skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenwald's suggestion that traditional media contains more disinformation than Facebook and that magazines distort body image more than Instagram is out of touch.
This is about regimen, this is about stamina, this is about sticktoitiveness; and if you don't want it, you don't need it, you'll never. And I mean never.

The Grit article on Wikipedia mentions persistence and tenacity and stick-to-it-tiveness as roughly synonymous; and that grit may not be that distinct from other Big Five personality traits, but we're not about to listen to that, we're not going with that, because Grit is predictor of success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)

To the original point,

> In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual's perseverance of effort combined with the passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie on the path to accomplishment and serves as a driving force in achievement realization. Distinct but commonly associated concepts within the field of psychology include "perseverance", "hardiness", "resilience", "ambition", "need for achievement" and "conscientiousness". These constructs can be conceptualized as individual differences related to the accomplishment of work rather than talent or ability.
I don't think we know that spacetime is quantized.
It’s interesting to me that the lack of this feature has been one of the key differentiating features of browsers on desktop OSes compared to mobile browsers, such as Safari on iPads (and iPhones). It’s hard to do serious work on a mobile device that may silently unload a tab with unfinished work just because it was placed in background, whereas desktop browsers somewhat guaranteed that wouldn’t happen.

In a way this change probably narrows the gap between browsers on desktop and mobile OSes. Hopefully this is a good thing, as I expect this implementation will be smart enough not to unload tabs with filled in forms and such.

I could be wrong in this interpretation.
Yes, that's what the data suggests. It's just not what the question was...

Of course, the data is necessarily all about short term exposure, not non-stop. I'm inclined to think that it won't be too bad, if there is a direct effect at lower levels.
I'm pretty sure none of that is legal to sell in Walmart's big-box retailer format.
What would stop someone from loaning guns out on this distributed library? Would loaning guns like this be an issue? I'm not trying to troll the discussion, I'm honestly curious.

In the case of "peer to peer" loaning it sounds to me like insurance and liability are kind of important. If I loan out a laptop to you, and you put malware on that laptop, and I take it back and loan it out to others who then get compromised somehow... how do I explain to authorities that it's not my fault? Or in maybe a more realistic sense let's say I want to be a Very Good Guy and loan out my car. You put up the "reasonable value" of my car + 10% as collateral and I loan it to you, and it gets impounded. Now we both are out a car and our collateral is locked up, and neither of us wants to nuke the contract but neither of us can agree on who should pay the towing company. How does that resolve itself?
i don't think you realize for how many families having to find an extra $200 to just leave sitting around as a deposit at the library would be an extreme hardship or just plain impossible.

It's a lot of families.

To get a sense of how many, 40% of Americans surveyed say that they would have trouble paying an unexpected $400 expense. That they'd have to sell something or neglect other bills, or it would otherwise be a challenge, or impossible.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...

But meanwhile... why? Wny not just... eliminate late fees instead? As several cities have already done, without disaster?
FB has money to buy the smartest developers, psychologist, and advertisers to make you buy stuff, keep you on their platform, and make you feel what they want you to feel. Is it as addictive as heroin? Probably not, but if they can do that they probably will some day. Of course they should be regulated.
It seems like there is some risk around the timing of when the contract goes into effect vs when the physical good is delivered.

If the contract is signed before Lisa hands over the $10 item, she has leverage over Bob because she’s on the hook for $5 and he’s on the hook for $15.

If Lisa hands over the item before the contract is signed, she might have just given Bob the item.

There needs to be a mechanism outside the contract to make this work… and if there’s such a mechanism, maybe it can handle the whole thing, so I’m not sure what the importance of the Junto contract itself is.
You'd want to reduce it and convert it to some organic solid. When that becomes remotely economical it will likely compete with crypto mining as a use for spare electrical power and won't need further incentives.
> In the long run, it absolutely is. It's possible for any given point on the curve to have a positive first derivative and a negative second derivative, but if the second derivative stays negative, the first derivative will also ultimately turn negative.

f(x) = log(x) is a function where, at every positive x, the first derivative is positive and the second derivative is negative. As a growth curve, that would look like a constant amount of effort being put towards improvements, but the amount of improvement per unit of effort spent decreasing exponentially.
Flatland? great book. Surely monads are more than truisms! Forgive me, I must have missed the point.
Why stop at books? Why can't libraries branch out into, say, tools.

A poor person needing a nail gun and air compressor to fix up their shack should just be able to get that from the library, and not have to pay some capitalistic swine like Home Depot or whoever.

No late fees ... return it next week, next month, whenever y'know?
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And they also don't consist of 99% water. That is why they called them "purely mathematical potatoes" and they could've chosen any type of fruit or vegetable. Heck, I'm just waiting for a car analogy now!

