skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s few things more pathetic than a comedian whining about how audiences are too sensitive now. Your literal job is to read the audience and the culture you live in. If you can’t make audiences laugh anymore then you’re not “canceling” yourself, you’re retiring.
This isn't why you should use the blockchain, but I do see one concrete useful scenario for it: keeping track of things like shipments between companies that don't trust each other.

As goods move around, if you receive a damaged or bad item, you have an immutable, easily accessible paper trail of claims that people have made about the good.

It solves the oracle problem by sidestepping it: what is on the blockchain isn't truth, but verifiable claims various people have made about the truth. Easily accessible for lawyers in resulting lawsuits.

It is also something that's actually very hard to solve with a traditional database in a centralized manner, because then you have to trust whoever runs the database to not falsify records.

It also doesn't suffer from a lot of issues that public blockchains like cryptocurrencies face, like limited transaction volume or warming the earth for mining.

There might be other reasons why it wouldn't work out, but it seems like an actual useful tool there.
The older I get, the less I care what other people think.
> cause of many modern diseases as rise of diseases correlates with rise of seed oils not industrializations.

I think the rise of "modern diseases* really correlates with a certain nation getting really severely obese, and this is by far the most believable, and obvious explanation.
> I think he’s going to lose the $10,000 bet on the car though.

Are you referring to the wind powered propeller car bet or is there a new one?
Hand-wringing about political correctness has existed for many years now (with the "anti-correctness" people trouting out the same sort of stories that fall apart under any scrutiny, and major publications running the stories anyways).

Not exactly a tale as old as time, but it's at least a live thing in the early 90s.
> but I don't think I've heard people arguing that two states being on a common currency contributes to the impoverishment of Alabama.

It does, but it's compensated in large part by Alabama receiving massive transfer payments from the federal government. Without a net flow of funds into it, its economy would be in the pits.
Oh wow thanks “Summit News.” I assume a totally unbiased perspective from partners with InfoWars with categories such as “globalism” and “clownworld.” Get real.
That's your perception? That John Cleese is just whining?
The bull case from here is thinking that Tesla's valuation will permanently stay in the upper atmosphere for decades to come, but at some point, the growth rates slow.

The valuation may eventually adjust downward.

But there was a very pivotal event not too long ago: Tesla was added to the S&P 500 index. It is, in fact, the 8th largest company in that index.

Which means: Game Over. Elon Musk won. Big.

The vast majority of US equity investment is now either passively indexed to the S&P 500 or managed by institutions that are judged by their performance relative to that benchmark.

This is a huge, ongoing flood of dollars that flows on a daily basis into each and every S&P 500 stock. That money provides ongoing support to the Tesla stock price.
It seems odd to set yourself on fire to protest a murderous regime.
Okay, then how about the people working in the company publishing the specs, there are lectors, editors, people who actually write the documentation so that it's readable, proof-readers, etc. and THEY need to be paid.
My new mental model to understand high PE, high speculative stocks and crypto is attempt to understand and quantify the actual amount of active floated shares in circulation that are being actively traded/exchanged daily.

If founders and early investors are mostly HODLing the majority of shares then the actual active shares in circulation can be quite low. Basically a bunch of retail traders are trading at the periphery and perhaps overpaying. The overpayment by retail traders is then applied to the entire lot of outstanding shares.

Ideally there'd be a way to see the number of unique shares trading hands. Currently the only publicly/freely available info is about the number of shares traded per day - but this could really just be the same shares being traded over an over.

True price discovery is not occurring across the entire lot of outstanding shares. True valuation of Tesla will only be possible once the founders own less than 1% of outstanding shares. For example Tim Cook as the current steward of Apple leadership and Laurene Powell Jobs only own about 0.02% and 0.8% of Apple as compared to Elon Musk who owns about 15-20% (its dropping daily of course).
I suppose it depends on what you define as 'cancelled' but we can define it as something like "a dramatic reduction in demand to the point where it's extremely difficult to find work in that industry". The answer is probably yes. As for the names, the other comments mentioned some good ones.
Even Louis C.K. is still getting invited to places. The Hollywood Improv just sent me a mailer about him doing a bit there recently.
> Any alien observing the planet over the last 4 billion years would recognize us as an anomaly.

