skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tomas Moore's account of the events covered in The Vertical Plane have never been found (1 copy, handwritten in latin, hidden for safekeeping).

Where is Tomas’s own account, his book that was finished
at Oxford and left somewhere in manuscript? We never
forget that ‘2109’ said it would be found, and we can only
hope that this will happen in our lifetime.
Probably not true nominally but proportionally 250k is very far away from being 4x 60k.

I make 235k in the bay area and just rent + daycare for 2 kids would be 10k a month - on a net income of 12k a month.
While I realize that you're overstating both cases for rhetorical purposes, (that these undiscovered works are "better", and that Shakespeare is still "greater") I think that you're short-changing "discovery". We might find that Shakespeare's works were, not just influenced by these unknown works, but outright homages, or that these undiscovered works somehow offer greater context and insight into some previously known author's works. In a similar vein, the linked article spends to much time fearing what's lost and not enough thinking about what we may yet find.
No doubt, but please don't post like that on job ads (cf. the rules at the top of the thread).

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585487.
Those are the clumps large enough to be seen by radar. The needles that successfully deployed came down in 3 years.
> "Wa ch zod ahaakes rea."

“Watch those sea creatures.”?
> Many people in the US are reluctant to have open borders because of racism.

Or, because they understand lifeboats.

Or, because they know that open borders screw people on the bottom of the economic ladder.

Or, because they ask "why didn't those people fix their country?" or "if the US takes the best people from that country, who's going to fix it for the ones who stay?"

That said, it's important in any moral discussion to attribute immorality to someone with whom you disagree.
Tried on firefox mobile with javascript enabled, I tried to tape the in-page visual keyboard buttons but no response.

Does it work on mobile without physical keyboard?
That's really a good idea, keep them all mixed up while they try to track us lol.
As far as I can tell, almonds are mostly grown for export. 80% of the world's almonds come from California, 70% of Californian almonds are exported to other countries.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/05/09/a-billion-pound...

So, I mean, you might as well stop drinking almond milk in protest. IMO almond milk is disgusting anyway. But it's a pretty roundabout way to make a difference. And Chinese almond consumption will probably keep growing as their people get richer.

I think this problem requires a political solution; we should charge farmers more money for water to encourage marginal almond farmers to switch to other crops and make it easier for farmers elsewhere in the world to grow almonds.
fair warning: "Say, bear, did we just accidentally write a book's worth of material about the Rust type system?"
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Were-they collecting data on European citizens?

Seems if so they could have to pay a hefty fine thanks to GDPR...
I guess it will depend.

My company was on-site always before the pandemic, no remote work. After the pandemic and the productivity we showed during it, the policy was changed to "office optional" for all workers, you may need to go if your job description actually needs you on site for something, but if not, it's always optional (in theory forever).

About half of the people I work with I haven't seen face to face.
Is this a joke? Apple with M1 and iterations is changing the industry.
Because everything has gotten bigger and more complicated.

It's like asking "if the computer saves us all so much work, why do we have more people building computers than we ever had building typewriters"?

Something can "save labor" and still consume more labor in aggregate due to growth.
You might find this tool useful: https://handbrake.fr/
Completely disagree. Those three things are all gated by intense network effects. Social media type products are generally as sticky as they come. Facebook will continue to be the platform that everyone uses, because who wants to be on a marketplace or messaging app that doesn't have the most people?

> one could easily have two-three chat apps and use each with different people

I guess theoretically, but in reality, no. People are going to use one app. Apple realized this with iMessage and it's become one of their biggest advantages in the U.S. market. Texting an iPhone user as an android user is legitimately a bad experience, because apple knows that their users aren't going to download a new chat app so they can go ahead and make the experience dogshit for the out group users.
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Company A sell data to party B. Party B resells the data to party C, D, F without informing company A. Company A & B are owned by the same conglomerate.

Your law as written would only cover company A doing the sale of data to B, but not the downstream intermediaries.

