skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure they can raise their voice but they're limited in what they can achieve, legally speaking. Especially in large companies with a lot of shareholders. Unless the companies by-laws give shareholders undue influence, which would be unusual.

It's true that activists can make a nuisance of themselves if there are enough of them but they basically have to hope to get sections of the press on their side and for the company to care about that. The risk, of course, is the bad press ends up hurting their own investment.

In short, they have no legal recourse unless the company mislead them in some way.
And "...record high rights of CO2 emissions..."

I hate that the headline, which they know is the only thing a lot of people read, implies "high prices due to eolic/renewables", when the true underlying cause is that gas and coal cost a lot more than 5 years ago.

And they left the "abundant wind power has at times led to periods of cheap electricity" to the bottom of the article, where nobody would read it. I guess some people would rather pay $100 every month of the year than $150 one month and $30 the other 12.
Why shouldn’t we have per country caps? India and China could easily become the majority of immigrants due to the population size. Mexico is the top country of origin for lawful residents but they are our closest neighbor and many families have ties to both countries, especially in boarder towns. Followed by China and India.[1]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/20/key-finding...
I find this to be a lazy take though. Plenty of cultures have no nudity shame, have a culture of no locked doors, and know both who everyone is and where they live.

I am privacy conscious, but this is a weak argument.
Oh, I've reread your comment, and you want progress on self-replicating.

RepRap won't lead to a full self-replicating machine. It's by design. The focus on self-replicating is because the most a machine is able to build itself, the cheapest its parts will be. A 3D printer nowadays can print almost every non-commodity part of itself that isn't electronics or runs very hot. There's no progress for it to make on that dimension. It has successfully taken down the price of printers.

What progress has been made on the last decades were about things like easiness of printing, printing speed, materials handling, printer size, print volume, quality of printing.
Where I currently work, we have "skip review" and "skip preflight" labels for this. The mergers have the power to merge anything anyway, the labels are only to make it an official request.
I think it just means "outside of court".
> Wait a minute... You guys don't test in PROD?

Of course I do. No other environment is identical to prod, real data, real users, real scale.
Simple Rick's!
I didn't say it invalidated the model. All models are wrong, some are useful.

But what we've discovered is classes of chemicals that cause more damage at small doses, because they interfere with subtler communication pathways in the body such as hormones, and those effects diminish at higher accumulations. There are other categories, like 'no dose is safe', which GP is implying may be the case for this compound, in which case 'the dose is the poison' is a divide by zero error.

You can't assume that the model works just because it worked (or we ignored the data that didn't fit the model) for 450 years. But the original quote is:

"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."

In the full quote it's clear we aren't talking about pesticides or arsenic. You can poison yourself with enough iron, or vitamin E. Somewhere along the way it became about how much perchlorate you can have in water before half the fish die.
Agreed. I have a similar list, it's not super long, but most of the FAAMG are on it, and Facebook is #1 on the "will never" list. Everybody has a price, but some things are non-negotiable.
If other taxi companies can operate under these terms then so can Uber. The margins are thin for other taxi companies too.

The question is perhaps: is Uber interested in being just another taxi company, withut much of a disruptive edge?
People should not have to be heroes as a precondition of citizenship. France did this before with the Malian migrant who performed a super-human feat of scaling the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy.
I don't think they talk about it in those terms. But that is absolutely the behavior.

A clear historical example is America's conflict around slavery. The primary southern justification for creating the Confederacy was freedom. That continued after the Civil War; see the UDC catechisms for example. "States' rights" they'll shout, meaning the right of the white people in power to treat black people like livestock and keeping that in that condition through systematic violent abuse. And you'll still find people today arguing the point.

A modern example is public health. Everything from preventing toxic waste dumping to COVID mask mandates is met with cries of "FREEDOM!" Right now there is a large constituency in the US for the right to do whatever they please even if that means they will kill people by giving them a disease.

I agree that what constitutes "harm" can be a tricky question for some issues. But I think we can agree that death qualifies. And that people who have never left the house unclothed having to wear another half-ounce of fabric in public is not.
I am torn on this issue, maybe I don't see the whole picture. Uber was never meant to be a taxi company. It was a means for people with cars to share their gas expenses. I don't know how could they ever prevent this gig from becoming a full-time job for most drivers, but I think forcing employment is not a solution.
> Setting squirrels on fire and watching the poor things scurry around I guess is cool with Facebook's Community Standards.

Unfortunately nothing else you can do about it, either. Who do you even report this to? There's no LEO agency that would spend resources on that even though this is a well known pre-cursor to homicide.

