good choice for client-server sync, and even if it doesn’t match your requirements, it’s good reading for those unfamiliar with sync considerations to get a feel for what you’re going to need.)
Love this idea, and someday when you also have a mobile app please provide them an actual API that is just as useful for them, don’t ask them to use those bespoke RPC endpoints.
> Have you seen that list of annoying decisions up there? For one, they are gone now.

Erm, even with that solution you still have to consider the changes that impact this schema. These problems didn't go away, they simply became masked differently.
I hadn't noticed this before, but an actual Star Trek writer posted a comment to Scalzi's post:

> Raging at Trek because its filled with rubber science is a straw man argument. When has any Star Trek show ever pretended to be scientifically accurate? Every Trek show has always been, at the core, an action-adventure drama about contemporary issues refelected off the funhouse mirror of an SF setting. It’s allegory, not extrapolation.

So, don't try to predict the consequences of new technologies by analogies to Star Trek. You'll do as well as predicting the outcome of a war by analogies to Bruce Lee movies. Same goes for Terminator, Dr. Who, and the Jetsons.

And, despite https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScien..., the same really goes for fiction in general: fiction is literally, unashamedly, intentionally, nothing but lies. It doesn't tell you anything about reality, just about its authors' beliefs. And when we're talking about things that haven't happened yet, the authors generally don't know any more than you do; even when they have thought about the subject, as is undoubtedly the case with Star Trek's English-speaking extraterrestrials and audio-transmitting vacuum, they may prefer to portray things they know are impossible because they think they'll be more entertaining or help them achieve some other artistic goal.

Don't reason from fictional evidence. It makes you look like a fool.
It's funny you used Asia as an example when the article literally starts with:

> Anyone who has travelled in Asia or the Middle East will be familiar with the concept of ‘++’ pricing. Any published rate you see for a hotel will come with ‘++’ after the price, meaning that you will also be subject to local taxes and a service charge. These are likely to add at least 20% to the total price.
Yes.

https://twitter.com/churchofmonero

Also related reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/a8uyze/the_church_o...
Reminds me of Blippy => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blippy.

And Venmo => https://www.mic.com/p/matt-gaetz-who-is-definitely-not-a-sex...
If someone underprices a dealership the general driving population (90% of Americans) would benefit while people that own dealerships (1% of Americans) would suffer.
I agree with this. It's tangentially related to it being so standard to refer to every JSON HTTP API as a "REST" API. REST APIs (in the strict sense) are for public integrations (but how common is that really?) / other teams in your (largish) company.
Yeah prefilled tax forms are like defecto in Europe.
Not true, for example:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120912125114.h...

Also

>Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

What increases or decreases BMR?

E.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-years-after-the...

Why are there very slim people who struggle to gain weight regardless of how much they try to eat more?

What causes hunger pangs for people when they have half a million calories strapped to their waist?

>I'm guessing the reason nobody runs these studies is that it's solved science?

Exactly this type of thinking has stymied research into very interesting questions.
If a being is killed, it ceases to be.

If it has no friends/family who miss its absence, who cares?

Death is not immoral, it just is.
One of the things that I like most about Jekyll is that when I return to my blog's repo that I haven't visited in 7 months, it is very easy for me to figure out how to "revive" it and add more content.

I spent a few months making the "ultimate" Gatsby site for my blog. I loved it. A year went by and I had no desire to relearn everything in order to update the thing (and fix the myriad of security vulns GitHub was now warning me about).
How long until GPT-4 plus virtual humans replace youtubers?
> [meat’s] carbon-cost is not considered a much as it should be (as is the case with most things, I think)

Oh, I strongly agree.

However the majority of the greenhouse gas contribution from meat is methane, which decomposes over many decades. So in the long term, not eating meat is expected to only decrease your carbon footprint by 2% to 4%[1][2].

But meat is expensive, and I suspect that whatever you substitute instead of purchasing meat would generate CO2, so my guess is the impact would be much closer to 0%.

Personally I use money as my proxy for calculating carbon footprint. So your long term footprint is highly correlated and mostly dependent upon your income and the economy you belong to, almost regardless of your actions.

Unless you are doing direct action to capture carbon, not having children, killing people, or reducing your economy’s usage of CO2, then action at an individual level makes very little difference IMHO. Not to say we shouldn’t try!

Edit: also note the 60% headline figure is of 35% agricultural emissions, so actually about 20% of personal emissions. And presumably that is very strongly dependant on the country you in (buying meat from).

[1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/green-business/125675673/pa...

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/10/5568#
Did you consider endpoint composition? Instead of making 7 API requests (via fetch, or whatever), provide an endpoint that’s simply the composition of the 7 endpoints.
Very cyberpunk - something I would expect to read in the pages of Transmetropolitan.
No.

HN has addressed this problem by keeping it text-only.
I could not agree more. This is the way I design things and it makes life so much easier. It solves so many problems by just building a separate API for each app. They can all use and re-use the same underlying functions and logic, but each API serves the data in the most convenient way for whatever page is being rendered. I would never go back.
I fully agree with your viewpoint. But it’s also important for someone to take the risk, otherwise that market might not even be served by anyone (dealer or manufacturer).
I have done something similar with a previous project at work, though everything went through three layers, the front-end, which was reasonable as they describe, the front backend, which just serves the single page's required data, and the back backend which was mostly the legacy version of the site's back-end but still had useful logic in it.

