skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s important to understand the difference between product/engineering skepticism (eg, it will be hard for a new entrant to build a great smartphone; it will be hard to break into the taxi industry with an app) and fundamental scientific skepticism based on a claim of some major scientific breakthrough. These are vastly different things, and (in my understanding) experts correctly realized that Theranos would have needed the latter for their product claims to be true. This is what the investors failed to internalize.

I know it’s popular (and sometimes true) to blame scientists for failing to adopt new ideas, but I don’t think you get to play that card in a situation where the alleged ideas are being kept secret. And yet many do play that card.
As a scientist if someone arrives with a product that implies a massive (but unpublished) scientific breakthrough, then I’m going to express polite skepticism until they publish their results. If for whatever business reason, the startup wants to keep their breakthrough secret (rather than publishing and patenting it), well that rings alarm
bells — but even then surely the investors can hire outside experts to review the science under NDA. If the startup refuses even that, then I think you need to accept that the most likely possibility is fraud rather than someone figuring out how to bypass the laws of thermodynamics or whatever.
I don’t really understand the whole trans thing and why it’s suddenly become the job of the whole world to reinforce someone’s self conception. Lots of people have body dysmorphia and think they are morbidly obese. Some will even go so far as to buy XL clothing and larger toilets because they think they need them. But they aren’t obese, and nobody is expected to treat them like that.

For the sake of one group, we’re expected to accept an ideology and we’re now supposed to use language to fit within the boundaries of this ideology. Anyone who expresses skepticism can expect to be fired, harassed or simply brow beaten into lip service on the premise that being skeptical is hateful and bigoted. This isn’t how you gain acceptance, it’s merely compliance. It creates a culture of lip service, resentment and subversion.

I don’t hate the trans crowd. I simply think the notion of gender is baseless and the tactics many of their activists use are misguided and obnoxious.
Agreed, I'd prefer a GitHub issue over an advertisement. The HN user who posted this works for the company that wrote this post, and that person's title is "VP Marketing & Business Development".

The issue contains a comment where they're also advertising their service, so I think that using the GitHub issue would be better, and would be a good compromise for them since they'll still have their ad.
Probably a German word for this. I agree, it's weird and new. It seems a combination of:

1) projection (I am actually doing the thing I am accusing you of)

2) Kafka Trapping (your denial of this accusation is evidence in and of itself that you are guilty of this accusation)

3) ritualistic enjoyment (just plain old schadenfreude?)
Every profession has abusive people; it's a structural issue when a profession can't or won't weed them out.
Magit is absolutely fantastic and it reduces friction, discoverability and joy. rebasing is easy. commiting is easy. staging is easy. discovering is easy. everything is easy. it's incredibly powerful and also incredibly easy to use. it's simply the best software i've seen written in a long time.

sounds like hyperbole but it's not.

edit: magit is like if you spent months crafting a bunch of aliases for the command line and then made a nice little menu of all of them and committed that to memory but also has it as a popup. and even then magit is an order of magnitude better... handily so.
There will exist 500 year old torrents
At the bottom of the OP link is the price for a 4x8' sheet of bamboo plywood. It's listed for 295 euroos or $342USD. I'm not sure there is a 'regular' wood sheet that is even close to that cost. It's truly a specialized product and unless there are more economical bamboo sheet goods, no one would ever build with this.
Not what I expected, a gaming PC and some MacBooks in a clean appartment and a live-in girlfriend.

I would have expected a sweet homelab with lots nd lots of hardware to try the ransomware on, in a more "bachelor" environment.
Love this question! Books are obviously gret. The Bitcoin blockchain looks promising as well. This is a great problem, looking forward to reading the comments. There must be some projects which tries to solve this.
> The free market and worker cooperatives are completely compatible.

I agree.

But there is something that needs to change in order for worker cooperatives become the dominant business form. So long as capital can demand ownership, worker cooperatives will remain a relative niche. What needs to change in markets is we need to remove the ability for capital to demand ownership. That's essentially the core of my proposal for a new system.

Replace the LLC and Stock Corporation with the worker cooperative. Remove the investor stock owner relationship from the economy. Legally mandate that all businesses be formed as worker owned cooperatives. And then regulate the amount of interest that banks and financiers can charge on their loans to limit their power over those worker cooperatives.

What you get is a free market economy where all businesses are democratically run by their workers and the relationship between capital and labor is flipped. It would vastly increase equality, with out increasing destitution. And would likely have some small decrease on environmental degradation.

