skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USA TODAY removed 23 stories from website, other platforms following audit
Searched for it before posting, but did't find it.
Next time, will search with an external search engine.

Edit: yesterday's OP used a highly modified title
There isn't a single functioning agency of the federal government. The entire thing has been turned against the American people in order to serve these large corporations.
I don't know... the capitalist model works well to a certain extent. I would agree with the grand parent idea if (and only if) it included extremely heavy taxation law. It's OK for corporations to compete on extracting the most efficient labor, but only if we can "socialize" the gains through taxation.

The problem in the current capitalist system is that private companies have managed to corrupt that other size of the system (taxation) through bribes to the government.
I eventually settled on CursorSense to fix this because nothing else I tried actually fixed it. Sucks to have to pay $10 to fix something that is a basic OS setting on literally every other modern desktop OS.
Are you saying that waves don't exist around offshore wind farms?
> gender pay gap was supposed to be about "when M and F take on the same job titles, on average M gets paid $X more than F"... was it not?

It was not.

The “gender pay gap” is comparing the average female pay to the average male pay, not comparing like for like.

One of the main contributors to the purported pay gap is career choice — which is also captured in the BLS statistic that men are 92% of workplace deaths. Talking about a “pay gap” without discussing the “death gap” has always been dishonest.
Apparently (based on the article) these time crystals were thought up in 2012. I'm sure you could find the phrase "time crystal" in sci-fi previously. In fact I bet the person who thought the idea up was extremely pleased that they could get such a cool sci-fi sounding name for their thought experiment.

On the other hand, crystal oscillators (riffing off your "using crystals [...] for time purposes") go way back, and pre-date Star Trek style technobabble I guess.

But the idea of "magical crystals" goes back even further, and the thing that makes them interestingly shiny is tied to their structure. So I guess we knew there was something kind of funky going on there but didn't have the science to describe it really well.

And what's sci-fi anyway? If someone in like 1800 wrote a story about teaching rocks to think, we'd probably call it fantasy. It just so happens that we managed to pull that idea from magic to reality.

(reference to):

https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/841802094361235456

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think your "or" should just be treated as an inclusive or, and answered with "yes."
And the better watches had them for more centuries.
Bored Ape Yacht Club Owners Are Down Nearly 80% in Less Than 6 Weeks
> If people had to expend even a little bit of effort to access social media I think they would treat it very differently. And I don't think you have to raise that bar by much at all.

I think you're underestimating the effort people can put into voicing their opinions, specially if they're controversial, or they built their personality around them.
What? You don't want to watch the full box set of Star Trek TNG between when you push a button and the animation ends? That ruins my plans of designing a scrollbar that plays 45 random tracks from you music library between lines scrolled.

OTOH, it IS very satisfying to realize you don't really need to do whatever requires those interactions in the first place.
Can somebody explain me "free speech"? What does it even mean? Does it mean that you are "free" to speak out whatever you want, but after you have done that, we can decide to punish you? Or does it mean, you can speak out freely without the fear of punishment(consequences)? If I know I will be fired for speaking out, is it still free speech?
1930s consertatives in many places in the world were literally the original fascists. The ones in the US might not have been, but they were probably too busy forming the second Ku Klux Klan and trying to whitewash the Confederacy.
Su Zhu’s cryptic statement as rumors swirl of 3AC liquidations and insolvency
Frankly, I'm more concerned about never-happy SJW mob infiltration into long term space missions. Like, Twitter employees are not the ones who I would like to share risks with.
How do we stop it?
> Assange is not is being extradited for treason.

Sure. I might misremember the exact law, although I believe the Espionage act falls under the category of treason.

> If you think all these things, then Assange being extradited is a non-issue, since the slippery slope you think Assange starts would happen with or without him. Which is it?

See my previous messages. He is a heinous enough that people won't jump that eagerly to his defense. That makes him a perfect scapegoat. From that you expand until you end up in authoritarian state. Remember that saying:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I rembember chatting on HN few years ago, when peple were certain he would be extradited to Sweden for rape charges, and that US charges were just a side accusation. Now that all fell into pieces as US makes an example of him.

