skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each of the first six bullet points, as well as the last one, sound exactly like the kinds of things that I see leftists bringing up as the inevitable result of "late stage capitalism". The author even sort of admits this:

> Capitalism has become a "success disaster."

It's therefore fascinating to see someone take all those exact points and conclude that these problems are not, in fact, natural consequences of the values and incentive structures of capitalism, but rather the result of just not doing capitalism the right way.
Patents cover discoveries, which, as a class, are limited, whereas copyrighted works are created, and therefore (in some sense) unlimited.

Or, in other words: a patent can block access to something that is potentially irreplaceable, and that would have been discovered by others, eventually. Donald Duck just wouldn’t exist without Disney.

The goal of copyright is to provide some incentive for creation. At the same time, it limits the distribution of those works and the benefit that brings, an effect called deadweight loss. Those two goals—amount & quality of creation and distribution—are in perpetual conflict, and the limited time is supposed to balance them for maximum benefit. Is death + 70/95 years too long? Yes, defjnitely. I remember seeing something like 15 years being floated as the true optimum, but it’s likely to differ by category. But it’s just as annoying to often see complete ignorance or denial of the basic mechanism (I. e. “Commercial music suxx anyway” or “why should I pay for news”)

(Another item on this scale: trademarks, which are entirely imbued with value by the owner’s exclusive right to use them. They are not time-limited as long as they are used because, to a first approximation, the value of “Levi’s” has nothing to do with the beauty of the word (which one could consider a limited ressource), but depends on the company’s interest in maintaining its status)
I don’t think that’s a good answer. It “feels good” but won’t solve any problem - do you really think security breaches will vanish because we will send the CEO to jail?

I think instead what we need to do is:

A) have “egregious” problem multipliers that stack. Using outdated cryptographic designs? 10x damages multiplier. Using software with known vulnerabilities that was part of the breach? 100x multiplier. Not encrypting data at rest? 1000x multiplier. Etc etc.

B) develop a standard whereby my PII is not allowed to be stored and you only get access to it at time of use (this would also largely solve the problem of the shadow data marketplace).

Even with all that, you could have a security breach where someone has a Trojan spying on all traffic live on the system and stealing that PII once it’s decrypted. So the problem isn’t solvable but maybe these kinds of steps might raise the bar.
> Is any central bank that debases currency through money printing without some kind of fixed peg/ratio to a scarce asset competent?

You're...

>> monomanically overoptimizing to one metric

As long as they do the debasing competently, as in the currency is able to sustain a healthy economy, then they're a competent central bank.

Bitcoin could never sustain a healthy economy, for instance, because it strongly promotes hoarding and speculation.
Good is the enemy of great.

That benefit is hardly "at best". That's a fantastic intermediate step. Why is it decried as horrible just because it's not the final solution to the problem?
Well, it's a ruling by a judge appointed by President Obama [1][2] who is very sympathetic to leftwing causes [3], so he has his biases. My own personal (non-expert) take on this is that if we want to preserve free expression, we should perhaps bring back a version of fairness doctrine (or right of reply) targeted at platforms (which I think were killed by President Reagan, unfortunately).

Do you happen to happen to have a link to the ruling on DeSantis's version of the law? I thought they were still waiting for the appeals.

I also thought DeSantis's rendition was more clever, as they tried to frame the selective enforcement of the ToS as a form of fraud. I would be interested in knowing your opinion on this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Pitman

[2]: There are studies have that confirm that who judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans do indeed make different decisions.

[3]: I think he is the same judge who blocked the heartbeat law and the boycott ban.
GrapheneOS Camera: simple privacy respecting camera app for Android
The actual truth is "long term consequences" from a vaccine, besides immunity are just not a thing.

I bet you can't name one vaccine that has had a "long term consequence" that has emerged more than a few months after the vaccine was administered. It just doesn't happen.

Its a bit like saying I've just developed an upset stomach, from that dodgy curry I ate last year.
I think the problem is that the stakes are higher for one side...
> to reduce increasing

e.g. not to stop it but to make it increase less but still increase?

what we need is a total ban on any plastics. I get free plastic bags doing groceries in Rome, Italy and it's 2021. All of this is going too slow. The whole recycling industry even in Germany, Switzerland and Austria is literal garbage and I hope that instead of talking a big game and making people think we make a difference with 5 different colors of containers we can solve this where it needs to be solved? The price of using plastic needs to be taxed into oblivion so that it is no longer economically feasible to destroy the planet with this shit.

edit: unlike most of you I have seen many beaches in South-East Asia when I was really young, ... these places were free of plastics/garbage and full of marine life and animals that thrived along the coastline. These romantic lone islands ... they are garbage dumps now with fresh new garbage floating in every morning. None of you will ever experience them the same way as I had the opportunity to unless you're looking forward to go snorkeling in a garbage dump. My generation is the one that deserves the blame and I hope they get held accountable and has been robbed of the opportunity to see these things that my generation had.
Incredible.

