skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most operating systems have FTP support of some sort built in somewhere.

My go to solution on Android is an open source file browser app called Material Files that has a simple FTP server built-in. Start the server (note the IP and port) then connect over local WiFi using native File Explorer in Windows to easily browse and transfer between phone and desktop

I'm sure something similar can be done with iOS and Linux but probably in a less intuitive manner. I don't do Apple but this looks like it has potential to be part of the solution.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fe-file-explorer-file-manager/...
Totally agree. Sport card collecting is just as ridiculous as the concept of NFTs.

A piece of thin cardboard changing in value based on a guy hitting more home runs.

Stamps and coins are the WW2 generation version of all this.

Practically everyone has their own personal form of gambling and at the same time everyone believes all the other forms of gambling are foolish.
Long Now Years: Five-Digit Dates and Y10K-Compliance at Home (02013)
I think what you're missing is the reputation of the person who poses the question.

I think the idea is that you don't get questions like on Quora, asked by internet randos. Nobody would bet on those, for exactly the reasons you brought up.

But someone who already has a following, someone who has a strong reputation in the field that the question is about, would create quite the controversy and lose much of their audience if they'd first strongly signal boost their question among said audience, and subsequently pick the wrong answer.

So I think the idea is, when choosing what questions to bet on, you're not only thinking about the question itself but also about the trustworthiness of who poses it. A bit like Kickstarter in a way. That makes it part of the risk, maybe even part of the fun.

This also means that this service will fail if they don't manage to attract sufficiently high-profile people to pose questions and signal boost them.
Indeed, the classic line, "Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison," seems apropos here.
This is a fairly deceptive statement. The Korea Future Initiative received a grand total of $50,000 (about 16% of its total fundraising) in 2020 from the NED.

https://www.ned.org/region/asia/north-korea-2020/

https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari...
I think it's half Utrecht and half Amsterdam. Amsterdam also has been very busy making it's center as car free as possible.
Also worth a look, built as a static web spa

https://github.com/lana-k/sqliteviz
> copyright holders do in fact declare ... and pay taxes on [IP]

Or they sell the IP to a shell company in a tax haven and lease it at an artificial price, so the balance sheet shows no profit or even a loss. It's one of the largest sources of tax evasion out there.

A system like the one midasuni proposed would actually be an interesting patch for the tax system.

Here's a similar (but different) idea from some IP law professors:
https://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/62-1-1.pdf

It's not perfect or fully fleshed out. Derivative works would raise a bunch of questions. And you couldn't use one regulatory framework for all different types of intellectual property, obviously, even though different kinds of IP can be used in this sort of tax dodge.

It's a proposal to enrich public access to orphaned works while closing a major corporate tax loophole. Saying "all this would do is benefit big business" is a surprising take here. It'd probably have some unintended consequences, any change this big would. Might be unworkable in practice. But it certainly wouldn't ONLY help big corporations. A ton of ordinary people would benefit immediately from something like this.
"Long form" is great but this is longer than that. Into the realm of pointless persiflage.

If I understand correctly, the problem is the existence of 3 corkscrews in their drawer? And the big one works best... So throw out the other two? Or at least relegate them to deep storage?

This might not even be a problem, with proper propitiation of Anoia.

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Anoia
Cries in Symantec Endpoint Protection with "file access scans" turned on, compiling a fairly average .NET solution
AMP is being discontinued?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages#Depre...
+1 on "The AWK Programming Language". I'm a big fan of the book (in fact, I just purchased a copy that is as old as I am from ebay, just to own it. I originally read the version on archive.org).

To provide another example for documentation I found to be similarly well-written is the guide on dtrace.org [1].

[1]: https://dtrace.org/guide/preface.html
Maybe we should just reform money then, capitalism is fine according to your problem description, the problem is fractional reserve banking. Maybe bitcoin, gold, or some similar idea would solve your entire concern? Often times people refer to gold money as "honest money" in contrast to FIAT money (money declared into existence by the government).
Two tangential "yes and" points:

1)

I'm not smart enough to understand differential privacy.

So my noob mental model is: Fuzz the data to create hash collisions. Differential privacy's heuristics guide the effort. Like how much source data and how much fuzz you need to get X% certainty of "privacy". Meaning the likelihood someone could reverse the hash to recover the source identity.

BUT: This is entirely moot if original (now fuzzed) data set can be correlated with another data set.

2)

All PII should be encrypted at rest, at the field level.

I really wish Wayner's Translucent Databases was more well known. TLDR: Wayner shows clever ways of using salt+hash to protect identity. Just like how properly protected password files should be salt+hash protected.

Again, entirely moot if protected data is correlated with another data set.

http://wayner.org/node/46

https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Databases-Peter-Wayner/dp...

Bonus point 3)

The privacy "fix" is to extend property rights to all personal data.

