skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but if you zoom out to the helicopter perspective, the biggest “influencers” have always been the oligarchs and the sole requirement for joining their ranks is having lots and lots of money.

That, on the other side, sounds very American-centric and contemporary-centric to me. I would say that even though money generally correlates with influence, there were many other factors at play.

Feudal nobles of Europe resented and despised the merchant class even if they could not utterly suppress it. Wealthy commoners would have an influence, but holders of hereditary titles would still in many cases be considered above them legally. In countries such as Tsarist Russia, being of noble birth would be way more important than being rich; pre-revolutionary France wasn't too dissimilar.

There were strict theocracies where the priestly caste would hold sway. Notably, scholars were considered more prestigious in Jewish societies than businesspeople, which might have contributed to the intellectual strength of the nation that is obvious even now.

In Soviet-like systems, real power was held by the nomenklatura consisting of high level apparatchiks, senior members of the Party. You could bribe them, but money wasn't really the most important thing; the most important thing was their intra-Party position, earned over decades of patient scheming against other possible competitors in badly sewn grey suits.

Spartans (or, to be more precise, Spartiates, the hereditary top class) would never under any circumstances admit any outsider among them as an equal - even if it meant that their ranks were thinning with each generation to the point of near extinction.

Saddam Hussein only trusted his own Tikrit gang and anyone else, rich or smart, was second rank only.
Document here: https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related...
It's also common for more or less than 50% to fall below the median. The average M&M fun size package has 15 M&Ms (mode, median=15; mean=15.02). Only 25.6% have fewer than that. As fumeux_fume stated earlier, not everything follows a normal distribution.

Since morality is socially mediated, I think it's reasonable to hypothesize it would tend to be N-modal.
I would argue that the injustice of mass incarceration resulting from inequitable and inconsistently applied drug laws was far more unfortunate and harmful. I say: more legalization, and now.
Here the list of all modules on Maven Central
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> Everyone still downloads and runs an entire JVM

Nope, we (i know anecdote) use jlink in docker containers, mostly to avoid useless dependencies. The problem of GraalVM native image is that it comes with a subpar GC.

> which broke plenty of Java applications

yes, i agree, modules did not worth the trouble.
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https://twitter.com/Ert2541/status/1437095828888317952
Where is the actual report?
> Don’t forget that Biden authored the Patriot Act

No, he and Tom Daschle sponsored, in the Senate, the Clinton Administration’s legislative proposal (the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995), some of which was, in modified form, passed as the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and which is sometimes also seen as a spiritual antecedent of the Patriot Act.
Where Are All the .400 Investors?
I would love to get into erlang and beam. As far as I know, Beam must be a great tool for servers and webservers in general. But can I use the language in other scenarios, too? For example commandline tools, desktop Gui's or games?
Humans barely agree with each other. Do you think are going to be persuaded by half baked chat bots like GPT3? (ya the cherry picked stuff looks good but rest is still not really there).

So far all OpenAI has done is generate more publicity (probably intentionally may be with an eye towards investors) by acting as if they are protecting the next nuclear weapon of some kind. Frankly, there is nothing to lose by not using their "ohh god its so dangerous" model.
Both involve research that was specifically intended to reduce risk of pandemics. If either is true, our response here should be to conduct this research with extreme care or even stop doing it.

If the lab origin hypothesis is not true, we should actually do more of exactly this kind of work. That's why it's important to understand and come to consensus about it. It's not just a curiosity or a chance to point the finger at countries and politics we don't like. The prescription for how we should behave is completely different depending on what we think happened.
I haven't litigated a classified case in civilian court, but my knee-jerk reaction is to be skeptical that they are adequately "set up for" handling classified material. Where is the FRE analog to MRE 505?
Not according to Biden himself: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/an...
Hi - Thanks for your reply! Glad to hear of success amid a sea of negative experiences.

I tried looking up "Heat" but was not able to find a framework/util. Could you send me the link please?

It looks like the testing feature of Chromatic is to take screenshots of the deployed component and visually compare them? So there's literally no code writing if comparing one commit to the next.
FYI: The San Jose Mercury News had a double-page spread at the time comparing features. Youtube had twice as many as Google video.
Federal legislation is far from finished. Who knows what we end up with.

I for one would prefer to pay rehabilitation therapy rather than supporting the ludicrous enforcement apparatus we have now. If someone wants to burn away their brain cells, let them do it. Why involve police and the justice system? Why throw them in jail, where they have even less chance of rehabilitating themselves?