> There is of course the most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system, whose name shall not be spoken in this essay. Instead let's back up to something older and better understood: markets.

My reading was the author was referring here to cryptocurrencies and you read the article, claim it's profound, and then spruik an ERC-20 token.
Yeah for software it's ridiculous.

Copyright should just expire for that at 10 years. Not IP though so they will still own the characters and stories to make remakes and sequels. But the games themselves in the original version should become public domain. All the money that can be made on the sale of the original versions will have been made.

It's especially becoming a problem now that games need online activation or in some cases are online only (eg Google stadia). Right now we can just ignore copyright and pirate the games if we're getting nostalgic but I'm the future this won't be a technical possibility anymore once streaming exclusives appear.
the nazis don't really believe in markets, freedom, fairness, competition, democracy, or even capitalism for that matter, it's all just old school oligarchical authoritarianism
Yeah but I'm not responsible for that deadly disease, and I don't control it. It's everywhere all the time. And it's really unclear if me getting vaccinated actually helps anything. It's a completely different thing if you are in 100% control of where a factory should be placed. The equivalent would be to argue that the factory should be banned because someone somewhere are in fact misusing these explosives for evil purposes, and therefor it should be closed forever.

With that reasoning, you are always exposing others to some indirect risk by any activity you do, everything must be banned. There's a certain limit to what is considered within your direct control and can be considered your personal responsibility.
FancyZones has no power over Task Manager, it is too strong!
It's fairly early but within 10 years, every device will have 5G
Let me preface by saying terms like "Dependency Inversion" are fuzzy and meant to convey general strategies that can be refined for specific cases, so my exact definition of DI here might be subtly different from others', and certainly overlaps with other ideas that also have their own fuzzy names.

In its general form, Dependency Inversion says "don't depend on concrete things; depend on abstract things" with the corollary "don't go get something you need; ask for what you need in general terms and let someone else figure out which concrete things you actually get". Following this to its logical conclusion often ends up with exactly the kind of directed acyclic graph data structures they describe.

So look at their old vs. new example:

Old:

df['COLUMN_C'] = df['COLUMN_A'] + df['COLUMN_B']

df is a one extremely specific data frame. It's saying "take this specific column of this exact data frame and add it to this other specific column of the same exact data frame". The result is a new specific column of exactly one data frame.

New:

def COLUMN_C(COLUMN_A: pd.Series, COLUMN_B: pd.Series) -> pd.Series:
return COLUMN_A + COLUMN_B

COLUMN_A and COLUMN_B are any series. The result is a strategy for creating new columns from existing ones. This is very general. From a DI perspective, COLUMN_A and COLUMN_B can be thought of as "requests".

A directed acyclic graph represents the result of finding the appropriate (concrete) dependencies for every (abstract) request and linking them together. This is what "dependency injection" frameworks are essentially doing. Often this is done via convention, including looking at the names of variables and functions. Hamilton is doing this. In my opinion, names of variables and functions should not be used by dependency injection frameworks if you can avoid it, because it makes the code brittle in the face of what should be "safe" refactors (including minification and uglification). But it's possible it can't reasonably be avoided in Hamilton's case and may be the right choice.

Note that you don't need the injection framework (Hamilton) to benefit from using dependency inversion. This is often what people mean when they say using dependency inversion makes your code more testable: you can test it in isolation by just calling the function directly, instead of depending on the injection framework to stitch things together for you. That's well and good, but testability is just a side benefit of the real win of cleaner and better organized code.

If you want an even more general pattern, it's a common and effective strategy to look at the structure of the code you're sick of writing, and seek to encode that structure explicitly into a data structure that you can programmatically manipulate. Less code-as-code and more code-as-data. That used to be called "metaprogramming", but it lost its name because it's so general and ubiquitous now. This huge category of refactors covers things like iterables instead of loops, reactive streams instead of callbacks, dependency injection frameworks, expression trees, various forms of reflection, and more.
> I'm extremely uncomfortable telling other people that they have to do something to their own body.

I'm extremely uncomfortable with granting a novel coronavirus a gigantic reservoir of freely available incubators to infect and try out new ways to use the human body for its own goals, all the while having a way to largely prevent it. The concept of "individual rights" as you present it here is at odds with best practices learned from epidemiology. Is that in-and-of-itself a troublesome fact? Absolutely.
Wearing a seatbelt doesn't expose you to potential life long side affects to your health for the rest of your life.