Brake fluid anyone?
Really like that one, especially because it's just so ... random. All the other forces just don't work that way, but the Weak force does, wtf.
Glenn’s argument is a slippery slope fallacy, and you’ve thrown in some guilt by partisan association in there too. Simply stopping amplifying content for purely engagement purposes would be a great step in the right direction, for any side. IMO a reasonable goal for what ails Facebook is not to increase moderation, but to reduce polarization by stopping incentivizing people from being polarizing.
How do crypto concepts like lending, staking, and stable coins come into play? If someone "gives" you an altcoin (for staking or lending), is that considered capital gains or income? How do you value the "altcoin"?
You might consider hydroponics (ie consumer Aerogarden) as the water requirements are approximately 90% less. It does the "watering" for you.
that's silly, I didn't equate interest in computers with Asperger's, that would be ridiculous, it's just that people like to flaunt some amount of being on a spectrum as a badge of pride, true or not. I'm not saying it's not fun to flaunt it, but, remember, if your two sigma's below average on the physical list your out of luck, times change, power/money changes

EDIT: most human beings feel weird as a kid. That's natural, whether you hit someone with a lacrosse stick or finally learn how to use a terminal, doesn't make you any cooler. money just moves my dude.
- computer programming : oft-reported industry bias against age 40+ and active recruitment (especially by software companies) for 20-somethings.

I think this is rational. 20-somethings have the least to unlearn, so you can get them to do things your way instead of the unique independent ways an experienced person would.

Secondly, 20-somethings are much more easily abused with long hours and intangible or possible future rewards.

20-somethings are also really fun to work with. Sponges for knowledge and so much energy.
Btw, all comments here explaining rationally why immediate hate on China does not belong in a lot of places, but shows up anyway, are being flagged.

So you can actually tell how well the propaganda has worked on a lot of people. They just love the outrage so much that they'll censor anyone who questions them.

The brainwashing has been complete. Poor US citizens.
You're presenting a false dichotomy. We don't have to choose between unethical corporate actions or no social media at all. Facebook could exist quite happily without applying any content selection algorithms to your feed. If your feed was literally just a chronological list of posts by your friends, with some interspersed advertising, then they (and you) could claim with some legitimacy that they aren't responsible for any fundamental negative effects of social media.

That's not the situation we're in. In addition to social media presenting some issues around public discourse and misinformation, Facebook is actively encouraging more and more extreme engagement with their platform by explicitly selecting for polarising content. It's this second part that people are taking issue with.

By the way, the solution does not require any censorship (as you mention in your comment) but simply that Facebook stops actively selecting content for your feed (which is itself a form of censorship!)
they might, but likely not with a resolution good enough to allow then to actually extract an useful fingerprint.. specially not after social media resize and convert the image a thousand times.

also, fingerprint is not the only security, you still need physical access to the yubikey to use it, something a russian hacker also will have a hard time having..
> I would rather take the stance of feed algorithms and moderation logs be PUBLICLY available. Transparency instead of censorship.

I think that removing CDA Sec 230 protections for algorithmically-curated feeds is the answer. It's one thing to have a basic FIFO feed, it's another to hide or reveal content based on your own internal engagement/revenue targets. At the point where you're crafting bespoke engagement-maximizing feeds, you're creating a gestalt creative work that has a life of its own and that is no longer merely a passthrough for the works of users of the platform.

In other words, consider Facebook's curated feeds as Facebook's speech, not only the speech of their users, so Facebook faces liability for that speech.
Working on it, hopefully.
Oh wow. You really have no idea how a huge number of Americans live.

Also, even homeless people are allowed to borrow books from a public library, in fact! But, no, there are many many people who struggle and hustle and have a place to live but don't have an extra $200 to leave sitting at the library.

You don't need to be ashamed that you literally don't know any of them, assuming you live in the USA, America is a really segregated (and I don't just mean racially) society. It's not your choice or fault. But you could be aware of it, believe me, to ask that question you have no idea how a good chunk of the USA lives.

(But also... can you imagine any business that required a $200 deposit to have an account with them, and how that would effect their business? Like imagine grubhub or blueapron or something. Even people that can afford $200 really don't want to begin their relationship with a business by giving them $200 to hold. Occasionally a 'business' which someone really has no choice but to use, like the electric utility, gets away with requiring a deposit. The mission of a public library is serving as many people as it can, a policy that drastically reduced the number of people interested in using the library would be a huge failure for the library).
The list is impressive although Patrick himself admits to read only half of it.
We are trying to build a product that solves for all the pointpoints when you are building on the cloud starting with GCP. And being able to be on top of your cloud expense is a #1 problem we have seen lot of people in the Firebase community complain about and so we want to solve for it as well.

