skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it's not a retention problem, it's that they never learned the stuff in the first place. You're pretty doomed if you fall behind in school, it's all up to some individual going above and beyond (a teacher, a family member, a friend) to save you, because the system will just keep shuffling you along to adulthood, and then all the consequences hit at once. Take this loan with compound interest you can't understand because you can't multiply, buy a massive depreciating asset with it (car, mobile home...) because you don't know what "depreciating" is...
Ok, I have to ask, what is an actual difference between torrents and ipfs? I don't care for technical details, I mean the business logic, so to speak.

- Both use DHTs to search for sources of fingerprinted content.
- Both use nodes (seeds in BT terminology) that actuallu store the content.
- Both don't have an "archive" system, and so if at least one node doesn't have the file, it may as well not exist at all.
- Both can have content censored by going after the node operators.

Am I getting any of these wrong?
Sorry, just wanted to make the point that it is not JVM. Wasn't in Android dev since some years it seems ;)
You really don't see the difference between eliminating all the candidates (and all popular candidates) and eliminating one candidate per district?

Smart Voting™ creates these popular candidates in the districts where all competitors of Putin's guy are more or less equally popular. Knowing whom they will make popular is an advantage for Putin, don't you agree?

I have a feeling you're arguing out of stubbornness. My original point was that announcing the Smart Voting lists in the last moment can be useful, I think gave some good reasons for it.
> Is that really your concern? If you are following the spec, it should be irrelevant - sometimes as an engineer you are not privy to how things will integrate until later, unless you have a real concern, the “value add” is irrelevant.

I have the opposite view, I think it matters a lot. As an engineer, I understand things better when I can see the "why". Being aware of the "why" means that I will follow more easily the spirit of the spec instead of just the word. It means I will be more aligned with the users, the business. All of these avoid the classic trap of having a dev team disconnected from the business, which usually leads to a bad atmosphere, late/failed projets.
I wouldn't be too worried. Copernicus crater is 93km in diameter... Which is the circle on left hand side of moon.

Anything truly visible from Earth would be absolutely massive and we haven't done anything like that scale on Earth even yet...
I'd be interested to see a study for a link between the suicide rate and the degree of surveillance in one's life, separated from the influence of the social networks that already has been studied.

It seems to be quite obvious that the lack of personal space would cause or exacerbate the mental issues. However, the modern society tends to ignore the problems that cannot be easily tracked or assigned a metric.
>I don’t think that it was common to do so pre-puberty, pre-internet.

Pre-puberty, probably not, no interest for obvious reasons. Pre-internet, absolutely. Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc were prevalent. BBS's existed too.
> Lower-class workers will see their incomes increase much more on a proportional basis and end up with a net benefit.

Except their goods are going to cost more too now. Unless you're going to start proposing price controls.

I can't really see UBI doing anything except inflating itself away.
Vision-and-Language or Vision-for-Language? Cross-Modal Influence
I still don't know what you mean; I was hoping for something specific (i.e. not metaphors or implied and unclear solutions).
There're plenty of locations where censorship is much broader topic. And, unfortunately, the list seems to be growing.
Are we talking about political figures or the people that follow them? The poster I'm responding to is talking about the latter.

edit Someone already pointed out that this is an obvious biased misinformation post.
The problem is too many people are happy to stay with the basics forever if it means they never have to work again.
My kid and I both hate the invigilation trends in education, but he is far from broken/domesticated. Instead, it is inducing him to rebel against it. He is actively looking for ways to defeat this garbage tech.
Open source projects using Discord for their community is sort of a red flag in itself.
> Wars begin when politicians think they can achieve goals easily using arms - see Germany's plans in the World Wars, Saddam's invasion of Iran, Russia's invasion of Ukraine after the 2013 revolution or most wars really.

That's like saying "wars start when someone thinks they can get something out of it" Well, that's meaningless.

The idea that simply having a lot of weapons handy stops wars is absurd. That's what we learned in WW1. Simply put "Si vis pacem, para bellum" has been trash for 100 years.

Wars happen for many reasons, even when people think they might lose the war!

- Ethnic strife (the Yugoslav wars)
- Humanitarian reasons (NATO intervention in Yugoslavia)
- They think that the other side would give in for a settled peace (Japan in WW2; Japan knew it could not completely defeat the US)
- Leaders want power and develop an external enemy (Hitler)
- Leaders think they will be limited (pretty much everyone in WW1)

We could go on.

Wars are a tool for different aims. Winning is obviously the goal, but wars don't happen like in video games like Civilization where you weigh the pros and cons of how many cities you want to capture and decide it's worth it.
Hey Drew, thanks for taking the time.

