skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where the left-hand side has to be interpreted as being the value obtained by using one of the aforementioned summation methods and not as the sum of an infinite series in its usual meaning
> As a secondary effect, applicants of course notice that they are more likely to be hired if they just pretend like they care. And if everyone pretends, the one person who says they are just there for the money is at a disadvantage to everyone else.

I've seen people motivate this by saying that not faking it shows you lack social skills. In the end the customer is never wrong, and when you are selling your time the customer is your manager so keep that smile up! (I hate this culture, but I adapted just like everyone else)
I agree, I’m willing to bet the OP all of my current savings, as well as all of my future savings over the next 20 years that it will be 0 or 1 countries on the gold standard in 2040.

There is no way any government is going to let the value of their currency be tied to how much metal is extracted from the ground, let’s be real.
That's where something like BrightID would help.

https://www.brightid.org/
It’s an interesting speculation but seems to be proven false by reality. Overall, book return rates increased 240% when Chicago eliminated late fees.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamrowe1/2019/11/03/chicago-li...

Yes, some small number of people may be inconvenienced but overall on the whole, everyone is better off by this change.
There is another aspect about how new the industry is. It will be some time before we have well-considered laws about things like digital privacy. Tech companies can either advocate for good laws based on their advanced knowledge or be greedy and exploit/promote lackluster laws.
My issue is that once I start using authorized_keys for automated processes, then it defeats the purpose of the key.
maybe getting involved in a crypto project is political engagement.
I've yet to meet someone with a degree who expects 'wages' or measures their earnings per hour!
The house analogy does not work well. Finger cuts, hand casts, over-use of sanitizer, dirty, wet, or wrinkled hands, etc. will not only deny you access to your stuff, it will do so for an extended length of time. You will need to either fall back to 2FA or wait until your body returns to a previous state.
I was initially critical of this endeavor before it started. However, the issues I had in mind have been addressed and this effort is truly impressive. I really appreciate that marcan is committed to going beyond doing this the right way.
I'm tired of people signaling themselves as "weird" kids, it wasn't that weird to like computers, there's this fetishization of being "weird", "aspergy", "autistic", that's so tired and sad. no it doesn't make you better or smarter, it's just normal, no no one is a superstar because they were that "hacker" kid, times change, money changes focus and boom, success, it's not smarts, it's timing. and for all the kids out there, that's what I want to impart, it's not smart it's timing, ML today, bioeng the next, maybe something else in the future, maybe "social studies" will become thing once you children learn that twitch is a neural net with concurrent nodes...oops ;).
Many dissenters including investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald agree with my assessment [1] that this is not an attempt to weaken facebook, but to commandeer its power to censor.

In addition to how I've shown her call to censor "hate speech" is likely a call to censor viewpoint opponents to critical social justice, whom she associate herself with corroborate this interpretation.

For instance her laywer, Andrew P. Bakaj[2], is an attorney and former intelligence officer with the CIA. He was the principal attorney representing the whistleblower who filed the initial complaint that led to the launch of multiple investigations by the United States Congress into the Trump–Ukraine scandal, the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and, ultimately, the first Impeachment of Donald Trump.

Neither of these facts are the hallmarks of a moderate person that seek measured actions for the best of viewpoint diversity and civilized dialogue.

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_P._Bakaj
That doesn't sound very decentralized at all, lol.
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Video games are a flawed analogy because the evidence that video games are harmful for kids (except in situations of extreme addiction) is far more flimsy than the evidence for social media's widespread harms to kids. If you're for the alcohol age limits but against the same for social media I'd ask why the difference.
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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Hardcover – August 31, 1969 by Donald Kagan (Author)

Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty.
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That's impressive. People pay too little attention to the matrix that's been popping out copies all these centuries.
I thought this when i saw that giant draggable globe visualization on their homepage. Just thought of the sheer man-hours that must've gone into something so intricate and was so taken aback. They've got some really talented folks working over there.
As another commenter pointed out, the library will still automatically charge a "replacement fee" if the book is 30+ days overdue. That fee may be subsequently refunded if the book is eventually returned.

That to me seems like the best incentive: you are automatically charged what is still essentially a "late fee" at some point, and that charge goes away if you return the item.

https://www.nypl.org/help/borrowing-materials/library-fines-...
> Wonder why the person that wrote the Wikipedia article changed it up when it is supposed to be a direct quote.

