skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if you require that every option must be assessed.

The point is putting a given option into the public eye results in the assessment process being activated.

...but at any time you can ignore additional solutions and treat them as if they don't exist

Scientists in the lab can do this, should do this and not publish half-baked solutions. Randos reading these ideas can't do this given they don't have technical knowledge to sort them.

The whole idea of there being too many solutions only makes sense when you you apply it towards the general public and people whose job isn't to make such a decision or be domain experts.

We live in a democratic society. If you can bs to some number of average people, they may elect people who go with the bs and force bs decisions. Especially when doing nothing, despite disastrous consequences, serves the interests of powerful. This is happening, this is the mess we're in. It's frustrating people putting forward a delusional idea of the decision process around these event. That also doesn't help. IE, no, the decisions haven't been and won't be made by unbiased, non-partisan actors but rather they have been made by political forces in a highly partisan and self-interested fashion. That's why we're facing catastrophe (that there's a large fire burning a bit North West of me doesn't help my mood here).
> But if I were going to tell everyone just one more thing, it would be:

> It is very hard to permanently lose work.

Unfortunately, this is not quite true. Git checkout will silently and irretrievably clobber all the changes in your working tree [UPDATE: if you do 'git checkout [path]', but that is not an uncommon thing to do.]

It is true that it is very hard to lose work that you have committed. But even this is not necessarily a good thing if, for example, you accidentally committed something that contains sensitive information that you want to delete. (And God help you if you have pushed such a change upstream.)

The sad fact of the matter is that while the underlying data structures are beautiful and tremendously useful, the UI/UX is a dumpster fire.

It's actually not that hard to put a different UI/UX on top of the core. I'm kind of surprised no one has done this.
Phone makers spend a lot of time worrying about power. But because your screen and cell radio take up a minimum amount of power there's a level of diminishing returns in optimizing the application cores beyond a certain point.
Yes I love this era of technology. Just look at the photo of the control room. It feels like it's really scaled to be usable by humans. The large dials, levers and switches, all styled artistically as well as functionally. The natural light, marble walls, all the detail in the ceiling, floor, and woodwork. It looks like a very comfortable room to be in.

Compare to the more modern sterile industrial control rooms, windowless, cold, everything run on screens and keyboards, no sense of a connection with the massive machinery being operated.
I've seen similar things. Besides many experiments not being remotely worth the harm they cause (poor design, niche topics without applications, dead end checking-all-the-boxes, etc.), they leave a mark on the people who conduct them. Some leave that sort of research out of distaste or disgust, and some become callous. It struck me that it inculcates an inhumane indifference to suffering. And numb scientists. It ultimately damages both the people and the science. Yet incentives (monetary, career progression) can push people past boundaries, and with time, erase them.
> But if you try to understand the commands without the model, you will suffer, because the commands do not make sense.

I've read this about git several times and certainly felt it. My question is why hasn't anyone come along and fixed it? Git has the plumbing vs. porcelain separation. Why hasn't someone written new porcelain that makes git as intuitive as mercurial, subversion, etc? This seems like a similar situation as dpkg/apt. The underlying design has been settled but we desperately need a better interface.

> Git has an elegant and powerful underlying model based on a few simple concepts

My second question is, if the underlying model is so f*cking elegant, how did it lead to such a confusing interface? This isn't so much me griping about git (although I am) but more a curious case for design theory. Would love to read serious analysis. I can't offhand think of another piece of software where "the model is elegant but the interface is confusing" is such a common critique.
Mimosa Pudica
> At the highest conceptual level, the "secret method" of most sleight of hand can be boiled down to "You hid something in your hand."

I'm not sure if I agree with that. There are certainly some clever and skillful methods for how an item is literally stored and retrieved, but what's more interesting and impressive to me is the overall choreography. The way all the moves are sequenced and how one move provides misdirection for another move is where the magic happens.
> This makes much more sense in the context of physical goods and materials and international trade. It makes much less sense (I argue near-zero sense) in the context of some random non-lawbreaking, legitimate application or website.

I'm sorry, I'm not seeing the difference. Even if the context was only business/trade (which it isn't), the American company is not able to operate in or make money from the Chinese market, while the Chinese company is currently has free reign to make money in the American one. The obvious thing to do is to reciprocally restrict the Chinese company to incentivize the removal of restrictions from the American company.
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Hey there! I'm one of the people behind this project.

Totally agree with the issue you've laid out. We don't want this to become a pure popularity contest.

