skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Romans considered ‘race’ and skin tone in the same way we consider hair color; a part of you, but a marginal one.
IMO, "crackpot" and "crank" are quite far from "butthead".

The first two communicate precisely what you've described, and are a significant charge to level at a scientist.

The last is a playground insult, meaning only "I don't like you" or "I think you're mean."
Over here in NA, there is a mythological fantasy that Europe has gotten it so right and if only we could be like Europe. Their politics, parliamentary system, equality, social safety net and all of it.

The truth of the matter is, Europe is still in the hands of few aristocratic ruling class and those people are just as vulnerable and susceptible to corruption as revealed by these leaks frequently. In fact the endless bureaucracy are set up by the Eurocrats in a manner to satisfy this heirarcy and this small group of people who almost always are fed through chains of connections that are reachable through dark money and lobbying efforts.

The sense of equality there is just as abysmal. Just look at their housing market for example. It’s much worse than ours.
For years, there have been definitive error crates, each with it's own monstrocity of macro to generate more code, and for every new one there have been painful migrations for codebases of any significant size. Writing out the error types manually isn't actually that difficult.
The goal is not to maintain an ideal temperature and stop the world from changing, but having the climate changing too rapidly, because many animals and plants do not have the time to adapt. This is why a 2~3 degrees changes over a century is way more dangerous than an ice age that took various thousands of years to happen.
> there is no foreseeable scenario where we would be able to [...] prevent Europe from being covered in ice again

Considering we've accidentally caused startling global warming in just 200 years, I'm confident we can solve the next ice age in the 50,000 years before it comes.
I DO NOT agree with the other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32046231

deleted! And boy did I have this wrong!! (This comment has been edited to show the text, and where I was in error!)

Here's the text:

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session House: APPROP DPA 7-5-0-1
HB 2319: law enforcement activity; recording prohibition Sponsor: Representative Kavanagh, LD 23 House Engrossed
Overview
Outlines regulations for a person making a video recording (recording) of a law enforcement activity (activity).
History
Provisions

1. States that it is unlawful for a person to knowingly make a recording within eight feet of an activity and without the permission of a law enforcement officer (LEO). (Sec. 1)

2. Directs that for an activity occurring inside a closed structure on private property, a person authorized to be on the private property may make a video recording of the activity from an adjacent room that is less than eight feet away from the activity. (Sec. 1)

3. States a person may not make a video recording of an activity from within eight feet of an activity inside a closed structure on private property if the LEO determines the person is interfering with the activity or that is it not safe to be in the area. (Sec. 1)

4. Provides that a person who is the subject of the police contact may make a recording if doing so does not interfere with lawful police actions. (Sec. 1)

5. Asserts these provisions do not establish a right or authorize any person to make a video recording of an activity. (Sec. 1)

6. Classifies unlawfully recording an activity as a petty offense. (Sec. 1)

7. Classifies failing to comply with LEO verbal warnings regarding recording an activity or if the person has been previously convicted of unlawfully recording an activity as a class 3 misdemeanor (Sec. 1)

Statute prohibits a person from obstructing governmental operations. A person commits obstructing governmental operations when the person uses threats or violence to hinder a peace officer from enforcing the law or acting under official authority. This offense is classified as a class
1 misdemeanor (A.R.S. 13-2402).
8. Defines law enforcement activity. (Sec. 1)
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Fiscal Note

HB 2319 House Engrossed

>and without the permission of a law enforcement officer (LEO). (Sec. 1)

That language is not in the stories talking about the bill, and said language is not in line with the First Amendment.
Cryptocurrency inherently cannot oppose capitalism, because any good, distributed currency cannot control the distribution of wealth.
Can you quantify this?
An ICIJ Investigation: The Uber Files
Who Blew Up Mare Island?
And how much time would the IT guy have wasted finding that screw? So you think everyone knows exactly what screw goes in that hole? There’s likely a not insignificant amount of time needed to just figure out which type of screw it was.

Beyond that, every user thinks their issue is “just a quick question”. When you have 100s of people who all think that, that’s a whole week of work right there.

And often times something that looks small can turn into a big problem. Why did that screw fall out? Screws don’t just “fall out” for no reason. Did the threads get stripped out? How did that happen? If so maybe the chassis needs to be replaced. Did it pop out because of a swelling battery? If you don’t start with a ticket, there’s nowhere to keep track of all that.
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Who pays volunteers on Wikipedia, Linux, BSD, Webkit, Chromium, PHP, Python and all those other technologies and languages who have taken over the world? Is TimBL rich through extracting rents from all users of HTTP?

