skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you claiming that slavery is constitutional?

It was until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed, yes.

I think you have some serious learning to do about the Constitution.

As for how the Bill of Rights was interpreted to be consistent with the fugitive slave provision of the Constitution, that's simple: the jurisprudence of the time did not apply the Bill of Rights to slaves. I'm sure this will seem very shocking to you, but it's quite clear from the historical documents (see, for example, my reference to the Dred Scott decision upthread).

> you cannot reasonably argue that the fugitive slave acts do not violate the bill of rights

Perhaps you can't, but the judges and juries of the time had no problem doing so at all. See above. Even abolitionists did not make this claim. They claimed that slavery was wrong and that laws such as the fugitive slave law were unjust, but they never claimed they were unconstitutional. Their response to provisions like that in the Constitution was to say that the Constitution itself was unjust; for example, William Lloyd Garrison called it "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell". And they were perfectly ok with violating the Constitution in the name of what they believed to be the greater good of abolishing slavery. But they never argued that the Constitution's fugitive slave provision was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights, because nobody believed that to be the case.

> You are ignoring the facts.

No, I'm not. I just appear to have a much better understanding of their historical context than you do.
This made me think "What about SMA Solar, they are supposed to be a technology leader?"... and yes, they do have all the grid stabilization features (and an island feature in at least some models, not mentioned there):

https://www.sma.de/en/partners/knowledgebase/sma-inverters-a...
There isn’t an infinite amount of gold on earth, whereas there _is_ an infinite amount of any linearly emitted $COIN. Linear emissions models don’t resemble terrestrial gold mining.

Linear emissions are a security tax paid for by investors. Do investors enjoy paying this tax? Investors generally don’t “enjoy” being debased through inflation.

Ethereum got away with having no defined emissions policy early on, but they pulled it off during an era when information was low and ignorance was widespread. Many of their investors assumed Ethereum had a fixed supply just like Bitcoin did — and they had to scramble to rectify this years later.

“Governed emission” is achievable via systems of on-chain governance. Non-stakers get debased by tail emissions measures voted in by stakers. Stakers profit from the inflation measure or are hardly debased at worst.

While antithetical to gold, it achieves the stated goal of incentivizing ongoing chain security while also benefiting investors, particularly assuming staking yield is widely accessible to all in a decentralized manner.
via income tax, and via VAT (value added tax - a flat tax across all transactions, aka a consumption tax).

Taxes also get levied when property sale makes you profit (capital gains tax). You also charge utility fees by location and service - a flat tax on such levied at the local level.

Why should someone who's property is worth more be forced to pay a higher tax for the local school, police, etc, when they don't consume more of those services?
Every mainstream desktop ui framework out there has standard, evolving out-of-box set of controls and layout widgets that do not suck. Guess what, you can build Gtk, Qt or Wx app without wrapping inputs into stacks of divs, which aren’t there for layout. People even barely know how to create new controls or containers. The deepest container depth for a regular app is like 5-7 there, and that’s a complex layout already with bells and whistles. Web does suck a lot in this regard, so people reimplement this functionality in javascript and div soup, as the other commenter mentioned. While your statement is true, the idiots here are the web standards which stuck in 1990s and never realized that this “apps” thing everyone’s running around with for a decade or soon two is something more than a printable document with font sizes and empty fields split into sections and paragraphs. If web did care, it would at least add accessibility-only tags (or a separate structure like css does) denoting what’s where and how to interact with it or how to dumb it down to whatever plain set of controls would be there, if the web ui model didn’t suck. The stockholm syndrome it induced in software development is truly tremendous.
Netguard is essential software for Android, imo. It is the first app I install on Android devices, as the entire android OS is spyware and all the pre-installed apps try to phone home, constantly.

I am very disappointed to hear this news.
Population growth + inflation + transfer of wealth from workers to capital owners + productivity gains has over the long run been pretty close to 7%.
To clarify a bit: The release engineering team owns the branch during the release process, then hands it over to the security team.

(Of course there's always cooperation between the two teams -- the security officer has to get permission to commit to the release branch prior to the release but in practice that conversation consists of "we have a security advisory affecting the upcoming release" "go ahead". Theoretically the answer might come back "please wait a few hours because we're in the middle of builds right now" though.)
I wonder if hiv is related. Has there been any information on whether the individuals have been infected at some point in their lives or are undergoing treatment for it?
Has anyone built a facility to store the waste for 1 million years yet?
I think Finland is the only country in earth who started for real.
It is mind boggling to me that people even consider building more waste before having the slightest idea what to do with nuclear waste. And the talking about how clean it is. Lol.
> How did you end up in Japan?

Quite simple. US became a nightmare towards the end.