Currently, we are fully open-source and plan to introduce additional PRO features/parallel products in the future.
Gaming, fashion, entertainment in general - all wasteful without a good need, has to go, massive energy savings and carbon.
The ‘how it works’ example is terrible. Bob can borrow $10 but he first needs to loan $15 to the smart contract? That makes no sense at all: if he had $15 spare, he wouldn’t need to borrow $10 in the first place!
Unrelated, but how do I get Firefox / Iceraven Android to _not_ unload tabs? It's really annoying when I want to load article pages for offline reading then Firefox just decides it wants to load the page again in Airplane mode.
Our children do not have cell phones and their baby sitters often don't have cell phones (at least the younger baby sitters). A landline allows those without cell phones to make calls out of the house.
Everyone is uneducated and misinformed, but some are more uneducated and misinformed than others!
Dunno mate, when I was one of only 5 people I knew in the world who really like this programming thing, it felt pretty weird.
> Considering spacetime, matter, and energy are all quantized

First, we don't know that spacetime is quantized; that's a plausible speculation but we have no theory of quantum gravity.

Second, "quantized" is not the same as "discrete". A free particle in quantum theory is "quantized" but the spectrum of all of its observables is continuous.
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No. Blame browsers for not being user-agents any more. Browsers can cache websites, but only if websites tell them to do so. Users are never asked ( there is no setting ). And since websites usually don't want to be cached (for too long) browsers have to reload them ( which takes time ). Thats the reason Back-buttons are slow. Thats ( one of ) the reason(s) everybody has 100+ tabs open.

SPAs and infinite scroll are (maybe) bad, but not the cause of this problem.
> it exploited the law to allow it to grow into the monstrosity that it eventually became

If law was code, then what they did was hacking.

Hacking is by definition: using something in ways it was not intended to be used.

If computer hacking is punishable, then so should "law-hacking".
It depends how you count. There can be O(n log(n)^2) as you say, but I believe there are some comparison based algos where you only have to compare "fewer bits" to decide each comparison. So bit-wise cmps might still be O(n log n). However, you do have to move whole w-bit keys which is w bits wide. So, in full cost (cmp + space moves) unless you can do tricks to avoid the whole move, the comparison sorts do scale worse than radix-like digital sorts. And on general purpose CPUs people certainly compare batches of 8/16/32/64 bits at a time in HW. Personally, I think radix really does scale better, but maybe @Kranar can clarify his claim. (EDIT: there is often a random write pattern to digital sorts that can slow them down at massive scales, but that is definitely an {important} constant factor/different kind of "real machine" analysis.)
Facebook knowingly facilitated a genocide of the Rohingya people. That is a lot different from just not "being a good Samaritan".
I've stopped shopping on Amazon, and elected to shop at traditional retails such as Target, Costco, Walmart and Best Buy. They have some issues, but at least they tend to vet products they distribute nationally to all their stores.
(Not the commenter you replied to.)

That's correct. But neither can you think in sentences in that case, unless your relationships are just calculated means to an end. Whether you want to continue a relationship is not a conclusion of a sentence, but something you know without words, just like you know without words whether you want to eat the dish that's on your plate.
You may do well by taking a look at some statistics on poverty in the US. There’s a significant chunk of the population who can keep a book dry but don’t have $200 to just sink into this imaginary library deposit. The interest is irrelevant, you’re asking them to choose between “get books” and “buy food”. All to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
There are also fees you have to pay to the owner of the tld. For example .com has a $8.39 fee. In total that would be $8.57 per .com domain.

You are off by a factor of almost 50.
> Falling off the career ladder is in itself a strange idea. As I get older, it seems to me that the concept has little actual reality. Few people have linear career nowadays.

I basically fell of the career ladder early in my previous career as an Academic. Not as bad as falling off in the private sector, as I remained employed, but I picked the wrong job twice, had a little bad luck and became stuck in a crappy position, unable to move forward, unable to change university, and of course in permanent burnout.

I got away by joining a start-up and this relaunched my career, quite successfully, on a very different track. Not everybody has that opportunity, though.
And the decrees are obeyed by the bureaucracy only when the bureaucracy likes the king.
> Imagine if Whole Foods charged every customer $200/year as "insurance" for those who do shoplift.

That makes no sense; you are not talking about a refundable deposit that is only deducted in confirmed cases of shoplifting. People do not borrow food from Whole foods and then fail to return it.