But hey time may prove me wrong. I hope so, but I don't expect it. I think he will rot in prison as an example to future whistleblowers, while US slides further into authoritarianism.
Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
> “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”

"whartonite seeks space monkey"
The economy is all linked together in positive feedback loops.
Well, that's the research question! So far signs are promising, IMO. I think this is at least the best chance formal methods have ever had at being relatively easy to integrate into larger codebases--Rust's type system is strong enough to support nontrivial verification conditions, and effectively encapsulate them, without needing to directly deal with "exotic" logic, heavyweight encodings, pointer obligations that need to be manually discharged, or linking to code generated by some external language (a feature it shares with functional programming languages, as well as
"hybrid" linear/dependently typed lanugages, like Dafny or ATS). Unlike functional or dependently typed programming languages, however, Rust has a lot of adoption independently of its suitability for formal methods, meaning that ease of integration has a good chance of benefiting projects that don't have correctness as a principle requirement. For example, assuming that a useful crate can be extracted from this project, it would be quite easy to integrate into a video game like Veloren (e.g. to help improve some of its AI heuristics), which is about as far from traditional high-assurance software as you can get!

If we can make using high-assurance software as easy (or almost as easy) as non-high-assurance software, without sacrificing huge amounts of performance to do so, it will be a major step in making software more reliable for everyday programmers, rather than restricting these kinds of techniques to critical libraries like cryptographic primitives where correctness and performance justify pretty much any number of proof engineering hours. This doesn't mean everything would be verified, but with more and more verified "building blocks," less and less engineering time would be spent debugging third party code (which at least IME, is usually much more painful than verifying code at the top level). We have a long way to go to get there, but projects like this are an excellent start.
Le Monde Diplomatique is in my opinion the best for in-depth quality journalism.
the united states, in its 246 year history, has never operated without slavery. as other posters correctly note, we just move the goalposts and add a potemkin wage in what can only be described as a bad comedy, a facimile of a real market that barely withstands a long gaze. prisoners are openly discriminated against in labor and housing, meaning your jail term is a meaningless wager by the prison system. they know there is a more than 2:1 chance you'll come right back, and for nothing more than trying to earn a living in a society thats shunned you.

it is also worth noting the downfall of many governments and civilizations has in part or in whole been fueled by mass oppression, incarceration, and slavery. 246 years has been a pretty good run, but its time to reform the 13th amendment to the fullest.
Because he has done some genuinely cool and important technical things.

He's also a raging asshole, and I want to stop hearing about him. But I cannot deny that his companies do genuinely valuable things that seemed impossible when he started.
Very few US prisons are private, only 8% of prisoners in the US are in those facilities. Some states have recently ended the practice, so I would expect to see that number trend down in the future.
The only thing that worked for me was to spend less effort at the job. Most of us are not superhumans, working full-time in a mentally demanding job and wanting to do more mentally demanding work after hours is just more than typical human can handle.
Having Visual Basic as the first language I ever wrote, this is awesome to see the pitch!
The skills tech workers contribute are undervalued; I'd make the case that we tech workers are underpaid given the contributions we make to the tech companies we work at.

Do you feel like you already make a lot of money, and you don't need more? If so, there are two actions you could take. You tell me which results in greater good in the world:

1. Don't push or struggle for better pay. Be happy with what you have, and let upper management and stockholder dividends soak up the extra. I'm sure they'll spend it making the world a better place.

2. Organize, push, and struggle to improve your pay. Since you're already happy with the pay level you get, donate all surplus to the charity of your choice. Put your niece through college. Save some of it, then retire earlier and spend more time with your family.
Firearm Violence and Suicide Explained Clearly [video]
imo the most bizarre thing about the Aztecs was the sheer magnitude of human sacrifice. In order for human sacrifice to be such a big tradition during times of peace implies a completely different sense of self and life as a whole. When the missionaries came and tried to put a stop to the sacrifices, the victims actually fought to be sacrificed. It's just bizarre (and unsettling) how culture can push people to do things to their own detriment

Source (alternative frontend w/ no ads):
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=or6W4sXpl3c
As this article very aptly points out, "centralization" and it's counterpart, "decentralization" have very little to do with how, "free" a system is. Consider that when Standard Oil was broken up it became more powerful and as many small companies than one large megalith. I'm no fan of Google, Facebook, the like (..._) but it wasn't these institutions that failed us necessarily-- it was an uneducated and tasteless public which had demand for, "dopamine-rich" social experiences and a lack of insight into what the real causes of innovation have historically been that created the many-headed tech Hydra of the day. The present crisis is an educational and cultural crisis. The structural characteristics of institutions isn't the only determining factor in terms of how the public comes to participate in technology. It's actual marginal in the grand-scheme.

tl;dr-- Freedom of Speech is stifled in the United States not because of tech companies but because of its toxic, unrectified post-Civil War culture where-in huge swaths (100 millions) of people are systemically kept in cycles of social stagnancy as a result of the real realities of human life in post-industrial societies. We've chosen the Machine for ourselves and the desperation of Americans (you see it in the Trump people) is the manifest spirit of people caught in the teeth of the gears of history. What makes this so appalling to us is the almost religious belief that this is period of great historical exceptionality-- consider though that Caesar, Alexander, Hegel, and Napoleon also considered their time, "exceptional." Consider the October Revolution and Marx' historicism.

