skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There exist humans who are fifty IQ points smarter or dumber than other humans who also exist.

Sure but they're not all in the same ethnic group. What if a populous group had the peak of their intellectual curve far down the range? If, say, Gauls/French people were almost entirely simpletons equivalent to someone with Down Syndrome? Would they be enslaved and turned into a worldwide servant class? Every other group that were thought of as being inferior can be demonstrably equal to their oppressors but I think a world in which they weren't could be very different.
I agree with the other comment. I went onto the website and it wasn't really clear what it did and how it did it, maybe some input examples would be great!
The fact that you presumably emailed the document back to them leaves a huge forensic trail.
"As a 21-year-old platoon leader, Dole was trying to pull a radioman from the line of fire when he was struck in the upper back and right arm...It took three years of treatment and countless setbacks before he was able to recover from the wounds, although he lost the use of his right arm and most of the feeling in his left."

Thank you for your military service Senator. Rest in peace.
They've actually done pretty well, given the amount of politics that gets played with their funding.
Although the polar opposite can very often be true. The enlisted guy troubleshoots the obscure fault in the oxygen generator while his officer drafts messages detailing the problem, works to get parts ordered, and attends meetings about the whole fiasco.
Sometimes you can’t pay the owner not to leave. I’ve had two colleagues die. Another one had a stroke. Granted, I’m now around for like 20 years and a bit, things like that are rare, but no money in the world could have helped in these cases.
You also broke the site guidelines egregiously. We ban accounts that do this sort of flamewar on HN, especially when it's the tit-for-tat nasty sort of flamewar like this.

It also looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle and that's also a line where we ban accounts. Please review the rules and stick to them from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
A reverse Turing test. A discussion with a computer to convince it you are a sane human.
And now she has her complete tiddlywinks set again.
I love how crypto is somehow morally superior bcs "technology". Somehow crypto enthusiasts can explain away the opportunist cesspool that surrounds crypto as isolated anomalies, while making corruption a characteristic exclusive to existing institutions.
Yeah, this is seriously overengineered. A cellophane hood with elastic collar and a nitrogen nasal cannula is all it takes.
Any time someone tries a new method of execution, activists pounce on it and take it to court, making any new method expensive because of court costs and tied up in years of cases. The only methods of execution that can't be filibustered in this way are methods where courts have specifically ruled in the past that the method is okay. That's why execution is limited to specific methods, and why we're not going to use carbon monoxide or nitrogen.

Personally, I'd prefer that if the extra suffering caused by a method of execution is less than the suffering caused by, for instance, a week in jail, we should ignore the suffering and permit use of the method.
AMD have been under the same wafer supply constraints. If they had more supply they could have taken more of the market, so does that mean they 'gave' that to Intel too?

No, because when you're a manufacturing company, manufacturing is part of the equation, not just how good your design team is.
Mould King (like basically all Lego ripoffs) might have some legitimate designs but most of it effectively exists because Lego is popular. They are exploiting the marketing efforts and designs of Lego (and the MOC community) for their own profit. I find this despicable and not worth supporting.

About the cost: toys are expensive but compared to a lot of other things Lego doesn’t get old, is replayable and comes with a huge ecosystem. We rebuilt lots of sets thanks to the ability to get the manuals in the app. Lego sets gave us a lot more joy than many more expensive plastic toys that were only fun for limited time.
Post offices in Europe did banking for many years. Most of them have been broken up now though.

I think there should be an even more general effort made to remove the competitive advantage that comes from simply being big. Small enterprises suffer from the lack of economy of scale. As a private individual or sole trader it is more expensive for me to send a parcel than it is for a large company, this gives the incumbent an advantage.
There used to be PHP/MySQL TiddlyWikis. It was so much nicer. You can just use .htaccess to password protect it too. I miss that.
Permission is probably correct here. Unless you can live in a close box in isolation without ever needing to depend on another living or having someone depend on you, then sure you can live/die on your own terms.

You live by the rules of whatever society you are living in. You don't live in isolation, you depend on countless other living beings to be where you are in this point of time in your life. Life is interconnected web, not an isolated event.

Your life has a value for other people too. No one can force you to live. "Permission" does not mean being forced. Unless you are physically unable to have a life, you should be needing a permission.

We already give permission in courts and write rules on how a person should live (or not) their lives for so many reasons we think are beneficial/harmful for rest of us. How is this any different?
>It may not be clear to them that crypto has value worth protecting by regulation.

That ship has sailed.

It's really not a question of what anyone thinks of intrinsic value when the two top coins alone have a market cap of over $1T and easily do north of $60B in transactions over a 24-hour period.

