skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if its value is in it not being regulated and you think governments will catch up, you're saying that it will eventually become worthless.

If so, I agree. I'm just surprised to see it stated so baldly.
"Social Justice" something, probably, like in "SJW" = "Social Justice Warrior".

Some people see politeness or compassion as weakness, and ttherefore use terms acknowledging it as pejoratives. The funny thing is, they think this makes objects of derision of their targets, and don't realise that it's themselves it does so.
That's OK for Twitter, but it's completely indefensible for the US government. They don't get to threaten private companies into being censors for them. The First Amendment doesn't allow it.

Of course, it would take someone like Twitter refusing and this turning into a court case to end this nonsense...
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A solid made of electrons would wreak lots of havoc. Probably worse than solid made of antimatter.
Bitcoin's near infinite divisibility weakens the fixed supply argument, does it not?

The smallest possible fraction of a dollar is $0.01. You can transact BTC in denominations with a lot more zeros behind the decimal point.
But is it possible to know if you are actually beating people if your connection is not consistent? For example, if half the time you are a millisecond faster than competitors but the other half you are 2 Ms slower, it seems like you would average out behind unless that is enough time to check the speed before making a trade.
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Surely the same fallacy is the reason we care about these species in the first place?

You can kind of make an argument from entropy, an extinction cuts off our access to information about a species. But if that were the reason, taking samples for DNA and then killing off the animals would be okay. We care about extinction because we like nature and want to preserve it.
There were some earlier moments for me as well.

Being impacted by the Morris Worm, and having a (text-based) copy of the Pons-Fleischman paper, both circa 1988, via the uni Unix server, was pretty cool.

But Chelyabinsk was a massively-shared instance, where a random news event in a place that was absolutely not a media centre, was still accessible in very short order with multiple coverages.

Sci-Hub / LibGen give a similar feeling, though in a different sense. Wells's World Brain and Bush's Memex, delivered. Even if the Establishment is being dragged kicking and screaming.
> Freedom of speech means freedom from government intervention

No, the first amendment of the US constitution means freedom from government intervention. Freedom of speech means exactly what it says - violating it isn't illegal if you're a private company, but that doesn't change what it means.
"Democracy has also had it's chance really. People clearly can't handle it and get hurt or die all the time. The experts should govern, no more of this voting nonsense."

Is what would appear to be the logical conclusion of this idea. If people can't be trusted to speak, they certainly can't be trusted to vote.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Fascists have been acting as agents provocateur for years, infiltrating non-violent leftist demonstrations and turning them violent to justify police violence against unarmed protesters.
Yes, I very much would like to live in a world where people are not treated unfairly because of perfectly LEGAL speech they made on a random topic, while doing it on what's essentially a public square of the 2021.
Jokes are meant to be offensive, at least on some level.

Go to a comedy show and listen to how many black guys make fun of white vs blacks. Go to another one and listen how there are lots of jokes about husband vs wife, men vs women etc.

The problem is that there is a time and a place for those and a professional environment is simply not it. This is why I always have a problem with American culture of after work meetups and socialization.
People probably don't want an unmoderated community, but a community is usually smaller than a social media behemoth/"platform". Twitter is actually the one site that doesn't try to divide its userbase into groups/communities, but pretty much all other platforms I know either have a very prominent "friend" or "group" mechanism. Even on Twitter there are many subcultures, not just homogenous "Twitter users", they're just not organised as such. One-size-fits-all moderation of whole platforms is the problem, in my opinion. Imagine if all PhpBB forums were moderated by a central team and you might see why some are against Facebook/Reddit/Twitter regulating their corner of the platform.
I can only imagine the excitement in the room after running the same experiment with the graphene layer on top and seeing this result. I bet it was huge hi-fives!
There is no "trap" I fell into here. The point of the article you refer to was that there is more value in being more proficient in some language/tech choice rather than jumping around and that the ecosystem matters.

From the article

> If anything, my progress was often hampered by the lack of libraries, unreliable tools and not spending enough time in any one ecosystem to develop real fluency. These got in the way of working on hard problems, and working on hard problems was the main thing that actually led to improvement.

> By way of counter-example, check out this ICFP contest retrospective. Nikita is using clojure, a pretty niche language, but has built up incredible fluency with both the language and the ecosystem so that he can quickly throw out web scrapers and gui editors. Whereas I wouldn't be able to quickly solve those problems in any language after flitting around from ecosystem to ecosystem for 12 years.

And I largely agree with this.

> You'll mention you can use the Java ecosystem but them you loose all the benefits you mentioned, you say you will keep interop/mutation/side effects isolated but then again you can do the same in JS if some lib is causing unwanted mutation.

Been there, done that and I explained honestly above why I prefer having more explicit and built-in boundaries, rather than tacking it on via libraries and discipline. Interop, mutation and side-effects stand out and there are utilities that let you do those things in a convenient, productive way without you having to worry about copying stuff around or similar.

