skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I normally would align with Snowden, but Worldcoin using ZK-proofs is an important discussion to have. It is going to take a while for the world to understand the benefits that zero knowledge proofs offer in terms of privacy, but they are starting to be found everywhere, and privacy advocates (of which I consider myself one) need to understand what they offer to the consumer in exchange for some real benefits that we cannot get through public policy, etc.
Court of Appeal of Brussels – 2019/AR/1006
Ah, well, in that case what you're getting out of older technology is "externally imposed self-control". Douglas Adams' publisher famously locked him in a hotel room because he was such a chronic procrastinator. I can definitely relate!
In places that have free healthcare like Canada the sin taxes actually start to make a lot more sense. Heavy smokers and alcoholics are likely to use more healthcare resources compared to somebody who doesn't engage in those activities. So in my mind it seems "fair" for those things to be taxed higher.

However I have seen these sin taxes applied to areas where this is not as true. For example in Canada marijuana is taxed quite heavily. But marijuana isn't something that causes much physical harm or physical dependence like alcohol. So it's odd that it is also so highly taxed. Especially edible versions of it that don't have the associated smoking risk.

But I think overall as a whole in societies like this it can make sense. In places like America though maybe sin taxes don't make as much sense. You're paying a lot for your habit but are you getting any extra benefit out of it? If you need extra healthcare that is going to be on your insurance on your pocket.

I would compare the sin taxes also to the carbon taxes we have implemented in Canada. You pay an extra tax at the gas station on your fuel. The idea is that those taxes paid are earmarked for climate change initiatives. Now is that tax money actually being spent appropriately? Who knows. But it does make sense in some sense to disincentivize destructive activities and use the taxes to offset the cost of those activities.
It’s already used in Deno
Vercel does come with a Supabase integration:
https://vercel.com/integrations/supabase

And from my limited understanding, Supabase is psql with extras.
Is it normal for the .got.plt section to be writable rather than read-only?
They're probably dependencies of dependencies. You depend on some very useful package and somewhere down the line it depends on something written to be platform agnostic in 2012 when lodash wasn't modular and JavaScript wasn't as mature. The ecoystem hasn't adopted a better approach because it would require every individual package developer to understand the problem, get on board, then update and test everything they've written.
It was distributed under AGPL3 to users interacting with it remotely through a computer network. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html#section13

It's not a matter of whether or not the developers meant to release it.
because cigarettes and alcohol are drugs.
How do you review a WebAssembly binary? Are builds reproducible? I just found this about Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/labels/A-reproducibility

It would be nice to be able to run them on multiple CIs and compare the SHAs.
Just more money for the avionics shops
I feel like many cryptocurrencies are attempting to achieve a metaphorical perpetual motion machine. The cryptocurrency world desperately needs its equivalent of the laws of thermodynamics / CAP theorem to help debunk dubious claims and prevent people from wasting efforts on futile endeavors.
I wonder how many systems out there couldn't cope with this requirement.

I see some hasty upgrades in the near future.
I haven’t used SWC extensively, but with ESBuild (written in Go) this has been a non-issue for me. I’ve experienced the pain of native bindings in other projects though, it largely depends on how resilient the native bindings are to different Node/V8 APIs across versions.
>from being disappointed due to erroneous calculations

It's also good to be explicit about the bits not calculated in the ROI.

Utility functions that only use monies as input is sooo 18th century.
Are suggesting that code review is a net negative or that having a visual interface for reviewing a patch set brings out worse in people than emailing around patchsets?

Code-bases, especially large ones “Must Be Attended To” and reviews should be impersonal. A good review is inherently inspection and critiquing code, not the author and can present many good learning opportunities for both sides of it.
> the free (home) license is quite restrictive for non “home” use

Sorry, but what are you expecting a home licence to be for?
In my opinion a society that allows people in need to have access to drugs like heroin is morally corrupt.
That is a fair assessment, and I would really, really like to see accurate data around that question.

Edit:

As a side note - the first person to make a billion dollars from educational data will figure out how to gather accurate, unbiased data from all schools/colleges for accurate comparison data. Not even interpret the data, just gather it.

Because right now, working in the belly of the higher ed beast for decades and decades, I can tell you that any data you see has been scrubbed and scrubbed and interpreted as to make it functionally useless to compare programs within institutions, let alone separate institutions.
Cloud gaming also achieves this, although in quite a different way
The problem is that we life under a system that demands endless growth on a finite plane.

