skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the nation where you have to put "Caution - Hot" on coffee-to-go cups to avoid being sued

Hate to be that guy but McDonald's got sued over the hot coffee because they continued to serve coffee well above safe temperatures long after valid saftey concerns had been raised. The poor woman recieved 3rd degree burns (something that shouldn't be possible from a spilled beverage). She was publicly vilified for the massive settlement awarded to her when she only asked for reasonable medical costs.

Also the "Caution - Hot" warning wouldn't have prevented her from being able to sue for negligence. From the data America isn't nearly as litigious as many media stories make out. In fact after this minor court case it actually became harder to sue companies in America and arguably resulted in may corporations to be less concerned about their affect on the common good.
You're misunderstanding EMH. It does not include prescience. And BTW, it's generally not considered true except in its weakest forms.
Who determines what qualifies as “unsophisticated”. This is where the overzealousness creeps in. Regulators always push for more regulations.
> That's a sourdough bread, right?

Yes, the one I linked is made out of sourdough, which is a sign of quality here. Though, we do also have the same style of bread without sourdough.
Is it still functional, correct me if I am wrong, wasnt firefox send deprecated?
This symbol should be interpreted literally – it is of unknown meaning and origin. That’s what it means: “Of unknown meaning and origin”.
Indian cuisine also has a pretty wide selection of different "breads" (dough patties? DeepL does not even know a word for "Teigfladen" (de)). Naan and Roti are probably the most known, but there are several others including very fatty ones.

(somebody from India please chime in, I don't know the names :-) )

(Not from India but had an Indian roommate once and attended his wedding in India thereafter (obviously :-))
I always used INTERLNK, which was included with MS-DOS 6.22. I think you could even just copy the exe to older DOS versions and it would just work.
> In the American system, there’s a huge difference between how we tax wages and how we tax investments. Income from financial assets is generally taxed at a lower rate.

Right, this is the part people miss. The top wealthy aren't getting hundreds of millions of dollars per year via truckloads of cash which they then somehow pay a small tax rate on. Instead they (for example) own a large % of a company and when the value of the company goes up, the value of their wealth goes up. So in some sense that money is imaginary.

Imagine buying a million dollars worth of gold bars and putting them in your house. Next year, the value of gold has gone up 50% so the same pile of gold is now worth $1.5 million. So you've "made" $500k! But it's not a real $500k, it's an "imaginary" aka "unrealized" $500k. You might find it's not really worth that much if you attempted to sell it all. Until you've "realized" those gains buy selling your gold, you don't pay taxes on it. I think most people agree that's a reasonable policy, yet a lot of people are outraged that there is no "wealth tax" to force the gold owner to sell off gold every year to pay for any unrealized gains.

What people ought to be outraged at are the loopholes the wealthy exploit in order to not pay taxes on realized gains such as the "buy, borrow, die" loophole (https://wallethacks.com/buy-borrow-die-estate-planning-strat...). For example, wealthy people will take out huge loans backed by unrealized assets (stocks), use the loans to fund their lifestyle, and then die without paying back the loan. Then your heirs use the inherited money to pay off the loan at a way lower rate than normal because the stock cost-basis is stepped up at the time of inheritance.
Computation in Complex Systems
I agree with you. But I learned yesterday that Seimens has a process where they completely recycle carbon fiber turbine blades. I had no idea that was even possible. If it works out that's pretty neat.

https://www.siemensgamesa.com/newsroom/2021/09/launch-world-...
It should've been (and almost surely was) some specific person's job to sign off on this thing being at least reasonable before deploying it, which they failed to do. Successfully redirecting attention from that specific person's failure to do their job (and their manager who failed to ensure they were doing their job, etc) to the abstract idea of Algorithms is some exceptional accountability judo.
The accredited investor rules are in place to protect people who can’t bear the losses from an extremely adversarial financial system. I promise you that even if you get rid of the rules, people with a few thousand dollars to spend still would not have access to the best investments.
I charge my ebike once every couple weeks. Granted I ride my non ebike most of the time, but with a daily commute of 4 miles, I can ride for 8 days straight without needing to plug it in. Not a big deterrent at all.

Helmet sits in the basket or hangs off the bars, takes ten second to put on so also not a deterrent.

The real deterrent is thinking “goddamn it’s 27 degrees out and my gloves are getting frayed my fingers are going to be cold”.
I initially read this as "Historic Newsguy Funerals." Newsguy was my Usenet provider back in the late 90's and my misreading piqued my interest. The article is actually about city newspaper boys from the early 1900's.
You might want to appeal to Alexandra, patron saint of the paywalled scientist, for she might hear you.
Its about gathering power to the institutions and bureaucrats that work in them.