My data is me. I own it. If someone's using my data, for any reason, I want my cut.

Pay me.
Income tax generates tax revenue just as well, and the government’s incentive to protect copyrights domestically is the fact that it is the law. Internationally is a matter of politics, but I do not see a clear black and white answer for why copyright would need to be enforced internationally.
You mean like this? - https://leesaapp.com/
"Most individual genes don’t have a huge effect on overall health," that's like saying you can just delete or inject bugs into functions/ classes from your software and it will all work just fine
Beeminder[0] is a similar app — one that I've been a happy user of for 5+ years[1].

(Beeminder was also mentioned in a subthread reply by darrenf[2])

[0]: https://www.beeminder.com

[1]: https://www.beeminder.com/codesections/gallery

[2]: That reply read:

> Beeminder[0] is another. I particularly like that they keep a list of competitors in this space[1] - active, up and coming, dormant or dead. OP, perhaps you could think about asking Beeminder to add you to their list :)

> [0] https://www.beeminder.com/overview

> [1] https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/
I think you misunderstood my point. There are ways of deanonymizing data, just by looking at the data alone. In fact, this is the standard assumption.

This watchdog stuff is nice for the "good" actors, but irrelevant for adversaries.
There are people who have no attachment to their kids and would happily use them as ammunition in personal conflicts, as cheap labour for their business, or as property to exchange for other goods.

Don’t assume that everyone else subscribes to your morality, ideology or “ethics”. It’s a brutal world out there and some people value power much more than you do.
I understand your concern, but I think that publishing these papers is important. It puts on the record what investigators have looked at for others to parse and decide if they want to investigate further.

Although I do agree that you can find associations between many different things, establishing causality is important for making the information more actionable.
Oh wow. I wasn't expecting it to actually load and emulate an entire OS in my browser. It's an actual full OS too, with finder/explorer fully working. I thought it would be something like a proxy + web archive.

I chose geocities as of 1996. It booted mac os 7. Then IE threw an error at me. Then I entered google.com to the URL bar out of curiosity, thinking it would load actual modern google. Only to be greeted with "Google Search Engine Prototype". Lol.
> Nobody is stepping on anyone’s face

I mean, this just isn't true though, Bell was hurting people. I don't think these communities are making this stuff up; oppression is real.

I also don't think anyone is saying you personally are stepping on people's faces, what people like me are saying is that discrimination and anti-community policies/actions against disabled communities exist. I'm not sure why that statement is controversial.

Bell was advocating for eugenics. I actually don't think he got up in the morning and thought he was doing something bad, I think he probably thought he was trying to help deaf people. But he was doing something bad, he was contributing to deaf cultural suppression and advocating for eugenics. Separating people's actions from their intentions can be good, but only if we don't allow the intentions to completely override their actions.

And I've read enough accounts of people who have gone through BMT to know that there is actual harm that's happening around these communities, they're not making it up.

> to claim that they cannot think for themselves because their faces are being stepped on.

I think you might possibly be reading some intentions into the author that aren't there. No one is claiming this, it's your own leap of logic. People are pointing out there there are policies (intentional or not) that suppress communities and hurt people. GP isn't saying you're part of those policies, nor are they saying they speak for everyone about what that oppression looks like, the comment you're replying to never uses the words "we" or "us", only "I" and "me".

This seems relatively uncontroversial to me. We can agree that suppressing sign language or performing electroshock therapy on autistic kids is wrong -- regardless of what anyone's intentions are.
Here's another one I'm working on [0]. Run it as a desktop Electron app or as a server/web app. There's also a serverless/in-memory web app demo running here [1].

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation

[1] https://app.datastation.multiprocess.io
Just to follow up, it's about 16 seconds on a MacBook Air. 7 seconds of that are iBoot, and 9 are macOS. If you turn off the startup chime sound (which is a checkbox in system settings), that cuts out 2 seconds of iBoot time and makes it 14 seconds total.

For comparison, a ThinkPad X230 running Arch takes 7 seconds to GRUB (which I skipped through as fast as possible), FDE unlock prompt at the 12 sec mark, and after typing in my password it takes a further 13 seconds to get to a graphical login prompt (so 25 seconds total time).

Honestly, adjusting for the fact that Linux does fewer things before the FDE unlock than macOS, and more things after it and before the login prompt (I've got a few extra daemons and thing installed), I'd say they're quite comparable. The MacBook is a bit better (2s faster firmware without the chime).

Of course, half the point of these machines is they can run weeks while in sleep mode (or even while powered on as long as the CPU is idle and the display is off) and they have practically instant wake. So boot time isn't really relevant, since you rarely have to shut down.
I'm shocked there's no chapter in my city!