Shit like that reminds me how failed society is - to be able to literally torture animals and face little to no repercussions, and get tons of clout and maybe even some money (ad revenue or whatever) in the process.
Experience = qualia.

No, suffering isn't a necessary condition for consciousness. We can make rats euphoric in a lab with electrodes and they are presumably conscious despite a lack of suffering. Suffering is just one example of a conscious state.

On the question of moral value, we aren't going to resolve that here. But if anything has moral value, it ought to be consciousness. That is what most people value in their personal ethics and relationships.
My litmus test for what is and is not social media depends on how many people use their real name as handles, and how actively the platform promotes real names. Facebook, nearly 100%, Twitter, less so; reddit and HN, pretty low. Real names transform the old forum/IRC chat room into social media.
"Open all browser file types in a single browser I select" is good enough for both the average user and the "technocratic elite" in basically all cases, and there are certainly zero cases where choosing every file association manually is better for someone who doesn't know what they're doing.

I don't understand your complaint about Firefox's dark mode; I've been using it for years and I don't remember any pure black elements. And as far as extensions, Firefox may be missing a couple minor APIs but it's the only browser that doesn't block the important ones (e.g. the ones uBlock Origin needs) so ad companies can make more money.
True. But teachers are often in the category where they are vulnerable. I personally know of 7 teachers who have died, (2 from my own school, out of 50 teachers there).

So while I 100% agree that this is not good for students, we need to think of a solution that doesn't place teachers in danger too.
I use a 5 subject notebook and write notes down in that throughout the day, during meetings etc. From that I will usually, once or twice a week, take the things that are important and put them into my Apple Notes (used to use OneNote).

I do this for a few reasons.

1. Taking notes on a computer during meetings is disrespectful IMO. Every time I see people do it, 80% of the time they are checking email, checking a site, looking up stuff instead of paying attention to the speaker or meeting. I get pissed when people spend the meeting looking up alternatives just to challenge the person speaking. It isn't that challenging an idea is bad (it is critical in fact), it is you need to listen to comprehend and not listen to respond.

2. The vast majority of notes are worthless after a few days. They were relevant to complete a task but not noteworthy for my career or to learn something I need to keep forever as a reference.

3. Writing something makes me personally more likely to remember it.

In the 5 subject notebook, I keep the sections as "Meeting Notes", "Active project(s)", "Design", "Personal notes" and the last one is usually open for just misc crap that I don't need to categorize right now. The design part I almost always take pictures of and put in my notes app, but I only take the pic of the final design and the notes on why. Design here is typically software architecture type design, product design, UX etc. It is faster for me to sketch it then to try and put it in an app.

I've done this for my entire career, 20+ years now and just refined over time. I also am a huge fan of note cards during the week while I am working. For example, I'll write my plan down for the day/week/month on a note card and then work through it. The time period is chosen based on what I am working on at the time, and sometimes I have one for a day, one for the week, one for a month etc. Just helps me keep myself organized, and again, writing it forces me to remember better, personally.

As for using it, I have gone back and used stuff in the past year that I wrote down 15 years ago. Typically this is more design concepts or how to solve an interesting problem, or what were issues I ran into using XYZ design or module etc.
My point is that it didn't used to be a law. Why can't the government enforce it's own social program and let businesses focus on their primary goal instead of healthcare compliance.
checking with https://blacklistalert.org/ there's a website which is blacklisting joinmastodon.org

http://www.justspam.org/check-an-ip?ip=66.111.4.71
> What makes you think there really is a whole single consciousness?

My direct experience of it.
That depends heavily on what subreddits you subscribe to, though. If you unsubscribe most of the news and politics subs, it can be pretty nice.
Yes. Precisely. I think it is because the community of squirrels have no ability to retaliate.
If we observe the trend, the pull down are proportionate to the strength of the retaliators. Being against say LGBT isn't the same as being anti christian. Hit a particular group of people or ideology, the bans are well automated at this point.
Evergrande Crisis Escalates as Protests Break Out in China
Those shell scripts are nearly perfectly laid out and readable.
Ask yourself what you would use if you didn't want the general public to see it, while allowing your friends to see it? You would use anonymous accounts, or you would use use the privacy tools these platforms offer, or you would just use direct messaging apps.
It seems like no one has figured out a good system for moderation on the internet.