Alternatively, company A doesn't sell the raw data, and instead sells reports and anonymized data that can easily be joined with other datasets. As this is not a sale of "user data", but an aggregated, anonymous insight.
DevOps is not only k8s. Think about DevOps as managing the whole infrastructure: setup ci/cd pipelines, implementing infra-as-a-code, managing ML pipelines, implementing security policies ... DevOps is very wide
Yeah, that Harry Potter spells often sound like something else. Leviosa is very close to levitate, for instance. So it's not surprising that many of them seem correct.
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I would argue the books helped, but what taught the debating champion was practice, and constructive criticism. A debating champion I work with said they did rapid fire, 2-4 a day, and had to argue BOTH SIDES of the story, to demonstrate some flexibility of thinking under pressure.

Not surprisingly, I very rarely "win" any conversation of opinion backed by differing interpretation of the "facts" as we see them. I am philosophical about this, winning debates is not actually my goal, any more than being "right" all the time.
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Envy parading as policy objectives isn’t pretty. Billionaires aren’t the problem. Government is the problem. When people/society look to the government for solutions instead of pursuing their own interests and desires, it leads to a serious misallocation of capital and an eradication of liberty. None of these issues you raised will be solved by government. Period.
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Welcome. I would definitely avoid taking on massive risks in crypto. I roughly see two situations.

1. The "nothing to lose" situation I described. Low wealth individuals putting "everything" at it, yet everything is very little. I don't advise it, but I understand it.

2. People in a reasonable/sound financial position. Whom can obviously just avoid crypto altogether, but some may want to get in with a portion of their wealth.

For people in group 2, it's not as simple as a fixed percentage of your wealth, say 10%. If you have 10K in savings, putting in 1K in crypto is useless, as you're now in the range of 9K - 15K savings after your run. It will suck your energy whilst it does not generate meaningful wealth even in the best of cases. Just don't bother.

That's why I believe you need a minimum stake of at least 10K. You need skin in the game. Doing a 3x-5x on 10K starts to get interesting whilst losing it all is survivable. If you master the game for two cycles, you might even turn 10K into 40K into 100K. That's meaningful life improving money.

But in any case, indeed, don't bet the farm. Unless your farm is a cardboard box.
When I think about IRC, I remember everyone and their mom had a bouncer.
Here in the Midwest, we've got Wisconsin, which has been sustainably producing dairy products for generations.
1st Quarter 2022, Apple shipped nearly 15% of all PCs sold in the US.
Aaand.. it is [flagged].
I won today with no undos and I'm more proud of that than winning any wordle, heardle, semantle, or any of the rest. Came down to 2 words remaining, one more guess. Phew! Great game; thanks for making it!
wish this had some more prehistory e.g. BBS, gopher etc.
This is an idea that fascinates me and it goes beyond literature. it certainly includes history.

One of my favorite examples is cuneiform tablets. Less than 10% of the 500k to 1m tablets recovered have ever been translated. These are particularly interesting because they're some of the earliest examples of surviving written records we have.

The Hittite capital Hattusa (IIRC) was lost for millenia. When it was found it was a veritable treasure trove including personal correspondence between the Hittie king and the Egyptian pharoah Ramses II.

Nineveh was sacked at one point. A massive fire destroyed the library but baked the clay tablets preserving them.

In the early days of Rome, Rome (the city) was sacked by Gauls. This destroyed a lot of the early works of Rome. This affected Rome's expansion (eg Caesar's conquest of Gaul has been argued to be affected by the cultural significance of this sacking). I's one reason why the origins of Rome are somewhat steeped in myth and legend rather than fact such as the apocryphal tale of Romulus and Reemus.

Another example are the histories of Alexander the Great. Alexander died under mysterious circumstances at the height of his power (in his early 30s). Several primary sources were written by his inner circle. None have survived. We know this because a Roman named Arrion some 2 centuries later wrote about the campaigns of Alexander citing 3 such sources (all lost) comparing what they agreed on and what they didn't.

A lot was lost in the Arab sacking of the Libary of Alexandria.