What would you rate the relative complexity of working with the NIC offloading vs the more traditional optimizations in the rest of the deck? Have you compared other NIC vendors before or has Mellanox been the go to that's always done what you've needed?
The estimates I saw were 3.5 million took early retirement.

Also, sorry this is grim, but the pandemic has also killed hundreds of thousands of people. Many of them were workers.
I am very familiar with Bitcoin script, and it was rather easy to confirm that BSV is using the same set of opcodes, and sCrypt compiles to bitcoin script, with obvious conclusions. So I think that I actually understand the topic (and the article) very well, thank you very much.

What am I up to? My beef with the article is quite simple: the article is clearly written with a singular goal in mind, to claim that "Bitcoin is turing complete", with is trivially verifiable falsehood, so I failed to resist "someone is wrong on the internet" impulse. Are you implying that I am arguing in the bad faith?

There seem to be many other article by the same author making the same claim, with equally tenuous "proofs": https://xiaohuiliu.medium.com/play-conways-game-of-life-on-b... and https://xiaohuiliu.medium.com/turing-complete-rule-110-on-bi...

So the question should rather be "what is he up to?". Probably just a promotion for his language or clickbait titles.
What's confusing me is the seeming lack of location-based price gradient.

According to the estimate-o-matic tools, the house I'm in is worth about 425k. There's basicaly nowhere in this market I could take 425k and get a house meaningfully bigger or better. Not in the new-developed neighbourhoods where the maps say "eventually a grocery store is planned, but until then it's a 10km drive", not in old neighbourhoods where it was built in the 70s and the floorplans top out at 1500 square feet.

I've been trying to sell my family on the Rust Belt, but so far no dice.
Businesses have to pay for bandwidth to get data to the customer's ISP, but they generally don't pay the customer's ISP for the same bandwidth the customer has already paid for.
I second this. They can be a value add to find new avenues too.
…and its development has been exponentially decaying to zero for years. Mostly because of unsolved social problems (uneducated public doesn't understand they need real anonymous systems, and happily use corporate junk marketed as “private and secure”, while educated public dreams about making the next fart button app for the millions, and selling their data), but also because readily accessible public network gives too much power to dedicated observers to be safe in current political climate (which has been known for 15 years, yada yada).

Still, no one has made anything more advanced and educational. Which is quite sad, as these are still the ideas on anonymous communication from the '90s and early 2000s. A whole generation has probably gone down the drain, and did not do any work.
That was back in 2010 when although the financial services was a small percentage of revenue it made up a good percentage of profit - nice graph: http://www.fromedome.com/2011/11/sony-profits/

Now the segment that makes the most is games:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/297533/sony-sales-worldw... which shows a beautiful graph showing just how variably some of their business segments generate profits/losses per year - notice how segments disappear from, or appear on, the graph.

Edit: Disclaimer: I am not a financial expert, but your fact seemed a little odd to be true. Financial services at Sony do look reliably profitable (perhaps mostly recurring revenue and use reinsurance so predictable profits?)
Only folks that can sustain themselves, like forgotten weapons, are patreon supported. But you would have to create a channel from the beginning to be patreon supported.
If you want an objective and open and transparent debate, then a good place to start would be to stop censoring it.

Here's but one of many cases.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/12/they-are-co...

You can't arrive at the truth of a matter by only listening to those with enough power to shut down any countervailing opinions.
That's true also, won't deny that.
That sounds like it would be impossibly expensive
I’ve never heard about disk space as a relevant constraint on crypto mining. Do you mind elaborating or sharing a link or term I can search?
It would for Iran.
This has nothing to do with the rights of children. This is about the school system as an ever present overbearing parent in place of the Childs real parents.
Children do not have the right to privacy they are not adults.
... and all East Europeans.
In Ethereum, the caller specifies the gas amount beforehand to ensure that the execution finishes. In the presented bitcoin-based solution, the caller prepares the transactions beforehand that finish the execution; it then publishes the transactions.

> At this point, what is the benefit I am getting from having this "contract" at all? I would be better off with a just serializing the state of my machine and putting it into OP_RETURN, getting a much smaller blob to store on the chain.
> Article essentially uses bitcoin blockchain as a database

This is just plain wrong and not at all what this article is about. In the article, a script is developed that enforces state transfer by the specified transition table, i.e. only a specific set of bitcoin transactions are allowed on the state, namely the ones from the transition table.
This would be true if the world were not as highly interconnected as it is. Nobody wants to risk this "failure" being broadcasted and possibly following them through virality. People today are not allowed to "fail safely" so to speak. Not without social penalties even outside their immediate social circle.
It's "To Save The Kids" (to quote the article).

