skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many examples of a great opening line with a dismal rest-of-the-story do you have? To me, the great opening line is a microcosm of the great story: the tension between setup and punchline, between conflict and resolution, between mystery and revelation, and so on. The alchemy of storytelling is for an author to maintain that seemingly gravitational pull of the audience being inexorably hungry for the next answer without ever making it feel cheap. By extension, the ideal master of the craft can crystalize that dynamic at precisely the points that matter, and thereby make a space to play with such luxuries as theme and characterization and metaphor and parable in the rest.
First past the post is not 'rigged' is just one way of having elections.
I do agree that it probably makes sense to err on the side of being too quick to estimate that something is likely sapient than to err on the side of being too slow to do so.

However, that doesn't make it impossible for a plan-producer to be both superhuman and non-sapient.

Nor do I think the default is for an AGI to be sapient.

(Though, possibly the default could be such that it isn't but in a way in which we couldn't be sufficiently confident that it isn't, and therefore be obligated to behave as if it is sapient)

But, in the FOOM scenario, I would expect that "whether or not to treat it as if it has rights" would be the least of our worries. (the greatest of our worries would be, roughly, "whether it kills everyone".)
The magic of the Japanese convenience store sandwich
Bioavailability of metallic lead is practically nil.
Pferdehaar
> whether the west likes it or not, ukraine's illegal coup government went out of its way to oppress Russians all over the country. Azov was on a campaign of war crimes against the east long before the current war: "russia instigated the ethnic Russians in the east to rebel!" Come the cries, but, even if true, our answer is to shrug and say the United States does this all the time. Turn about is fair play.

Sure, and I think that's why Russia more or less got away with Crimea and Donbas. But this kind of open invasion seems like a different level, something we haven't seen (post-9/11 notwithstanding) since Serbia/Kosovo, and indeed that's the parallel Russia often draws - but the justification for that was a well-documented massacre of civilians. Is that kind of thing evidenced in what the Azov Battalion et al are accused of? (Genuine question, I'm interested to hear what's being said on every side).
Car prices are normalized, this is the new price, and unless people stop buying them, that price is not going to change even if supply chain issues are fixed.
I feel like they missed the primary point which is that E2E encryption is the primary thing protecting everyone from hackers/criminals/other-governments. Without it the criminals WILL have access to your systems and data and then you can basically say goodbye to anything being valuable at all.

Locking your door at night is a poor metaphor. A criminal can literally infiltrate and search through every unsecured computer connected to the internet in a matter of minutes and using almost no resources and with little risk. This drastically diverges from physical assets.

Making encryption illegal will ensure that only criminals use it, thus making only criminals safe online.
I am not comfortable giving government more power to control the economy. The government was never meant to have the power over the economy they currently do. We are over 100 years in to the reign of the Fed and I see very little good that has come from it.
I think you’re missing the point that with “paper” currency you still have choice. You can choose to buy things based on your own volition, whether genuinely bad for you like meth maybe, or simply just Russian vodka; because Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia and the populace has lost their mind over hate week … but you still happen to like Russian vodka.
> I don’t think so.

I do. The baseline comparison is against a human-curated experience (traditional programming) or metadata-driven rankings (most popular, recently added). Given the number of customers and number of titles, it absolutely stands that noticeable improvements can be had by optimizing the display of content using methods that statistically demonstrate those gains.
We started masks when it became clear the Covid was far more contagious and deadly than the flu.
It's mostly FTHBs, investors, and purchasers of second (+ more) homes. Existing homeowners who are trading one home for another net out of the supply and demand calculations - for every house they take off the market, they add one back in. They also tend to net out financially as well: if home prices are high, they receive a lot for their home but have to spend a lot to get a new one, while if prices are low, they won't get a lot for their home but can buy a new one cheap.

Existing homeowners have a pretty critical role in spreading high prices throughout the country, though. If nobody traded out of their existing homes prices would be sky-high in the Bay Area and Seattle, like they were in 2018, but this pool of buyers would have little effect on Boise and Charlotte. But because someone in the Bay Area can get $2M for their home and now has it available to retire to Boise, prices in the Bay Area end up marginally lower and prices in Boise go through the roof.
Once the merge happens (proof of stake) and finally shard chains are deployed to mainnet ethereum[0], the main source of high fees and high emissions (ethash GPU farms) will fall tremendously.

0: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/
Vendor lock in means vendor upgrades. The last time I used google maps (maybe 6 years ago?) you couldn't have any history of your recent destinations if you also turned of google search history...