I somewhat agree with some other commenters in that literary significance is more... relative. Put another way: part of their cultural significance comes from them being known, studied, performed and repaeted over centuries.
Better yet, ask about those things WITHOUT being judgmental.
Tyvm
Musk did not "extract hundreds of billions" from the economy.

I did buy a few shares of Tesla. Millions, or maybe tens of millions of other people did the same. Those people made the Tesla stock go up in value. Many, many times over. Nobody forced me, or them to buy Tesla shares.

Should we benefit from the Tesla stock appreciation, but Musk not? Should we confiscate his shares? Because he's "a failure of society" ?

"Sick people going bankrupt", is that Musk's fault? Or Bezos's fault? Or Zuckerberg's or Gates'? Musk, Bezos, Gates, Page, Schmidt, Zuckerberg created millions of high paying jobs. How many people are vying to get a job at a FAANG?

Do you have a gmail account, or a Facebook account, or do you own an iPhone, or iPad, or watch Netflix? Did anyone force you to do any of these things? Then how did these people "extract wealth" from you?
Colour me highly sceptical. Can they ever solve for latency? Playing a video game with rollback code is one thing. Trying to give me the nuance of a conversation with the latency of our global network is a fool's errand.
> Over time, vibrating wood with oscillating strings, it changes the wood, the atoms in the wood will literally eventually align in such a way that the wooden pieces themselves become tuned to specific complimentary frequencies, increasing sustain and improving timbre.

Awesome hypothesis. Should be testable. E.g. exposing the wood to extended high amplitude sounds?
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I know there are people who think capitalism is inherently harmful and unsalvageable, but I'm convinced that with enough regulation and oversight it can be kept in its place and beaten into something that does more good than harm. I suspect it'll be one hell of an uphill battle to get us there though.
If I had to determine whether a planet was hostile, "fired 500 million needles into space" would be pretty freakin high up on my criteria
That's exactly it. I'm not viewing it from the point of view that optimizing the bottom line is paramount and everything else be damned.
One of the main issues, as I see it, is that the thresholds for obviousness and prior art are woefully lax.

If patents were only applied to "expensive R&D that leads to a simple implementation", I think there would be much less argument over their benefit to society. But what seems to frequently happen is that patents are issued covering abstract, conceptual ideas which are just rearrangements of existing techniques in a marginally novel way, and which may never have actually been proven by a concrete implementation. That's not really rewarding research effort, it's just rewarding whoever was first to stake their claim and pay an attorney to draft the language convincingly.

And what's particularly galling is when a company obtains large numbers of patents like that, but only has the focus and/or resources to turn a tiny fraction of them into real products. So whatever consumer value might theoretically have been created by the others is squandered until the patent expires.
tap water may have bio-contaminants in it (like brain-eating amoebas, apparently); use distilled/sterile water
> Tesla doesn't pay overtime until +10 hours.

...for salaried employees, where they aren't required to pay any overtime at all.

non-exempt employees have to be paid overtime after 40 hours by law.
> Like why is FB not doing any major enterprise initiative or cloud computing...

They "sort-of" did. The Open Compute Project (https://www.opencompute.org/) is an effort in which Facebook played a major role. The motivation, for them, is to break free of the shackles put on them by computing and networking equipment vendors (like Cisco). Facebook is big enough that they could design their own stuff, and try to make it a commodity which, as a side-effect, allows others to get involved and benefit from as well. It's hard to say how well this has worked but it was "an initiative".
No. The only information the blockchain would give you in the proposed "anonymous cash out" scenario is

1. Someone bought ETH on a CEX

2. They then transferred the ETH to a newly created wallet

3. They then did the mentioned NFT trades

4. They then transferred the money back to a CEX wallet

Given only public information, there is no way to identify the individual.

You have to have access to the CEX's (obviously) private database to know who purchased the original ETH and who transferred the arguably ill-gotten gains back to the exchange.
> Now, in light of this, that specific compounds are changing their alleged "meaning" radically, when aligned (composed), doesn't allow for high hopes for this to be language.