That assertion is a little bit too confident. Philosophically speaking, can you explain what is different about us creating pollution vs. a tree creating oxygen? Are you saying viruses and cancer are an anomaly or unnatural?
I think most of them still have careers. Even Chris D’Elia is back performing despite literally admitting to sexual misconduct allegations, and jokes about “being canceled”.

Aside from literal prison terms (Bill Cosby) I can’t think of anything that actually truly cancels comedians.

The ones who complain the loudest seem to be getting bigger and better work, so I’m honestly not sure what their complaints are founded on: but I might be missing something, of course.
I don’t know how deep people’s memory goes, but when I talk to older generations about this stuff, they tell me all these stories about how kids at college in the 1960s were competing to be the wokest kid on the block. That’s not to say all kids at college were doing it then, and the word “woke” didn’t mean then what it means now, but the behavior of kids at college in the 1960s would not seem out of place in more recent decades, from the stories I heard.

Colleges were hotbeds of posturing and hypocrisy then as they are now. College kids are typically in the most radical years of their life, when they have the most freedom and desire to redefine who they are. They largely don’t have any money or accomplishments, so the big way up the social ladder is posturing and value signaling. If you’re more spiritual, more woke, more radical, then you get attention from your peers.

I don’t know what else to say, except people should spend more time hanging out across age groups, and people in college will eventually burn out of it. More people should take gap years, it lets it really sink in the reason why you’re in college in the first place, and it gives you more of a sense of how worthless posturing can be.

For these reasons and others, the college circuit is a real beast.
The better question I think is, how many unknown comedians are afraid to say what they think because their career wouldn't hold up the way Dave Chapelle's did?
Everyone complaining about “woke” culture misses the fact that it’s basically driven by teenagers. The only reason it has any effect at all is because teenagers are one of the most valuable advertising demographics.
If you expect interest rates to increase, you should hedge your tech stocks and look at sectors that do well in high rate environments.
He’s performing though. Doing quite well, too, from the looks of it.
Indeed, I really don't understand why people buy and hold unless their retirement plan forces them to. I've been using this same algorithm since 2004, how about you?
So, this is a giant, seaweed leaf-blower? Yuck.
Nimesh Patel was kicked off stage at Columbia.
And some with their consent too.

But he was cancelled.
Yes but the returns on the other account are not tax free.
Guess it depends what you mean by "cancelled". There are accusations of misconduct which caused specials and projects to be temporarily or permanently halted (Louis CK/the TV show Louie, Roseanne Barr, TJ Miller, Chris Hardwick), there are attempts to censor or delete (Dave Chapelle, Joe Rogan), and outright disappearance from the comedy scene (Bill Cosby). Each accusation has its merits and detractors, but there is no doubt that everyone above has had their comedy output affected by (usually) unrelated aspects of their personal life being called to question.
"Help, help, I'm bein' repressed!"
Peewee Herman.
It was with their consent. Or at least he gave them fair notice of what he was going to do.

He didn’t assault anyone. He’s just a pervert.
> it barely discharges over a trip like that, which should help with longevity

Only if you don't charge it fully though, right? As in, charge to just below X% when the amount of charge you expect to need is X/2 percent-points, rather than to 100% and not use it fully. At least that's my understanding and how I've been treating my li-ion devices.
Michael Richards (of Kramer fame from Seinfeld) has been pretty silent since his whole racial slur fiasco.

People think cancel culture is a new thing. Before there was a politicized term for it, specific incidents were just called “scandals.”

It seems like a truly case by case basis as to whether it sticks or not.