Vitalik is mega-rich from selling his tokens once, and now he doesn’t control the network. That is the alternative I am talking about. The developers of a successful project make buck but then the project becomes bigger than them. There were was an article posted the other day from an open source author complaining that they are now being required to use two-factor authentication before they can continue releasing their product. They said “well, I guess I don’t pay for the distribution platform, so I will take what I can get.” But they are missing the point entirely — the distribution platform isn’t supposed to serve the one author/maintainer. It’s supposed to serve the public! Those are the actual customers, and even if the author pays $1,000,000 a month to such a service, the value to the public of NOT having a security backdoor on the next update can become far, far greater. At some point, what you built just becomes bigger than you.

That’s why science has peer review, wikipedia has talk pages and open source commits have reviewers before merging the code. No one wants something to be rolled out at 5am on the whim of one guy, EVEN IF he has two factor authentication.

There is a fundamental, fundamental difference in mindset between on the one hand the celebrity culture we have on Twitter, and various entertainment, and the peer review culture of science, wikipedia and open source. The latter is far more useful to society.

In fact, most of our divisions and strife in demicracies is a result of for-profit news media trying to write one-sided outrage articles with clickbait titles because the market selects for that, while our social network algorithms surface this and put us in angry echo chambers because that leads to the most “engagement” (and therefore, profit). Once you see it, the profit motive IS WHAT CORRUPTS these networks. Wikipedia and Linux may have their faults, but not these.

Who pays the volunteers? No one. They have enough financial stability to spend an hour here and there making a commit. There doesn’t need to be a billion dollar investment by any party to advance the thing forward. They’re like ants… and it beats closed profit-driven silos in the end.
If the police begin to charge at you because you are recording you now become party to the police interaction and you can record under the 8-ft distance. I know on emotional issues like police interactions logic is hard to follow but logic is still a thing.
That’s the thing though. If medicine improves to stop people from dying by the aging process is not adjusted, life expectancy doesn’t really mean much. You’re still old. Your body is weaker. Your mind is slower. You probably can’t work effectively, you just don’t die.

People like to think low life expectancies from centuries prior implied people were “old” at 40. But of course that’s false. People still age the same. Many still lived into the same typical elderly ages we see today.
Sri Lanka's president and PM to resign after thousands of protesters storm homes
> we should make the world fit our interests

It is not a binary, of course we make the world fit our interest to some degree. That idea that we can make the world fit our interest in every aspect, even on planetary scale is hubris and as such will likely always bite us in the ass if pursued.
It's all good and well blaming "the suits", but the same thing happens with the techies.

How many working products haven't been rebuilt just to incorporate some tech du jour?

The fact that a good number of people gets fresh CVs in the process is never held against it.
> We haven't been on the moon a second time yet

Yes we have, and in fact after Armstrong/Aldrin landed in the moon there were five more successful missions.
Uber deliberately dodged authorities ignored rules in early years documents show
The question of "human-level AI" isnt relevant to the field of AI as it exists.

It's like someone in crypto talking about a future crypto-based financial system whilst at the same time being unable to processes basically any transactions, stabalise any currency, ensure any regulation, deal with any fraud, etc.

Or likewise, an MLM health company talking about cures for cancer all the while hocking vitamin supplements.

The question of what properties animals have which enable them to implement intelligence isn't relevant to whether correlative statistical techniques which capture word frequencies are "intelligence" -- inasmuch as vitamin 'science' isnt relevant to curing cancer.

This gross level of chalatanism, wishful-thinking, scamming, delusion and out-right fraud is overwhelming.
Elon Musk has probably taken a big haircut on his current stake in Twitter and is also risking being forced to buy Twitter anyway or losing 1 billion plus legal fees. That sounds like an awful lot of work to sell 8.5 billion worth of Tesla shares.
If the behavior of the software is unchanged and this is just an install message, then I agree.
https://www.last.fm/music/Vangelis/Blade+Runner:+Esper+Editi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wEXj0mGlA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr9XwkmHzQw

https://soundcloud.com/dsm348/vangelis-blade-runner-2002-esp...
> It's a disturbing trend and indicative of failing health / vibrancy of political systems.