Ended up working out okay, and the idea of each pages gets a service endpoint was a bit weird at first, but really gave it the flexibility to avoid needing to go touching the legacy layer very often.
I think software quality was actually higher then. Dealing with a new API or framework is work too, often it’s actually more work than a bespoke implementation.
> Monero supports crime as much as cash supports crime.

Cash has serial numbers which means it needs to be laundered, since banks work with the FBI to trace where bills with serial numbers show up.
Here's an idea – instead of passing the "visual page structure" to the client as JSON, use a markup language specifically designed for that purpose – HTML.

What ends up happening though is that you have to build that general purpose API for mobile apps regardless, and right after that developers start using it to render their web app components. Rinse and repeat.
> no ticket no work

I immediately thought of Jack Nicholson jeering, “no tickey, no laundry!”
I have Knuth's TACP sitting proudly on my bookshelf and ... I flipped through it a couple of times thinking, wow, I'm never going to read this am I.
This approach does not help when you need to transform data models on the frontend (and possibly send it back).

Imagine trying to make sense of:

merge(pages.a.section.main.data,
pages.a.section.secondary.data)

What does that even mean? It’s going to get hard to prep abstract data.
I would honestly love to respond to anyone who is downvoting my comments--leave a reply and we can have a conversation about it.
On your first point I absolutely agree.

But if you’re implying from it that benefits programs don’t matter because the payroll taxes pay for them, that’s not correct.

In 2020, the cost of the programs I mentioned above was approximately 2.3 trillion dollars. Payroll tax revenue was 1.3 trillion, income tax revenue was about 1.6, everything else is half a trillion.

So if you waved a magic wand and poofed these programs out of the budget, you could get rid of the payroll taxes and 2/3 of the receipts of the income tax without changing the deficit. Or, you could get rid of payroll taxes, all the other taxes, and still reduce the income tax receipts by about 1/3.

> People paid into social security and medicare to get it. If they get more than they paid in for (sans interest earned on what they put in), then you have a case for a "wealth transfer". Otherwise, it is just like a 401K, which is also save now and use later.

The problem with this line of argumentation is that people have gotten (and are promised to get) more out of these programs than they pay in.

The CBO provides projections for the solvency of the assets of these programs, which it calls trust funds [1]. The projections show the bulk insolvent by 2026. So clearly people are receiving more than their contributions are capable of sustaining.

[1]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56541
James Duane on how the police implicate innocent (2016) suspects
I used to own a BB Z30, which I bought after my q10 developer édition began having issues, and to this day I still think this is the best phone I ever used, primarily because of the BB OS. I had only owned iPhones before that and have owned both Android and iPhones since then.
Metamagical Themas, a crossover of Don Quixote and GEB
I think the growing popularity of vtubers is probably a sign of things to come. I think once (if it's possible) you can synthesize natural sounding speech and basic emotions/behaviors, it wouldn't surprise me if that didn't become a huge amount of the market for video content.
I recall twitter having special rules for accounts with a large number of followers, like keeping them on dedicated hardware or DB instances just so they could replicate them differently.
Your body might make you move less throughout the day, "underclock" your brain, and do other things to push your BMR lower and lower. I've heard of people who end up having to eat so little to lose weight that they get severe nutrient deficiency.
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This is shockingly realistic (and perhaps a bit disturbing that a virtual model can generate so much interest). How do people create such virtual models that look so accurate and human-like?
“Am I so out of touch? No, it is the 400 years of readers who are wrong.”

People may think your take is snarky but it’s very good actually. Classics become classic because they are beloved, not because “literature majors” demand it to be so. No novel has a readership outside of its own century that is not exceptional in some way. They must reach across time and into the universal heart of humanity to communicate so far beyond their own times. That’s why they’re still read. That’s why they’re classic.
I think this only works because of the novelty effect.

A big reason why influencers or any kind of celebrity are successful is because enough people aspire to be like them. That's pretty hard to achieve for an AI.
Fails to mention that 80% of the profits are coming from the AI's OnlyFans account. Just kidding. It's insane how many niches like this there are to make some quick money with available open source libraries, if you know what you're doing and you have some time on your side.
Barbara Kruger
> The only systems that have figured out moderation at scale are Wikipedia and StackExchange.

Some edit wars on Wikipedia suggest the opposite.
Cash is much more difficult to take across borders... Monero is superior to cash for criminal activity in just about every way, the only downside is that it's a bit less liquid. This deflection about it being used in crime less than cash is weak to the point of bad faith.

The privacy argument has more to stand on though. Although I will say "not your money, not our business" is a pretty controversial take.
I do miss it. It served one and only one purpose. Emails on the go. It was super fast to type and had an incredible battery life. I could type on the device without looking at the keyboard or the screen. In fact, that’s one of the reasons I didn’t adopt an iPhone early on. It’s hard to break out of muscle habits.