Now I run CalyxOS, haven't used google maps in a long time, and maybe i'm worse for not knowing about speed traps or the fastest route, but... I feel fine.
Not after I got back from vacation, no. There’s not much opportunity where I am and I didn’t have training partners, so I the only thing I could do safely was dry training.
Probably better to offer a beanie baby, something that'll hold value
A consistent source of website visitors is the best learning tool you can have.
brilliant except for weird edge case failure modes that aren’t obvious, like random dns lookup failures or random network dropouts.
Just some randos out for a little assassination fun. Happens all the time in the world that a bunch of foreigners attempt a stupid but audacious assassination attempt right in the middle of a concerted effort by an adversary to overthrow a government. You know the CIA wasn't involved because American movies depicts them as superhuman secret agents and these guys were the opposite of that.
> . . . not to use ATM machines because it would enable government surveillance of our spending. That was breathlessly silly, too.

And how is that silly? It seems to be factual.

> I am more worried about people cheating society. I pay my taxes and try to do the right thing.

The funny thing about privacy is most people don't really notice it let alone treasure it until it's been violated.

And anyone who wants to surveil us loves it when people shrug and say they have nothing to hide. It's a nice bandwagon slogan, applying social pressure. It shifts the burden from the watchers (why do they need the info?) to the watched (what do they have to hide?). It's a rotten rhetorical twist and deserves to be decried whenever it's used.

> But only if we also secure voting rights

Now I'm wondering if I misread sarcasm earlier. Poe's Law was written for this moment.
Just a note - I’m not sure how serious you are with this comment, but it’s nothing like how it’ll work (I’ve been keeping up with the CBDC literature and it might not even be a blockchain)
The dollar can't have negative interest rates to discourage savings, though. It can have inflation, but that's comparatively invisible to people.

If the bank starts "taking away your money" in a way that makes numbers visibly go down, people will convert to cash.

In a cashless society, the central bank has a lot more control and room to maneuver.
Working man hours, not eating until home, so more like 5 pm to 10 or 11 pm.
Flip a coin. Heads you answer the truth. Tails you flip again: heads you answer A, tails you answer not A. Construct a binary tree as required.
> That’s a little boring, but I’m not sure what I expected.

I thought the browser was gonna use some sort of default color table. Or generate a new table with random colors every time it loaded the image. Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe even let me save the generated color table hard-coded into a new GIF.
They use google search API for their results so it's really rebranded google with tweaks on top.
$2000 adds about $30-40 a month on a 5 year note. If your budget will be busted by an additional $40/mo, you have no business buying a new car in thee first place.
> after commenting on one newsletter, it becomes impossible to comment on any other newsletter without compromising my privacy.

We tried to build reader profiles in a way that can handle this nicely - you can choose on a per-subscription basis which publications to display on your profile and which you'd like to keep hidden. This is almost like an anonymous subscription although it doesn't quite support a fully anonymous commenting use case, since theoretically someone could recognize you from different comment sections.

One thing I could see us trying in the future is giving writers more control over who can comment and how, on their particular publications. Already, writers can choose whether to allow comments from all subscribers, only paid subscribers, or to turn off comments entirely. Allowing writers to choose to support anonymous commenting doesn't seem out of the question.
And with the law. We whould have a backdoor in tls. And HTTPS will be meaningless
This is missing a big piece of a central bank digital dollar. What we have now isn't the same thing at all.
The worst year...so far

Makes me wonder, would society today fare better than society then to the same hardship?
> In my experience, all people tend to gossip

Here's an anecdote you might find relevant:

At Caltech, a good friend of mine lived in an apartment next to campus. He could only cook one dish, chicken wings, and was rightly famous for them. Once a month, he invited all comers for chicken wing night. His poor little apartment would get stuffed with students stuffing themselves.

Except for one. A middle-aged man would come in, get some wings, and just sit quietly in a corner. After seeing this a few times, I went over to ask him who he was, and why he was here. After all, he must be bored stiff listening to our prattle.

He said he was the apartment manager, and far from bored, he was fascinated to just sit and listen to the conversations. He said he'd never heard anyone talk like that before, nor had he heard anyone talk about the topics we did.

And no, the conversations were not about football, drinking, or sex.

> far from ideal

You've changed the goal posts from "what one needs" to "ideal".
“ Louie pulled off his bra and threw it down upon the casket.”

— Nick Tosches, In the Hand of Dante
Protesting is practically the national pastime in France though.
Anyone know how this differs from twilight?
Can you elaborate? I dont think there is any meaningful relationship between menthol and weight or menthol and smokes.
same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30623347
> you can't really "ramp up" production of burgers in response to higher dollar supply without ramping down the production of salads, unless there were people doing nothing to start with (which is why inflation is related to unemployment, to a degree)

Yes I agree inflation can be related to unemployment, and I generally agree with your whole point but I just want to clarify you’re missing one big variable in the formula: Automation.

Cheeseburger Supply = Labor*Automation

As such (like we have today with accelerating automation) we don’t really need more labor to make both Cheeseburgers and Salad.

