skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The schools in Florida have just chosen not to buy some books they feel didn't have educational value. So what's all the fuss about?

The fuss is about the state deciding what Florida schools can and cannot do. Yes, I think the same concepts apply in Florida, but you are misstating what is happening there. The political wings of the government are making these decisions. I want the experts to make these decisions, the people on the ground running these libraries. The needs of a majority Hispanic school in Miami are going to be different than the needs of a rural majority white school outside of Lake City. Don't take tools out of the hands of the people running those libraries. Let them make the decisions instead of some politician trying to score points. The irony of this coming from the "small government" party shows that this is not a principled stand. It is motivated purely by politics and I don't like that.
The laws of physics haven’t really changed, so I’d guess something similar. It doesn’t seem like their limiting factor was the computers
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No, actually, upgrading X Code requires a trip to Apple's website. On Apple's website, mobile application developers are likely to come across previews of great new content on Apple TV+, thus enticing them to sign up for Apple's streaming offerings.
C feels like it was built against the proverbial managerial clock to prevent Rob Pike from rewriting yet another text editor in PDP11 assembly
Feeling this vibe, back when overclocking meant changing pins or dip switches.

My first overclocking foray was a 333mHz Celeron up to 416 (if I remember correctly) and that was a performance improvement proportional to the base clock. But heat was then an issue and the cpu card (as it was) with the integrated cooler was getting too hot for comfort.

My last system I built was for an 4970k but the system doesn’t get used in anger anymore and so it sits at stock clocks under 600$ of custom water cooling gear, with me afraid to push it in case the 8 year old hardware blows a capacitor or mosfet.

I’m glad you went and did the phase change cooling. My dream next step was to put a peltier under the water cooling setup and get sub ambient temps but the power bill and possible condensation issue kept my plans as just being plans.
> Science works on consensus

No it doesn't. I can't believe people are even claiming this. Science has NOTHING to do with consensus. If evidence is produced that goes against a consensus then the consensus is wrong. Consensus has nothing to do with science. Consensus is a problem of humans that disrupts the scientific process.
It's an outdated term. I recommend reading Hans Rosling's book Factfulness where he addresses a lot of common misconceptions. If anything, it's fun to take the tests and compare where you are against the rest of the world.
My reading is the only thing preventing a considerable portion of them from killing is law enforcement, and the fact that most societies has evolved past supporting violence.

You have to observe that deadly violence was normalized in the past.

It was even entertainment in Rome. Hence, the Colloseum.

Externally, it's evolved, but internally the ideolog is quite similar.

Some of the similarities are:

- divides men and women

- interferes and intends to control families

- demonizes people that are useful to society and accumulate wealth
Reading this increased my heart rate.
That’s not because of the license, though. Both the license choice and the hostile formats are caused by the author being hostile.

The authors point here isn’t that all companies that use proprietary licenses are good. It’s that a proprietary license doesn’t have to make you bad.

For B2B users, there are often FOSS terms that they find to be hostile. Limitations of liability being a big one. Waiving one’s right to use the legal system is a big deal to some people. FOSS programmers like this because it protects them. But for non-developers, this only limits their own rights.
Example would be whose keys encrypt and decrypt data realizes legal things like custody and control and the associated responsibilities.

One area that has recently changed is "de-identification," which used to essentially be a cryptographic problem, but now it's a legal definition where you assert a policy about the data encoded in a way and subject to a risk assessment to make that assertion, and then the de-identified data (PII/PHI) now comes with obligations.

Another example was chip/pin payment cards several years ago, where they transferred liability to the merchant for fraud and chargebacks, where previously, magstrip meant the liability for chargebacks largely stayed with the issuer.

If an online banking account gets hacked, banks have less liability than they did previously - as even though you must assert it was they who were robbed and not you, and they still owe you the money you deposited with them, enhanced authN/MFA has allowed them to imply it's somehow your fault that someone stole the money you trusted them to hold for you.

