skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until the law changes so YouTube and other social media is considered complicit of whatever scam they promote they have no incentive to fix this. The spammers and potential marks still "engage" with the site and its ads which is all they care about.

Frankly this is not limited to YouTube even. Twitter has a spam problem for years where scammers would impersonate high-profile users and reply to the real account's tweets (as to be shown right underneath the real thing) with a scam disguised as a crypto giveaway. This is something that simple regular expressions can filter out, but why do this considering all of this malicious activity still counts as "engagement" and their bottom-line depends on this?

Facebook has hosted (and I'm sure still does) cybercrime groups even after being notified about it: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/a-year-later-cybercrime-...
This doesn't seem like an actual solution to the problem as normally stated. The point of Newcomb's problem is that if someone makes decisions on the basis of accurate prediction of your choices, you should commit to making the choice that gives you the maximum payout.

In other words, the problem as stated is that if you choose both boxes there will be nothing in the opaque box, and if you choose one box there will be a large payout in the opaque box.

Redefining the problem to say "they've already made the decision and filled the box or boxes, so your choice won't change the outcome" is sidestepping the point of the problem.
Lying to people is profitable.
See also the LongPen, conceived by author Margaret Atwood for remote book signings. I particularly like the name because it sounds like something out of her fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LongPen
That would be true had COVID not also spread through animals and pets. We can’t control the animal response to a pandemic…
>Wait till they unlink the health insurance and employment[...]That will hit like a nuke on the job market.

Considering that's already the case in most other developed countries, have we seen that sort of effect there?
I would be really interested in hearing from people downvoting this. What is problematic here?
With the one box strategy, 90% of the time you get nothing, 10% of the time you get $1,000,000. With 2 box, 90% of the time you get $1,000, 10% of the time you get $1,001,000.

More importantly, regardless of how good the computer is, the difference is always $1,000. This is the c term in the expressions at the bottom. If the computer is always wrong, with 2 boxes you always get $1,001,000. If the computer is always right, you always get $1,000. And the one box strategy always averages $1,000 less.
White House debates vaccine requirement for air travel
The only hand-written letters I get are from religious nutters imploring me to join their church. I'd rather have the promotional garbage.
https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-t...

https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavir...
I'm not discounting their experiences. I just can't explain it, both anecdotally and terms of Amazon's business performance and perceived image.

If this is widespread we should see it show up elsewhere vs. only here (for me), where it's a known thing that Amazon co-mingles inventory, and hey, ya know that can lead to counterfeits! Which may explain it. HN's population may be more careful and examine items received more closely?

HN often doesn't match reality (see often cited Dropbox initial criticisms), so it's not too strange.
> the network seemed to be mainly used by pedophiles

It is not clear how that statement can emerge from the mere observations above it. Are you telling the full story?
Agree with this - I often write little Gists mostly for myself but every once in a while others will find them useful and some have even ended up being published publicly, eg this one about mistakes to do with RDS

https://medium.com/expedia-group-tech/database-pointers-73e4...
Anyway, I still think that Israel is highly vaccinated. If I sort Google data by % of population vaccinated, I see typical result is 70%-75%, bar microscopic countries like San Marino or Malta. Undervaccinated countries like Argentina or Brazil are at 35%-45%.
https://tilvids.com/ has some buffering but was much better compared to other links in this page. I guess the other sites dont have lot of peers in Australia.
> Having such a reaction to something so minor is a problem.

Swearing is one of those things that ranges from not being a problem to being a big problem. Kids using words because they are forbidden is not a problem. A kid swearing in front of teachers to signal disrespect is something that needs to be addressed. A child swearing at another child in anger, then it may be necessary to unwind what's going on and that may determine if harsh consequences are necessary. While I have never heard of a child being suspended/expelled over swearing, yet if it did happen it was probably due to something else going on.

Part of the problem with this surveillance is, at best, we can flag conversations that correlate with certain outcomes. Things like understanding context and motivation take discourse, yet understanding context and motivation are essential when considering a course of action.

(Of course the other part of the problem are the privacy implications, which is horrific if even a tiny fraction of what the article claims is true.)
Then I'm not sure why the parent comment is implying otherwise.
s/bias/loss of context/ and I agree. Once a human fully grasps a context they can enter it and manipulate things within it very quickly -- so quickly that the presence of the context itself becomes invisible to the point of being inexplicable to others.
I did, because I learned about them from the packaging.
If I read this correctly it implies that Freenet's opennet does not work anymore?

So you can only connect to Freenet with this setup if you already know someone else who uses Freenet and peer with them manually ("darknet").
Well, as long as you are the person who is normal, we can finally all set our sails in the right direction.
What are the behavioural issues?
That's what I guessed but it really doesn't really matter to me. I totally understand his reasoning but I remain unsubscribed. I hope he is successful in life, business, and his right to repair fight but the shallow 20 min anecdotal rant about NYC isn't for me.
Humans will need to up their game.

