skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the people participating in a society should be able to set prerequisites for participating in that society

This is exactly what I’m saying with a different emphasis.

Some societies will want to lean more towards conformity and collective good, other societies will want to lean more on individual choice and individual good. In America there’s a tendency to split into 50:50 camps between each (and each camp seems to alternate between individual freedom and conformity depending on the topic)

Why is it that the way one camp thinks needs to dominate the other? How do you decide between individual choice and authoritarianism?

I.e. Abortions? Individual choice. Vaccines? Authoritarianism. (Reverse for opposite political allegiance)

There isn’t just one political philosophy for all societies and there seems to be pretty big disagreements (and self contradictions) all around. Most people though act like their opinions are the only possible opinions, and have no respect for different ideas and little concept of the actual issues at hand.
In Canada it's common place and there have been no issues that pertain to mixing.
White House proposes tech 'bill of rights' to limit AI harms
I'm assuming the implication was that if you have a somewhat popular website, you can embed an Ethereum miner into it via JS and effectively make your users into a botnet.
Yes, but it'll make Dublin a worse place. That's something local governments should keep in mind. Also, the top corporations OWN the governments worldwide at this point. The suggestion that any of this will significantly affect them is naive at best.
In the perfect world people would just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and went on their merry way if they didn't agree with Coinbase. The reason why there is so much vitriol in the comments here is that to some people there is nothing more scary than a prospect of companies realising that doing social activism can be really TERRIBLE to their bottom line and it IS POSSIBLE to have a nice, friendly, healthy company without going full woke.
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yeah, no. Containers run on top of Operating Systems. They inherit everything that the underlying OS has. They're not simpler, they're actually more complex, but pretend to be simpler.

What you're thinking of is Unikernels. These are simpler than OS's. And yes, Unikernels are a good alternative to containers for a lot of applications we currently use containers for.
I don't think VGA monitors had scanlines like that. Some older CGA and EGA monitors did though.
>Yes, but ham radio is all about being open and a community of people communicating together.

Maybe on paper. Where I live it seems to be about old grouchy white guys gatekeeping and LARPing that they would be of any value in a natural disaster.
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This sounds absolutely dreadful. You’re doing everyone you turn away a huge favor, and I feel bad for anyone you don’t. If I got even a hint of this in an interview I’d be out the door without letting you complete a sentence.
Don't encrypt. Problem solved?
That's actually one of the specific exceptions that you can use in the U.S. to get a second passport issued, in case you need to travel to countries which are in conflict with one another.
ML was able to map an entire cell in just hours instead of years
No, but:

> you are complicit in things like this by developing the technical infrastructure that makes it all possible
Yeah because governments use those funds so effectively.

It’s why when I look around the U.S. at the trillions we spent over the last two decades and I see... well looks pretty much the same as the 90s honestly
I suspect that there was some amount of "persuasion" by other countries that weren't happy about Ireland's status as a tax haven. Factoring that in, joining the agreement may have been a wise move for them
This is my experience too. I'm a relatively young ham, and have found older hams have no interest in engaging with anyone other than their buddies. It's bizarre and sad.
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> European countries literally have no legal concept of at-will employment. They have strong social nets that make quitting your job much easier, and more prevalent unions that fight to improve working conditions...

> By comparison employment in the US is messed up enough that if you leave your job you lose your health insurance. Companies with great policies can sometimes retain employees on that basis alone!

I think this is an argument in favor of what Brian is doing at Coinbase, though. The problem is that in the current political climate, people are intimidated and discouraged from becoming politically engaged out of fear that if their views are unpopular enough, even many years in the future, their coworkers will circulate petitions to get them fired.

If we as a people were capable of civil disagreement and didn't do things like circulate petitions to get our coworkers fired, maybe it wouldn't be necessary for Coinbase to do what they did.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886

It wasn’t just here - the CDC and potentially others (I haven’t looked that hard) changed their definitions as well.

I’ve got no issue with making terms more correct, but I think one could make the argument that the covid vaccine is more similar to a flu shot than the polio vaccine w.r.t public perception.
And? The original bullshit claim was that the vaccines are “experimental”.

A Conditional Marketing Authorization is not an Emergency Use Authorization. The European Medicines Agency even explain this.
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I just saw 100 new $740m shell companies lol
I was somewhat lucky to land on a user facing product team in an important area. But overall I just like computers, I like talking about them, and I like working towards goals with people. My upbringing was also the opposite of techy, so being in a tech-focused environment is honestly like a breath of fresh air. The financial benefit just makes it that much more addictive.

Of course, I am still entry level and my job will shift as I age, so take it all with a grain of salt.
I recently went through a similar experience interviewing at the Director level with Amazon Advertising, nearly two months of time-consuming and exhausting interviews, just to get shut down on a minor (minor minor) technicality.

