skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An annual tax on the world’s richest would be enough to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty, make enough vaccines for the whole world, and deliver universal health care and social protection for all the citizens of low and lower middle-income countries (3.6 billion people).

That would be a level of investment that generations to come would notice. To invest that money would paid off not just by moral metrics of wellbeing, but in pure economic ones.

Why are we obsessed in spending money in powerful individuals instead of smartly invest in humanity's future? Billions will get better jobs, we will spend less in security and war, geniuses will pop up in the thousands from that population, and artists, and so much potential would be put to better use.

We should do it.
it does require you to run the js that shits a 50% banner on the screen after you start reading though, IMO far worse than any JS Cloudflare is sending
Why is Solana a side chain?
this is not technical problem, you cannot solve this with tech.

you gotta have strong community and mods
If clocks cause all that then the scale makes me fat.
Earlier this week SundaeSwap, the first DEX on Cardano launched its production, which was a big event for them.

On the day of the launch Medium blocked their blog which contained vital information.

The crypto people often say "If you don't hold the keys, you don't own the coins". Something similar could be said about using platforms like Medium.
They definitely do apply, but it's like laws of probability apply to gas dynamics: sure there's a very small, but not non-existent chance that all the air in your room will end up confined to the half you're not in. There's a very tiny probability that acetic acid in vinegar and sodium bicarbonate in baking soda won't combine. I suppose some extremely tiny fraction of the acid and baking soda I've mixed together in my life didn't react. But the probability is so tiny, it just doesn't matter: all my cookies and soda bread rose.

Same with self replicating organic molecules - if you mix amino acids together, you're going to get some long strands virtually every time you try it because the probability of amino acids not reacting is very tiny. The probability of getting self-replicating strands approaches 1 after only a few trials. That is, your solution of amino acids would end up with some goop in it, some polymerized amino acid strands that had replicated themselves.

This "what's the probability!?!?" category of anti-evolutionary arguments is just false. "If you put all the pieces of a car in a box and shook it, the probability of getting a car is zero!" True, but an inapplicable analogy to organic chemistry reactions. Intuition about probability leads you astray. Nuts have an extremely low probability of getting agitated into screwing themselves on a bolt. The chemicals relevant to life have an extremely high probability of reacting to form larger molecules.
> Since you serve Swedish weather info from marginalia I'm assuming you live in Sweden, is that correct?

It is indeed.

> Could you very briefly explain how you host and serve pages from your living room and what your bandwidth is?

100/100 mbit municipal broadband, through Bahnhof.

> Does your ISP get cranky when you see DOS type of traffic?

Haven't heard a word form them, although you'd be surprised how far I am from saturating my line. Your average bittorrent enthusiast probably uses a lot more. I do try to not be a nuisance though. Cloudflare helps take the edge off things, as does running a local DNS cache.

> I'm a fellow hobbyist search engine dev, also from Sweden. Whenever I demonstrate my search engine by hosting in the cloud the expenses get so big I have to go offline after a short while and I've therefore been contemplating personal, living room hosting.

You might also consider server rental. Can get away with SEK 2-4k/month. My server, including UPS and other expenses is like SEK 40k, plus I expect to burn through an SSD once a year or so.
That capital punishment is not a deterrent simply goes to show that there a fatal (ha) flaw in the justification for it, leaving behind all the usual worries about executing innocents, giving the state the power to kill those it wants to or even the cost.

Either some criminals are not in a state of mind where any rational cost-benefit calculation is happening at all, or a considered cost-benefit calculation puts their own life below the perceived benefit of the act (maybe religiously motivated attacks, say). Alternatively they truly think they won't get caught, which, depending on the crime, place and competence might be the most rational reason.

There is nothing that you can do so to deter these "irrational" crimes by just twiddling knobs on the sentence harshness generator.
Just took a look at your submission. Here are a few things that might have caused low engagement.

1) Title could be better. It was the first time I've heard of Bangbang, I imagine the same applies to quite a few people. 2) The neural net might be impressive, but playing against doesn't give me a "wow".
Opportunities to spend karma lead to incentives to farm it.

I think that's bad for communities.
What is wrong with discuss? Seems like exactly what you're asking for.
> lack of social cohesion, where people tend to not care much about their neighbors or society as a whole

Thanks, that's a really good point.

Which factors in your opinion influence this lack of social cohesion more? Social inequalities, racial, religious, educational?
> This is a by-the-book example of privilege.

Yes the privilege of living in a 430 sq ft apartment with your sibling and parent, with the family making approximately $12k a year in total. LOL
Could it be that the possibility of making some money with the content actually encourages people to create better content?
You can't really force it and there isn't a formula. I'm just a journeyman software jockey but my brother got into Harvard, Yale, and Stanford even after skipping a year of high school.
Many people shame the startups for fake it until you make it, but IBM with Watson and Watson Health did exactly that for years and 'serious' analysts were predicting how their healthcare AI efforts will increase their revenue.