In some ways it's a very gentle refactor of our existing economy. In other ways, it's far reaching and drastic (stock markets go away entirely and traditional banks become a primary mechanism of savings).
Maybe he could push it to the better, who knows.
"A l'exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Mallet_du_Pan
Thank you. These are my concerns as well. I have the additional background of having worked for a union, which I would never consider again.
Holy crap that’s amazing! How complex is your model? And are there lots of parallelizable parts like filters or is it recurrent?
I've been there every year since 2012, never caught a single bug... You just got unlucky I guess
Your question is the wrong one. The employer is at the other side of the table, union or not.

The right question is - would my colleagues do a better job negotiating my compensation than I would?
Breaking Britain
You know, you sound like you are one of those people you describe yourself? Is that how you came to this realization?

Ask yourself, what is the goal with your current comment? And how does being snide achieve that goal? If the goal is to make fun of people and feel good about yourself, then you are doing a good job! And then you should understand how those people you describe feel, because they feel exactly as you feel now, wasting time making fun of things you have no intention or care to change or spread.

But if you want people to listen then you really need to get better at tempering what you say.
You'd be impressed how good some people are at stealing items off you in plain sight. There was a dude on a DEFCON talk I believe who could steal the watch right off of people's wrists and most people only noticed like a minute later - and they were paying attention. A skilled pickpocket could steal a card and be able to withdraw cash up to your limit at a back alley ATM compared.

Theft is easy to conceal and deny, robbery (esp. armed robbery) is the exact opposite. As for skimmers, do any ATMs these days even accept magstripe? EMV cards are extremely difficult to clone so skimmers seem a bit useless.
I definitely submitted the URL with the hash-mark and fragment[0], so HN must strip it off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment
The second link is useless: 'interesting accounts' with no information on what they post, or what makes them interesting.

But the first is very nice, and that's kinda what I was looking for, thanks!!!
One of the good outcomes is that, even after events go back to being in person, there's going to be a more significnt online component than in the past. FOSDEM has been very good about this for a while. But more commercially-oriented events in particular worried that having everything on video would take away the incentive for people to pay and attend in-person--or that the videos by themselves just weren't worth the cost of making them.

Companies have seen though that they can get a lot more reach through video even if attendees are far less involved overall. I do think we'll see the presentations mostly being done in-person though. It's still more hybrid in that regard right now but in-person attendees are mostly not going to watch videos.
> We need to not leave it up to the Kalanicks of the world to change the social order, reinventing taxis for fun and profit.

Why? Uber materially improved my access to taxis. Why does everyone diss on uber's business model (I understand the company itself is a bit meh), but the idea of hailing cab drivers with an app, and then encouraging people to drive (i.e., ridesharing) is a great one.

Ultimately, I'd rather leave it up to individuals to improve their and their community's conditions, then a bureaucrat.

> It's more than a change in legal and ethical norms. We need to not fire people who speak their minds for the social good against the company, then further marginalize the already marginalized community they're speaking up for.

Okay, so I assume you are against the firings of religious employees, standing up for their beliefs? How do you reconcile when a religious employee speaks out against spreading of gender dysphoria as social contagion on facebook, and then a trans employee speaks out against him?

Or is your economic system mainly meant to impose your beliefs on everyone else?
Reverse engineering 1,600 electrical bikes from Uber’s fail in Mexico
What about bamboo clothing?
> religion is older than language and has a basis in biology

This is the giant gaping hole in the ideas of enlightenment atheists like Sam Harris that think that we can just dispense with religion already. Religion will have us, via that label or otherwise; if you think we can elucidate our way out of the need to communicate and share our most base values you are simply mistaken. Religion is simply the name we use for the foundation of the basic human values, rejecting it wholesale because "religion" is a bad word to you after you've seen the sins of our ancestors is shortsighted and opens you up to attacks from a religious perspective.

It's true that religion has stagnated, but that means we need to evolve religion into its next phase, pretending that what we're reinventing is not religion does nobody any favors.
I sometimes wonder how many cooking techniques exist specifically to "upgrade" lower quality ingredients. Slow cooking, spices ... it's likely not a huge list, but I suspect it forms a notable part of the world's cooking cultures.
I think there's a difference there. If I claim someone is a creationist, you can be pretty confident that I'm trying to tell you that person is a Christian and believes the world was created by god.

If I claim that someone is an "antivaxer", what can you confidently say I'm trying to convey to you?

This person is not vaccinated for covid? This person has never been vaccinated for the flu? This person has never been vaccinated for rabies, measles, various flavors of hepatitis, etc? This person tries to stop others from getting any or all of those? Maybe they think children shouldn't get any or some of these? This person is against mandates?

Someone could have every vaccine ever made but be against vaccine mandates, and some would consider them an "antivaxer".