Life is better than it's ever been. We're upset because out expectations are made artificially high by our own lack of historical prudence and a strange overabundance of imagination. The post-war culture lied to us and told us anything was possible. We're constantly traumatized by the fact that we're not living in a perfect world. Bless our little hearts.

People like Ajit Pai are flies in the ointment. When the priests see what's happened they'll throw the whole jar away and I'm quite sure all the little flies will have learned their lesson; that is of course until they have the cunning to become wasps or dragonflies.
According to the first Google hit on the issue¹, the US prison system cost $88.5B in 2016.

So these $11B do not come close to making it profitable to lock more people up.

¹ https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-economic-co...
I think you’re missing all the stuff that works, and thus isn’t written about.
> But then you just proved Lindy effect is at best probabilistic

Obviously? Look at the statement of the Lindy effect:

> The Lindy effect proposes, simplified, that the longer something has been around, the longer it will probably stay around still.

What do you think the word "probably" means?
Firewall fives, I forgot about that, or maybe blocked it from my memory. It’s the same for enlisted.
Technology is an alien intelligence communicating through the creative consciousness and evolving itself into our earthly dimension. Jungian archetypes forming in the minds of impressive individuals doing the earthly bidding of inter dimensional ideas!
I think you don’t understand the distinction between imprisoning someone who has broken a law and kidnapping a person.
I cook eggs in my cast iron and it doesn't stick even a little. There is not one molecule of egg left on the pan when I scoop it out.
From a cynical economic perspective, there’s a financial benefit from dividing labour into “expensive engine tech” and “less expensive game designer”.
How is this different from any other scheme?
> I would read up on the topic if I were you. Statistics can be unintuitive sometimes, and basing your argument on supposition can be unreliable. I'm not sure about the correct answer here, but most folks get e.g. the Monty Hall problem incorrect if they rely on their intuition.

But this is a stupid-obvious problem. The Lindy effect is easy to write out in formalisms:

age(x) > age(y) ⟶ life_expectancy(x) > life_expectancy(y)

Here's the claim that Etheryte says is the opposite of that:

age(x) < age(y) ⟶ life_expectancy(x) < life_expectancy(y)

It is hopefully obvious that these two claims are identical, not opposites. But if it isn't, consider that we can rewrite the first one like so:

age(y) < age(x) ⟶ life_expectancy(y) < life_expectancy(x)

Statistics aren't relevant to the question in any way; it doesn't matter whether they can be unintuitive sometimes.
that's kind of why I put it there : )
Because those ecosystems have existed with those predators for thousands/millions of years and have balanced themselves.
Not really surprising given the state of crypto in general.
So you choose one prisoner for 168 hours a week instead of 10 children for 35 hours?

Homicide is not insignificant for state prisons (around 15%). Violent crime is over 50%. And mental illness is a huge problem in prisons. Would you care to take the chance of who you get in this?

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/56686e0e160000290094c0d...
Communism’s body count (so far):

55 million - China
20 million - USSR
2 million - Cambodia
2 million - North Korea
1 million - Vietnam
100k - Latin America

There have been few ideas tested at such massive scale as extensively as this and delivered such horrible outcomes.

Yet when brought up to its adherents you’ll often hear “that wasn’t real communism” or “ideology doesn’t kill people” or “because capitalist nations intervened” or something else off a laundry list of excuses.

I’m a huge fan of Lex but I’ll pass on this religion and I’m not interested in over-analyzing it.
AVX-512 Mask Registers, Again (2020)
North of 40PB nowadays. You can find these stats buried in their public links. They do not hold up well to traffic so I will not link them.
Fascinating anecdote. Where can I read more about this?
Nobody is going to run core internet infrastructure for free. The government can’t even handle our current infrastructure of roads, bridges, electrical grids, and utilities. How on earth is the government supposed to operate as an ISP? We need better regulation, not public ownership.