As an immigrant grad student without much means, I couldn't support myself long. After my advisor cut off funding, I tried finding a job. I didn't have money to pay the bills soon after & US job process was getting long & convoluted with internal referrals, pointless rounds of interviews, HR meetings. I needed money to feed myself - I was skipping some meals to save money.

I had self respect not to work at a gas-station illegally or at one of the asian IT sweatshops by falsifying my CV. Japan government offered me funding at University of Tokyo & I grabbed the offer. Finished my PhD in CS with that opportunity. It has been 6 years and counting.

Here is one thing though: I earn comfortable now. But the trauma of poverty never leaves you. Even though I work in CS/ML, my life is pretty austere. I stick to the 'needs', and avoid the 'wants' as much as possible. Maybe it will take some years - or maybe these habits won't go. The one thing I never wish for anyone is hunger. Once you have lived through it, you won't want to be in that position ever again.
That's absolutely false, check out what has happened in Georgia and South Carolina and you will not be able to find any government interference or regulation slowing things down.

It's just rank incompetence, bad management, and three-party contracts where each party is preparing for failure and a gigantic lawsuit in the end.

Meanwhile, the latest excuse for the recent US failure in building was that they commenced building before design was complete, and if we just try again now that designs are complete, everything will proceed smoothly. Meanwhile others in this thread are complaining that the NRC requires complete plans before building.

Those who complain about imaginary regulations can neither state the regulations that slow things down, nor describe suitable regulations, nor apparently even agree on what the current regulations are.

I've been asking "which regulations" for years, nobody has ever, literally ever pointed me to which. They just have supreme confident that it's the answer, despite not knowing specifics.
Head to coinmarketcap for hundreds of disruptive web3 examples. To answer your question go to https://livepeer.com and look at a decentralized live streaming platform that provide savings today.

Also look up IPFS here https://ipfs.io - that will disrupt Amazon S3 among other services.
>creating art, loving, preparing, doing

I think I answered this already. You might add to the list.
So maybe those jobs shouldn't be done? It doesn't sound like a complete disaster ...
My understanding is that it provides configurable WASM/HTML/JS/SCSS bundling and a dev server so you can easily edit and live reload your DOM and WASM code that’s being bundled.

It sounds like it could reduce friction around this kind of development a lot. There are probably similar things though, you’re right. I’m not sure how this compares, but I like the sounds of it a lot.
Zuck controls the board though! Majority voting rights. Still, have to give it to him. Need guts to make such a call. WA and Instagram, the Crown Jewels of Meta.

Then again, nobody wins all the time (cough oculus cough).
Maybe this one? But it lacks the self reflection:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/baton-roue
What does Paul Graham have to do with any of this? He hasn't been operationally involved with YC for years, lots of them, so far as I know. Also: YC invests in companies that are 2-3 people and a vague idea; that's the whole concept. Why wouldn't YC end up backing a shady cryptocurrency company? I read all of your comments and guess we're on the same page about "crypto" and wish YC was staying the hell away from it --- but if they're going to invest in "crypto" startups, they're going to get their share of companies like this.
What would you suggest? Would it be like Valheim (any many other games) where if you want to collaborate, one person needs to be the host and run their copy of the app and if they aren't running it no one can work?

Or are you suggesting the average user would some how spin up a server and run some software and maintain that server so that all the collaborators can access the thing 24/7?

Me, I love that from any of my 7 machines I can access my docs, spreadsheets, tax info, etc. If I have to use a native app then I can only access it on machines that have that app installed. The app might not even exist on some of the machines I use but a web browser does.
The data shows the opposite: the places with vaccine mandates achieved lower vaccination rates among elderly (most of Europe) than places without them (UK).

The data shows that the greatest benefit from vaccination was to elderly and risk groups and not to healthy young people. Vaccine mandates increased vaccine uptake in less-at-risk groups but did not help to ensure vaccination of elderly people.

Third issue is that vaccination did not prevent spread. Even in Canada the data shows that at the end of 2021 covid spread equally among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. Vaccination was good for personal benefit and should have been popularised as such but it didn't meaningfully limit the spread and the restrictions on unvaccinated were not justified.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

- Oscar Wilde.
They felt like they could get away with anything because they could!

I think one difference was that you could hide a little friendly community fairly easy and because the meanness and abuse was seen as an expression of real world powerlessness rather than an enforcement of real world power structures.
Bitrot? Missing assets for video and some images (perhaps on iPadOS only?).

Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News SXSW edition link: https://youtu.be/frjaQ17yAww

“Imagine that the illustration below represents a curved tube lying horizontally on a table:” https://www.marketgoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dunning...