I've said it before: the term is sloppy and it leads to sloppy thinking and sloppy discourse. The only reliable signal it sends is "I think they're one of the irredeemable bad guys and you should too".
Store it on the Bitcoin blockchain in the OP_RETURN field [1][2]. Note that this is considered an abuse of the system and discouraged, but of all the systems available now, Bitcoin is most likely to still be around in some form in 500 years IMO.

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/39347/how-to-sto...

[2] http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photo...
Very cool!

One feels like I'm sitting in an orchestra pit or at a concert, the other sounds like an intimate private studio
Each individual chat room is backed by a Durable Object, which is located in one location at a time, and strongly consistent. If the users of the chat room are all in one region, the chat room object can be expected to be located there. If users of a particular room are distributed around the world, Cloudflare will have to do its best to choose a location for the object "somewhere in the middle" -- but that's still better than just putting everything in us-east-1 or whatever.
That looks nice! Yeah these things are so integral to development it would be nice if they were just core features of VSCode.
The title should start with "In the US".
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I'm just waiting for a lightweight pair of AR glasses that I can wear while wrenching on a hobby car that give overlays, labels, disassembly instructions akin to car mechanic simulator.

If they can automagically tell me what size wrench/socket i need to grab, even better.
I would add to this that you should think about donating to them, seeing that you have overlapping goals. They are a registered 501(c)(3).
1. I have stated non-strictly factual observations.

2. I am being called out to prove them.

3. I cannot and I state this.

4. I get mocked for it.

I get it, you are here to "win" but I'll keep calling things like they are. You keep patting yourself on the back, I don't mind.
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Absolutely. This is an angle I didn't even mention in my post, because it had already gotten wrong. Generalized statements like 'everyone knows is wrong' are a dogwhistle for 'whatever I think is wrong'.
Exactly what you said. The issue is that it influenced everything that came after. So it doesn't sound novel now.
I did attempt to access the site which had thus become known to me through my travels. Alas, ...
>I think almost everything you say about Japan is wrong.

Tiny part of my comment, no offense or anything. Certainly hoping to learn where I am wrong.

>"99.9% of people accused of a crime ..." -- this is a reference to the fact that the Japanese criminal system's conviction rate is a startlingly high 99.9%

To be fair, it's hard to compare to English law systems. Perhaps it's totally fine, but when you connect the forced labour. I have questions that are unanswered.

>so their 99.9% figure isn't comparable to (say) the US's 93% (that's a figure from 2012; I couldn't readily find anything more recent).

Conviction rate in Canada is ~63%, even lower if you exclude plea deals. We could go into discussion about how for-profit prison system in the USA or illegitimate crimes being enforced. I'm pretty sure 93% is way too high and it's around ~70%.

>"... are forced to work in a gulag" -- so the claim here is that literally every person convicted of a crime in Japan then does forced labour. This is not true, for the simple reason that the great majority of people convicted of crimes in Japan (just like everywhere else) don't go to prison. Only about 15% do.

I think maybe we are comparing apples to oranges here.

>(It is true that most prison sentences in Japan are imprisonment-with-labour. I'm not sure whether it's all of them; I've seen explicit claims that it is and explicit claims that it isn't. I shall not try to adjudicate whether "in a gulag" is a reasonable description of the life of those prisoners. Incidentally, they are mostly paid for the work they do in prison.)

I will concede this. "In a gulag" was improper. The japanese prisons are not political prisoners like communism. As you say, most prison sentences are forced labour. There's the problem I have with Japan.

>The Japanese debt-to-annual-GDP ratio hovered around 50% or so until about 1993 and then started rising rapidly, reaching its present level (the figure I've seen is 225%, not 266%, but in any case it's rather high) around 2012

266.20% in 2020. Covid made it jump almost 30%

>But they had a policy of prison labour before their debt was large; e.g., here's http://www.jca.apc.org/cpr/kaido.html someone complaining about it in 1997 (debt-to-annual-GDP ratio about 70%) using prison labour figures from 1994 (debt-to-annual-GDP ratio about 60%).

Fair, I was saying that the only reason Japan hasnt collapsed to about 30% poverty like Greece is because of the forced labour.

>About 50k people are in prison in Japan. The population of Japan is about 125M. That 0.04% of the population would have to be incredibly productive for their labour to be "the only thing holding Japan together".

Japan is suspiciously low. Kind of impossibly low. Which in the context of the allegation that people are slaves. In a country with many yakuza orgs, sex trafficing, and some pretty strict rules around many other things(porn for example) it seems to me these numbers are impossible.

One day we will find out what the real numbers are. It also seems to me that clearance rates are impossible. Japan clears arson at >70%? The hell? impossible.
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"I think these kinds of homes are an excellent idea for the billion or two people living in suitable climate for it."

