skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tortured reading.

> It's not about the main thing an infrastructure enables, it's about what the infrastructure is designed for.

It's not at all, what it was originally designed for is irrelevant, the question is what it's being used for.

> Does the cokehead share any blame in using coke? Is that victim blaming? Should asylum seeking be illegal?

These are all utterly aside the point. These are matters of law. Law governs. Infrastructure which facilitates that is better than infrastructure which does not. Infrastructure that makes breaking the law easy is worse than one that does not.

> Was bitcoin created to break the law? In some ways.

Again intent is completely irrelevant except for the prosecution of those doing the creation.

Because cryptocurrency is slower, less efficient, more volatile, and incorporates dramatically more counter-party risk than classic payment methods it self-selects primarily for the criminal activity. It's useful as a payments system of last resort in certain cases but that's dwarfed by the illicit use which is in turn dwarfed by speculative use. It actually creates roughly zero value.
Can you still configure object retention when they are locked? i.e. automatically delete objects after X days.
One good alternative to reading the articles is just skimming the comments.
I have a de facto monopoly on comments posted on HN by users named “thephyber” (I am playing with the granularity of the definition of industry). That does not constitute anti-trust violations.

So long as there is a near substitute for Apple smartphones, I fail to see what that is sufficient grounds for anti-trust action.

The messaging apps are not a good example of monopoly violations. They are all market options which have many many solutions. WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Signal, iOS Messages, SMS, Discord, Slack, Google Hangouts, MS Teams, Zoom, Skype, and a thousand web forums have similar capabilities. The comms market is remarkably healthy. What most people complain about is the contract they agree to which has lots of restrictive clauses (some which are very vague). Those general contract terms in SaaS services is what I would aim to regulate, rather than the biggest incumbents in the disparate comms apps.
Yes they have different inflation rates.
"Sometimes the lightsaber just blow up in your hand because of hydrogen flashback..." :)

Really amazing work though. Congrats Alex!
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If you look at https://blockprotocol.org/hub and can survive the <5fps (yikes!), you can see that they've demonstrated reimplementations of <p>, <img>, <h1> by piling mountains of Javascript/JSON on what is (hopefully?) just those standard HTML elements under the hood.

If I have to pick between standard slow-moving HTML and wild west HTML-reimplemented-in-React, I will choose the former every time. I will never have to worry about "my <p> has been abandoned by its maintainer and is now malware!".
One of my takeaways from 1984 is that those who are supposedly in charge are slaves to a self perpetuating emergent behavior. It often feels like it is never a choice. How much of politics is decided by Henry Kissinger and his disciples (e.g. Klaus Schwab - Davos) carrying on the tradition of realpolitik.
Western/Northern Europe have somewhat better demographics, thanks to immigration. Eastern Europe is in a deep demographic pit but is still recovering from poverty so it has a lot of room for economic growth still (and buoys up Western Europe).

Doom of Southern Europe, however, is talked about quite a lot.
so, there is something rotten in Denmark
Well, fiction with such clear warnings in them are more like parables.
I watch Sailing Uma on Youtube. Young couple started with very little money and have over 6+ years built up quite a following and apparent income.
They in one video addressed the idea that they have to put their entire life online to pay for their lifestyle with the statement that they put out <60 minutes/week, certainly much less than "their entire life" and they seem to spend much more time enjoying life than I do as a computer programmer.
People over here in France are generally living pretty normally. Far from madness, it's pretty nice. Sure, everyone masks up and whips out their phone for constant QR scanning, but restaurants are still pretty full, trams busses and trains as well, and people are getting together. Schools are in person. It probably helps that home tests are cheap ($25 for 5) and super easy to get.

It's frankly pretty weird that these comment threads are always so ragey and judgey, let alone the ones on Twitter. Everyone should chill a bit and stop reading the news stories stoking fears - at some point the mental effects are riskier than the physical ones, and I'd say that many in this thread are well past this point.
Research is not even close to being restricted by those moral matters. There isn't an easy way today, not even close. If there was, it would also be a way to rid us of ugly debuffs ranging from genetic disorders through allergies to cancer.

mRNA can change gene expression locally for limited time, enough to train your immune sysem but not for permanent changes. CRISPR can make permanent changes but but for now only to few cells in vitro, not to whole organism. Even the Chineese CRISPR modified twins are mosaics of modified and unmodofied.
> Tao has 2 brothers - why aren't they mathematical supergeniuses too?

The previous sentence from the one you quoted states that

“Tao also has two brothers, who are living in Australia. Both formerly represented the country at the International Mathematical Olympiad”
They also come from (seemingly) random phone numbers and/or short codes, with absolutely no way to verify them.
Still, for value conscious people it’s fine. My dad was really into shortwave radio and other stuff in the 80s.

