skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what redeeming quality does 'masterclass' have besides 'made money'?

You know what else makes money? Any charity 'work' a mega celebrity does.

You mean you can make money when you get a mega celebrity to endorse your product for a tiny fee? It's as if you've leveraged celebrity worship to sell a random product and it worked!
Pretty much all of that sounds awful.
I have a similar sized extended family, but I’ve honestly let them fade from my life. I’m old enough that the weddings and babies era is long behind us and we’re scattered all over the country. All I care to get I get from my mom, which is nice because it gives us something to talk about.

I have surrounded myself with chosen family and am always meeting new people. I give generously of myself to the people in my life because it brings me joy to do so. It’s a conscious trade off that means I lose touch with some people, and I’m ok with that. Most relationships should have an expiration date anyway; far too many people just go through the motions out of a sense of obligation.
History rhymes with itself?

"Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle"

"RedShift was apparently named very deliberately as a nod to Oracle’ trademark red branding"

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-reportedly...
In my source data where do you see “drug deal at 3am gone bad?”
And where do I get a coin made of copper?
I think it's the latter. I've tried a few times with a breathalyzer (that I got off of amazon for pretty cheap, so no guarantee on accuracy. Although it was consistent) while drinking and I was pretty shocked at how drunk I felt while still being under 0.08. I always assumed the safe limit would be a beer or 2, after which I'd be driving under the influence. Turns out drinking 5 beers over an hour or 2 I was still only around 0.05.
Tic toc tic toc... Sounds like we'll found out very soon [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-07/holders-o...
dymk, while you prompted this post, this has nothing to do with you, so ear muff it for a sec if you don't mind.

If I may briefly stand on my soapbox: I'm starting to think analogies never help prove a point. No matter how relevant or true they might be, someone will pull some comparison out of the analogy and use that to detract from the main point being compared and expect that comparison to be a valid rebuttal, often to great popular success. Anybody else notice this?
Your calculations are wrong. Even with Moderna vaccine the risk from covid was more than many times higher than from vaccine.
Twitter says it did not hit another sub.

https://twitter.com/LucasFoxNews/status/1446190294693781509
Since this list is so broad it includes pretty much any professional activity, as a counterpoint, compare to Adam Smith, who had a lot more rigorous definition, and for who wealth creation can only happen when labour is applied to the production of useful commodities, or in the market making for such (crudely summarized).

e.g. "curing disease" did not create wealth. Instead, he put physicians on the same level as house maids and clowns, in that they are unproductive in the strictest sense (although still necessary of course).
Admittedly, they are the first, but there's little to be surprised about.

Bitcoin is the best performing asset with a 200% average YoY return for 12 years straight. Whilst still volatile, there's enough trust in long term value for institutional adaption, which is the phase we're in the middle of.

1 in 6 Americans own Bitcoin. Companies are holding it. Clearly, it no longer is an internet joke. It's accepted as an asset.
Maybe because no advertisers have requested that ability.
no idea. my guess is that flu mutates quickly and they couldn't figure out what to target exactly
Sorry -- in the air most of yesterday. Sure -- I can offer a certificate. Do you need a hard copy? Digital? We can figure it out.
As a practitioner of improv comedy (including a little clowncraft), I'd argue that you can produce laughs from essentially doing nothing, repeatedly.

So, I'm not really convinced. Maybe that principle can explain some cases of beauty, novelty, .... jokes. Definitely not all.
> by a group including former child star and accused sex offender

This makes your argument seem conspiracy-theory-esque, despite your links having some quality information. That quote is more akin to clickbait than it is a valid point in your argument.
Pure conjecture from someone riled up with fear and anger. Turn off your propaganda box.
Yes but that is exactly CF's defense, they are only transporting it so just like an ISP they are not liable for blocking it. Every ISP can also block infringing content.
Petty prides are petty prides.
Lightning network transactions occur in seconds, if not milliseconds [1].

https://lightning.network/
Cloudflare's not selling the website. Is the Ford dealership liable when you show up at their door, ask how to get to 1308 Halifax, they direct you there, and then the people at 1308 Halifax sell you a counterfeit Ford?

Is the landlord at 1308 Halifax liable when his tenants sell someone a counterfeit Ford?
Steve Jobs Asked Dell to Pre-Install Mac OS on PCs and Pay Millions in Royalties
haha, yes, you're right!

fwiw - I also wanted to know what happened there right after their encounter.
NDepend seems to be rather sophisticated in this regard: https://blog.ndepend.com/visualize-code-with-software-archit...
https://archive.is/8rEe8/again?url=https://www.nybooks.com/a...
The core of science is debate. There is no singular truth for most things in the scientific world, and lots and lots of shades of "the truth".

