skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is unreasonable about brokerages and crypto exchanges being subject to KYC and AML regulations? How is that at all comparable to the government being able to eavesdrop on my private communications and violate my 4th amendment rights without a warrant?
> Web3 doesn’t require blockchain, paying to use it, tokens, etc.

You would get the opposite impression reading anything at all about web3, including the summary on wikipedia.

> As coined the term merely means internet services that are more robust.

And currently has the reputation of the opposite of robust...

> People that prefer web2 (paying for Netflix) will continue to use it and people that prefer web3 (stuff like torrenting)

Netflix introduced streaming in 2007 and bittorrent introduced torrenting in 2001 (piratebay in 2003).

> I think my point might have been missed.

It's probably because you're not really addressing anyone's concerns. Also hand waving in vague/dubious/nonsensical implications/metaphors like "Torrenting was good, therefor web3 is good". It comes across like a salesman who'll tell you anything just to make the sale.

> Just because you don’t see a use for blockchain technology doesn’t mean there isn’t one for somebody on the other side of the world in different circumstances.

We know scammers and artificial scarcity exist. We just think these things are objectively bad.
Yes, and you also used to be much more dependent on "magic" bits of paper for tickets/reservations/etc. I get the nostalgia for a less computerized world but aspects of it weren't really all that great when something went wrong.

I probably don't disconnect as much as I probably should for certain types of travel. But not everything about completely disconnecting is wonderful.
5% per what distance?
Yep! It's a great project whatever one calls it :-).
Barclays Warns Even Fully Collateralized Stablecoins May Be Prone to Down Spiral
lol, this is like the bat signal for pc
How much money has Tom Brady or Jassy made for the patriots/Amazon due to their leadership? If they brought 500M then 25M seems fair.
I work at The MITRE Corporation. We're a not-for-profit that runs Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and works directly with industry and government agencies. More specifically, I work in the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development on developing AI/ML and applying systems engineering to improve aviation safety and transportation safety (including autonomous vehicles).

It's a really interesting, impactful place to work. We work on everything from tracking illegal fishing, improving microweather meteorological modeling, applying GNNs to model air congestion, preventing aviation safety accidents, addressing inequity in criminal sentencing, and finding gaps in transparency and accountability for federal coronavirus aid.

I like that we have good work-life balance, get to use the latest tech, publish papers and open-source code, work on challenging and impactful problems, and have a strong commitment to working in the public interest making the world a safer place.
Code Rush – documentary film about Netscape and the origins of Mozilla (2000)
I feel that this whole attitude is coming from the latest Roe V Wade issue, but remember all Roe v Wade decision would be to send the power to regulate the issue of abortion back to the states.

If there is a legislative will to do something at federal level, then in an alternate system of civil law too there wouldn't be a statute allowing abortion.

In fact, without Supreme Court's Roe v Wade's 1970s decision, abortion would be pretty much illegal in the US (as it was, right before the 1970s decision).
You think saying "a really amazing case of a business [that executed] better than everyone else" is dismissive and diminishing?
You should definitely expose the scams, but it doesn't make sense to fight about email.
Wow. This is priceless. A longform recap of the infamous Dave Morin interview.

> After sunset, he avoids electric lights and screens because they disrupt his sleep. Instead, he lights candles and plays a buffalo-skin drum (he made it himself with the help of a local indigenous tribe) to wind down before bed.
Personally I'm trying to keep it tied down to an issue of responsibilities.

The abuser of resources should stop abusing. It isn't the fault of the victims and they shouldn't each individually need to address it. Stop the issue at source for everyone by stopping being anti-social/parasitical on the use of resources through excessive polling. I think that's the extent of my own argument here.
No paywall...

https://archive.ph/fwXUm#selection-3967.0-3967.85
What aspect of “private company” do you not understand? No shit they have the power to censor on the platforms they control.
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this document isn't a "laid out facts". This is a document written to cloak truth and make you believe something, without sufficient evidence. I learned all these tricks in my rhetoric education.
> they are jealous and misinformed. They have zero understanding of what an executive's job actually entails / they don't know anyone in such a role, and as such they (incorrectly) think anyone could do it. Therefore they don't understand why executives are receiving very high levels of comp or amassing massive net worths when they don't appear to be "doing" anything.

Yep. It's the same jealously when people are paid millions to just shoot a ball in a hoop. Like, no. You shoot a ball into a hoop and have people who will pay $1000 to watch you do it.

One of my favourite punchlines:

Tapping with a hammer $2.00

Knowing where to tap $9,998.00
> The most efficient light emitters are ~50% and the best optical photo-voltaics are also ~40%, which would get you to an 80% loss, ignoring atmospheric losses.