They likely changed it from lb to kg because that would be more friendly to an international audience, without realizing that lb is a measure of weight and kg is a measure of mass. Therefore they didn't know to change "weight" to "mass".
Pretty lousy but thanks for asking.

I spent the better part of the 7 years: moving for my spouse (they have a phd with limited regions to work in), helped various family members through health issues, then had a health scare of my own. Now waiting on a partner to have a surgery. After their recovered, I'll finally be getting back out there.

I'd still like to do software work on anything that isn't related to web pages. At this point, I'm not sure how to make that happen.
It’s also terribly phrased.

> The vast majority of real numbers can't be described. But it is impossible to give a single example.

If we accept the first sentence and assume the second refers to indescribable numbers, then isn’t it obvious that we have no examples of things we cannot describe?

If the second sentence refers to real numbers in general I can give one example or two.
> “Facebook is for old people—old as in 40.”

I knew this had to happen. Kids can't be using the same social network as their parents and g-parents.
Alternately, let new trees grow to take the place of trees that die.

This is yet another stock/flow issue, where the sequestered carbon is a function of the stock of living trees, which itself grows with the delta of trees added - trees removed. You don't need to manually manage the lifecycle of each individual plant, just focus on the increasing the living stock, or rather, letting the living stock increase all on its own in response to more carbon in the air. So this is about land zoning and habitat protection, not building little coffins for individual trees. Let forests grow and protect their habitat, they will grow all on their own if allowed to.

FYI we've added 60 million hectares of forests since 2000. That process can be even expanded.
You wrote, "Most conservatives want to reduce government power, not extend it." Note "government power", not "authoritarianism". Those are two different things, something you seem to understand with "You can have a minimal government with a large military, or an authoritarian government with a small military." However, a large military is almost the definition of "government power".

I would like to note that there is zero scientific evidence that "Wokeness is a terrible state religion, much worse than Christianity ever was." Also, I'm not a Thomas Sowell disciple. I will cheerfully accept the charge of "intelligenstia" (When did being educated and intelligent become a bad thing?) although I note that Thomas Sowell is more of an intelligentsia than I am.

Biden's tax plan: https://taxfoundation.org/american-families-plan/ (Are the top 5% of earners "middle class"?)

Social Security and Medicare: https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/11/02/re...

"The Republican Party has always been associated with opposition to Social Security...." Oh, hell, just read it---it has the whole history. (The paragraph about Senator McConnell is likely referring to https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mccon..., by the way.)

Postal Service: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-war-against-the-postal-s...

"President Trump’s push to privatize the Postal Service and his party’s antipathy toward government partly explain Republicans’ reluctance to provide the same pandemic relief to the Postal Service as it has to airlines and other private companies facing a similar collapse in demand. Privatization is a long-standing goal of conservative think tanks and corporations that stand to gain from weakening or dismantling the Postal Service."

EPA: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

Oh, c'mon, who hasn't heard more than they strictly need to in order to know that conservatives don't like regulations, even necessary ones?

"As George W. Bush’s former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman wrote [...],

"'If his actions continue in the same direction, during Pruitt’s term at the EPA the environment will be threatened instead of protected, and human health endangered instead of preserved, all with no long-term benefit to the economy.'"

OSHA: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/workplace/osh...

Destroying these and similar government services would, indeed, reduce government power. They're also fairly popular among voters, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
A rating system isn’t needed here. Just a history of transactions (% contracts successfully completed is a good metric)

+ Communities can decide who they let into these groups, or boot people who are multiple offenders

So it’s not all anonymous trolls, there’s context around each person that allows you to filter who is a troll
Bitcoin is not a competing fiat currency, but a competing gold standard.
All I've been able to glean from a Chris Dixon twitter thread and Cloudflare's HTTP-to-crypto thing-a-ma-bob announcement is that web3 is all about putting crypto based paywalls everywhere right?
Interesting that the US governance model is devolving to "decrees from the king" thanks to exec orders
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Why?

In every case I’m aware of, removing late fees increased library return rates, so this would improve the likelihood you get the book you have on hold sooner.
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you are the person I hire. I will often know there are a great many unknowns. I also may know it's not possible. But the attempt often yields its own value. Also you can very often sell a close approximation of the actual impossible thing.
Yuuup! I've been looking through the Epik dump [1] and there's all sorts of PII where it shouldn't be. Logs for sure. Also object dumps as text fields. [2] And the most impressive mistake is logging every failed login attempt with the login and password. There are a ton of entries where people put the password in the username field and vice versa, so it's basically a big database of passwords of frequent users.