When we choose the winners, we'll consider vote totals but also several other signals.
A magician I know talks about the three kinds of magic: sleight of hand, mechanical, and mathematical. The first requires a lot of skill and practice (e.g., palming coins, manipulating cards). The second requires a lot of preparation and engineering (e.g., sawing a person in half, floating person illusions). The third relies on the nature of reality (e.g., dividing sets of cards in a known pattern that forces a result, or manipulating numbers that force an unexpected result).

So this is a cool example of the second type. All three types require some showmanship, and good patter. Some of the best tricks combine the types.
There are still many independent forums. I think the issue is that search engines stopped indexing or preferring them in favor of the bigger centralized sites. My own theory of which I have absolutely zero data to back it up is that the bigger platforms are safer for search engines to link to as they likely agree to the same censorship as the search engines participate in. It's just a theory. It could be something as simple as the bigger platforms are more popular so they are preferred.
And, "Black Hearts at Battersea".
The space is already filled with ideas and zero action. It's annoying that people affiliated with the university are using it's name to capture journalists and simply put yet another incomplete idea out there.

If this is truly a "life and death" situation as some people cast it, then this is less than useless behavior and is probably an actively malicious plan to just make money off the whole morass.
How would you enforce it though? It's like in the 90s when PGP was export controlled. It was a total unenforceable joke.
> if you really need to customize your local image

I need to change config for prod pgsql instance, because default config performance wise is not necessary suitable for serious prod machines.

> If you need all this customization then did SQLite really fit the bill in the first place?

I am not familiar with SQLite, but somehow familiar with Java H2 DB, which has similar idea. You can embed it and all configs into self contained java jar file together with your app and no moves in host OS is needed.
OK, OK. I am a supporter of of UBI, but let's not make it sound like ICs are the victims that are tolerating the abuse, working for peanuts, or otherwise they will starve.

Lots of ICs are also self-serving morons. It's not like the managers designed crap solutions, wrote the crap code, and are the cause of barely anything working, at least not directly.

My point was mostly that the whole point of hiring managers (and often paying them more than ICs) was to get some people work on optimizing the productivity, making sure best ICs stay and can be effective, and help in various ways ones that are not as solid (possibly yet). By reliably failing to do so, what's the point of having them in the first place, and even more so - holding them in such a high esteem, paying them more, and having so many of them around.
"Edit: this comment seems quite controversial. ..."

You're not alone, I watched votes on my various comments on this matter oscillate in both directions then settle near one or zero. I thought my comments rather mild and I wasn't deliberately trying to stir up controversy.

A while back I also encountered this sensitivity and tetchiness when discussing veganism. Seems some people consider such subjects verboten and should not be discussed on the internet.
Which licenses do you use and where in the licenses does it state it couldn't be used as training data?
This is just me, don't interpret what i'm saying as being some kind of community consensus. Many probably disagree with me.

I think nearly anything digital can be turned into a crypto business that can operate more effeciently than a corporation. Anything that touches the real world however will require a corporation with people. The solutions I've seen for interfacing with the real world just suck, and I suspect that is a fundumental problem. So in my opinion, the strength is digital. Fortunately for crypto, most things real world have the ability to be turned digital (think CAD -> 3D printer).

Why would a crypto business out compete a corporation? To me the answer comes down to how your business is structured. Corporations are structured around managing people. Crypto businesses (I think when some workflow pieces are added) can be structured around interfacing with AI. An entire world of AI can freely contribute value to a crypto business where as a corporation will have to prioritize, plan, and execute. We can kind of see that today, the biggest whales in crypto have bots doing the heavy lifting. People struggle to interface with crypto, but bots interface natively. This probably sounds hand wavy. At some point when I find time I'll try to write into more detail on how I personally believe this can work.

I'm certain Crypto + AI = an accerlerated future. I'm motivated to work in this space, because if done wrong, this is a disaster for society. If done fairly, we can build something amazing.
MFA is close - aiming for our next Launch Week in August
You can always fork bitcoin and throw whatever hashing power you want at it. PoW gives you that.
"How did you give up fossil fuels?"

"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
That seems on par with claiming global warming is no big deal because the earth has been warmer or cooler at some point in the past. Those billions of years are irrelevant.
In PoW miners buy physical capital and electricity, in PoS miners buy digital tokens. It's exactly the same, except PoS is less detrimental to the environment.
As apposed to all the other illegal things people do right out on the open?
Anyone else thinking of Mr. Burns’ sun blocker?
When I was writing full-time, we had strict word limits. It meant we spent a lot of time removing unnecessary words. My writing skill improved immensely because of this "training". Writing is a skill like any other. It can be trained. The problem most people have is that they don't know how to train it.

I think this tool is an excellent start. As you point out there are other skills in writing, but maybe this tool is just the start of a suite (or gym) of tools to help people become better writers. I applaud the creator's efforts to help people.

