skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also have OP consider that yes, maybe having corporations like Nestle, CocaCola, etc that prioritize profit above all else is, in fact, also bad. Like, lets be real here, if the CEO of Coke had a button that could double the consumption of Coke products in the USA he would definitely push it, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people would become more obese and live worse, shorter lives. Advertising is an attempt at such a button.
Great Wall of Lights: China's sea power on Darwin's doorstep
I can't say I agree with you that Biden is putting on a show just to keep his party together, but I'll leave it at that for now.

I do actually think public health is a legitimate government concern. That doesn't mean the government needs to exercise authority to the fullest extent for every health concern.

The 2010 and 2018 flu epidemics both killed far more children than COVID has killed. Where were the child vaccine mandates, school mask mandates, and school lockdowns then?

Once the COVID vaccine came out, the need for government intervention was mostly over. The authoritarianism comes from the continued over-reactions and unnecessary use of authority that lasts to this day.
What do you guys think about educative? It's getting more popular in for people who focus on interviewing.

I've been told a good author can earn about 20k during 6 months. It's pretty good ROI given it's all passive. As an author myself, what I really want to a direct communication channel with readers to answer their questions.
A serialization format is more than just how things are described on the wire. It's also about how both sides are expected to receive and transmit it. Naive processing of JSON in certain situations can run into sharp edges like this:

https://rules.sonarsource.com/java/RSPEC-4544

Serialization formats are a part of Protocols, which essentially form the software equivalent of a spoken language between two people. Like words, the bytes can have a general syntax and expected semantic, but still be open to problematic interpretation. Like the conceptual difference between a language like English and Ithkuil. (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beg...)

Like Ithkuil, some formats can specify "a little more" in a way that tries to prescribe semantic meaning and syntax such that implementing according to spec limits the opportunities for issues like this to happen.
> It's pretty absurd that all merchants have to pay a 3% fee on the vast majority of their transactions with no real alternative.

No, they do not have to pay a 3% fee. Debit card fees are basically negligible. Sellers can also impose additional fees for credit card users if they wish. For example, Winco grocery stores in the western US only accept debit cards. Many government agencies also charge a card fee if you want to pay via card rather than ACH.

Sellers in the US choose to pay the extra processing fees because they earn more than that from people who pay with credit cards.

See:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...

> A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._Sch...

https://harvardlawreview.org/2017/11/expressions-hair-design...
Is the game show host still president?
I understand the subtlety involved in your argument that Apple may and probably will make closed decisions that strictly benefit their own ecosystem even if at cost of making life difficult for those running Linux on this hardware.

However, “Unsupported hack, at best” is pretty dismissive of the engineering effort going on with this. People running Linux on “windows branded PCs” of the not so distant past could have easily said the same thing because Say Dell and Microsoft would be commercially motivated to only keep Windows running on their hardware. However the ecosystem around Linux made things happen such that it is almost a no-brained that most systems you buy _will_ run say Ubuntu with more than reasonable success.

With enough motivation, and the efforts of engineers such as those listed in this article, I bet we might even see better use of Apple hardware than MacOS. Apple might optimise for their stuff, but Linux can bring the power built for other needs(HPC, Real-time systems etc) to the table and can leap over MacOS given the right abstractions. The future is exciting for the hopeful.
1. The mainstream news pushed numerous stories over the past years without those rudimentary truthiness checks.

2. I disagree with many points in that paragraph:
- echo chambers: when was the last time you heard a nuanced "from the other aisle" opinion from a NYT reader; an opinion that wasn't covered in the NYT. Same echo chamber, just a different format.
- news companies are small and irrelevant: Seems like this narrative has captured everybody's imagination today. Everybody is talking about it. It might even lead to action in Congress. Are news companies really that small and irrelevant as you claim them to be?
I’m infinitely scrolling hacker news comments right now. You think adding a next page button is gonna change anything?
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I note that the "general American media" is subject to quite a few more constraints than Facebook and others of similar ilk.

At the lowest level, the "general American media" can have advertising pulled if they get too far out of hand. Going further, they have to live with their editorial decisions---see, for example, your own antipathy to them. Ultimately, they can be sued.

Facebook, on the other hand, can offer not to associate someone's advertising with that content, but someone else will surely be happy to fill the spot and FB will be making money on both. Facebook doesn't have to live with its (non-) editorial decisions---that's user generated content, right? And you can't really sue Facebook either.