> those dollars used to incentivize higher production can at best drive a short-term boost in production, as the costs to produce the burgers quickly rise as inflation propagates throughout the rest of their supply chain

Additionally, I want to point out Wage Inflation incentivizes Automation. As such even the production cost increase is a short/mid term concern as long as we can Automate more of the process (e.g. lab grown meat, Beyond Burger, farming automation, online ordering vs in-person ordering, etc).

I don’t think any of this is insightful or will change your mind on anything, but do factor Automation and Accelerating Automation into your equations about the economy.
>will allow calls for violence against Russians. Sure, yes, the guys and gals calling the shots are baddies, but your everyday Ivan and Katia are not

FB seems to be pretty clear that the calls for violence are allowed only in the context of the Ukrainian war and only against invading forces plus Putin himself.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-inst...
I’ve seen Gandi (sp?) suggested a few times.
1. Halting problem, as a reductionist example.

2. I don't follow your point.

I do appreciate the examples/links.
I like this mindset, thanks for sharing.
> Well, you’re not going to be able to make it to work at the warehouse on what you have in the tank.

Hell no! If I can survive of "stimmie days" I will just tell the boss too bad I'm not showing up. What's he gonna do, fire me? Who cares!

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Central Bank Accounts for All is a good policy. The painlessness of getting fired will reform work, and help get rid of stupid planned on obselesence. The most important thing is trade policy so we don't all slack off by making foreign workers toil for us.
Yes, I said that if not for those events I think Trump could have won. Better leadership with COVID along with his (somewhat fictitious but still compelling) narrative of turning around the economy would probably have put him over Biden. Even though Biden won by a sizeable margin of popular votes - and as a candidate, he received more votes than any other candidate in history - he won with fewer electoral votes (the only votes that actually matter) than the 78,000 votes in three swing states which got Trump over in 2016.
One of the problems with graphql is a single query can fetch your entire API.

This means to record for billing, you would need to parse the AST and tag the parts as well as their associated cost in a query.

It's not an easy drop in, unfortunately.
I just got into the beta for https://kagi.com/ which at this time seems at least as good if not better than DDG
There should be a plaintext front end to twitter. Imagine entire threads reduced to simple markdown bulleted lists.
I have a similar question, but not for the wealthy: https://philosopher.life/#Unorthodox%20Savings
Writing with Git (2014)
I believe there is a billboard which even ranks the most annoying tracks every year. I remember Frozen's "Let it go" & James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" were on it too.
Not recommending GP should do it - just found it an interesting fact to add here.
I suppose this is one of the many reasons why I’m on my third Saab (only have bought used Saabs). It’s easy for me since I’m able to repair pretty much anything myself, but I realize it won’t last forever.

I’m worried when the time comes for the next car, I’m not sure what it’ll be…
A central bank digital currency would allow the central bank to take your money. Right now, a government agency would need to ask your bank to take your money. That bank will have lawyers and they'll ask questions. You can guarantee Jamie Dimon at Chase doesn't just say "oh, well ok then, sure". He'll want to see the relevant documentation, have his people inspect it, and push back if he doesn't like it.
Silvio Gesel and demurrage, look them up. All the good parts of inflation (incentive not to hold money / rent seek nominally, shrinks debts) without the bad parts, because price stability is preserved.
Scribe link: https://scribe.rip/@nickhbottomley/writing-with-git-434abffc...
i started a substack about a year ago and haven't used it. i plan to change that.
Ah, the old HackerNews switcheroo
1. Account switching and/or being able to merge accounts is a totally reasonable idea. Right now you can theoretically sign out / sign in with a different email address but I know that's a pain

2. Good feedback re: the orange dot! I'll pass that along to our Designer.

3. This is also a good idea, but unfortunately a little less straightforward to get right 100% of the time as email clients increasingly start to get in the way of tracking pixels visibility.
> promoted by HN users

Other than this article, I can't find any evidence the community has ever discussed it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query=ragingbull.com&s...
Have you ever been to Russia or China?
consider adding (2020) to the title as this is an old news and current effort are now focused into better software encoder nowadays.
Yes! Very excited to build more readability features and customization.
So naturally many fees are collected along the way for such services.

Moreover, in such a centralized system there is no longer any need for middlemen like banks or credit card companies.

Some planning documents for CBDCs discuss still including private banks in a “public-private partnership” system. But that’s only because customers love banks so much and because banks would love to keep charging fees

LOL. Indeed, the existing banking system HATES the very idea of consumer central bank money. They would much rather be the choke point, uh, intermediary.

When the CB issues new money, it has to go through the banks. That was fine when communications were slow - the CB dumps money in the bank's CB account, and then the bank distribute it to end users via loans (or more likely 'invest' it to pump up asset prices).

Now that communications are instant, there does not appear to be any need for banks, end-users could interact directly with the CB.