As I recall, most of the texts in reading comprehension tests are so badly written that it's amazing anyone can understand even 70% of them. Are you saying that because people can't understand difficult texts, people shouldn't bother trying to write clearly and concisely?
That's why I used (and qualified!) the term 'egalitarian', which has a precise meaning that encompasses that point. I should also point out that high schools are a bit different since they do have some incredibly rigid formal hierarchies and they exist within an incredibly hierarchical society, so the students reproduce much of what they've learned from outside. If you want a good summary of academic thought on how egalitarian societies worked, Ken Ames' chapter The Archaeology of Rank has a decent lit review.
"Ninety percent of everything is crap"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
That doesn't sound right based on my reading of this document. If I'm wrong please do correct me, I don't know a ton about the internals here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Aa7OKFRdtmn4IFzgHYfqeqk5...
"One of the reasons Christianity is considered a reason for why the Empire fell is absolutely the culture of war and nationalism that pagan Rome had though."

Really? The Eastern empire (Byzantium) was Christian through and through, and yet rather warlike and survived for 1000 more years.

Even in the declining Western empire of the fifth century, there was quite a lot of fight left, with important military leaders such as Stilicho and Majorian. The problem was often the barely checked aggression within the Christian elites themselves. Both Stilicho and Majorian were killed by their internal Roman adversaries, not by an external enemy.
> Consider that surviving severe overpopulation is trauma

Recently there was an article posted on HN about how trauma experienced by parents are passed down to children through (a term that means it's related to activation of genes, I believe, but not DNA itself... I thought it was metagenomics but upon looking at the definition I don't think that's it). Perhaps the trauma of overpopulation activated or deactivated some genes which in turn reduced reproduction rate in offspring.
Often... people also have personal and professional interests.

They do not provide uni-dimensional entertainment for ages.
It's not actually a "lot" of power - it's just enough. If there is evidence that an actor is doing something bad, we shouldn't have months in court to stop it. It should be immediate. It's better to have it stopped and then spend months in court trying to get it back.
I don’t think people that want UBI are bad-faith, they are more likely naive. Asking for life to be cheap and efficient so people can live with little work if they want is spreading propaganda, while asking for the biggest monopoly that had killed people for war experiments, to get a lot more power is somehow being good-faith and responsible person? I’ll let others decide this one.
I almost said something similar, the old Nietzsche quote about how if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back. I didn't want to be even more dramatic, but I think you are exactly right. There's a cost to such things, and the externalities run deep and wide. All you can do is be very deliberate that the trade is worthwhile.
If you're going to move files around, it's worth experimenting with one file first without doing any change in order to make sure you do it in a way that preserve history.

There is 'git mv' for that. I have found the best way is to create new directories then use 'git mv' on the files.
Choreographic Programming: declarative descriptions of distributed systems [pdf]
I have not denigrated anything except power lifting, which is what many equate with ”going to the gym” in my peer circles. That is certainly a source of confusion here.

It is a fact that power lifting can be addictive, for the very reasons I’ve mentioned. It is not for all people. Those with genetic and psychiatric predispositions (work stress included) are much more at risk.

The risk, however, is very real, and some don’t realize it before they have made permanent damage to their musculoskeletal system and are forced to deal with serious pain issues—and some turn to opioids. THAT is the real apogee of why ”exercise can be a dangerous drug (for some people)”.
Web3 is 10x better, 10x worse
Look, everyone who loans money must be aware that the loan recipient can declare bankruptcy, and plan accordingly - typically by raising the interest rate slightly.

Without bankruptcy laws we end up with debt bondage and peonage.

You know that companies can also have government loans, right? Because of limited liability, the owners can declare bankruptcy and dissolve the company without being personally liable.

Which sounds like you want capitalists to have more freedom in what they do with government money than those who accept personal debt. The rich get richer and the poor become peons.
Sounds like America. Didn’t we just ban Juuls while countless other electronic fruity vapes are on the market?
Video interview: Olivier Blanchard on inflation
That's exactly why markets aren't defined in that way. See judge's notes from Epic v Apple trial.
> What data is tiktok collecting that google isnt? Is there a fairly applied rule here, or is sinophobia driving this?

While I agree that sinophobia plays into discourse around TikTok, TikTok has an established pattern of collecting data against the user's wishes (even bypassing system permissions), and of collecting and storing data about minors in direct violation of the law[0].

They are not an unknown entity; they are an established bad actor when it comes to Dara collection and storage.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56815480
Just start making all single-use plastics white and you've got your ocean raft!
I am a systems engineer. I read the article title, then started reading the article, and realized it was a bait and switch. It is not about "network" vs "cache" in computer systems terms, which is what you might expect. It is about "network" vs "the (usually antiquated) file-backed database your browser calls a cache." The former would have been a compelling article. The latter is kind of self-evident: the browser cache is there to save bandwidth, not to be faster.
This is a solution for climate change that's been tossed around for a while in various forms.

