skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm usually in the "regulation is bad" camp but one thing I find myself saying more and more is that you can't have an ideal market if people are allowed to lie about and hide their prices. It's one of the reasons health care isn't a very good market in the US, and it's one of the reasons people don't like this practice.

Essentially companies are getting away with lying about their prices until after a purchase has been made. In an ideal free market, people can't lie just lie about their prices and get away with it because "everyone does it". So enforcing honesty on this particular point at least would be good of you like free markets.
Softening the shock to Mailchimp employees with money would work to some degree. But if they kill the culture then it won't help in the long run.
One thing I haven't seen highlighted is the difference in attitude/action between Amazon as a corporate sponsor and other corporate sponsors. Rust has other corporate sponsors (Microsoft is on there essentially twice w/ the GitHub acquisition) -- has any such attempt been made by other sponsors?

That aside I'm convinced this is the fate of all board/complicated governance structure popular open source project. If you make the governance structure that mirrors corporate constructions, people who work at big corporations and know how the politics work are going to find themselves right at home.

I don't know what the solution is, you can't expect every project to have a BDFL and there is a lot of work to be done on a huge open source project, but I always see the adoption of a corporation-like governance structure without explicit limitation on the power/influence of involved groups/corporations as a red flag.

Steve mentions it himself but the idea that Mozilla is anything like Amazon is a farce. I'd trust Mozilla to build me a browser (they do), a phone (they did), a physical computer and whatever else because of how they're structured, what they profess, and their track record. I'd trust Amazon to do none of those things (mostly because I thankfully have other options right now). Mozilla supported this project from it's inception and has made it what it is (along the way reducing it's own influence to make sure there was no misconception). Amazon has no such track record that I know of, and it's corporate structure does not suggest any alternative driving force outside of maximizing profit.

The contributors who happen to work at Amazon who were able to contribute to Rust under Amazon's largesse (whether direct or indirect) deserve the status they have achieved within Rust, but there is a conflict of interest. If that conflict of interest grows, then it has to be addressed.
That's fair. I am appreciative. I was just shocked by the timeline but glad this was resolved
Seattle.
Ellen Pao made a statement of fact, that rank and file “employees have no equity”. There was no criticism or attack fundamental to the factual statement itself.
Next on my list! Thanks a lot.
Ask HN: Why is it difficult to do things which are good for oneself?
Exercise, eating healthy, good sleep, meditation etc. All things which are obviously beneficial after the act, yet difficult to bring about. Why is there any resistance at all?
The rare local tech company. I guess it won't be so local anymore.
Whether or not music and art are a luxury, and should be eliminated because of that, is definitely an interesting discussion

Note that I never argued for the abolition of cattle production, just that it's carbon-cost is not considered a much as it should be (as is the case with most things, I think)

I also never argued against luxury goods or only working for the most efficient means of survival. Luxury is fine, but I think everyone in modern society is going to have to give up at least some amount of the comforts of modern society.
Payment Required and why micropayments are doomed
This could be a nice reference implementation.
Instead of a traditional static site generator, put some content at /colophon that lists the transformations that need to be applied to produce the desired output, and then have a machine perform those steps.
Proof of stake isn’t a good thing actually. Especially in a private cryptocurrency. Monero will remain PoW for its censorship resistance. We can’t have stake oligopolies taking control.
Can't edit, but "luxury" doesn't mean "eliminate" and "divert" doesn't mean "abolish"
Intezer trio find Linux re-implementation of Cobalt Strike beacon
I can't tell if you are talking about monero or paper currency.

Monero is light years easier for law enforcement to find kidnappers (exchanges, honeypots, network access) than cold hard cash.

Was there a plague of kidnappers when the world used 'absurdly dangerous means of value exchange' like paper currency and gold?

edit: my reply was before you edited to discuss physical currency. $1M in $100 bills is 22lbs. Hardly a deterrent.
Having looked quite a bit for personal docs stores: tiddlywiki is definitely very interesting and fits its niche pretty well, and I too will highly recommend people take a look at it, but it's just not viable in many cases.

E.g. mobile requires a browser plugin (... which is a broken link, and there seem to be both few alternatives and they have reviews that imply there may be problems) or separate app to allow saving[1]. iOS requires a separate app[2]. Sync occurs in one giant html file, so if you edit one word, the whole thing has to be re-synced (so using it for any moderate amount of media is a no-go) (this is both a great feature for hosting-free purposes, and a great curse). Much of this has been due to browsers clamping down on permissions.

To work around those, your main option is to... use a web server to host it. If you do that, then tiddlywiki is basically just another self-hostable web server with an interesting UI - there are quite a few also-good competitors in that space.