Anything else is just an excuse to get higher budgets and grift.
> It's obvious to me that a free society should not tolerate this level of control being exerted on how people engage in voluntary interactions with other consenting adults.

Except that's not what these markets are. Often this isn't a pair of equals trading assets, but an entity with excess resources and knowledge trading with an individual whose resources are far more limited.

It seems like a repeating pattern in libertarian ideology to hand wave away differences in power/information as irrelevant when two "consenting adults" are transacting. But we don't think of many other interactions in society like this. In particular, power/information differences are a huge deal when talking about whether a sexual interaction is transgressive. Indeed, that's why the concept of "age of consent" exists for sexual interaction. Likewise there is a lot of disclosure required for "informed consent" when a doctor performs surgery on a patient.

Why are efforts to equalize the information imbalance in financial markets different and somehow unnecessary?
S3 + cloudfront + lambda is costing me pennies per month for a trivial site. What are the free alternatives that beat it?

Requirements:

- rsync style publishing

- not supported by tracking users.

- raw static file hosting (including html)

- redirect foo.com/bar to foo.com/bar/index.html (this is why I need lambda...)

- zero admin https certificate management
Feel free to call them whatever you want. They're just words meant to abstract a concept / zeitgeist.

If I were to define the two respectively to someone who had never encountered the terms before, web2 would be the centralization of the early internet ecosystem in order to increase scalability + capture/generate profit funnels with web3 being the corresponding deconstruction back towards decentralization and economic distribution thanks to work on improved consensus algorithms in trustless settings.
You'd be wildly out of step with the Democrats in your suburb, because "defund" is unpopular everywhere. It's a fringe idea.
Could you be clearer about what you mean by transparency? Do you think private companies should make their financial statements public? Do they need to be audited?
Very nice! Just one comment: why do I have to wait 5 seconds? Sometimes the answer is clear before the end of this time.
True, though to be fair most people never get to use private libraries. Or they used a library at their University that was technically private, but that gave access to the public as well. Public libraries are ubiquitous and very normal, while private libraries are the exception.
Congratulations if you've guessed correctly.
Don’t worry, probably will end up as NFT generator.
In Puerto Rico there are quite a few of these on the sidewalk and despite the rains they are generally always stocked with books. There are bars on everyone's windows and doors, but books piled up on the street.
>What stops a curated web3 from ending up in the same place we're at now?

The answer is either nothing at all, or paradoxically it's some vague sense of optimism involving "faith" "belief" and "trust". It should surprise no one that web3 fundamentally can't deliver on any of its promises.
This is probably the easiest way I've seen to put your app behind an oauth provider! Pretty exciting stuff.
It's funny how I got some comments insinuating that I have too much sympathy, and yours which seems to say I have too little. I'll address both in this single comment.

What little sympathy I have, is because people died. I don't have more sympathy because 1) those Iraqis invaded another country. 2) They didn't surrender. I am well aware that retreating but not surrendering soldiers get shot in wars, and I'm not particularly upset about it when those soldiers are on the belligerent side. I have some shred of sympathy for them, only because they are still human.
The part about donating stock to “avoid taxes” is poorly explained. Yes it reduces taxes but it does so by giving away 100% of a liquid asset to a charity. They could sell the same amount and only pay the top marginal rate plus taxes on the missed deduction, so in effect they are paying more just directing it to a charity instead of the government.

Of course at the high end when you own a significant portion of a public company you can’t actually sell your shares without moving the market, so in that case giving away shares at a nominal value is not the same as paying cold hard cash, but I think they are overstating that nuance the way this is presented.
Never ever ever ever initiate audio on the web without positive intent from the user.
Excuse my ignorance but could lisp be considered concatenative?
Maybe also read this [1].

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15715
>Criminal activity is more so a function of risk tolerance than intelligence.

Not if you have a world view that all risk is to be avoided and anyone who takes risk is a fool.

(and just to be clear, I think people with that world view are a major impediment to societal progress)
Github copilot
Is this the climax of smartphone macrophotography? How much better could it get from here, seems impossible with the given constraints.
> It is in nobody's hand, but everybody who decides to run a validating node.

Those nodes are literally owned by people. The wealthier the person, the more nodes they can run. Which is exactly how crypto took off; drug cartels mined it, dealt with it, making money both on selling the coins to buyers for cash and on selling the product to the buyers.

Large organizations and wealthy people, criminal or not, can and do control all proof of work (by controlling more workers) and proof of stake (by mining, purchasing, and holding more crypto). And because of the secrecy, we don't know who in many cases (ok... the various intelligence agencies might), and they aren't effectively regulated in any way.