The security of each tech divides the liability between the parties in these cases.
So climate change deniers are engaging in gaslighting, but you don't think we should do anything to stop them... because maybe one of them stumbles on a scientific breakthrough?
> The traditional finance system is no more energy efficient overall.

The traditional finance system easily does tens of thousands of times more transactions than cryptocurrencies. Visa alone does a thousand times more transactions than Bitcoin.

Cryptocurrency uses over 0.5% of the world's electricity to do less than 0.01% of the world's transactions.

So, no, your statement is wildly wrong. I have zero problem calling it a lie, because you made it up out of your head and made no attempt to justify it with facts.
No significant faction supports going to war with Russia (which would actually be the WW2-Era American choice, sans nuclear weapons, to just assist Ukraine in recovering its sovereign territory and maintain a peaceful global order.)
Absolutely. My point is that even if one group is provably fascist and the other group is provably not fascist, you would expect both groups to call each other fascist. Whether Qanon is fascist or not is a separate conversation.
The customer-breaking changes are coming from Apple, not the app developers.

If Apple is so concerned about customer experience, they can just as well choose not to break existing apps.

The "customer experience" excuse hasn't held water in decades.
> Android’s loss of market share boils down to heightened competition within the OS space

Yeah, that duopoly is a lot of competition
>if you’re operating on something akin to “from each according to ability and to each according to need”.

Well nobody is saying that this possible short of a post-scarcity society. The Soviets themselves were certainly not making the claim that was how they were operating, simply that it was their goal and they were getting closer to it.

> Whatever system you use needs to somehow resolve the issue that 53% of the youth population wants to be a social media influencer yet far fewer than 1% of jobs are that. Permitting price gets you this but it seems to be a very weak form of socialism if you adopt a system in which some people will make millions and others will make peanuts.

The basic issue Marx-inspired people have with capitalism (I think Marxist is far too strong of a term) isn't necessarily with the fact that income inequality exists. Marx did write about how perfect egalitarianism is not a realistic nor desirable goal, and I don't think Varoufakis disagrees.

The issue that is seen with capitalism is rather the unfair social relations that capital forms against which society is inevitably structured, which leads to people making billions simply from being an owner, and having debilitating control over society.

As far as people making hundreds of thousands or even in the low millions because their work is particularly necessary to society's needs and few other people can fulfill those needs, there is nothing necessarily wrong with that. As long they don't get undue control and get to set up biased relations that are then independent of their ongoing contribution to society, I don't think this is a weak form of socialism at all, it would actually be a much stronger form of socialism than most that have been successful, and I think that this is also the kind of socialism Varoufakis would prefer. Short of a post-scarcity society in any case, I don't think any reasonable socialist, Marxist, or Communist has hopes for anything better.

As far as the people making peanuts, if it is because what their productive output is not useful to society and they can't adapt to produce anything useful, we can use redistribution and de-commodify necessities in order to make it so that at least richer people do not have too problematic a power differential. And of course, we should strive to make opportunities as absolutely equal as possible.

But what I'm trying to get at is that really socialists are fine with some degree of inequality if it simply comes from differences in productivity. The issue is not from the distribution of resources, but really the process of production and its impact on society.

Of course, from each according to his ability to each according to his need is on a spectrum. The more our abilities increase relative to our needs, the closer we can get to the ideal.
Flat Earth Society is a joke right? None of them really believe that?

Some of the Q-Anon stuff is pretty wild as well, but the core tenets cannot be as strongly disproved as the core of the Flat Earth Society's that the earth is flat.
Sorry I thought we were discussing these 14 general points which constitute the decisive authority on fascism. Why are you bringing up history?
Related:

Ur-Fascism By Umberto Eco (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742179 - March 2022 (99 comments)

Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26156901 - Feb 2021 (191 comments)

Eternal Fascism (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455521 - July 2019 (28 comments)

Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13081368 - Dec 2016 (1 comment)

Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173823 - July 2016 (173 comments)
Nope, "removed from Sale".