Just one example of one kid screwed up for life now: https://imgur.com/SNMhlBg

There was ZERO reason for an otherwise healthy 14 year old to get the vaccine. Too bad this mom found out the hard way.
Ha! Your sarcasm didn't translate (for me) to text. Maybe next time use the new HTML6 tag "<sarcasm></sarcasm>".
Glad you're thinking about this. It was the first "bump" I hit as a new user.
I am in fact blaming "the other side" for a horrible outcome (ERs packed with covid patients when that is unnecessary, leading to worse outcomes for non covid patients). What you've said is misleading.

> It is the Virus that creates a horrible situation

And it is people refusing to get vaccinated that greatly exacerbates this horrible situation. What you've said is misleading.

> We are in this mess together and everyone is spreading the virus, vaccinated or not

Vaccinated people spread the virus less and go to the hospital less. What you've said is misleading.
Overflow bailout is 1 instruction in RISC-V (same as x86/ARM) if either the addition is unsigned or you know the sign of one of the operands, one of which is usually the case. (If neither is the case, it's 3 instructions.) And I believe RISC-V supports 1-lane vectors through its variable-width vector feature, which an implementation could optimize if it wanted to (though I agree with you that RISC-V should just grow a proper add-with-carry instruction).
Yeah, copyright pirates are all sent to the 10th circle of Hell, where they are forced to write CC licensed fanfic stories on GPL software like GNU/Linux for eternity.
"builds an easy win for opposition by demonstrably doing nothing of substance "

It has some effect and if you want a big change sometimes it's better to start small. For example, if you wanted to get in shape you start by running a small distance.

"In other words it serves only to be divisive and give an opportunity for people to have strong opinions about something irrelevant; which is actually the point of much of politics, cement your support base by getting people riled up about inconsequential and thus risk free issues."

This is even more disturbing; you think that people on the left (and yes I'm just going to name the sides here) want to help the environment solely to anger the right? I have never met anyone who cares about the environment admitting to me their only and true motive is to anger the opposition.

Is the reason you think this because that's your motive? For example "owning the libs". It is because you can't possibility be wrong about environmental policies that the other side must have another motive?

Do pickup truck owners roll coal on cyclists because they think cyclists are out there riding just to shove that fact in their face? That they are putting all that physical effort as virtue signaling?
Running gcc & Vi? Congrats that's a good os, genrally usable.

Github page for the project: https://github.com/vlang/vinix
> I’m sorry to say this but that is just plain populist.

No, it's a fact. I understand why they were lying about things, e.g. the usefulness of masks, but that doesn't make it less dishonest or patronizing.

You simply can't say one thing today, the opposite tomorrow and still expect people to just believe you the day after that.

And please don't buy into that "it's all new to us" narrative. Not knowing how to handle things is not a license to just make stuff up.

And if you still think you have to, at least remain consistent about it.

And if you can't do that either, at least don't complain when people don't trust you, anymore.

And if you have to complain about people not trusting you, anymore, at least don't blame them for the consequences OF YOUR OWN CLUSTERFUCK.
Just went through this thread and I have only one thing to say:

WE REDDIT NOW
You're missing the point.

The reason people are even mentioning ICU beds are because they're trying to shift the vaccination argument from "do it for yourself, if you want to" to "you have to do it for others".

If we had enough ICU beds, there would be NO argument to force people to get vaccinated, just like there is no argument to force people to not smoke or not be fat.
"I think it's material if people felt certain rules were invasive (which they were)"

'That you can't visit some parks' is not material in the face of the fact that you 1) cannot go to work 2) cannot gather with people 3) must wear a mask 4) cannot go to restaurants or cinemas 5) numerous other restrictions and especially 6) Must stay at home unless you have a reason to leave.

Most of those restrictions are legitimate in the fact of a drastic spike in COVID cases, which makes the 'Don't Go To A Park' a footnote in that context.

"The lockdowns decisively killed the spikes" -> "But Florida didn't have Lockdowns"

"Hey, I didn't wear a seatbelt, and I have never been hurt in an accident!"

Every situation is a bit different, and the data is not perfectly clear, but the evidence points to 'the total social changes due to lockdowns' do actually work, moreover, none of that was known in May 2020.

We had no examples but the crisis in China and Europe back then.

Given a state of emergency in the early stages of COVID, the close downs were within reason even if they erred a bit too much on the side of caution here and there. 'That we cold not go to parks' just isn't very relevant. If we have to do another lockdown, we will probably be able to go to the park.
Here be dragons. The free version of nginx will only do DNS resolution on a backend hostname at startup, the paid version will do periodic lookups.

They do mention this further down the page, but in 8 months when it randomly breaks you have to hope you remember it needs to be periodically restarted to keep working.

This is by far the stupidest paywalled feature ever, because it amount to downtime extortion.
The movie was okay but I never pictured $$ as looking like Chris Pratt
> Everyone wanted a piece of the block reward pie, so the arms race was created.

