skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's immoral is copyright law, which in practise (if not in theory) is largely a way to allow big corporations to rent-seek.

The internet was developed under the radar of a lot of powerful institutions -- both corporations and governments -- and gave unprecedented power and control to individuals.

The whole history of how the internet has developed from 2000 onwards is the powerful institutions attempting (mostly successfully) to castrate the internet and make it a place that doesn't threaten their power any more.

I want the old internet back, though I expect what I'm more likely to get is a jackboot stamping on a human face forever.
Is “antiwork” real or a manufactured narrative?
The easiest to way end advertising is to spend more and stop running a frail economy.

When aggregate demand is weak, people spend lots of money to try to redirect that demand towards them, when demand is strong people are too busy fulfilling orders to waste money on demand.

Crank up the fiscal policy and reduce working hours, and banning ads will be a lot more politically feasible than it is today.
Do you mean that it holds references to all versions of the memo’s dependency array AND all versions of the memo return value, or just that it holds the last version?
There are always always enough people who are willing to do anything dark/illegal with a 500k+ salary, let alone gray
People are overrated. Enjoy yourself,it's all there.
Fascinating. This kind of reminds me of people's romanticized views of the past. And it supports my theory that "returning" to a past that never was is possible and maybe even desirable.
Small government isn’t immune from corruption. City level has some of the worst corruption.
I found it well organized and very informative. I watch this area, and he brought up a number of things I had not heard of before.
If it's in violation of your contract they can reject your resignation, but most people are At Will employees which means either side can terminate employment.
For the same job, there is no gap from my experience (and increasingly women are better paid).

But the issue is, there are all sorts of underlying gaps, including doing different jobs as alluded to in the article.
Why is that the best part? Isn’t that 100% the fault of WhatsApp and has more or less nothing at all to do with google?
They basically invented a new programming paradigm. You’re not familiar with it so it doesn’t make sense. But it actually more closely matches what’s really going on, so it’s more straightforward to someone familiar with how React works. The class-based API did not closely match how React actually works and so led to various common bugs which don’t occur anymore with the hooks API. You do have to learn the paradigm, but having done that you understand a lot more what you’re doing. This would probably be clearer if it were just a new programming language instead of being shoehorned into Javascript—then it wouldn’t seem so weird to be learning a new paradigm.
Yeah, but they need someone to bring them up.

So if you agree that ass wipers need to be compensated, you will surely agree that the producers of ass wipers need to be compensated?

But sure, as I outlined above, if you vow to never use a service/invention/technology/etc from anyone younger than you are, by all means, then you are indeed not a freeloader. How’s that working out so far (unless you’re 20)?

Everything is else is you freeloading and relying on someone else to do the work for you.
But Google could also have licensed search technology to other companies interested in making the top-to-bottom ecosystem play. I mean, they even tried that, they were just trying to do it in a market that wasn't ready to take search seriously.

Anyway, I'm not saying it's what they should have done. What they have done has obviously been wildly successful. But they could have done this and still given hundreds of people full-career employment and generational wealth.
>simply ask some of the other people "what are you doing tonight?" after the class

Yes, and 1) in this context the stakes are lower, it's not some big planned event or party. And 2) You're not trying to meet people or start from 0 at a party amongst strangers; these are people you already know you're just out having a good time.
I’ve often wondered the exact opposite. Could thrust turbines evolve naturally?
> And so... Firefox should cater to your use case and drop support for others'? Is that really what you're arguing?

I can ask you the opposite question... I do mostly think it's sad that they're dropping FTP support, but if it's expensive for them to maintain it for the little percentage of users (I'm guessing, maybe this is an incorrect approximation) who use it...

Btw I'm just telling you my experience, please don't be rude, it's hard to find allies that way.
Email is already designed to be decentralized. You can have a very large number of mail servers in any number of clouds behind multiple MX records, Anycast IP's, Load balancers, etc... The scale of distribution required to defend against these attacks is possible, but prohibitively expensive. Some VPS providers do support Anycast so in theory you could dynamically spin up tens of thousands of inbound MX nodes that would at least spool the emails. Anycast will allow you to have any number of MX servers appear as one IP address. Those nodes in turn then need to relay that to your centralized servers. This brings up more scalability issues as you could essentially DDoS yourself in this pattern. There may not be enough clouds to support this idea and the cost would give just about any CTO sticker shock or medical issues.