I think it may just be one of the most viable thanks to SpaceX bringing down the cost of space launch. With starship this might just be one of the cheapest solutions. Certainty cheaper than building seawalls around all our coastal cities - something that no reduction in emissions will save us from now.

To be clear, we have to reduce emissions, but it's obvious now to me that it will be too little, too late. We'll need something more radical as well. Currently emissions are still increasing and the rate of emissions is even accelerating still. We're pretty fucked overa long time span.
The only true answer to 'tabs vs. spaces'
A New Unit of Measure for Civil Unrest
Yes: creating shade instead of removing carbon means the ocean ecosystem collapses, and access to protein for a billion+ people vanishes. Among other things.

We cannot "do both" because money is fungible. Spending on a space boondoggle means not spending those dollars on PV and wind generating capacity that displaces fossil combustion.
https://archive.ph/sBB1X
Well that is sort of the point of such groups ;)
> He's saying a Chinese company shouldn't be playing the same game that American companies do.

In America, yes (just like Facebook is banned in China). Will you next complain that Carr is okay with American troops marching in Washington, but doesn't like it if Chinese troops do the same?

While Facebook and surveillance in general are anything but a boon for common Americans, it's understandable that those pulling the strings would get worried when a foreign country moves in on their turf.
If we're deciding the government has the ability to shut down social media apps for "national security", I want some seriously beefy protections in there to prevent abuse. That slope is genuinely for-real dangerously slippery, and scares me 100x more than the scary stuff TikTok is doing now.

The ban was right to be challenged--if Trump could legally justify it, let him do that in court. And if he couldn't, there's probably a damned good reason for that.
The Circulation of the Elites
I wouldn’t want all voter access funds channeled by the Koch brothers, but if they decide to fund non-partisan GOTV efforts, I would applaud it.

Even if they ended up donating more to areas likely to vote their way. More voting is good period. If GOTV funding is spread unevenly then more GOTV funding to neglected areas is the solution.
Actually decisions are not consensus driven. There is a precise set of guidelines which describe how they are made, and in the end it is up to the domain experts to choose (bearing in mind the views of the group). There are other principles like ' good enough for now' which are also used to avoid stalemate etc. I suggest reading Many Voices, One Song for a more expert and detailed explanation.
The OCLC vs. Clarivate Dilemma
> It's basically missing the past decade or more.

The page history [1] shows that the article was mostly written in December 2011, with only minor edits since then, so that sounds about right.

[1] https://ethw.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Lossless_Data_...
> There is a MAD aspect to the relationship.

No there isn't. China can destroy Apple [1], Apple can probably only bruise China.

[1] e.g. how would Apple fare if iPhone sales dropped to <10% of current levels for years due to lack manufacturing capacity?
Everything that depends on the ocean, which is everything.
Witnessed a bit of the inverse or similar, dunno. Something written over many years and working very well, was to be "rewritten" as a web site/app/mobile thing. And a "single" (wunder) dev pulled a miracle with a great POC demo where seemingly all needed functionality was almost there and working, all in a week which included many late nights according to them. This person had used the magical power of "angular" and all these "fancy" new things that wow-ed the leadership, that was so used to that "slow thick client" with it's outdated "C# compiled code".

Then after this transpired, it was up to the team to make all the APIs available to this new pretty-much-finished app and for it to be wired and polished into a "production ready" app. This process, along with all the unfinished, badly written, tech-debt ridden crap, took a year. Barely months in, simple features by this wunder-dev took weeks, incessant complaints about tech-debt by said dev, endless meetings and hand-wavy excuses about how "no we can't do it that way, it's not the angular way, and you don't know JS so shush!".

Countless angular upgrades and package updates with breaking changes, renderer this, web-component that, cordova that, do we support react, oh we didn't make it mobile friendly cause we can use native component libraries, oh crap we have multiple repos zomg now we need Lerna to compile our app, what about events let's use an event bus on the FE, and on and on, with no end in sight. It's years later and it's still being supported as if it's the holy grail, all while it continues dragging down actual feature dev. All this for a couple-dozen screens.
When I was a kid, my dad had my brothers and me pick a card from a deck without showing it to him then reinsert it into the deck. He then threw the deck into the air scattering the cards on the floor and then picked our card up from the floor.

The secret? Amazing dumb luck.
Having an ostensibly valid use does not preclude also having nefarious uses.
A majority with apathy should not circumvent the efforts of those who do care.