Stepping on our rights, invading our privacy, forcing us to do various things that we would rather not do - to protect us - for our health - for the public welfare.

They need to change their tune. This one is getting really really old. Like at least 80 years old. Maybe older.
i heard at one point Carl Sagan was approached by some element of the US government about possibly calculating what kind of nuke thet'd have to set off to be visible on earth.

oh! seems he was a grad student at IIT Chicago and indeed worked on Project A119! i didnt know it was early in his career, or that he'd accepted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119#Research
Interview: Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica's “Black Cat, White Cat”
So how should they should stock a 12 can vending machine?

Coke
Pepsi
Diet Coke
Diet Pepsi

etc
In the Western world, there is currently a mind-boggling abundance of food, with double-digit percentages being discarded.

With regards to shelter, it often does not require building in many places. What I am advocating for is allowing people to stay in public spaces if they are comfortable with it.
I think this comment is sensational but generally true. Replace CSAM with “right leaning” politics and you are just as fucked.

I’m thinking about leaving the US and getting a EU work visa to avoid the shitshow. There are a lot of people who think censorship is good - in the name of fighting misinformation - and generally hold a negative opinion of opposing viewpoints.
Good code is produced when people can easily improve it. In my experience, people leave too much crap untouched because of unnecessary barriers, and having to create a new issue is definitely one of them.

I'd rather review 10 extra files every PR if it means the code is improving. If you keep doing this, eventually there won't be so many extra changes because they're fixed already.

I'm curious, why do you think fixing tech debt is a time sink?
> elites come from among the people ... People generate elites

That's just false! In every society, the elite class is overwhelmingly comprised of families who maintain their high social standing and wealth over decades or centuries. The lower classes are similarly static over the generations, and all classes have a class-specific bias.

If you need proof, take a sampling of the 'Early Life' Wikipedia section of any elite you can think of. Even tech founders, who are more likely socially mobile than most other elites, have overwhelmingly had an upper-middle class upbringing at _least_.
I know this sounds ridiculous, but "Moonball" is really promising as a televised professional sport. Think about it: who wouldn't watch professional athletes in 1/6 gravity? That means, 4 second long, 10ft high jumps. Assuming everyone would watch it, it's a real business opportunity.

It's not terribly hard, either. There are enormous moon lava tubes[1], so it would be possible to just inflate a sporting arena in the radiation sheilded underground. Importantly, atheletes could play without a special life support suit. However, you'd need awesome shoes with good ankle support for landing those jumps. I assume Moonball will first be played by mission astronauts, to keep fit. But within 20 years, I predict televised sports will be the biggest source of moon revenue, aside from govt income.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
Kafka Governance, self-service platform
I think the orders of magnitude are so large that it's unlikely to make a difference. Much less impact than, say, poking a whale with a 30 ga needle.

You might poke a hole and get something hot and nasty gushing out but that would only ruin some machinery and perhaps the day for a few people.
> Corporation tax isn’t a cost of doing business, it’s calculated after costs have been removed from revenue.

I think the point being made is that prices have to be adjusted to allow revenue to cover taxes along with other costs.

Heinlein had a scene in Beyond This Horizon (IIRC) where someone is explaining that profits are also an expense that have to be accounted for to the bewilderment of the other character who was insisting that profits are what's left over that you keep after expenses are deducted from revenue.

It's more complicated than that of course. For one thing supply and demand are usually elastic to some degree, substitutions can sometimes be made, concentrations of supply and/or demand can provide efficiencies of scale (which then results in rent-seeking) and technology is always throwing monkey wrenches into the gears to shake things up ala Christensen.

Anyway, that taxes are an expense for the individual economic entity such as a company isn't really debatable unless you want to make some sort of existential argument for arguments sake.
> Better-off people used to cheap goods/services will no longer be able to fuel their consumption on the backs of people getting paid very little for work under dehumanizing conditions, and will end up with a net loss. Lower-class workers will see their incomes increase much more on a proportional basis and end up with a net benefit.

This is totally backwards. Better-off people have more disposable income and are less sensitive to price increases than lower-class workers are. For example, suppose your favorite restaurant raises its prices from $10 to $15 per meal. If you're a tech worker, you probably won't care and will continue eating there as often as ever. If you're an unskilled worker, there's a good chance you'll never go there anymore.
I would argue that most of the time you don't need good specific advice.

One can get by quite well with just following good general advice.

From anecdotal experience I see people who don't have basics like "spend less than you earn" are looking for magic fixes like "buy those magic stocks or coins" ... no you cannot invest in stocks/coins/anything if you consistently fall behind with your utilities payments or spend all your salary on booze on first weekend after payday.
You have to go out of your way to find abusive media on freenet. There are many top lists of freesites and they are censored of abusive media.