[1]: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/GettingStarted%2520-%2520Andro...
[2]: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/GettingStarted%2520-%2520iOS.h...
^ This is mind-blowing.
In return, I would like to share this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
I meant people with gang affiliations that end up in the hospital as a result of gang activities.
Template::Toolkit (Perl) and Middleman (Ruby).
I understand this sort of thing is a massive undertaking, but how does one begin to reverse a game (engine) like this?
How about raising minimum wage for restaurant staff to the same level of everyone else and eliminating tips?

The federal minimum wage for jobs with tips is $2.13 per hour.
> Kids 11 and under can’t get vaccinated. Not because its dangerous but because our agency is being extremely thorough.

Kids 11 and under are in basically zero danger from COVID.

> Oh and masking? That largely prevents spread. by the infected; not so great at preventing someone masked from getting infected. Also, even this level of temporary mandate is being fought.

When masks are worn properly and changed often. That does not happen in the real world. And cloth masks are largely ineffective against viruses like COVID.

> Meanwhile and this point hundreds of millions (billions) of shots; and the risk factors are well-known. Yet this information doesn’t seem matter.

There is a difference between "heavy testing" (what COVID vaccines have gotten) and proper testing. Proper testing includes heavy samples over a long period. We haven't had a long enough period.

> Good luck working when insurance companies forces high premiums.

Insurance companies will not raise premiums any more than they have to because insurance is heavily competitive. If people start cancelling insurance plans because they raise the premiums on the unvaccinated, you can bet they'll acquiesce.

> This is a veiled threat. I’m not an authoritarian at all, but in any society it’s give and take.

Not a veiled threat. I'm talking about the consequences of locking 10% or more of the able people out of the workforce. The economy will suffer. A natural consequence.

> Some want all of the benefits of society without doing their part, and that will have natural consequences as well.

> That isn’t a threat. That’s just the market correcting itself because it can’t support the level of welfare you’re advocating.

I know it's not a threat, but again, the market will correct itself the other way: if people won't work, the mandates will magically disappear. If insurance is not bought, the surcharges will magically disappear.
> It's not easy but it's not that hard.

Agreed. I think the hardest part is getting started; folks not familiar with hosting their own email just don't have as much awareness of what to do and how to do it. But take a bit of time to learn, get a reputable ISP, don't spam people, and you can do just fine without too much effort. I got a cheap VPS specifically to host email, and the worst I've had to do is fill out a Spamhaus form one time.
Starcraft also had a really low unit-cap. I think it was 200 points, so aside from the zergling rush (zerglings counted for 1/2 a point, iirc), you just couldn't really human-wave anyway.
No, I’m saying they’d pay more cash than a company paying cash + stock. Total comp EV should be same for same position.
User Interrupts: 9x faster than other IPC for event signaling
* Short of using force, most people who are hesitant about the vaccines at this point are not going to rush to vaccinate anytime soon. A non-trivial portion of the population may never choose to get it. If there is some treatment that works, it basically starts to wind Covid down today.

* Do I know if Ivermectin is effective? No, that's why I'd like sick people to have the option to try, to both attempt and save their lives, as well as gather more data. It's an easy decision.

* There is evidence that leaky vaccines can drive mutations and cause worse problems. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...
There are two extremely cool projects with talented engineers who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Anybody telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
Facebook is part of the polarization problem, but not all of it: report
>microserfs

Cringing intensifies.
What does that mean lean right fiscally? Traditionally, I believe that means less government spending, but at least in the US, government spending doesn't seem to change significantly under conservative control. In fact, the spending just shifts from people-in-need to people-that-already-have (social programs vs corporate handouts).

Not talking about Afghanistan at work seems reasonable.

I'm not sure what COVID statistics would mean much; the science behind COVID is pretty settled and there's a solid, highly-regarded (including internationally, at least until Trump) government agency that oversees that in the US (CDC); I don't see where discussing those numbers would even be valuable unless the company were flaunting COVID and the workers wanted action. I suppose when you say COVID stats, you might be referring to total nonsense stats, in which case I would agree those should be excluded from company chat.
It's a reductio ad absurdam joke
Actually Pearl Harbour WAS forseeable; it was attacked/chosen because the Japanese saw the US dismiss the results of two war game tests on the exact site. The Japanese also waited for similar conditions to those used in the war games tests for maximum effectiveness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27345075
“Computer records show he once found a media personality’s former residence and spent 35 seconds zooming in and out on the house on an online mapping tool”

