skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but a paywall is not the answer IMO.

I'm not going to sign up to a site to read only a few random articles. And the number of free ones they usually offer is way too low to really get a feel for what the site offers. Most sites I visit already present a paywall when I click through a few links from hacker news or reddit. This way I don't really feel any engagement with the site and I'm not tempted to ever sign up for it.

The Guardian didn't have a paywall at that time, but the high quality of their articles and the strength of reporting on topics that interest me (privacy in particular) convinced me to take out a subscription. I wouldn't have experienced that quality if they had a paywall, they'd just have pissed me off after the first few and I'd never have come back. A newspaper is its own advertisement but if you can't read it you won't be swayed.

So what is the answer? I think added value. Extra deep content you can click through on or something, PDFs, things like that. It's a touch premise though, if you offer too much for free most people aren't going to pay for it. But put too many things behind a paywall and you'll be alienating potential customers.

Unfortunately the Guardian kind of lost its appeal as an EU-wide privacy-centric paper for me, as Brexit made it turn its focus inward just like the rest of Britain did. As I have no ties with the UK it lost its relevance to me.

I'm still looking for something that can fill that role now. EU-focused, privacy-first, progressive. I subscribed to Ars for a while too but I found it too 'popular'/'light' on the tech side and too US-centric (not a bad thing, just not my interest). If anyone else has a suggestion I'd appreciate it :)
He seems to be claiming on Twitter that he is kidding/trolling to bring attention to his antitrust case against Facebook.
It's funny if you step back from it and imagine the same conversation 10 years ago:

A: I don't want to go anywhere that someone might not be vaccinated against Covid-09

B: why dont you just get the vaccine?

A: well it's not a "vaccine" vaccine, you can still get it and spread it if you get vaccinated. So everybody should get vaccinated, and shouldn't be allowed near me if they're not.

B: ?

---

I know and understand the counterpoints to this, I'm just pointing out how it might sound to someone whose capacity for reason hasn't been short-circuited yet
9/11 Was A Day Of Unforgivable Failure by the US secret police perps
> If "quality" means something like strength of the evidence, then couldn't you still have Gettier-like cases, so long as the evidence doesn't entail the truth of the belief? (suppose the HR department printed the wrong name on the offer letter, etc.)

It would entail Gettier-like cases if you require knowledge to be true in some absolute sense. But I'm discarding the "true" condition as a requirement of a knowledge. Outside of a few domains like math, knowledge of this kind doesn't exist. Knowledge is always subject to revision.
I don't really think SpaceX's existence is a reasonable measurement of the merits of economic inequality.
Better throw out the politicians together with the policies. Now that they've shown their true colours it would be foolhardy to expect them to restrain their authoritarian instincts come the next emergency - and if there is one thing easily come by these days it seems to be emergencies.

Kick 'm out, elect a new batch and keep their feet to the fire.
Sloppy accounting on trillions of dollars. Ok, so how much was stolen?
Context matters a lot for whatever I will be for or against a vaccine mandate (full disclosure, I'm for covid vaccine mandates for tech workers to return to the office). Here are the points I consider when determining whether I support a given mandate.

- Have mandates been effective in the past? Yes. We eliminated polio and smallpox, in part due to mandates in the US.
- Is the activity required for a reasonable person to be able to live? If so, I'm generally against a mandate. E.g. I wouldn't support mandates for going grocery shopping. I'm ok with them for bars.
- Can I take reasonable precautions as an individual to ensure I don't get infected without a vaccine? For covid, not really. I'm reliant on everyone else either not having it, out properly wearing a mask. For your HIV example, I can easily choose to not have unprotected sex with someone until we are both tested, or I can roll the dice. The decision and consequences are controllable by me as an individual. With covid, I can do everything right and still get sick buying groceries because someone else acted irresponsibly.
- What is the risk of the virus vs. effectiveness of the vaccine? The flu is significantly less infectious and less lethal. The flu vaccine is far less effective than the covid vaccine. Those three facts make a flu vaccine mandate less pressing and less effective. When our hospitals can be easily overrun, then it's pressing. There were days in Oregon where you couldn't get an ICU bed if you got into a bad accident because of the number of COVID-19 patients. That's terrifying and entirely preventable
> Also, I know how unpopular this opinion is

I don't think this is unpopular at all, at least here. I've even avoided some nonessential medical care in the European country I live in due to the costs, and those prices would still be lower for nearly anything (with some exceptions) compared to in the US. I think this point is just not brought up here because it's well-enough understood in this audience that it's more useful to discuss other factors that might be more neglected, such as lifestyle, etc.
Vaccinated or not, you can still catch it, so you can be infectious thus you can still spread it.
So we’re supposed to just sit around and let infectious people roam around the community (putting everyone’s health and safety at risk) because they didn’t do as politely asked?