The number of people and amounts involved are the consideration.
I like the setup we have. The city regulates the trash company. So while they are private, they provide service according to what the city demands, and prices are regulated right along with it. I get great trash service, even with only a single company serving the entire area. And the prices are completely acceptable.
How to make any immutable data structure distributed
You could also achieve this with pure X server and several system users: X controls your display and inputs (kb/mouse), and you let different X clients from different system users display on that server (eg. set the DISPLAY env var properly, configure X server permissions with xhost utility).

Then, you use a configurable tiling manager to control which windows go where (I am sure you can even go by the user somehow, but maybe you'll need to "decorate" the client run with an env var too).
Me and my friends played hundreds or maybe thousands of hours of Quake 1 back in the day, I don't think anyone played the single player more than once so level design there and all are irrelevant. But deathmatch levels were things of beauty IMO, purpose-built ones like DM2,3,4,6 and even accidental ones like E1M2.

Quake's success in my group was not how it looked, we always played with all the graphics at minimum to extract more FPS, with FOV 120 just to see more of the scene to have the edge. Things made Quake different was playability differences like instant weapon switching, bigger rocket impact area (better rocket jumps), changing direction in the air etc. All the things that make a match fast, dynamic and unpredictable. All unrealistic but more fun.

Anyone interested in DM scene back then may find Lakerman matches (especially on DM4), 9 vs DR series (that held in Sweden and surprised the US players with much more advanced gameplay by Europeans) entertaining.
The USPS is getting into banking:

https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/10/postal-service-la...
3 Steps to the Future
> can work trustless with oracles

Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
In case of opiates, what side-effects are you thinking of? Constipation is an easy fix. Assuming proper use and dosage, opiates are way safer than NSAIDs.
Sometimes I feel bad for the people whose legacy was tainted by scientific racism, especially if they lived to see its end and changed their opinions accordingly. Lovecraft is an example of this.
No. If you are still conscious (it takes <30 seconds before losing consciousness) then you haven’t experienced sufficient oxygen deprivation to have severe permanent side effects. Brain death takes several minutes of sustained hypoxia. If you’re unconscious then obviously there’s no cancelling by your own will.
If you eat two pancakes with butter between like a sandwich, it is a variant of butter sandwich. If you cut up your PB&J such that you're only eating pieces of bread with some spread on them, that is not a sandwich. The bread must act as a container for the contents during consumption, regardless of ingredients.

More generally, the key delimiter for sandwiches is the aspect ratio of the individual items contained by the bread. For something to be a sandwich, all of the major items inside must have one dimension which is substantially smaller than the other two. Sliced meats, bacon strips, cheese slices, sliced vegetables, lettuce leafs, spreads, patties, etc are all valid. Thinly spread peanut butter and jelly between bread is a sandwich, but a bread bowl with a pool of jelly and peanut butter where the depth is comparable to the radius would not be a PB&J sandwich. Flat cheese slice between bread is a sandwich, mozzarella sticks are not sandwiches. Hot dogs are by default not a sandwich, but if you cut the hot dog into thin strips it becomes a sandwich. An oreo is a sandwich but a quadruple stuffed oreo is not. The only commonly accepted sandwich which this definition claims to be a pseudosandwich is the meatball sub.
Some comments mentioned that some people who attempted to use nitrogen had problems. According to the Wikipedia a fast switch to breathing a nitrogen and no oxygen atmosphere has "no symptoms at all", but when it happens slowly what happens to people varies:

> a slow decrease in oxygen breathing gas content has effects which are quite variable.[5] By contrast, suddenly breathing pure inert gas causes oxygen levels in the blood to fall precipitously, and may lead to unconsciousness in only a few breaths, with no symptoms at all.[3]

They cite scuba diving rebreather accidents as one source for experiences. I think there should be people to tell the tale if they got rescued, "never dive alone", after all, and ships for divers should be equipped for emergencies. I guess other than observation of someone committing suicide with this method we may actually have personal experience stories.

I looked into this when I had a huge health scare that changed my life (it "only" was heavy metal poisoning and after lots of chelators I'm doing very well, better than before), and nitrogen was what I considered because I saw a chance to actually get my hands on some, compared to drugs. Bad thoughts, but I'll still keep it in mind in case I ever need it. Living through all the heavy metal issues was bad enough but at least I had hope. If it's similar or worse problems or even pain with no hope I don't want to have to endure.
Thanks for considering! I've been watching the CRDT space for the past couple years and every article, talk, and thread makes me more convinced that we need a broader model and a layer of abstraction to make this work accessible to a larger pool of programmers. I think the comment above is the most precise version of this claim that I've made so far.

