skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than the title? How about "Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation."

Not to mention what immediately follows, advocating for something beyond this in the future: "This is how we can begin to do that."

Looking forward to the silently installed browser extension that hides search results and social media posts that they don't want you to see. (related: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-back...)
I think the parent comment's story describes the concept really well. The below clip from "Pentagon Wars" describes some of the organizational dynamics that are another way to arrive at dumb requirements.

Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
Depends what you mean by end well... I'm sure everyone that counts will declare it a wonderful success. They'll probably even have graphs proving a x% reduction in Bad Stuff (TM)*.
They probably use Fedwire, and you are not correct that the service is free, look at https://fintech.com/contact/ under "How much does Fintech cost?"
Every Chinese would extol their low broadband prices, like 100 RMB for 300 to 500 mbps, but what they didn't care is that the prices for businesses are startlingly high, so you have to pay to get blocky 1080p or even 720p online videos, the 300 to 500 mbps you got is merely a number when you aren't torrenting.

That's what nationalization looks like, beautiful from the outside, good luck inside of it.

Don't be too harsh to your local Chinese deliverymen, they make 1 RMB per package dreaming of buying those multimillion RMB a piece socialist condos.
After 15+ years of use it has become so slow I had to move away for day to day browsing. I'm on windows 7 on that machine. My copy on windows 10 works almost on par with chrome in terms of speed.

After the rewrite things were super fast but it has gotten slower each release.
The IRS has invested a lot in low effort automated audits that catch non-rich people when they try to cheat on their taxes (they are usually not very smart about it), while the rich people who can afford accountants and lawyers make their cases too expensive in manual effort and time to pursue under a cut budget. They just can only audit so many millionaires+ every year, while they can audit almost everyone else with a push of a button.
I used to be concerned about this issue, due to the obvious analogy with biological evolution, but later I realized that it's an easy risk to guard against.

It's a straightforward engineering problem to reduce the possibility of accidental program mutation to any arbitrarily low level, for example using SHA-2 (with which the chance of an undetected error is 1e-77). Of course, you can have "somatic mutations" where one part of a machine or another malfunctions, for example due to damage or errors during construction; but those don't get propagated to the next generation, so they don't produce the kind of progressive deviation you're describing.

This doesn't happen in nature for a variety of reasons, among which is that as such corrective mechanisms become progressively more perfect, the evolution of the species using them becomes progressively slower, and therefore the perfection of the error-correction mechanisms never quite arrives. Moreover, any species whose evolution becomes very slow is at a major disadvantage when the environment changes sufficiently; it will probably die out and leave no descendants after the next climate change, even something minor like an Ice Age, much less a meteor strike.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the number of generations is quite limited in practice. If, to take an unrealistically risky example, you have an alcohol-dependent nanobot replicator weighing 2 picograms, and you set it to reshaping a tonne of alcohol-soaked soil, it can't make more than 5e17 copies of itself, for which it only needs 59 generations. We aren't talking about thousands or millions of generations: even if time allows for them, space doesn't.

1e-77 (.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 01) is a number that it can be difficult to get a handle on. If we, to take another unrealistically risky example, converted Ceres into 2-picogram nanobot replicators, there would only be 4.7e35 of them, so the chance that one of them would have a mutation in its program that SHA-2 couldn't detect would be 4e-42, assuming that there were just as many erroneous replications as correct ones. (If only one out of every 1000 nanobot firmware installations had a copying error, the chance that one of them went undetected would instead be 4e-45.) The universe is only 4.3e26 nanoseconds old.

So, human malice or extreme carelessness would be necessary.
Many people on this page appear irritated or angry that obesity might be a topic of complexity and nuance, and that simplistic understanding might be at odds with reality.

There are few HN participants who are stunned to find out that quantum physics is counter-intuitive, or who are amazed that proving 1+1=2 might be worth a volume or two of pure logic, but so many are angrily rebutting the idea that obesity might be more than just caloric intake versus caloric expenditure. This speaks volumes.
I don't know about this argument. There's already competition for the manufacturer in the form of other car companies. More middlemen on top of that seems unnecessary.
> Actually you hit on one of the lesser-known rules of Camelot system, that +/-7 (aka perfect 5th)

Er, what? A perfect fifth is +/-1. That's why it's called the Circle of Fifths. +/-7 is a minor second.

9A and 2A only contain two notes in common - the other five will all clash. It's not really mixable in most cases without using special tricks.
Message notification has little tiny preview of the image attached.
Dune II was the first video game I ever really bit into. Dune Emperor was the last. In between was Dune 2000. All = favorites.
They've increasingly added features to tell you who on your mailing list to advertise to, how (they also handle Facebook and Google ads, some postal mail, etc.), and when.

