skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, thank you. I was sloppy with my phrasing. The idea is that it takes only a small number of males to procreate the next generation, so the rest of the males are a kind of surplus that can be diverted, to fighting for example.
Here's my take:

Duckduckgo could easily be fully owned and operated by some three letter agency. The NSA is already able to go onsite and tap into the data that passes through corporations and they've been doing exactly that for decades (see Room 641A) and they can force corporations to keep silent about it using national security letters. You should already assume that every US based company is sending every scrap of data you give them to the state.

With no way to avoid your data from going to the state, what are you left with? Worries over companies collecting, selling, and using your data against you. That's a very real and perfectly valid concern.

We know that other search engines are doing those things, so it's best not to use them if we can avoid it. Duckduckgo might be doing those things, which at least gives us a chance, and even if they are it'd be better to hand your data over to several different companies than to give them all to one source (like Google for example) because the more data points any one company has on you the more control they have over you.

The worst case scenario would be that Duckduckgo is actually secretly run by Google and the data being collecting from the service is being used to help fill your dossier at Google but if that's the case we're never going to know about it until a whistleblower comes forward.

As defeatist as this all sounds, I do believe in taking steps to try to protect your privacy where you can, and I take many steps that go far beyond what most people are willing to, but we also have to accept the reality of the situation we have where our laws and regulations do not protect us, and there is very little we can do to protect ourselves but depend on others to do what they say.
That's why I use duckduckgo right now. not because it's trustworthy (we can't know that), but because they might be and that's (sadly) the best option we have at the moment.
Twitter is predicting a drop in GAAP loss in 2022 to between $225-$175m.

So even if the lawsuit is recurring (neither of us know) they are still managing to reign in their losses.

By any definition the company is heading in the right direction.
So the argument is that the lockdown secretly failed, but we somehow missed in all antibody tests from travelers in China the widespread covid infection and we also missed all the 3 million deaths?

Data from China is how we even got the sequence for the virus in the first place.
Mac App Store Ransomware
My ASUS laptop has a dedicated mute mic button, not a key, on top of the keyboard.
A rather unfortunate name collision, at first I thought this project (targeting tamper evident attestation pre-boot) had vastly expanded its scope: https://osresearch.net/
He didn't say the children were vaccinated. He asked a question about a study. It would be reasonable and constructive to reply with one or both of the following:

A: Vaccination doesn't appear to be an issue here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/12/uk-health-ag...

B: You're probably thinking of this Irish study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8264276/

> Maybe you're just toxic.

Now that was unwarranted.
Lost library of works by Brontë sisters was to be sold. Then Britain rallied
This is just a JavaScript thing, right? Why phone home?
Yeah it’s a sad day when the tip land straight onto the floor :(
In retrospect, Obama seems to have made a terrible mistake with the Obamacare framework. He made the original sin of acquiescing that there would be no single payer, thereby relinquishing his only true leverage over an obstinate Senate clinging to a skin Democratic majority.

The compromise was not a good one. It never made great sense for any of the parties. It was a victory of pragmatism over function, and no Republican voted for it anyway.
I don't think it has worked until they have zero covid. Maybe a silver lining from this will be people resisting anything happening they perceive as mistreatment from their government.
Irony:

"People on HN complain about using of Paint, a terrible software for the Job"

What that people use?

- Vim
- Emacs
- C
- Pico
- Shell (and here stuff like grep...)
- ... (fill here your grudges, I not judge you)

"And people wonder: Imagine if that guy use something, like, you know... modern AND good?"
I don't immediately buy the logic of "Stock A hit a peak of $X last year, therefore that is the correct price/valuation, and not the lower price it is right now"

If Twitter was worth more, it'd be worth more.

With that logic, you should put a huge chunk of your savings into Twitter to benefit from the insight, as it's currently trading at 39% below its 52-week high.
> are hosted at Microsoft or Amazon

I agree with most of what you are saying but this is silly. I get "Microsoft and Amazon bad" but basically saying "host your own infrastructure worldwide and index your own corpus or you are a bad actor is rather inane.
I tried that but moved completely away from it. Too many issues around sql dialect and type differences for starters. I’d much rather run postgres on my dev/testing boxes, use a single set of sql-based migrations and not have to maintain an abstraction layer.
> I don't think people should be looking at adding another language to the kernel, mostly because every OS build on it has been a disaster. We just need approach and definition for operating systems.

What does "we need approach and definition for operating systems" actually mean? (If you know, that is.)

Also, it's the Linux kernel, not just the kernel. There are more than one, and every operating system has one[0]. You might be interested in looking at the Mach kernel (Apple[1]) or Google's new Zircon kernel (in Fuchsia).