It's pretty clear that the human population has grown beyond the ability of the planet to sustain a progression towards universal industrialization. Humans have nowhere else to live and we're eroding what underpins our ability to survive.

We more than tripled the human population in the last 100 years. In my own lifetime, the human population has grown by 42%. It's insanity to believe we can continue this without serious consequences.
Does anybody do this for other platforms? It would be rather convenient to have installable docs for stable-aarch64-apple-darwin.
How CEOs work 100 hour weeks without crumbling
Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production
Isn't this how it already works in the US?
I agree that it's going to get more predatory, manipulative, and frantic as they can't grow metrics any more.

The next step is going to be fractionalized attention. If I'm looking at my phone while you're playing an ad in the video I'm watching on my PC, then how much is my "attention" on the PC worth? About zero, because the ad doesn't actually have my attention. If I call up a web page, and it auto-plays five ad videos, how much is my view worth? Not much, because my attention is split five ways (six, if you count my attempts to stop all the auto-play videos so I can look at what I actually came to the page for). So they may grow the metrics by increasingly desperate measures, but they're going to cheapen what attention is worth by doing so.

On the other hand, actual, real, full, willing attention is valuable, and becoming more so. (Supply and demand, if nothing else - the demand for peoples' attention is increasing, the supply isn't.)

In fact (digression), it's so valuable that you should consider it as a Christmas present. Give your actual, full, willing, undivided attention to the people you care about. It's a rare and valuable gift.
The concept of ROI does not need to be restricted to money. Every time someone thinks “I will do this because it is worth it or worth my time”, whether it be talking to a neighbor or performing labor in exchange for money, you are making the calculation.
"(1) poor availability of Quake-style dropdown terminals on macOS and Windows"

This is a feature available in both iTerm [1] as well as Windows Terminal [2].

[1] https://blog.mestwin.net/drop-down-terminal-in-macos-with-it...
[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
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Uh, with the best possible insurance, in-network, I regularly wait 30+ days for NECESSARY procedures (cardiac stress tests, colonoscopies, etc…)
The police and military will always be poorly resourced for battles that are a cost centre instead of a revenue-generator/protector.

Unlike marijuana, these countries have an absolute advantage in that cocaine doesn’t grow like a weed anywhere you want. And it’s low yield, so greenhouses are poor competition.
Up here in southern Maine we had many insects, including pollinators all summer long. Still have a few bumblebees hanging around in the few remaining wildflowers.

A strange one was a parasitic wasp that would harvest inchworms and leave them in piles in my shed! Took a while to catch it in the act.
One thing I found interesting about Worldcoin is that they have a graph of predicted "future sign-up rate" extrapolated from their trials. They predict an exponential increase in sign-ups with >2B people signed up in 2 years.

Like other crypto projects, they misleading fit their data with the wrong curve. If you fit growth numbers with an S-curve instead of an exponential, you get results that are highly sensitive to noise in the initial data:

https://constancecrozier.com/2020/04/16/forecasting-s-curves...

This is why it will end up being the case that the actual number of users signed up for Worldcoin in 2 years was assigned a probability of ~0.00 by their growth model.
It’s interesting that we have found a way to reduce smoking through taxes but not the much larger problem of obesity.
I'm a little disappointed at the framing.

This is certainly not the first article to claim that the cerebellum is involved in reward: there was a series of PET studies c. 2000 that reported that the cerebellum encoded reward prediction error, and it's mentioned in the abstract of Wolfram Shultz's 2000 Annual Review, so it must have been fairly mainstream even back then.

Alas, a growing chunk of neuroscience ignores everything that's not mouse optogenetics...
>>The teachers were great and fun [...]

Isn't this sufficiently enough for pre-K childcare? If pre-K caregivers are able to make the program both fun and educational, I can't help but feel that this is extra gravy on top for a parent.

Perhaps part of the issue is that "educational" is interpreted differently by families. For example, before the age of 5 (when children enter the K-12 system) some children have difficulty holding a pencil, so having more time working with pencils, crayons and scissors (!!) to improve motor skills could fall under the "educational" category during pre-K.

>>We got negative feedback from the teachers and administrators about keeping our kids home when we could -- "they won't understand what's happening to the project they started on Wednesday if they don't come in on Friday".