I recommend FMS the freenet messaging system which uses web of trust successfully to moderate messages in a Usenet forum.
Not poster but I think the point is you could do better, not that this doesn’t work.

You can imagine having some discrete optimisation maximising the dissimilarity of words, though that’s hard to do, in particular in a discrete space.
My wife's cousin certainly believes it. But even in the small southern town she lives in that is full of people who think covid is made up, everyone else else thinks she's crazy for thinking the vaccines have microchips in them.
I strongly agree with your entire comment. That said, I think this:

> that everything they read and write should be surveilled 24/7 by teams of strangers, for their "own good"

Are actually two separate problems with our society.

Problem 1: denying privacy to children, various forms of helicopter parenting. This you've covered, and I agree this is our era's way of mistreating children.

Problem 2: "by team of strangers". as a Service. This is a much broader topic to cover it all here, but constrained to the context of data processing and children - social-wide, we're too eager to entrust sensitive matters to random strangers, giving them too much leeway, as if they weren't incentivized to abuse it in every way they can get away with.

People are having ridiculously inconsistent "trust functions" here. You wouldn't give this level of access to a small shop from your neighborhood that offered you a service, but you give it to a random tech startup from far away, just because the guy looks kind of creepy and the startup has a shiny web page. Even though a realistic threat model would suggest the former can be trusted way more than the latter (less incentives and less capability to screw you over, and they live near you). It's like most people can't internalize the lesson, even though they're being repeatedly screwed over by almost every business they interact with.

What pisses me off more, is when it's the other party that inserts some third parties into the process. When you have a kid attending a school, there's a degree of trust and responsibility shared between you and the school. But then the school outsources data management or remote learning to some random vendors, vendors who absolutely cannot be trusted. And as a parent, you can't do much about it.

One day in the future people will look back at our times and think about all of us and most of the market the way we today think about literal snake oil salesmen and people duped by them.
People outside of America are also interested in whether this virus came from some guy's bat dinner, or a bio-warfare lab.
Childcare lobby doesn't pay enough for that. All joking aside, I wonder if some people had one of those near-death experiences during the pandemic and realized wasting the only life you have slaving away at some dump for chump change wasn't a great path to be on.
Interesting that HN is up in arms about this but I’d imagine most still use Google which spies on our kids in order to sell them stuff and manipulate their behavior.

Why do we just accept that porn is being peddled to 10 year olds?

I don’t know if Gaggle is the right approach but they’re at least attempting to help our kids while most of Silicon Valley is just trying to monetize them.
That’s interesting. For anyone with enough resources, though, it would be a slap on the wrist.

For example, I feel that certain high financial crimes are better served by percentage of net-worth, rather than exact dollar-figures.

Otherwise it’s a fixed cost of doing business.
All of these examples fail on structure. The "novels" don't have a plot, the "music" doesn't have a direction, the "poem" mimics the tropes but not the rhetorical intent.

Really, NN-based art is just a more abstract kind of sampling - blundering around inside a human-originated space, bumping off the walls, looking for the occasional example that a human will find interesting.

It's still mechanical, it's still mimicry, and it's still repetitive. Even if nice things fall out - and sometimes they do - they're really just distortions of the originals. (That's particularly obvious in the library "paintings.")

They're still waiting for a human to say "I like that", but with no sense of what makes a human say that.

It reminds me of fractal art - pretty, but monotonous and disposable.

How many people can remember their favourite example of fractal art?
... in Spain too, were called disquetes.
there is a form of art called "found object art", which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Once upon a time, I asked my art instructor what the difference is between this art and a random object on my desk, couldn't anybody just pick up an object and call it art? The answer she gave was that the art is not in the object but in the context - of people observing the object as art, discussing its symbolism and merits.

machine learning lowers the skill barrier to producing art, but in a lot of contexts this barrier never existed in the first place. To have any value art must be meaningful to people, and there are fewer things less meaningful than learning that a painting was churned out mechanically in a painting mill, paint by numbers, or optimization algorithm.
I agree, and it's frankly hard to believe that our governments didn't have some hand in shaping that future. The further you follow the cryptography and anonymity paper trail, the more often you run into intelligence agencies. In some ways, it wouldn't surprise me if our current "big tech" paradigm is being relentlessly funded and propped-up by the United States in some way or another. As more and more users get herded into silos like TikTok and Facebook, the stage is being set for international-scale data warfare.
I've noticed and turned it back on tbh, but does it actually mean they're not tracking me? They're already tracking me all over the web