Cool, man. Now I work for a major global agency pulling about the same compensation, and we won't recommend Amazon Ads for our clients b/c the product is well-known to be shit.

Works out.
You say you’re baffled but conclude the people you are baffled by are heartless.

You’re not baffled: you have made up your mind.
PG's note on the thread is very interesting: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1445305326820020227
It’s not about inspiring confidence, it’s about measuring uncertainty.

Presently the uncertainty margins are higher for this than other things in the past and other things available. Different standards of uncertainty seem to be used for this, and that’s not necessarily bad considering the scale of the problem being addressed. BUT the uncertainty is not being appropriately represented by the people acting as information authorities.
When you think about it, the amount of necessary prior knowledge is massive. You have to know that planets have an elliptical orbit. Except for Mercury, all five classically known planets (and the Earth) have eccentricity of only a few percents (and Mercury is pretty hard to observe), so you need someone (that is, Tycho Brahe) who could spend years looking at the night sky, recording the precise location of each planet, enough math for someone to match it to an elliptical orbit observed from another (= Earth's) elliptical orbit, and a society that can support such a "useless" hobby.
The interface he produced for that checkout system, the naming conventions he chose, the nature of state encapsulation, the testability of it? Yes, I believe Carmack would produce _better_ code in all those things than the median programmer every time.

There is much more to 10x than how many lines of code you can produce. A monkey on a keyboard can type faster than Carmack but productivity is not assisted. No one is arguing that a 10x programmer is more efficient by way of swift fingers.
That is true, but I will say that I had surprising amounts of coverage via Verizon ~5 years ago when I was offroading. I'd generally have to be up high, but most of my trails had enough coverage that I could check in with my wife or provide emergency communication within around 10 minutes drive of much of the trails I was on. Google Fi, on the other hand, has dramatically less coverage in those situations.

I ended up getting one of those ReqQLink locator beacons, that has no monthly charge, after my son was running around like crazy during a off roading lunch break, and came too close to cracking his head on a rock.
In every generation, you have talented people doing things no one else can do. Knowledge and skill are routinely lost and rediscovered.

I wish we would stop framing such articles like "Le gasp! These primitive, uneducated people actually had impressive medical techniques!" We routinely act like everything we do is the most special and smartest thing ever and I've seen far too many articles and TV shows drawing this exact same conclusion that "Holy cow! They knew how to do things we would have never guessed!" (And sometimes we can't figure out how in heck they did it.)

I think the assumption that it was gold wiring is questionable. That should be framed more like "One possible explanation is gold for thus and such reasons." It shouldn't be framed like "We are such smarty pants and they are so amazingly stupid that this one explanation is the only real possibility."

That general trend is amazingly annoying given how common this type of "revelation" about historic peoples is.
Indeed. Why would the gold vanish? Isn't the property it's most famous for that it's extremely resistant to corrosion and general unreactiveness?
Effective rate remains 0-5%.

Take that, globalists!
It wouldn't have changed from last time, but for some native browser chrome and platform integrations are highly appealing, particularly now that most browsers have gone all-in on brand-driven UI and try to pull you into your ecosystems.
The state needs to step in to restore legitimacy to a pure capitalist enterprise that is in crisis lol
There's not really a mechanism of action for an mRNA vaccine to have side effects that manifest after 15 months with nothing in between; any side effects would manifest themselves quite quickly.

But that's a fair point, "unequivocally" is a strong word. Would you be okay with "safe and unequivocally effective"?
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I have never understood the whole "tax the rich" idea and I am not rich, don't own a house or car or stocks or anything expensive.

When and how will the taxes help you and me? The money just ends up going to a black hole for the government to spent inefficiently. And if you are in the US, the money gets spent on funding the military industrial complex for bombing more countries, regime changes, intelligence agencies, sent to other countries for random gibberish studies and hiring more admin or useless jobs.

I would recommend listening to the first few minutes of this "Walmart vs. The Morons" video to understand how inefficient the government really is:

https://youtu.be/oKFdAOKq4Lk
If you observe the Ubuntu Touch videos on YouTube, you will find that the animations, the graphics are not smooth and seamless, they stall, they freeze, they lag. Do you reckon it is more due to low end hardware underlying those phones as opposed to a fundamental problem?
I'm out!

I don't care how few users Firefox has. I do care that the product has become a pile of garbage. I already tolerate the dumb tab bar, the update nag screen that interrupts my work, the telemetry setting that doesn't actually disable telemetry, the web services I don't want like Pocket, the ads, the memory issues that hobble my machine when I stream video...

