skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't like the rules of English you can always invent your own language - sure you won't be able to talk to anyone but isn't that freedom enough?
Right, the point wasn't whether you can literally imagine that happening. The point is that it's obviously bad.
I think this type of harmonization is incredibly harmful and reduces experimentation among states. I personally think the concept of corporate taxes doesn't make sense and encourages reckless behavior - there are a lot of unintended consequences do this.

We should be encouraging experimentation in governance.

It's the same how inflation doesn't just devalue the currency, it encourages riskier behavior because investors must seek higher returns.
likewise mate.
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You’re never in a new neighborhood with limited time to wander around? Do you always keep up to date with every shop in your local area? There are dozens and dozens of establishments within walking distance from where I live. And yeah, what if you do want to order from a bit further away?

To ask what the point of being on Google is because people can find you by walking seems almost deliberately obtuse.
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I think you are correct. It would not be a huge stretch to turn a snapshotting file system into a VCS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system

The IBM/Rational Clearcase version control system is an example of building a VCS on top of a versioning file system (MVFS), though MVFS uses an underlying database instead of a copy-on-write snapshot mechanism. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/about-multiversion-file-sy...
Different people on the Internet will say different things. You can't really assign one collective motive to everything on the Internet and then say it's hypocritical.
> would this open them up to anti-trust action?

IANAL. I understand anti-trust regs to work at a market level. FB asking for an extension that interacts solely with their wholly-owned, private platform doesn't affect the larger social media market at all.
No, the supposed qualification to be an "extremist" was asserted by another that it was "wishing death".

I wish to apply that same standard to Reddit and see if it passes the same qualification to be "extremist" (it will).

tldr: I still haven't been shown a post on Patriots that is more extreme than anything I've seen on Reddit.
Good anecdote! In fact, I don't see why FB is doing this at all, as it seems to be against their self-interest. Heck, it never occurred to me to unfollow everyone; it may make the platform bearable/usable. (I went on a "brief" fb pause over a year ago. Just never had a reason to go back, except to say hi to friends that I don't have other channels to. But the cost/benefit doesn't really work out. Unfollow Everything would change that calculation for me.)
I am glad your peers are not burdened by your cynicism and are willing to try new things. If these things do not work, then do not use them. Your cynicism should be reserved for the deployment/productization of these technologies in the face of research that says they do not work. The research itself should be encouraged!

Do you believe that this problem is already solved and not worth the researcher's time? If so, that reflects negatively only on you and I am glad others are striving to do even better.

Of course such studies should be reviewed and critiqued, but it is intellectually lazy to point only to the source of funding without further consideration.
What app developers need to know about Epic vs. Apple
> I hope there is no legal basis for this threat

Does that really matter? If a malicious company like Facebook wants to ruin your life and drown you in lawsuits, they are able to do so.
By the time it is determined that the person under attack by Facebook is actually in the right, the damage will be done.
How do you induce this fever? And how long does the fever last?
> It was illegal to connect any equipment beside Bell's equipment to the US telephone system.

Right, but IIRC Bell was considered a common carrier.

That means Bell could enforce this because they already had to give equal play on their network. Facebook is not and does not.
I don't well united in your empty speeches either.
To boost profits you need to extract more value, regardless of whether you provide more.
> they'll just incorporate in Space, Moon, or Mars.

Incorporation is a government act. It also is irrelevant if it is not recognized by the governments of the places where you try to do business.
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There's a slightly older book on the same topic

The Outlaw Sea: https://www.amazon.com/Outlaw-Sea-World-Freedom-Chaos/dp/086...

It's a pretty good look into the world of international sea travel as well. It even gets into the ship-breaking industry as well.
Probably not, because here's the thing: Reddit isn't all that restricted.

Reddit still has swear words, porn, angry arguments about politics and religion on any subject, people arguing that most any social norm should be done away with... now you'll have to find the right subreddit for that, but that's about the only problem.

You have to dig quite deep to bump into a subject that you won't find any outlet for. Even in the cases where a subreddit got banned, you can almost always go and express the same opinion in r/changemyview and not be kicked off the site.

This means that there's about 3 reasons to ever seek out an alternative:

1. You have an issue with the management. Eg, you object to how the company works and don't want to give them money/traffic.

2. You have a purely philosophical disagreement with how the site is run, even if it doesn't impact you personally. You're offended the code isn't Open Source, or that moderation exists, or that people aren't able to hate on fat people, even though your personal usage of the site is just posting cat pictures and not impacted.