Yes, but people and bamboo have coexisted in these places for a long time, and majority of buildings aren't made of bamboo. So obviously other materials are cheaper/easier to work with otherwise I suspect they would have selected it as building material of choice.
Try different distro, e.g. Fedora. Fedora heavily uses "convention over configuration" principle, which helps to avoid issues with merging of configs, because each piece of config is stored in it own file in .d-directory.
I work for a university that is over 800 years old, with a library and press (book and journal publishing) that are about 500 years old. The institutions have changed a lot over the centuries, especially the last 200 years.

Probably the best way to get people to preserve your work that long is to make it really outstanding, so future generations will want to preserve it even though technology and institutional governance keep changing.
I don’t know the word for it, but virtually every conflict in history was predicated on the defense of something greater.
>AFAIK the steam deck is a handheld gaming device similar to a Nintendo Switch, not a desktop PC

It is essentially a fully fledged desktop PC in a handheld form factor [0]. It is identical architecturally to a desktop PC with integrated controller running Arch-based Steam OS 3.0.

>When I say machine with Arch I mean a desktop/laptop with just the stock Arch on it.

Which is fair, but not what I asked.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/steam-deck
put your page on a decentralized platform like Ethereum or IPFS and hope it gets maintained for 500 years. With Ethereum at least, there is a monetary incentive to keep the platform alive.
>I can copy it, plug it into my browser, and inspect with ease the shell script that will run

If the source is some shady site, it's possible to serve two different versions: one for curl/wget users and one for browsers.
If page is static - engrave it in a titanium plate, possibly as a QR code of sorts and pass it through generations.

Include instructions for reader to publish it to whatever media analog of today's web page.

So basically stay away from technology, get information encoded into lowest and most resilient physical material and rely on future generation to publish and/or update it's content.
Intel takes huge leaps, it’s how they kept 5e it lead for so long, but TSMC makes incremental progress and it’s paid off now that things are getting extremely difficult.
First off, he didn't describe himself that way; his lawyer did. That's pretty standard stuff in a sentencing memorandum. Secondly, have you read the entire 53 page memorandum? I recommend everyone do so before rushing to judgement.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6769891/269/united-stat...
> My proposal is essentially that we make this the requirement

So basically we are abolishing the ability for any business to hire employees? This would be terrible, especially for the poor. Owner and employee are different risk profiles, it's neither useful nor beneficial to impose by law that nobody can be an employee any longer, especially for those who can't afford the risk.

It's also very easy to route around that obstacle if it were made law: just fire everyone and hire them back as contractors, oh, no, sorry, democratically run worker cooperative employing one worker.

You are completely throwing away many layers of protections that are afforded to workers in a system of regulated employment relations.

> Like I said, this is a thought experiment.

It's a thought experiment predicated on paying an enormous social cost that nobody is willing to pay, to get to a point where nobody wants to be. If the first step of your plan directly implies getting rid of all credit, then I frankly don't think it's really a good plan.
This is tangential, but I really wish that their would be legislation, valid retroactively, to enable old unsupported devices to still be utilized. I think this goes somewhat beyond right to repair?

Take for example digital backs for medium format cameras - these things are built in low numbers, with high end FPGAs and camera sensors, with JTAG interfaces ready to go and everything - but then forgotten about a few years later. Why not enforce the creation of some document on how one would build their own OS for it? Or how the bus from the sensor ADCs works? This all existed at one point internally, but now is lost, and most of this backs will slowly die and go to waste, even though they could easily be repurposed or repaired.
Composing a text message on a touchscreen keyboard has its own cost. Not monetary, but still something to minimize.
Probably unpopular answer: you could store your messages to the future in the op_return field of a series of small bitcoin transactions. I wouldn't recommend making this the only egg in your basket but I think there is a non-zero probability the blockchain history will be preserved even if the currency isn't used any longer, kind of like how you can still go see Song dynasty paper currency from 1,000 years ago.
Yeah, lot of myths about the smoke ring - you can put on some prague powder #1 about 20 minutes before cooking in the oven and you can replicate the ring. It's not a sign of a well done cook in all aspects, though it does add to the visual appeal.

Another misconception is the people who aim for exact degrees when smoking (e.g. brisket) - 195 F, 202 F, etc. It's the total time spent above 160 (roughly where the stall is) that matters (if I remember correctly there's a peak around 170 F or 180 F that is maximum breakdown rate). A small brisket is going to get up to 202 quicker than a 15 lb brisket, and will wind up "drier" because the collagen did not break down as far. If the cook dialed their recipe in for total time for collagen to break down, the results might not be identical, but there would be a lot less variation.
if you like vim i'd suggest you install spacemacs and the git layer.