skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do these corporations get to have functionally infinte state granted monopolies on trivially infinitely copyable data as if it's some basic right?
It sounds like heaven to me.
Experimental design in medical trials on animals is extremely complex.
Wow, what utter hyperbole. Can you cite any evidence?
Stop killing our trees! Just kidding, you do you.
It is astonishing how many 'fact oriented' people are opining on things they know nothing about, could easily google, are wrong about, and how upvoted they are here. I've heard the phrase poison pill before. I looked into it for real for the first time yesterday. Have maybe spent an hour since reading about it.

How are so many people morally outraged by some complex measure they're trying to authoritatively distill and are just so wrong about, and didn't even bother to google?

About 60% of this thread can be summed up as

"I'm going to pass this alphanumeric value to this variable."

"But it's an integer"

"No it's not."
From the NearlyFreeSpeech.Net FAQ <https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Interest>:

> Q: Do I get interest on my deposit? A: No[, but...] We periodically reevaluate this situation, because we think a web account that runs forever purely off of its own interest is a pretty cool idea.

NFSNet also has an interesting part in their FAQ in response to the question If I think services you host are currently unavailable due to lack of funds; is there anything I can do?, they outline a process whereby third-parties can fund a hosted service by creating an account themselves, depositing funds into their own account (NFSNet services are prepaid instead of billed after the fact), and then submitting a manual (but free) request to transfer those funds to the original accountholder based on the service's domain name. I've always thought this was interesting because in theory someone could set up a community, disappear, and then the community could step up to keep it funded long enough for the person to get out of the hospital/be rescued at sea/etc, so long as the infrastructure is solid enough to remain operational without being attended to (not vulnerable to exploits, etc.)

They've also got a policy where if the member who operates the service is a willing participant, they can publish their NearlyFreeSpeech.Net account ID and have donors add funds to cover 100% of service costs via automated transfers. <https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Lifeboat>
The token isn’t nearly as concerning as what it implies: this stolen token would have been stored in heroku’s DB. However it got out likely has broader implications.
There’s too much money being left on the table. The government should be levying a hefty tax on every H1B, like $20k/year. That tax should then be used to fund merit based scholarships for US Citizens pursing a degree in the field of the H1B. If the argument is that we don’t have the skills in the US, then let’s use the H1B program to create those skills.
Link that works:

https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...
Windows Ameliorated does much more than what O&O ShutUp does. It completely removes spyware on an executable level, not by just using registry or policy edits.
> Are you thinking that every employee of DuckDuckGo that knows this (and many would have to), is paid so highly as to just be quiet?

I'm not thinking that DDG is secretly being run by Google at all, but I'm forced to admit that there's nothing stopping Google from doing it, that they have the money and resources to do it, and that it would benefit them to do it, so however remote, it is a possibility that should be considered right along side the possibility that duckduckgo is exactly what they say they are and nothing more. We have no evidence of either being true after all and can only speculate.
If we're asking ourselves that the risks of using DDG are, we have to at least consider what the worst case scenarios might be.

So while I consider the possibility that DDG is being run by google to be possible, but highly unlikely, just as a thought experiment, why would anyone but a very small number of Google employees working at DDG need to know it was run by google and sending data back home? Any other DDG employees don't need to be told. If google employees ran the servers, DDG employees would be free to work on the front end and day to day stuff entirely unaware.

> The problem with this (and most other conspiratorial thinking) is that of course a whistleblower is going to come forward.

This is not a guarantee at all. Edward Snowden came forward, but only after many many years and not one of his co-workers in the same role did. DuPont knowingly poisoned people for decades and not a single whistleblower ever came forward. Johnson & Johnson knew that their product (which we were covering infants with) caused cancer but there was no whistleblower to break the story to the public.

Over and over and over again we only learn about horrific acts committed against the public by corporations after decades of gathering scientific data and court actions specifically because people were "paid so highly as to just be quiet". It's a fact that whistleblowers are the rare exception and not the rule.

The idea that companies are so afraid of whistleblowers or their reputation that they wouldn't do evil things is demonstrably false as we've seen example after example of companies who knowingly put profit over human life time and time again and even when there were whistleblowers the companies often faced zero meaningful consequences beyond paying back a small percentage of the profits they made while building a body count.

Whistleblowers are awesome, and they remain a very import check against bad actors, but do not count on them always being there to save you and don't expect that fear of them will prevent a company from committing acts far far worse than logging your internet searches.
I've read there are mouth shapers that full your jaw forward that significantly helps with sleep apnea. but at the same time it kills your bite, and reforms your jaw.

any recommendations?

tangentially I also have tinnitus so now I'm wondering if it's related.
It's not just harder than it looks, I would argue it's one of the hardest problems imaginable.
Really. While some of them have clearly illegal content which goes beyond the topic of censorship there are LOTS of others a person that values the princible of free speech should have no problem with

Like Drugs, Guns, etc.