The totalitarian FUD is of course overblown. For a start, CBDC does not mean the end of cash, just the end of the necessity of commercial banks. And in any case, govt is much more accountable than private companies; For example, banks can, and do, cut off classes of users at their sole discretion, whereas govt would be forced to serve all legal actors.
Could they enfource that though? I don't think people realize how much of the labor is done without reporting. Prices would double overnight and many illegal immigrants would be unemployed. That seems like it would work strongly against everything they've done for the past few years. I'm pretty sure only well behaved outliers would be punished.

(I'm not against paying taxes btw, I certainly pay mine.)
> just because they're sold by a government entity.

I think it depends. Is the government holding a monopoly on the market? If so, it's a tax.
I bought a Nissan Kicks, which is in your "turd crossover" category... and I love it because it's exactly what I want.

Its redeeming qualities are light weight and responsive handling, to feel like driving a nimble hatchback rather than a lumbering SUV, while having the raised cockpit, visibility, and most of the cargo space of an SUV. Lack of AWD is a feature; I don't do any towing or driving on snow or dirt to need it; FWD is lighter and cheaper and more efficient.

People have preferences that aren't the same as yours, and insulting them isn't necessary. Crossovers are very practical and people buy them for plenty of good reasons.
> Stairs are not universally useful; as you point out, they are inaccessible to wheelchair users.

That’s quite literally my entire point.

> Subtitles are universally accessible to any sighted person whose vision is good enough to make out the small KSL interpreter onscreen.

Small? The KSL interpreter is orders of magnitude larger than subtitle text.

> I can’t imagine there being an appreciable amount of people who can understand the KSL interpreter but can’t read subtitles.

I can, because I am familiar with Korean. Korean words can get very dense and tricky to read if you are vision impaired. It’s not English where letters for words are distributed horizontally. In Korean you combine vowels and consonants into syllable-blocks and N syllable-blocks make up a word. Each syllable-block could have up to 4 letters in it arranged in a 2x2 grid. Korean syllable-blocks are mono-spaced.

Here’s an example generic sentence: 안녕하세요, 저는 조단 이에요. 반갑습니다.

That is one of the first things you’ll learn in Korean and syllable-blocks like 는 and 갑 aren’t hard to read. What about words containing: 뵝 or 봥 or 붱 etc. What about syllable-blocks with all 4 spaces used? 많이, 닭 etx. You can look at the UTF8 specification to see all valid syllable-block combinations.

Are you telling me a visually impaired person is going to be able to easily distinguish those? Take a few steps back and squint with your eyes. Can you?

They already offer subtitles. They now offer sign language for those so visually impaired, but not literally 100% blind, such that they may also have access to information. You’re saying they don’t deserve it because it’s not universally useful or because you cannot imagine people like that exist?
> Trump is the leading candidate to become US president in 2024, not some fringe extremist.

He may be the leading candidate to be the republican nominee, but that's not the same as the leading candidate likely to win.

Your logic also doesn't work; you can be both the leading candidate and a fringe extremist.
I have no proof, other than my dad wasn't known for telling tall tales. He related the story because it was both unusual and amusing.

You can believe whatever you like.
I'm curious as I think I'll be making this decision in the near future.

> it's more likely that you'll want custom UI (animations, transitions, etc) and functionality that require full access to native APIs.

Besides the custom UI stuff, as I think React Native has some decent animation support nowadays, what specific native APIs were needed in Substack's case that made React Native an ineligible choice?

As text being the main content for Substack, Its hard for me to imagine why React Native wouldn't be sufficient for a relatively simple app.

Discord, undoubtedly, has more complex UI needs compared to Substack, however it's humming along just fine with React Native.

What makes React Native capable for Discord, but incapable for your needs?
> Prior to COVID, masks were a curiosity, not a norm.

Only because we live in a “me” society and not a “we” society. If we were sensible, masking up would be normal when one has a cold/there’s a local flu outbreak. So much illness and lost productivity would be easily avoided with a minor change in expectations and behaviour.
While searching about Stalin on Google I came across an interesting article (1) that provides some more perspective on his life (particularly his early years). He did seem mostly sound of mind especially in his earlier years (and the script was quite similar to any revolutionary), but somewhere it turned violent. Though in his later years - he believed his son surrendered to the Germans (!?) rather than getting captured - he clearly was delusional or had some elements of grandiosity. I wonder how things would have tuned out if he was a pacifist. (I should add that I'm not well aware of the details of European/Soviet history beyond very basics and I'm comparing "revolutionaries" to freedom fighters in colonized countries which likely isn't a great comparison.)

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/joseph-stalin-national-hero-or-c...
A central bank also has lawyers who ask questions?

Sometimes it feels like some people imagine government working like this: Biden calls up Powell and says “Let’s take all the money from our political enemy N.N today” to which Powell replies “Yeah LOL awesome, my minions are pushing the button now”