Paper without video links: https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/sweetland-assets/sweetland...
TFA says that the reactor part of a plant only makes up ~25% of the construction costs. The rest is the same that coal plants also have to deal with.
I think OP meant "law" as in "law of gravity" not as in legality.
If you feel old you should try Next.js. I dove into it recently and joined the Discord channel, sometimes I answer questions. It is really interesting helping people who are creating complex apps by stitching together a bunch of npm modules while having absolutely no clue about the underlying implementations, or the basics of web dev and javascript.
Nuclear technology requires ridiculous complexity, with miles upon miles of piping that need precision, accurate welds to last 40 years. It requires high performance concrete. It requires huge logistics to get all the concrete pours and rebar and everything in place.

These things are massive projects, utterly massive. There's no reason to think they should be cheap.
Funny, I hated the color scheme back in the day. It reminded me of Fischer-Price children's toys.

My very first customization was to always set it to the silver theme.
Sometimes when going deep into a subject I have to pause and explain that it’s a very specific name for what we are talking about and while it may seem pedantic, Naming Things Is Actually Incredibly Important. IMO naming things properly is at least 25% of a good system design.
You can try the mix: A low profile mechanical keyboard - e.g. with the Kailh Choc switches. They in all sorts of pricepoints - from expensive Logitech G815/G915 to cheaper ones like the Havit HV-KB390L or in europe the Sharkoon Purewriter. I have the latter, and prefer to all regular mechanical keyboards I bought (a Logitech G Pro and a Corsair one with Cherry switches). The low profile one feels far more ergonomic and I make less typos with it - I wouldn't buy a full height keyboard anymore.
SymphonyNet: Music LM like GPT-3 composing multi-track orchestral pieces
> YC-affiliated investor money would help compensate me

Not sure why you believe a mere investor is liable for any compensation if the 15% APY gambling scheme goes under.
It's a bit sad that so many people think democracy means "voting to select the least bad option".

The employees work together to find solutions that cut costs. That might involve sacking some people, but it might also involve people volunteering for a temporary pay cut, or renegotiating with a landlord, or a million of other things that reduce expenses.

What never happens, though, is that the CEO "sends people to the chopping block" to protect his own bonus.
But federal and state governments are ramping down testing and funding for testing. What tests there are are mainly home tests, and health agencies aren't even interested in hearing about positive results. Surveillance isn't getting entrenched.

Edit: Also from what I can see, he's not actually a member of WEF, he just gives talks there.
I also remember ZverCD being popular in Russia. It had Vista icons and a more glossy theme.
In the US, we have HIPAA. If they share data for research, it has to be anonymized. To share with providers, they need permission. That is a far cry from "total biometric surveillance".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266618
How Much Longer Can Google Own the Internet?
Thanks for the link, it is an interesting and obvious way to have clearer conversations.

Multiple types have a recommendation to use "turbolinks-style transitions", which was new to me. So I did some research, and it's basically another take on "just render html server-side, and let a framework take care of AJAX-ifying it". I've seen some attempts at this before, like the UpdatePanel's from ASP.Net Web Forms back in the 2000's.

It looks like Turbolinks itself is defunct, but has been superseded by Turbo (https://github.com/hotwired/turbo), and I only see chatter in Rails communities. It also looks like there are some other alternatives.

Are people actually using "turbolinks-style transitions"? And if so, what are you using how is it working out for you?
Sure, it's always interesting to investigate vulnerabilities and design deficiencies, and it can be beneficial especially when the goal is improving security for everyone.

But it's hard for me to celebrate someone whose motivation seems to be that they are simply too cheap to pay for something that other, more honest, people are willing to pay for. In this case, it probably doesn't affect anyone else if the author only downloads a few articles, but in general, if internet bandwidth on an airplane is a limited resource, then using large amounts up in this way to the detriment of others would just be stealing.
> On any reasonable reading—notwithstanding that its purpose was Constitutionally valid—it violated the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th Amendments, and the suspension clause.

The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision did not take this position. They took the position that the Constitution's protections simply did not apply to slaves. (In fact the decision said that those provisions didn't even apply to free blacks.)

Of course you can say that the Supreme Court was simply wrong. But under our system of law, the Supreme Court's rulings on Constitutional provisions are final unless overridden by an amendment--as the Dred Scott decision was overridden by the Thirteenth Amendment. So as a matter of law, the fugitive slave laws were Constitutional until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed. Just as, for example, it's Constitutional (unless a future Amendment changes things) for Congress to regulate a farmer's growing of wheat for personal use under the Commerce Clause (Wickard v. Filburn), or for a city to seize people's homes and turn them over to a private developer under the eminent domain power (Kelo v. New London). You might think those decisions were wrong (I do), but they're still the law of the land unless and until a Constitutional Amendment overrides them.
That's the exact right amount they idealists should own. Exactly .01% owning 27%. But tell me, what is the value for which x% own (100-x)%? That is the figure of merit.

It actually has mathematical meaning. For instance, if you take a single example at exactly the x percentile, that particular person gets a fair share.