All crypto has done is make it so the only requirement to gain wealth is to already be wealthy. This is far more direct of a relationship with crypto than with real currency, where you at least have to do actual work of some sort to make money.
Coinbase adds new assets to the pro option first, establishes a market, and then adds to the retail Coinbase "buy button" app. When a user hits the retail Buy Coin button, the internal market maker fills the order against the coinbase pro's order books.
> But there is 0 doubt that the US would intervene

I think the consensus is pretty much what I wrote in my previous comment: The US would not start WWIII over Taiwan, obviously, and thus would not attack China but would help Taiwan (supply of weapons, intelligence, and other aid like in Ukraine).

The US would only start a war against China in case of 'existential' threat, indeed. But that would mean China attacking the US, which they obviously won't do for the same reason.

> This is an existential issue because if China invaded Taiwan successfully it shows the U.S. military can be defeated

How would that show that he US military can be defeated if the US did not intervene directly? And how would that be existential? Also the US military has effectively been defeated a number of times before. Even directly against China the US did not fare that well during the Korean War and that was when the gap between the two countries was arguably at its greatest.
Accredited investing requirements are to keep non-experts or people without money to lose from being swindled by companies which aren't required to be transparent with their financials.
I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co...
[1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi
[2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi
The issue is the working distance.

You'll note that the photographer there is shooing with a lens that has a fairly long barrel. For the Nikkor 105mm macro lens - https://coinimaging.com/nikon_105vr.html

At 1:1, there's 15.3 cm between the front of the lens and the subject.

But if you're shooting with a rather short lens (e.g. those in the camera of a phone) then the working distance is very close.

This becomes important important when photographing insects (you'll note there are no photos of insects in that collection)

Some other lenses and their working distances - https://www.kielia.de/photography/calculator/working-distanc...

The Olympus 30mm shooting as a macro lens has a working distance of 16mm (quite different than the 153mm of the Nikkor 105mm macro lens).

The "getting close" also impacts the "how do you light it" and keeping the subject out of the shadow of the camera.
Now that is a travel to my teenage years
Oh man, I love this!! I'm gonna send to my girlfriend who's an Art Teacher.
Hey seaghost. The majority of the user interface is built with SwiftUI with a little UIKit, and the backend is our core written in Rust. Have you had a chance to install the app yet? If so, what makes you feel it isn't native?
What's their efficiency? I can't find anything on their site.
The and Eternal Spirit of the Great Dismal Swamp
Women Say They Want a Guy with a Sense of Humor. They Don’t
Scaling Containers on AWS in 2022
How do you secure it during a grocery run?
> At the same time there's seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence that a lot of developers are now flocking to these crypto companies, enough that I think its fair to assume its likely true.

I'm interviewing right now at a large-ish cryptocurrency company. I'm currently an exhausted L6 at a FAANG.

The promise of fewer working hours and no on-call rota is very attractive to me, as well as the ability to start with Go f/time[1] on mostly greenfield[2] projects.

[1] Team I am on has agreed long before I joined to use nothing but Java.

[2] I'm also tired, after decades in the industry, of mostly maintaining existing products. The chance to create new stuff from scratch is very attractive.
It doesn't have to be jail time for the people involved, it could just be fines, salary cuts, demotions etc. Only the very worst offenders should go to jail.
You just described UKIP, the mostly-single-issue party that directly led to Brexit and mostly disintegrated afterwards.
This doesn't hijack a bunch of stuff on the host OS and replace it with garbage versions.

I want things like DNS, X11 screeb locking, ssh session management, syslog, etc. to just work. I can't figure out how to fix any of that stuff under systemd, and at least one is always broken by default in my experience.
Classic UNIX tools are god awful to use in terms of quality of life. Newer tools are far more ergonomically pleasing.

The real reason people are hesitant to use new tools is that there is a massive switching cost for most of them.
Critical security vulnerability fixed in Elementor (5M+ WordPress Installs)
>"The important part here is that a TLS server is available but HTTPS is not available as it is either only a TLS terminator or something that operates a non-HTTPS TLS server (for example, RTMPS)."

That makes good sense. Thanks for putting it so succinctly. Cheers.
oh yeah, this will be crazy. DALL-E basically does text-to-image; there's a whole area of text-to-video that's working on exactly what you're talking about.

There are some good examples from a recent paper here: https://video-diffusion.github.io/ they generate timelapses of fireworks, rivers, pouring liquids, etc.

So it's a very good idea you had! ;-)
They're an exchange. Cold Storage is not their job. It isn't much of an exchange if I have to wait 8 hours to put in a sell order.
I don‘t think "the anti-blockchain people" is as homogenous a front as you might imagine it.

Some object on the grounds of PoW mining and its incentive structure; others due to their tendencies to disproportionately accumulate wealth to early adopters; yet others due to widespread predatory and/or misleading marketing. I‘m probably forgetting several other reasons here.

