skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always been a myth that markets are inherently moral. There's just no evidence of this, despite all of the debate that the free market is the end-all-be-all institution from which our lives should be dictated.

Markets optimize for one thing and one thing only: profit.
To be fair, the choice was never given to us. There’s no such thing as a social network that people pay for that has no advertising or surveillance. This business model was chosen for us because it would lead to the fastest growth _for the company_.
Read "The Case Against Education." It uses lots of data to show that education is largely useless after primary education is complete (arithmetic, reading, writing, etc.).

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th...
generalized problem solving could be useful but it’s still going to be a tool that augments us. it will not replace us by any means.

the game changer is not going to be AGI, it’s going to be human/machine symbiosis
The video Marvel_boy[0] posted details one of the conventions. In that case it's a subtractive process, so defacing the receipt in that case would be of no benefit, perhaps even disadvantageous. In other cases, such as tax records, it would only be to someone's disadvantage to destroy. Of course this all depends on the convention used to draw it up.

Speculatively:

There could simply be an ass whoopin' dished out, theft is a sin, or a threat to credit. From my understanding the vast majority of people never travelled very far, the estimate I heard was about 30mi being the known world to most folks. So having a bad reputation is a pretty good disincentive. It's also my understanding that debt, rather than barter, was the predominate mode of exchange (a la Graeber), but that would've been trusted neighbors and necessities in communal self-interest; so bad credit and the consequent marred reputation could spell disaster. I don't imagine that most documents recorded on tally sticks were Josiah giving neighbor Jebediah five carrots for future remuneration of seven; rather strange gentry arranging commercial exchanges, and the state issuing and recording taxes. I'm not an expert, though.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DkyahZplFo
I don't know what the textbook definition is, but I think libertarianism (in the US, in my experience) is more about being against government regulation. Even if regulation would increase freedom (for, say, a minority group) libertarians will tend to be against it.
I don't think my house is in suitable condition to rent out. After all the thefts, I have furniture for only one room. Termites have destroyed some of the kitchen cabinets. While I have had termite insecticide injected beneath the walls, I don't have the money to replace the cabinets. Also one wall has some unsightly cracks. It would take a lot of money to put the house in a condition that Americans would tolerate. I originally contemplated that when I bought the house, but I don't think it is practical.
You really think men are somehow victimized on online dating sites? you really think these women owe you a date?
It's the hustle and the exposure. The more people know that someone like you exists and has "unique or special" skills or "is amazing and flexible to work with" then word of mouth will carry you a long way before you have to pay for advertising.

But remember, it's feast or famine.

And the moment you need to add employees and other people to the mix, be prepared for the complaints to start as just like when you have houseguests or someone borrows your car, it's never treated the same as you would treat it.

This issue above is really the limiting factor for most entrepreneurs because we're willing to do all the hats to get it done/sold.

An employee only has vestment up to their compensation and once they figure out what their time is worth, you are screwed paying more and more.

Finding solid people willing to do the job is what we site for the cause of shuttering a 35 year old family business as it was too difficult to hire and train and retain people constantly wanting to level up, or just get their buck for least possible effort/education or not discuss/engage more connection into the business and desire to grow it along with them... as that's how businesses are built, people get invested in it.

But I do keep a consultancy up and running even if idle. The business taxes and bookkeeping if idle can be automated and take seconds to do and it's a legal functioning producer of tax deductions in just maintaining it's existence.

I've gained more connection and "side" opportunity/money just networking and being open to offer sellable good products and forward thinking services for those that want a "solution" and a confidential, personalized service for "projects" or "consultancy" that needs a experienced individual to work with them addressing concerns you wouldn't want to get a RFQ or do a parade of estimation/bidding for.

But again, it's the hustle and contact that get you gigs.. gigs that all eventually end as time is money and when it's on their time, it's not your money anymore. Remember that. :P
I really appreciate the detailed reply. Really helps to hear a professional opinion for someone who doesn't know much about the topic in any real sense.
I was introduced to MPW when I started at Apple in 1995. I started on Quickdraw GX (if anyone remembers that).

Not specifically related to MPW, more about the times, a clean compile of the Quickdraw GX framework took something like eight hours. (Fortunately incremental builds were much quicker.) Nonetheless, it was common to kick off a clean build as you were leaving the office for the night.

Funny to think about that compiler compiling all night as I had dinner, watched a little cable TV, got some sleep....
Do "work hours" apply? If so, yes, outside of them.

Leave your house to exercise, to do some task, to just see people going around. Do not stay all your time outside of work alone, go somewhere where there are people, and meet them. It doesn't need to be every day, but often enough.
GIGO

or, if that's too short a TL;DR, I'll let Carlin explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

Politicians, dating pool, same mess.