He’d buy “grey market” gear from stores in NYC that were legit, but intended for Latin America or other markets. Sometimes the fit and finish would be interior or connectors would be lower quality, but the price was right and an 80% product is better than nothing.

If I know I’m buying a “Rolox”, that’s one thing. If you sell and price a Rolex that is not, that’s a problem.
> They pay so high that they can afford to make their interviews so miserable and time-intensive to prepare for that tons of people never even try, purely as a first-pass filter. They don't care that you can prep for it, they just want it to be (exactly the right amount of) scary and unpleasant.

This is something I completely agree with. I'm not so sure about the motivation though.

> The resulting, self-selected group probably is, in fact, far better on average than the set of all software developers, including those who never apply to those sorts of jobs (but might if the interviews were less awful). Furthermore I think that's why some results show that they could randomly select candidates and do about as well as the interview process does—sure, maybe, but they could not do that if the set of people applying wasn't already heavily biased to have a fairly high average skill level (& IQ, that's absolutely part of what they're filtering for).

This is where I disagree, and my disagreement comes in two parts. First, is programming skill what this is actually measuring, and second, is programming skill what this is intended to measure? I don't have hard data, but I'd guess no in both cases. I've certainly known plenty of early career people who get obsessed with leetcode grinding, and I've never known them to be any better on average than the people who don't fall into that trap. What they are better at is letting themselves be convinced they need to work long hours and burn themselves out for an opportunity. The cynic in me says that's what these companies are actually selecting for, although it's likely at least some people involved in the decision making aren't doing it consciously.
Totally understand. I went back and forth many times around the license. I figured I could always open it up more in the future. Happy to clarify use cases or write a proprietary license if need be if a particular corp is worried. Also, it is unencumbered if you use it for internal facing applications (the use case I was most focused on).
Bs title. Doctors have ALWAYS had the right to prescribe off label drugs.

Democrats took this right away and are punishing doctors who use treatments with little to no side effects that the medical community couldn't be bothered to get to the bottom of whether effective or not.

It's not that these drugs are NOT effective. It's that they are taken as a cocktail, and no cocktail of drugs is ever going to get FDA approval or go through clinical trials.

This is why doctors have the right to prescribe off label drugs, and do it all the time.

This COVID panic has destroyed and taken away the right of doctors to treat patients.

It has to end. I thank Republicans for staying out of the doctors office and allowing me to get the info from my doctor that I seek, without him having to worry about losing his license due to vaccine politics.
Right. Humans are working together more than they have ever in our history
Where is the joke?
You have technology designed to be inefficient (proof of waste) and you are amused that there is sentiment against it on Hacker News.
Regarding his brothers, imagine if IQ is like a bunch of switches. TT was born with all his switches flipped 'on' out of some maximum. His brothers were born with most of them flipped on, as were his parents. Having high IQ parents increases the odds of more switches being flipped on, but having all of them flipped is still innate.
Even ASCII can be argued to be problematic.

What is “3 >= 2", reversed?

What is “Rijksmuseum”, reversed? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph); capitalization isn’t simple here, either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph)#Capitalisation)

What is “Schroeder”, reversed? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#Printing...)
Depends on the country.

China - Orwell

USA/EU - Huxley
You need to look up the definitions of pandemic, epidemic and endemic.
Ooof, good catch. Thank you, yes, that's what I intended to say. Too late to edit.
I mean most experts agree that it is (or will be), soooo yeah you should probably accept that and figure out how to live your life accordingly, maybe just don't go into public policy making though.
Admitting that I've no sense of the article's accuracy, completeness, etc... My reaction is that the law school should be quietly shut down. If their students can't (or aren't expected to) handle bad language in a "redacted, on paper, in the classroom" context - how in the world could they cope in real-world legal practice, where actual people might use such language in their presence - without redaction, and with emotionally charged tones and/or body language - with large sums and/or people's lives at stake?

Next up, we'll have "surgeons" who can't cope with the sight of blood, and "plumbers" who can't stomach the smell of sewage.
Fantastic tool for compiling x86 assembly code but I've grown to like GNU gas and its at&t syntax. Which do you prefer?
Genes must have something to do with it. Take the case of Srinivasa Ramanujan

No formal training in math. Made insane contributions to mathematics including solving "unsolvable" problems.