Deposits are standard operating practice in rental businesses. Have you ever rented a tool? They will put the replacement cost of the tool (possibly into the hundreds of dollars) as a charge on your credit card, which is then reversed when you return it, minus the $15 rental or whatever.
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What do you do if the hardware fails, or gets melted in a fire?
>Then there is the case of things are illegal, but are not enforced. Leading to the question of what is the law? What is written, or how it is enforced?

Ah, I really appreciate this point. I imagine when it comes to law, I would want the goal to be the alignment of what is written and what is enforced. If law is what is written but not enforced, then it seems to be law-in-name-only, whereas if it's enforced but not written, then it seems to be, I don't know, chaotic? Haha, I can't think of a better term right now. I suppose the latter might depend on how much unwritten agreement there is amongst people on the rules. If a lot of agreement, then maybe it's more like ethics. If not much agreement, maybe it's more unpredictable, almost lawless.
The tool is not to shop at Amazon, as much as the Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) may loathe to admit.
No worries! I probably shouldn't have put it in parentheses at the end...
Maybe it's the Silicon Valley (HBO) joke about how every startup says they're "making the world a better place," but dramatic titles like this make me automatically roll my eyes.

Reading further, it seems like this is the crypto equivalent of a 3rd party service holding money in escrow while a rental agreement is carried out? Or in other words, this is crypto-enabled-rentals without the human 3rd party between owner and renter.

I doubt that any average people are ever going to use this. It's a neat thought experiment, but it's a tall order to even get your average neighbor to understand how it works. And like most crypto spaces, I predict it will be dominated by a small amount of superusers, and will be prone to bugs and hidden exploits (lots of those in the smart contract world) which will deter even tech-savvy people from trying it.

Cool idea, but I'm not holding my breath.
Why not put it there in the first place? Fewer cars no coal and really fewer humans over time?
Yeah, you're right, (2) is wrong. (1) is correct.
Not that I disagree about the monetary award, but the SEC is one of the federal agencies that has actual teeth these days. Where else would she go, the FTC (ha!)?
Turns out I am a fool who let his enthusiasm get in the way of being right. I have DDIA on my Kindle. Next to my computer is a book that obviously makes much more sense to be next to my computer, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud (SPEC) by Brendan Gregg.

Still, DDIA is an incredible resource. But the Kindle is actually better for my usage pattern. I wish I had SPEC on Kindle.
I notice most people don't seem know that there is both EBGP and IBGP. It's common to use BGP for internal as well as external networking now days.

https://www.ipspace.net/Data_Center_BGP/
To my house? To read them? You’re coming across as pretty siloed in these comments.

There’s no reason why we should deny people below the poverty line the ability to read books outside the confines of the library walls. The entire functionality of the library is to be a public good, providing the products and services that allow everyone to enrich themselves. If it wasn’t, it would be a weird nationalized chain of book stores.
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* If you are motivated. Unmotivated people tend to not get through college.
it's a good hedge against inflation. A block chain can be fully accountable
The internet that 'just works'. /s

Followed by universal, decentralized, cheap energy that will be needed to overcome the problem caused by privatized, centralized, expensive energy.
You keep a spare somewhere. Everything that does U2F IME allows you to register at least 2 tokens.
Literally incredible, because it's not. It's just really awful notation. It's really more like F(1+2+3+...) = -1/12 for a certain F (pedantically it's not a function I don't think, but whatever).
The article talks about hiring and firing and the hiring section is basically just a link to another article written by the same author: https://johnwdanner.medium.com/hire-fast-fire-fast-7af0e6c46...

There he says "You are going to be firing about 50 people in that first year to get to 70 amazing ones." That's a 42% attrition rate in the first year from firing alone (not counting resignations or layoffs). Has there been any successful company that has intentionally fired (i.e. not mass layoffs because of lack of funds) 42% of its staff in its first year?
I didn’t see this one listed, and thought it was pretty cool when I studied it in a course a few years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem's_paradox

“ Skolem's paradox is that every countable axiomatisation of set theory in first-order logic, if it is consistent, has a model that is countable. This appears contradictory because it is possible to prove, from those same axioms, a sentence that intuitively says (or that precisely says in the standard model of the theory) that there exist sets that are not countable.”

“ Skolem went on to explain why there was no contradiction. In the context of a specific model of set theory, the term "set" does not refer to an arbitrary set, but only to a set that is actually included in the model. The definition of countability requires that a certain one-to-one correspondence, which is itself a set, must exist. Thus it is possible to recognise that a particular set u is countable, but not countable in a particular model of set theory, because there is no set in the model that gives a one-to-one correspondence between u and the natural numbers in that model.”
The entity working on the browser isn't a charity