Unless you have matched emitters and PV cells? For example [1] cites 53.4% conversion efficiency for monochromatic light. (The 40% figure was presumably sunlight conversion efficiency?)

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4922910
Apparently security bugs and privacy violations too.
Isn't that theme licensed under the GPLv3? AFAIK they do publish all of their changes on SourceForge. To be clear I think Linuxfx is trash, but that doesn't make it "pirating" GPL software.
It wouldn't be that hard to implement BigInteger in Javascript. Java's BigInteger uses an array of signed ints, you could use the floats in Javascript as a standin for 32-bit ints.
Corel Rave - amazing tool for animations and simple, interactive stuff exported as Shockwave Flash.

Google Inbox - neat interface for email (however Spike is an excellent alternative)
There were at least 17 unsuccessful clinical trials (phase II and III) that tried to do that:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Alzheimer+Diseas...
Also, keep in mind that the Thin Blue Line flag is often used as a dog whistle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
and they are a huge source of deaths in the US. If guns were not present, do knife deaths replace them?
Chickens don't seem all that smart to me. Either that, or they've become so domesticated they just assume whatever is going on around them is okay because humans are allowing it to happen. In either case, my suspicion is that they won't give a cluck about some silly fake owl hanging around their coop.
Depends on the policy of the school and responding department.

Schools should have active shooter plans. Those plans (and others) are typically reviewed/filed with the local agencies.

Some agencies prefer to set up a perimeter and wait for backup (sort of the older train of thought). Some call for immediate action, but would still defer to officer's judgement on whether they need backup. Many don't have a policy, or the policy isn't immediately known by many of the officers.

Depending on the perspective and precise details, there's no way of determining the exact answer, especially on here.
That's true. On the other hand, if we don't make it easier for women to have kids, we will perish as species.
Not sure about your point. Trekking in Nepal in the 1990s, there wasn't an option to get the New York Times delivered to my tent every morning regardless of the stability of the country I lived in. And, indeed, backpacking in many locations even in the US, I wouldn't expect Internet access today.
Now I’m curious, where do you live? “News” are serving a very weird market, almost 100% about selling stories that satisfy the distorted attention span of demographic majorities who have no interest in going beyond the surface level of their groups model of consensus. It’s an omnidirectional intellectual wasteland, ignoring some pieces of economical (etc) analysis.

What do you have to be informed about a priori?

After years of dodging newspapers I got hooked on “news” in feb-mar 2020 due to Covid. Took about one month until I remembered that it’s a complete waste of time. I feel like the HN-audience has very little to gain from news directed at the general population.
This is not human nature, this is criminal behavior:

https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/152967872671538790...

Heavily armed police set up a barrier and let the shooter run wild for nearly an hour. Parents screamed and begged for them to intervene and they refused. When parents tried to push their way past, the police stopped them. You can see them pinning one father to the ground in that video, which is frankly the most upsetting thing I have ever seen. But everyone should watch it. It's important to understand just how indifferent police are to the citizens of this country. They have no legal obligation to protect anyone, but this goes even further than that. There are reports the police called on the children to yell if they needed help. When at least one child yelled "help", they did nothing, and the shooter was able to locate that kid and murder them.

These cops should be tried for aiding and abetting the mass slaughter of children, but I would be surprised if they got so much as a temporary paid suspension.
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It's not a great argument? If Github and Gitlab are fine with the polling, and the polling has even marginal benefits for Go users, why should we care how they handle Github and Gitlab? It sure looks like nobody on the Go project knew that sr.ht would care about these module clones, and when they found out, they gave DeVault the option of stopping them. I'm still not clear what the issue is.

If they knew DeVault's host wasn't going to be able to handle repeated module clones, a priori, then doing it anyways would be a problem. It doesn't look like anyone expected this to be a problem. It turned out it was, and there's a fix.
Often a big difference is plugins: check and triple check what plugins you have installed.

There's a couple extremely common plugins "everyone loves" that just murder VS performance and everyone blames VS and not the plugins.
The only goal you need in life (and how to avoid frustration)
I would tend to agree that corporations are better than any other organization at prolonged, directed, problem solving than government or public university research.
Except Ukraine, monkeypox (and covid) and the results of scientific studies are legitimately newsworthy events to cover, not "random shiny things to keep idiots occupied."
The award is for 61000 shares, which would have been worth $212M as of the 12/31/2021 share price. It's worth far less now.

Quite frankly, this is as sensible of a comp package for a CEO as one could propose. Compensated in primarily in equity with a long horizon for vesting. If a company wanted its executive to be aligned with the interests of its shareholders, is there really a better structure?

Aligning the incentives of the CEO to the incentives of shareholders by awarding the equivalent of an 0.012% ownership stake seems reasonable to me.
wonder if it's privacy concerns like Zuck taping over his webcam
None. It should be their job to go in and stop it.