> A child prodigy by age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book written by S. L. Loney on advanced trigonometry.[18][19] He mastered this by the age of 13 while discovering sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he received merit certificates and academic awards that continued throughout his school career, and he assisted the school in the logistics of assigning its 1,200 students (each with differing needs) to its approximately 35 teachers.[14]: 27 He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with geometry and infinite series. Ramanujan was shown how to solve cubic equations in 1902; he developed his own method to solve the quartic. In the following year, he tried to solve the quintic, not knowing that it could not be solved by radicals.

If there was a method of raising kids like this "scientifically" , I bet a good portion of the worlds GDP would be put into this field of research
> You are right that virtually all public websites should be HTTPS only.

That is correct.
So you’re saying we need people specialized in telling which experts are legit? Experts on experts, like yourself. Isn’t that relying on experts too?

I’m confused are experts good or bad or are we just supposed to castigate all of them since random people on the internet know better.

I’d rather an internet mob doesn’t decide the legitimacy of respecting experts especially when showing such an ignorance of other instances in the past when society at large turned on experts.
So here was an interesting anecdote from years past. During the heyday of CompuServe and its ilk, living in the UK where long distance calls, e.g. greater than about 7 miles radius, was prohibitively expensive, and with the introduction of a flat rate single payment of around 20p for a local call sometime in the late 80's or early 90's, no matter how long the call lasted, the trick to doing downloads was to call into a local compuserve number at 2400bps, which was charged at a lower rate than their faster lines, put all of the stuff you wanted into your "download basket", e.g. files, news, email, etc. Then hang up, and place a long distance call to one of their 9600bps lines to make the download as quickly as you could.

There was also the trick of making every call a local call (when British Telecom still used the old crossbar systems rather than the newer switching networks) if you knew how to dial all the single digit area codes between you and the number you wanted to call. Pentyrch (the town) to Penarth (the town) was not a local call, at a distance of about 20 miles, but you could dial 5 for Radyr (about 2 miles), pause, then dial 3 for Fairwater (another 2+ miles), and so forth, until you reached the local exchange in Penarth, and then could send the actual phone number. Unfortunately each area, to dial another exchange, had different numbers, so Pentyrch to Radyr might be 5, but Taffs Well to Radyr might be 9. People on BBS's would exchange area code lists and exchange routing lists like they were precious commodities.

Dialing through to London over a great distance using single digit exchange codes wasn't possible though, because London had a more modern telephone system, and you were limited by the number of digits you could send before the first exchange system would timeout and drop your call.
I hate these either/or questions. A lot of societies have aspects of both. North Korea probably leans toward Orwell but the rest of the world more Huxley at the moment. But we shouldn’t create these dichotomies. Left vs right, socialism vs capitalism and so on. They stifle any reasonable discussion right before it can even begin. I guess that’s the purpose of offering only extreme alternatives.
sometimes I like to read the first paragraph of articles with the opposite bias they impose.

> In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them. That was understandable at the time.

becomes:

>In the spring of 2020, as more health professionals than ever before worked together on a single issue, they recommended measures and interventions, based on our most up-to-date understanding of medicine and science. That was remarkable at the time....
wait until you find out about the mental health costs of not being able to get healthcare when you need it because of staff shortages or constant interruptions in education, or the effects of long covid or the loss of a loved one. I'll take masks over more of those kinds of problems anytime.
Aldous wrote a utopia.

Orwell wrote a dystopia.
> i.e. the Russian Revolution was an intentional act done to it by cynical Germans who correctly expected the outcome would help them in the war.

Claiming that Germany caused the Russian Revolution via the sole act of sending him back to Russia is not true.

While it is true that Lenin ultimately led the Bolsheviks to power, the reason Germany even thought about sending Lenin back was that Russia was already on the brink of collapse due to reasons a mile long and Germany was throwing shit against the wall to hasten Russian collapse.

Claiming a revolution of an entire country was caused by a single person is a bit much.
Secure enclaves are still dependent on someone other than the owner (usually the manufacturer) having ultimate control over the device. Otherwise the relying party has no reason to believe that the enclave is secure.
I have trouble finding good pro arguments taking on the strongest anti- arguments, it's pretty frustrating. To rebut moxie's OpenSea monopoly criticism, one guy goes and pulls up stats from a week-old competitor that fueled their first week's performance by airdropping tokens on a bunch of nft high-rollers. Apparently they consider this ample evidence of a healthy competitive ecosystem given the amount of words they labored on the point. [0]

[0] https://www.notboring.co/p/the-web3-debate
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Related, there are stories of the USSR turning its own spy satellites on itself to estimate correct crop yields because of the culture of lying and exaggeration internally. Basically nobody at the top really knew what was going on, because everyone below them constantly lied to avoid getting in trouble.
Our school has seemed to do OK keeping it from spreading between kids.