Compare their results with Tesla.
I'd assumed they were in India, but they wrote in another comment "My PhD is funded by a research council and my stipend is £12k."

I had forgotten the pathetic level of funding science PhDs get in Britain. £12k is possibly on the low end, but a PhD with this funding was on the fourth page of the main site listing them [1].

Minimum wage assuming a 40-hour working week is £19,760 per year, and after taxes works out to £17,100. In other words, they are probably already skipping meals.

For comparison, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen is paid £47,500 per annum [2], or £31,000 after tax (probably more, I think there's a tax discount for foreign researchers).

[1] https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CMM286/phd-studentship-achieve-ne...

[2] https://uniavisen.dk/en/salaries-of-university-of-copenhagen...
That's just too funny: "ethereum has no policies". It had a superb bail out of the initial DAO in 2016, which was deemed too big too fail, and lead to a fork of the chain. So let's not pretend blockchains are neutral immutable ledgers, they exist purely for speculation.
Yeah thanks to this logic and eu diktats we have less powerful lightbulbs accross europe. So turning the lights on at night means you can barely see, and instead you have to … uy more lightbulbs. The soviets also thought that the solution to its financial problems was to consume less.

So the answer is really to make energy more available, cheaper, and cleaner by mass investments in solar in the south, wind in the north, and clean and safe nuclear everywhere in between.

Just because one country, germany, doesnt mind spending nights in the dark or having workers sleep early to be able to slave away in factories it doesnt mean all of europe should obey. Build safe nuclear and build it fast before russia drains our pockets with their expensive gas.
I know dang commented on this multiple times before and gave some insight into this. IIRC it's somewhat along the lines of upvotes/time_squared and no user has more weight than another unless vote abuse protection triggers. Maybe someone has a link to these comments.
Ask HN: Are there any actual redeeming qualities of the metaverse concept?
As defined by all the companies claiming to be building one, do you see any redeeming qualities in the metaverse or is this just a marketing play?

From what I've read it seems all too dystopian to me so I'm wondering if there's anything redeeming about the concept that I'm just not seeing.
> I think things are way easier to maintain with a bunch of layers than the old school ravioli code.

Pasta-based metaphors are the best.
From the article:

> Shepard, whose apartment is in the Atlanta suburb of Brookhaven, who told the television station that the couple woke up on Jan 16 to the sound of more than 30 gunshots coming from an apartment complex directly behind Shepards.

Seems pretty clear that this wasn't a case of someone target shooting with an insufficient backstop.
you can always try developing your own plugins for slack or discord, maybe there’s already something for you:

https://slack.com/apps

https://betterdiscord.app/plugins
When you reach -1 your account gets banned and an email describing the situation is sent to the abuse address of your ISP.
What you want is not very relevant for Facebook, potential for growth is the only thing that matters. And that is a shame, because I see what you propose as a great service.
I agree that integer overflow is implementation-defined, but I wasn't talking about integer overflow, I was talking about char *.

Reading from a pointer past the bounds of the object being pointed to is undefined, not implementation-defined. How do you propose to write a size_t strlen(const char *s) that successfully compiles with your proposed compiler?
And it got flagged. HN: still a bro club after all these years.
Sloppily argued. He debates straw men for most of the article before finally getting to the actual reason for vaccine mandates.

"What about mandating vaccines to prevent hospitals from being overrun with COVID cases?"

At this point, he inexplicably argues against vaccine mandates for health workers instead of answering the question. If you can make Covid less likely to result in hospitalization than the flu, as he readily admits the vaccine does, you can make Covid not cause hospitals to be overrun. Then you can open society completely and get all the resulting benefits. The other option is to wait for people to get natural immunity, which will take longer (on top of resulting in more deaths) because letting people get natural immunity at the same time will result in hospitals being overrun, which is what we're trying to avoid. The final option is to wait for Paxlovid availability, which avoids the hospital overrun but still has the disadvantage of needing to wait longer before you can completely open up.
That would kill parts of HN - you could kiss `Ask HN` goodbye I think, as either new comers like to post those sometimes, or else someone wants to ask more anonymously so will create a burner account (so no points to post with).
I just checked it out. I have no idea why others did not upvote, but here was roughly my take:

- oh ok it’s gonna play some game called BangBang never heard of it but seems like it could be cool

- oh there’s no info here about what makes this special. Well let’s just go play the game and see what the fuss is about

- let’s see so I tap my screen and I shoot straight down. Opponent misses wildly. I’ll try long pressing, that looks like it’s probably how you aim the shot…oh nvm longpress just highlights the whole screen with no way to deselect.