Ever tried calligraphy with a split nib? It's really fun (until your hand cramps). I send out holiday updates on nice paper every year. I used to wax seal them too, but that breaks off in the post sometimes. Also: I like to pretend I'm a founding father or Descartes.
> A little off topic but I noticed whenever these financial literacy threads come up - the only people whose point of view I care about are those who had been poor and found ways out of it. Those are the people who "figured it out" and I want people to know what they know.

So I can't precisely say I'm part of this group, but I'm definitely associated with it. My parents divorced early, and living with one, for several years, involved food insecurity while living with the other involved being at the 90th percentile of HH income (though not wealth).

I'm now on my own, and while I wouldn't say I've 'figured it out', I'm in a position where if I never saved another dollar I'd at least be able to retire by 40.

I've seen three broad categories of children who end up successful with money. In order of pain of childhood:

1. Children of parents who are successful, who then replicate the model their parents used. This is a buddy of mine who is a doctor because his dad is a doctor and he liked what he saw growing up.

2. Children of parents who are successful to a limited point, and instill in their child the need to adopt a better model to live a better life. This is the child-of-immigrants experience that you allude to. I had a friend in college, for example, who's dad paid for her tuition but hadn't seen a dentist in 20 years. His basic message to her was: "You can work 60 hours a week like I do, and this is the best you can get. If you want to do better then do well in school."

3. Children whose parent or parents are destructively unsuccessful: addicts, criminals, etc. In this case the operative thinking is "I'll do anything to avoid this outcome". I'd predominately put myself in this category.

I'd guess that if you polled most successful people, they'd predominately come from 2 or 3 rather than 1. And I think this effect occurs because a life spent following the path of least resistance (at least in an American context) seems to end poorly for most people. Divorce is common, and financially most people don't end up with enough money to support themselves in old age (and Social Security is of dubious ability to continue to do so).

As a result, when you're looking for successful people you're looking for people who have been catalyzed out of the "normal path" or path of least resistance. Sometimes it's the presence of an obviously better alternative as in (1), but most of the time it's a really painful association with the normal path as in (2) or (3), which then motivates them to seek out something different.
Every time someone tells me they liked "How to Win Friends and Influence People" without mentioning some reservations about the sexist and classist content, I think less well of them. I have yet to regret doing so.
git commit, I suppose. Maybe something that doesn't have separate save, add, commit, and push steps.
Android on (BlackBerry) Passport
As a non-American who lives in US these days, I can assure you that there's nothing unique about the Americans' ability to hate each other. In terms of literally killing people over that, you guys are definitely far behind.
Why was it being shipped to VA? I thought Netflix does all the dev in Los Gatos, CA.
I was a fan of The Diamond Age, and would bet on Stephenson having the knowledge and vision to do cli-fi well. Radical technological advancement alongside massive climate change devastation is a plausible 2100 future. Looking forward to this one.
Sick. I think Dot has a real chance if Mozilla isn't willing to step up to the plate.
The horrible JSON ASTs serve a point, and CDK makes them beautiful because it automatically generates them for you.

I have a proxy Lambda and it has references to a bunch of SQS queues by names, and instead of managing that myself, I just:

queue_dict = {}
for name, queue in my_queues:
queue_dict[name] = queue.arn
queue_json = json.dumps(queue_dict)
Function(stuff, “ExampleFn”,
environment={“queues”:queue_json}
)

This “just works” to have the CDK build a JSON AST that tells CloudFormation to set the ENV of your Lambda to include the name:arn pairs as JSON. With the arns of the created queues.

That kind of cross referencing without using a framework is really hard; and not possible without the gross JSON since only CFn knows the stack arns until the stack has been deployed.
5B Sales Up for Grabs We Pay Users $400 to Use the Internet
His death by COVID-19 is just a cover-up for being moved into the Mars colony via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3
If I remember correctly there are experimental drill holes in Iceland that go much deeper. The hope is that these deeper drill holes provide specialized knowledge that could be exported internationally. However I’m not sure if this project has yielded any positive results. I was actually raised pretty close to one of these experiments which started in 2006.

https://www.isor.is/djupborun-iddp
It's not. The FAA puts a lot of emphasis on understanding the psychology of flying, especially in emergencies. In their eyes, while pilots have responsibility, that responsibility should never go beyond actual human capabilities.

A big capability that is relevant to this discussion is task saturation. With planes as complex and big as they are, it is easy for pilots to be task saturated even during normal flight. Taking a pilot out of the cockpit would make that even worse.
Your son, and how many others? A precious minority, I'm sure. Probably a disappearing one, as well.
Thread: Concepts You Should Know
The Overview Effect (In Software)
> You're trying too hard. You need to develop a habit to get fit.

this 100% this.