The bar has never been equal, but not in the way you think.
Because it is not important. The goal of a startup is to maximize profit in any way possible (and legal), not to employ people. I.e. startups should hire only on merit.
The debt limit has always been backdoor spending cap, Congress curbs their spending in part because they know they are going to have to fight over the debt limit

If there is in engineered way to create no spending limits for congress that congress will not spend 100% of that is moronically naive

If they make a 10 Trillion coin, congress will pass a spending measure to spend all 10 Trillion

to believe other wise is to be ignorant of history to a level that I don't believe is fathomable

This gimmick WILL CAUSE INFLATION. you can bank on that.
Inflation (at levels that it happens in developed countries) is good, as it forces people to spend on goods and services or invest in productive enterprises. It is actively bad for the society if one can just sit on money.

Taxation is as voluntary as it can be in democracy given that you elect the government which sets the rate and then pay into commons. You can’t rely on purely voluntary contribution as then people would simply not contribute. Society gets into tragedy of the commons all the time where the global optimum requires contributions that are locally disavantageous, this is why we must have contribution to commons.
If NASA found that Webb were directly responsible for the firing of gay and lesbian people, you think they would still keep the name?

FWIW, I think we shouldn't name scientific instruments after non-scientist government officials. I really don't see how that's a good choice in the first place.

People are going to examine the records anyway, esp. once the archives are open again, so I'm surprised at the lack of a NASA report of what was done.

Also, I'm curious why there's no mention of Webb as an administrator during the Jim Crow area.
Actually, for any specific size of N, every algorithm is O(1)...
Which assholes? The ones that passed them, or the ones that did something stupid to prompt them?

(I like this statement!)
I don’t like the Facebook business model either. So I don’t use Facebook.
Any plans to have a fully self hosted version based on Mongodb / Postgres / Whatever? :)

What you made looks super cool, but I don't want to host anything on GCP / Firebase
When your choices make everyone else worse off it absolutely is. Facebook usage is harmful to society.
What? There's a toggle to hide episodes you've already listened to. If you have that turned on, it only shows you episodes you haven't listened to yet.
So there's a US company behind it? That's not very appealing for EU citizens who care about their data. It's not a non-profit either.
The scale argument seems fishy to me. If we agree something is harmful and illegal usually scale does not matter. You can be a local drug dealer or a drug cartel and both are illegal.
But my Angelina Jolie example was more about the fact that even without Facebook young girls will compare themselves to impossibly good looking women since our entire culture promotes it: do the actresses in Friends look like real life women? No, they are in the top 1% of women (Phoebe a bit less but she is the "funny" one).
Anyways if we wanna make this illegal the implications are huge.
Not surprised after seeing "aliens are our ancestors" ads on FB for a while.
> Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that human genes cannot be patented in the U.S. because DNA is a "product of nature." The Court decided that because nothing new is created when discovering a gene, there is no intellectual property to protect, so patents cannot be granted.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/testing/genep...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henriettalacks/frequently-as...

> In the first case of its kind, the California Supreme Court held in Moore v. Regents of the University of California that individuals do not have an ownership interest in their cells after the cells are removed from their bodies. John Moore sought treatment from UCLA Medical Center (defendant) for hairy-cell leukemia. His attending physician, Dr. David Golde, recommended removal of Moore’s spleen for therapeutic purposes. Golde and UCLA researcher Shirley Quan planned to use Moore’s spleen tissue—which was “of great value in a number of commercial and scientific efforts”—for scientific study, a fact they never disclosed to Moore [5, 6].

> In Greenberg v. Miami Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida held that individuals have no property rights in body tissue and genetic material donated for research. The Greenberg family sued a physician-researcher and hospital after the researcher developed and patented a prenatal genetic test using blood and tissue samples donated by their family and others. The donated genetic material was used in the study of Canavan disease, a rare and fatal genetic disease that occurs most frequently in Ashkenazi Jewish families [8].

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/donors-retain-n... (Donors Retain No Rights to Donated Tissue)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents_of_the_Univer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenberg_v._Miami_Children%27...
When I say "Android OS" here, I don't mean AOSP, I mean most (or all) manufacturer-customized Android ROMs, including Samsung, Pixel, etc. I don't think any of them further restrict this.
Great interview with Apple’s first software VP. I love hearing from these unsung heroes of computing.
PoS blockchains like cardano have solved the carbon and energy problem. Move over bitcoin.
But because we know humans rape and kill, we take measures to create circumstances that reduce the probability of such things happening.