To clarify: that these triggers do produce (radically) different results when provided in varying compositional context, like "as cartoon", "as painting", etc, (i.e, "a as b") suggests that these are just random alliterations that serve merely by accident as synonyms, rather than having a specific value in that position. The latter being a requirement for language. (And it wouldn't be too far fetched to supposed that these are just some "residual" values, when showing up in pseudo-textual compositions. As there had to be some trigger for that.)
Actual systems usually hit the target with a single projectile, not a cloud of junk.
craigslist also has this problem, and it does seem pretty easily fixable, to my naive eyes:

someone has said "your price is fair, my agent will be over to pick it up with a cashier's check" for every single thing I've sold on craigslist. I don't think filtering out scumbags like this is a terribly hard problem.
Not hard to do, I once took some C code, naively converted it to python [0] and it took hours instead of seconds to run.

[0] I wanted to output an image and the C code only ran statistics so I would have had to figure out some random C image library which wasn’t how I wanted to spend my day.
In a later comment, the poster noted that the game works via Proton.
> You can write laws that aren't whack-a-mole. E.g. "it is illegal to sell or transfer user's data to another company without positive informed consent from the user within 1 month of the transfer"

The problem is people are stupid and uninformed about giving consent. You're the one trying to loophole around that.

If you actually want to regulate this the way you describe, you have to do it by removing peoples' right to give certain consents. For example, nobody may give consent for more than 6 months for the use or transfer of their data.

This is a big deal! You're removing a free mode of contracting. But if you think about it, we do it all the time. That it has a higher burden of proceeding around new technologies is a large reason why American (where we are careful about rulemaking) and Chinese (no rule of law) tech companies are ascendant. But at a certain point, the usual rulemaking frameworks may need to be applied.
That might be your experience but not mine. I have been luckily enough to work with really good people most of my career. For example, people I worked with who were good but not 10x went on to work for Google. So are you going to claim that 10x athletes, 10x business people, 10x chess players etc. doesn’t exist as well? And if not why would software development be the one exception from all the rest? Also, perhaps ask yourself why you desperately want it not to be true? What does that tell you about your own self-confidence/ambitions?
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Good point, I call this the Mitochondria outcome. I also believe it's the plot point of Stanislaw Lem's Fiasco.
You mean the completely failed Brilliant Pebbles concept?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
After many years denigrating drivers and owners of SUVs ('Toorak Tractors', 'Balmain Bulldozers', etc), I find I am hoist by my own petard.

My wife has been forced become a user of a mobility scooter to allow her some means of movement. To be light enough and compact enough, that mobility scooter has to be disassembled for transport, then re-assembled when we arrive somewhere. We started off with a normal sedan/saloon car with a trunk/boot that was too small to allow us to carry the scooter without its parts overflowing from the boot to the back seat.

We were, in effect, downgraded to having only a two-seater car. The solution, to my utter disgust, was for us to obtain one of those nasty SUVs because of its larger cargo space.

So, please don't deflate SUV tyres. We owners are very likely to be on your side.

Besides, don't waste your time and angst. Most SUVs and other new vehicles these days have 'run flat' tyres. You never need to change a tyre today. You just drive to a servo and pump them up again.
Some people seem to think that government is useless and should be abolished, always. But where ever the government powers are reduce we start to see societal decline. Crime goes up, the common infrastructure begins to fail, and generally, the place becomes a S hole to live in. Think about the worst places to live in and you'll see a government that's failing in someway. I'm not a rule lover but I know if there are no rules then it's an ugly place to be.

This leads to the idea that taxes are an important part of society since that's how we finance a peaceful and productive society. We should not let all our money go to taxes but there's a point where we need to pay taxes to have a society we want to live in. People get the dumb idea that we can ask for countless benefits from government without having to pay for them. We need to balance our wants with what's possible. The idea of paying no taxes or paying taxes that are so low that the government can't function is a recipe for disaster.

Libertarianism sounds like a nice solution to a free society in theory but in practice it's a non starter. The reality is that it falls in the same realm as fairytales and elves. It's nice to read about but it's not very practical as the primary societal philosophy of living.