Then you have entire lists of subreddits that break the rules (harassment, hate speech, etc) but are deemed "acceptable" by the admins due to those subreddits breaking the rules against people that the reddit admins have deemed "acceptable targets"
"Do you have an argument against redistribution that isn't "I disagree with what the public wants"?"

I'm a part of the public, and I don't want it. I imagine there is a sizable number of others that don't want it too.

We could just force people to do whatever we want because a majority wants it, but that's no different than mob rule.

So far I haven't heard a compelling argument that this approach would solve more issues than it causes. The precise implementation would influence this greatly, but it isn't well defined. If we want to control housing prices in specific locations, I think a better approach is to cap the number of jobs in an area based on its carrying capacity. This would also provide more even distribution thorough out the state/country, reduce infrastructure concerns, and reduce property prices. But good luck convincing the politicians - they already like attracting jobs/companies by offering tax breaks, zoning variances, etc.
How is riding side by side in a lane dangerous?
I had the exact same relationship with my parents for the same reason. A family therapist once even specifically told this to my siblings and I using the term “Adult Children.” However, I somehow managed to develop some affection and a “feeling that they’re my parents” in my mid 30s. But don’t even get me started on my total inability to form committed relationships!
I don't think it's run like a public utility. Twitter takes stances that might seem 'centrist' in politically blue areas, but seem biased in red areas.

Personally, I think Musk would run it more fairly.
>Imagine I'm a landlord, and I have a vacant lot I'm renting to a tenant who's got a mobile home parked there. What's going to happen if a Land Value Tax is imposed on me? Well, I'm already charging as much as the market will bear. If I charge any more, my tenant will move out.

That's rich. As someone who is a landlord, I'm already charging what two owners ago was charging when they died and the city won't let raise the rent because of COVID and beyond that, there is a rent stabilization ordinance which will never allow my rents to catch up to market rate.

I would like to see zoning fixed before we add more market distortions. This really doesn't account for the cost of construction as well. If you have a property that can earn $2,500 per unit, and it costs $300k, you can break even in $10 years. Now the government is taking half, it takes 20 years to break even. You just eliminated people who would invest in new housing. Does the LVT magically affect construction costs?

So then land gets cheaper because the government is taking half the potential revenue (not even profit, which makes renting incredibly unprofitable considering expenses). What stops wealthy people from just buying it as single family homes then? You have just lowered the price of the land, so they will come in a scoop it up.

It seems insane to me that we have these distortions that ruin the housing market (zoning, rent control) and the answer is to add another distortion (LVT) rather than eliminating the ones currently in place. You're disincentivizing people from renting their land if you cut into the profit of doing so. Make building not a bureaucratic nightmare and I will build. Revoke RSO and I won't shut down my property and convert it to a SFH for myself.
The simple solution is that an H1-B visa automatically converts to a green card in 12 months. The sponsoring corporation is responsible for completing any necessary checks within that time period.

This takes care of wage suppression as people can leave after a year. This takes care of body shops clogging the pipelines as they have to spend their own money to finish the checks. This takes care of the limited number of visas as the pipeline empties every 12 months without fail.

This solves almost all the H1-B idiocy. This is, of course, why no one in the valley ever proposes this solution.
I'm not them. But in my case, meditation and being mindful made it worse. Browsing a ton of social media and being perpetually distracted in the attention economy's exploitation has helped me.
>> In the US, you'll see a sign that's 9 lines of text that you're supposed to read & comprehend at 35 mph = 56 km/h.

> Signs like what? The only signs I can think of that have a bunch of text are stuff like valid parking hours.

Like this one, except you have to read it at 65+ mph:
https://3gz8cg829c.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/...

It's 3 signs totaling 10 lines:

LEFT LANE
HOV 2+
ONLY

6AM - 10AM
2PM - 7PM
MON-FRI

NO TRUCKS

VIOLATION
$250
FINE
> You have to play ball with them or they will simply not be able to produce those things anymore.

You say that like it's a bad thing. I wish it was that easy to get them to stop producing all that crap, but it seems that the easier it gets to pirate things, the more cultural garbage they produce.
Once you have an H1B you’re exempt from the lottery draw which is the biggest deterrent for hiring in the first place. This makes switching employers very easy and therefore reduces the “employer lock-in”
Title should be prefaced with “Ask HN:”
Try masking sounds. Your brain has an amazingly capable AGC and absent other sound it can create sound out of just about nothing including sounds that aren't there. Playing very (-30 dB) soft white noise may be just enough to stop your brain from doing its thing and after a short while the white noise itself will fade into the background. This helped me tremendously when I had a nasty case of tinnitus myself (which lasted for years).
Unfortunately, not everyone has time or desire to work on personal projects. Being an engineer outside of work should not be a pre-requisite to being one at work.
Curios, what makes you prefer LTSC over Windows Ameliorated?
Ask HN: Night Friendly CLI Displays?
Wasn’t too sure how to phrase this one.