Such as well-lit streets or gun control laws.
But it erodes faith in the currency and that is, ultimately, what gives it value.
Treasury mints the coin.

Treasury trades the coin to the Fed for existing bonds the Fed already owns.

Treasury extinguishes the bonds.

Fed's balance sheet is unchanged, minus a trillion of bonds, plus a trillion of coin.

Treasury's balance sheet is unchanged.

Zero new money in circulation.
Perhaps you should expand your definition of what 'unsupported hack' means instead of taking it as an insult.

I support the work of anyone who gets Linux running on any hardware, I condemn the difficulty in which Apple unnecessarily restricts people from doing what they want with the hardware they own.

It is an unsupported hack because Apple doesn't provide means (such as documentation or code) for people to run what they want. So anything you can do will always end up being a method that Apple may decide to close up with later software updates and everything has to be reverse engineered from scratch.

Contrast this with AMD and Intel code in the Linux Kernel contributed by those companies themselves and being able to just boot from USB using a user accessible BIOS/UEFI loader.

It's Apple's restrictions that make this necessary to be a hack.
Minors don't use FB much anyway. It's more tik-tok now. And of course no minor would use an app monitored by her parents, she will immediately switch to another app.
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Sounds like Mastodon is for you.

https://joinmastodon.org/
> 3. Facebook is so ill-equipped to handle most of the issues that were brought forth. The expectation that the gov/people places on Facebook =/= reality of what Facebook can deliver. Facebook is running around frantically trying to manage an existing mess of a switchboard, they are not going to pull a miracle.

Do we expect a miracle? Frankly, a modicum of decency would be a huge step forward...
And even if someone else had made these "contributions," the nature of the them is dubious at best. The world is not a better place because of a phone, or a laptop, or a desktop.

His one and only innovation was the ability to say "no." "No" to superfluous features, and "no" to tracking. That is a rare quality, but hardly unique. Apple (under his leadership) even attempted to trademark ideas that were not their own.[1]

It is very worrying that society continues to fawn over this greedy man, while quickly forgetting those who made genuine contributions.[2]

[1]: https://lizerbramlaw.com/2011/10/12/apples-multi-touch-and-t...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_English_(computer_enginee...
>They need to give you information on how to send your payment that works,

As a general rule, if they don't have you buy gift cards (as someone else suggested), they want your credit card details which they check immediately upon receiving them.

What's more, I'm not exactly sure how I might engage the courts in Kolkatta, Bangalore or Minsk. Perhaps you could share your (obvious) expertise in this matter.

It would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah. I'm seeing the same thing.
> You start to put some teeth into laws where people are facing serious consequences for bullying and pushing people to suicide

Counterpoint: kids aren't all neurologically and socially developed enough to understand life-altering consequences for certain actions, and that's not their fault. Legal codes and law enforcement are too crude in most child-related cases, unless you're okay with incarcerating misbehaving children.

It's on adults to make sure things kids can reach are reasonably safe for—as well as from—them.
Apple spent countless development hours writing an entire BootPolicy framework to allow other OSes (and self-built macOS kernels) to run on these machines. Not only that, their secureboot implementation implements per-OS security modes, which means you can dual boot Linux with a full secure macOS, including running iOS apps and Netflix in 4K. Can't do that with LineageOS!

Linux on M1 Macs is "supported" exactly the same as Linux on any random PC without manufacturer support. Sure, it's more work to get running, because it's a new undocumented platform... but we've signed up to do the work. If Linux on these machines is an "unsupported hack" then so is Linux on the vast majority of desktop/laptop computers people use.
I think everyone knows by now that all discourse surrounding the pandemic has been completely politicized since day one. And it has significantly worsened since the introduction of the vaccines.

The moment we knew that all the vaccines are "leaky,"[1][2][3] the battle was effectively lost in most countries because the kinds of percentages it is going to take to control the virus is only possible in wealthy, authoritarian societies.[1]

> For example, one calculation suggests that for a vaccine that totally eliminates transmission, 60-72% of the population would need to have it, it order to accomplish complete herd immunity. But if the vaccine’s effectiveness were 80%, between 75 and 90% of people need to have it.

Which explains all the coercive measures being taken against un-vaccinated and vaccine-hesitant people in the West and the sudden itch to control "misinformation" on social media.

[1] Can you still transmit Covid-19 after vaccination? Feb. 2021
(https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210203-why-vaccinated-p...)

[2] Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens. 2015 (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...)