They can estimate how likely addresses are to lead to spam complaints (https://mailchimp.com/help/about-omnivore/), how likely customers are to spend more (https://mailchimp.com/help/about-customer-lifetime-value-and...), things like that.
I didn’t say anything about philosophers, I was responding to your overconstrained set of things you deemed the only things we should care about. We definitely should care about asking what causes qualia to manifest and creating good generative explanations for our subjective experience.
Code of Federal Regulations
Well, paper money is also used for crime. In fact, illegal uses of paper currency are so common, U.S. authorities commonly seize cash from civilians deemed to be carrying too much of it!

In light of this - I think it's rational to remove paper currency from circulation and to move to a digital system where every transaction is tracked to a real person. This could be as simple as using existing banking structures, or maybe some sort of cryptographically-secure, immutable ledger of some sort, tying every transaction back to a real person. Almost like a centralized, managed "block chain".

/s
That is mint!
Isn't the biggest budget item housing?
I agree people will complain about anything, however, some of those you enumerated are valid complaints.

Complaining about the take-home, fizbuzz is a little unreasonable. Complaining about needing a perfect Leetcode medium answer in 30 min is not an unreasonable complaint.
My dad gained a lot of weight when he was in USMC boot camp, and they had to put him on a diet. Nice anecdote though.
> the economic anarchy this country has suffered for so long

Free markets are a chaotic system, that's for sure. But it made the US the wealthiest country in the world, and hundreds of thousands of poor people tramp thousands of miles for just a chance to be part of it.

> historical precedent that the best way to organize an economy is by

letting it run itself. It doesn't need to be organized, as free markets are self-organizing.
I really like the /- ("slashdash") comments. Seems like they did a lot of things right! I might use this in projects.
It kind of goes both ways, today's factory farmed meat is grown with lots of grains and corn which is grown using artificial fertilizer, that is a lot of waste. But a bit more traditionally and on smaller scales you donn't feed cows much of any grains, that is for people to eat, they eat the alfalfa which is grown in rotation to put nutrients/fertilizer into the soil for free and without any pollution.

So eating meat is both very polluting, but once was and still could be a net positive for agricultural sustainability and reducing fossil fuel pollution.
Artificial Intelligence: The technology that is rapidly rebuilding the world
If this article were right and CICO were wrong, then how is the Twinkie diet able to be effective?
"I'm guessing the reason nobody runs these studies is that it's solved science?"

One of the article's main points is that the obsession with the calorie-only model (with the assumption that it's solved) has stymied even asking these fat-metabolism questions in the first place (outside of veterinary science, where they actively trying to make animals that get fat very quickly).

But yes, your body is free to store/burn mass and energy in muscles, tissue, glycogen and whatnot if it chooses to store the excess at all.

Of course if you force an environment of extreme depletion (like bootcamp as mentioned elsewhere), you body will get to its adipose tissue, but that's not going to solve the obesity epidemic. Most veterans get just as fat as the rest of the population after they leave the service.

I personally can feel when my glycogen has been depleted when working out. Once it's gone I look a bit anemic and /pushing/ beyond certain limits becomes impossible. Normally it's a precursor to me entering ketosis, which pretty much guarantees I'll be burning fat or muscle only from then out.
I'm out of the loop (pun intended), what's the alternative?
+1

Mind you that the notebooks seem to be actually "categories".

One notebook can be dragged into another to create trees.
I use this property in my full immersion process to keep the coffee hot longer.
I switched my blog from Jekyll to Pelican recently after getting sick of constant ruby package versioning issues. It’s pretty nice, though maybe not as good for getting your site to appear on google search
When are we going to start building software differently so that exploits start going away?
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This is solved by a trivial supplement. Millions of vegans/vegetarians take them every day, and many hundreds of millions of livestock (which is how most get their B12, as well). If we didn't supplement our livestock with B12, we'd all always be deficient.

A lot of suffering is avoided with a measly supplement.
Programmers still carefully optimise things when it matters e.g, IoT.

However, to lament programmers not eking out every megabyte of payload size is nonsensical - in my opinion. Why waste a scarce resource (labour hours) optimising the use of a cheap and plentiful resource (bandwidth/storage).

Imagine a world where fusion energy was the most commonly employed energy source and the cost of electricity in both environmental and economic terms was negligible. Should we still have energy-star rated refrigerators? Why? What purpose would it serve?
Interesting... I don't know much about Fedwire, I will check it out. Thanks YuriNiyazov!