I don't need to retread the old discussion "How on earth is alcohol legal?", since the effects of alcohol abuse are so much worse than the effects of marijuana abuse and it's rather hard to OD on the later. But in the end; what do I care?

There's the case to be made for protecting young adults, since there's solid evidence that smoking weed is harmful to the developing brain.
> I'm generally an avid beliver in free markets as an agent for positive change, so these types of "revelations" are really disheartening

> What are the solutions to this?

Not believing in propagandist fairy tales? The "free" market is clearly a lie, it's a false front around capitalists seeking to maximize profit based in the regulatory framework(s) that government(s) have stood up. These frameworks aren't respected for their actual spirit either, instead exploited to their literal letter at every moment.

To see someone on a logical forum like HN espouse a childish idea like "the free market will make an efficient solution", with none of the subtext that the solution is exclusively to the problem of making money, just shows how effective that propaganda is.

Instead, acknowledge reality: incentives control actions, and capitalist incentives exclusively are to make money and control markets. Captive markets make more money, so they will work towards aspects of the regulatory frameworks that they can use to keep others out.

There is no goodwill from corporations. There is no environmental concern from corporations. There is no concern on social impact from corporations. There are no morals in corporations. There is profit maximization techniques and nothing else.

The free market has seen capitalists destroy our world with barely an impressive invention along the way.
Cryptography will always be important in computer science
Be careful! If your timer is attached to a circuit board, you could be labeled a terrorist.

https://agoodmantoknow.com/2015/09/22/ahmeds-clockbomb/
This phenomenon keep happening with old Nobel laureates. Linus Pauling for instance...

For any public binary question with weak information, you'll find crazy people arguing both sides.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28502758
This was mentioned in the paper, sounds like an interesting point.
Wish we were close, but we’re pretty far from something like Boston dynamics robotics being controlled by any AI imho, at least not in a way that would impress anyone. The deep mind software doesn’t handle real world interactions and all the mess and complexity that comes with that, and no one does really (at least not well). Self driving cars are far less complicated imho then walking around on uneven terrain, interacting in a human world (opening and closing doors, not getting stuck in a stairwell, etc.) and handling all sorts of different items coming into your world at any moment and they are far from properly autonomous themselves.
Particularly when refueling is so fast and fuel stations so widespread.
So we should just stop using airplanes because their fuel has lead in it? What?
I recently ran into a reddit post in which a young individual (low 30's) just got a job at University of California, and was seeking advice on retirement investments. He claimed that he expected to make 300+ grand a year at the UC. New assistant professors start sub 100k, and most top-tier professors near the end of their careers can reach 200+k a year, not counting benefits. What job is this 30 year old getting at the UC that starts at 300k? It must be in the CEO track, where they assume they should be paid most, and somehow, do so.

It is often argued that CEO's deserve extraordinary salaries on the basis that they are smarter than most people...but when you work at a University, you know a lot of people who extraordinarily intelligent people who are familiar with running large, complex organizations/programs. There is no way those CEO's deserve more than they do. It purely a culture and power thing. And its bloody disgusting.
It’s hard to separate the effect of culture. A lot of cannabis users have an affinity for the cannabis sub-culture, or with related ones like the hippie/hipster cultures that have many shared speech patterns. You might see similar results analyzing the speech of surfers, pilots, sorority members, etc.
Hi! I just moved to NYC from the bay in a similar situation and have lots of questions if you're willing to chat :) @thezisko on the bird website. (or email me)
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That's the rub, of course. I suspect there's a whole array of valid measures sufficient to blunt incentives. We don't need something perfect, just enough so legislators don't gain so much that their pecuniary motivations override their duty to public service (and their fear of getting caught). Right now they can profit massively from legislation by betting on individual companies. If they're instead looking at a blind trust that contains a mix of index funds, bond funds, etc, then they still are aligned with the wealthy, which is certainly bad, but any gains they can drive for themselves become much smaller.
Maybe: as opposed to companies that exclusively rely on income from happy users of their software. As long as users are locked into Google's platform it doesn't matter to their bottom line if an individual product is at best "good enough". Google can make money out of the user's engagement in other ways.
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Also worth reading is C infrequently asked questions https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html
Show HN: Transcriptor, an modal editor to correct speech-to-text transcripts
Transcribing is hard and slow, speech-to-text transcripts are uncomfortable to correct in usual text editors.