Both of those are microkernels, and as such minimise the amount of work that the kernel does, as well as removing drivers to userspace. Inasmuch as I can extract any meaning from your comment, it seems like your problem might be with the size and scope of Linux's kernel, in which case those might appeal to you.

[0] I'm sure this absolute claim will summon someone to point out some recondite 1980s operating system that doesn't have a kernel.

[1] Yes, yes, used by Apple.
In 2016 Microsoft acquired LinkedIn at a $26 billion valuation, which was at the time a premium of ~40% or so over the current price, but still lower than their valuation was the previous year. So it isn't unprecedented to accept an offer for an amount lower than your all time high Elon's offer is a 38% premium over the price it was prior to him disclosing his position in the company.

> We are in a downturn affecting the entire tech industry
Some companies are down more than others, and some are doing fine. Twitter revenue is largely driven by ads and they are likely also going to be hit by Apple's privacy changes like all other ad based businesses. Meta (Facebook) has already said they expect ~$10 billion revenue hit from the changes. It's feasible to think that Twitter revenue for the year may actually drop and the stock price may not recover to the 2021 levels any time soon.
>Whatever his intentions are it seems plausible that this isn't about money.

It's very plausible that this isn't about money, and I never said it's about money. However it's far more plausible that this is about a narcissist buying media and social influence and he wants to be able to shape public discourse that paints him in a positive light. He really cares what people thinks of him.

All of that would seem far more likely (and suits his past track record) than him doing this to "save democracy".
Original Franz Lisp was open source, your university could just download it from UCB.

I ported it to the Atari ST around that time.
Okay, I think that avoiding 3 million deaths might be worthy of some level of praise but agree to disagree :)
The case for copyright reform is much more clear-cut, though. There's no plausible argument for the current extent of copyright.
I think we need to distinguish between government imposed lockdown and measure that people take on their own. The study you cited [0][1] assumed that people wouldn't do anything in lieu of a government imposed lockdown, which is patently false.

> We attributed all COVID-19 lives saved (relative to the unmitigated counterfactual) to the public health measures (lockdowns, social distancing recommendations, masking recommendations), even though some voluntary behavioral modifications (e.g., limiting social contacts, trips to the store, or non-essential travel outside the state) would likely have taken place among the public even in the absence of these government interventions.

I think the most interesting studies are those that try to figure out the effectiveness of government intervention based on the timing of the lockdown. IIRC (big if), the timing of government intervention didn't matter much indicating that because of self imposed behavioral changes were about as effective as government intervention (or that people ignored government imposed lock-downs, ha ha). But take that with a big grain of salt.

[0] https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/lockdowns-during-early-pandemic-...

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Not to mention spread!
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220105132156/https://www.washi...
I dunno man. My email software seems to accomplish that feat quite easily.

Sure I can complain. When it's the defacto public forum any administrative conversation-tweaking is pure poison to our society.

And also, yes, there is an implicit promise that the conversation between you and me is not getting fucked with by an invisible rat in the middle. So when I smell one of those rats, heck yes I'll complain. That's objectively ratty.
I used VRML for my thesis work where I was visualizing an energy surface in a 6 dimensional space and understanding the bifurcations where it would get holes, start to wrap around the space, break into separate pieces, etc.

I had all sorts of complaints around what VRML couldn’t do at that time, particularly how you’d inevitably get your back turned to what you were supposed to look at, have a hard time turning around, and the people developing the world don’t care.

Looking back with insight from ‘the metaverse’ I see the problem as a lack of storytelling or the facilities for storytelling.

The idea that you’re going to bum around in some virtual world and indulge your narcissism in parallel to how you indulge your narcissism in the real world still appeals to those who want to subject us to ‘experiences’ even if it doesn’t for end users.

I started studying theme park design a few months back because I was interested in seducing people (which you could win at 100% of the time if you had 100% control of the environment.) The metaverse fad came up and it gave me a good mental model of what’s missing in the metaverse…. Storytelling!

Many people in 2022 are inclined to accept you can have fiction without storytelling because we’re so used to fiction that is driven by characters and setting (say Star Wars or My Little Pony Friendship is Magic). Somebody even pointed out to be that those Victorian novels I couldn’t stand in high school were part of this trend.

Some point people will realize that ‘the line is going up’ (NFTs) isn’t a good enough story but until VR designers adopt storytelling ideas from theme parks people will be snoozing.
The problem is the lack of an endgame. For better or worse, Covid is endemic in Europe and the continental US[0]. All it takes is one false-negative test at the border[1] and a tourist or business traveler could easily create tens of millions of potential infectees (airport -> subway -> secondary city) to requisite additional lockdowns of tens of millions of people.