For instance, if there's 100 people and it's 80-20, 20% of the people get 80% of the wealth, then the person at exactly the 80th percentile gets 1% of the total. For him specifically, it might as well be shared equally.

Tell me where that x percent gets 100-x percent equilibrium is!
Millions of micro markets that produce what, exactly?

You seem to be asking me to defend the merits of crypto, which is beyond the scope of this conversation. But generally speaking, most of the coins people actually buy are tied to protocols that are attempting to do things that interesting to at least some part of the population.

But, the ability to prove the provenance and ownership of any asset, whether physical or digital, has value. The ability to move value across borders instantly, cheaply, and reliably, has value.

In a world where so much has been made of fake news, imagine if you could know with absolute certainty that a given quote you read from someone in an article is authentic and given to the specific outlet you are reading it at, not taken from somewhere else, perhaps out of context. Imagine if Google integrated such information/quote verification into its search results, and could use it to prioritize sites with real quotes or information. SERPs wouldn’t be full of trash, and small sites that manage to scoop large ones could get instant #1 rankings. Authenticity verification has value.

The possibilities are endless.
it’s certainly possible this was the original intent, or just an accident and they leaned into it. we’ll never know.

either way the essential core of primitives is down there, just wrapped in multiple levels of nutshell.

the sre excellence is probably indisputable.
But, I mean, you did just make that up.
IntelliJ's integration with GitHub PRs is nice. The one thing I miss is you can't what changed if you switch from the PR diff view to the normal code view which you need for code navigation and refactoring.
It's current enterprise value is only part of the story - and as we all know a valuable company today can entirely disappear in the future if it is sufficiently mismanaged. Vendor lock in was the favorite tool of IBM and Oracle. Things certainly change no matter how dominant a company can appear at a moment in time. Doubly so with social media with fickle users and generational opportunities with younger cohorts replacing and redefining usage patterns.

Yes, Facebook has by all accounts a commanding position, except competitors are demolishing it with younger demographics in key bellwether regions, and there are many concerning aspects about it's recent growth prospects. Facebook holds the record for the biggest single day market cap evaporation in stock market history (and also the record for second biggest). They are closer to their pre-WhatsApp market cap today then they are to their previous peak.

We'll see.
"Uh...Germany's actually recarbonized by shutting down their nuclear"

Germany outsourced their nuclear to France.

Remember that Germany and France are no longer countries, but states in the Eurozone within the wider European Union.

It's the same effect as, say, New Mexico exporting nuclear power to California and California then calling itself 'nuclear free'.
I’m also surprised how people can’t see the benefit of have 1 way of doing things. 99% of the websites end up in app like features.

Maybe we don’t talk about the same thing, but isomorphic code with react is great for websites too: server side render, instant page change on client side. Reuse of exact code. Huge benefits.
Property tax seems to me like the most fair of all taxes as the greatest value provided by the state is the enforcement of private property and ownership.
No.

www.reddit.com/r/proweiqi
So, by how much did Germany increase its carbon output during the nuclear shutdown? Hint: it didn't. It went from 14.8 to 7.7 tons/capita. You can always argue that it could have decreased faster by keeping nuclear plants online. But please don't believe the headlines of opinion makers without looking at the actual data.
> without realising this extremely basic fact of finance

More like claiming they didn’t know when they lose it all. Admitting “I gambled and I lost” isn’t a recipe for sympathy and possible compensation.
Prop 13 keeps California's property tax revenues stable.

This is especially true/important when property values crash, as they do every 10 years or so. (It's starting now as people start to realize that mortgages are going up from 5%, not down.)

Why? Because all of the people who bought more than a couple of years ago will see their regular 2% increase because the crash didn't hit their property's value. Meanwhile, newer homeowners will go to the assessor and get a reduction in value, which reduces their taxes. The former outweighs the latter.
That doesn't follow net neutrality though.
Re: "The error bars are not infinite."

I feel like they are infinite? Because, for example, in hyperinflation, there's no upper bound on how long someone is going to keep printing money.

Any given instance will stop at a finite number, but you can't bank of that being the high water mark.
Weird to see this on HN! I'm late to the party but was browsing older HN posts and just saw it — I was the director of the first "season" of this show (with Gabe) and directed about ~10 episodes with Matt before leaving the production company that makes it. Happy to answer any questions about the show/how it happened/etc. I'll also browse comments here to see if I can answer anything.
Apple VR/AR glasses get real?
It's funny how all the hit pieces appeared almost immediately after Elon displayed his politics.
So you're saying that if we removed the regulation and built cheap reactors each reactor might cost -1 billion dollars to construct? Sign me up!
>Imagine if fossil and biofuel combustion plants had to insure themselves against the air pollution deaths they are known to directly cause.

Such a good dream