We're straying very far away from a nation that believes in actual science - and we're replacing it with some quansi-religion called "Science" - a belief system where nobody is allowed to think or say anything that might contradict or challenge "the truth".

How many times have you read a headline saying something along the lines of "Scientists say..."? As-if all scientists have come to exactly the same conclusion, when the reality is it was one person or one group saying something.

What exactly even is a scientist? Are computer scientists qualified to speak about climate change? Probably not... yet we never know exactly what types of scientists are proclaiming things - just trust them, they're scientists!

There is very little actual consensus in the scientific community about anything... eggs are bad for you - no wait, eggs are good for you - no wait, only 1 egg a day - eat as many eggs as you can! Nobody agrees on eggs - how can we have agreement on far more important and challenging-to-study things like the climate?

The truth is there is no consensus so censoring half (or more) of the discussion is downright absurd.
But there is absolutely nothing in the manufacturing world that would ever require millions of lines of code. There's a big difference between software development, which they are not doing, and coding, which these no-code solutions seek to help them with.

For reference, I'm currently dealing with a customer whose most complex machine (which automates a job that used to take two people per shift) runs on 128 lines of code.
Government is just an extreme form of monopoly. All monopolies are bad because they undermine the property of a market, competition, from which all the other good things flow.
They are about learning and education though. How could they possibly not be. The other things like connections, socialising, getting drunk are just extra bonuses. This idea that universities don't provide any value to society and that they should be replaced by poorly structured YT videos with tons of mistakes in them has to go. Has no basis whatsoever.
Was this before or after the IMF party telling the country what is good for them, but never is?
I have seen NFT contracts that automatically split the profits from the initial sale between addresses on chain.

The random giveaway could also be solved in a contract so people should look closer at the contracts.

Not making a game they promised is one thing but not paying the artist is just wrong. At least the people who invested got an NFT. The artist has nothing...
Their concern isn't biased AI algorithms. Their concern (well, one of their main concerns) is that a super-intelligent AI could wipe out humanity sometime in the next 100 years. They have arguments that this could happen even if the AI wasn't malicious.

I'm a bit skeptical too (and I haven't looked into that much), but it's not obviously stupid. They'd point out that even if there's just a 1% chance of humans being wiped out in the not-so-distant future, that's a big deal (and a large expected value for number of deaths) and we should work on reducing those odds.

A lot of this rests on the assumption that super-intelligence is really powerful. Like, take-over-the-world type of powerful.
Do you mean anti-vax propaganda?
When did the United States as a nation uniformly believe in science?
> If you're in traffic, the only people you can "spread" a car accident to are the other cars around you.

Or pedestrians or cyclists, or anyone that goes near a car. And since roads are everywhere, that is every single person.
Transactions on the lightning network have difficulty scaling because each node needs to what compute the entire graph/nodes and setup channels?

A problem which scales even worse the more nodes in play.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoincash/comments/8n9xbp/why_the...
Random yes, useful also yes: AmigaOS has a C-based object-oriented interface to its Intuition UI library called BOOPSI, and having ObjC available makes it much nicer to work with BOOPSI objects.
Even native compilers like clang will use LLVM, and LLVM IR can look a lot like JVM bytecode.

The VM abstraction is not a barrier to fully optimizing for your architecture, but rather how much time you can spend converting IR/bytecode into assembly, whether you do it at runtime, and whether runtime information lets you optimize even further.
I think that’s a bit harsh of a description of duolingo. It definitely undersells the amount of work involved, but it absolutely does sell language learning. I’ve personally used it to that effect multiple times.
OPs point was tesla drivers are more likely to use the features. More cars being sold by other brands, could refute that but it doesnt necessarily. Its about the rate of usage of the software X total sales X avg. miles driven
If you don't back up claims with actual science then it's not part of the scientific method. Should flat-earthers be given equal authority too?
You know cloudflare still chooses arbitrarily to remove sites from their service, right? What we are talking about here is one small sliver of the pie, so while this one thing (piracy) wont get you yanked, your political beliefs will (and have).