I won't move to a browser like Chromium with a connection to Google, but I'm moving to something. I'm done with Firefox.
And yet they tax individuals on our revenues and not our profits …
The problem with the argument that this is making a workplace a political party is what the fuck are you supposed to do if you’re transitioning at work? Now you’re fucking political, and all you want is for your boss to call you she/her and your health insurance to cover your hormones.
This is great progress, sometime in the 1930's some enterprisers convinced Congress to make an insurance fund for private bank users coupled with a variety of enforcement provisions to add confidence to the fiat depository system. Just a matter of time before we get crypto dumped on the public insurance fund too, all we have to do is want it and boom, another boomer argument obliterated!

Its always been a game of confidence. Some people see it and are inspired to put those building blocks in place, others just assume a system is fundamentally flawed and act shocked that it continues to grow and gain confidence.
Finishing up a squat rack platform.
Apologies for such a noob, basic question, but doesn’t Ham radio equipment also rely on the same power that normal personal electronics use? I guess I don’t know why Ham radio is immune from power outages.
What test did they use to diagnose the delta variant?
Try Brave, really. I always had issues with Chrome and RAM usage. Brave behaves better, plus the UI is slick.

People here complain about it having some sort of cryptocurrency embedded, but it's opt-in, so as long as you don't enable it, I don't see the issue. Plus it comes with an ad-blocker / anti-tracker out of the box.

Seems to me that Brendan Eich actually knows what he's doing.
This is not at all true in Iceland. It was more of a 50% reduction in hospitalizations and our emergency ICU filled up with plenty of fully vaccinated persons. They are relatively fewer that unvaccinated, but no fucking way near the 90% constantly touted in these forums.

Mostly frail and obese ofcourse but that is pretty much the same as the unvaccinated account. We had to go back to our modest restrictions even with a very high vaccination rate because of this.

On a side note,
I am on of the 20000 Icelanders that got full double moderna inocculation and I suffered through the absolute worst nights of my life after the second dose.
Took about one month to recover.
But I digress.

I have to admit that I am nervous about the winter surge. Our hospital system is full to the brink with non covid patients. Its now in a much worse state than it was during the entire past 18 panic months of lockdown and masks.

Mostly frail elderly that we do not have any other beds in nursing homes for. Not a single fucking mention og hospital collapse though. We have patiens in staff breakrooms becuse the hospital is so full.

The fancy reporting of the fantastic vaccine efficacy actually translated to about half of what the medical companies promised. We are potentially looking at yet another lockdown winter because we have almost no natural immunity ( which is recognized in Iceland as far superiour to vaccine immunity) and our shit healthcare system is already in deep trouble.

The mainstream medias, blatant lies, are easy to verify in Iceland because we are such a tiny homogenous population with very good concise records.

Look at our actual data on covid.is.
If you made 300 dollars in your last paycheck, a 30 dollar overdraft fee is 10% of your check.
Sorry, because governments spend money inefficiently we should just allow rampant corruption? That's an insanely fatalist view to take.
> Monoclonal antibodies are, as you say, a treatment. They are not used to prevent infection in the first place. They lessen the severity of the disease but do essentially nothing to avoid its transmission.

You, fundamentally, do not understand how antibodies work.

Just as with the antibodies from a vaccine, if the monoclonal antibodies are in your blood before contact with an infected person you will not get sick. So, monoclonal antibodies can be used profilactically, if so desired.
That looks like a wonderful project!

Unfortunately, in my situation, my family is so deeply steeped in Facebook that I have no choice. We already have group chats and the like, and some stuff gets posted there, especially if someone wants me in particular to know something. But if you try to go down that road, you're only going to get the newsworthy headlines: your grandma died, Matt had a kid, etc.

But in a lot of cases, people just want to shout little things at the world, and when my family does that, it's on Facebook. It's unreasonable to expect everyone I care about to announce everything twice, once to everyone and a second time to just me, so I knew I was going to miss some things. But recently it came to my attention just how much I was missing, and it's just not worth it. You only get your family once. Keeping up with the little things means getting back on Facebook, so I'm back on Facebook.
Have an upvote yourself! yes, totally agree.

Like Wordpress optimises for edit functionality, at the expense of render speed. Most of the internet is now slow, optimised for Susan From Marketing because they don't know how to edit HTML.

Same for Ruby/Rails, same for Python/Django, same for Node/whatever. Web pages render slower so that whoever edits them can do that faster.

This isn't good.
It must be nice to have the privilege to not need to worry about the political opinions of your coworkers.