[3] Leaky Vaccines Protect Highly Exposed Recipients at
a Lower Rate: Implications for Vaccine Efficacy Estimation
and Sieve Analysis. 2014 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033482/pdf/CMM...)
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Not a better analog at all.
you might want to reach out to zugz (via our IRC, or github), He's also a fan of esoteric functional, so you might be able to convince him to start one. Iphy has a repo with the start of a Haskell implementation as proof of the completeness of the spec. No idea what the stat of that is, but again, might be worth reaching out :)
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I don't mean to defend those who stormed the capitol, who to be clear I don't agree with, but the important thing to note here is sense of powerlessness. These people felt powerless, regardless of whether or not they were in any kind of objective sense, and that feeling motivated their actions.

This is relevant to the current discussion inasmuch as FB (and social media generally) may have contributed to, stoked and fomented said feelings of powerlessness for the sake of engagement / eyeballs / ad clicks.
Have you ever watched fox? People die every day because of their anti vaccine crap. Basic editorial process.
“The founder letter from erenbali in the udemy S-1 is an absolute must read”
I can sadly attest to this behavior as recently as a couple years ago :(

I searched for a domain that I couldn't immediately grab (one of more expensive kind) using a random free whois site... and when I revisited the domain several weeks later it was gone :'(

Emailed the site's new owner D: but fairly predictably got no reply.

Lesson learned, and thankfully on a domain that wasn't the absolute end of the world.

I now exclusively do all my queries via the WHOIS protocol directly. Welp.
See also https://github.com/clojure/algo.monads - part of Clojure standard library which has definitions of common monads and links to tutorials
"Now, I know there are some polls out there saying [George W. Bush] has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias ... Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, [...] because 32 percent means it's two-thirds empty. There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point. But I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash."

(And what is the Vice article an example of? Presenting both sides of an issue?)
And yet, regulating off-label usage of opioids doesn't seem to be very effective at reducing addiction either. So perhaps this analogy doesn't work, and we should acknowledge that using social media and becoming addicted to opioids are substantively different?
Externalities like that should be priced into the utility bill. In CA, you will see steep overages when you reach the upper tiers of utilization.
The project uses tri-color e-ink display. You can downgrade to two colors (and use e.g. dithering to get shades of gray) and get almost the same functionality for less money.

Huh, I see non tri-color version is still available in my country (Poland): https://kamami.pl/en/displays-for-raspberry-pi/577635-1248in...
but forget the "less money" part...

This project is really cool, but I would prefer to have "a new picture every morning" in a frame than a calendar. For my purposes the e-ink displays are still a bit too small....
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The energy consumption used by asics per hash unit is NOT known as claimed in this link. The actual rate drops over time.

The article makes so many assumptions that are basically estimates that even posting this on HN is sad.
If someone wanted to do a talk on exoplanets but weren’t allowed to because they also had views on phrenology would that be cancelling? That’s a more accurate analogy than the one you’re giving.
I don't see why it's bonkers. The stamp represents a contract issued by an authority that gets its legitimacy from a vast population. All the issuance and transfer of this coin does is grant permission to distribute resources to various groups and as a society we've agreed that said permission is needed to lend legitimacy to our currency.

In principle it doesn't need to be transported by helicopter or transported at all, that's a formality that predates the Internet. It's not a particularly big detail that is worth changing, much like it's not a particularly big detail that a President must be sworn in by having a judge physically stand next to him and have him exhale CO2 in such a manner so as to produce vibrations within a narrow audible range.

Both things are just formalities to express intention.
Coming in with the amplification of alt right conspiracy theorists hot take... How meta.
Just an opinion, but I tend to think of this as distributed monolithic development... the more log correlation is needed, the more likely a requirement has been chopped up and then duct-taped back together over HTTP.
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You will have your money's value stolen from you through inflation. You will be forced to consume. And you will be happy.
Currently AWS is stating it is only happening in the EU-WEST-1 datacenter but I think it's more widespread as it's happening in ours:

"[11:49 AM PDT] We continue to experience increased invoke timeouts and elevated latencies for a small proportion of AWS Lambda functions in the EU-WEST-1 Region. The issue affects a subset of functions making API calls to other AWS services within the region. At this point we have not identified any workarounds for affected Lambda functions, and we continue to investigate possible networking issues in a section of the AWS Lambda compute subsystem. We will make more information about our mitigation plan available as soon as we have more information to share."
I think you still pay with Timescale both in terms of committed capacity, and when you pause it, although the pitch and docs are all over the shop at the moment.