There are also a ton of tables where they made a backup copy of the table and just left it in the database for years. Ditto switching to new coce but not cleaning up the old data. So even data that would normally be removed due to, say, expiring domains ends up being preserved.

I recommend digging through it to anybody who is sad about the systems you run at work. It's such a fractal set of fuckups that I promise you'll feel better about your legacy systems.

[1] https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Epik

[2] in PHP serialization format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_serialization_format
Isn't "on time" when you are done with the book? I don't use the library because I can't finish a book in the allotted time (two week I think, but haven't been there in a long time). Often you can't renew because there is a wait list. I'm probably a slow reader, but I also have a job, kids, etc.

If our library switched to this policy I would definitely use it and probably get the books back in 4 weeks. The "encouragement" would be that I want to read another book, and I don't need to pay a fine.

As it is I just buy books on kindle so I can read them at my pace.
From what I remember from intro physics, we distinguished between pounds and pounds force, the latter having the 32ft/s^2 multiplied in.

And wikipedia seems to agree with me, see pound (mass) vs pound (force).
There are valid concerns this post raises but I struggled to get past the flowery, dramatic language.
Oh yes, that would make sense.
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You might be able to kludge a fix to tokenize the output and replace he/him/she/her with them/their. It's not as sexy as the engine outputting the correct words, but it should get the job done.
CNAME is at most registrars only available for subdomains. So you can do do that with www.somedomain.tld but need DNAME permission to do the same for the root.
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious when there is 5x as many posts for the same event than there would be for an equivalent event. Ex., that drone strike that killed a bunch of kids last month had maybe one post, this whistleblower has dozens
We'll see how much longer the states accept that for.
Of course -- all financial strategies are bets. Good luck.
1. Porn production regulations don't have anything to do with addictiveness, the porn industry is totally free to specifically target and profit from psychologically vulnerable viewers as long as they're 18 and over. I have no problem pointing out that porn is not comparable to Facebook and therefore naturally requires an age gate of 18 instead of Facebook's 13. I thought I was pretty clear in pointing out porn as an example where for-profit porn studios profit from views but aren't responsible for potential "addictiveness". If your argument is that Facebook should present an "Are you 18+" page like porn does to keep out minors, then go ahead.

2. The FDA doesn't regulate unhealthy foods that people gorge themselves on. It regulates drugs with strong scientific evidence of extreme addictiveness and harm. Do you have any evidence you'd like to present that would make Facebook even slightly comparable to the kind of stuff the FDA restricts? McDonalds and Pizza Hut are totally free to specifically target and profit from psychologically vulnerable obese people.

3. None of those alcohol laws prevent an alcohol store from selling or being near an alcoholic or anyone who is addicted to alcohol. Alcohol retailers and makers are totally free to specifically target and profit from psychologically vulnerable alcoholics.

I'd be interested in a response to my actual point that we don't ask corporations to be responsible for all potentially negative outcomes. Society has always restricted certain extreme harms, your problem is that you have no strong evidence that Facebook and social media rises to that level at all.
> Adults are not children and social media sites are not school districts.

> The school district analogy also doesn't really hold up on its own terms unless you're talking about boarding schools

Non-technical adults don't understand the minutiae of algorithms or the tuning of social platforms designed to manipulate them. These platforms control how over 2 billion people communicate. Once the networks become entrenched people can become essentially locked in, or risk becoming ostracized from support groups if they don't want to play along.
If the market for stolen books is so pervasive that I end up footing the bill for libraries to recoup their losses, I will happily foot that tax bill.

But in practice, this seems about as much a problem as voter fraud: not a problem at all, despite how many people in this comment thread seem horrified by the risks of it.
Facebook Groups have been host to many organized acts of violence. The Kenosha shooting comes to mind as a recent example where the Group was reported to Facebook and made it through multiple layers of review before being allowed to persist. To say that such speech is protected under the First Amendment is too much of a stretch.
More than that, if it's only doing the driving in ideal conditions, then it's unfair to compare the two. You need to compare against the human drivers in ideal conditions.
My career hasn't but I have.

Got some therapy, journaled a bunch. I eventually realized having an abusive boss or working for an abusive company is the same as having an abusive partner. Recovery is similar.