So now I have a slightly better idea what BangBang is but I don’t get why it’s an interesting game, and I can see that there’s a program that solves it but it doesn’t look any different than an iterative guesser. I’m not really motivated to dig into the code to discover what’s interesting here at this point.

Hope you find that feedback helpful!
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Downvote brigades can potentially swoop in and blow up all karma. It would not be helpful to encourage that.
You can only market to upper level execs who are out of touch with technology for so long before it catches up to you.
Ok, title changed to that from "WireGuard Access server now supports IPv6". Thanks!
I don't think this is needed. The quantity of post posted everyday is not very high. And most interesting articles will show up on the front page at point or another.

The second pool chance works very well

Source : I maintain a daily newsletter about non-upvoted blog posts of HN
I think we're gonna see valuations go back to pre-covid valuations, basically back to "normal".

The "Growth Bubble" will burst, and those companies will shrink back to valuations that are not completely detached from reality (which in some cases will be 0).

FAANGs will still be money printing machines, the same as they've been for the last decade - no big worry there, just a slight correction (10-20%).
Many start out flat and as they grow they need to introduce middle management.

Middle management becomes necessary.

But the question is around pay. Should they always make more because they sit higher in the org chart?

I would suggest they make more because of power structures not utility or because they are not as easy to replace.

Because of first class shares, senior leadership shares percentages shareholders with a vote are often the people in power. Common shareholders don't hold much power.
The study at your first link seems to have similar problems to the CSPI paper linked in the original post: email solicitation, self-selected replies, low response rates.
The supply of diverse talent can only be sourced from candidates with a diverse background. In that sense - they are the majority, not the minority.
Nvidia's AI Assisted Drawing
In places where labor is cheap, it could be more effective to employ the equivalent of a "call center" to have a large number of people animate a whole bunch of Facebook and Twitter accounts.

No bots or special tooling needed.
Gun violence is not evenly distributed across the country, even after you account for population density. We have plenty of statistics and we know what the differences are but because those numbers show a very inconvenient truth, we instead some up with all kinds red herrings and tangents to try to explain it away, while also promoting look-busy solutions that don't address the actual source of the problem, which once again, is extremely unevenly distributed.
It might work better to make it more expensive to post multiple stories in some period of time (say 6 hours). Or maybe just install a universal rate limit.
1000 stars on GitHub are about as powerful as 1 million followers on Instagram. If you don't understand why 1 million followers on Instagram are life changing, well...

Being a gitfluencer is extremely valuable.
I mean, yes? People are 'trying', and they're building an ever higher house of cards on which to rest this functionality. Obviously on a turing complete machine anything is possible given enough LoC, but as we've seen recently with a CVE for privilege escalation that takes advantage of one of these new 'unprivileged user can get privileges in a namespace' tricks, there's a lot of complexity and likely a lot of security issues hiding behind it.

Plan9's design makes all of this very simple, and a big part of why is the specific choice to eschew standard UNIX semantics and use a different kind of mechanism for privilege management that allowed for flexible namespaces managed outside the kernel. It also has the advantage of moving all filesystem operations out of the kernel.

So this really backs up my point, rather than contradicts it: It's only through mitigating and otherwise contradicting traditional POSIX semantics that linux is able to approach this kind of thing.
> Get a loan from your bank, and refuse to pay it back.

I don't even know where to begin when it comes to examples of just that happening. Defaulting on debt is something that happens with every single form of credit. It's extremely fundamental to the idea of debt.
I love all these ideas - perhaps Dang could spin-up some 'experimental pages'... aka no need to alter the real/original HN feed but hell yeah to some alt-pages.

Could also use the underutilized HN poll feature to determine which are the most interesting to try.
> I use crypto to protect against high inflation in my country and mantain the value of the fruits of my labour. Where does that fit in your categories?

This is obviously speculative investment.

(Even if your local currency is so horrendous it lost more value than Bitcoin this month, less volatile ways of hedging exist. Maybe you bought lower or changed cryptoassets so you've gained far more than BTC fell, but that's speculative investment and trading, not maintaining value)
Is it better to write ZZ or Dafny code than to write Java, Python, Haskell, Rust, or Swift code?

