skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine how it must be to be surrounded by 1.3M homes and multi-thousand dollar apartments when you're broke, not well paid, and can barely afford any of it? Homelessness and crime are both things that people are much more likely to resort to in a society with wildly inequal distributions of wealth than in one where everyone is in a similar place.

> The crime isn't a direct symptom of government dysfunction

does everyone have to live in SF? if you provide them with enough infrastructure, then the answer is "no". if you don't provide infrastructure then you have a problem. anyway, all of these issues have been solved around the world. the US and CA governments just need to look to other countries for examples.
> All I said was that chess.com games start much faster than lichess:) That's it:)

No, you didn't say that. You said:

> For me games are far easier and quicker to setup with chess.com

which the other poster refuted. I don't know if you understand how disagreements work, but typically one would provide evidence to their claim, which is what the other poster did. It seems you take offense and are confused by this.
Its entirely possibly the devs responsible for this hadn't even heard of the GPL or hadn't even read the license or just did it and didn't care about the consequences for their employer.
1. Teixeira misrepresented his research to the IRB, or

2. The IRB is grossly incompetent or unimaginative

My experience with IRB's is that they are often extremely conservative in their interpretations. Legal liability is attached to them. Human-involved research requires an order of magnitude more review to get approved. There are gray areas, and my (very limited) direct observations are that people will try to frame their material to avoid the extra review. I can't rely completely on Princeton's reputation for this, but if I had to guess, Ross either did a poor job presenting to the IRB or deliberately downplayed the nature of the of things.
> Responses to the study have been overwhelmingly positive

7 days ago my response to this study included that the "vague legal threat at the end of your mail is immoral and gross". I guess he considered that a positive.
What does HN recommend these days for app hosting? I'm a solo dev without deep pockets. I was looking at Linode and DO, but posts like this have me worried about the later.
I actually think he intentionally worked with (some of) these other youtubers. I've been enjoying watching all the "regulars" I follow on youtube challenge his assertions.
I can see how this could work in English. I’m not sure if there are other languages in which 3/4 of a word carries more meaning. (I’m a primary English speaker, so this concern could be unfounded.)
The article wasn't presented as any sort of proof of mechanism or even authoritative description of what's happening.

An aside: I'll venture a guess that the majority of discoveries in human history started by throwing out Occam's razor. I don't understand why it's such a religion on HN.
Sure. In my view there are two things that are unethical about this email.

The first is that they lied about who they were (and lied by omission about the purpose of the email). The ethics of deceiving someone for research are complicated, but should go through an IRB evaluation. Since they avoided the IRB by claiming it was a study about process, they should have avoided the ethics issues from lying in the survey.

They should have been up-front and honest about who they were, and why they were asking the question.

If their research truly requires deceiving the participant (and, I’m not at all convinced that it does), then it needed to be rigorously evaluated by the IRB, which almost certainly should and should have rejected it.

Second, their research makes a demand for a response “without undue delay”, rather than a request. That is also unethical, as it’s misrepresenting the law and implying a response within 45 days is required by law. It is not.

Many of the involuntary subject participants are not subject to the cited provision of the law. As such, demanding a response within the time frame and citing that provision of the law is misleading. Also, the law makes no requirement for a business to respond to such a query within 45 days. The legislative text is here (https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-civ...) and the only 45 day window that exists is for responding to an actual CCPA request, which this query explicitly disclaimed from being. So even if this was a business required to comply with CCPA, they are not required to respond to this query. So, they lied (by implication) to claim that provision of the law approach lied to the business, and lied (explicitly) by claiming the law created a duty to respond to the email within a 45 day period, which it does not.
> How is the governor of Indiana closer to dealing with international relations?

Close in the sense that his successor as Indiana Governor was Mike Pence. I almost want to say the only reason Daniels wasn't in that spot was timing.
I have to ask: but why? The author correctly concludes that the human mind is software, but then their survival instinct gets the better of them and they don't carry this thought to its logical conclusion. And that is: death is a feature, not a bug.

The planet-wide human computer happens to run its computation by transferring some state from the current generation of humans to the next via a mixture of lip flapping, squiggles on paper, and backlit screens panels. In doing so it performs pruning of the state: every detail is not transferred.

In essence, a person pushing for immortality is a single selfish genome with a singular purpose: replicate to the detriment of maximizing the global utility of the system. The system by design will try its best to thwart this effort.
Ask HN: Why Telegram gets no love from HN?
Every time I come across a mention of Telegram here, most of the comments vehemently attack it for bad encryption approach and misleading users.