São Paulo has so many universities and computer science groups.
Any have any tips for getting started on reading a paper? It’s like reading something in a different language.
What do you mean here? I am asking because this is potentially useful.
I’ve always thought that the Roman dodecahedrons were like a badge of government finance ministry activity and were carried exclusively by tax collectors traveling far from Rome.
Clearly I think it’s immoral to visit North Korea and therefore I won’t do so. I also think it’s wrong for others to do it and those people should be called out for doing so. Those who do visit North Korea should be judged for doing so and callled out.

You answered the question as it is literally stated. Clearly the intent of the question, as is common with most language, was deeper than a superficial interpretation gives.
Companies usually provide the space and will sponsor pizza and drinks, at least in SF. That’s about all the costs beyond the time of the organizers which is offered for free.
I'd like to contribute a collection of my own: changes in Dutch streets from 2008-ish to today, captured on Google Streetview: https://twitter.com/z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z/status/14646977114422067...

Even in the last decade, they've still been hard at work upgrading streets, and even some of them more subtle redesigns are absolutely stunning. Dutch street design is really one of the wonders of the modern world, IMO.
That's quite a number of bad-faith assumptions in your comment, which are also incidentally wrong.

> e makes it super annoying

I rest my case?
That's great, but it worked fine for decades including under actual communists. And the EU has few other options. And their allies refuse to help. And it's those same allies that have upset Putin.

So maybe not entirely their fault even if it is their problem (I'm a Brit for full disclosure)
You say by DEFINITION of social utility everyone's contribution should have equal weight?

Are you saying the fat lazy guy sitting on his arse eating cheetos and playing viddeo games have as much value to society as the cardiac surgeon working 14 hours a day and saving several lives per week ?

Why would you bring such a terrible statement ?
I honestly hope you are trolling, because if you normalise such bs in your own mind, you are harming yourself - programming your own mind to accept bad ideas as normal, training it to make bad decisions in all areas of your life if you are not very careful.

PS: WHO's definition of social utlity are you using, and why are you uncritically imbibing it ?
That's a massive oversimplification which came out of non-scientific 12 step literature and is simply not true in many situations.

I have on many occasions beaten back total anhedonia and a desire to die with a few drinks. It's not an optimal solution obviously, but when your options are limited it is sometimes quite preferable to not drinking.
> We've originally been told that we shouldn't consider to medical opinions of those that are not trained scientists. Fair enough.

I don't think it's fair enough. I like the Royal Society's motto: 'Nullius in verba' (meaning 'take nobody's word for it'). Look at the quality of the study, the data, and the statistical results instead of taking someone's word because they are "a scientist". I think that if a lay-person can use the Cochrane library, understand what they are reading, and retains a solid grasp of the meta-analysis of the trials, then I'll take their opinion on a subject as quickly as that of "some scientist" who has been pedaling debunked theories.
Kudos for the donation to charity!

I wonder how the other for-profit in this space keep their business running, considering the amount of disputes that must come from users.

For example, I know that Stripe is very strict on the disputes percent[1]...

1 - https://stripe.com/docs/disputes/measuring#:~:text=Dispute%2....
It's not generally possible "to engage with the present and find meaning and small pleasures in it" when the present is time-pressure stress with constant high adrenaline levels.

You can _disengage from the present_ and obtain relaxation that way, but the adrenaline is there for a reason, to focus the mind and obtain high performance for high stakes situations.

But like I said people normally cope with such by imagining a future (realistic or not) that gives meaning to the high stress present. The present isn't "small pleasures" but _is_ part of an internal narrative about the future and therefore meaningful.

> Depression affects the wealthy as well as the poor

Yes, but at roughly half the rate.
We used to think Teflon and the like were fine, until we found these compounds lasting basically forever in the environment and interacting with proteins.

In my opinion, a better default is to avoid when possible although its difficult to escape them everywhere. We are surrounded by plastics, and for good reason. They've done amazing things especially in the medical field.
Don’t see why the government should be profiting so much out of that.
Goodbye, Goldman Sachs
I built my own table-oriented language out of frustrations I had with with time-series analysis:

https://www.empirical-soft.com

Empirical has statically typed Dataframes. It can infer the type of a file's contents at compile time using a ton of metaprogramming techniques.

>>> let trades = load("trades.csv")

>>> trades
symbol timestamp price size
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:00.578802 210.5200 780
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:00.580485 210.8100 390
BAC 2019-05-01 09:30:00.629205 30.2500 510
CVX 2019-05-01 09:30:00.944122 117.8000 5860
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:01.002405 211.1300 320
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:01.066917 211.1186 310
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:01.118968 211.0000 730
BAC 2019-05-01 09:30:01.186416 30.2450 380
CVX 2019-05-01 09:30:01.639577 118.2550 2880
... ... ... ...

