skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that we should be happy with the most blatant corruption eliminated, and living in a neighbouring country (Serbia), I've long advocated for an even more realistic goal of limiting corruption to a single digit percentage of all the government contracts. That's definitely not a good platform to run for office though, I agree.

FWIW, this is a mathematical tool called a contradiction to disprove a claim: you seem to be agreeing that they won't achieve 100%, so you are fine with the lie. That does not make it not a lie.

They are similarly not going to completely eliminate most of the corruption no matter what, even the corruption you are concerned with. The same case as above will play out in granting a large government contract when a clerk at the office discloses competing offers to his best friend who runs a company in the same space, or they add in particular requirements and clauses to exclude some competitors.

They are either "lying" of planning to achieve 100%-corruption-free society (sorry, they are being "diplomatic" to win the office first), or they are utterly unrealistic and unfamiliar with human patterns of behaviour. Lying is likely better if their motives are truly pure, but I'd have a hard time trusting someone who lies their way into office.

Your mileage may vary.
We’re talking about SF, so you can probably extrapolate from there.
Late 40s... that's a late bloomer.
You need to read into the topic, your arguments are skimming the surface.
Scenario 1: Condition on a future world that is somehow livable and sane, in mental and environmental equilibrium. Work backwards and find that "being good" is not a choice but an inescapable requirement

Scenario 2: Posit that the above conditioning is unattainable, we have reached "peak humanity" and its all now terminally downhill

Call me naive but I think our main problem is that people have never really been forced to make up their minds "en masse", not just on "local" problems where cynicism, free-riders, aggression, exploitation, abuse (+ name your favorite pathology here) may be "rational", but in our "global" problem.

Universal principles and rights (as those put together by the UN) start becoming the mental and emotional guides to come to grips with the important global constraints. Cynics dismiss those as ludicrous, bureaucratic, vacuities. Think again.

In other words, we can be local cynics (and that might even be a breath of fresh air) but we cannot be global cynics.
"I'm spread too thin" isn't an actual lie as much as it's a reframing. Working with difficult people can take a lot of mental energy, which ought to be considered part of the work effort. It's the polite way of saying "I don't have the bandwidth to do the work and manage my way around your issues, so best of luck finding someone who does have that bandwidth" the same way that "Thank you for your input" is a polite way (in the business world) of saying "That was the dumbest thing I have heard all day".
Yeah, I hear this. I like driving a manual because I find it almost meditative. I've done some rally clinics so not to brag but I know what I'm doing with it and double clutch, heel toe, routinely. It's like a little mini game to be as smooth and precise as possible at it every time I drive, and I like that.

The dual clutch automatics that are in better cars today are legit pretty amazing tech, but, it just doesn't fit my vibe so to speak. In any case, I'm quite sure my next car is going to be pure electric so it may not even have a transmission, or if it does it'll be a two speed automatic you don't control. Meh.
Well, you can trigger the occasional ragecuck who will report, DMCA, DDOS and/or doxx you, so better use a good hosting set up :D
You need to escape your * characters, by prepending them with \ like \*, to stop HN interpreting them as markup intended to control italic/not.
You can even block based on the result's text, see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29550393

One less extension equals one less security/privacy liability too!
This is new to me, but really useful. Thanks for sharing!
It doesn’t violate memory safety, so it’s perfectly valid to do this in safe rust
Yeah you caught me there. If it was easier to change the username on hacker news I would have done that already.

But what gets is me these companies can trademark and fight anybody who tries to use that commonly used term, I cannot fight anybody as an individual even though my username would have been Meta in all the social media platforms before Facebook decided to own this name.
Thanks for the recommendation. I have been doing Arabic on Duolingo since the start of the pandemic out of curiosity but find it sometimes lacking.
This is where using a tool like the Serverless Framework helps solve a lot of these problems:
- Use async/await promises instead and the specific plugin for the Serverless Framework for configuring your Step Functions makes it easy!
- Nothing specific here but just call it hat makes sense.
- Use your runtimes dependancy management tool. NPM for Node for example
- Just us "serverless remove" (you used "serverless deploy" to set them up)
- No need for the console with the Serverless Framework
- Use Serverless Framework. Literally 3 lines of yml configuration and you are done. https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/even...

The dev cycle can be super fast. I have never before built stuff so quickly. Using "serverless deploy function -f functionName" means I can push my code changes into the cloud in 3 seconds for testing purposes so need to even setup local testing environments which can get very complex and be totally inaccurate compared to the environment that exists in AWS
>Such an economy could avoid the instability of our current economy with its cyclical booms and busts.