I take it most people don't see your existence, as you are, as a political problem?
Prior discussion from today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28798337
Never waited for four months. Maybe two weeks at the most. Any longer than 2-3 weeks I’d either move on or try to find out if there’s some snag or if they aren’t going to make an offer.
I don't know what barbershops you go to, but most I have been in involve lots of spirited discussion about politics.
Where we don't see eye to eye is I don't think we should unleash a grey-goo esque power virus onto the world. The obvious reason is we have one now, we're using 0.1% of all the earth's power, and generating as much e-waste as a entire country to write a few hundred bytes into a tiny database once in a while. Work that can easily be done on a single raspberry pi.

L2+ don't offer the same guarantees as a L1, and once you drop any of the guarantees the whole thing becomes basically worthless.

So using the same information as you, we arrive at different conclusions: I don't think this solution is viable, good, worthwhile or should exist. I don't think if new power technology comes online a good use is making Bitcoin guzzle it like a dog at a sprinkler. I think China has the moral high ground on this one.
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This has also been identified as something that some people would like to see in Haskell. Basically, an alternative version of Haskell which uses eager evaluation, rather than lazy evaluation.

I'd say that the reason behind this is the discovery of what makes Haskell cool. Lazy evaluation seems cool, so you get a language with lazy evaluation and try it out. In such a language, you'd want functional purity, in order to reason about it more easily. Then you discover that functional purity is amazing, and unlocks all sorts of interesting possibilities... but the same is not true of lazy evaluation. It's only logical to want to explore pure functional languages with eager evaluation.
May be a mix of personal & professional life?
Why?

> "That's like saying Java's a native SDK for Windows or macOS or Linux."

Not an unreasonable claim if you're packaging with Graal's native-image tbh.

Dotnet has NativeAOT, and JVM languages have GraalVM (with Kotlin Native too for Kotlin, and Scala Native too for Scala).

What you get when building an application with Dotnet Native, GraalVM native-image, Kotlin Native, Scala Native, etc, is architecture-dependent native code identical to compiling with "CC myfile.cpp"

So I don't find that unreasonable tbh.

If I can use NativeAOT/Dotnet Native Exports on .NET/GraalVM on the JVM to do this, as well as export a static/dynamic lib with a C ABI that I can use on whatever OS from C/C++/Rust code or whatever, I really don't know what else you need to call something "native" tbh.
"He was the military leader, most probably of the fort," Agelarakis said. "Therefore, he was decapitated ... by the Ottomans when they took over the fort."

They just... make this up.
Some of it is whataboutism, sure. A direct line can be drawn to bank bailouts, airline bailouts, no bid government contracts, military spending and UBI. Our government has decided to supplement the income of some and not others and expected something in return. UBI can be viewed in the same light. You can deduct that much from social security, welfare and government college programs. Those are easy ones, right there. Now it gets more difficult, but that's no small amount - and I'm only talking about the proposed 12K per year UBI. You seem to be under the assumption that people are just going to kick back and retire in Cabo on this, for some reason. You can cut some treatment subsidy programs, because at that point, if a junkie wants to get clean that's where that money should go. Prisoner's payouts get cut, and in America that's not a small amount.

This is a 5 minute budget analysis and not even a real thought process, but people get so emotional about these things that all rational thought goes by the wayside of any benefits that might occur. People might not have so much worry about job insecurity of being one bill away from homelessness. Higher education would be more attainable for so many people. A single income family might be able to take care of a child while one of the parents focused on educating and helping the child become a decent member of society.

If you don't want to help fix the present and the future then you shouldn't complain about it. If you're fine with the direction everything is going, then that's great.
So if I’m understanding you correctly, you want to strip mine the valuable parts of Facebook’s business with government force?

Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not backing you on this. That’s neither a just nor good use of government power.

> This needs explanation.

An information platform as a utility citizens are assumed or expected to have under the thumb of bureaucrats is a valuable propaganda tool in the hands of any government.
Just because someone doesn't agree with your priorities doesn't mean you have to pay any attention to what they think.

Like you prioritize not hearing activists talk about their priorities, and they don't care about your priorities and thus talk about theirs.

Is griping about this going to change anything? Of course not.
> I wish we would stop framing such articles like "Le gasp! These primitive, uneducated people actually had impressive medical techniques!"

nothing in the article suggests this, and nobody who knows who the byzantines were think they were primitive uneducated people; in fact, the piece makes reference to medical techniques that were passed down in writing for centuries. the entire tone of this comment is seriously bizarre
> While Musk selflessly tried to resist the actions of the government

What an unbiased clear-eyed look at the situation
But individuals aren't high growth businesses with lobbyists
I don't disagree - I can't imagine Ireland signed onto this without getting a serious benefit from it... and I think that ideally we should be looking at solutions that don't require any individual country to be altruistic - but still, I'm happy the change has happened.