There are some really good libraries in the JS world too, that are a joy to work with and are powerful productivity wise. No doubt about that. I merely cited the reasons most important to me why I have a preference and why it feels liberating and relaxing to me to use Clojure over JS in general. There are more, and there are also some downsides. None of them de-validate your judgement or preference.
> The gaslighting over any treatment other than the vax is beyond criminal at this point. Just watch:

I regret every single day I didn’t try to make easy money off pushing bogus treatments to people like yourself.
I agree, it's likely over 50%. If Twitter simply labeled viral political tweets as misleading by default, it would be more accurate than the system they are using now.
I tend to think these are reactions to some of the "warnings" memes that are passed around lately (as-in: "don't answer these memes because they're collecting security question info") . . . the goal of these affiliate postings is not to gather security question info. It may not even be a cambridge-analytica-type of data-collection for a "personality test". I think it's more of an effort to build affiliate pages in FB that are highly ranked (because they have such high engagement numbers) - - so that that ranking can be used LATER, to push ads. Probably political ads; ahead of the next midterms.
That is indeed an interesting point, especially for users who have metered Internet service.

Consider a user with a data cap of 1000GB, is metered as consuming say 1200GB of data, of which 200GB is Ads. The user is forced to pay extra for the 200GB to the ISP which the user should not have had to pay if there were no Ads.

Ignoring that ISPs should not meter the service, the above just doesn't seem right. The individual Internet services may be subsidized by Ads, but the user is paying to the ISP. So, in effect a user is paying, just to a different party.

Some lawyer should definitely look into it and see if there is potential for a class-action against Ad vendors.

Edit: I'm sure the flip argument would be that the user requested the Internet services that came with the Ad, so in effect the user is responsible for consuming the data. But that is where I think it becomes interesting and given that IMNAL I don't know what the legal minds think.
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> `Maybe a` is a type-lambda abstraction (still a type)

I don't know what you mean by this - lambdas are values not types. You could argue the type of the Maybe type constructor is Type -> Type but there is no Type type in Haskell so Maybe is not a 'type' in the Haskell type system in the way e.g. String is. The separation of types and values is AFAIK the defining characteristic of non-dependent type systems, which Haskell is (for now).
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Wait, why should they accept customer funds if they don't think they can keep them safely? If somebody is saying, "Let me hold on to your money for you," it seems like a minimum bar is them being pretty sure it's not going to go anywhere.
As good as you can get without being able the read the programmer's brain to figure out what they really wanted in the first place. To talk about correctness formally in the first place, you need to specify what you want and when you do that there is no guarantee that that is actually what you want.
When you use the idiom “ends justify the means”, it summons an imagery of eugenics or genocide eg “in order to have a crime free society, we must exterminate <ethnic group>

The “means” in question is Liking and Retweeting on Twitter and the “ends” is preventing vaccine misinformation.

So one might reasonably conclude that _these_ ends justify _these_ means
If FB/Twitter is a town message board, then why are you concerned with what they do?
> Nobody should have the power that having a billion dollars gives you

Let's pretend for a moment that I agreed with you on this. Your proposal to address the situation is to take all that money, which is currently at least somewhat distributed, and concentrate it in a single organization which already claims a license to steal, kidnap, and murder. I really don't think you've thought this through…
> How Uber and Lyft promote density

> When a city has a lot of people per square mile, people live close to stores, restaurants, schools, and other amenities. Errands are shorter, and a higher fraction of them can be made on foot or by bicycle.

Distance to amenities is governed by zoning rules and housing developers. Uber and Lyft (at old prices) increase the propensity to travel by car.
It’s what gives certain meats looked corned beef that distinct “pink” color.
Possibly, but I would more readily attribute it to COVID-specific causes. All of my friends and coworkers who have kids have been dealing with remote schooling, and they've all been noticeably more stressed because of it. My partner who is an extrovert suddenly had far less access to human interaction, and they've been visibly happier day to day in the more recent months despite work not being any less stressful in large part due to seeing more people in person. Zoom just didn't do it for them.

Myself too. It wasn't the remoteness that bugged me. I live less than 10 minutes from my office, so it's not like the lack of a commute even factored in. And I've worked with geographically distributed teams my whole career. It was the simultaneous social isolation outside of work and having just moved to a new location where I didn't have an established support network, taking away my normal channels for dealing with stress.
> Now the companies want to censor increasing amounts of material that are neither illegal nor fall into the clear adult/violence categories.

Why are you okay with censorship of the adult and violence categories but not the COVID-19 misinformation category? Fundamentally, the same thing is happening: Twitter is taking a stance on what legal speech it permits on its platform.
Sometimes it's hard to know if a business failed because the idea was bad, the market wasn't ready, they didn't execute well, they didn't advertise themselves effectively to let clients that could benefit know what they could offer, or some combination of multiple of those.