From what I understand (not an economist, but quoting what I've heard from them), much of the boom-bust cycle can be dampened by limiting debt.
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Hey to keep this short and not to bore you, visit www.prudentrecovery.com they offer investigative services which helps to track using algorithm.
Miami is banking on cryptocurrency and New York wants in
To attract contributors who want to learn more rust by collaborating on something they care about.
well they do have a "safety driver", they only removing pony.ai permit to drive without one.
Given that a "successful" ERP rollout seems to entail paying an army of ABAP consultants for years, and a major revamp of company processes, maybe the ERP market is also ripe for disruption? ;-)
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That is what is derogatorily called cynicism in the OP. Perhaps as one studies history they find that all forms of positive change conceivable by mere humans have been co-opted and are accounted for in the extremely energetic struggle of the system to remain alive, as it has been selected for very much Darwinistically.
Developers are first and foremost interested in getting things to work and maintaining them in good working order. Simple things tend work better and more reliably than complex things. They are also easier to fix when something goes wrong.

Regarding your suggestions for HN, what would adding "some JS elements" or "better CSS" do to enhance HN? HN isn't broken, let's not "fix" till it is.
There is also a lot of junk on those TLDs, especially the inexpensive ones, outweighing the ratio of good-to-crap found on the big few.

Blocking them in search lists doesn't stop you finding them indirectly by them being mentioned in content elsewhere, or from even more direct referrals, so the non-junk ones can be found those ways. I tend to find useful content on .com et al as much those ways as by direct search these days anyway.
>Its just like reddit

It most definitely isn't like reddit which, similar to HN, is about topical discussions rather answers by "experts". Frequently I add "reddit" as keyword in my searches but I'ld gladly nuke Quora out of the results.
I'm not seeing it: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=crochet+ducks&iax=images&ia...
They are store your activity on Calendar. It's totally different.
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We actually talked about it in the original FB thread. I’m actually very much helping Mati.

$2k - nobody is gonna take it seriously. Professional Matchmakers already get paid $10-30k for no results guaranteed. Why would they move a finger over $2k? The thing is…we don’t want a professional match maker. We want someone in our circles/communities who already happens to know quality people, to be incentivized to connect us to someone they personally know.

Every quality relationship I’ve been in was introduced by a friend. My last one, my best friend was dating her, we were briefly in a triad together, and then monogamously started dating.

So…how does my $100k bounty help Mati? Well…there is no market for what we’re asking for. It’s kinda a weird idea. Our friends might be like “oh this is kinda cool” and help us. But they’re already our friends. If they knew someone perfect for us, they’d introduce us for free.

We want friends of friends of friends to introduce us. And for that…they need to know we’re 100% serious about this.

As for the contract - well, it would be trivial to have my attorney draft something up. But since I work in DeFi, I’d like to actually make a scalable crypto solution. Basically we will create a custodial wallet, where potential partners “stake” a percentage of the total bounty, as a proof of funds and interest. Nobody gets access to the funds until the terms of the contract are triggered. They can still be used in certain transactions and appreciate in value. They could even be in the form of a currency linked to this project, and appreciate in value as the market grows.

Now of course, I could very well find a technicality to screw you out of your bounty. But…is that really in my best interest? I’m assuming you and my partner-to-be are good friends. Would my partner really think well of me for screwing over their friend for a few gran? I mean I definitely would not date someone like that.
>At some point they simply do not provide software while blocking you from providing own software.

You knew this getting these devices. You didn’t buy it and except to be able to run android on iPhone did you?

> Perhaps it's time to question this practice and discuss the issue with potentially making such devices illegal? At least when company doesn't provide software?

Why? I don’t see a huge benefit. I don’t love it, but it’s not like you can’t run old versions or it stops working. Do you expect them to give you software updates forever once you buy it? Apple is one of the best at updating mobile.

If it was up to me I’d like to have the paid updates model again, it would stop forcing upgrades, I’m not fond of the security comes with features model, and I think it would force them to have more support for other versions, they expect everyone to always update.

Then again if you don’t like the product, don’t buy it. Many Android phones lets you do all of that, and once I set up an iMessage server to route it I’ll switch completely.

>I mean if one owns computer/iphone and cannot install own software there since those devices are locked and Apple do not provide their software with security updates what an owner of the machine should do?

What security problem are you worried about? I never update iOS from the version it came from and had never been hacked ever, I’d love to hear of anyone with that experience, I have never heard of it happening once, same with my android devices although I root. Maybe my Adblocks, blacklist, or the VPN on mobile prevents it anyway, on my home network I rely on my router to protect my devices.