I have an old car (2003) and when I’m driving at night I’m always struck by how comforting and soft the light from the dashboard is (odometer, speedometer, revs, etc). Here’s an image for reference: https://ibb.co/wYXMxkY

Then I drive a more recent car - and the light, even on the dimmest setting has a more jarring quality.

How are these made? Are they just backlit panels with cutouts? I’d love to build a cli display using this kind of lighting.
>people from China or India

>Left leaning

Where the hell have you been working!?
To me, this seems obvious. No reason something this fateful shouldn’t be put to shareholder vote. No good reason, at least.
Sequential UUIDs: safer for avoiding errant results from mistyped joins and better clustered database support down the line while keeping good performance levels.

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...

"I say we take off and nuke the whole sequence-generated id installation from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
– Ellen 'SQL' Ripley
It is theoretical because the analysis you provided and the the Vox article don't account for zoning in any meaningful way.
There has been a strange inversion. Some people who used to be anti-authority are now pro-authority and vice versa.

https://i.imgur.com/2BUaFjn.jpg
Tell that to all the employee with shares or options.
Yes. Many have argued the same. If you wish to be informed, I recommend doing some reading. In particular, there is a difference between personal property and private property, and that difference is expounded in great detail in the literature.

Are you saying selfishness motivates productivity today? I think you would be hard-pressed to justify that claim.

Are you saying that we do not experience tragedy of the commons today? In today's economy, everyone having the same access to unregulated markets can be seen as a tragedy: this turns people into either suckers or grifters, and nothing in between. Sounds pretty fucked up to me.

I see a tragedy of the commons in the ubiquity of the belief that "I own this" and "I don't own that". Everyone believes this to the point it is an ideological underpinning of contemporary society. But it is not true a priori, so I am not really seeing how you justify it in the first place, especially without empirical counterfactuals. And obviously it has some serious drawbacks, such as people dying needlessly. Those people could contribute to your wellbeing but they are dead and can no longer do that. A tragedy, indeed.
Cymbals (and plastic foils being crumpled) can be crazy loud and if you are a drummer you really should wear ear protection.
if a person has a heart problem. In the US it would be something like. “Died of heart problem bought on by covid”. Or “died of covid due to complications caused by heart problem”.

So covid is a causing or contributing factor.

In China. It’s recorded as “heart problem”.

We know this because they do it with seasonal flu. America gets like 20m cases of seasonal flu a year. And like 30k deaths. China gets like 50 cases.

China said that if someone has covid in the family. That’s counted as 1, even if the whole family/household has it. And back in 2020 they leaked a document saying if someone tests positive but doesn’t show symptoms then it’s not recorded as a covid case.
I'm having a hard time understanding what this is still. Is it an equalizer?
TL;DR - herd immunity is less effective with respiratory viruses

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-experts-di...
Twitter is very clearly not a public utility by any means
A less effective vaccine pretty directly leads to higher death rates. I read in other news articles they didn't aggressively vaccinate older people like we did. Apparently a similar thing has happened in Hong Kong.
He talks about it in his book, Wanting
Old (1994) List of IRC Servers – How many remain?
> That's not true. If H1-Bs were not a good deal for the guest workers, there wouldn't be a 10 year waiting list to get one

How about this: If below minimum wage illegal work wasn't a good deal for guest workers, there wouldn't be illegal immigration to the US.

This doesn't mean its not exploitation, although not every H1B is being exploited.

> The workers being exploited by wage depression here are the American ones

85K new H1B's a year aren't enough to depress wages when the population of the US is 300M+. Especially when there is record demand across industries. Look at tech, every company wants to hire more and is competing with high salaries.

> and that's not even addressing the infrastructure costs of a growing population which is distributed evenly instead of being born solely by those incurring the cost.

I don't understand this point. Isn't every citizen benefiting from the improved, expanded infrastructure? Legal immigrants like H1Bs pay the same taxes as any citizen or a permanent resident.
It seems to be a pretty common phenomenon, I think. People have kids when they're young, and a role reversal happens then the kids get old enough. This causes deep seated emotional issues which then continue on to the next generation...

My parents did the best they could with what they had available to them at the time. But it still messed me up, and I've decided not to have kids myself.