3. Your interest is one of the banned subreddits and you're a persona non grata on Reddit.

Of the three, the third is by far the most likely, and they're going to swamp out any influence the first two might have easily.
A heinous assault on sense and sensibility
> He was also using Facebook’s trademarks

Seems like the only potentially legally valid part of it. And even then, if he's not misrepresenting his product as made by Facebook (just "compatible with Facebook" or "use while you're on Facebook") I think it's still a stretch. Can a cottage industry survive without ever being allowed to even name the companion products for which the extension is designed?
> Simplicity is an important design goal for all systems. Complexity breeds bugs

Counterpoint: some problem-spaces are inherently complex; most problem-spaces have hidden complexity. Complexity cannot be removed, it can only be moved up or down your tech stack, and obviously, you can needless add more complexity.

Docker, K8s and the like are perfectly fine when they fall below your project's complexity floor - they are good place to shift your complexity to as they are battle-tested and well-documented. If your projects complexity floor is lower than docker/k8s, then integrating them will just increase your solutions complexity needlessly.
While "extremist" might have connatations of violence/terrorism, those connotations are not inherent in the meaning of the word. I would argue that it behooves us to push back against such a connotation because it really only serves to delegitimize people who don't have mainstream beliefs by implying that they intend violence without having to justify an actually disprovable statement.
https://archive.ph/jWD7V
at some point they will raise the Jolly Rodger.

>Without Pay, Food or a Way Home

the civilized version would be to go the local authorities and initiate abandoned property/lien proceedings against the ship and the cargo for some port fees/fines for some violations by the ship (which is easy to commit if you're in control of the ship) or do a bit of freight Uber - after all you have a ship :).
Likewise ;)
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USDT has more supported trading pairs and liquidity, particularly for crypto exchanges in Asia. It just seems more popular there for whatever reason.

If I had to choose USDC or USDT though, I'd rather hold funds in USDC. In general I'm not much of a fan of stablecoins though, but I do acknowledge the quick, 24/7 transfers they offer is interesting, as well as the high APRs for lending them. However, I'd still rather just hold fiat vs stablecoins. I find other cryptos to be much more compelling.
It's a better ballpark, but it's still an ideal number measured by the manufacturer using their own tests. Problem is, companies rarely if ever source the exact same design to multiple foundries, so it's not easy to compare in practice.
Contrast this action with this paragraph from Zuckerberg's statement 2 days ago:

> At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. That's just not true. For example, one move that has been called into question is when we introduced the Meaningful Social Interactions change to News Feed. This change showed fewer viral videos and more content from friends and family -- which we did knowing it would mean people spent less time on Facebook, but that research suggested it was the right thing for people's well-being. Is that something a company focused on profits over people would do?

This ban is the answer the rhetorical question in the last sentence: Yes, this is exactly something a company focused on profits over people would do. Whatever corporate-speak tweaks Facebook makes to the news feed, the one thing it can't abide is people actively choosing what they experience on the site.
I said 40 years for a reason ;) But yes, those laws were horrible, and stifled innovation.
30+ years here, so I'm just a youngster compared to you, but yes, that seems to get lost.

My first mentor in the 80's was a jolly drunken programmer genius who enjoyed getting me to laugh at how bad my code was.

His biggest lesson was that other people need to read and use my code, not just me. It isn't enough to just hack a solution -- "Anyone CAN write code, but not everyone SHOULD write code" was his favorite quote -- but code needs "style" and "heart".

He even had a t-shirt made for me after my internship ended that had those two words and a bunch of my worst code examples printed on it. I still have it: just a bunch of MASM code. I'll Never forgot that guy.
With exceptions you still need to decide what you are going to throw. I'm not really seeing how this is a hack that using exceptions would avoid?
+1 and this mentality persisted all the way through the Lucent bankruptcy, prior to which their business model was to sue everyone who had ever talked on a phone, right on up to the previous presidential administration which involved trying to place former telco execs on FCC regulatory boards to rewrite rules which aren't really rules.

But what they don't address is that HBOMax is already the worst streaming app on my TV, and therefore it doesn't matter how much money AT&T throws at politics. Their stuff sucks because they're AT&T, not because of some political misfortune.
It doesn't matter as long as they have customers in the 136 countries that ratified it
Right, but your personal preference doesn't change the fact that Apple is complicit with CCP government spying, counter to the claim that Apple isn't.
I see what you’re saying, but it’s just not true.

Trade takes the form of exchange of the rights of ownership, and this is a right enforced by government.

For example, if I own a house, the house doesn’t care who does what. The owner is the one with the right to call the cops if a non-owner comes in unwanted. This instantly becomes an appeal to violence and the government.