Smoothly running a communication platform for 500 millions MAU with unlimited uploads volume seems to be a huge technical endeavor. I would expect people working in tech to be interested in it and support the ingenuity behind it. I guess many of us would say that it’s a too complicated task to handle. Somebody who actually can do it, like Nikolai (Pavel’s brother) Durov, a multiple winner of international programming competitions, may rightfully consider himself to be smarter/more knowledgeable in this area than most other people. There was no major leaks or downtime yet during their rapid growth, so for now his calculations hold true. (This doesn’t assume a proprietary protocol was a right decision).

I’m not saying that security flaws should be ignored; I’m just surprised no one tries to get in their shoes and treat the project as a whole.
There are bounties of people with wealth that gladly give charitably. Many organizations, especially religious institutions, exist with a core mission of helping the impoverished. Why everyone pushes the responsibility of helping their community off to the government is beyond me, especially given the clowfare which are our politicians. Nobody would ever give them the reigns to a business because hardly any of them have experience in business.

Could more be done, of course! But the problem is that the government keeps requiring people to give them money so they can do the job, which leaves everyone else worse off since government never spends more efficiently than the private sector. I lose ~30% of my income immediately. Think what could be done with it if I were to allocate it instead of the government.

Not having property is not proper justification for violating the rights of others.

Edit: let me tack on that nobody benefits from impoverished citizens. They are a net drag as they need supporting either through charity or through social programs. It is in everyone's best interest to help end it, but of course you cannot violate the rights of others which means you cannot forcibly hold a mentally sick person against their will, for example. The problem with social programs is everyone shrugs off the duty because "the government is fixing it" while ignoring the whole of the moral hazard each and every new government program creates.
> so what does it mean to say that electricity doesn't travel through wires?

I think it’s specifically that the energy flux has a well-defined vector at every point in an electromagnetic field, and those vectors do not point along the wires.
I read your link earlier today, and have been thinking about it; I particularly like the pedagogy of rebuilding it "in the small" with your MiniTokio example.

I don't know Rust. If I had to guess, this means that you've reused Rust's threads for tasks, such that they may not be done computing when a resource is available? In any event, I want to circle back to the OP, and note that runtime visualizations like this are awesome, and conversations like this is why. I personally don't think anyone spends enough time dwelling in their runtime(s), and certainly no async runtime has good visualizations, so its pretty cool to me that tokio-console is taking the lead here. I've been bullish on Rust for 5 years; maybe it's time to try it out for reals.
This could be written about any cloud provider. I for instance have had a much better time using DO than other cloud services but it’s all anecdotal. If your trying to optimize for customer support buy and run your own datacenter.
Any link to the text version of those charts?
We are using record amounts of coal globally.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-coal-power-expected-to-h...
Same could be said about almost all of the "technology" field most of us work in. I mean think of how many people dream of being a game developer... what a shock that must be.
I've heard stuff like that for pretty much any hosting company. Are there any companies that don't do that? How do they guarantee it?
Does Firebase offer self-hosting these days?

What do you say to those who don't want Google to know their usage info?
From google

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Aside from the Agnelli family, smaller shareholders in the company include Cadbury, Rothschild (21%), Schroder, Layton and other family interests as well as a number of staff and former staff shareholders.
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A dedicated 2FA token (yubikey, or many other brands) is also a reasonable option, and many systems support these standards (U2F/FIDO2).
I’d hire the graphic artist that put that together instantly.
> a more basic problem which is victimization. And that sits on an even deeper layer of lack of competence broadly speaking on what to do about it.

Maybe the issue is that our culture, economy, and technology has become so complex and exotic that very few people understand anything about how anything really works. We are surrounded by layers and layers of "magic." This might feel tremendously disempowering to people, especially older people who recall a simpler era when things were more understandable.

Feeling like a victim seems to be a really common sentiment across the board.
A new game called Hyperbolica is being developed to explore new geometries [0]. It will be interesting to see how people playing the game compare the experience to their previous trips.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMKLeS-Uq_8
It probably fits within the free tier limits of a managed pubsub service.
Thanks! This comment made me happy :-)

I do think about how photography’s claim to authority - its claim to represent some objective reality we all live in - is being questioned by the prevalence of filters and photoshop on social media.

It is not that social media is a digital reflection of the physical world, but more of an alternate reality in which we all have digital avatars that may or may not correspond to a physical self.
It is better for someone that does support the Chinese government not to voice their support in the West. It will avoid many conflicts. This goes for pretty much anyone who agrees with an unpopular regime and is a popular practice.
> there is way too much identity politics now

It's a strategy to divide the working class. With raising inequality you need to do something with the people that are unhappy. Or you give them money, and reduce inequality so they are happier; or you give them an enemy to fight so they forget about the money.