Transcriptor is a pseudo-modal editor for transcribing. This modal nature is optimised to accelerate the correction of speech-to-text transcripts. This optimisation was based on a statistical model we created for the most common speech-to-text errors weighted by the time it takes to correct them. Transcribers that have been using it have told us that it makes transcribing faster and more comfortable.

It’s possible to encrypt the transcripts while still allowing to share them with collaborators, it's also possible to use local recordings without uploading them to the server. This makes Transcriptor ideal for working with sensitive information.

We’ve created a short-lived link that allows to try it in demo mode. www.inopinia.com/sharing-companies/transcriptor/4pz2jVzGA2m3wg

Finally Transcriptor is the first project of “Sharing Companies” a different take in the sharing economy where companies share so people profit instead of the other way round. You can learn more about it here www.inopinia.com/sharing-companies. We want to release several other projects in the coming months that will also be part of this initiative, if you are interested on following this you can write to us at info@inopinia.com. We are also looking for NGOs to collaborate with :)
I'm a jazz/blues guitarist dilletante who can only go by fakebook lead sheets for comping and rigid arpeggios and scales for improvisation... So could someone enlighten me why sight reading is a precarious skill you can learn only if you're a child? Isn't it just combining two skills ear training and tabs reading (and recalling from memory what pitch it was) ? Thanks!
Germany's federal police agency purchased and used 'Pegasus' spyware
Wow, this is the first time I have understood why nothing can go faster than the speed of light and why time dilation is a thing.

A very easy to read article, give it a try.

Also if you are curious why a moving charge creates a magnetic field watch this Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0
Can you access Chivo in your region?
Yes! I experienced the same. Just never publicly complained about it. It's the only constant running thing having high CPU. PipeWire, though still somewhat power hungry, is a lot better.
There's a free service called crisistextline.org that I wish more people knew about.
Seems to be working for me (firefox, safari, chromium). The SSL cert appears to be valid, expire next year and be issued by Amazon.

It could be a block by your country, ISP or possibly if you're using a VPN it might be affecting it as well.
Try to remember that if you hear a pilot meowing.
>What did YouTube do differently?

Youtube at the beginning had a lot more pirated content uploaded than Google Video. And Youtube did not discourage that type of viral content. It had more illegal copyrighted clips from movies, tv shows, popular songs, etc.

Based on interviews I saw, Google Video had a different philosophy. Susan Wojcicki was running it at the time and she originally thought Google Video would succeed because Google was "playing nice" by negotiating legal licenses with broadcasters like NBC. So in theory... Google Video would have the high-end desirable content (e.g. tv shows) that would be "better quality" than the amateur home videos on Youtube.

The theory turned out to be wrong because the pirated content that got Youtube into lawsuits was also what made them more viral and beat Google Video.

It's a counterintuitive example of a startup having less money than a big billion dollar public company like Google causes it to have a competitive advantage. Google eventually realized that Youtube was beating Google Video and just acquired them.
Alex Grey and Terence McKenna consumed many more substances than just marijuana.
Commandline tools yes (though that's not it's strong point). Desktop GUIs could be done though I've not looked into it, if I were then I'd look at making a desktop Electron app and use something like Phoenix LiveView with that to create the GUI.

Games are a tricky one, it all depends on what you are doing with the game. I develop a middleware server for an RTS and for that it shines but it would not suit the gameplay side of things very well (you can of course still use it for anything!).

Repo for reference: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/teiserver
I've had this argument many times with my friends who are libertarian leaning and they start hand waving when you bring up a 100 different examples of companies being downright evil when they became too large.
It is fairly trivial to avoid drinking gasoline. For example, I managed it 100 per cent of the time so far, and I am 43.

It is not as trivial to avoid breathing in lead when you live around cars that use leaded gasoline.
I don't remember the site, but one single time so far a website told me "we picked minimal cookie settings for you, since you sent a Do Not Track order". Very nice.
Thanks, now I understand.
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To point out the absurdity of this study using only 31 users with varying degrees of other types of drug use, as well as measuring some highly subjective metric, let me offer some purely anecdotal evidence that has a bigger sample size. I can name more than 31 rappers (try me) that have heavy, long-term cannabis use that have fast "speech timing", high "vocal quality", and low "vocal effort" compared to the general population.
As Ron Paul once said (about the Federal Reserve), "If that doesn't make any sense at all to you...then you understand it just fine."
What about Hanlon’s razor[1]? Are we sure this is a fake delay and not just some bad engineering? E.g. a bad case of long polling. Sure, even in that case it would still be a dark pattern; I just want to make sure we’re not assuming too much.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Just seeing the headline, my first thought was, "NEWS FLASH: recreational cannabis users 30% more likely to say 'dude'!"
It’s finally over.