We had Katie Hopkins here earlier in the year bragging about how she was going to deliberately break quarantine etc etc.

If people aren’t going to follow a reasonable precaution, this far into a pandemic, then I have little sympathy when harsher measures are employed.
I get hay fever, and I moved to a location with reliable onshore breezes. The move has definitely helped reduce the problem, although I still get hay fever on days when the wind comes from the rural inland, and there are days I can’t go into town because of pollen (for example Silver Birch trees).

If your asthma is seasonal, then try and find out the source(s)?
Some of the authors of the cited studies are associated with research on the purported Nostratic Language family, a highly speculative theory that is basically only held by a small school of russian linguists. Therefore, this should all be taken with a grain of salt. Macro families are in general highly disputed.
Where I live, the only philanthropic organizations normal people interact with are universities, museums, hospitals, and maybe arts organizations. The government runs libraries, schools, orphanages, parks, other museums and hospitals, and playgrounds. These all used to be nonprofit philanthropic activities.

Philanthropic organizations have been forced into corners trying to solve very hard problems (like eradicating diseases and global warming) rather than helping people day to day.

You can go through a decent life never directly benefitting from a billionaire's money, but you can't do it without a helpful government institution.
Dude that organised the last protest got 8 months prison. 75% of the population agrees with some of the totalitarian laws. Still a great country, but I'm looking at other places to live, Senior Engineer so it won't be hard to get sponsorship. Thinking about USA where people really understand the importance of their constitution, and the tech sector is the strongest in the world.
Here's a nice graph of NZ restrictiveness compared to UK and US. You'll see we peak up higher than either but then drop down to very low restrictions.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index?ta...
The "seemingly random bytes" look like a small 32-bit little endian number to me, probably the length of the subsequent payload.
Well, the author insinuated to have read or skimmed it, at least.
A large trade deficit arguably has a large impact on the Gini coefficient. A continuous and growing trade deficit is funded with currency expansion, which inflates asset prices. In other words: the rich get richer.
I have thought about building a vocabulary learning tool for learning Japanese on top of Apple Dictionary. My idea is simple: user collects dicitionary items and the tool offers lookup / spaced-repetition.

However, I'm concerned that the dictionary is copyrighted. Is there any precedent that says whether such a tool would be legal/illegal?
There is a strong trend of anti-intellectualism in modern culture that extends to HN. If someone says something that later turns out to be false, then they are considered to be lying, and their supposed lie is used to justify disbelief in anything any other expert says.

It's a violation of basic reasoning skills as well as the HN rules, but it will always will get upvoted because it satisfies a certain kind of hubris: "If I don't know something then no one could possibly know it and therefore the idea I came up with after 10 seconds of thought is just as valid as anyone else's."
I have helped with the writing and editing of a number of dictionaries over the years. It's difficult, highly specialized work. For some of the jobs, the only compensation has been a share of the royalties from future sales. I doubt if many people like me are enthusiastic about the dictionary data becoming accessible for free.
So the car is supposed to slide when you pull the handbrake? This will be hard to pull off in the US where most cars have an electronic parking brake and the ones that have the actual lever have it connected to a weak drum brake that cannot lock wheels when the engine is running.

Also, the whole test seems to be set up like a gold rush for lawyers - if you actually managed to slide the car and roll over at 50 mph you are almost certain to have some injuries not to mention the damage to the car. Who is liable for those, the government that ordered the driver to execute a dangerous maneuver in order to obtain a driving license? What if the driver dies from the injuries?
A counterfactual is not the only way someone can point out a flaw in logic, and trying to force someone to present a counterfactual when pointing out flaws in one's own logic in this case is more or less an intellectually dishonest attempt at dodging the point made by the parent.
Funny, how the same conjecture required completely different and unrelated proofs for 3, 4 and >5 cases.
That trust will be abused. It is just a matter of time. History is full of examples. Why build this machine in the first place and then hope that whoever drives it is nice enough to not abuse the power? Why risk it? The pandemic is not dangerous enough to justify this blind faith.
Depending on the Christian denomination there may be explicit provision for personal conscience in interpreting certain things within the context of your faith.
Cardano Gains Smart Contract Capability Following ‘Alonzo’ Hard Fork
That’s orthogonal to court, the standard is not whether others hold that belief but whether the belief is sincerely held.