One nice example is from a prior thread where I aim at the same idea ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28717848#28724977 ):

> edit A sets an invoice status to paid with a payment of 100, edit B changes the invoice amount from 100 to 120

Here, the merged result should be a conflict state that needs additional attention to resolve. Maybe this happens once and the resolution is to call the customer to work it out, or maybe this happens a lot and there's a whole conflict resolution tree that applies based on the details. This kind of conflict is not possible to "eliminate by model"; its presence is integral to the problem domain itself.

But even if there is a conflict we should still be able to represent it in our model, and be able to apply one of a number of pre-packaged resolutions. For example: if the invoice amount changed due to adding a new item to the order, then the resolution could branch with a choice: 1. split the item into a separate order, 2. remove the item and notify the person that made the change to the order, 3. set the invoice status to partially-paid and notify the customer of the remaining balance and reason why it changed. If instead the price changed then the resolutions could branch differently: 1. backdate the order to before the price change, 2. give the customer a discount, 3. set the invoice to partially-paid and notify the customer of the remaining balance, etc.

Note that these choices are concerned with business processes and customer relationship which have no "right" answer and could change business to business, customer to customer, or even order to order. We can still get desirable CRDT-like high-level guarantees out of this system (like "every invoice is paid in full or billed for the remaining balance") while modeling conflicts in it. Another benefit: two customers could request different default conflict resolutions, maybe one wants to always split into a new order and the other always wants to bill the added balance; with the conflict included as part of the model interactions with both of these customers could be represented in the same system with different custom resolution strategies.

I'm not sure how to continue advancing this idea, or if I've missed something important that invalidates it. I have a feeling that this could be layered on top of existing CRDT work with a rich enough data model. My email is in my profile if you want to talk more. :)
Why do you favor paying via taxes over paying via purchases for the same service?
Well, it's also titled the title, so...
I completely disagree. Funding a government mandated monopoly is a terrible idea.

I would vote so hard against Post Office handling banking. It is incalculable that this kind of stuff gets upvoted by the intellectual diaspora of HN.
> reduce carbon emissions due to transit.

Bulk and container ships are extremely efficient. Most of the carbon emissions are from the last few miles.
I've been playing Minecraft on-and-off for the better part of the decade now (since I was 9 or 10 wow!), I've been amazed at some of the recent changes that Mojang has made with improving game engine performance and now this new caving update.

I hope they once again push for a revival of modding multiplayer servers, although that is most likely a pipe dream because of the Bukkit DMCA issues in 2013-2014 :(.
> I don't think the Lego corporation cares about what people do with their Lego sets, as long as people keep buying more sets and at higher prices.

Strongly disagreeing. Lego clearly is very interested in curating the brand. They also didn’t buy BrickLink without reasons. Lego wants to control and shape the entire ecosystem even outside of where they make money.
This may be true for top subreddits but definitely not all. Especially the ones mentioned in the website. Like I doubt there are any powermods on r/ProgrammingLanguages.

Also it's not like you're saying anything remotely politically incorrect on those subs either.
Thanks for the link!
I wish they shipped to Europe though.
The peanut butter should be on both slices of bread forming an oil envelope around the jelly or jam. The peanut butter won't make the bread soggy, and will protect the bread until lunch time.
I think if you're still conscious enough to press a cancel button, you'd be OK in that regard (but I'm not an expert on the subject, to be sure).
And what of the excruciatingly painful existence that doesn't come with a near-term "inevitable death". What you're advocating is long-term inescapable torture.
It's a simple fact that if you're using a UNIX-like system you'll be using shells sooner or later. These shells run shell script(usually bash). In some systems like Debian(and derivatives) shell scripts are all over your system so any time something breaks or you want something added/disabled/deleted you'll probably be dealing with a shell script or something that is being read by one. So might as well spend the 1-2 hours required to learn how it works and then learn the rest on as-needed basis.
nothing happens when I click the link?
Uniswap works. Just the fees are too high.
The "can" is not hypothetical. There are plenty of times and people who have used crypto as a way to get around dysfunctional institutions. It's just that those stories get drown-out by the ones looking for a quick way to be rich, the scammers and all the chaos that always come with any new technology.
This is obviously not universally true. Do you really want to have privately owned roads? Privately owned courts?
“Savage tribes” in this context means something like “less settled with a less specialized society/economy”, and is not intended to be a value judgment or indication of some ethnic group’s inherent qualities, or even a comment on their level of violence: it is possible for a tribe to be both peaceful and “savage”/“barbaric”/“uncivilized”, or both “civilized” and brutally violent.

For example, notice the author of this blog post starts with a description of a campaign of horrifying brutal violence perpetrated by “civilized” Greeks.