Personally, anything based on proof-of-scarce-resource is pretty much a no-go (unless it would suddenly provide benefits more than outweighing the damage it does), but definitely not only that.
The Devil's Card Game
I read the title, thought it was about speaking languages and was confused because it's the non-concatanative one's that are interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconcatenative_morphology
Hikaru will get wiped by Carlson. Hikaru is a blitz/bullet player, not classical. They are different games.
It is, more or less equivalent, but buck integration with piper/citc/cider makes it currently more comprehensive than fb infra. Fb is getting there but much slower. So i was more or less talking overall...
You are correct. I don't use Mullvad and had assumed this was an audit of their infrastructure, not their app. Thanks for pointing that out.
I don't think so but Factor is a concatenation language with macros and extensible syntax.
> And the inclusion of “AMS” in the names of the entity collections likewise remained mysterious.

Could this be The American Mathematical Society?
Would a promotion (or not losing your job) count as a gain?
I see your point. I think everyone is getting caught up around the definition of "open," and we have different wants and needs.

I see how it's frustrating to you that people get GPL source and declare "victory" and give up, leaving BSD in the dust. I'm definitely someone who does this, and you made me think about how much nicer it would be if people continued to advocate for documentation instead.

What I want from my "open" hardware is the ability to access the full source code for what is being executed on my device, to ensure there are not unexpected background tasks and to be able to debug issues end to end without having to do as much reverse engineering. So for me, the giant supervisor blob on the Pi is obnoxious - it does random things I don't know about, and I can't look into it to see what's going on.

What you want from "open" hardware is the ability to write driver code under a very specific software license (BSD).

So for my needs, I'll take GPL drivers against hardware all day versus documentation against a black-box HAL. For your needs, maybe the black-box HAL is OK since it lets you run BSD.

Also, "the drivers work as intended" could just as easily be moved to "the blackbox HAL works as intended" and you have the same problem in your "Broadcom is fine because the HAL interface is documented" scenario. If you make a HAL call and it doesn't do what you expect, you're back to RE again anyway.

Anyway, I think we can all agree that full documentation is the ideal state, but sans that ideal state, I'll take GPL source over documentation and a HAL blob, and you'll take the HAL blob and documentation over GPL source. I think everyone wins if we all keep pushing for the ideal state of unencumbered documentation where we can, instead of sitting back when we have one thing or the other!
Allow me to plug my own little entry in this space: a dialect of Joy written in Python, Prolog, and Nim (there's a Rust version in progress.) The project is messy at the moment (I am folding all the implementations into one repo from separate repos right now) but FWIW it's here: https://joypy.osdn.io/

Some points:

- Working with Joy has convinced me that syntax is a MacGuffin. You have to have some syntax to "move the story along" but it's not important in and of itself. (The Maltese Falcon.) All this work on languages and parsing is fun and useful, but now it seems to me like a bit of a sideshow.

- It's relatively easy to manipulate Joy expressions in a kind of mathematical way. This is the "missing link" of Functional Programming: Do math to derive programs like Backus said.

- Related to the above, Joy is sooooooooo simple. It is simpler and more elegant that Forth or even Lisp.

- The Prolog interpreter is also a type inferencer! It can interpret over abstract stacks.

IMO, it's one of those languages like Prolog or APL that you should learn even if you never use it, just to expand your mind.
This is the case now, but every halving shifts that proportion towards fees.
This seems to be a post mostly about the economics and legal aspects of token sales and NFTs, and the author makes some strong arguments there. However, since HN is a tech forum, I think this sentence in the introduction should be challenged:

How does Web3 work? Well, it’s nothing to do with any technology.

I don't know whether the space has converged on a single common definition, but it seems pretty clear that web3 refers to web apps that interact with decentralized services, eg smart contracts on Ethereum or IPFS storage. Other than that, they're not vastly different from other web apps, at least for a front-end developer. It's a few npm packages that handle the blockchain interactions, learning the basics of those should be doable within a few weeks (learning how to write safe smart contracts might take longer, but that's sort of a spearate role).

What that technology is being used for, and whether you consider that a libertarian utopia or a scam-riddled fraud, is a separate question. But from the technical perspective it's pretty clear what counts as web3 and what doesn't, and the difference is not just marketing.
Startup’s energy storage tech is ‘essentially a giant toaster’
I'd think that people have said this about the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, ...
> (C) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area

Any examples?
There are enough nuggets in here for some interesting discussions. Take the Walton heirs, nearly 100% of their income is long-term capital gains, so they will basically pay only 20% or less of their income for their entire lives. A doctor would pay around 30%. Is that delta of 10% represent the risk of investing in the market? Looking at the historical data and the US policy, long term investing in the market is basically a sure thing. The tax discount is way too much for the actual risk.