skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to reverse the thought or come to the conclusion you reached. Rights, fair, equal, etc. These are all valuations we make on the fly. They aren't built into the fabric of reality.

The simple fact of the matter is within a capitalist framework, money is not distributed evenly (not suggesting it should be), and not everyone starts with the same hand, so "fair" doesn't really have any significance.

The relationship between the wealthy and the poor of today is similar to the relationship between the brutes and the weaklings of the past.

The difference is the activity of the wealthy gets socially categorized as civilized or fair, but the activities of brutes are classified as savage.

What's the difference between me forcing you to move from a place by threatening to kill you and forcing you to move by changing the environment (cost of living, rules of living, compensation, etc.) so you can't stay?

You could say "living vs. dying is the difference," but that's not true from the perspective of the powerful. If I hold the power in this hypothetical, from my perspective I had a goal of forcing you to move; and I achieved it.

With all of that said, and the veil of fairness thrown away, only one question remains. Would you be ok with being forced to move from your home because a billionaire decided he likes your neighborhood? Assume you aren't compensated for the move.
> ...whales clearly have a structured language

Well, that's new to me. References?
That makes me think of calculus in freshman's year. The first week the prof explained all maths we had learned in highschool, and then seemingly continued that same pace every week, it was rough. Especially for some of the smart kids who had never experienced learning material coming at them faster than they could take it in. The types who opened their textbook the night before the exam and would ace it in highschool got a real test of character.
I wonder how many of layoffs that have happened, the ones coming are actually needed financially. For example: I suspect a lot of companies took the opportunity of the first covid lockdowns to fire some people?

Nothing against it since every company is just improving its chances of survival, just thinking out loud about the reasons they share publicly. Also, of course there would be some whose survival was in good shape, but the layoffs were just to increase the profits?
I definitely experienced this. The problem for me was that in addition it made it harder to deal with tough feedback as self worth is connected to the work.
Direct source: https://www.valerionappi.it/brng-en/
It was a statement by the richest person on the planet on communication channel that he regularly uses to his declare personal and business intent and which is obsessively over analysed and therefore has real effects on business markets. Please use context ;)
To use this you basically have learn regexps anyway, so I can't really see the point.
> This hatred for the government Americans have is frankly unhealthy.

Governments, by design, are the most dangerous institution we have. In the 20th century they were a leading cause of death. Between the wars and communist policy a lot of people died. Fear of government is entirely sensible, we're more likely to be killed by a government than any serial killer.

And we don't know what the big wars of the 21st century will look like, but we may be about to find out.
Well, he’d need to be “natural born citizen”. I think at birth he was Canadian and South African, and naturalized to the US much later.

…maybe they’ll change the law one day and he can run against Schwarzenegger.
Man what an analogy. You are right, everything we build these days is so expendable. The throwaway era. The only thing left from our time for tourists of the future to pay guided visits for is the continent of garbage drifting through the Pacific.
I am Swiss. I just use German internet. Should have made this more clear
And you know why the contour integral of Western Europe is zero? Because all the poles are in Central Europe.

(sorry)
If we accept needing the user to run an "algorithm" like that, we could have a D256(Or whatever the next highest fair dice is) and actually have a practical-ish system.

Although hex D16s would probably be better.

D20s with 0-F plus two extras could be pretty awesome in a cyberpunk tabletop game. The other two could be "IOError" that makes the matrix glitch in a bad way, and superposition, that makes it glitch in a way you can use.
UBlock + PiHole. Also I am Swiss not German. It's actually legal for private use here.
Hem, Swiss do have conscription, they only relaxed them a bit, for instance not allowing anymore ammo at home, just weapons, anyone can buy ammo of course but classic sealed packages for the service use only aren't anymore a thing.

Mandatory bunkers and scattered cornerstones are not mandatory anymore either, but still shelters must be provided by the public, mandatory long-lasting food supply are there etc

Mined roads are far less mined than before, but still there. So I think Swiss STILL care it's defense. Also my point is about protecting against foreign invasions instead of build armies to invade other countries because that's the point of peace.

If we want peace dialogue is mandatory and a good weapon aside help well, si vis pacem para bellum, BUT being MUCH more able to defend instead of offend is a good stability key.
This is different from commercial real state...
I think they're wrong about modern Switzerland, but they raise an issue that's crossed my mind occasionally: that Athenian democracy followed the emergence of the phalanx, a technology that favored the use of large, non-specialized citizen armies, and that our current military technology is the polar opposite of that.
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They way I had it described to me was that the optimal number of direct reports to one person is 7 (hence why military squads tend to be about 8 people). All companies go through growing pains as they reach ~7^n people and have to put in another layer of management. So about 7, 50, 340, 2400…

In reality most companies will have a 2-3 founders running it and so those numbers are more like, 14-20, 100-150, 700-1000.