And yes sorry it's not free, just relatively cheap -- I think it's $200/year and $1 per transaction, which doesn't seem like enough to cover traditional wires.
Nice doc, but I feel like it's confusing documents like XML/HTML and tree-structured data like JSON.

It seems like it would be annoying to write this directly, like how do you make a word bold or italic? How do you make a class of hyperlink that's a different color (e.g. internal links vs. external)? HTML is OK but not fun to write directly -- I'm not sure that KDL is an improvement. You would still want something like Markdown.

On the other hand it could be better for tables, which are awkward in HTML. But I'd like to see how that works.

In summary:

- XML/HTML: better when you have more text than data. Good for docs, awkward for tables.

- JSON: better when you have more data than text. Good for web API request and response, awkward for docs (e.g. do you want to write markdown or HTML inside double quotes?). OK for config files but awkward because it's a strict format.
This might be crazy but I rarely ever take notes... I try and remember stuff. But my train of thought is usually in my position at jobs someone is requesting something from me.. I come from the operations side of things and slowly did more dev work. People hate me sometimes but I am firm believer in no ticket no work. Put in a ticket if we do not have tracking system first thing to do. They can update the ticket all the want. But if you ask me something in passing I may do it or may not. But if i get a ticket it will get done. Works well no idea if it good idea though.
On point parody of Curtis' work https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
Yes I realize that it wasn’t ultimately needed, it was a proactive measure. It’s better that it was there and unused than not there and needed. Wouldn’t you agree?

But here we have the exact opposite. We have reports about hospitals actually being stretched past their limits…and the ship is sitting in Virginia. Personally, I think that looks bad…and possibly politically punitive. And if I have that opinion as a liberal independent, I guarantee others probably see it that way too…especially if they lean Republican.
Genuine question: Why do the animals beg you to milk them if they presumably have children? The animals only produce milk after having given birth, right? Are you saying that the animals produce so much milk that they still need to beg to be milked after their young have been nourished?

Or are you saying they only beg for milk in situations in which their young have been taken away?
Discussed at the time:

Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11188570 - Feb 2016 (75 comments)
since Android 9.0 you can use private DNS like dns.adguard.com to use Chrome ad-free
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

Also yes, I'm aware the author states:

>Have you seen that one XKCD comic about standards?

>Yes. I have. Please stop linking me to it.

To which I say: You shouldn't have created a new standard if you didn't want to be linked to the xkcd. Any annoyance is self inflicted, and you've weaponized the internet against yourself.
Human kidnappings and subverting international sanctions account for what? 0.0001% of all transactions?

So you're saying 99.9% of the population shouldn't benefit from this because there will be a tiny percentage misusing it?

I take it you're against privacy, encryption and gun ownership too then right?
Thanks for sharing, very thought provoking. In short yes “ Form your own conclusion as to whether Lindsay is right in seeing Marcuse's take on the future of Marxist ideology reflected in current affairs.”
What weakens discussion is willful historical blindness, as demonstrated by the comment I replied to.
With 1 million users all doing this, it's 3.2GB.

100 seems like a reasonable middle-ground between "that's a lot of storage to address a rare edge case" (e.g. say this was 3.2TB) and "most people will never need 10".
I wish there was (and I hope someone comes along and tells us!) During my switch to FF, I kept the Safari prefs dialog open and then copy and pasted the passwords when requested by a site in FireFox. It was a total drag, but in a few days I was all set in cross-device password management with Firefox.
I loved Firefox and I still believe it is the best bastion for a free web, though that view has been slowly fading. Years and years of user hostile moves (drastic UI changes, breaking am entire generation of addons) have really hurt the brand IMHO. And this PR just feels hollow.
You are waaaay overselling pfSense :) Seriously, I tried it, and sure it's easier than hacking at iptables. But not much.
Tor isn't built from FF, AFAIAA (TorBrowser is though).
Tusky (an open-source mastodon client) has (or had, I hope) an integrated blacklist that prevents its users from accessing certain instances the developers find distasteful.

Mozilla could implement a similar feature to block portions of the web, or particular content, or add a feature that pro-actively fact-checked page content.

I still use a firefox fork, because it isn't chromium. But I won't be surprised if Mozilla decides to go a similar route to Tusky based on their espoused values.
> In the future https://www.w3.org/TR/webcodecs/ may allow for a native API to do this.