[0]And quite probably large parts of Asia, including countries bordering China if not China itself.
[1]Or rogue/lucky virus. I don't recall if it was substantiated, but I believe New Zealand at one point credibly hypothesized an outbreak had resulted from a virus preserved in a frozen food shipment.
Searx. Use Searx. Does your search engine of choice fail to get results that the others pick up? Searx grabs all of them and compiles them together. Don't miss another search result!

Also, proxying increases privacy. Also, it's open source and self-hostable.
Mapping U.S. Wind Energy Generation by State
This kind of condescension towards religion is so close-minded, and it's incredibly tiring. I think you'd be surprised just how much the faithful appreciate and embrace science, and how much philosophical thinking about reality and existence we actually do. Adult religiousness is not the same as the cartoon version that children are introduced to, that so many atheists use to attack. The lazy, unintellectual thing to do is to base all your understanding of reality only on what science can describe, and to never explore beyond what can be proven as a "fact." Your statement about explaining away facts paints the faithful as simple-minded rubes, which is a cheap shot and is absent any understanding of how the religious actually view the world.
How is it impossible to avoid smart TVs? I don’t own a TV at all, I just use my desktop monitor. And then there are a bunch of examples in this thread about commercial displays.

It’s not impossible to not own a smart TV, it’s just the mass market caters to what the vast majority want. Outside of hacker news, no one considers smart TVs harmful.

I consider cars harmful and yet hacker news gets up in arms when I propose banning them from cities.
Good point, Twitter is a bit of a mess. hmm... But a huge worry is that Twitter has become such an important mass-media tool, and if he messes it up, it could become even more the goto outlet for politicians, autocrats, or even just businessmen with bad intentions to sway public opinion.

Yeah, as mentioned, Elon is a god, but in my humble opinion, his talents are in engineering (and Twitter just seem like a problem an engineer wouldn't even want to solve).
> No one was concerned with woke leftists in the 90s. No one. "Woke" wasn't a term

I know woke wasn't a term. I grew up in the 90s. I just put it in there to emphasize "everyone". Thought people would be butthurt about me adding canadians/europeans, not woke leftist. But the precursors of modern "woke left" certainly existed in the 90s even though they didn't gain the power they did after the 2007 financial crisis.
> While on paper the defendants and their co-conspirators had no connection to these companies, in reality they exercised substantial control, including installing management at the companies, financing the companies’ operations, and funding payments for attorneys in order to prepare public filings with OTC Markets Group, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In order to attract investor interest, the defendants and their co-conspirators, at times, caused private businesses to be merged or “vended” into the publicly traded shell companies. The private businesses were often in industries likely to attract the investing public’s interest

Slightly more interesting than your average pump and dump.
You're incredibly naive.

He is already an influencer and owning a social network where he gets to set his own rules would be the best way to ensure his influence increases further.

Free speech on social media is an oxymoron. SM is designed to give you power in proportion to the number of connections you hold. Its a popularity contest of twisted, faked, carefully crafted viral thought - most real, true and meaningful things get lost in the sea of professional influencers.

You will find more real free speech with a single visit of a subreddit than you will within a week of being on social media.
> I have always ended up tuning GC parameters and looking for stray references.

I've been doing java for years and the key I've learned about the JVM is to stop tuning GC parameters.

The JVM has incredibly good heuristics provided you let them work. The most you should generally do is pick the algorithm and the heap size (maybe the pause time) doing more should only be done if you've got a large amount of evidence (GClogs) to support such changes. Way too many people shoot themselves in the foot trying to hand craft GC settings.

Beyond that, I've found that application changes are almost always more effective than GC changes. Use the JVMs fantastic telemetry tools (Java flight recorder) and find out what's really going on with your application. Again, grab the data first, optimize, and then remeasure to see what's next.

I've managed plenty of apps with 30+gb heaps and 0 tuning.
Likely wouldn't even get around modern poison pills since they often contain "wolf pack provisions" covering multiple persons acting in unison.
It's officially deprecated, but it still works.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
Barclay's literally forgot to register with the SEC to be allowed to issue securities, then issued $15bn of them over the course of years, and lost $600m as a result. If you think "funds with this kind of money" are any better than a pack of chimps, then you should direct that "seriously" back at yourself.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-28/barcla...
> I think his plan B will be to start a competitor

I hope it isnt: I think that starting a top down, meaning "look I built this, everyone move over from twitter", competitor has a very low probability of success, regardless of who starts it. There is too much of an attack surface, there will be too much drama on real Twitter about it, early adopters will be gun nuts or some other out group and that will be how they get characterized, etc etc.

The real chance at a competitor would be something that grew organically, that people wanted to move to because it offered something valuable before it reaches scale. This is how actual businesses start. The top down approach is how massive flops happen.