If you mean distributing the destination servers that people access that is basically the same pattern. One could in theory spin up cloud instances of the email httpd/smtpd servers but there are still diminishing returns. This also requires the clients to know how to route to the right clusters of servers. Not easy, but doable. Ultimately this is the same problem people run into with web servers hosted on AWS. You can spin up more instances but there are still network link bottlenecks going into each region. AWS and the like have partnerships with scrubbing centers. This model breaks down if the attacker is willing to spend more than $500. Most massive scale attacks cost less than $200 on the dark web. If the extortionists believe they can get more than say $1k, then they might be willing to spend enough to even take down some scrubbing centers. It can cost hundreds of millions to defend against a $200 attack.

The current email RFC's would not support something like crypto/blockchain. At that point you are basically inventing a new standard and adoption may take a very long time unless there is a compelling business advantage to it in my opinion.
Any lisp will give you macros like you describe. If say lisp macros are more powerful and simpler too.
I've definitely been hesitant to buy a Tesla for exactly this reason. It's not clear if you can turn it off or avoid it by not using FSD either. It's a shame, would love to own one some day. But I'm guessing the option of buying a car that doesn't have this is slowly dying unfortunately. Consumers never win with this sort of stuff. The really ironic thing is that it is tied in with a more environmentally friendly car. Want to avoid being spied on? Then you need to use dirty fossil fuels.
You're seeing this in the podcast space, where content is normally distributed via RSS. You have big players like Spotify buying up podcast productions and making them exclusive behind their app. Luckily, right now open RSS distribution is still the norm for the overwhelming majority of podcasts, but who knows how long that'll last.

That quote is absolutely right with the MO of a lot of tech companies these days. They don't actually innovate on tech itself---that's too risky and expensive. Instead, they innovate on business models to make themselves toll operators on everyday life.
...even when paid handsomely.
Thanks for the mind-dump ;-) I appreciate answers that think on their feet!

I think the only thing I can ask you to consider is that, despite how bad fossil fuel use is, and despite how bad we've fucked up the environment using it, no-one can claim it wasn't actually useful (wasteful, short-sighted, wrong, polluting, possibly apocalyptic, whatever, but still physically useful).

Advertising isn't useful. It could be considered a perfectly renewable resource! It'll be viable as long as humans are around! Yay!, but it's not useful. It's actually actively harmful. The primary, secondary and residual effects of advertising could be summed and tallied and they would be shown to be a net negative. Those who are on the positive side of the calculation will have you look at their gains and swoon, but the negatives far outweigh the positives.

It's a fundamentally different question to dealing with global warming because global warming has externalities that we can't immediately control. Advertising has externalities that, given the chance, we could nullify within a generation, if not faster.
He hasn’t seen it since
Oh yes, CSV! Sure! Separated with commas or semicolons? With quotes or without? What decimal separator?

No thanks.

Use Protobufs, Parquet, Avro, etc.
Maybe because you refuse to use wires and instead use WiFi which can have really bad latency? If you really, really, really want to use WiFi, get a dedicated PCIe/external WiFi optimized for latency and you can get close to Ethernet latency.
I think you're over-inflating the value of people fetching specs back and forth between a pool of customers and design / engineering.

If you're a software or hardware company, ultimately the people who design and build the software / hardware have to design and build the thing, everything else is ancillary to those tasks.
How large is your uni? Theres bound to be social groups catered to your interests.
> I know you will do the right thing

Probably won't age well.
The thing I noticed most is that in Denmark, Danish sites follow both the letter and thespirit of GDPR. I was looking at trying to pay my electricity bill the other night and got told that because my version of FF sent the Do Not Track header, they'd automatically "objected" to all cookies and branding beyond necessary ones and I didn't need to do anything else. Those big banners have a simple "yes to only necessary" or "yes to all" button at the bottom.

American sites on the other hand tell me either "tough, take our spyware if you want to see this site, or to to a restricted list of five pages" (which I'm pretty sure isn't legal under GDPR); throw up the gauntlet of 1000 tick-boxes, infinitely nested, or say "you're from the EU and we can't serve you page".

The problem is cultural. I've de-googled myself as much as possible, but I don't like the fact that all of my real mobile device choices are written in California and made in china.
Oh no, God forbid anyone would profit from faster software!
Simple example (“hello world”) of Linux kernel module with V lang
Not really. I mean a study that's not from a company that sells ads or is in the chain somewhere! Any studies (I use the term very broadly) that I've seen are all net positive!

I want something from, say, The German Institute of Being Really Honest, who are government-funded perhaps... a few studies from entities who don't have a dog in the fight is all I'm after.

If their conclusion is that people are happier with ads then so be it... I'm happy without them, that's for sure.
I work on a project intended to help people produce full text feeds from partial ones. It's essentially a web service that produces a new feed URL and handles article extraction when the feed gets requested by your feed reader: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/
That was the point. The US and UK are being called out by the EU while their own member state (Ireland) is doing the same thing.
Education is a completely different animal. You’re not comparing apples to oranges here, you’re comparing leptons to gorillas.