Also relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ryuJDTpEc
I forget what happened to the Green Hills folks, but the official MPW C compiler was an offshoot of the MPW Pascal compiler, and was written by Roger Lawrence at Apple in about a year (around 1987-1988) largely as a reaction to what he thought was a terrible contract.

The Green Hills folks were likewise upset at Roger's effort. "Anyone who says they can write a compiler in a year should be fired." Roger himself held the same opinion, a couple of years later :-)

I sat next to Roger while he wrote that thing, he was in the next cubie over (I was working on the MPW linker and some other tools). He types really fast.
People still keep writing 2021. It will pass.
I don't like FB much but most articles about it are just try-hard haterade.

We get it, media types, you hate Google and FB because they're better at serving ads than you. Figure out another business model.
This is an important point. Being able to give the benefit of the doubt is critical in an environment where trust is so vital. Team meetings/retreats are essential for that because it gives you more context about how people tend to react IRL, and when reading text it becomes more chill because you know who's on the other side.
What legal cover do they require? They're private companies, surely they can refuse service?
Remote work is not always work from home.
Perceptron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron #History, #Variants

An MLP: Multilayer Perceptron can learn XOR and is considered a feed-forward ANN: Artificial Neural Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer_perceptron

Backpropagation: 1960-, 1986,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation
School is like an interface that tries to work with a million different implementations (the students), but it only achieves to make them all average.

It's a creativity killer and that's why creative people rarely are a good fit, most times their creativity is not encouraged, but it's being dismissed as "rebellious". How is this healthy for the kids? And how uniforming them is good for society?

Sometimes I feel like school is more about power and control rather than really helping the students.
I am certainly sorry for your past experiences with bullying, trying to meet expectations, and potentially using drugs and alcohol as a crutch. However, I think it may be worth reconsidering your position that only talking to or having relationships 2 people IRL is satisfactory. Precious negative experiences with people does not mean all people are bad. With effort, you will certainly find people who expand your worldview and enrich your life. Best wishes.
My dad worked for the phone company his entire life. He told me that early in his career, in the early 1960s, he did the engineering to convert a lot of barb wire circuits to central office circuits. He also said the used to have huge bonfires to get rid of the old wooden crank phones. This was all in Southern Illinois, not the Wild West.
If you have past data collected on the users, correlating users despite fingerprint changes should be pretty easy. If the fingerprint itself encodes data and isn't just a cryptographic hash, you don't even need to have past data collected, you just need fingerprints.
This keeps coming up.

Online dating is now the most common way for people to meet in the US and Australia and probably most developed countries :

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-26/australia-talks-natio...

What's wrong with dating is that dating is hard for people.

Keep trying, go on lots of dates and find people you click with.
The amount of drop caught people’s attention but that huge drop has nothing to do with Facebook. The whole market is on edge right now and investors are convinced the bubble is popping and they are looking at everything as a sign to take money off. That scenario coupled with Facebook’s terrible image led to news stories. I do think Facebook is in a world of trouble though. TikTok is eating its lunch and they don’t have an answer to it. Oculus is burning cash and I don’t think it’s the answer to its troubles.
Steam Deck Platform Driver Posted for the Linux Kernel
I am saying the precise opposite of that. Saying that you, at your supposed low level, know that you only get more questions the more you learn, is exactly such a statement as you are claiming I am making. From another perspective, the statement sounds like an excuse for not reaching a higher level of mastery that the person admits they don't know humans are capable of. It's a self-contradiction. Thanks for all the downvotes, y'all! Definitely didn't trigger anyone.
If anyone has 300 people they call "friends", then they are not friends. Acquaintances perhaps.
What are you expecting "tech" to do to stop women from ghosting you or leaving the date? Entrap them in a pod or something?
Probably more software is objectively bad than other things people make, so we are used to looking into the details and immediately making things 10x or 100x better

https://xkcd.com/2030/
People have varying needs for human interaction. For most, this much interaction will result in some pretty severe serotonin deficiencies and debilitating depression. If you have very low social needs then all power to you, but it shouldn't be a template in any sense for the average person.
> Anyone who says they can write a compiler in a year should be fired.

...why?
Government should push better personal health choices? Absolutely. It is a good strategy regardless of covid.

But how can natural immunity prevent covid? Natural immunity appears after infection, it could not somehow magically appear before the infection.

Yes, if people are generally healthy (no diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and so on), they can fare better but it is not guaranteed. Yes, covid death toll in US is high, but it is not low also other countries with much better peoples general health condition.

We know that vaccines help tremendously to reduce serious illness. It is incredibly stupid to not use them.

