skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, not quite. They're definitely an improvement to centralized silos, and there's a prominent place for AP in the future of the web. But a big problem with the spec IMO is that it relies on domain names to identify servers.

To really rake things to the next step, we need public key addressing. Ubiquitous adoption of IPv6 would suffice, but public key addressing would be better. Either way, using a domain as a permanent identifier is a fragile and brittle.

Another big problem with AP is that the spec is extensible in ill defined ways while being designed with current social UX in mind, thus counterintuitively making it needlessly restrictive. So there are interoperation problems with different server software that implement the spec differently (look at federating servers like peertube, Lemmy and mastodon, while possible, it is clanky), meanwhile it has to be modified to support ForgeFed (which is what gitea will be using to federate forges).
The concept is cool but the implementation seems to be completely wrong.

For example, look at New York City around dusk, and if you zoom out it's mostly yellow, but if you zoom in it's mostly black.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It does now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

>South Korean universities were shut down, newspaper offices were closed, and any political activity that went against the policies of General Chun Doo-hwan were strictly banned. In further details, all public gatherings that included more than three party were forbidden with an only exception for funerals. With the Korean news media muzzled by martial law, only the handful of foreign correspondents present could publish reports on what was happening in Gwangju — no easy task, given the army cordon. Telephone lines had been cut by the military; some reporters walked miles to villages to line up at the nearest phones still working. Soon after, General Chun Doo-hwan broadened the terms of martial law into the entire country of South Korea and rigorously kept in check with suspicious activities that seemed to be promoting democracy. Thus all pro-democracy leaders including students were considered as traitors or anti-government criminals. In consequence, the charges that met those of who were considered as convicts were in reality as cruel as any major prisoners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_of_May_Seve...
Many years ago I wrote this spreadsheet import tool. One of the fields required data a little too rich to fit in single cell value so I came up an "encoding" that read like a sentence. It was sorta NLP but only understood one sentence worth of syntax. I thought it was some clever UX. Users thought they were talking to an AI. They'd just type whatever expression or thought they wanted in that field. And of course the parser would just choke.
Old people are notorious for exploiting informational asymmetry against the young and innocent or the naive. All of human history shows what a problem this is. Making things more transparent and fair is good for everyone except malicious old people.
Edit: I just looked at your comment history :( I should have stopped a long time ago. You seem to be stuck in this mode of assuming ill intent/bad faith from everyone.
Opting for pets over children is selfish and 'takes away our humanity'
How do you account for the popularity of JIRA? (It’s quite complex)
The link to your project is private.
Do you think that's the conventional wisdom?

The Cubans that left Cuba and live in the US, do you think their grudge is over the Cuban missile crisis?

I don't wish to debate the question of what actually drives US policy. I am just wondering whether you recognize other points of view and if you think many people agree with you or you see yourself in a minority.
Hahaha - to be fair that is the most honest and best reason he possibly could have given for not coming in. Also a great reason to fire him.
Not a fan of the article title or Lenovo particularly, but they nailed the specs on the device.

- 16:10 aspect display on these (and future ThinkPads)
- 16" screen (or 13" if you prefer)
- AMD Ryzen CPU
- AMD discrete graphics (option on 16")
- touchpad + trackpoint

Drawbacks are the not-quite-full height up/down arrow keys that they had been known for and soldered-in RAM. Another big question is can the hardware be trusted if running Linux? I don't recall any hardware security stories about Lenovo, only software ones, but still where's that line these days?
Privacy and decentralization are a dream that will never take hold. We have seen it over and over, eventually someone unites everything and kills privacy and independence. Yes there will be a small percentage of users that will continue with the dream but the vast majority of users will use large providers.

The logic is simple. Centralize organizations provide advantages that a decentralize system can't. So, someone will provide a service so enticing that users will abandon the idea of independence. Think Google, Apple, Facebook and many others.

Also, if the idea was so good we would have models in other areas where decentralization is the primary attraction.

Unfortunately, what we will see 20+ years from now are huge world wide companies that will dominate the crypto space. Whoever dominates will be bigger than any of the big companies now by at least one order of magnitude. There will be new services and products but no decentralization of finance and with it a loss of privacy.
This is exactly the kind of snarky, deflationary attitude that the article is essentially writing in reaction to. The lack of faith that a "little blog" about good governance in an age entirely absent it could actually lead to something meaningful. Or indeed that a blog itself could be meaningful - that words and ideas might after all have some worth.
I have a theory about why it is so difficult for great IC's to make the jump to being a great manager. As an individual contributor, you need two things most of all: 1. quiet uninterrupted time to focus your mind and get into flow, and 2. quick responses to any blockers or questions that you have so that you can get back into the work. As a manager, a key part of your job now requires you to be infinitely interruptable, so that you can get those answers back to your juniors quickly, and also, you must protect your juniors from as many interruptions as you can. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT: Make sure you are not that interruption. If you want to ask your junior a question, HOLD IT and batch your questions, if at all possible, so that you are not a source of interruptions.