As for the burnout, that takes time. You have to learn when to work and when to walk away at the end of the day.
Oh wow, learning a lot today. I was taught in the US that pounds are a measure of force, and that is how it was always used in physics problems.
An xyz tld. . . It's like the Wankel engine of TLDs. You're literally buying trouble.

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400
That's exactly what I'm saying. It would be seen as a competing currency, like gold, and prohibited.

Michael Burry tweeted this earlier this year, "Prepare for inflation. Re-opening & stimulus on the way. Pre-COVID it took $3 debt to create $1 GDP, and it is worse now. In an inflationary crisis, governments will move to squash competitors in the currency arena. $BTC #gold."
That's a separate discussion; I didn't propose that a card be required just to enter the library, and that this card require a deposit. It's just for borrowing materials to take somewhere else.

By the way, if you need a safe/dry place to exist, and the library is it, why would you need to borrow books to take somewhere else? Books also need a safe/dry place to exist!

If you can't put down a $200 refundable (with interest) balance, how are you maintaining a place where you can take the books?
As I can’t really read Clojure (there’s a few bits there I don’t understand what’s going on), can anyone elaborate on what, if anything, is Clojure specific about the examples?
Or could, say, they be just as easily written in python?
Why? authorized_keys holds public keys. Why would it defeat the purpose of a hardware private key?
What is wrong with Leetcode and similar, in a nutshell.
You can play with 1.57 if you use the nightly release.
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CoralCDN ran from about 2004 - 2015. Eventually, its need was pretty much negated by the rise of free CDN services (e.g., Cloudflare) or just lots of SaaS services that supported user-generated content. For example, in late 2004, many of the amateur videos of a large Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami were shared using CoralCDN, but that soon went to YouTube. Podcasters like "This Week in Tech" were using CoralCDN, but those went to freemium podcasting services. And so on.

What eventually took CoralCDN "down" was that the academic platform on which the ~1000 servers ran, PlanetLab (https://planetlab.cs.princeton.edu/) was end-of-life'd.

But taking a step back, the original thinking behind CoralCDN was as a peer-to-peer CDN, but there were a lot of web security issues that actually made that difficult. If folks are interested, I talk about some of these issues in this 2009 retrospective [0], also also outline a browser-based P2P CDN in this workshop paper that could address (and actually make it P2P but secure)[1]. But still, I think the economics of CDNs (and transit costs) have just changed, such that most of the p2p architectures just don't make sense today like they did in early 2000s.

But thanks for the kind words!

[0] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mfreed/docs/coral-nsdi10.pdf

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mfreed/docs/firecoral-iptps09....
Feasible and possible are, in this instance, identical. We are out of the domain of physics, and in the domain of economics. Physics does not get exclusive claim to the word "possible".

Mealy-mouthed wishy-washiness should not be rewarded.
Except having to front the library $200 you don’t have.
Would you mind providing a code reference from the NFPA or IFC (or equivalent life safety code in your jurisdiction)
I really don't think crypto will go anywhere beyond hobbyist territory until transaction fees drop dramatically. There's no way i'm going to use cryptocurrency to do anything at all when I have to make an $8 transaction fee
Yes, and forgetting a password is more likely than forgetting how to use a key. That's why I said it's not a good analogy. But it sounded so funny I had to get it out of my system.
That's a gripe with the CBC / Ideas, not Potter.

Listening to the full interview (the webpage text is a very condensed version) makes quite clear that Potter himself really doesn't have any facile answers. Or possibly any at all.
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What if we just eliminated late fees and kept giving people books?

Are there any downsides that any library which has done this has experienced?
Relativistic paradoxes are the most insane. Twin paradox, ladder paradox, grandfather paradox, things get so mindbendingly weird at very large, very fast, and very small scales.
One thing I keep coming back to with all this “web3” guff: the premise is openness and freedom, right? How does that square with the way the vast majority of people now use the internet: on smartphones controlled by one of two of the biggest companies in the world? This seems to me like a fundamental issue for anything claiming to be “web 3” in a way that “web 2.0” never had to deal with.

A totally open library sounds like a fascinating concept, but Google or Apple are ultimately going to gatekeeper access to it.
I'm probably too optimistic, but the current trend of drop-shipping, reselling, white-labeling, fake reviews, fake accounts, uncountable (fake-)brands and the wave of advertisement (and retargeting) kinda has a beginning of the end feel to me. Like retail stores when they got complacent just before they got run over by Amazon.

I just hope something new will come along soon. Who knows, maybe retail stores will somehow be able to capitalize on this.
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