Or I guess we’ll just tack on another Trillion dollars to our annual deficit…infinite government expansion/spending can solve every problem right?! /s
How Big Tobacco used George Floyd to create fear among Black smokers
Laddering a Chimney (1978) [video]
It seems like it's halfway between those things and Logo.

So, simpler but with some modern paradigms thrown in to make it more 'respectable'...
I’ll try explaining this again, as someone who used to moderate content professionally.

There are certain groups of users that you generally _HAVE_ to ban for a functioning community. Spammers, scammers, criminals, nazis and… so as to not offend you, “people that apparently lack fundamental understanding of, well, anything”

This last group is often the worst group to deal with because while they’re not directly harming the community they are sucking up your time that could be spent banning pedophiles or identity thieves or drug dealers. They often suck up an immense amount of time by filling up your reports queue and are sure that their issue deserves your immediate attention, and if you don’t drop what you’re doing and address their issues instantly, they complain. This means you have to take more time away from moderating to field emails in addition to de-cluttering your queue.

It is absolutely crucial to ban these types of spammers, otherwise you can’t do anything productive. Generally this type of ban is temporary unless the self-appointed mod is particularly egregious.

And then there is a subset of these people: let’s call them “crusaders.” This group will make as much noise as possible offsite in order to Own The Mods. They might even invent a conspiracy theory about a shadowy underground group that has it out for them.

OP could have reported one account and included a note saying “this phenomenon is happening when you search this keyword.” They did not do that. They decided to tackle the issue themselves. When their mod queue spam got them banned, they whined as publicly as possible, which takes up even more time that could’ve been spent actually removing drug dealers.

The inclusion of “illegal imagery” in the complaint was factually wrong, and since moderators have to deal with a LOT of reports, it absolutely makes sense why this was ignored. When you say “illegal imagery”, in some cases that means child pornography or state secrets or any number of things that are meaningful to somebody whose job it is to moderate content.

So to summarize: I am certainly not the only person to consider this person a “fucking idiot”, I’m just the only one that said that on here.
The population is 27 bears on an island 2.1 million square kilometers large.
what happened to the idea?
The Return of Industrial Warfare
The importance of logistics to modern warfare.
Came across this at random, and finds it a fascinating contrast to my (and probably lots of others on HN) daily job.
there is a middle ground in between asking that the government run the internet, and allowing telecom behemoths to merge as they please and reduce consumer competition.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=largest+t...

You can run a totally fine regional last mile ISP with 10, 15, or 50 FTE staff positions. Depending on your geographical scale. Or 500.

You don't need to be a Comcast, Centurylink or Verizon sized monster.

In fact some of the absolute best consumer-service quality 1GbE and 10GbE symmetric FTTH ISPs that I'm aware of are run by teams of less than 25 people in total. On a county sized scale.
The company doesn't owe Musk a job either.
That sounds low to me
This 1000x. Apparently it's called being "opinionated" nowadays.
> Because the left of today is against all those things, and they themselves have made that very explicit.

Actually it's the rightists that are against those things. And this is also not a partisan comment, it's just an objective viewpoint.
So, what is progress?

I like to think that progress is about maximizing global satisfaction. But then really hard questions follow

- Who are included in "global"?, every human being?, every conscious mammal?. Do we all get the same weight?

- (Assuming last answer is all human beings) How should we come to a consensus?. How do we coordinate to achieve our agreed goals?

If you think this is all too subjective, should we stop pouring resources into philosophy and arts?

I think this questions deserve at least some studying
It's Türkiye by the way :rolleyes:
You're comparing obsolete small jets to a much newer fleet of commercial passenger aircraft. While business jets do tend to be older, your choice is rather extreme, and introduces a huge bias. This website has some interesting examples of more modern aircraft in a few categories: https://www.flyingmag.com/the-most-fuel-efficient-aircraft-i...
This is massive honestly. They were likely $18B. And by most accounts, they were almost entirely trading their own capital.

They were well liked and respected in the industry, having built up their fortunes trading over the years.

A little like Ray Dalio being on the run.
How much are they making for Amazon, though?
Passkeys make PW managers obsolete? Only if the Platforms lock down their syncing. I‘d love to sync my Passkeys to BitWarden and share them through their Vaults with family, etc. The sync part is already there, on iOS you will be able to sync it through iCloud keychain and share it with AirDrop, there is no reason why this can‘t be opened up.
Except that only depends on where your point of view lies. If you were a Nazi you would think it okay to beat up the pink triangle people.

It's also a diversion from the actual argument about inciting violence against _anyone_ being both wrong AND illegal.