I also added IF (intermittent fasting) to the mix by missing breakfast.
Worked very well in spring and summer, not so well in winter. i tend to eat shit and too much of it in winter... and the cold wet weather keeps me inside.

I need to find a way to make the habit work in winter.

oh the other REALLY important thing is :

Get enough sleep.
There's a reason why this kind of content is going to dominate any online discussion platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
How much does that daycare cost and what area do you live?
It's amazing what a well written software is able to accomplish. Other remarkable examples of establishing trust between strangers are eBay and most darknet markets.
It's the function definition that's responsible for defining default parameter.

It's the function caller that's responsible for that parameter with partial application / currying / closure.

It doesn't matter if you develop both, but if you use a library you'll need partial application to define default parameter.
It is expensive, and if you don't have a large yard, the cost goes way up as you need to install a vertical system instead of a horizontal one.

Tree roots mess with the piping, and you have to be careful to not drive or set anything over it (much like a septic drain field, though not as fragile).
Also a first-generation Asian (on one side of the family), and my wife is one too.

This is absolutely right. It basically comes down to "Make (a lot) more than you spend. Invest the difference in scarce, desirable cash-flowing assets. Borrow money iff the expected returns from the asset exceed the interest rate."

These are really simple rules, but really hard to execute. The advantage that immigrants (and some of their kids) have is that they haven't internalized all the subconscious messages American society imparts. So for example my sister lives in Texas, where everything is bigger, and her home is like 50% bigger than my Bay Area one (which I thought was a huge extravagance). But she's always like "Yeah, the neighbors all have bigger houses, and their kids have like twice as many toys, and our kids' friends all have bouncy castles inside the home, and we need to buy them a play structure so we don't waste time going to the playground." So money goes out the door on a bouncy castle, and a play structure, and full-service landscaping, and home improvements, and even more toys.

Meanwhile, a typical Asian immigrant is like "Who need more than 4 walls and a bed? Why you care if other people think you poor, when your bank account go up?" My wife is like "We're gonna all end up in one big family bed anyways. Let's look into converting the house into a duplex and renting out the downstairs."
Tbats tops Elo ratings for forecasting
The Elo Ratings in this table are produced transparently in the repo timeseries-elo-ratings and based on k-step ahead prediction duels using live time series data. See METHODOLOGY.md for interpretation of Elo ratings. The table named univariate-k_002 refers to 2-step ahead prediction, and so forth.
Supposedly downvoting has the opposite effect of what you'd expect. My understanding is that now downvotes count as engagement, so bad videos with tons of downvotes will actually get boosted up. And of course comments will also have the same effect so you can't leave warnings there.
Its bests to never proceed through life unconsciously, but I agree, pivoting early is better than later.

The struggle is that you may perceive yourself as 'Behind' others in your peer group.
I thought Montgomery Burns has it? [1]

But in all seriousness, it actually does sound like The Simpsons had the exact same plan -- pay for economic recovery with one coin/paper note.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions :-)
have you considered dpdk?
Intelligent people tried central planning and it didn’t work. Repeatedly.

If you are going to propose banging our head into that wall again you can’t just naively point out how great it sounds from first principles. Been there, done that. Instead you need to seriously grapple with those failures and convincingly explain why this time will be different.
Of course.. By that means, everything is a prison because there are restrictions. A joke about type of building is not the same as kids broken and domesticated or tyranny.

At the least, these supporting comments make me think that HN groupthink has slipped so far into a fantasy world full of hyperbole that no meaningful conversation can be had. Either your kids are in a cult or you are in a cult. I can only feel sorry for you folks.

FWIW, I have 2 kids and they have a very healthy life with school, sports and time to play with their friends.
I don't think there's such a thing as an "American society" anymore. Or, for that matter, an "American nation".

I remember back in 2016, when all the Trump/Putin brouhaha first started making rounds, one staunch right-winger whom I know said something along the lines of, "if Putin helps him hang all our traitors and clean the trash out like he did in Russia, I'm all for it".
Game theory onboarding: NFTs and the collective
It is evidence to me that Brave does not have the end user in mind and there is deeper malicious intent. If anyone isn't current on bitcoin, then the jist of it is Brave's entire BAT use case can be built on bitcoin, using lightning or things such as the liquid network side chain. They are aware of this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_w...
You may not be aware of this, but like everything on PeerTube, the video we are commenting on here is in fact served up via BitTorrent. I got about a third of it from the diode.zone seed, which, if I understand correctly, is paid for out of Micah Scott's Patreon.