> After more than three decades of research and development, general aviation finally has an approved unleaded 100-octane fuel.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gami-awarded-long-awaite...
This would explain why I've just seen it pulse towards the top of my seeded torrents today. I will be dragging this torrent around in my seeds until the day I die (or until some companies get together to eliminate torrents).
As a collector of religious texts and bawdy limericks, I can appreciate that we've identified this as poetic.
The later compilations of the Septuagint included the books, but that doesn’t mean they were included originally, which we cannot verify.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain related posts get flagged quickly because the signal-to-noise ratio is low (some would argue it's zero).

There uses to be lots of posts with interesting-sounding claims that didn't hold up under scrutiny from actual CS experts, and I think HN got sick of that.

Then you have the pump-and-dump astroturfers that try to hype up certain coins, and those were always flagged immediately.

So long story short: any good actors in that space have been drowned out by the bad actors and idiots.
There are already enough swindlers doing paranormal garbage to hoodwink people. They don't need gpt3 to do that.
I'm also pro-MMT and Stephanie is one of my favorite's. I don't think the current events are going to help as people will not understand the difference between a supply choc and a monetary base increase. It doesn't help that some politicians will try to use MMT to pay out for other stuff rather than use it for what it is. It also doesn't help that MMT is still loosely defined.
Many FBI agents are Mormons, and have the same automatic assumption of fellowship you speak of.
"When an academic wins a Nobel prize, they have achieved a pinnacle of expertise. At which point they often start to wax philosophic, and writing op-eds. They seem to be making a bid to become an elite. Because we all respect and want to associate with elites far more than with experts. Elites far less often lust after becoming experts, because we are often willing to treat elites as if they are experts. For example, when a journalist writes a popular book on science, they are often willing to field science questions when they give a talk on their book. And the rest of us are far more interested in hearing them talk on the subject than the scientists they write about."

Not one single sentence of that paragraph is true.

When an academic wins a Nobel prize, they have achieved a pinnacle of expertise. No, they've achieved celebrity status (perhaps well-earned by being a top expert). There are those who are experts, but who do not get Nobel prizes. It's not a perfect prize.

They seem to be making a bid to become an elite. They don't get the prize because the ask for it or buy it, and the celebrity status comes with it automatically. Some recipients capitalize on it, for sure. I think "the elites" bring them into their circles on their own.

Because we all respect and want to associate with elites far more than with experts. No, we all don't.

For example, when a journalist writes a popular book on science...the rest of us are far more interested in hearing them talk on the subject than the scientists they write about. I think many (maybe not enough, for sure) don't see 'journalists' as scientific experts. For your Sanjay Guptas it may be true, but he's not a true journalist .
I was born in Texas and stayed there through college. Most folks really underestimate the mental burden your state actively working to make your life worse takes on you. I fortunately escaped to Washington, and would seriously never consider returning.
Worse still is that there is a cadre of "legal thinkers" promulgating this line of reasoning. They are still out there, twisting our legal system toward authoritarian outcomes.
> Also, contrary to Windows, since Android 7, applications that link to undocumented APIs get terminated as security measure.

"undocumented" has nothing to do with it

there is a sandbox, syscalls are checked by seccomp and those not explicitly permitted will result in termination of the application

it doesn't care where the syscall comes from, be that libc, golang style, or calling svc #0 yourself

additionally: the kernel is open source... there are no "undocumented" syscalls

this also has nothing to do with the original point
A strong regulatory environment.
This isn’t even near Google glass. This is a direct competitor to Snap’s Spectacles. Glass was also attempting to place a computer-like device on your face. These are no more than fancy head video cameras.
As I mentioned in another comment, let's not forget that preventing spread through all these measures is all in service of a greater goal: avoiding strain on public health infra.

To put it another way, it doesn't matter if vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus (any virus, even) as long as this infection chain does not result to an unmanageable pipeline of people who might need intensive medical care. In this context, the main benefit (but by no means only) of vaccines is the decreased hospitalization rate.
One could argue that such a policy actually just ends up incentivizing politicians to accept bribes. Then again, it isn't like the current salary of a congressman seems to be preventing that anyway.
Make a coherent argument. You were comparing to the Kardashians, who are massively influential, not to "you or I". And so what "if they choose to"? They've chosen not to.
Neat, though I'm curious - when do instructions like this typically get used?