Do you have a realistic fear, which exploit? Why is it scary? Best practice is to stop assuming you have any safety, updates or not, lots of unpublished backdoors, lots of ways to hack you if they really wanted to.
Shouldn't one as a customer/consumer have the right to choose which personal data is stored with the service provider? Ofcourse if some form of data is stated as mandatory by the service provider, then it's customer's choice to continue using the service or not, provided that it is clearly stated what is being stored or not.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't be surprised if service providers like Google still store some form of metadata about users even when they request for deletion of their accounts.
> As soon as memory management issue is solved [...]

What does this refer to?
I hate going to quora, visit once and you suddenly start getting loads of emails - I’ve blocked it now. Won’t go back.
Copper is awesome, and under reported as effective against Sars.
The Norman nobles that were part of William's conquest are still better off, thousand years later.
Data Mart vs. Data Warehouse vs. Database vs. Data Lake
> I think it's still laudable that Bezos is blowing his fortune on space travel instead of buying yachts full of cocaine.

He’s doing both.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/jeff-bezos-yacht/ind...
I am not a lawyer, so I can't argue on the topic of legality, but I can promise you: if you try to sell me something at 10x market price, I _will_ go around telling people you're a scammer. Then you can explain to people how you're actually not breaking any law while scamming people.
Rust memory management model ?
Could have told them that 10 years ago.
I would argue that software in current iPhones is not much more complicated, just different use case. Current state of the software in cars is not eligible for subscriptions when iPhones get free updates for years which is more than maintenance mode.

Yes, when cars finally reach the self-driving more, it sounds complicated but our knowledge also grows over time. We don’t charge extra for voice-assistant support in devices these days which was black magic 30 years ago. Similarly how current computers compares to pricing of first ones. Is coding so ”revolutionary” that we can start ignoring normal adjustment of pricing compared to every other type?
> What about passionate creators who use advertising as a means to finance their vocation?

They need to find new business models.

> What about the wide informational and educational value of media?

It's great but also a relatively tiny minority of all content. A niche really. And even those tend have ads.
Both work fairly well, are popular and performance is satisfactory (unless you try to paste an 80k line JSON file into either of them, that doesn't work). Considering their success, wide availability and vibrant ecosystems, I'd say they picked the right tool for the job.
> But for a one night stand women will approach the unicorn. This is the mode groupies are sort of operating under.

I have never seen this happen in real life with 0 alcohol involvement except for groupies in the music/film industry.

Most I have seen is that they try to show off and hangout in the very proximity, hoping that an organic conversation ensues, but they won't offer to buy a drink or be direct about it.
Read the actual link - he is looking back at the last ten years and realised he has achieved nothing because he was addicted to quora and helping people.

It pays to reflect and ask ourselves those difficult questions.
> Not releasing the source code of IME gives Intel plausible deniability against allegations of intentionally inserting backdoors.

Huh? One would think releasing the source should give them much better plausible deniability. Like, they'd just have to go: "Look at the source. See? No backdoors in there!"

> Especially for IME, which is much harder than regular software to extract and reverse engineer.

Yeah, so people would be all "Just because I couldn't find it doesn't mean it isn't hidden in there somewhere." See? Not very plausible deniability at all.
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I have no reason to believe battery production is limited by anything other than (1) demand and (2) the time required to build the battery factories; growth in production looks like it might be in the exponential part of a sigmoid right now.

This isn’t to say lithium is the last word in storage (I’d be surprised and disappointed if it was), but I don’t think you should be claiming it can’t solve our problems.

My personal preference is an antipodal power grid, which works out much cheaper if considered in isolation, but: (1) even with the political will that will take an annoyingly long to mine the resources for, and (2) mobile storage needs outweigh static needs by so much that (in the long term) a power grid can be stabilised by the batteries the car industry is waiting to recycle into new batteries.
Big component of James Oatway’s style https://james-oatway.medium.com/
We can nitpick on the definition of "scam" and the legality of it, but those words will not nullify the reputational outcomes that you will get if you try to scam people. Even if you are technically on the right side of the law, even if you only charge 3x market price instead of 10x, some of your "difficult clients" will be vocal about your business practices.
There have been massive ecological disasters in command economies too, the most famous being the locust plagues that resulted from Mao's Four Pests Campaign.

Hell, before civilisation even existed you had humans wiping out megafauna right across the world.

Regardless of what economic system we have, a technologically advanced culture that values hamburgers and Doritos over biodiversity will trample on nature to get what they want.

(I'm not making the cynical argument that humans don't inherently care about the environment - in many Australian Aboriginal cultures, for example, environmental damage was considered as great a sin as murder - just that you can't blame capitalism for wider humanity's lack of care or respect for the environment.)
How do you avoid running into things if you are reading while walking? How do you take notes?
Based on what? CPUs haven’t significantly improved performance for 10 years.
Well, sort of. The problem is it's difficult to implement a lot of extension functionality in efficient ways, and sometimes they make it too easy to do it in really really inefficient ways. Examples:

* LSP uses JSON. Even worse, VSCode uses UTF-16 internally (because Javascript does, more or less). But JSON uses UTF-8. So for correct operation VSCode converts the UTF-16 to UTF-8, and then your language server has to convert it back to UTF-16 to figure out the row/col positions (which are in UTF-16 units).