EDIT to add: the cultural Right has been attempting, with mixed success, to “cancel” people for decades. McCarthyism, the Satanic Panic, and ruining the careers of country singers who criticize Republicans all come to mind. None of this is new and none of it is unique to the modern cultural Left. It’s just different cultural criteria and different targets.
Anecdotally, the experience is much easier when it's a REST API. If all I want is to fetch one object and its metadata... then I look up the function and call it.

If it's graphql then I have to... well, step one I have to learn the query language. And then I have to construct the query to return the data. It's not, like, super hard to go through all of that but it's extra cognitive burden that I don't want to deal with.

I'm currently writing CLI tools in Go and have to use the graphql API for github because it offers data that the REST API does not (I think). I really prefer the REST API wrapper.
Good reason to get cancelled right?
There are different types of wasting time. I often feel like I overlook hobbies and pastimes that are more productive (reading books, learning languages) over ones that are mindless (browsing HN, watching YouTubes).
I've been doing it just fine since 2004. Risk management is a large part too, you have to know when to cut your losses, how much to put in, when to average down, etc.
It always surprises me these kind of calculations. When one earns minimum wage or a bit above that, concerns are paying the rent, the bills, food. But when one earns enough to be comfortable paying all of that, one should be a bit worried regarding the topic of living by renting instead of buying a property. Earning 3K euro per month means you probably can afford a mortgage but you will be paying it for 30 years… that makes me sad. My main point is: Not even “good” salaries such as 3K euro are enough to afford a decent house in Europe without having to pay it for 30 years.
There are plenty of S&P 500 companies with very low valuations. I'm not saying Tesla is going belly up, or that they're a fraud, or that their product is stupid.

Only that a manufacturing company trading at 30x sales in a CapEx heavy cutthroat industry is historically impossible to sustain for decades.
My body, my choice...sometimes
Thank you. But I am guessing I need to know a bit of abstract algebra to understand what you are saying which I don't have.
So Ctrl-F for proberts if your time's so valuable.
And 11 of his next 15 shows are sold out: https://louisck.com/pages/tickets

Definitely "cancelled" :eyeroll:
Thankfully it’s been flagged. It’ll be a sad day when obvious bait “news” sources are not, on here
Independence == less reliability and more vulnerability

That is the downside and why the cloud triumphed.
One of the World’s Poorest Countries Found a Better Way to Do Stimulus
What percentage gain did you see since 2004?
Hey Tom!

I remember watching the recording of Programming with Nothing many years ago; it was an incredibly influential talk for me (ignited a love and fascination of mine for the lambda calculus) and have since watched every following talk of yours (“A Lever for the Mind” is probably one of my favorite technical talks ever given).

This was a phenomenal sequel and has rekindled my excitement to work on lambda-calculus related things (slowly working on implementing a lambda calculus interpreter for my own use and possibly as a foundation for some future personal projects).

Thank you for sharing and keep being awesome!
IANAL. Can non-citizens run US-based companies? If yes, can't this be done through a company, then OP would just be forbidden from drawing a salary from this entity?
He’s a pretty good example of how cancel culture as it’s commonly presented does not exist. He didn’t tell edgy jokes that ran afoul of the “mob”, he masturbated in front of people without consent and ruined the careers of comedians who didn’t play along with him. That’s really fucking gross, and is damn close to the legal line. If anyone deserves cancellation, excluding those charged with crimes like Crosby, it would be Louis. And yet there he is, still getting sets at Hollywood standup clubs.
> …and outright disappearance from the comedy scene (Bill Cosby).

Yes, a prison sentence has a certain je ne sais quoi about it that makes comedy clubs reluctant to schedule you, at least until you’re released.