What you described sounds really interesting and useful if I understand it correctly, and I can think of multiple times over the past decade plus that it would have been useful to use as a consultant for companies I've worked for, if it wasn't too costly.
There has never been a disease in history where the official guideline was to stay at home until you can´t breath anymore.
Doctors around the world who treat this virus EARLY with off patent drugs like ivermectin have very good results (as good as the ones announced here).
The western world has utterly failed in this pandemic.
>Like it or not, major tech platforms wield the power of small countries now. It's probably helpful that we start thinking of them this way and move toward some kind of equitable regulation.

No, they absolutely do not. Nor do they "control the perception of billions of people." That's just fear-mongering hyperbole. You might have an argument that social media influences the opinions of billions of people, but then you have to take into account the deluge of inputs most people receive from multiple sources online and off, and realize that the total influence any one social media platform has is not that significant. This isn't the world of a few decades ago where many people's worldview was informed by only three tv stations and one newspaper - and not even in that world did the media control people's perception.

When Twitter can levy taxes, field an army and a police force, declare Facebook illegal and bomb their campus into smoldering rubble, and coerce people outside of their platform to obey the laws they pass and enforce through their monopoly on violence then they might have something approaching the power of even a small nation. Being able to ban people from your website (and your website alone) is not equivalent to nation-state status.

>It's probably helpful that we start thinking of them this way and move toward some kind of equitable regulation.

No, it's not helpful, it's propaganda. It's the rhetoric of the modern form of the Red Scare, except now the "communist conspiracy" is running social media instead of Hollywood.
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> Nobody will stop using twitter

In part because hosting providers like AWS collude to push viable competition offline.
Modern filesystems in a way combine both approaches - they store the data unstructured but give the ability to also store metadata (attributes) in a structured way.
Why are you not complaining about their censoring "adult material and violence/gore"?
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I didn't realize it, but you're right that "causing an office to break his leg" could be referring to Mistic's leg. The wording is ambiguous, since we don't know if "his" refers to the officer or Mistic.

Other articles on this story are saying it's the officer who broke his leg.
You can pick and chose.

Maybe your caching strat of you OS isn't best for your use case. Also, you may use a network file system, or several types of FS, and want your cache warm up to be tuned up and consistent.
I think as a mod you are in a tough spot regardless. If you have loose rules and use your discretion you will be hated on. If you have strict rules, you will be hated on for stifling speech.
> If the wallet is stolen, damaged in a house fire, crushed by some accident etc. you're done.

This is incorrect. Hardware wallets typically come with a recovery seed. Even if the original device gets destroyed, the seed helps you to get access to your addresses/crypto. This covers against all of the scenarios you mentioned.

For example, I just updated the firmware on my device this afternoon. Before I did it, I'm double-prompted to make sure I have my recovery seed in case the update fails.

As for storing in a password manager, you certainly could. I used to print my wallets out back in the day. The hardware just makes the process a bit easier and makes mistakes on my part less likely.
> Govts run at enterprise scale, and need specialised software

If it's specialised software that's written on a one-off basis, then of course it can be open source.

> Or conversely all Govts at every level need herds of programmers to tweak OSS code to make it fit.

You seem ot be arguing that OSS code needs "herds of programmers" to tweak it, but that proprietary code doesn't. I don't follow why you think this is so.

> My city is 10000 people so we need a rate calculator that matches our bylaws, over there is a city of 1000000 people who need a very different rate calculator.

Either both cities need something different, in which case it needs to be written differently every time, and that's exactly the same whether its proprietary or OSS, so OSS is no more costly or time consumringf to do.

Or, they both need the same code, so the OSS program doesn't have to be partly re-written for each city.

I would have thought that if the program is well-written, then changing things like tax rates would just be a value that is entered somewhere, e.g. on a GUI or web interface.

> Yay, a central it dept, with builtin monopoly, at govt pay, can't be fired. What could possibly go wrong with this model.

Then that's the same as the proprietary software model... except that the code is open source so if one cite doesn't like those terms they can update it separately.

> No wait, we'll make them compete, pay them only for success, negotiate rates, and we end up with? A commercial proprietary software business that's motivated to deliver... With experts at doing this one task at scale.

No. Doesn't work because they proprietary model is to write the code once then sell it lots of times. Once they've written it, they can sell it lots of times at something only slightly less than the cost of writing it each time, because that's the same cost as for each individual city to write it. So if a country has 100 cities, they end up paying 100 times as much with the proprietary solution than OSS,
We’re talking about likes and retweets here, not even original tweets.

Any idea extrapolated to it’s logical extreme can look stupid. No one is talking about ending democracy
There's ways to intercept SMS messages without sim-jacking or number porting too.

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That sounds rather unlike Madison. Where, specifically, did he say that?
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You're not the first, nor fourth for that matter, person to respond to dynamic typing advocation with that blog post, and it's an interesting post but it misses the whole point. The problem is not enforcing rules on data coming in and out of the system. The problem is that I have perfectly valid collections of data that I want to shove through an information processing pipeline while preserving much of the original data and static typing systems make this very powerful and legitimate task a nightmare.
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