Beyond that, have clear goals, and communicate them clearly. Most people want to do the right thing. The better they understand the goals, the better able they will be to make decisions on their own that don't need adjustment later.

You need to encourage your juniors to ask questions as soon as they need to get clarification or unblocked. To do that, you need to embrace the interruptions, that is your job now. Both the interruptions from your juniors so that they get unblocked, and the interruptions from pesky people that will distract your crew must be short-circuited by you before they get to your team.
This list of : socialist or communist governments now: makes absolutely no sense.

Mexico? Portugal? Argentina? Why don't you add Sweden, or even Canada by the same standards?
I think you may be understating the point. So much of the meaning and value in our world is now tangled up in computers, even a modest amount of skill programming makes you some level of god in an increasingly reified domain. Yes, we live in a society and skill at society still dominates, but programming now probably surpasses finance and takes second place in terms of effective levers to have and use.
They could end the blockade at any time.
Will There Ever Be a Treatment for Rabies?
If there was a reliable trade secret, then there would probably be farmers producing outsized yields. Hiding the total production per acre would be difficult in such a top end product where consumers frequently tour the farm.
Social hierarchies emerge in even the most well intentioned left-wing society. It isn't really that odd in Vietnam, China, North Korea, all have developed new highly stratified social hierarchies. The alternative is probably unstable when extreme ideologies are imposed (which really can't survive without authoritarianism).
It will not stop there.

Expect to be asked to provide more "factors" in the future.
If you’re at the office no, but I suppose you only get a company phone if your job is to communicate.
Lots of things in the US are subsidized too. We still have taxes that pay for “free” things like using public roads.

I am just describing the structure of the Cuban economy where market forces are less involved in how many of something gets produced for consumption. I don’t think it’s great either because it leads to food shortages. Just pointing out (having been to Cuba myself) they aren’t in abject poverty and in some ways punch above their weight for their economic reality (and what someone might think knowing how often they have goods shortages) due to some activites being prioritized over others.
It's funny watching crypto boosters realize there are actual benefits to institutional trust that are superior to cryptographic trust. These allow for high liquidity and allow participants to capture gains (or losses) practically in real time.
As pop music is 99.9% just some basic music theory put in the shaker and than pressing the random shuffle button.

No it's not. No more than writing a successful novel is a matter pressing the random shuffle button on all the distribution of plotlines and clichés you've seen before.
"Man on bicycle moves so fast he's banned from running competitions"
nurses take years of training. where are you going to get them during a global pandemic on immediate notice when literally every area needs additional nursing resources?

nurses and doctors are leaving due to the stress of a long term pandemic. are you asserting we can just force them back into labor? that's fairly dictatorial of you. it still doesn't change that we would only revert to original levels, it would not be a significant increase in supply.
Yes, this drove me nuts. And was even more annoying because Google Support were totally unaware and acted like morons - it was about 30 minutes before I realised they had no clue what they were investigating and were just blindly plodding along, at which point I told them I'd give up. Weirdly they spammed me a few more times to try to get me to come back to resolve it (without giving any indication they knew any more).
Knock off Coke that tastes just as good would surely hit at it’s dominance - you’d end up with a levelled playing field more like wine is.
This is a mind shift for the new hires. I typically ping them after a few days asking if they need any help understanding the problem or just a friendly chat on why we are doing that particular project and how it will make relevance to the business. The good ones quickly understand if the path they are choosing makes sense and most of the times opens them up to ask questions.
Are you sure that Honda's engineers can't determine the blast radius for this issue?
It got spun off into a separate company after their corporate headquarters burned down.
> To the point the FED was created in 1913, research why it was created - not just wikipedia, get some books published between the 20 to 60s.

Do you have any sources on this? I’m not trying to degrade your point though, just curious about the topic.
I think we agree in parts - my point being in the Gig economy? Contracting? You are not guaranteed retirement. If you work hard to become the best Uber driver, you are not simultaneously campaigning to be rewarded a 401(k). It is important to know your class, and where you need to be in the future in order to have a retirement.
> please learn what animals carry rabies where you live... In fact in this part of the country (western Washington) from 1988-2020 rabies has not been found in any wild terrestrial mammal. The only mammals found to have rabies over that time have been 530 bats, 2 cats, 1 horse, and 1 llama.