* LSP has an "easy mode" where the entire document is sent to the language server on every keypress!

* Some functions like `provideDocumentLinks()` operate on the entire document, so on every keypress (maybe it batches them I don't know), all linkifier extensions will run a load of regexes over the whole document.

There's definitely scope for a text editor with an extension API that encourages speed.
I must have missed the good early days of Quora because I have always found everything about it to be extremely sucky.
I realized I may be that much of an optimist that I don't even really understand what's it like to be a cynic. To me it seems a cynic, from how the author describes them, is a total downer and asshole who I wouldn't want to be around with it.

Having healthy grasp of reality to me is in no way harmful. On the contrary, it should be desired. Perhaps it's the hopeless atmosphere in countries with high corruption and badly working government which just saps your hope, and you stop believing things could actually work if people worked for common good.

As I myself do have a snarky view of the current world politics and whatnot but still can enjoy things, don't really complain, put things in trash bins and help strangers and so forth.
If you're a basic techie with little appreciation for the fine arts, watch a film called "Tim's Vermeer". It will make you want to go to this exhibition.
That’s just an outright lie, though.

There’s Time Machine:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/keep-your-time-mach...

Or you can run any number of third party backup software.
Why Is Nobody Making the Best Toaster Ever Made?
No ebook?
lol what a shitpost
Pure silver (99.99%) can be restored to pristine color by heating to 500C until silver sulfide decomposes. Doesn't work with sterling silver, as copper sulfides oxidize to stable copper oxide (which is black as well).
The other way of looking at this is via 3 groups in the US:

1) the bottom 90%,
2) the next 9.9%,
3) the top 0.1%

This thinking was informed by: https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/559130/
New AI Helps Predict When NAS HDDs Are About to Bite the Dust
Not strictly freelancing/clients but I think B2B is somewhat similar...

The most insightful thing that the founder of a company I used to work for decided to do was...take on less customers and grow slow and steady. This won't work for everyone or in every industry but it worked really well for that company. In B2B you can really screw yourself over if you have to deal with toxic customers. Not only can it clog you up and bind lots of resources but it can also create a horrible working environment in your own company. There was usually an initial discussion with the potential customers and if something felt off, we wouldn't take them on. The mantra I've seen at many other companies seems to be "more customers = better" but for me adding more customers without thinking too much about who you deal with is similar to trying to fix software by pouring in more hours on a death march.

So if you can afford it, always think long term not short term, don't be afraid to say no to customers and reject them outright and also don't be afraid to drop customers later. It's called customer relationship management for a reason. Try to think long and hard before starting a relationship. The second benefit of screening really hard is that you usually have very good relations with the customers that you do pick and keep. And they are usually quite happy and refer you to other potential customers. And those are usually high quality referrals because they tend to deal with people who won't turn out to be toxic, too.
Tell HN: Please leave California instead of spending much time bitching about it
The problem is not polarization of ideas, the problem is the lack of freedom and the imposition of the ideas over the others.

I love that you think that a big ass state is the best for everybody, I don't think so, so don't forefully make me pay a lot of taxes for a lot of services I don't want and I can't decide. Group yourself with people happy with that and let the others live their life without imposing them that shit.
Why should they care? Sounds like that's your job.
Lmao yes. I don’t know how OP found my repo. But the fact that it’s on HN w/o a day after I made the repo is saying something. My GH isn’t exactly spectacular or well followed. I have basically 0 real social media presence. Yet somehow the inter webs tracked it down.

I already got a few emails. Already got someone with a documentary interested in chatting w/ me and Mati.

I have a lot of stupid and impractical ideas. A LOT. This might just be on the more practical side.

As for ppl ripping it off - I very much *want* ppl to rip off this idea. I don’t care so much about the credit. I like credit as much as the next guy, but I want more than credit is for this idea to come to be, and help me find a life partner. The more ppl are “ripping off” my idea, the bigger the market for folks who are willing to connect me to what I actually want.

You may say I ripped of Mati in a way. Mati couldn’t be happier lol.

That’s why the repo is under Creative Commons. Go for it, fork it, use it. You have my legal blessing.
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It may be much better. This is a single case and we get every single case reported. The problem is that computer vision is not the same as human vision and at some point we may end up with a situation close to "this car drives itself perfectly apart from running over a completely obvious, well visible person once a year". And it's going to be a really hard one to process for many people.