And that's intentional – getting people pursue the goal for their own egoistic reasons, because that's bound to succeed. As a result, they all increase the security and stability of the network whether they want it or not, the only way to not do this is to not participate. If the network were running on a single Raspberry, someone bringing two Raspberries could effectively outcompete the other person on block rewards.

I'm not sure how this can be avoided without fundamental changes in society with regards to competition and adversity.
>Doesn't need to be 100% - has been well modelled 85% would be enough.

I can't believe anybody seriously believes that. In addition to the fact that different expers have quoted different figures, and prominent health officials have admitted to deliberately lying about the percentage needed, you have to realize that many of the parameters that go into such a model still have huge error bars.

If the quoted figure was '85%, plus or minus 10%, has a 95% chance of granting herd immunity', I _might_ take it seriously. I think that's still overstating the confidence we have.
Strategy: support media efforts in Asian countries making littering a moral issue citing natural beauty and putting sad music over dirty rivers, etc.

That’s how we did it in the US which did have a big littering problem until the mid 20th century.

Or just install a few of those silly water wheel garbage skimmers at the mouths of a few major rivers around the world.
What do your anecdotes matter? The original clinical trial for Pfizer mRNA vaccine has 20% of the treated group (younger than 55) reporting moderate or worse side effects. We don't know how long these last because they did not release any data on that. Could be days, could be a year for some people. for all I know.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
From the Clayton Act:

* mergers and acquisitions where the effect may substantially lessen competition

This is my bone. I don't understand how this merger substantially lessens competition. Let's all concede the merger is obviously bad for every single business in the US and there is nothing redeemable about Nvidia and no reason to believe it should own ARM IP. They're still not competitors and no competition in the market has been lessened by such a merger. In fact, access to other people's sensitive business details probably makes things more competitive and forces participants to innovate in other areas. Only day to day contract negotiation has become shittier because now you have deal with "shitty" Nvidia. Where's the law that says companies can't vertically integrate? Is there a precedent for blocking these type of vertical mergers solely because it might be good business for the acquirer and unfortunate news for other participants? Why couldn't other participants put a bid out on ARM? Why can't Apple and Google just throw 100 billion at SoftBank and say we're buying and freeing ARM? Idk maybe I was simply born into an age of spineless non-enforcement of anti-trust, but I'm not seeing how this scenario warrants more scrutiny than "normal".
What is in bad faith? It’s assumed that ARM support is good now. I’d like to see more Tegra type chips, an open ARM device with updates Linux drivers from the manufacturer. I’d love to be pointed to a better one if you have it. I think what nvidia does with Linux GPUs is awful, but it is very different how they treat their ARM processors.

Please point me to good open ARM processor manufacturers that uploads good Linux updates, I’ll be happy to be wrong that the Jetson really isn’t the best.
Here is what you can do. Take an episode from The Simpsons in 2005, then take one that was released this year. Listen.

In the 2005 audio, the silent parts have grains. Both the sound effect and voice are almost at the same level. You don't spend your time constantly lowering and increasing the volume as music, sfx, and voice alternate.

Now in 2021, (or more like 2018 the last time I watched), it almost feels like the voice is on a different track. Unless you wear earphones, you will be smashing the volume button up and down from scene to scene.

With headphones, it sounds disconnected. You can feel the voice actors standing there in that empty soundproof room. The quality of the recording is so flawless that maybe you need studio monitors to hear. The home sound system doesn't cut it anymore.

The soundsystem of the future is subtitles.
The question of whether governments should regulate drugs is entirely orthogonal to my point. I was just gently suggesting that perhaps of their own volition people should decide to live more or less drug free. Of course, if you have an organic condition that is greatly ameliorated by the use of drugs, go for it.
what kind of WYSIWYG editor? Does it need to be custom?

I’ve used ToastUI editor in a side project and it integrated very well. You can use ToastUI, or look at its source code for inspiration / ideas
You write as if one's passive racism and one's past exposure to racist sentiments are entirely separate. I think the former largely reflects the latter.
Which is why I said CPU IP. That being said, it's a little hard to blame them there, GPUs are a bit of a patent minefield.
Eh, YAGNI is a valid development strategy. When you get thousands of users you can make it more efficient, and you did.
That is ridiculous. South Africa has a fine program. But it's not the best of the world, or even one of the best 20 in the world.

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1465970246934749188/pho...

If this had been circulating in Europe, North America, or South America before Africa, we'd know. If it came from Asia or the Middle East, it'd be quite odd that it didn't get exported to Europe but just to Asia. It's overwhelmingly likely that it originated somewhere in Southern Africa, though the exact country will be anybody's guess right now.