But they also do weekly testing. And did surveillance testing at the end of winter break, which kept about 15% of the school's students at home for the first week back because they had covid.

This statistic was also consistent with LA Unified surveillance testing after winter break - about 15%.

Before winter break, some parents of 2nd graders had an indoor, maskless, holiday party. Apparently all the kids got covid. Then gave it to the teachers - all 4 2nd grade teachers were out of school with covid the week before winter break. But from what our school's testing showed, it didn't spread beyond that.

I do know of a couple families who did seem to get covid from their school though.
1984 got it more correct. Take sometime to read or watch current China related stuff. It makes whatever we think oppressions done by western countries look pedantic. Huxley birth control might also play out in China if birth rate there still dropping way below what the state wants of 3 at the moment. Personally I feel, if the world was dominated by mainland Chinese and their influences or direct supremacy in some kind of marvel multiverse, then Huxley-Orwell fictions might be "unfictionized" there.
this is nothing, a lot of comments I've seen are already flamewar and even racist, nasty generalizations, suddenly everyone is an expert in hispanics countries as if they would be all the same or as if they would share the same currency or economical situation, a lot of ignorance.
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Inflation rates even vary among different regions within the same country.
then what is it about then? listening to someone talk about their job? Can't you do that for free on YouTube?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spending_...

the US is 66th by % of gdp
I'm surprised that Skinny Puppy isn't on there. They famously filed a claim for $666,000 in damages for the government using their music to torture prisoners in Guantanamo Bay:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/07/skinny-puppy-p...

Maybe the CIA has a slightly different playlist than the Navy. There are some common artists between the two, including Metallica, Queen, and Eminem.
> as to "who" is the authoritarian left, hmm lets start with this definition. Blue Checkmarks on Twitters, and.or has Pronouns in the bio of any social media platform, and.or rides alone in a car with mask on.

Wow. That's even a worse reply than I imagined.
+1

Start with putting your shoes on first, you don't even need to leave the house.

Then do 15 minutes.

Then do 30...
You could have done that just as easily, or easier, using other payment methods that are not boiling the planet.
Not all ideas are worth pursuing. Continuing as-is most of the time (like 99.99%) is the appropriate choice. Do you move every time a stranger on TV/street suggests that?
Exactly this. There may not be a 'standard' that does any of this already, but the goal of this being portable across websites requires all of those websites to support this 'new' standard -- so there probably isn't a way this becomes wide spread enough to be useful.

Relatedly, this follows the Notion model, where the UI is intrinsically tied to and limited by the data model. This may have appeal to developers who already are primed to think that way, but it's a terrible UI paradigm for everyone else.
Putting a banking app on your pocket surveillance device is one of the least secure things you can do. What happens if you're mugged, forced to login to your account, and then based on your balance it escalates to a kidnapping or class resentment beatdown? Furthermore, what happens if the muggers force you to transfer money and your bank refuses to roll back as unauthorized because their snake oil systems show that everything was "secure" ?
I've never seriously considered subscribing to Masterclass, but this has gotten the gears turning in my head a little. So I'm curious: does anyone here subscribe, and could you comment on whether or not you feel like it's worthwhile, given the available content?
My story: Years ago I went across country (ok it's UK!) for a position with an education startup. It was an all-day-er. The morning went well I aced the in person stuff, we gelled. Then I started to realise why I was there. Was I risking my marriage by taking a cross country position? Is the CEO just a bit too full of himself? What don't I trust about the product manager?

At the end is a hands on leet-code test. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about. I do remember writing a function to replace 'abs', and realising that my brain was not even in the same county.

Yeah. People fail for all sorts of reasons. But when it's odd, maybe it is them. But beware. Maybe it's you.

I am glad I flunked hard in Bristol. I think I would have hated it. But then if I was a rubbish coder I would say that too.
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Why didn’t you include the next paragraph?

You seem to be ignoring 130 years of law that happened since what you are quoting.

Courts quickly began struggling with the Sherman Act's broad and vague language, recognizing that interpreting it literally might make even simple business entities like partnerships illegal.[9] Federal judges began trying to develop legal principles for distinguishing between "naked" trade restraints between rivals that suppressed competition and other restraints that were only "ancillary" to other cooperation agreements that promoted competition.[9]
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Quite simply because HTML and JS work and works well for what it was intended.

Your suggestion is like trying to make an F1 car from a Diesel locomotive.

There should be another app, with an altogether different protocol to suit current needs because clearly, we are going to end up with browsers as Operating systems.
Neither of these fictional novels are succinct nor simple, like a parable.
Dude takes off from a rather unsettling neighborhood, damn.