I have never worked somewhere with larger teams so I may well be wrong, however there is definitely a step in small businesses with two founders at about the 20 people point.
The receiving bank can have a 7 day hold but that's not by design like a check (DDA) where there's a holding period and you can cancel payment.
Copyright law doesn't allow you to waive those rights without falling into Public Domain, which is considered grey area in some countries.
It is when buying stuff on Amazon…
Luck no, path-dependency yes.

Numpy is fantastic and so is scipy, but there's no inherent reason why they couldn't have been "numruby" or "numlua".

With that said, I agree with you that your parent's thesis isn't really operative, Python and Ruby are almost exactly the same technology, therefore the decision on which one to use depends on the available ecosystem. Everything else is effectively rounding error.
Most Kodi plugins for the German market are based on direct downloads. I too wouldn't recommend this to user from a more strict country, however it's completely legal to download for private reasons here in Switzerland
> Not all users want a system where Meta can take a domain you own simply because they now have a trademark that loosely correlates with it.

Agreed, yet the government won't care and will make sure enforcement happens anyway.

If your NFT based domain system is used by a dozen hardcore nerds, then nobody will care, sure.

But if it somehow managed to overtake DNS and become the de-facto standard, the government would just come up with a way to regulate it anyway. Eg, they'd demand that web browsers not implement ENS, or consult some sort of additional blacklist.
> Thinking in terms of rates is how people would fall for predatory installment purchases in the old days (you can have a new computer for just $2.5 a day!)

Or SaaS.
But people who mod their system might never have bought the system if that option wasn't available.
Because the opposite is a nonsensical way to reason about risk: the fact that going for a drive is riskier than staying at home is not a good argument for removing the front door.

> Why do you think nuclear isn't too safe?
It's up to you to give me reasons to think that, because the default position is that a the regulation doesn't seek to require more than is necessary. This is explicitly listed in the legislation creating the NRC: it is tasked with running "A program to encourage widespread participation in the development and utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes to the maximum extent consistent with the common defense and security and with the health and safety of the public", meaning the current regulations are written to be just on the right sight of "safe enough" (my emphasis).
Disclaimer: Ecosia dev, opinions my own.

IMO, the goal of Ecosia has always been trying to "hijack" something that people always do (searching) and use profit from that to "plant trees", while also proving you can be profitable (though in this case all profits go to green projects) and still give back to the Earth. If Google invested 1% of profits in similar efforts to have systematic change and green lobbyism (not green washing or carbon credits), Ecosia wouldn't even need to exist.

> I can't imagine the same organization is going to get great at both web search and environmentalism

It's powered by Bing with some flavour on top. I think it's an alright search engine. And it's doing great environmentalism :)
I mean, to a layman like myself, the takeaway is something about stateful, irreversible systems where x is on both sides of the equation in unequal or inverse measures, and how those systems (maybe? sometimes?) progress toward equilibrium by going through unexpected phases that seem to contradict what you're trying to input. I read the whole thing as a metaphor for Fed policies or how we elect Democrats every time the economy is about to crash, and Republicans every time it's just recovered.

To the degree that some field of math can be best exemplified by various types of aircraft stalls, this didn't do a great job of explaining either the types of stalls or the feedbacks (what you might call negative REPL loops) leading to them.

I agree it's ok.
Because it hasn't happened
> I am also constantly surprised by how many people give advice on a topic they have never actually partaken in, so this consensus may not even be borne of the real world.

Hey, that's why I'm on the internet. I could hardly talk about woodworking to actual carpenters in real life, could I?
This seems surprisingly reasonable for my personal experience, so I'm gonna use it as a general rule now /s
> I don't see how it's possible that cronyism feeds into large public European calls that you mention

I haven't directly witnessed it at the Brussels level, but certainly at national level in one European country, I have been a direct witness to how a public call for participation was put out for which it was well known in advance who would get the funding. -- If you want to make the case that Brussels is less corrupt than national governments, be my guest.

All you need is a bit of "procurement process theater". Put N focus areas into your call, corresponding to the N institutions you want to give the money to, and describe them in just the right amount of specificity. Add to that requirements like "to be eligible, an institution must have been in business for X years and have at least Y number of employees" to increase the status-quo bias.