I do not support vaccination against seasonal flu. You can do it and you probably should do it when you are old but the risk to NOT contact it for general population is at MINIMUM 75%, most likely close to 85-90%.

The risk to NOT contact covid is close to 0.
Actually, my understanding is that astronomers have a pretty good idea of where all the dino-killer asteroids are in the solar system and that none of them are a problem for at least a century. Comets are more of a risk, though not much of one. That much is known at least. And similarly, the Yellowstone volcano is a bit over-hyped. The most likely disasters are a pandemic (seems quite likely now.) or a large coronal mass ejection aimed at the Earth, but those would primarily affect humans/technology, so again they might actually be good for the overall ecology.

There have been mass extinctions before, but it's a thing that happens once in awhile in geological time, so not really something to keep us up at night. Really human caused disasters - climate/pollution, nuclear weapons, rogue AI, are the things that are likely to get us.
What job doesn't require reading?
I tried FB, Google, and Amazon Ads with an IoT Product I Develop.

FB wasn't good. Instagram too. Even the ads I get as a consumer is bad. Instagram seems good for hyper local services though.

Amazon ads seems good in terms of sales compared to Google but the cost ends up high. They're essentially double dipping since you have to pay for FBA fees and Ads if you choose to.

I plan to just spend on Google Ads since it's DTC so there are no retailer fees to pay for.

As a consumer I like both Google and Amazon. I definitely buy more on Amazon and the ads are pretty effective in bombarding the customer, but the quality of the products from Google is much better. Partly because Google (and Youtube) is a great research tool when deciding which product to purchase. Also, a lot of the Google search results point to Amazon or other Shopping Portals.

Also article doesn't mention Oculus at all :$
Implying HN readers date
Licenses don't get to define what is a derived work which needs a license from the author, that's defined solely by copyright law - and it's a tricky issue because the definitions used in copyright law aren't intended for a scenario like this and are rather ambiguous (at least in US) and IMHO does not have any reasonable case law to inform which plausible interpretations would be valid and which would not.

It's not clear whether the model trained on some data is copyrightable at all (and if it isn't, it can't be a derived work and gets no protection nor restrictions from copyright law) as in general facts about a work - including things like word frequency statistics, which was a popular type of trained language models not that long ago (e.g. n-gram models used in statistical MT systems) - are not copyrightable and in that case making/distributing those is not an exclusive right of the author and needs no license or permission, that was settled long ago between publishers and e.g. dictionary makers.

There is also the notion that mechanistic transformations or difficult labor can't result in copyrightable work, there needs to be human creativity involved; in US copyright law (as in Fiest Publications Inc. v. Rural phone service Co, also see https://www.gutenberg.org/help/no_sweat_copyright.html) the fact that making some work required lots of work and cost you lots of money does not imply that it deserves copyright protection, no matter how much work was required; so it's irrelevant that someone spent millions of dollars worth of GPU time, and it could certainly be argued (case law would be useful here!) that the software used to train the model is copyrightable, but the model output by that software is not.

Perhaps case law or some new explicit law will settle otherwise, but currently all the research and industry is proceeding with the assumption that a trained model is not a derived work (in the copyright law sense) from the training data, and as far as I see this assumption is not being challenged in courts.
The benefit of repurposing drugs is precisely that we have decades of safety profile data. That's why those are particularly interesting against emerging diseases, especially for low income countries.

Obviously that's an issue for big pharma since they're not competitive when it comes to pure manufacturing of cheap drugs.
Yeah, I think their approach to blaming PyPi for not being able to distribute their 1GB standard install is really putting the blame on the wrong people.

https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/issues/153#issuecomment...

As an example of an approach that doesn't break Pypi, nltk distributes through Pypi but has an download() method for installation.

https://pypi.org/project/nltk/
https://www.nltk.org/data.html

The fact they're hostile towards pip (and ergo pipenv and poetry) just make it less than appealing software to want to use.
I'm writing PhotoStructure to do exactly this task!

My to-do list is still long, but I'm plugging through it and I believe PhotoStructure already has the most robust tag extraction, inference, and image deduplication heuristics around, and has a novel browsing approach that scales well to very large (100k+ - 1mm+) libraries.

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/

(Disclaimers: I'm the solo author, and although I am an open source author, PhotoStructure is commercial software. There are both a free and paid tiers of functionality: details are on the pricing page.)
Maybe nothing. "ghosting, catfishing or simply horrible first dates"

2 of these happened before the internet I am sure.
The avg HN guy (generally men post these) are also more likely to be in location where the gender ratio is skewed. Bay Area, Bangalore, etc. This might add to the frustration for some. Apps or no apps this would remain.