He’s also, you know, 84 years old and incredibly wealthy.
actually the opposite is true, I do want to advertise it so that "savy" traders follow a predictable pattern making the market move in the same predictable way. People who just buy and hold will continue to provide a floor. What I basically described is a way to buy low and sell high since the majority of technical indicators are based off of moving averages.
https://hackaday.io/project/9941-the-razor-e300-overvolt

https://hackaday.io/project/1226-the-flux-buggy

https://hackaday.io/project/13-ev-commuter-longboard
Early TMP subscriber here. Recently subbed to bycloud as well, he does a pretty good job of just getting down to business when reviewing papers:

https://youtube.com/c/bycloudAI
How is this relevant to Hacker news? I want to escape politics please.
I feel colleges today are at an extreme beyond those in the past. For example consider that UC Berkeley once had a movement to uphold free speech (https://www.dailycal.org/2020/01/26/free-speech-movement-caf...). Today supporting free speech would have you labeled as a far right fringe reactionary, and it’s not a position students can take freely. And of course there have been numerous events that were cancelled or disrupted by rioting mobs of students that do not want their adversaries to be heard. At a very fundamental level, colleges today are illiberal compared to the decades past.
Thanks for raising our future generation on videogames and smart phones. I'm sure you're raising a productive citizen, there. A Switch is $350, by the way, not including games - money that you could have put into your son's education, nutrition, skill-building, etc.

The next generation is going to be a bunch of talentless game addicts.
at least 15-30% per year
You'd use LH2 or ammonia rather than compressed H2. All else being equal, cruise power for an aircraft is linear with mass, and LH2 has 1/10th the mass for the same volume. For a 40% fuel fraction, an aircraft with liquid hydrogen comes in at 65% of the weight and 25% of the energy content for the same volume of fuel. This will get you a bit under 40% of the range of the kerosene jet, if both jets are equally efficient. Ammonia is fairly similar, maybe a few percentage points higher. You could probably get more than 50% of the range of existing designs using fuel cells that are more efficient than jet engines. More likely we're looking at a rethink of how we design aircraft to accommodate larger volumes of fuel. If we did this, we could approach currently used fuel mass fractions with LH2, and potentially go further than we do with current aircraft.

Keep in mind the effective energy density of ammonia after taking efficiency into account is still ten times the energy density of today's state-of-the-art lithium ion batteries (by mass). LH2 is of course much higher than that. I find it hard to see batteries replacing anything other than short hop flights for the foreseeable future, if that. Fuel reserve requirements alone make it a tough proposition.
Oh wow, summit.news! Those other headlines are stellar, be sure to give them a look. What's next for HN, Breitbart?

I love the topic too, a comedian whining about "cancel culture."

So great. Sparks joy. Definitely not a tired subject, more please!
Yes, I'm sure I'm going to lose my shirt because I invest 7k a year into a risky asset.

Certainly there is no other possible way I could have other investments, including other retirement accounts, where I don't use risky assets... nor could it be that the key takeaway from my post is to put SOME of your capital into a risky asset, especially one that is tax advantaged and especially if you're younger.

Of course not, clearly the takeaway from my post is to lose your shirt by taking all your money and investing it into TQQQ.
You can probably buy something, and not even spend 30 years paying it. I am looking at an apartment right now for 169 that I think they will accept 150k. Assuming no downpayment (banks won't allow it but easier to do math), I could pay the same as rent and have it payed of in 15 years (about 900 a month).

But in general, no, housing market is out of reach even for the middle class and sometimes middle-upper class here (and other places in Europe). But that is what happens when money making machine goes brrrrrr, inflation goes to 5% and the likes, and the central banks still keep interest rates close to zero. Rich will get richer, and the poor, well, fuck them right? /s
lucrative property, I would have pivoted that site every 3 months over the last 2 years

Knowing me, I would probably serve different websites based on what the databrokers said about you lol, gotta move those Q-branded coffee mugs somehow! I would probably have the same factory in Shenzhen selling masks, blood oxygen meters, and conspiracy merchandise. the ad space would distinguish on their own.
> i've heard horror stories of how unsafe they were

Wait, scooters are not a thing in the USA? As in, obscure enough that the closest experience you have is "heard horror stories" and that's it?

I feel like every second person here (Netherlands) owned one, or perhaps rather, at least I would expect every teenager to know someone with a scooter. I personally never saw the appeal but then I also hate cycling (too much work, can't transport groceries well at all, and you get wet) so I consider myself an outlier anyhow.
Oh good catch !