A similar thing happened after the great depression of the 30s and culminated with communism and fascism rising to power. Communism was driven by angry workers that wanted a fair share of the money. Fascism was driven by identity politics and workers more worried about identity than money, they wanted everybody to be like the ideal themselves.

So, or we end inequality, or communism comes back, or identity politics takes over. For me the first option is the best, but it's very difficult to achieve.
And that's gobs. What's your typical space between the lines in a pair? Five mils? You run them side by side and you'd be hard pressed to make a length error significant enough to matter. Yeah you do need to be aware of it enough to ask whether you're good when you're routing a really weird loop.. but for the vast majority of things and sane routing, you can just eyeball it or don't need to care at all.

Point is, a lot of people seem to think length matching is critical ("for anybody that is working on anything over couple hundred megahertz") and application notes would have you believe as much but the industry experts and theory I've found suggest it's way overstated.
I’m in a similar position at the moment and I’d suggest if you were considering DO, to take a look at Vultr and UpCloud.

I’ve found support response time from both so far to be excellent (UpCloud in particular though their feature set is just slightly behind Vultr and DO currently).

I had been testing the water with DO with a view to hosting some production stuff with them, but I’ve seen a few too many similar stories like this one and decided to get out of DO and rule them out for production stuff for now. Many of their direct competitors seem to provide much better support at lower levels of spend too.
Log4j patch to fix serious zero-day needs a patch also
The someone else's computer is not the problem. Most of us take someone else's plane (or more climate-friendly train) and stay at someone else's hotel.

The problem is that customer "service" is handled by algorithms with no chance to reach competent humans who have the power to make reasonable decisions.
This comment needs several fact checks
And? It's very precise and describes exactly what happened.
Not entirely. If the selection process ensures that the brightest (and luckiest) minds are all together, they will still be able to benefit one another over time, even if they didn't gain access to capital or connections beyond their cohort.
I received exactly the same email with a different sender ("Anna Roland", a resident of San Francisco, California) and was also left quite paranoid by it. The email had an combative tone and felt like a legal threat.
Trolling 2.0?
Why would the landlord choose to rent at below market rates? I think we've drifted from the question of whether the rental apartment market is competitive.

If a landlord chooses to consistently rent below market rates, for whatever foolish reason, then they'll probably wind up selling the building to someone who knows what the market rate is. It might take a while, but it'll happen eventually.
I thought it was the Poynting vector? Easy to remember because it points in the direction of power flow :)
Are you saying your differential line is causing EMI if it's not length matched?

Or are you saying that the receiver won't do a good enough job cancelling common mode noise if you're not length matched? For that, I'd like to have a reference. Otherwise I'm not convinced this is more critical than the max skew to keep your crossings in the right region.
I thought similar - it's such a routine and basic task to set up and run A/B testing to measure and optimize websites and apps for preferred conscious or subconscious response to visual stimuli. If this is a human subject research and human subject research without consent is a crime against humanity, most if not any proper web developer and the whole Web industry collectively are technically guilty of such a mouthful and abstract crime, which by the way I think they are.
To be completely fair, I think at least some portions of the SAT are distinctly more difficult without a strong reading background.

You can definitely cram for the grammar / math portions, but the reading comprehension sort of just requires a lot of reading experience. There isn't a rote set of things you can memorize to get a high score, which could arguably be seen as good or bad.

Maybe more practically, we should consider: Do lower income students read less on average? And if so, is the difference greater than their ability to gain access to tutoring services / prep books which can be used for the crammable portions of the exam?
There are three things that you can demand of a company (that meets certain revenue thresholds) if you’re a California resident:

- that they delete information about you that they have (with potential exceptions)
- that they provide you with what information they have about you, and for what purposes they have that information (with exceptions)
- that they opt you out of sharing data with other entities (with exceptions)

You cannot, as implied by the email, demand a response to an arbitrary query. There are essentially three queries the companies are required to answer with 45 days (90, if they opt for the 45 day extension). So, it can certainly be helpful in some situations, but will not serve as a general purpose CS tool.
I'm always proud when it happens. The feeling is more like, "See! I'm not crazy! You guys said it was a dumb idea but now X Corporation is doing it!"

Competition is a different thing with tech. There's more worry that the market doesn't exist than there is that someone is going to take market share.
Seriously, it reads like someone begging to go back with an abuser. If a company treated me like this, why would I ever want to do business with them again? You see this kind of reasoning with other, non-addictive services too.

Alice: [COMPANY X] ripped me off, took my money and won't refund me!