Unfortunately, legally they are they just the cleanup crew, and are under no obligation to put themselves at risk to protect people in danger. Their job is just to arrest people who have committed crimes, not to stop or prevent crimes.
Yes. My comment was very US-centric. You're right; the outcomes are demonstrably true. Board-level representation is a good example of this. Maybe asking rhetorically in a different way - what is the series of chess moves where that goal is achieved?
>What aspect of “private company” do you not understand?

The part where they're given more power than we give the government.
IMHO, any civilization that advances to the industrial era would be leaving artifacts all over the world. It wouldn't be confined to an island or a region in a continent.
Tom Brady did actual work for his team, a CEO does not do $500M worth of work. If there were no employees other than the CEO then the $500M doesn't get made.
The ol' "We didn't think we'd be hacked!" excuse is getting very tired. There was a very small window in time where that was a legitimate excuse, but its been at least a decade or two since that time.
Hang on, is this thing actually generating halfway intelligible rap?

Utterly amazing.
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> Or imagine this... they (athletes and CEOs) are ALL grossly overpaid. WOAH!!

Pay is a function of scarcity and value they bring.

> How out of touch with reality are you, if you think that's acceptable for any human to make that kind of money when majority of the world can hardly afford food.

Livable conditions for all humans have nothing to do with how to compensate top of the of the top people in their profession. By mixing those 2, you're only hurting your case.
Right, but if you were to take all $212 million and divvy it up to the nearly 1 million US Amazon employees it wouldn’t go very far.
I couldn't maintain 60fps in ER on a 12900H, 32gb DDR5, and a 3070ti no matter the graphics settings. It dropped to 40fps every two seconds and is unplayable. The input lag was astonishingly bad.

I'm still waiting for it to be patched.
Crypto exchanges signal support for Terra’s ‘rebirth’
I'm more pointing out that people don't rage against the machine like you are doing when an athlete signs a new contract.
Because given the rest of the software ecosystem available, maybe 0.01% of their customers would ever use such a feature.

It's way easier to just properly secure website logins with any number of 2FA methods, and rely on good old TLS for your encryption.
Heh. Didn't think about it that way. I'll remember to put "fake money" in quotes next time.

However, the crypto people genuinely believe that they have something worth stealing and that Rust helps keep what they have from getting stolen. That is a direct downvote by highly motivated and self-interested actors against C/C++.
Matrix is also incredibly complicated at this point. A chat room in matrix is like an append only log with rules about precedence to ensure even when federated the resulting state of the room makes sense.

That might be the biggest contribution matrix has to offer.

The json encoding is large and seemingly under defined. Many things only seem to work with element and the python server.
Grew up in Texas but happily raising my son in Germany for many reasons, only one of which is that after the Erfurt high school massacre in 2002, the German parliament changed the gun ownership laws to ban ownership for under-21s, and to require under-25s to undergo a psych eval. Additionally, you have to either have passed a non-trivial hunting license exam (involving face-to-face classes) or be a member of a shooting club to get a firearms ownership permit, so there's some forced contact with other people who have the chance to point out that you might not be someone who should be trusted with firearm ownership.

Further major tragedies have happened, both directly with guns (Winnenden, 2009; Munich, 2016) and indirect (Berlin Christmas market attack with lorry, the theft of which was enabled by a murder with a handgun), but are just so much rarer, along with far rarer smaller scale tragedies - I've never heard of a small child playing with a gun and shooting themselves or a sibling in the nearly two decades I've lived here.

Speaking of which, that's going to be an awkward conversation with my dad and brother before bringing my kid to visit his other home country; I know that my dad kept a loaded handgun in his nightstand as of a few years ago due to very overblown fears of a home invasion.
Anecdotally people I know who dont give an f live longer than the overachieving ones.
> It's really starting down a bad path when we start asking megacorps to do the government's job

They are already doing the government's job by hosting their servers.
Amazon has 950,000 of those warehouse workers. If you completely zeroed out Jassey’s stock $212 million stock award and instead distributed it among those workers, their hourly rate would change from $15 / hour to $15.01 per hour.
The whole point of checks and balances is to deal with the cold reality that politicians can't be trusted. But they can still be useful! As long as the system of elections work, they need to find a set of policy priorities that builds a winning coalition.

That leads me to the conclusion that the best way to influence politics is not through the politician themselves, but through advocacy groups that can shift the political incentives.