> But don’t even get me started on my total inability to form committed relationships!

oh hey it me!
And yet, as the world communicates by way of technological means nowadays, rather than public gatherings and speeches, there is a larger and larger need for free speech on tech platforms.

I frankly don't see a good solution, because the world is multipolar and subject to different laws regarding free speech. If countries were concerned for the respect of their own boundries of free speech they would begin developing (godawful, I'm sure) alternatives to twitter, facebook, youtube, google, etc. If each country had their own echo chamber, it would make sense if you squint very hard and try to ignore the fact that people wish to communicated across country borders.

So yeah, it's not going to change any time soon.

I will say this though, while appreciating his thread, he is dead wrong about the idea that the censorship is equal ended. "Nationalism", in the broad sense, irregardless of wether it is left or right leaning economically, is censored across the board far, far greater than "Liberalism".
Oh I see, I'll take a look into it then. Thanks!
You have to realise that the majority of people who want to force everybody to work in an office have no life outside of work. No friends, no intimate partner, nothing at all. WFH is a nightmare for them.
If Elon was really only concerned by his own free speech he could easily using the small change in his pocket to create elonmusksays.com, have 10 people run it, and his daily quips and insights would be there for all to see and presumably quoted anywhere and everywhere.

Elon always has bigger plans and ability to execute on them then people seem to acknowledge.
Good idea. I'm not sure I know arg parsing libraries in every language though. Even so, hopefully talking about where to make the change and finding some good documentation on an arg parsing library would be good enough start for 20 minutes.
This seems like an argument without a point.
It's always the algorithm with you, isn't it Alan Turing?
Look this isn't the answer you want but no amount of meat is ethical. A living being has to die and there's no way to justify that that doesn't lean into some kind of cop out supremacist argument.

Nutritionally, it's been shown again and again that plant based diets are healthier than meat eating diets. And not just that, but there is actual science to back this up. Compare the science for plant based diets (https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/wiki/veganscience/) to the basically non-existent studies regarding human carnivore diets.

I'd highly recommend having a start here for some general resources: https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/wiki/index/

It's better for yourself, the planet, and the animals to be open to going down this route. Don't buy into the weird unscientific propoganda from the carnivore club, look at the research, and question why you're concerned about the ethics of meat eating to begin with and maybe explore that to the fullest extent.
They were profitable in like 2017-2019. Their financials are public, it's easy to see at a macro level where the money is going.
Looks like about 86M owner occupied homes out of 141M total housing units. So likely more than half depending on the distribution of household members.

"What do homeowners want? Well, they don't want higher home prices if no one is around to support the local economy. So clearly they want some level of distribution of access."

I'd imagine that only applies for a small area (SV, NYC). Outside of that area, it's not a real issue (people don't talk about that in the areas I have lived).
The hypothesis and distribution of data are irrelevant. The artifact comes from x being on both sides of the regression equation.
But then he can just keep on buying those shares secondhand, right? (Or, since they’re fungible, “buy more shares”.)
I read it and am thoroughly unimpressed.

> It is because at Certain Times, given Certain Circumstances, humans will Behave Badly when confronted with Certain Ideas, and if you are The Main Platform Where That Idea is Being Discussed, you cannot do NOTHING, because otherwise humans will continue behaving badly.

To paraphrase: "Ideas are dangerous, people cannot be trusted to argue on the internet because it leads to violence, therefore people have to be censored, even if the things they're saying are true".

First, the idea that lab-leak theory was related to violence against East Asians is highly, highly dubious. Second, again and again, I see people arguing that we have to dispense with our ideals because they are Too Dangerous. At some point you have to realize that these people are just cowards.
> I think we need to distinguish between government imposed lockdown and measure that people take on their own.

Why? It’s an exponential curve, either the number of cases is increasing or decreasing it makes little difference until you swap from one to the other. There is zero evidence that purely voluntary methods would have worked.

Further, the problem with using a zero policy baseline is voluntary lockdowns would also wrecked the economy. Movie theaters etc can’t operate if 90+% of the population including their staff is staying home. You can try and get some sort of synthetic baseline economic harm without government policies but you also get feedback loops of people staying home more as the situation falls apart.

That’s especially true of foreign countries. China’s lockdowns appeared to be extremely effective, but they where going to wreck US supply chains irrespective of the US response to COVID.

It’s even possible that government shutdowns reduced overall economic harm. Remember, lockdowns prioritized essential services, the disease wouldn’t have been so discriminatory. The zero government intervention baseline likely results in major disruptions in essential services like food delivery.
What Twitter client are you using? Mobile web at least threads it just fine. So much so I don’t understand why people use threadreader a given the junk that adds to a conversation as its being requested and replied to.
This article would be much more interesting if they shared the code. They imply they use a new set of question every cycle so it should be safe and easy to share the examples used in a past cycle.