I’m good friends with one of the high school teachers at “an elite private school in the Bay” (HRS) and it’s fun comparing and contrasting our jobs, but they are not at all the same job.
Unexplained Wealth Order.
If you don't want to tell where your assets are from, the government can keep them.
> I'm busy a lot of the time so don't think about this.

The statement above reminded me of my situation when I was always busy with my coursework and couldn't find time for other activities. If that's your case, I will give three advices:

1) Work in groups:
* Context: One thing that I learnt the hard way was people make friends by working with them together on assignments and discussing things. During my undergrad, working in groups felt like cheating to me: If I couldn't come up with a derivation or proof completely on my own => I don't understand it fully. How wrong was I in retrospect.
* Advantages:
(a) Learning is much faster (your friends understand what you know and what you don't, internet
does not. When they explain something, they use this knowledge to specifically explain what you need)
(b) You are much more likely to succeed (it's very unlikely that all of your group members feel lazy or unmotivated at the same time)
* How to find groups: CS Projects usually require you to work in groups. Even if it's not, just call someone and say that you want to discuss this thing with them.

2) Don't spend too much time on courseworks:
* Context: If you are in a good institute, your professors are probably very excited to teach and their course material is very rigorous. If you holistically try to understand everything in deep, I think it's just too much to learn in one semester.
* Choose wisely: Decide in advance for what courses you want to understand everything and what courses you just want to pass. Passing a course (with a good grade) does not require understanding everything in deep, be smart about what to study.

3) Have some hobbies: Other answers have already touched upon this point.
The rich have disproportionate control of government?
We should be able to get 80% of the results for 10% of the price, using current technology, even if we skip the last twenty years of parents.
Here are two representative arguments that I got sick of hearing and pushed me into the negative Kelvin:

1. Green energy requires too few employees per gigawatt compared to coal
2. It would be irresponsible to pursue a policy of a sharp correction toward affordable housing prices because it would push too many elderly into poverty
I use twitter as my RSS because it allows chronological sorting. It's great, no noise, only what i want, i can like stuff i want to keep. Pity that everyone has abandoned RSS but OTOH RSS did not evolve to keep up with the social media craze. Liking / or some way to register reactions should be part of the spec.
I think this is good advice but it’s worth mentioning:

1. This kind of thing doesn’t come naturally for a lot of people (myself included)

2. It doesn’t always work even if you do it well. Perhaps the other people are also quite shy.

So the important thing is practice, and to kind of brace yourself going in: “If it doesn’t click with these specific people, I don’t care. This is a practice run and I’ll practice again until it works.”

I’ve found that, paradoxically, one of the things that makes relationships hard is wanting them. When you really desire a friendship or other relationship with someone new, you tend to come off as over-eager or awkward, and that’s off-putting for the other person. Conversely when you can be casual and unconcerned, it makes you seem confident and happy, which other people are drawn to.

So there really is a “fake it till you make it” thing going on, which is quite hard to learn IMO, but can be learned with practice.
The engineer you describe sounds like an ex-engineer. That engineer sounds a manager.
Oh I’d be happy to speak that out openly. And it’s easy to test: what are you doing that is so essential that it will ensure that there are still humans in 100 years, and how many hours do you put into this?
Didn't contact his Congress rep, presumably?
I actually do enjoy ads. Especially relevant and targeted ones. I enjoy finding out about new and interesting products related to my hobbies (music production).
I wish these people would go back to collecting those useless developer certificates. At least they didn't pollute search results with their low-effort blogspam back then.
Yea, nobody is talking about knowing each trivial particular state, but general principles and processes and to on...
Knowledge doesn't imply that you need to replicate the object of knowledge to the same level of detail.
I wish I could help, but I was in a similar situation and had a lonely 4 years in undergrad. I was spread thin between classes and my student job, which would make me tense and anxious, and I probably projected that vibe socially.

Grad school fortunately gave me a second shot at having a good social life and I was able to take it.
The biggest issue with RSS in my eyes is that it tries to replace the Web instead of just being a better way of viewing the Web. The info RSS provides should be extracted out of the HTML itself by your Web browser, not a separate document provided by the content creator. It should be like a cross between Bookmarks and ReaderView on steroids. Leaving it up to the content creator just makes adoption much harder than it needs to be and is a large part of the reason why the semantic web never really went anywhere.