Even the politicians celebrated by history made awful compromises to maintain a winning coalition. LBJ's relationship with MLK for example.
They felt Linux users were being left out of bad experiences. So bring it to them!
It would be fun to reimplement Tiddlywiki as an Emacs app.
I do think being a leading actor is more prestigious than being a character actor and requires more impressive skills, but character actors are critical too and often undervalued. I always loved seeing Ray Liotta show up in a movie. Yes, he was a bit "one-note", but I really liked that note!
why do we have this thread then, and countless more like it?

no shit, private companies have the power to set the compensation to whatever the fuck they want. end of story
I also don't see any obvious synergies with a company that specializes in network chips.
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> Differential equations don’t give rise to physical systems.

Sure, but differential equations describe physical systems, and there is a canonical way to derive a quantum differential equation from a classical one by quantifying the classical Lagrangian using the Path Integral formulation. Giving a fairly natural distinction between the types of equations

> Whether any particular DE is a useful model of a particular physical system is a matter for the imagination, and either backed up or refuted by experiment.

This doesn't make sense to me. The Navier-Stokes equations are known to describe the classical behavior of water and are experimentally confirmed to predict things like trajectory. Their effectiveness has nothing to do with my imagination. If I write x=x' for the position vector of atoms in a fluid that will completely fail to describe anything physical.
I wonder if VMware Fusion will get worse or better, because it got so bad I switched to Parallels. This was after being a customer for a long time.
If you expand this transaction to an entire economy, I think this is in the neighborhood of how a central bank works. Sora XOR is/was an attempt in this direction, where a smart contract central bank buys and sells XOR on a curve to respond to economic demand. (The price crashed before it could collateralize the curve, so afaik it's never functioned as intended)
Of course. We've seen this at the high school level near Stanford. Palo Alto's high schools have a significant suicide rate, about 4-5x the national average. The causes of that have been much discussed.[1] The school district takes surveys and has a lot of counseling resources. "Twelve percent of Palo Alto high-school students surveyed in the 2013–14 school year reported having seriously contemplated suicide in the past 12 months." The city fenced the railroad tracks, and has guards and cameras at the crossings. Students of those high schools are now asking for more information about suicides.[2] They're the ones at risk, after all.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...

[2] https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/04/29/students-urge...
Yeah, I have to read a message 3 times before it marked as unread.
No. As long as the product manager is really an expert/specialist on the product. Understand the market, the user, some tech, usability, etc.
yes, I am. Web apps and scripting.
Have you considered that maybe NFL quarterbacks and public company CEOs are both overpaid, but people just like quarterbacks more? After all, I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers never laid off nearly 1000 people via a mass Zoom webinar.
TIL! I guess it makes sense that popular numeric libraries like BLAS, Eigen, and so-on would take advantage of this, but I wonder how widely used it is overall.
It starts interestingly enough talking about optical (which is proven possible though horrendously inefficient), but then goes into snake oil territory talking about charging mobile phones at a distance.

I'm not an expert, so here's one explaining why wireless power is mostly bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCyLO-1grEk
At what point is JSON not the right option? Surely when trying to do this sort of thing?

At what point is it saner to use something like flatbuffers or capnproto style message encoding instead.
I’ve found it’s nice for detecting people who care about unimportant things.

I can’t imagine ever picking a language based on this feature and seems weird to even mention it.

This has never caused me a minute of headache and the only time I care is when conflicting styles are used in the same file.

I always thought it was kind of dumb of Go to care about this but don’t care enough to affect my language choice. I don’t use Go but am open if it’s a fit for a project.

I like that Python has that variability and let’s developer make decisions as they see fit.

I don’t want to talk to people about tabs and spaces unless we’re already friends and having a few beers.
> resistance in electrical wires over long distances eat ~5% of the generated power. This makes it infeasible...

Electricity price differences throughout the USA[1] are much more than 5%, so a 5% loss does not (in itself) seem to make long distance transmission uneconomical.

[1] https://www.energybot.com/electricity-rates-by-state.html
Care to outline a precise argument for me to respond to? I'm honestly not sure one can even be extracted from pages 3 through 5, and I don't want to attack a strawman.

One basic problem is that using symmetry arguments to justify the assignment of subjective probabilities (cf. page 4, right column) is going to fail when there isn't a symmetry available, for example for irrational probabilities.

A deeper issue is the implicit assumption that one can coarse-grain into discrete "effectively distinguishable universes" for the purpose of doing these counting arguments. There are significant conceptual difficulties doing this, and this claim is much stronger than the bare MWI. Wallace discusses this at length; see for instance the citations in the blog post you responded to.
It's perfectly understandable that a private company has the right under the current laws to do that.

But that doesn't mean we can't have the social conversation over whether that's a reality we want to perpetuate. A tiny number of private companies have de facto control over what information the masses get exposed to, and to a lot of people, myself included, that just seems like an incredibly unhealthy state of affairs in the project towards an ever more vibrant civilization. We have the right to talk about it and decide to try to change the law.