(They look cool and I'm enjoying reading about them, but for the things I do for my day job where C is one of the obvious options, I'm not sure they're better options, but usually one of the languages above is a better option.)
This is all great. It's high time we supplemented Jupyter with a plain text language-agnostic format. Jupyter is a nice notebook but falls short of an effective format for shareable, reproducible, collaborative research.
Or you could just use a good compiled language for everything.
I found it refreshing, to be honest. It didn't take long for me to find out what "sintax" and "shure" meant. ;)
Understanding Software Development
Intro video linked from that page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MAvRpT6Cg
Less code is not less lines of code. What I mean is that they write less as a percentage of the total amount of code/configs to be written. Most of the actual work is done by non staffs.
ZFS on low-end low-RAM system? You must be joking...
I disagree with this and it's overly negative. This is pretty useful for places where you are unable to download applications.
Tool by security researchers checks a website's protection against clickjacking
For more complicated cases I would agree, having a class that encapsulates logic that's inter-dependent is good. However I'd caution against reaching for the class approach for scenarios that can be captured by a function call. Python programmers love functions ;)
To my simple mind, unless we find another case of life in this universe, there is no way to determine/estimate/calculate the frequency/probability of origin of life. Unless someone can convince me, in a simple way, that it is possible to determine.
Of course it's faster than JavaScript. I meant slow compared to comparable languages like C++ or Java (statically typed with high effort compilers).
Many people think palantir cracked AI.

While they are just using tensorflow and other things like anyone else.

Additionally, large tech can't apply for defense contracts because of internal ethical concerns of employees. So the naritive remains.
The <h1> banner is "Search the internet" but are we only searching www servers.

Can we use marginalia.nu to search for servers offering other protocols like ftp.
Sounds like a Russel's conjugation [0]. When you're banning the buildings I like it is because of "human needs," when I say I like them it is just a "want."

I do think mountains give a similar effect, having interesting variations in height and a sense of being "walled in." I reliably feel like crap at elevation though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
> Where do you think this obsession comes from?

The following is anecdotal. My grandparents grew up in the rural west with guns because they needed them for legitimate protection from animals. They were never gun obsessed. Their children grew up naturally learning how to shoot guns, but none of them are gun obsessed except for my father. What is the difference between my father and his siblings? He is a doctor and the military paid for his medical school. His obsession with guns was a direct result of his service in the military. My cousins, whose parents did not serve in the military, are not gun obsessed. Most of my siblings are.

The USA has an obscenely huge military. I think our gun obsession culture is a direct result of so many people and their parents having served in the military. For some reason, the USA military engenders more of a gun obsession/culture than other countries militaries. Maybe it is the combination of the 2nd amendment and military service.
Thanks, I checked and edited, hope now has less errors, sorry but english is not my first language.
> > "Maybe a federated comment section?"

> "I’d love to see this. For a long time I’ve been wishing for some sort of social overlay on top of the web - why can’t I comment with my community on existing articles?"

that's what disqus wanted to be, and we've largely rejected that because of the privacy and anonymity issues with disqus.

a year and a half ago, i did a bit of a dive into webmentions[0] and bridgy[1] as a federated alternative, but that doesn't seem to have taken off yet.

[0]: https://indieweb.org/webmention
[1]: https://brid.gy/
Crypto YouTubers Hacked
This example is bad because few companies have fixed potential like earning $200M in nominal dollars. More companies will be able to earn $200M (real year-0 dollars).

The real change you see is with interest rates rising, the cost of capital also rises (fewer big investors investing borrowed money or using leverage) and safe alternatives become much more readily available (if a bond or savings account pays money it is safe and you earn a return - as opposed to all the 0% real returns you had in the past).
Did they sell their contracts for collecting patient data as well?
Wasn't Solana down for 72 hours as of this morning?
Downvoted because it has almost nothing to do with what was asked.
Absolutely disgusting to read about what people can get away with if they're useful to the FBI . . . .
Yeah I wonder if they realize the precedent that would set.
Does it matter? If investing in smart infrastructure is what it takes to recognize this reality, who is this a downside for? It's like saying we can't build any more intersections because we'd have to buy traffic lights.
Yes, ZK is cool. I expect to hear about it on other chains too. One of the lower visibility projects I follow, Symbol, has a similar concept of subchains and is already working towards applications on them.
Memecoin Faithful Aren’t Laughing Anymore with Prices Crashing
For something that I really want to learn, then my approach is to create presentations or training material on the specific topic.

Like recently I wanted to learn HTTP/2 and gRPC, so I wrote some PowerPoints explaining those concepts and know I grok the fundamentals of those topics. My core mantra nowadays is "You don't know anything until you can explain it".

If I forget something I can always go back to my presentations, that are now the same as my notes.
I have wondered if some of the money coming out of the US stock markets might flow into the european markets. Purely because european markets didn't really have the blowoff prices we saw in US markets in the past 6-12 months and in the US there's just not that many places to put it all?

On the other hand usually if the US sells off, so does europe, so probably this time would be no different.
The point of anticompetitve behavior in the hiring market is to be able to pay less to get people.

The fact that they pay the highest prices for people means they sure suck at it.
The problem with AMD's PSB is the one-time eFuse on the CPU. If they just provided some way (perhaps electrically connecting a couple contacts on the chip) to reset the eFuse, it would be fine. Instead it causes CPUs to be locked to the motherboard/vendor the moment they are inserted.
I also like your design.