This is even more true in the modern sense of the free market, financial markets exchange very little actual physical goods, the thing being traded is rights to contracts, rights which are guaranteed by the government regulator.

The only place this isn’t quite true is with blockchain based assets.
I did something similar and I probably open every few weeks or so and it’s great.

It would be nice if I could easily switch between networks but I have to keep the same pared down list of people and things I follow.

It reminds me of Google circles where you could have more fine grained networks.
They have a literal monopoly on the deliver of letters. They have a monopoly on the use of mailboxes. Profitability is a gauge of efficiency, and the USPS is a funds incinerator. Having a monopoly on the delivery of letters should be a self sufficient operation.

I'm for removal of the monopoly entirely. Most other countries like Japan, Germany, the UK, Netherlands, and others have privatised post with great success. There is no reason the government should continue to run it in the US.
> Even then, you couldn't actually electronically connect a device, you could only acoustically couple it. Direct connection of modems wouldn't be legal until the 1980s.

In the late 90s, I remember watching the scenes in WarGames
(which came out in 1983) where Matthew Broderick's character is using a modem where you had to place the phone cradle on top of it and thinking why would you ever design a modem that way?

And of course the reason was to work around this stupidity.

https://youtu.be/zb1r_uKOew4?t=49
What if they don't reply WITHIN 48 HOURS? It's a big decision to take, would a judge later down the road look at this in any way?
If you have more money than god then why not start a non-profit of some sort? Between being a millionaire and still being an organization leader, there's plenty of status there. And you get to call yourself a philanthropist which is pretty flashy.

It's work, sure, but all you really have to do is hire the right person to lead the effort (and build a team under them) while you call the bigger shots. It only requires as much energy as you want to put in.
Sure. I don't like the word, most of my argument is infact arguing against the use of the word "extremist". I only used it once in response and I used "extreme" elsewhere which is fine to use when denoting where they are in the spectrum of the political ideology.
Rusting the Linux Kernel
These reports are investigated. The number of deaths reported to VAERS is inconsistent with results of clinical trials for the major COVID vaccines.

VAERS was created as a provision of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986. The NCVIA was enacted because manufacturers of childhood vaccines could not obtain robust liability insurance.
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Yes, that is the problem, and yes, USPS banking would solve it. I haven't disagreed with either of those things.

But here, again, you're talking about the check cashing industry, and to be blunt you have no idea what you're talking about.

"so would legislation setting a max check cashing fee of $3.00 or something similar" - read this page carefully: https://www.walmart.com/cp/check-cashing/632047. Walmart's max fee for checks up to $1000 is $4. The problem is that a lot of people are cashing small checks - even if it only costs $2, somebody cashing a $50 check is still paying 4%. But what are check cashing places supposed to do? Charge pennies to cash small checks? They have fixed costs that aren't going to be covered by amounts that small.

So yes, it is a problem that people can't cash checks for free. But that's not a problem with the check cashing industry, it's a problem with the financial system as a whole. You should read the book I recommended before you keep criticizing - you're just being a keyboard warrior who's never set foot inside a check cashing business criticizing something you don't understand.

Here's an actual solution for you - the government requires all banks to cash all checks under a certain size, regardless of whether someone has an account at that bank. The government is then responsible for reimbursing any money lost to fraudulent checks (and prosecuting those who pass them).
List comprehensions are actually set notation in disguise, so they’re quite powerful and compact. Haskell has them too.

You can express the above as:

[x * x for x in [1, 2, 3, 4] if x < 10]

Which in set notation is {x^2 : x in (1, 2, .., 4), x < 10}.
Conceptually, the two things are very much related and a birds-eye view shows a lot of similarities. But when you get into the weeds, there are some significant differences. git is optimized to store a great many historic states of files with minor differences between consecutive ones, and it assumes that these are essentially static, immutable snapshots. A COW file system that allows for snapshots is optimized more for allowing mutation of these snapshots (i.e. updating files one way in one snapshot and another way in another one). This, combined with the additional housekeeping required for a file system (disk block allocation, etc. - the actual core features) makes the implementations of the two things very different.
While it may not pass in the US, this is bad news. The reason to do this is to collude to bar the exits to capital flight, and then impose exploitative policies that would not have been possible previously. Why wait for your economy to grow with supportive policy when you can just take from the people today? Humans are innovative, someone will find a new way to make more, and then you can take it from them again and give it to the few who keep you in power. This cynical logic is what makes revolutions inevitable, because this ruling view is that people are basically chattel. Words are just a way to part you from your stuff. We can dress it up as concern for others, but we all know that on these leveled playing fields, some are more equal than others. It is not the playing field that gets leveled, it's us.
The legality isn't relevant to choosing to kowtow to government spying. It would have also been legal for Google to operate project Dragonfly, but they chose user privacy instead.
IMHO we need to allow for local allocators as well as a bunch of other stuff (in-place constructors for pinned objects, ala C++) before we can claim to have true composability in a no_std environment. You see this stuff crop up all the time in "Rust kernel modules" discussions too, and there's a reason for that.
You're moving goal posts: The original statement of yours has been "no one on patriots is an extremist", classifying site users. Now you're at "you'll concede that Reddit is an extremist site right?", classifying the site itself.
They did save two lives if you look at the death causes. 2 died of covid that were in the placebo group. There is also the numerous numbers of cases that didn't get severe covid and have long term negative side effects. Two people in the placebo group died of covid... that means they died fairly quickly and of covid directly meaning the illness was more severe. one person in the pfizer group died of covid pneumonia which means they were likely older and had a less severe infection but they still got pneumonia and died.