Incidentally, the same holds true for the Facebook metaverse and imo suggests it will certainly fail
Why can't you see who is attending a public event on Facebook?
startpage.com/sp/search - keyword to search: hangxiety

studies that show how dehydration affects mood?

studies that show how mood is affected by next day regret /shame /stds aka STIs /unplanned pregnancy ?

I've seen some people's mood change when they sobered up and saw the card receipts being much more than they should of spent.

there's some radio commercials talking about the affect on mood when you can't get a date and in live in moms basement because the costs of DUI offense put you in a bad spot in many situations.. no license, etc.

a few starting points, certainly there must be many more depending on scope.
Ironically, even though the more modern, "asynchronous" (really, more just asynchronous communication between fully-synchronous clock domains) CPU designs result in more chances for metastability, a fully asynchronous, self-timed design wouldn't have to have any likelihood of metastability at all!
I don't really get the claim about misrepresenting their financial incentives.. Is there a lender in the middle that pays the school a lesser amount and assumes the risk? I can't imagine they qualify for a federal educational loan guarantee.
you make it sounds like a naturally born Citizen is less likely to be a bad actor. I guess there must be this magic dust falling on the cradles in the US and not elsewhere which makes people be good guys ;)
But this is not a technological thing...and it isn't CPC driven (rather, private companies are supposed to self censor inside China, via manual inspection or increasingly via AI). The Great Firewall specifically is package filtering technology installed at ISPs with out-of-china links. China can't use it against internal traffic because it would basically shut the internet down completely in the entire country (given its slow performance).
If you're looking for a dumb display, check out Swedx signage displays. The cost is reasonable and you can get a large screen.
> I don't think it's a question that the former extreme won out in most places wrt covid response.

My perception is rather different. Where are you speaking from, geographically?
I remember that well too. I ran OpenSolaris om my laptop for years because at the time it had the best hardware support for what I had. I had damn near turned into a fanboy when the Oracle acquisition happened and they yanked the rug out. I was disappointed at the time and remained so for years, especially when I found an old laptop with opensolaris on it a couple years back and got super nostalgic.

In hindsight, it was probably the best thing for Linux though. When I was hunting for open source OSes there were plenty of people like me recommending OpenSolaris to new users. Once that happened all the oxygen got sucked out of the room.

Yeah the ship has long since sailed. This isn't going to make any difference to reviving Solaris. It's too far behind now and even if it weren't, it's a "fool me once" kind of thing.
I can't tell if parent is serious or joking.
I’m still not sure what you mean by “safe.” Are you worried about Racket becoming unmaintained?

Racket itself is written on top of Chez Scheme, so does that satisfy your safety condition?
As I learned from the people on that project with lib sci degrees, the employment prospects are predominantly low-paying, but these ones found a new boondoggle to employ them as "ontologists" where they could get 6 figure salaries to sit around and build models all day in a piece of software called TopBraid Composer. (GUI program built in Eclipse, where users would create diagrams that would then be translated to an XML offshoot called OWL, a W3C standard that's never been successfully used in any meaningful project I've seen) I witnessed these people sit around and create business models and knowledge graphs of arcane Air Force business processes for 3 years (there were literally 9 of them doing this) before the project was cancelled due to its technical impossibility. The ontologies they created were never used once, and when I actually tried to provide them (in PDF form) to a separate project where Air Force personnel were trying to map out business processes, the personnel stated to me (in writing, with a Colonel CC'd) "These are so inaccurate that they are frequently misleading, and cannot be trusted." The Colonel later pulled me into his office and stated (rather comically):
"You mean to tell me I've been paying people to draw cartoons for 3 years? We're not goddamned Disney here."
What about ripgrep? It's even faster than the Silver Searcher

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
>>I generally attribute that to the lockdowns, do people have another explanation?

Yea, they lie - do you have any evidence that China will not try and cover up any stories that make them look bad?
Surely there is both a status quo and survival bias going on with the existing leadership/management team. When you have an outside person who wants to change some fundamental things about the company, it seems natural that there would be resistance.

As an outsider, I'm personally intrigued by the prospect. There are two things he's mentioned that I think could be very beneficial (outside of freedom of expression) to society:

1. Transparency - open sourced algorithms for what shows when and transparency about moderation decisions

2. Reduced short-term financial incentives - Given it'd be bank-rolled by someone with a lot of money and private, they wouldn't need to play the gray area game of increasing advertising & data sharing that other sites do.
I think we care, but sometimes DDG marketing is pretty strong.

That link you provided makes a good case for why DDG is not the ally we need in the privacy war.
The entire Twitter battle is about the woke left taking over / banning all of America culture.
If you abide by the lableak theory, then part of its mythos was that he NIH funded the research, making them equally knowledgeable on it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...