You might be thinking about the fact that users who have previously downloaded the app will still be able to do so.
I don't think they do any longer but Verizon used to send me FIOS flyers on a fairly regular basis and when I went to their site it looked as if it wasn't actually available at my address (where I get Comcast).

Also amusingly, both Comcast and Verizon have the very old (as in multiple decades) name for the street I live on as my address. It's only somewhat wrong (the name used to have a North on it)--but it is still wrong.
What kind of issues ? I didn't go far but they shipped something that worked enough not to cause instant drama and be used by low level programmers for a while. I'm surprised but I'm not knowledgeable enough.
> You could build your whole career from the 50's on discrediting the link between smoking and cancer.

> If you're willing to generate evidence climate change isn't real, Exxon etc have some nice checks for you.

Do you have any evidence of either of these being true today?
Code is protected as free speech by the US Supreme Court. There’s no legal avenue by which you could prohibit someone from writing and publishing smart contract code.

At best the most you could do is setup a legal barrier to deploying that code to a block chain. Even then, this is legally iffy, since deploying chain simply involves broadcasting a message to the network. Most likely the court would interpret this as a form of published speech protected by the First Amendment.

But even if not, you can still publish the smart contract code on GitHub and say “I sure hope no one outside my jurisdiction or an anonymous address takes this code and puts it on-chain.
>I'd now refer to my country as a country in the global south

Meaning what, in the southern hemisphere and not Australia or new Zealand?
A little bump in the wire that makes your Internet faster (2018)
Or for both sides to be correct! Who is to be the ingroup, and who the outgroup, is one of the most important questions in all of human history.
So then how do you know which one of these it was when you apply your test?
AT&T called me. They said their technical guys think they might be able to upgrade the connection to my building from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps if I want to sign-up with them. I'm in downtown Chicago.
You can't really just give people advice unless they ask for it. You can however ask people if it's okay to give them advice or how you can do that best.

Sometimes it is even useful to ask said person who might benefit from advice for advice. That opens the conversation to being receptive of each other's advice.

Lastly, you should probably question yourself regarding why your advice should be accepted in the first place. Majority of the time people will figure it out and your inaction of giving said advice is actually more helpful in the long run.
The drawback is that cable it is a shared medium, so it can be quite bad when demand is high (in the evening) and the upload bandwidth usually is very low.
I doubt it, because it's global. The frog will heat slowly enough that it won't notice until it becomes necessary for global competitiveness—and for the United States, ongoing dominance. It will also be a game of whack-a-mole. We're only 10 years in. In another 10 years, many things we can't imagine now will happen.

But we shall see!

Another possibility is that current cryptos are regulated and more state-compliant ones emerge (see: China).
Yes, they are sitting on too much cash. There was a WSJ article titled "CFOs Seek High Returns on Cash, but Banks May Be Slow to Raise Rates". The article says "That's due to the size of the cash piles sitting at banks - both from companies and consumers - and the loan-to-deposit ratio, which measures the amount of deposits being handed out as loans which has been hovering at decade lows around 60% in recent quarters".
I can get 6 Mbps for $40 here. Good stuff.
>So here's a good litmus test: if you can legally procure and read a book, it is not banned. We don't actually ban books in America, although at points in our history portions of the country or what would become the country did. How accessible, rare, attainable or what condition it is in, well, nothing is guaranteed.

What do you think is the purpose of a school library? Surely the school library would serve no purpose if every student had the money to buy the book from Amazon or transportation to regularly visit the public library.

Removing a book from a school library does mean that some part of the student population loses access to the book. Sure, some kids can still get around it, but that is far from universal.
I'm guessing, for example, safe torques on various bolt dimensions based on thread force and tension. Experiencing the various failure modes of each operation (or part), and learning to recognize them by sight and ear. Being able to explain with technical detail which situations impact drivers are unsuitable or dangerous. Hardness of various metals and coatings, metal nobility and understanding and recognizing galvanic corrosion. And so on ...
I didn't say they were the same. I said the same concept applied to both.
You don't want a national system to be truly decentralized because if it is, adversaries can simply co-opt and control it. If you have to look out for that and roll off onto a different system (and have a mechanism to do so) then its by definition centralized and you can skip the whole blockchain chicanery.