If one of the proported benefits of a "warm, safe and stimulating" environment happens to be socialization and instilling a sense of group belonging, then this sort of feedback might make sense. Having said this, I can also emphasize when teachers may not necessarily deliver the message in the clearest manner to parents.
I'm not sure of the situation with ESP but in many embedded environments you HAVE TO use Windows for development.
Plenty of users criticize all those things without getting banned. You're banned for posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines, as well as for creating a long string of accounts to troll HN with. That's not cool.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. We're always happy to unban people when they sincerely want to use HN as intended, and we believe they'll actually do so. It's nothing personal—we're just trying to have an internet forum that stays interesting, doesn't burn itself to a crisp, and staves off the regression to internet mean for as a long as possible.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Most of the modern frontend hosting services also push for a backend as a service. Whether it be a DBaaS, like Fauna https://www.fauna.com, or Headless CMS, like Cosmic https://www.cosmicjs.com as it gives you the auto-scaling capabilities without the infrastructure time and headache (Disclaimer: I'm CEO at Cosmic)
That seems beside OP's point.

They are speaking of the potential bugs and security vulnerabilities all that code might/probably has, given track records.
In 1990, nobody had a cellphone. In 2000, everybody has one. This change alone has a massive influence on society.

For example, planning a trip together for, say, 30 people. It used to take weeks. Today, you can basically decide the day before to join or not.

The whole SMS thing, with minor messages delivered in seconds, changes peoples behaviour. Not being contactable in a few hours maximum is not normal today. It used to be. A small message to shop something on the way home did not exist.

The worldwide students against climate movement could not happen at that scale in the 1990's, the comm infra simply wasn' t there
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Nobody remembers phone numbers anymore.

Now that's cellphones. Add internet and GPS, and your society is massively different in a decade.
I would suggest render.com and fly.io if you’re looking for something that has a similar deployment experience to Vercel.
how dare they insist multi million dollar institutions compensate them for using their software en masse!?
It worries me that this is so Chrome focused. I only use Firefox. Will it work in Firefox? Are we moving back to "Works best on Netscape Navigator 4"?
Their marginal contribution is greater because they literally bring human civilization from where it is, to where it is not yet, and where there is more opportunity for growth by virtue of nobody else being there, and return what they produce there back to the urban economies.

A marginal chicken in a mass feeding factory is less valuable than a marginal chicken in a backyard. It's a question of numbers and impact. The life of a marginal person in a city is not as valuable or meaningful to their neighbours as a marginal person in the country, as there are more strong ties in rural areas, and more weak ones in urban ones. In this sense of marginal numbers, cities cheapen lives.

Maybe that's the point, where humans should switch our r/K selection strategy from high investment in K-selected lives to low investment r-selected lives, and try to exist and spread more like bugs than mammals, but that's not something I'd advocate.

If you want the necessary growth and evolution of a civilization for long term survival, you need to diversify it over geography.

The cut off for public services is the persons relationship to them. When you pull hydro lines into rural areas, you facilitate growth from each marginal person out there. When you supply power to a new suburb, you are facilitating marginal growth there at a lower rate. The public service dependency occurs when growth is a zero-sum competition for the attention of a provider (see Ivan Illich's radical monopoly and related ideas), instead of exogenously sourced growth in a rural setting, merely facilitated by public services.

The crux of the policy disagreement is in different axioms about the value of individual life (v. collective "good"), which I don't think we reconcile here, but we can see how our assessments of a policy are certainly artifacts of them.
It does not, but with React Server Components, you can achieve the same result.

https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/react-18
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
And US might be using them because Apple/Google are American companies and can just be sent a National Security Letter along with a gag order.
I would say that Robert M Pirsig made a pretty good case for objective morality with his Metaphysics of Quality. I had never agreed with the notion before (usually the arguments are religious in nature and require faith to accept) but it is the closest I've ever come to accepting objective morality as brute fact. At the very least it is compelling to indulge in and try out, can't say I've ever looked at things in quite the same way since I first finished Lila.
Spam Robocalls Aren’t Slowing Down. Here’s the Tech That Could Stop Them (2018)
The specific portion of this article I'd like to call out is this quote:

[S]ince mid-2015, a consortium of engineers from phone carriers and others in the telecom industry have worked on a way to [stop call-spoofing], worried that spam phone calls could eventually endanger the whole system. “We’re getting to the point where nobody trusts the phone network,” says Jim McEachern, principal technologist at the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS.) “When they stop trusting the phone network, they stop using it.”