The number of people that got covid or severe covid in the control group were many, many times more as the vaccine protected many from getting it in the first place.
I liked your talk but I didn't get the connection with Wright's Law. You did a good presentation of WL but I just didn't get its connection with low latency and future hardware software co-design.
I also have this a bit, but when I moved from London to Sydney, my sense of it flipped, i.e. 'up' on my internal map was now South not North, from which I concluded it was not magnetic.
The downside to derive_more from what I can tell is that it impacts compile times fairly noticeably compared to the equivalent handwritten code. YMMV, but I've seen it removed from some crates for that specific reason.
Facebook is a utility that should be nationalized - it has grown too big.
I'd probably make music instead of reading about making music.
Thank you! He's doing great. Instead of a monthslong recovery from open heart surgery, he walked out of the hospital the next day and was back at school the following week. It was a relatively small defect, so the operation was really just to lower his lifetime risk of endocarditis.

I seem to have misremembered the country--it's Bolivia, not Peru. My apologies to the very talented weavers. Interesting article about it here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-32076070
Anyone have the source so we can build it ourselves?
Your comment seems to be downplaying the medical, economic, and social significance of contracting HIV in the modern age.
Never could do that.... I do try to take at least a week of mostly-offline vacation a year (ski-trip), but laptop and phone are always close, as my (self-employed) company offers 24//7 sysadmin services / on-call service. And being a single-guy it-shop, it's not something to hand over to someone else for the week.
He doesn't actually understand what he's talking about - he just thinks he can hand-wave away structural problems of the financial system by shaking his fist at companies that he perceives to be the problem because he doesn't understand them.
I have been thinking about the difference between human users and computational agents. There is a widespread pattern of enforcing that only human users may interact with a service, not computational agents. Running a user-installed extension is one example; additional examples are CAPTCHAs, account verification by phone number, or services which refuse to provide API access such as banks.

Sometimes the reason is to protect users (e.g. banks), sometimes to protect the service from abuse. But often the reason is to ensure value can be extracted from users (e.g. serving ad impressions) or the power that can be exerted over users. Regardless, I believe this comes down to power: computer scientists understand that acting through a computational agent is fundamentally more powerful than acting directly as a human user. Computational agents can operate at scale, they provide virtualization (e.g. throwaway identities), and thereby conserve the ultimate scarce resource: our attention. Many systems seem to have computational power asymmetry as their fundamental principle: as little human contact on the system's side as possible; as much human contact on the user's side as possible.

If there's any path ahead that avoids a totalitarian nightmare resulting from asymptotic concentration of power, it depends on cultivating a more widespread understanding of computational power and developing new social norms and policies. As a CS educator, this is one of my top priorities.
> Apparently not, since they seem to get angry if they've used the one that "lasts for 6 months".

People get mad when their cheap stuff breaks, too, even if that wasn't part of their purchasing criteria. Now they're scared about dying, again.

> You can hardly use that as evidence that they are ineffective and there are trusts everywhere.

I'm not making such an extreme claim, because it's not binary. There's a middle ground that you've excluded. I'm using the existence of some antitrust in one sphere as evidence that some antitrust might also exist in another sphere.

Edit: I think you might be misunderstanding my position: I'm defending the legitimacy of some very critical questions. Far as I can tell, you're arguing that my skepticism is flat-out unwarranted. Of the two, from a logic perspective, yours is the harder position to defend, because you're trying to prove a negative.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Those families still exist, they just don't have jobs now.

They'll still go to the same grocery stores you go to, they'll still interact with the world.

People will still die, vaccinated or not. Now we just have more unemployed people, wunderbar!