You can just throw up a tamper-evident log based system. [1]

[1] https://transparency.dev
If one side has a financial incentive to push bad faith arguments, whereas the other side has no financial incentive or resources and is just interested in science for the sake of science, then by supporting having the debate via twitter ads you've created a system that locks out one side.
The original essay:

https://archive.ph/Q4nzW
I watch Russian TV and "The enemy is both strong and weak" is a striking aspect of its messages.
Enlightenment has multiple meanings. To get the right antonym you need to be more precise.

The opposite of "the Enlightenment" is counter-enlightenment, encompassing romanticism, relativism, anti-rationalism, and vitalism. Also anti-enlightenment movement (associated with Friederich Nietzsche).
Interesting suggestion!

It seems there is not a complete english translation available from a single translator, or one affiliated with any university/previous scholarship at least. I couldnt find any in a quick search of a few major city library catalogues and major universities in NA. I did find a few journal articles about the book though, and it was very easy to find other Solzhenitsyn books in grade school and other libraries.

The pdf translation below has a typo in the very first line of the introduction and the first chapter was translated by someone(s) on 8chan {1}. So I'm not terribly surprised that typical public libraries don't have a copy.

{1} https://ia803108.us.archive.org/2/items/200YearsTogether/200...

(side note I love LibGen too, but I think it's good that a physical, public library is making a point of making their e-catalogue available to teens)
I use Wise regularly and pay about 0.5% for EUR/GBP/CHF transactions.

The reason why DeFi exchanges offer low fees is that they are not “companies”, they are fully automated and have no overhead. For a company offering forex services the main expense are salaries, not fees (that on wholesale markets are on the order of 0.01%), therefore they would not benefit from using a blockchain as an underlying layer.
Boba – meet new friends over boba
I built an app to solve a problem I had: How do I make friends as an adult?

It's called Boba: https://www.getboba.xyz/

- Boba is not a dating app.

- A quality community is everything. The platform will always be invite-only. Alternatively, new users may fill out an application to join the waitlist; all applications are reviewed manually. There's also a rating system - users who consistently receive low ratings after their meet ups will be banned.

- No more swiping, going through a ton of profiles, or wondering when you'll meet in person. Our algorithm will find someone just for you who also wants to get boba in the next 36 hours. You cannot chat with a match until you both propose your availability (boba place + time) for the next day.

- I'm aware that not everyone likes or can drink boba, but I had to start somewhere. If this app works, I can easily build Beer, Brunch, Ramen, etc.
This quote by Neil Gaiman really nailed it:

"[...] And then the internet suddenly means that each of those [geeks] in each of those towns gets to find all the other people like them. And suddenly, they’re empowered. And they are mighty. And that is glorious. What we didn’t think was, And by the way, in each of those towns, there’s also a Nazi. There’s a Nazi who’s too ashamed, too embarrassed, or too socially unwilling to stand up there and go, “Yes! I happen to be a Nazi!” Which was actually kind of a good thing. And the fact that all of those Nazis got to meet each other on the web and get together and go, “Hey, I am not alone! Look! There’s a million people like me.”"

https://www.vulture.com/2017/04/neil-gaiman-american-gods-is...
This doesn't conflict with CRT or modern leftism though. If God's accounting of our deeds is perfect (or if God doesn't exist) should have no impact on our actions. It would be sinful to let injustice persist solely because God will even things out in the end. God doesn't give us an excuse to abdicate our responsibility.
There's a 10 Gbit cable going in on my street for $60/month in Florida. Some interesting things happening in internet infrastructure these days.
In my home in downtown Chicago I have two wired options. 1.5Mbps for $60/month from AT&T, or $71,000 install plus $800 a month for 2Gbps from Comcast.

I went with 5G from T-Mobile for $50 a month.
That's all platforms - I also had my doubts, but if you switch to the mobile view, it does appear that Android has dipped in percent the last few years: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide#...