IIUC, Facebook hired contractors to do it, then realized that that didn't work and created XCheck to cover the visible cases, and is now in trouble because XCheck also doesn't work and rubber-stamps everything. Even before this there were news stories about the horribleness of those contract moderator jobs. Reddit tried to federate moderation, but it's since become clear that all top subreddits are moderated by the same people. Even HN only works because dang busts ass to keep it good, and that has obvious limits (what happens when dang goes on vacation or retires?)
China is on course to build the best cars in the world
Unfortunately a lot of medical science involving expensive laboratory resources and trials currently rests on sample sizes around this range (~5-20). Then whenever there's any kind of technical innovations that makes it cheaper to collect the biosignals there is a sudden series of breakthroughs in what is really happening. All science is a work in progress.
I should have said "decanting."
And... why is that bad?
And let's assume your pulled from nowhere ballpark number would be true. Even then the percentage of those jobs would still be in favor for PHP, with PHP being an order of magnitude higher than Ruby
> Taxi drivers are not knowledge workers, or artists and clearly not entrepreneurs.

> They are easily replaceable "cogs in the machine", like many non-specialised factory workers, office clerks, retail employees and so on.

> There's a reason why humanity introduced protections for vulnerable workers in almost every society.

I appreciate the point you're making, but I also think you are grossly undervaluing the specialisation of cab drivers.

In the UK, the Knowledge [1] is a notoriously arduous exam which certainly makes cab drivers anything but "replaceable 'cogs in the machine'".

In fact, I think the fact that people view these jobs as being replaceable is what leads to their deterioration. Someone who has a GPS but no innate and learned knowledge of the terrain does not provide a service comparable to someone who has a thorough understanding of the domain. And the more people rely on the former, the more they think that that's all there is to it, and so it becomes a race to the bottom of sorts.

I'm not sure if I'm articulating this fully, but basically: jobs such as cab driving require specialisation and skill to be done well, but are often replaced by those without that skill doing freelance driving, which leads to a deterioration of expected service, and people ultimately thinking that the workers are all interchangeable.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
One more nuance... I use pen and paper to take meeting notes and then transcribe the salient points into the journal file.
It shows the benevolence of the PostgreSQL Community(TM) ;-)

I think this is the morally right way to handle the issue. This way they also accumulate good-will if they need to take stronger legal actions. I like it.
Yes, consciousness may well be the most important thing. Ultimately it's of no use relying on legal frameworks and so on without acknowledging this. Laws can be overturned or bypassed too easily. Ethics fluctuate according to fashion.

We shouldn't be cruel to animals because there's something it's like to be a bear, for instance, including being a suffering bear.

It's worth distinguishing between AI and AGI. An AI is a non-conscious tool (like a go-playing program or an image analyser) whereas an AGI is a conscious, general intelligence which can learn anything it wants to when the opportunity arises. (I'm claiming here that general intelligence is not possible without consciousness.)

Animals are intelligent, conscious and can learn many specific things but don't possess a general learning ability because they lack language and hence they cannot think freely.

A tool can be used and discarded at whim. A general intelligence, person, or animal should not be, because it is a subject.
It's to illustrate a point, not directly to explain privacy. Most people in English speaking countries do not live in such places, and do have to worry about privacy in such ways.

Unfortunately there's no real way of convincing someone so blind to privacy and its importance without big, dramatic examples. Such people need theatre to understand very fundamental things. Hence my comment.

The majority of people I've faced who claim the whole "I have nothing to hide" simply haven't faced a violation of privacy in a way that is meaningful to them, and thus don't understand its importance.
> removing members of our connection circles

Does it really? Whatever happened to just a friendly weekly email?
There was a whole Friends episode about this where Rachel starts smoking so she can be privy to the conversations out on the smoke deck at work.
I love Twitter but recently removed Instagram from my phone and as a result, my usage dropped to near zero. I found I was watching the same updates (here's my baby doing this fun thing!), which was nice, but I wasn't really connected to this individual, and for most of my Instagram it was old friends and colleagues who no longer live near me or share much similarities.

Twitter, Instagram, Hacker News, etc. are all attention sinks but I realized I wasn't getting much value from Instagram beyond a minor wholesome feeling to see (old) friends living their life. Reels were kind of fun sometimes but mostly a waste of time, though.

The joy I get from Twitter is being able to consume topics highly relevant to me, and I aggressively curate through blocking/muting, grooming followers, and interacting with very smart people in their respective fields.

The pain I get from Twitter is a feeling I'm never good enough. I make a good salary which pays for my entire family of four's well-being, but ... there's always someone on there making more, or creating something cooler. During parental leave I spent more of my time with neighbours, volunteering at the community garden, and it felt more whole, but I still had a part of my brain thinking about the missed opportunities in building value / wealth. Hm.
At least on iOS what worked for me to stop this from happening is airplane mode + wifi enabled. It probably won’t stop it from jumping to another network though.
When we say something travels at 50% the speed of light, it's always relative to some inertial, approximately inertial, reference frame, often implied.