Cloudflare has great utility that benefits a lot of us, but I think some day we will realize how much this centralization is a tradeoff that hurts the internet as a whole, no matter how cool the people are who work there.
"believe in science" What does this even _mean_?
> Yeah maybe there might be some inaccuracy - but then the defendant failed the standardized field sobriety tests. And the cop is saying that they were visibly drunk. Now what?

You pay to have a medical expert come in and explain the myriad conditions that can lead to failing the field sobriety tests. It's simply a question of funding. Even if the case isn't dropped the jury will almost certainly have reasonable doubt.

This is partially why, at least in California, major parts of the penalties for DUI are "administrative" in nature and handled by the DMV.

Even if you do get acquitted in criminal court, it's another set of hearings to get your license back ($$$), lose the special "I got a DUI" SR-22 insurance requirement, etc.
How could they have, this is a brand new change. I doubt they asked all advertisers there opinion. The assumption that all advertisers are in agreement on this topic is almost guaranteed to be wrong.
John Carmack has commented on this company before - does he have any affiliation? https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1435307747470454787
I'd love to see a few examples of what's expected from such a discussion
In a market driven economy: yes. It’s the same reason why game developers are paid less than developers in other high skill jobs: game developers are willing to get paid less in return for working on games.
The threshold is whatever Google thinks it is, or rather, whatever the panel of 20-somethings communications or sociology BAs they've hired to mod their platform think it is.
When We Cease to Understand the World
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Fur exports from North America to China were the major reason for the European exploration of western North America in the 17th and 18th centuries, and into the earliest 19th century. The Chinese elite used fur pelts to line their robes. Sea otter, which has the highest follicle density of any mammal, was the most favored (and I believe imperially mandated for the highest ranking mandarins) and the pelts were incredibly valuable. The Spanish and English exploration of the Pacific Northwest was largely done by trade expeditions which would trade various goods for pelts with the various Native tribes, and then sail to Canton to trade the pelts for Chinese goods. The Russians more or less enslaved some of the tribes of the Aleutians (the Unangan people) and brought them as far south as central California in their trade ships; the Unangan hunters hunted from sea kayaks by day.

Both the North West Company (British) and John Jacob Astor (US) set up transcontinental overland trade networks in the late 18th and early 19th century focused on the fur trade, with China being a primary customer for pelts.

I think in the first few decades of the 19th century, Chinese Imperial fashions changed and much of this system collapsed, although not fast enough to prevent the near-eradication of the sea otter population.

A good pop history of the US Overland component is Astoria by Peter Heller. It is also addressed a bit in more scholarly work such as the Columbia's River: Voyages of Robert Gray, by J. Richard Nokes.
Absolutely. My post is really making a meta point about the analogies I see here. You can make an analogy that makes any point you want if you stretch it enough.

Fight bad analogies with bad analogies. Show off how useless a tool they are.
It is never an employers business to know previous salaries. It's wildly I appropriate they would have stones to actually inquire
Unmasking Europe’s Shadow Armies
Rather than a 4 day work week, I always thought that a 4 hour work day was far superior (or at least, a 4 day work week of 5 hour work days; 20 hours a week total). You're not truly doing 8 hours of full work a week, so why not focus the time down to only productive hours? Here's an interesting article about it [0].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/05/28/the-future...
> experts don’t actually do it just for the money, but also as a way to give back. ... easy way to share their story and give advice to a lot of people. A one-year subscription priced at $180 is pretty accessible — certainly cheaper than getting advice from them directly.

YouTube? If reach is all that matters then 0 is better than 180.
It's like people didn't live through 2008 and discover the magic phrase "counterparty risk", or something. I guess that was 13 years ago, so maybe they didn't.
It's the poor ghostwriters who will feel the pain, music is meant to be performed live and AI/ML won't be able to do that.
That you have faith in the ability of the scientific method to ultimately reveal objective truths about the universe.
I can see:

> Integration with your test framework and programming language

any indication which languages/frameworks? I've got a fair sized typescript monorepo with a build/test cycle I want more insight into
I agree. Also because men has to compete hard to be an attractive mate for woman. Woman have more choices than men and are smart enough to pick men who are more successful in life.
I’ve worked with a few former criminals who spent time in prison for things they did in their youths. Keep in mind that I’m Scandinavian and our justice system is very, very, different. But all of them had been young and unadjusted and eventually wound up hurting someone over something stupid. Having matured and now in their 30’ies, none of that past life remained in any way in my dealings with them.