Well that was the easiest research for my local area that I've ever done, thanks for the info!
If someone would want to invest a crazy amount of money to accelerate this discovery process I can imagine two things we could do: (don’t do it, it is a bad idea)

- we could make a genetically modified truffle fungi which glows in the dark. Now, why would that help? The problem with monitoring the health of your fungi is that most of the body mass of it is in the form of tiny thread like stuff called mycelium. Even if you take a soil sample it is kinda hard to tell the mycelium of the right species apart from the wrong ones. With some species experts can tell them apart under microscope but the only sure way to tell what fungi’s mycelium you are looking at is to DNA sequence it. Which is expensive thus rarelly done. But if you could make your target specie glow under UV light it would make the analysis that much simpler and cheaper. So we could do it more often and thus learn about what factors favour our truffle faster.

- The other option would be to engineer a kind of “immune system” to our truffle species. Basically to make “nanobots” which leave our truffle but kill other fungi. Now how on earth would one do something like that? I would start by trying to modify mycoviruses (the kind of viruses which attack fungi). Many of them are already quite picky about what kind of fungi they infect, so probably that would help us. Bonus points if we can engineer the virus such that it dies out in nature after a few rounds of reproduction so we can minimize the chances of an escape.

Of course both of these ideas are very speculative, scifi level conceptual stuff. :)
False claims. First, it is an embargo. Second, not all products are blocked at all. Food and medicines can be freely bought. But wait... who blocks the entrance of those? Oh, yes... the customs.

Try to send dollars: the regime will keep them and will give CUPs to relatives of cubans.

I have heard (not confirmed data) that in the customs they can take as much as half of what you send. But yes, the embargo is the problem. Thieves.

I tell you from the point of view of a person that knows what happens there.

You are welcome.
How did he "con people" into investing in a magazine - it is indeed after a couple of years a functional magazine with a variety of diverse contributors. Is every startup founder "conning people" until or unless they become a wild success?
In your reductive view of the world do you hold the distinction that one is a person seeking meaningful employment while the other is a business seeking to fundamentally change xploit someone's labour?
Medical transcriptionists once used a specialized keyboard to quickly describe spoken terminology. "Shorthand" has existed for a while and I imagine is a dying art at this point [1].

I think most cases where you needed actual really fast typing were covered long ago and the number of careers or situations where a person needed it have been declining for a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
The idea that if Cuba can't import new cars from America, then it can't get them from anywhere is just silly. America imports tons of new cars from Asia and Europe, as does every other nation in Latin America. Cuba just imports fewer of them due to financial constraints, as the typical wage is 20,200 CUP or about $780/month.

And Cuba does have some new cars. People focus on the old cars because it's so visually striking (and those cars are so beautiful!) but it's more a marker of poverty than America somehow threatening to torpedo any ship that brings new cars to Cuba, or convincing all the global auto manufacturers to never sell any cars to Cuba. There are modern BMWs, Toyotas, etc in Cuba right now. Just not many of them. Expectedly, BMW is doing brisk business selling much cheaper motorcycles and scooters in Cuba, which is also true of other Latin American nations.
If you need a focused Telegam channel, let me know! You can email me on contact (at) myfastmail dot com and I'd be delighted to help your efforts. I rely on RSS to keep a track of everything around me!
This isn't accurate. It may need frequent renewal, which is why most professionals get titers regularly to test for immunity.

Most vets I know have only ever had one or two doses per decade.
What makes you think it’d be any different if the embargo were lifted?
So Google buys Sonos by the end of the week?
Except for severe chronic health issues, healthcare can probably be handled by walk-in clinics for a year. Those are generally $100-$200 per visit. Medication costs can be lowered with services like GoodRX, which I think even has a trial month for even lower costs.

With taxes, wouldn't you be able to defer them? Just track what you owe or whatever. It might be different in other places because in Nevada we only pay sales tax.
This is the best part about those systems - having to guess how it’s reporting wrong so you can “answer” the questions right.
If you think they’re worth it you pay them for the next title up and you give them raises commensurate with the position. If not, then find another person. Seems simple to me. It’s not the rest of the team’s problem, it’s the problem of the business to solve. You’re making it sound like you’re doing anything other than caring about profits, as if the rest of your employees care about your problems. If your business of 20 employees will fail due to an extra 15k a year, you’re fucked anyways.
You're right.