In one instance I happened to be around such an institution in a year where the administration screwed up and didn't manage to put the call out in time. So an institution with something like 50 employees that was totally dependent on the funding would have had to close its doors for a year and reopen a year later after the next funding decision was through. Basically what happened was that the director of the institution went to his crony in politics and said "Hey you screwed up. We need that money, and we need it now." And the politician just kind of went "okay, here, have some money". Apparently he found some taxpayer money in some couch cushion or something to make a bridge loan to the institution against what was basically the certainty that they were going to be awarded the proper amount of money through the proper channels in the upcoming funding decision. I really think that this exposed the whole science funding system for the emperor with no clothes that it truly is.
> i.e. hell

Fair enough, but why single out Coinbase when the same kind of BS goes on in pretty much every large corp over there?
IMHO Matthew Green often makes bold yet unsubstantiated claims. He also creates and promotes FUD. He may be technically good, but I don't trust his personal opinion, not even on subjects he presumably knows very well.
It really all depends on how low to the ground you are when things begin to get worse.

For example, a virus that takes 10 IQ points off people who've been infected with it might make China more apt to consume Disney movies, while it might plow America straight into the ground.
I'm curious if this does concretely improve regular expressions or not for generic programmers. Overall, to me it seems the classic minor-but-not-radical improvement.

The major difference I see is that this is a sort of `/x` modified regex with better readability. This is a significant improvement - the big problem with `/x` is that one then needs to escape/encode whitespace, which typically offsets the improvement.

The other significant change is variables, however, when one reaches a certain complexity, IMO they should not use regexes anymore.

The other differences (based on the home page presentation) are cosmetic changes of the same semantics.

The fundamental assumption is that the main problem of regexes is about syntax rather than semantics. It's true the regexes are somewhat ugly and hard to remember, but, personally, I don't think that's the main problem. It would have probably been nice if regex started with this syntax, but integrating them in a new project is a difficult decision.
Fair enough, but then he wouldn't have needed to use control theory and just stuck with the examples.

Edit: removed ambiguity
I'd like to be informed of the outcome of this experiment. Mail, Twitter, Subscription... whatever you choose.

The last paragraph got me hooked. You asked the right hard question. Tell me more if you've started working on it.
The goal of modern crypto like Ethereum is to provide a secure, predictable, open source, and decentralized network that many higher-level applications can flourish on top of and co-exist within.

USDC exists with reversibility but not all users in the network are forced to use it. There are other protocols like DAI that have different features and considerations. And in many cases these are open source protocols that can be forked as desired.

Probably the closest thing we have like this is the web, which is more or less a decentralized protocol, atop which we have built a lot of centralized platforms.
The most important reason that I'm somewhat of a treehugger is because trees are just nice. Walking in a forest is nice, taking my dog for a walk outside in nature is nice, hearing the birds chirp is nice too.
> So they won't ask nicely if your 10 million requests per hour to a single machine are really legitimate, they'll just shut down your account to protect their network.

as someone who has had accounts locked down due to perfectly acceptable behavior and had to plead my case with various cloud providers : I concur, they act first and ask questions later.
It's not backwards, but nothing is black and white.

An example of where looking at the cost per use makes sense is a gym membership. --If I consider the gym is worth, say, $5/visit and it costs $50/month, then I know I have to go at least 10 times a month to feel like I'm getting what I'm paying for.

On the other hand, yeah, my phone is not something that I'm going to try and figure out a cost per use, not the least because each use has a different intrinsic value to me (contacting someone is more valuable than checking the news, at least for me).
I barely even knew Medium was a platform that had its own post feed.

I only knew it from clicking link submissions here that looked like they were from a corporate blog, but then turned out to be Medium with a custom domain, mainly as I would see a header saying 'by using Medium you agree to the privacy policy', which is a statement that is vague in a few ways:

1. Am I 'using Medium' if I'm reading a blog post on blog.somecorp.io that only says it's 'Medium' in the privacy policy header?

2. Have I been 'using Medium' by simply opening an article on it? Why have I not been given any time to not agree?

3. If I want to read the privacy policy, it seems to be hosted in a Medium article itself, with the same self-referential banner 'by using Medium, you agree to [the privacy policy]' which is a link to the same page.

4. If 2) applies, by reading the privacy policy I agree to the privacy policy. The escape in 1) doesn't apply either as the privacy policy is (or was?) hosted on a subdomain of medium.com. By trying to read the privacy policy (or interacting with the link that leads to the privacy policy?), I therefore have implicitly agreed to it.

This not only seems illegal in various jurisdictions, it's also very immoral.
The comparison of buying $1 million house or $1 million of Microsoft stock is a bit complicated - because in nearly all of the transactions you don't formally really buy the Microsoft stock. Here is Matt Levine quote:

"""
Nobody owns stock. What you own is an entitlement to stock held for you by your broker. But your broker doesn't own the stock either. What your broker owns is an entitlement to stock held for it by Cede & Co., which is a nominee of the Depository Trust Company, which is a company that is in the business of owning everyone's stock for them.
"""

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-14/banks-...