Wut? Why is this even written there? 35 seconds is not a lot at all, and can’t Google leave me alone even in a map zoom without recording it now?
The difference with cash is that the criminal (or an accomplice) has to physically pick it up, drastically increasing the risk of getting identified and/or caught. Even if they send an unwitting person, there will be a witness and evidence.
That's a bold claim to make without something to back it up; care to share what warrants a rating of incompetent?
All the responses seem to be a bit off-target. I'm specifically talking about copyright being linked to the lifespan of the author. It's arbitrary and unfair on authors. I'm not saying we need long copyright terms. I don't know what the optimum would be - maybe 10 years, maybe forever (like indigenous culture).
Other commenters have mentioned better diagnostics / better imaging / other monitoring tools. I've always wondered why not increase the frequency of PSA testing to provide a time series and reduce noise, instead of examining single PSA results in isolation? I think the normal recommended frequency 2-3 years. A PSA test is noninvasive and very cheap compared to other screening methods, so why not repeat it every 3-6 months or even monthly when there's an elevated PSA level?
(See sibling reply)
Kite: An interactive visualization tool for graph theory [video]
Any potential solutions other than demanding circular products?
What does "make your requirements less dumb" mean? Make them more applicable? Make them more precise? Something completely different? Question them, but what is the flaw of "dumb" in a requirement?
Is it now normal to tip housekeeping $20 per day?! I've been leaving a few bucks per day.
What I really want is a way to tell Windows to open a different application for the file or URL type based on the application it comes from. I run a dedicated browser for work that proxies all its traffic across an SSH SOCKS proxy, and really just want clicks from Outlook and Teams to load in it, and everything else to load in Firefox.

Instead, I wrote a little thing myself[1] to make a distinction based on the pattern matching the URL. I took the chance to learn a bit more about Deno and deploying standalone apps, which I don't regret, since it was actually super easy, but I still wish I didn't have to. (Note: that utility isn't quite ready to be used easily, it needs to default the config file to a more standard location for the user to be easily useful as an filetype/URL target).

1: https://github.com/kbenson/urlswitcher-deno
That stuff is only culture because Disney/etc. paid to entice us to watch it. If people don't want their culture to be owned by someone else, they shouldn't rent it from someone else.
I wonder how tips factor in to CPI and/or cost of living indices? If the average hotel is $100/night but most people start to tip (in order to pay hotel staff a living wage) would a one night stay go into the basket as $100 or $120?
Isn't this just a reflection of most websites running wordpress?
The trouble with all of these great ideas is that while the management/leadership/whatever may claim they want to solve these problems - they actually don’t want these kinds of solutions.

What they want is to maintain the power structure that got them where they are - and want to remain - at all costs.

It’s like asking politicians who got elected using the current system to reform it. It ain’t gonna happen.
A lot of jurisdictions are now using ivermectin as a COVID prophylaxis. Shouldn't we have data by now showing whether it's effective in that role?

Can someone debunk this study for me:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7698683/

?
Get a PSA test, and if it's elevated, get another one in a few months. If you're young you probably do not have BPH but your Dr should know to rule that out.
> FF's privacy focus caused

Even before the whole privacy focused thing FF was already in decline to sub 10% market on Desktop.

If you think about it the other way around, it is still hanging on to 5-10% of Desktop market after all is actually quite good. At its peak, Firefox was closing to 40% in some European countries. If you consider IE in Business Cooperate usage and Firefox are not available in those settings, 40% is a really big deal.
Whole Australian economy is running mines and supporting infrastructure.
That vignette is meant to be sardonic, not realistic. The point is that the government absolutely could just file your taxes for you and send you a check or a bill, if they weren't lobbied by tax prep companies like Intuit and extremists like Grover Norquist.
Websites being unusable for CGNAT'd users is good for persuading said carriers to start using IPv6 already.
let's rename "tip" to "bonus" and really watch worlds collide :)
Just because you live in a place where kidnapping isn't common, doesn't mean that it is not is common across the globe.

https://lb-aps-frontend.statista.com/statistics/275545/kidna...

The idea that an email asking for a blockchain currency is somehow more difficult than a dead drop of physical currency is absurd. While there are some merits, this type of value exchange is a dangerous vehicle for facilitating human exploitation. We need to start talking about that fact more, instead of the fever dreams that those of us in the free world somehow live in some faux-totalitarian state, simply because you can't legally purchase MDMA or cocaine.
What does any publication want you to do with any information? Consume, share, justify and ensure their continued existence.
Disingenous garbage...

Most westerners who have been paying attention know that the majority of all that wealth comes from stealing western IP...

Not that western nations are blameless, we traded short term profit for long term superiority...

'Barest understanding' yes don't make me laugh, statement from a shill if I ever heard one. Try to claim no one understands you while also being hostile to any sort of press that's not propaganda...wonder why.