One feature of language (for better or worse) is that words whose denotation involves some associations considered to be negative in one context tend to be used as slurs, adding and intensifying negative connotations until they eventually become confusing when used in the original non-normative sense.

The word “savage” originally just meant “wild” (literally, “from the forest”), i.e. not domesticated. Under this original definition, a rabbit is “savage” but an aggressive guard dog is not.
I don't find it very hard to think of situation where it is likely that a person has a clear mind and decides to stop existing. In particular in case of a disease where the person knows that the only thing that life has in store for them is either more pain or being palliatively sedated.
And a lot of OJT.
I understand that you're intending to rebut the local claim that "giving money to government programs always ends poorly"; however, to the extent that your rebuttal is correct, it seems like a reason not to give more money to the US government?
I don't buy this argument. First of all, the implication is that by increasing lifespan we'll increase some other kind of cost. I actually suspect it would be entirely the opposite - that by increasing lifespan we'll increase healthspan, massively reducing healthcare costs, increasing years where an individual is an economic boon, etc.

Second, there's a huge difference between "we've made everyone immortal" and "we've increase average lifespan by 5 years". If average lifespan goes up 5 years I don't think we will have a ton to worry about in terms of "oh my god there are SO MANY more people!" etc.

So I just don't buy it being this huge thing to plan for.
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This comment is pretty disingenuous. Your argument implies that ANY public service is not worth improving, because any government agency is vulnerable to political pressure.

If you think your elected leaders are not competent and professional, then fire them and elect leaders that will improve the government. If you want a better post office, we need to FIX the post office, not destroy it.

This sort of argument is the one that leads to hypocritically de-funding the post office by playing politics, then since it's too political pointing to it and saying "See? The government can't do anything right", then completely dismantling it.

Other countries manage to have public services that actually work. I don't believe that the American people are somehow genetically predisposed to having a bad government.
And they don't always work. Look up intractable pain.
Could you trade it for Monero, move it around in monero wallets, then trade out of Monero into ether and then fiat?
Except that it doesn't, hence "cable car" (in International English).
Cyber criminals aside, we need bulletproof hosting providers badly. We saw what happened with Parler. The censorship from Bay Area tech giants is excused with the refrain that you can just build your own social network. Then AWS and others bowed to political pressure from Democratic legislators like AOC to deplatform Parler. Increasingly, every company - including infrastructure companies that should be regulated as utilities - is incorporating rules that ban those whose political views they disagree with. That shouldn’t be the case with internet infrastructure but even Cloudflare caved in a few years back.

Which providers out there advertise and commit to their neutrality?
You should put your savings in crypto. Lol.
Interested what you can do with https://www.soundshelter.net/
Because the post office doesn’t care about doing it efficiently or with a profit.

Government employees don’t (and can’t legally) get bonuses for doing well or beating expectations.

The entire post office org gets no bonus (or punishment for that matter) by impacting the cost to revenue ratio.

Both of these are the reasons it never works to throw a pile of money at a government org and expect something sustainable monetarily and good to come out of it.
Yeah the fact that this "dice roll" arbitrary precedent from old boilerplate and 3rd partly lawyers is so hard to displace indicates the weak position of labor in the labor market.

Sure, you can be a bit conspiratorial and say that this works out in the employers favor, helps suppress side projects that might become profitable, etc. etc. but I prefer the simple-stupid reading that the weaker part has trouble pushing back on inertia and the stronger party alike.
One delightful HN moment! :D
Fe founder here. I'm not currently actively working on the project and haven't been for a while. That being said, a useful bit of context is that Fe was also originally conceived as a response to Vyper. In fact, it used to be called "Rust-Vyper." Vyper was just like what you say; a python-looking smart contact language that didn't work much different from Solidity. However, it actually explicitly removed certain features in the name of security. I felt like some of what was removed was actually pretty useful and their removal might have actually decreased security (imports, multiple contracts per file, and so on). So some of what I felt Fe should do was just add those things back in.

Vyper also had other issues such as (IMHO) its choice of implementation language which led to a lot of internal tech debt. Also, at the time I was working on Vyper, it actually used Python's standard parser library and so we often had to shoehorn language features into the Python syntax. Vyper may have corrected those things since then but I don't know. In any case, I eventually just decided to start over in my spare time using Rust as an implementation language.

There was other work planned for Fe such as providing a "strict" compiler mode that would facilitate formal verification of contracts written in Fe (that was basically a goal of Vyper). Also, we planned to provide a thorough specification and semantics for the language also for that purpose. I believe a lot of those plans are still in place but the current team should probably comment.

As you say, I think part of the issue is that things are still very early. The core devs are always figuring out useful things to add along the way that end up differentiating the language from its competitors. I'd say more but I'm on my phone :).