So eg. if you hear about the particles at the LHC travelling at near the speed of light, it's implied that's relative to the Earth.

The speed limit comes in here: no-matter what nearby object you look at, its speed relative to you always be less than the speed of light. (Here, nearby means something like "within the local group of galaxies" - objects a long way away can be receding faster than the speed of light due to the expansion of space in between you and the object). You can accelerate as much as you like for as long as you like and when you stop accelerating and check, that'll still be the case.
This is a good point.

Hopefully the vaccine works against the variants.

The protection seems to be waning already in Israel.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...
Well, work with several task is THE thing with Go, right? If it were too much worse Go will fail.

In situations like this, is important to remember that Rust/Zig are (system)languages to MAKE "Go" but also, million other different things with different goals.

So other way to look at this is "If I wanna designa language with a runtime like Go, this both have it that close!"
It's ridiculous that you have to spend $10K to patent your idea. Let's just get rid of all those patent office people and lawyers, and save everyone a lot of time and money.
You're vastly understating just how commonly people would butt head with those limits though.

You're also forgetting just how painful it was setting up a working autoexec.bat file in the first place. Never mind having dedicated chunks of code for some games and not others (eg do I need a mouse in this game? that driver is incompatible with this other bit of software, etc), just discovering what precise string of characters in your autoexec.bat was required to load the damn driver could be downright cryptic at times.

DOS wasn't that great. We remember it with rose tinted glasses because that's what humans do. But DOS wasn't a particularly good operating system, even for its era.

Gaming on DOS, now that was fun. But I'd argue it was fun in spite of DOS rather than because of it
that has not been my experience. As a German having used taxis in many German cities I do prefer taking an US Uber over any German taxi every time.
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Further, why do we continue to accept the fiction that rules and laws apply to the elite as for the masses? Even the not-so-elite, the Stanford swimmer who brutally raped and assaulted Chanel Miller, though convicted, was given light sentence because of his "bright future", according to the judge.
Yeah, and then they look like Surprised Pikachu when someone gets out of prison not only with no education, but into a world where potential jobs will reject them because they've been convicted of a crime, and they have to resort to going back into crime to survive.
Context needed
But if you keep reading he then makes the argument that despite that, there's still quality content to be found and gives some nice examples.
Not harming others is a condition you just added to the argument, and it is also a condition that Uber does not meet in the eyes of Dutch law. By not paying taxes on the wages of their drivers, Uber shifts the costs for the healthcare, pensions and general public services (dikes, fire services, etc etc) of those drivers onto the rest of society, thereby harming all those companies and citizens that do pay their taxes as required.
I assume "the amyloid hypothesis" is the hypothesis that plaques cause Alzheimer's. That hypothesis is indeed dead. There are plenty of successful plaque treatments. Basically none of them are effective.
It got replaced by social media
> I doubt many people are dual-booting on work computers and WSL really only benefits developers, which are most likely developing something on Linux (i.e. server linux) for work.

I was dual booting Linux. I find WSL perfect for this because I can basically have different distributions with a lot of common tools stored in a windows folder. It’s perfect!
Each new generation has a harder time overcoming the wealth of their parents
To dive a bit further into this, I was very socially active on the Internet 20 years ago, and it was a magical thing. I made friends that I still communicate with today, and I credit the amazing community I aligned myself with for helping me become the person I am today (in a good way).

Social media today is nothing like those early communities, and I rarely participate for that reason. Some of the core motivations (e.g. desire for connection/community) exist in both places, but the similarities pretty much end there.

The closest modern day equivalent (for me) is HN and some very niche subreddits.
In this particular case, it's only Facebook and Twitter that are significant social networks and they are responsible for the biggest spread of misinformation. Google is a close third, if you hold Google responsible for its own search results (and not the websites they link to which their algorithm considers most important).

I mean I think they're all overgrown capitalist machines that thirst for their users' data, mindshare and money, and all of them have a heap of dirty secrets that either have or will leak out sooner or later. And none of their dirty secrets - like this 'revelation' that Facebook has a database of favorites - will be surprising.

Twitter has it too - Trump got away with stuff most people would be instantly banned for. They cite he is a person of high importance, but the real reason is that Trump and the ripple effect each of his tweets had were responsible for a big chunk of their annual revenue.

Remember a few years ago that Twitter was struggling financially or stagnating in terms of activity and users? I'm sure I remember a few articles about that. But since then, Trump and some other populist politicians and commentators have caused big waves on there, because each post starts a very big and long discussion involving thousands if not tens of thousands of people, all of them having 'hot takes' on things.

TL;DR they exempt people from the rules because they make them the most money.
I think the flagging is for potential stealing of someone else's article. The link should be changed.