Functions have generic typing by default; the caller determines the type instantiation. Here is a weighted average:

>>> func wavg(ws, vs) = sum(ws * vs) / sum(ws)

Queries are built into the language. Here is a five-minute volume-weighted average price:

>>> from trades select vwap = wavg(size, price) by symbol, bar(timestamp, 5m)
symbol timestamp vwap
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:30:00 210.305724
BAC 2019-05-01 09:30:00 30.483875
CVX 2019-05-01 09:30:00 119.427733
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:35:00 202.972440
BAC 2019-05-01 09:35:00 30.848397
CVX 2019-05-01 09:35:00 119.431601
AAPL 2019-05-01 09:40:00 204.671388
BAC 2019-05-01 09:40:00 30.217362
CVX 2019-05-01 09:40:00 117.224763
... ... ...

Everything is statically typed. Misspelled column names, for example, result in an error before the script is even run!
> I don't want to just blindly blame JS. Look at this page! JS can be amazing! And I love stuff like Figma (as it's so fast and optimized).

I agree with your point, but I have to point out that Figma is mostly built on C++/WASM.
This might be useful: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...

If you find there is just too much unfamiliar technical language, it’s a good idea to pause and look up a definition. You might need to follow that chain several steps, but that will help you get to an understanding of new terms.
Meanwhile some of us think it exists and use it to decide to leave alone after grabbing coffee.

Nothing good comes out of thinking free will doesn't exist. It is just a massive cop-out.

Furthermore a lot of history cannot be properly explained without it.

Last, even if it somehow was true and every act of defiance was just a mental illness everyone would be better of not being aware of it.

In fact anyone that mentions that free will doesn't exist actually makes me appreciate even more that I have one and also to embrace the opportunities it gives me.

There, see you later :-)
Read The Power Broker. It was Robert Moses who invented the idea of ramming highways through cities, and he did a brilliant job of selling urban planners around the world on his vision (he would wine and dine them at his mansion, for instance).
It's interesting how the modern usage hasn't crossed over into it's noun form, "facility," which, though essentially the same word, has overtones of competence rather than laziness or ignorance.
(Or maybe no one uses that word, and it's sense hasn't changed bc I only read it in books?)
These are mostly replacements rather than first cameras. It's still a shrinking niche relative to smartphone photography.
"He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used"

-- William Faulkner, of Ernest Hemmingway

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

-- Hemmingway, of Faulkner

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/26/dictionary/
While I don't doubt there will be rising tensions over access to natural fresh water, I somehow doubt that it would actually be transported, at least on a global scale.

For that the sheer amount you need, the transportation costs, and the already existing, never mind the potential improvements in, desalination solutions are just too disproportionate in costs to each other to actually be at least exactly like oil today.
It's more a problem of how expensive is it going to be to have enough drinkable water locally, then that it is ever cheaper to get from somewhere far away.
Also depends a lot on the electricity prices and amount thereof we are going to have available.
>>I mean, you can make the same exact argument about any exploitation of poor people for entertainment purposes

Paying poor people, who are grateful for the opportunity to feed their family, is not exploitiation. People heeding your admonishments against 'exploitation' would lead to more suffering, and no party being better off. It's pure politicization of interactions, at the expense of actual real life humans.

>>The rich folks are buying in to make a gain, not entertain themselves

It's a game, with a competitive element, so obviously some proportion are playing for entertainment.

>>Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff were just ahead of their time, apparently. Given sufficient mental gymnastics, they too could have been captains of industry.

Your hyperbolic comparison, between a game with digital assets, and actual ponzi schemes, is immature.

And arguing that digital assets, which become far more durable forms of property when NFTized on blockchains, can find economic utility as a store of value, is a completely reasonable argument, and your extreme reaction to this, full of snark and hyperbole, suggests your stance on this is far too motivated by emotion and bias to assess it.
Actually for Amsterdam there is a well known example: traffic expert David A. Jokinen, partly funded by the car lobby group Stichting Weg, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan

Fortunately his plans never came to much because of fierce opposition. They are representative of a certain way of thinking at the time though.
Correct. I grew up in the 80ties in Utrecht. The central station area and its mall (Hoog Catharijne) are / were prime examples of utterly failing city government, planning and architecture. It was hideous even in it's hay day.

Crime, drug abuse etc. were are totally common when I went there to ride my skateboard on rainy days.
I put date fields that accepted 5 digits in a data entry form in like 1997; by request: the customer was very concerned about Y2k.

They asked for that to be changed back to 4 digits within 2 weeks of deployment. The people actually using the software demanded the ability to enter 2 digit dates and have the system fill in "19" or "20" as appropriate too.

Of course that was what I'd written in the first place, so the actual work required was going and changing the STOOPIT_DATES flag back to 0.
I didn't know about this, perhaps this makes or could have made systemd redundant?
Lovely link! A testimonial to the calming power of bricks over asphalt, bikes over cars and hedges over parking spaces.