Very few people are going to find someone right away. This is a good thing, is a feature not a bug.
I feel very inadequate now :(
Surely a study that didn't discuss masks wouldn't change opinions on masking.
I agree and we are saying the same thing. There was no C++ compiler, the C++ language was processed by cfront, similar to the preprocessor and include compile phase. AT&T supplied cfront. The language spec was changing. I wrote applications with it, not checking "language lawyer" syntax problems. I wrote general feedback on performance, and things that would make the language practical. It is hard to describe those days, but concepts of object-oriented programming were new to many people, and I was quite interested in building actual applications. The linker was the common linker for multiple other languages, like gcc today.
I don't think he ever said this. He just said that men have a harder time getting matches than women. That's just factually true.
The Mac you compiled that on likely had a 5Mhz (yes, FIVE MEGAHERTZ) SCSI bus for its disk I/O. And none of the headers had "#pragma once" . . .

Was QuickDraw GX also known as Skia, perhaps earlier in its life?
"American argues Swedish company should employ American laws in their ethos"
You can blame Jack Dorsey for all of it. When he started censoring newspapers, politicians, and presidents he painted a giant bullseye on all of big tech. Regardless of political leanings, as a politician you know that next time it might be you and your message being repressed, so it is best to get ahead of it. Just like newspapers and TV stations are kept in check by making sure no one person owns too many nor across too many markets, expect the same to happen to big tech. They will be broken up, forced to compete, and their money will get siphoned off to refill the coffers and make back all of the Covid stimulus spending.
> “No other viable alternatives” is a funny way of phrasing getting a free, almost painless vaccination and wearing a mask. It is literally the least a person can do to show they have signed the social contract.

Hard disagree.
The vaccines do not prevent transmission.
There is no justification for asking people to get injected something if it is not for protecting the society from an infected individual.
If mandates are about protecting individuals, then there need to be many more mandates: against smoking, unhealthy eating, unprotected sex, risky sport, stress and many more things that potentially lower people's lifespans or healthspans. I hope it is clear that this would overstep boundaries and would only be enforceable with dystopian surveillance.

The free, almost painless vaccination could also be a free almost painless tattoo with a personalized QR code a few years down the road in order to make people easier to identify for enforcement of health mandates.
Nothing in the data backs the thesis of the article. Of the companies mentioned, Apple, Twitter, and Snap are all up in the past week, Snap by a double-digit percentage. Twitter rebounded by 7% the day after Meta’s earnings. Spotify missed on its own earnings. Otherwise only Microsoft is down, and that’s only by 1%. And it’s not at all clear how Apple short-circuiting Meta would reasonably be expected to tank Apple’s own stock.

This is what happens when you write an article based solely on one day’s worth of stock trading.
I agree with you, but I think an important point to add is, that this is why it is dangerous to have the most import forums be advertising driven. Stephen Douglas spoke from a literal podium (when he wasn't prevented from doing so by an angry mob). There were multiple newspapers in most cities, and each part of the political spectrum had one (prominent abolitionists were often editors).

By crafting a society wherein Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. are the primary forums for public discourse, given that they are all primarily ad-driven, it makes for a public discourse which is averse to anything that upsets people. This isn't an inevitable consequence of technology, but it may be an inevitable consequence of ad-driven public discourse where it is difficult to get a new one off the ground due to the network effect.
this is one of the most common causes of damage and failure for low-cost small radio towers (such as a 60' to 80' that a ham radio enthusiast might erect in their yard). Usually because the hollow tubular legs of a triangular lattice tower aren't set into gravel at the bottom of the foundation concrete block, and there's no way for water to drain out. Then you have not only rust issues to be concerned about for corrosion, but also freeze/thaw cycles.

Any tower type with hollow legs can see this problem if not installed right.

Seen with small Rohn 45G class towers that are put up by amateurs.

https://www.rohnnet.com/rohn-45g-tower
Do you think your situation is common or an outlier? If you think you're an outlier, then it's not super relevant.

I was in the total opposite boat. I got bullied here and there (I was the classic gangly tall kid, still am at 35), but school was the sole source of normalcy in my life for most of my adolescence. I'd be willing to bet that the extremes on either end mostly cancel out, and, for the vast majority, school is a net positive because of the socialization and the opportunity to get information that isn't filtered through your parents.
Translated: We can't say that "everyone was equally poor" or even that it hit everyone the same. We also can't say that "poor" has 1-1 relationship with educational outcomes (I know it does have an effect). We can also control for things, i.e. my school was closed, yours wasn't 2 blocks way, the Great Depression hit our area the same, I had a worse/better outcome than you did.
Maybe media just needs to appear progressive and since everybody now realizes that Facebook is just a huge surveillance company they gotta jump on the bandwagon.