CCP is probably the most dangerous oppressive regime to ever exist, and I don't think that's an understatement.
I made a mashup once that got copyright struck on the basis that it infringed up on "Test sound no 1" or something ridiculous like that.
College in the US is usually about getting a piece of paper in order to be a nurse or teacher or accountant or social worker or civil servant. At many schools,, people show up for class and go home. Nobody cares what age you are and it is a service.
Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.
I'd rather not put words in anyone's mouth, sorry! It's not like it even matters all that much, it's something that individual project teams could easily fix by improving and standardizing on how to more consistently seek outside community input on new developments (leveraging, e.g. the public 'internals' forum, and/or the RFC github repo). This was not needed before since the core team was picking up a lot of that slack. But obviously we've been seeing some changes wrt. that.
Tips are counted as pay, buddy. Legally if hourly rate + tips falls under minimum wage, the employer has to cover the difference. Either way, tips are income and thus taxed as such. No idea why you could ever expect that it's tax free.
Yeah I find it worrying how society only cares about what is technically possible and not what is realistically safe and secure. We could build taller and cheaper buildings if we ignored standards and just accepted that sometimes they fall over. But we don't because that is insanely dangerous.

But now with tech the risk is invisible unlike a collapsed bridge. In Australia it is basically impossible to live a normal life without bringing your phone everywhere because they mandate that you scan QR codes before entering stores and the manual written forms are usually hidden behind a counter and on request only.
> FF browser share has continued to decline steadily

Is that really a fact though? I read somewhere that >80% FF users have Ad Blocker installed. Wouldn't that keep it hidden to Google Analytics and similar outfits that come up with browser usage stats?
This is where my outsider's perspective falls short: assuming that the old release maintainer isn't actively preventing the project from appointing a new release maintainer, what stops them from just keeping on?

Deviations from their previous release schedule are certainly noteworthy, but release schedules also naturally length as projects mature.

And then there's the Theseus-type questions: if Jekyll changes its name because the current maintainers have lost access to the RubyGems credentials, is it really not Jekyll anymore? It occurs to me that OSS is replete with `${project}-ng` namings, the `ng` suffix typically indicating that the project serves the same purpose as its original form but has been moved to a different namespace for whatever reason. If Jekyll's current maintainers were to publish `jekyll-ng` on RubyGems, I'd be inclined to call that a continuation of the original Jekyll for all extents and purposes.
The reason to exclude them is not whether or not it's possible to "fix" them. That is irrelevant. The reason to exclude them is that it is for their own good. That's what the original poster said was stated.

I am not asking for the impossible, I am asking that we also protect all the other undesirables and deplorables for their own good.
Historically you had no choice. You had to exercise to get food and veggies and small quantities of sugar were all that was available. The sun going down kind of limited what you could do.
Churchill Club
> What resources would you consult?

Experience
This is probably one of my favorite fan theories out there, because I loved the show as a kid and I think it is probably what the writers had in mind as a joke.

Another fan theory I'm a bit of a fan of that I've seen only once or twice online (and the creators allude to it strongly in an interview) is that Rick from Rick and Morty is Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory as an old man.
From their website: "While ACTASF is intended for use with tabletop miniatures, you could substitute counters for the ships if you want to give the game a try."

Isn't this along the lines of what you've done?
> but I don't buy for a second that it couldn't be behind some "advanced" button.

All you need is a single "apply to all prompt" when a user toggles for one of the extensions.
https://cocopon.github.io/tweakpane/
Any of your four opinions is enough to get you fired if espoused publicly at any FAANG today.

> The guy that thought humans were riding dinosaurs 5000 years ago, or the guy who thinks paying 40 million people not to work is going to boost the economy?

I'll say that the number of people who truly believe that first opinion is vanishingly small and I'm not awfully worried about it impacting their current policy making.

Your opinion on abortion is spot-on.
Ef the gouvernement!
I know! not very constructive, but the topic is too depressive for any constructivability
Thanks for explaining that better than I could apparently. Yes, obviously any software with a F/L/OSS license is "open source" but to build and sustain a community around a project of significance in 2021, there are some additional measures required.
Ungoogled chromium, Bromite and kiwi browser.
Sincere question. Not flaming.

If human moderation won't work. And whatever they're doing now is an unqualified disaster. Then what is the solution?

Oil companies tell us that oil spills and pollution and ruined ecologies and the burning planet are just part of using oil. Sad face.

They're doing their very best to minimize the negatives. They hire the very best lobbyists and memory hole as much as possible and donate to some zoos and greenwash and "recycle".

What more could they possibly do?

Really, what do you expect? Stop using oil?! Please. That's crazy talk.

More seriously, I'm not saying that Facebook is an unmitigated evil, that their biz is the moral equivalent of trafficking (humans, arms, drugs, toxic waste), or that humanity would be better if it had never existed.

I'm only asking why they continue to create a mess that they are incapable of cleaning up, by their own admission.

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I understand these questions are for The Zuck, The Jack, and their cast of enablers (profiteers) like Thiel, Andreessen, etc.
Blame the website owners. Tor can be whitelisted in seconds on CloudFlare.
Both Apple and Google scan your cloud synced files. Neither of them claim to scan your local only files. So the choice is rather pointless as they both hold the same position.