In today's news, a lost hiker ignored search-and-rescue calls because they came from an unknown number.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/26/hiker-lost-o...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997392#28997534
My apologies for my writing style, I guess my years in SEO have had a strong effect!

I'm extremely grateful for the work Amit did for me, he did not compensate me or even request that I post this for him.

As the original blog post said, patent trolls are predators that rely on the fact that it costs companies over a million dollars to defend a case even if they win so that they can extort tens of thousands of dollars without much work.

We need to abolish the patent system altogether, as everyone on here knows ideas are worthless and execution is everything. The best way to protect real innovators is to prevent artificial monopolies rising up preventing them from competing in the market.
I'm guessing the argument is that it puts the burden on disproportionally poor people, whom the tobacco and alcohol lobbies specifically targeted with advertising, etc. Like the way menthol cigarettes were pushed to the black community. Maybe the idea is to have those industries bear some of the sin tax burden? The linked page is a 404 for me, so I'm guessing.
Perhaps consider a steel man instead of a straw one. Socialist institutions that cover natural monopolies save the state money simply by economies of scale. I'll grant not all industry could or should be nationalised but certainly healthcare in the US is a prime example of market failure.
They are now updated! Sorry for that. The NPM release took a bit longer than expected.
> I got lucky -- I had a great experience, I learned a lot of important non-academic things, I broke out of my shell

11 years of schooling before college, extracurriculars, friends and family weren’t enough for that? Huh, maybe something wrong is not only with colleges but with child upbringing as a whole if that’s true for many people.
Also when we realize things are bad, we stop.
It may have led to you getting a job, but putting aside that checkbox on your resume/CV, do you think it's worth it in a general sense?

When I'm hiring for tech roles, I personally couldn't care a jot about whether or not the candidate has a degree. If someone already knows how to code, do DevOps or whatever, what would a degree really add, apart from making sure candidates had gone through the same debt-gathering process that I had?

For background, I do have a Computing degree, but have often wondered what the real point was, and what the real point behind companies gatekeeping based on degrees is.
Facebook Had a Fix for Anti-Vax Content but Didn't Apply It
Actual paper: Wagner, M. J., Kim, T. H., Savall, J., Schnitzer, M. J., & Luo, L. (2017). Cerebellar granule cells encode the expectation of reward. Nature, 544(7648), 96-100.

Full text via PMC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28321129/
Of course there are more than 40 full time devs working on Firefox. A quick grep over the last few months of commits of the main gecko repository surfaces more than 200 committers with a mozilla.com email. Keep in mind that some employees don't use a corp address, and that I didn't look at other repositories like the Android specific components or any of the backend services (like sync and push servers). Also add people that work on UI/UX design etc.

Yes there are issues with resources and resource allocations at MoCo, but claiming there are only 40 devs on Firefox is way off.
> even if these items were taxed at the standard rate, these percentages wouldn't change

Back in school, we read studies that reached the opposite conclusion, suggesting that "sin" taxes are effective.
Because the allegations are for a period when the patent was not expired.
We are finding that Next.js + Nest.JS to be a really strong combo so far.
"...so you hold onto properties realistically valued at multiple millions while paying taxes at rate appropriate to tens of thousands."

Doesn't that make the tax percentage very low when prices have risen so much? And in addition the percentage varies from unit to unit, even if they are identical in all aspects (including their value) except when it was last sold. What a weird system.
"Sin Taxes" is such a loaded term. It's an incentive to change behavior - these work and we use them all over the place.

I can't see the article, I just get a 404.
People stopped smoking on planes and bars because of outright bans, not sin taxes.

What someone does in their own house should be up to them, and we shouldn’t attempt to use taxes to eliminate vice (but requiring taxes to cover the negative externalities from vice is fine, e.g. funding DUI checkpoints).
And 0.001% of households are billionaires and often pay no tax at all. Somehow, that doesn't seem fair to me.
though if that's correct, in that case, wouldn't the 'sin' tax have been political suicide if that was brought in first when there was even more smokers?
Interesting data and analysis to see (who hasn't wondered if there's a "best" time to post?) though I fail to see what that would have to do with any actual product. Sure, HN can give you a ton of views, but it is a pretty particular audience.
As colleges are run like businesses and most people expect some sort of financial benefit from attending them, we should see the ROI continue to decrease until it is close to neutral.
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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.

But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

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Yep, they're more like prepaid usage fees.