Bob: Just issue a credit chargeback for fraud.

Alice: But, then [COMPANY X] will ban me!

Bob: Why do you want to continue a relationship with a company that abused you?

There is no way on earth I'd scan a copy of my driver license to send to someone like Facebook, or take a "360 degree video of my face" just to supplicate myself to them in the vain hope they might allow me to become part of their revenue stream. This is totally bonkers.
"“Students who do not submit standardized test scores will not be disadvantaged in their application process, their applications will be considered on the basis of what they have presented"

Yeah, a mugshot with clearly visible tattoos will get them to Harvard, for sure
That's basically what we did with https://github.com/auxoncorp/ferros, Bundle Rust programs together as tasks to run atop the formally verified seL4 microkernel.
Actually, I fall right into this category. I’m a mathematician who has just started to program for “real” this year (Python mostly, trying to learn C++, and Mathematica if you consider it a language). Actually, I find it hard to criticize anything about these languages, and most of the time I find my thinking aligns quite well with them.

The main thing I wish for is not a feature in the language, but introductory books for an audience like myself.
The IRB is underneath the RIA. If this was the IRB's screwup, it's the RIA they will answer to. And probably a nice chat with general counsel to assess any liability.
Same. I’m neither asking for nor wanting any kind of a settlement or anything. I just want them not to do it again.
The world’s first smartphone, Simon, was created 15 years before the iPhone
Pro-CCP students from China harassing an Anti-CCP student (or at least one critical of) from China while guests at a college in the US, about that students expression on his views of Tienanmen Square while in the US. Also, it seems, based on those statements made in the US, his family is being persecuted back in China. How does one separate politics when it's entirely political?
I got banned by Pinterest by mistake. I found a site which just said to pester the shit out of them for months and eventually they would capitulate. This technique worked. Took about 2 weeks of constantly filing appeals at least once a day. Eventually some support drone re-enabled me.
But Kafka does significantly more.

And if your needs are simpler like in this case then there are dozens of smaller pub/sub/queue systems that you could compare this to.
Workshop Note: On Ambition
That's actually a great point. To create, you need to throw out preconceptions like the razor. But to achieve persistence, simplifying ruthlessly... ie bringing the razor back in, helps. It's a bit like brainstorming: if you shut the idea stream down with the cold water of rationality, you lose what could have been really good ideas.
Pharma has a higher obligations to ensure they don't abuse their perceived authority. Think of it as say a cop commit 1st degree murder vs a hobbo doing it the same. Everyone I know of would prescribe that cop with steeper sentence while not so for hobbo and some would pity. Of course in actual reality rarely cop would get that while a hobbo in every multiverse would have higher chances getting convicted. Pharma in general will actively exploit all legal avenue to sell you their drugs. Some even skirt the boundary of illegality. With enough influence, they can outright do wrong things KNOWINGLY.
And it is these set differences that elicit people to seemingly have that contradictory response when it comes to "drugs should be legal and available".
Lot of dislikes on this - but I find Airbyte to be a great idea - and really exciting for a lot of people. Just because you -can- write a SQL extract in CRON - you're missing a lot of the features that you don't have to face until you hit scale. At that point you're in trouble.
IMAO, they shouldn't try. They should say, "Facebook connects you to your friends and family, and you should expect the degree of validity of information shared by your friends and family to be similar to that of the information they share with you in real life. If you want good information in your feed, hold your friends and family accountable for what they say."
Would you be willing to to sell all of your vehicles and sign a time-charter contract with Uber to manage all of your ground transportation for the foreseeable future?
OK, nice discussion.
What do you like about hey.com?
Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobil Refinery in Torrance, CA
Just read an article about employers increasingly monitoring their WFH employees with software installed on their computers. This is the "sitting at a desk and typing" measure of productivity. How do they propose monitoring the "solving problems by thinking hard" measure of productivity?
And why is it important for GPL to be honoured in this case? Like.. what protection is GPL providing here and to whom exactly?
People seem to forget that it's a heuristic, not an actual logical inference.
I have never had any problems with Hetzner, but I suspect someone who has will reply to this comment.
> What imperial bullies?

There are a lot of countries in Europe. Most of them were not bullies or, at least, were far less bullies than their neighbors: Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Romania, ...

Even some of the big empires (e.g.: Netherlands, Belgium) actually went through the experience of being bullied.
Not necessarily, some of the 0.1% may have poor opinion of the other, may have specific expectations about the environment for their offspring and not every group is equally influential. For example, since we're talking about Harvard - it definitely wasn't purely about money when in 1920s Harvard implemented Lowell's quota to reduce the number of Jewish students.