What's basically going on is that a project to extend ActivityPub (the protocol that Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, Lemmy, etc use to federate with one another) has a proposed extension called ForgeFed to enable more interaction types so as to allow code forges to federate with one another. There have been a few projects slated to implement it once the spec is finalized, gitea being one of those projects.
>This is frankly, an absurdly ridiculous comparison. Pittsburgh and Lorain, Ohio, where I had relatives working in the steel mills were completely choked out by smog/industrial pollution

Not really relevant to the claim, is it? 1880 England cities were also filled with coal smoke, but still had less CO2 production...
Yes, the author could have presented his core data analysis as is or framed it in a way that would encourage discussion instead of provoke reaction. Even the title at the top “BLM Spreads Falsehoods That Have Led to the Murders of Thousands of Black People in the Most Disadvantaged Communities” would rub many the wrong way and disincline them from processing the remainder of the article.

It’s similar to presenting technical ideas at work: You can have the best idea ever from a technical standpoint, but if you present it poorly and turn off other people in the process your idea will probably be ignored.
Sex is almost always unambiguously defined, despite there being exceptions. There is no problem with having biological categories. It is not controversial in science that humans are a sexually dimorphic species.

To claim otherwise is definitely political.

Gender is entirely more complex social phenomenon and indeed isn’t directly related to sexual dimorphism, and evolving gender politics are totally legitimate.

Pretending humans aren’t sexually dimorphic isn’t.
A lot of the discontent as you put is race based. Whites soon will no longer have a majority and there is an ongoing shift in the demographics. There is a sense amongst uneducated whites and lower class whites that things aren’t right and their ire is focused at the wrong thing. There is also a rural/urban divide. As is common in America the lower classes get sidetracked by talking about race instead of class. There is anger and it is being successfully diverted from the oppressor to the “other” side.

There is definitely a white nationalist backlash at a grand scale. America is changing demographically and the infrastructure is declining. Women are dominating in terms of college degrees now and in terms of graduating from college. Russia and others have done a great job at sowing dissent. Corporate media too have done a great job. Humanity is not prepared to be manipulated at the scale Facebook enables and the cost doing this manipulation is cheap.

The U.S. is in a long term state of imperial decline. We are not ready for the social changes that are occurring. All of these things suggest to me that the country is ripe for authoritarianism. It just takes a demagogue with an ounce of competence to install it. Trump, fortunately, is devoid of competence and he failed. The next demagogue will likely succeed.
Wow. That your comment isn't greytexted into its bigoted oblivion makes me lose hope for Hacker News.

Old people are not like what you just laid out.
I draw a corollary to how graduate medical education works. You go into residency a fresh doctor with zero applicable skills. You may not even be CPR certified, but you're an MD/DO, and you've matched into a residency. You know less about actually helping people than a nurse who's been on the job for a month. You spend the next 3-7 years working 80-100 hours a week learning your chosen specialty. You become an absolute expert at your specific field. If you're in a surgical field you spend thousands of hours practicing and performing the surgeries you'll be responsible for. You may or may not specialize even further with a fellowship for another 1-4 years.

Then, when you graduate and can start making real money (probably), if you work at a hospital that does resident education, you're almost immediately expected to let the residents do as much as they can safely do, so they can learn. You go from working 80 hours a week performing surgery after surgery at a senior resident to working 30 hours a week watching the senior resident perform surgery.

Similarly (and admittedly it isn't a perfect analogy) as a junior and mid-level you're spending all this time learning how to write real software. Most of it's bad and especially at the junior level you're going to spend a couple years being more trouble than you're worth in terms of productivity. But by the time you're a senior, when you theoretically know what you're doing, you're going to have to spend most or a large portion of your time helping out the juniors in your org.

If you don't want to do that, you shouldn't be accepting senior positions. Or at least, go work somewhere where they don't hire juniors.
Any time I see a headline of the form "No, X isn't going to Y", X does Y within six months.
Most likely; the thrust of the trip was Baikonur bookended by Almaty and Nur-Sultan.

Typographically I found it interesting that the country was attempting to shift away from Cyrillic to a more romanized (??) written form; i.e., "Qazaqstan."
> There's nothing whatsoever preventing the candidate from, at the beginning, saying: "hey, before we spend a lot of time on this, what kind of salaries are we talking?"

True, but futile.

Any* enterprise will answer that with "What are your expectations for the role?"

No* enterprise will tell you a number until making the actual offer unless legally obligated.

This is HR 101, where risk aversion informs policy handed down to hiring managers. (In six figure job cases, often hiring manager isn't even allowed to say a number, there's a separate comp team.)

* For 80/20 by-and-large values of "any" and "no"
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