Given that he identifies as Christian and whatever he believes got a ruling in his favor I would say that it’s an “actual” belief.
Value is being transferred, not necessarily destroyed. VCs subsidized consumers to pay workers to provide a product or service, is value creation.
while i agree that these are not new concepts entirely, them being wheeled out incessantly to support the developmemt of a much much wider survelliance state does seem semi novel in the 90's. the miltary-industrial-congressional complex needed new boogeymen to scare the nation with, to justify their existence over, after the collapse of the soviet union. terrorism & child molestation feel like a replacement terror, after the old one fell.
Now divide by M1 money supply. Is it the stock market over valued or the dollar devaluing as they print trillions of them.
It depends. I’m 99% certain the Amish would not approve of fingerprinting. But it’s certainly not a widespread belief among the most popular mainstream Christian sects. However some states allow for a religious exemption that is based on personal belief, so one doesn’t need their pastor or priest to agree.
I don't think the other commenter is disagreeing with you on those things -- they're talking about human perceptions, and saying that although brown is in fact dark orange, that's not how we name it or how we tend to see it.
The opening paragraph of the article describes what is actually happening and it's far less ominous that what the comments here suggest.

"In an official statement, the State Government announced a contract to a Western Australian (WA) company for $1.1 million to develop a new smartphone app that uses facial recognition and GPS tracking technology to monitor people who are ordered to self-quarantine at home, reported InDaily."

So this isn't an app meant to enforce state-wide quarantines or to enforce any additional restrictions or controls on the general public. This app is to enable those who are specifically ordered to self-quarantine (e.g. arriving from a Covid-hotspot, or close contacts of Covid-positive cases) to be able to check-in so that they can self-quarantine at home instead of at a managed isolation facility.
Adam Smith didn't live in Silicon Valley. That kind of thing didn't happen in his world.
You're not allowed into certain countries without relevant vaccinations.

There are also many countries where kids aren't allowed into schools without a standard set of vaccinations - because the alternative is literally horrific.

When did so many people become narcissists who just can't even with the very real truth that the public good is vitally important and absolute freedom cannot exist without terrible consequences.

If this attitude had been common when polio vaccination became available there would be literally millions of crippled kids clanking around the country in leg calipers or suffocating slowly in iron lungs.
Your anecdote is false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28201328
Preferably that point is once we’ve reached suitable vaccination, and the presence of covid in the community no longer puts excess pressure on our hospital system.

As it stands, neither of those things have happened yet.
most of my family agreed to get fingerprinted to get free gym membership (family friend runs the gym and you scan your thumb at the door for access).
It pissed me off so much.
The puzzle of rising UK wages reveals an unprecedented and tragic truth
Modern phones wouldn’t be nearly as useful without ARPANET or CERN’s WWW, as a start.
But you can let Iran and Saudi alliances fight it out.
What's the correlation between GINI and per capita GDP growth?

It's easy for a rich country to abandon the policies that made it rich, by adopting social democracy, and subsequently see stagnation in their per capita growth rate and a reduction in their GINI, while still remaining among the wealthiest countries in the world for a few decades before they are inevitably leapfrogged.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Joe Biden is a political leader in Australia. I'm not sure if he's even Australian.
A New Incarnation of Latin in China (2014)
This reminds me of a good Yes Prime Minister scene[0]. The context for the scene is that the PM denied bugging a Member of Parliament's phone, but the civil service was actually bugging it unbeknownst to the PM. The explanation behind why the PM wasn't informed seems pretty relevant.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=NX45hc0aZt0
There is strong evidence that infections have been massively under-detected since the beginning of the pandemic, by a factor of 5x to 100x [1][2]. Recent estimates put the global average IFR closer to 0.15% [3], which is likely still over-estimated, and will likely continue to decrease as more data is collected.

[1] Evaluating the massive underreporting and undertesting of COVID-19 cases in multiple global epicenters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S253104372...

[2] Undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/601/eabh3826

[3] Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID- 19: An overview of systematic evaluations
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/eci.13...
Take a step back and think critically about what you are saying and what kind of system you are building. You are building a system of enslavement. You will not be able to go anywhere or do anything except without the arbitrary permission from authorities who don’t care about you.

This pandemic is nowhere near that dangerous to justify this. Where do you draw the line? When you can’t shop in the grocery store unless you accept public health treatments without question? When they’ve dehumanized people enough that you tolerate surveilling them in those quarantine “hotels” “until they choose to comply with public health safety laws?”

The slope is slippery and you are sliding into hell. Time to stop being tribal or partisan about sticking it to the “anti vaxers” and start thinking about the system that is being built.
Some color pickers allow you to load a palette of names and they locate those names and values in the color picker interface.

You can load common name sets (e.g. X11 color names, CSS names, Munsell names, Behr) and they map their values into your color pickers.