Thanks for the feedback, you're not actually uploading the file. you're just sending it to be parsed and then the metadata is stored in a Lucene index.
The impact of sheep is under estimated. On Dartmoor in the UK sheep roam freely and there are very few trees. However, there are pockets of fenced areas that are thickly grown with upland oak and ash that would have presumably been what the whole moor would have had.
Was just thinking the same thing, they could rename the A/V connector site to something else, and capitalize on covid.com in a big way, such as creating a covid information aggregator?
The first scoffs and reaches down to grab the bill, but can only watch in dismay as the kids around the corner reel it back on fishing wire.
Right. The algorithm isn't:

if has_clearance(): grant_access()

but

if not has_clearance(): reject_access()

as the first hurdle to jump.
By the same measure, I don't want to spend much time around people who:

1. Blindly accept what the government, the media, and "experts" tell them, despite all three repeatedly demonstrating they're not trustworthy.

2. Continually parrot false claims about the vaccine's efficacy, and dismiss any study, doctor, nurse or academic that disagrees with the Official Narrative as wonks or Russian Operatives (has that one fallen out of style yet?)

3. CUT PEOPLE OUT OF THE LABOR MARKET, out of jobs they need, in the middle of a LABOR SHORTAGE, because they refuse to take highly suspicious medication the government is forcing on them.

The whole vaccine situation handling by the government has been nothing short of tyrannical. If the government can force you to take an unknown injection whenever they like, on penalty of being cut off from society, do any of your other rights even matter? You're probably the type that constantly cried "Fascist!" during the Trump years, and yet you're cheering on an authoritarian take-over of the US, by both government and Big Tech.
Thanks. Helpful and clear. single pixels don't have orientation, I overlooked that.
This seems like an interesting use case, since Bruzu pictures are all text. How are users searching these today?
This really highlights how meaningless “cancelled” is. Louis CK is literally on tour right now.
> When we were debating whether WebAssembly should support subnormal numbers (i.e. be IEEE compliant), some people often cited these mythical subnormal slowdowns. So Dan Gohman ran some benchmarks and the scary-sounding slowdowns amounted to something like less than 1% (i.e. noise) for almost all benchmarks. Interestingly, one benchmark did not converge correctly with FTZ (i.e. no subnormals) and actually ran 3x more iterations, leading to a 3x slowdown.

I recently built a modular additive music synthesizer called Flow (https://github.com/eclab/flow). When certain modules in the synthesizer [gradually] push certain state variables into the denormal range, my synthesizer will experience a roughly 100x slowdown. Mind you, this isn't due to DSP or even sound processing, and Flow isn't written in C, but in 100% pure *Java*. Since Java can't turn off denormals, I have to manually check for and zero them at strategic locations to avoid getting mired in the denormal quicksand.
I'm old enough to remember Advanced Information Decision Systems (AIDS Inc.). It had to change its name when the HIV crisis was underway.
Thats not what they claimed.

They pointed out that the onus is on the prosecution to their get evidence validated. If they want to zoom in they have to get an expert to testify that iOS doesnt add any pixles.

Its pretty basic trial procedure, the prosecution knows the rules and the judge gave them time to find an expert.
> Thankfully it’s been flagged.

You know there is a "hide" button that removes posts you dont want to see. You dont have to wait to be "thankful" that somebody reported content you dont like in order to be protected from it.
I think you misunderstand. The non-text files remain in S3, my service just parses them for text, then stores it in a Lucene index to become searchable.
Doubleshot are also retro 80s? Backlights and true wirelesses are only real new features I see. Then again I haven't tried anything analog.
30 is pretty easy to do, 35 is significantly harder and 40 is insanely much harder.

People saying regular bicyclists do 40-45 kph seldom have much experience on bikes. And someone going that in city traffic, like a lot of ebikes do, is just not a thing =/ too much stopping/starting and with dedicated lanes you still have to slow to traffic. O ly ebikes get up to those speeds in that encironment