The inefficiency of torrents on near-symmetric internet connections is pretty minor. If a 1GiB movie is on Netflix, each user has to download 1GiB of data over your internet connection. If it's in a torrent, each user has to download 1GiB of data and also upload 1GiB of data. The efficiency difference is only a factor of 2. And the 1GiB of upload bandwidth was, in many cases, idle anyway.

(Well, there's also the fact that the users are paying the cost of distributing the movie, rather than Netflix paying part of it. So you'd think that information that benefits the people who receive it, like Linux, porn, and sewing and soapmaking tutorials, rather than the people who produce it, like advertising, would tend to be distributed by torrents. But, for a commercial setup, this is a minor consideration; even ordinary hosted servers pay relatively little for bandwidth, and Netflix probably pays nothing in most cases. I suspect Micah Scott ended up paying about 10% of the cost of me watching this video, not counting the value of my time.)
TTS videos are everywhere. Some of them are good enough you might not notice the voice at first, but the content is always some generic crap. If it sounds like a topic report by a 6th grader, there's a good chance it's auto-generated.

There are even channels with auto-generated pronunciation videos, because apparently TTS engines know how to pronounce things now. /s
> - an early-stage startup CTO mindset, - jack of all trades, - expert writing dirty/hacky code,

This is exactly the sort of person early-stage startups are looking to hire. And a lot of therm are going to be offering a full time job, possibly below full market rate - but topped up with equity dream-bucks.

30-60 hours at market rate per month seems quite unlikely top turn into "a long-term companion" given the other opportunities anyone skilled at all the things you're going to want will have open to them.
I am pretty sure you get downvotes for the reason you stated. On HN it is a signal that what people disagree with what you’re saying — though I strongly feel it should’t be, even pg said it’s a valid reason.

Anyway, I am for actually discussing substance so here it is:

With Facebook, you only have one possible landlord - a monopoly. With Wordpress, you have a choice of many landlords who compete on price, location, and so forth, knowing that you can take your business elsewhere.

In short it is like going from digital Feudalism to Capitalism. See this for much more info:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/

That is why I started Qbix 10 years ago. But there is something even better than capitalism and privately owned hosting companies: autonomous, self-balancing networks where dumb pipes carry encrypted messages. Blockchains are just the beginning. That’s why I started Intercoin.org but some projects like MaidSAFE and Matrix.org are ahead of us in many respects (for storage).
hunt for any youtube cryptocurrency content and instantly get your youtube feed filled with a torrent of garbage containing thumbnails of graphs and amazed facial expressions..
There was a recent in-depth thread on avweb about teen girls trying to fly around the world in small planes.

Besides the ones who have died (Dubroff, etc.), it turns out none had the training to reasonably attempt the flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Dubroff

Besides the high risk to themselves, those flights involve SAR from various nations and often flow and landings at large airports with airliners, which those entities never asked to get involved with.

As an aside, the US Navy ended up searching for Amelia Earhart, so that shows the disruption of these flights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Yep. Significant mismatch between how important they are to the ecosystem and how self-centered they are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/dayto8/comment/f2214...

They have every right to set and focus on their own goals, of course. And the community has every right to move on.
It could speed up some crypto algorithms that use very large words.
Absolutely agree with this. Good financial advice is boring. It basically boils down to don't spend your money on unneeded things and put the savings in safe-ish long term, low cost investments (cash, bonds, index funds). Anything else is window dressing. Most people should just go live their life without diving any deeper.
This is probably one of the few bad thing about Covid that impacts me. Stuff like that makes me think really hard whether home schooling is a viable option for me to avoid a good chunk of this.
> The majority of human-produced art is also mechanical, mimicry and repetitive.

Is that so? How much human-produced art have you looked at?
> What certainly is dishonest is to pretend that a mechanism that isn’t used consistently is equivalent to no mechanism at all.

Arguably, any instance where such enforcement mechanism fails to happen in response to an infraction in law, or fails be applied consistently to all actors, is a failure of said enforcement mechanism in totality (compared to evm where the contract will revert at runtime to the state before such method reverting execution if inputs + contract state go beyond the bounds defined within the contract and within the evm, every single time, for all actors as defined by the contract). Just because enforcement of the law sometimes works, does not remove its systemic flaws that might as well make it no real enforcement mechanism at all (especially so for some actors who can bypass meaningful enforcement pretty much any time they make an infraction).

Granted, you do not have to use anything defined by the evm. But others have and will continue to do so without any jurisdictions permission.

> Perhaps you have a single good example you can point to? I assume you must think at least one of them is good.

I think at this point, you have enough info to start to DYOR if you want to or not. I don't think there is much point in me spoon feeding you more stuff, and you can come to your own conclusions of ones "goodness" or "badness" and not rely on mine, and what ever you conclude, everyone else will not be bounded by such.