Obviously this is both anecdotal and success biased as I’d never be in a position to meet the people who don’t succeed, but not giving people a chance just because they’ve made mistakes is silly and I’m happy that initiatives like this exist when your justice system doesn’t want to reform people.
People really seem to be into making everything a sugary coca cola mess though.
>"The tech giant says that when evaluating content against the new policy, "we’ll look carefully at the context in which claims are made, differentiating between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim."

This is obviously an unrealistic and impossible moderation task (at Google-scale), and they're plainly lying if they claim they can do that. Clear evidence: YouTube took down a podcast by a member of President Biden's Covid advisory board -- spectacularly failing the use/mention distinction test (about the subject of anti-vaccination sentiment). Their misinformation classifier does not pass the Turing test. Specifically, it can not "differentiate between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim".

(Michael Osterholm's Episode 61, "Divided by Delta", if anyone wants to research further. It was reinstated in a few days).

(late edit) Here's a source: https://twitter.com/cidrap/status/1420482621696618496

and a bio: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/about-us/cidrap-staff/michael-t-o...
Agreed; especially since it didn't have it originally. I'm sure some compromises were made to do it in a way that fits into the execution model/doesn't cause regressions to older code. They are both good languages for sure which makes sense because one is derived from the other.

F# through itself and .NET has had the equivalent functionality for many years however (Threads, Tasks, Async's, Channel libraries, etc) being the one of the first languages (before C#) to have an Async construct. I would imagine it would take some time I think for OcAML's ecosystem to catch up API wise with this where it matters for application development. Looking at OcAML's recent release notes I see work to slowly migrate multicore into OcAML but the feature itself hasn't landed yet? Think it comes in 5.0.

I have to say though F# performance is quite good too those days from working/dabbling with both languages + the ecosystem is bigger. I would like to see/understand where the OcAML perf advantage is there is any for evaluation. The CLR has really good performance these days; its has features to optimise some things (e.g. value types make a big difference to some data structures, hot loops vs the JVM) from my experience especially if you don't allow Unsafe code for many algo's/data structures. For example I just looked at the benchmarks game (I know has its problems including bad contributed implementations for niche ecosystems) but it shows .NET Core (and therefore F#) performance is within the same scale as OcAML at times beating it (https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...).
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> 2nd class America

You mean vassals of the American Empire, paying tribute in the form of currency debasement that only benefits citizens of the empire at the expense of your own citizens?
Is this the one you are talking about?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/30/tesla-autopilot-was-o...

I'd blame a human driver for hitting it in this case.
I see, I stand corrected then. I'll have to take a closer look at their store ToS.
The El Salvador plan has done absolutely nothing for Bitcoin's price, so I guess the plan (which you made up) failed.

BTC price swings occurs due to institutional buying (or selling) which are generally triggered by macro conditions. Nothing else triggers it because the market cap is too large to move on minor news.

Finally, an opportunistic Bitcoin trader wants Bitcoin to go down, not up. So that they can buy more.
Nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to type every query that pops into your head into google search.
Don't forget the cost of living in Montreal vs any major part of California.
Surely you'd agree that most people _do_ recognize this distinction though? And that's what relevant to whether the would be a furor, not your personal view on what makes ads harmful, which is rather idiosyncratic (regardless of whether it's more defensible/correct).
> Should flat-earthers be given equal authority too?

That's not the relevant question to this discussion (and also basically a strawman).

The question is, should being a "flat earther" be banned from online monopolies as misinformation? As objectively stupid as it might be (even though I don't think anyone actually believes it) I think it would be extreme overreach to start trying to shut down youtube videos positing the earth is flat
Viral myocarditis is serious but not life threatening and self-resolves in less than a year; the vaccine-induced cases are even more mild than that.
I'm 47 and I just left my last job. I'm going to take some time off, but I'm committed to only working 4 days per week or less when I look for my next position.
This is true but not in the way you’re implying. El Salvador wants to attract bitcoin tourists. To spend bitcoin in the US it’s a taxable event, not in El Salvador though. If you are in your 20s with a few bitcoin you can live like a king in El Salvador for a few months and pay 0 capital gains.
> Is it "factual" Biden didn't win through voter fraud?

Yes.

> How exactly did you determine this?

By waiting for all the people who did assert voter fraud to present their hard evidence in court. There wasn't any.

It's like asking whether it's "factual" that Obama is a human man instead of a secret lizard person wearing an advanced nanotech disguise. I can't affirmatively prove the non-existence of something, but that doesn't mean it's less of a fact.