But as long as browser manufacturers don't really care, I don't see much chance of anything changing. Bookmarks haven't changed one bit in 25 years, despite offering so much potential for improvement. And it's not just Google's fault either, even Firefox removed that little bit of RSS integration that they had some years ago, when they really should have done the opposite and made it more useful and flexible.
Europe continues to slowly make itself a no-man's land for tech. How long until the great firewall of the EU?
Fast JSON parsers are all fine and good, but take such benchmarks with a grain of salt. JSON, like any format, is useless unless you do something meaningful with it - populate a database, verify the result, or transform it in some useful way for the task at hand. Many of these faster JSON DOM-style parsing libraries store key/value pairs in lists or arrays because it's the most efficient way to do so. But they aren't great at lookup speed. If the JSON parse library is event based, i.e. SAX-style, you have to store it somewhere, and this takes CPU as well.
This is one of those nonsense fact checks that they roll out when something is true but people who love government interventionism wish wasn't. Their conclusions don't make any sense.

They have two points:
The contractor ban is currently under injunction in court so why would that affect anyone's behavior. Well, but people do change their behavior when something becomes a legal grey area. And being an owner-operator in CA is not clearly legal anymore, so why risk it? If you're a company that wants to do shipping in CA, does your plan include using owner-operators now? It takes a high level of asinine pollyanna-ism to not be able to think for one second why this might have a substantial effect on shippers.

The second point, that the "truck ban" is not at fault is also total nonsense. First they say "oh the law has been in effect since 2008" well according to their own link, [1]
it is loaded with ramp-ups in the emmissions requirements. As time passes the requirements increase. As of now nearly all of the most stringent requirements are in place.

So besides citing the law which doesnt make much of a case for their argument, they then quote a partisan who loves the law to say there's no evidence that this law is affecting anything.

And then they take this pile of nonsense to claim it is mostly false, ending with this non-sequitur:
"The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread layoffs and factory closures that haven’t yet bounced back to meet the surging consumer demand. "

The ports are full of fucking containers you fucking nitwits! Full of containers filled by workers working at factories! How could this have any bearing on the port issue?

Politifact is a total joke. They're clearly being paid to give cover to whatever their paymasters want.

[1] https://www.buswestpreowned.com/carb-truck-bus-rule#:~:text=....
The one-word answer to “why this keeps happening?” would be “advertising”. RSS makes it much harder to control ad inventory. Obviously the bigger problem here is how content creators/publishers are paid for their work.

Both Google and FB are often blamed for the current state of things, but the ways in which they impact open standards such as RSS differs.
> This boils down to "rules for thee but not for me"

I don't believe that. Taking the building site example, I'd rather work on one that's got a bunch of site posters up and does all the right safety stuff than one ran by a bunch of cowboys with no regard for my safety...

> Nowadays, it seems that common people are mostly convinced by the rich to vote against their own interest.

Perhaps, but the rich have control over the propaganda machines like social media and MSM so it's no wonder people are convinced that they're doing the right thing.
These posts are being repeatedly flagged/removed for some reason. The post mentioning that NIH scrubbed the gain-of-function definition from their website was also flagged and removed.

https://twitter.com/JeremyRedfernFL/status/14515656006738288...
https://web.archive.org/web/20211019065407/https://www.nih.g...
Also keep in mind the limited supply/uses of Gallium at the moment, it tends to be a biproduct from other mining activities. If suddenly there were a large and scaled demand for this material, then I am quite sure we would see a huge spike in price in the near/medium term, and future price would depend on the new demand, and capabilities to get sufficient supply. $250/kg is pretty cheap at the moment;
My friendships in college came from asking fellow classmates to have study groups with me, and from asking classmates who I'd do group projects on to hang out after class. Easier if you're 21 and can drink so you can pose it like "let's celebrate completing our project by getting beers" but can also just be like "lets get pizza/wings/burgers to celebrate" or whatever.
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For a non paywall summary with many of the manipulated western blots and other images:

https://forbetterscience.com/2021/06/15/how-to-cure-all-dise...
Same boat.. What worked for me was.'walking dogs' on a Saturday morning at the local animal shelter. Made lots of good friends there.
It is a little ironic that the first link in DDG is a medium article but oh well.

https://medium.com/@everywheretrip/an-introduction-to-podcas...

This is, indeed, fascinating. It's cool that they have a micro-payment idea with Bitcoin lighting network.
Why would you compare what an outsider knows about a company to what an insider knows about it?
The phrase "touch some grass" makes me want to grab someone by the head and squeeze till it pops. I understand the context, it sounds so stupid.
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Lol. I did and it was one of the best things I ever did. But I did it after university. Rode all over north america on it, me and my tent Ƈ:)
Realistically I don’t see this can be applied in Xi’s lifetime at scale to the vast poor rural area and population - if it did it means China would be entirely modernized.