Also: https://bitsonblocks.net/2019/02/07/who-legally-owns-all-the... compiles similar information on Singapore and Hongkong (googled - not verified).
As a mathematician it is just a lot of fuzzy rambling, until they have the actual definition. I really don’t know what an average person is supposed to take away, you can end up in some feedback loop, lol okay. Communicating maths to a wider audience you can still be correct but there is zero reason to make it fuzzy. It’s okay to use an analogy if there is something people can latch onto, carry it with them mentally, and then you slowly deform it into the correct statement, but you have to be careful to not be fuzzy.

If you are writing something just minimise the number of non informative sentences. They probably could have explained poles, planes, etc all in the same space instead of rambling. Cutting to the examples and then giving the definition would have been better.
That's what stuff like Netlify does. You just set up a git hook to build the site when you push, and it all happens automatically.
What you can do with Element is:

* Have signal-style end-to-end encryption by default, if you care about keeping your data secure on the server.

* Pick from a huge range of alternative clients, including hooking up custom ones thanks to Element being built on the open Matrix standard. For instance, if you wanted to plonk an Intercom-style chat box on your website which funnelled into your support chatrooms, there are a a bunch of different matrix-as-chatbox clients you could use

* Bridge to other platforms as if you were using them natively (as per the sibling comment) - e.g. if you already have other chat systems flying around the place, you can easily unify them in Matrix

* Talk to people outside your company. If you care about collaborating with external people (other developers; customers; partners; suppliers; sibling companies etc) then Matrix's intrinsic decentralisation means you can just talk to them via the public Matrix network. For instance, I spend my life collaborating with folks on the mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Ansible etc Matrix servers without having to think (let alone manage a million different tabs and identities and crappy clients for their various communities).

So, that's the pitch.
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Yes. b.) is to a.) what a wank is to a relationship. That's why I think we'll see the end of performative activism when people stop pleasuring themselves.
I don’t think the hosting is even that hard of a problem.

It’s the network and discovery effects of platforms that are hard to duplicate.
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Swiss is actually deeply split: German-speaking think they are the best, they have to rule, their Calvinist vision is the best etc, French-speaking populations they are the best, their social and democratic model is far superior to the raw and sore German-speaking Calvinist one, Italian-speaking populations think they are the best, a bridge between French and German groups, French-speaking ones are just hippie with too much power and richness, German-speaking are unable to enjoy life etc, Ladin/Romance populations think they are the sole real Swiss and the others oppress them just because they are numerically superior etc

BUT they know being unite is needed and they choose carefully to distribute power around groups to make hard one being able to rule others or some unite against others and they choose a language no-one use (Latin) as a good symbol of "we are unite, but we are all different and together"...

IMVHO this model is not accepted by most countries is because anyone like or dream power and in this model there is no absolute power by anyone so any decision need to be discussed and lobby can't do that much. Oh, it's not perfect, we see recent schizophrenic referendums rows, sure Swiss is not poor anymore, the poorest mercenaries of big European powers of the past, so they can count on being a safe harbor for anyone else etc. BUT try to compare Swiss to Lebanon (the ex-Middle-est Swiss almost anybody forgot)...
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IANAL, but it’s not this simple.

Everywhere in the US, the law around Terry stops[1] applies. In fact every time the police “pull you over” on the road is a Terry stop.

In such a stop, mere “reasonable suspicion” is required for police to require you to identify yourself. You’re not required to present ID but you must tell them your name (you could lie, but that’s another crime). You can be arrested for refusing to identify yourself.

In order to determine if your are experiencing a Terry stop, ask the officer “Am I free to go?”, if the answer is no, ask “Why am I being detained?” and the officer should state his cause. If it’s not valid you won’t be able to fight it until after the encounter, possibly after you’ve already been arrested.

Egregious example: The infamous NYC “stop and frisk” policy[2] was essentially a massive Terry-stop program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
An early facetious definition of "hacker" is "one who carves furniture with an axe". Loyd Blankenship, author of the Hacker Manifesto, had an e-commerce site in the late 90s/early 2000s through which he sold furniture he made.

There seems to be some connection here. I think it's just that hackers love making stuff, and woodworking is one of the most ancient and fundamental ways of making stuff. Materials and equipment are plentiful and easily obtained. A basic wood shop can be put together in a garage without special facilities. No special qualifications are needed, outside of time and practice. Almost anyone can get started, but the skill ceiling is high.
When I talk too much, or out of context, it's a sign of my nervousness.

Sometimes because of the situation. Other times just too much coffee or sugar in my system that has hurried my breathing.