This works well especially with paint pigments as every manufacturer has their exotic names that they hype for that year. "Oh, 'Ice Blue' is really just a slightly blueish white."
yeah, I'm confused what belief is held such that you can't be fingerprinted. My initial searching for what that might be is mostly "Mark of the Beast". Which seems odd.
Comparing Apollo to SpaceX would be fun too. NASA, like other government projects (Manhattan Project for example) are unbelievable when run like a startup. But after their objective is complete they have a tendency to become a bureaucracy and ossify. We aren’t good at scaling things down or reimagining them after the huge funding phase is over. They tend to become an expensive liability that accomplishes things but becomes ineffective overall, ultimately decaying into a retirement home. It’s hardly their own fault as the funding is cut and there’s no vision or will left as the remaining lifers fight over scraps.
I hate this and it's gross government overreach but it's those few bastards who've deliberately and surreptitiously defied quarantine that's given the government the excuse it needs to so act.

Unlike the US, COVID was essentially controlled in Australia until some very specific violations of quarantine happened - and the outbreak traced to these violators. These outbreaks weren't of iffy origin, they were clearcut linked to these perpetrators.

In an era where governments everywhere are going authoritarian it only takes something like this to be used as an excuse. The trouble is there'll be little complaint from the public as everyone is aware of the causal link to the outbreaks - and the Australian public, like bloody-minded sheep, is too easily spooked when governments crack the whip.

Unfortunately, Australia is a very conservative country and the vast majority of its citizens do what they're told without question even when government makes crazy decisions, so we've a double-whammy problem/excuse when a few people go feral.
here are the instructions

https://jupyterbook.org/advanced/pdf.html
Western Digital-Kioxia Deal May Get Japan's Support
You are arguing against the vaccine, because the goal of vaccination is eradication through collective immunity.

Whether you're vaccinated matters to you.

Whether everyone is vaccinated matters to everyone.
I think the people who would reply yes are afraid of getting attacked. I have my shots but the few people I know who don’t are getting yelled at everywhere they go (one has a medical reason, the others are citing dubious religious reasons)
The patriot act kept being extended until new laws finally came along. According to Wikipedia

> It contains many sunset provisions beginning December 31, 2005, approximately four years after its passage. Before the sunset date, an extension was passed for four years which kept most of the law intact. In May 2011, President Barack Obama signed the PATRIOT Sunset Extensions Act of 2011, which extended three provisions.[3] These provisions were modified and extended until 2019 by the USA Freedom Act, passed in 2015.[4] In 2020, efforts to extend the provisions were not passed by the House of Representatives.[5]
That just makes science easier to dismiss and feeds conspiracies.
Always funny how people argue these things as if we're discussing kinematics or some other natural law.

The economy is 100% contrived and what we declare it to be. Even "The Invisible Hand" operates within the parameters we define.

Approaching this discussion through the lens of Adam Smith itself loads it with a set of fairly narrow restrictions and assumptions that limit what we define as possible. In truth, there are very few actual constants.

If we want rich economies without inequality, we can have them.
So? I never said otherwise.
>>"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords

He is referring specifically to land, which he rightly viewed apart from all other, more natural forms of private property.

In fact the only tax that I saw him advocate for raising is ground rents, which is exactly what geolibertarians advocate. Land taxes are also the only tax that economists believe cause zero economic inefficiency.
Even in a system with a bill of rights those laws are there as a last resort, to deal with complete failure states. They are the limits, not standard operating procedures.

There is always going to be capacity for doing better, society is always what we make of it, even without hard legal limits (not to suggest imposing limits of state power is bad).
DARPA invented the internet
Well nobody has ever succeeded in doing a lot of things that haven't been done yet. But more to the point, we have to define a rich economy, and inequality.

Is a rich economy just a bigger economy than most? Or an economy with surplus? Or an economy with lots of value (and then we define value)?

Is inequality some people having less money than others? Or not having as much stuff? Or privileges? Or not being able to self-sustain? Or unequal social treatment?

I think the more important questions come from fully understanding what we want and how we're trying to get it. If all we care about is that some people have more than others, we will literally be fucked for eternity. But if instead what we care about is that everyone can eat food and live somewhere without struggling to do it, we can achieve that in probably many kinds of economies, but the economy obviously has to be set up to be sustainable in the face of that requirement.

A lot of economies are just shitty regardless of how they're set up, for the same reason that a lot of humans don't have the same privileges, even though they're made of the same meat.
What I miss about open source conferences
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Looks like you fell for it. In many countries blaming that covid still exists is an easy scapegoat. So many people are falling for this line of thinking because everyone needs to blame someome.

With two doses you can go out 3 times to every 1 time someone with no shots can.

Blame the foolish who think because they are 2 dose vaxxed that they can continue their lives as normal. You can't.. stay home.