It may make some things this can do possible but ffmpeg has support for so many codecs and so many operations and is incredibly extensible that I doubt anything short of making ffmpeg available in the browser will give you that much power.
Yeah, but starving en-masse isn't some kind of adaptation that they've developed in order to survive. I was thinking more about plants whose seeds germinate in the digestive tract of an animal.
Space City Weather
I think a Tesla Store might attract a different crowd.
this 4G 5G thing is becoming yet another factor accelerating planned obsolescence
Many people would argue the opposite, the high school is already far too focused on college preparation and a lot of people are just not interested in college. A generation or two ago there were a lot of trade classes in high school, and it was possible to come out of high school with a “specialization” in some thing like pipe fitting or welding they were walking right into a local industrial career. Now that’s all gone for the sake of college prep, and kids who would be great pipe fitters end up as burger flippers. I once has a conversation with the (then) Mayor of Texas City, Texas who lamented this exact change and said the city had a big program to recruit and visa sponsor pipe fitters out of Vietnam to sustain the local industries because the local schools no longer taught the needed skills. These were apparently great middle class jobs with high wages and benefits (although I’m taking him at his word, I don’t know if it’s true).

My personal take is that high school tries to be a one size fits all model, which actually just makes it a waste of time for everyone. It would be a big improvement if we could let people branch out a lot more starting around age 14 or so. Then perhaps it would make sense, if you knew you wanted to do computer science, you could go to a CS oriented high school and in two years do all the pre-requisite work for a CS bachelors degree and head off to college, or something like that.

Mainly though, I think this doesn’t happen because most people need the high school to be in their neighborhood or close by. Kids can’t drive until they’re 16, And even then they are terrible drivers and probably shouldn’t be driving until they’re 18 or 21. But this is America and if you can’t drive you really can’t be an adult, so there’s no way that you can go to the specialty school 45 minutes away. And I don’t think very many parents want to send their young teenage children away to boarding school.
If it was the actual military, there will have been both entry requirements and a fair amount of self-selection to ensure that the people coming in are much more homogeneous to start with than the general population.

This is not even close to a scientific sample.
Cows and Goats will both wean their offspring on their own, and continue to produce milk for years afterwards. Milking them keeps them from getting pregnant again too soon.
You can do it. You can absolutely do it.
That sounds pretty darn cool. Are there any per-cursors or early examples of this today?
Woah that list is amazing! Multi-player Commander Keen :mindblown:
There's value in having a lowest common denominator. sRGB isn't going anywhere for quite some time.
The lack of cultists is the only reason why I'm even reading these articles.

Now if only they could stabilize the price so you can pay for things instead of gamble on it.
Functional Programming on Embedded System
5b. Keybinds can’t be changed
I see this as an argument for following your own dreams instead of helping someone else’s dreams become reality.
Their website was pretty trivial, but I beefed up the script to check for failure status code and also notify me if it wasn't 200.

I ran it every minute.

I had to include a unique uuid to cache bust, but other than that there wasn't any state.

I wrote about it here https://plainice.com/webscrape-notifications
Yeah I noticed this. One interviewer had a very interesting tactic. He had a topic ready that is totally outside of the role you are applying for. He would not bring up the topic immediately, but soon as he decided ‘no’, he sets you up for failure by asking all these questions about the topic.

Then they send out a rejection letter saying you don’t know enough about the topic. What can you do? Reply back ‘But you know that topic has nothing to do with the position’. It was the first time I saw a interview version of a ‘kill switch’.

As an interviewee, you also develop radar for this where you also can just check out 10 minutes into the interview and not care too much (so much is decided on initial perception, looks, vibes, speech - within minutes).
Is DoH really that that important right now? Your ISP can still see the domain you're connecting to via SNI. Until encrypted SNI (eSNI) arrives it doesn't seem like a big win for privacy.

But it seems like Cloudflare is working on it https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypt-that-sni-firefox-edition...
How and why is that different from a client being in the room? I'm pretty sure that neither desktop, nor especially phone clients are supposed to take gigabytes of mem to listen to chats.
I'm glad you put "dissident" in quotes. USAID is notoriously rife with CIA plants and many CIA operatives use the organization as cover, which implies that a nation targeting its members would have a lot more justification than a homegrown activist. That USAID might be targeted by hackers is mostly a consequence of the US government's decision to use it as a front for clandestine operations overseas.
it cuts both ways. for every high profile person posting real porn (eg Neymar's revenge porn in the article) there are thousands of instances of regular users with ML flagged 'napalm girls'
Possibly old app changed association directly. It it's done, association is reset.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17946282/whats-the-hash-...
Right near the end:

> Finally, KDL is not a markup language.
1. There are public visible Swift rewrite and sanbix enhancement.

2. With the number of projects Apple has, the number of "trivial" enhancement like this add up very quickly.