If this is an indicator, how long has the U.S. political system been failing? John Adams was the second President starting in 1797. His son became the sixth President in 1825.
Developing new pumped hydro definitely has drawbacks. Slightly encouraging: Switzerland just brought 20GWh of pumped storage online that can generate up to 900 MW. The project took 14 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nant_de_Drance_Hydropower_Plan...
Sure "hypocrite" can be understood in the two ways you describe (burdened conscience vs. consequences of appearance), but the term was used in the context of stock dropping -- the latter.
The New Founders America Needs
This is the practice we use - link to a ticket if it exists.

There's nothing wrong with fixing a bug you discover upon inspection. Forcing tickets for every change discourages code maintenance.
Especially on a global scale. No law in the US or other non-Japanese country regarding the press is going to have bearing on Japanese laws regarding Japan's media outlets.
Solid piece of serious satire.
>An inevitable step is human progress it to realize that there is no controlling the planet's climate.

That’s an odd thing to say, we’re controlling it right now. We’re about half way through pushing up global temperatures by several degrees over a hundred years or so. We didn’t set out to do that, but we’re doing it nonetheless.

It’s not a question of whether we can significantly change the climate, we know we can, the question is how we should choose to do that going forwards.
It has been done in the past and can be done in the future. If we can't even do something like that forget about other changes. And I'm not talking about nuclear.

In fact, if your goal is really only defend your territory, you could keep nuclear and downsize all those war airplanes and tanks burning oil, and you would not be worse for it.
Multimethods, Global Scope, and Monkey-Patching (2012)
It doesn't matter what you think. If someone's using a service that requires it and the tool doesn't allow it it's no good.
Give these 5 FOSS hypervisors a spin
> Insurance is compulsory just to drive a car

There's a difference between the regular insurance you have to have for driving a car in most countries and the insurance for transporting people for profit.

> passenger safety is resolved with the right checks. Both of which a trivial licensing issues.

As it turns out this was not as "trival" as all the startups in this space thought when they bypassed regulation at the beginning.
Yeah thanks that's a good place. Local groups have been dormant since Covid but maybe they are active now.
HTDP by the same authors is a much more solid foundation. DCIC is okay but I feel for a very narrow spectrum of people.
> “My family joined that religion and our life became harder after donating money to the organization,” Tetsuya Yamagami, who is unemployed, was quoted by the sources as telling police. “I had wanted to target the top official of the organization, but it was difficult. So, I took aim at Abe since I believed that he was tied (to the organization). I wanted to kill him.”

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14665352
>pledges

A pledge has the same value as good intentions.
Interesting reporting about behavior that goes somewhat beyond business-as-usual for corporate lobbying efforts (not a justification, just a note that these kinds of tactics are relatively common and this report is not an extreme outlier, compared to pharmaceutical lobbying for example).

However, it's curious that there's no mention of Uber's largest backer, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which put an unprecedented $3.5 billion into Uber (initially, that may not be all). All the article mentions is this:

> "From Moscow to Johannesburg, bankrolled with unprecedented venture capital funding, Uber heavily subsidised journeys, seducing drivers and passengers on to the app with incentives and pricing models that would not be sustainable."

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/how-much-of-uber-does-sa...

Uber's relationship with Saudi Arabia certainly deserves some mention:

> "In the interview with the digital news platform, Khosrowshahi said the 2019 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi shows that "the (Saudi) government said they made a mistake. It's a serious mistake, but we've made serious mistakes, too right?""
There are some really good expense reporting tools out there now.
Learning a little haskell a million years ago was a revelation. In my next bit of JS (a large, non-web project) I did lots of FP in it - and for the better, not just because i could. I really cut down on boilerplate, made it more readable and reusable, and... it was just great.
No word is "intuitively spoken."
How long until the negative feedback kicks in?
This bullcrap can be easily displeed by the simple fact that all currencies are designed to be limited in supply and deflationary.

It means that if I get as much as a single coin now, it will be many magnitudes more valuable than fractions of a fraction of a coin available to anyone born 50 years from now.

This alone is significantly worse than whatever capitalism we have now.
That sounds like something that would invalidate an insurance policy and exposes the dealer to all sorts of liability.
On average they probably looked a lot like people from Southern Italy or Greece - but lots of people in paintings have rather dark skin. But you could find people of all stripes, in all social positions.
How is someone who submitted links only three times since September last year a spammer?

Yes they're self-promoting their own blog, but I don't see the problem wit that.
> and get to bank their billions.

The only billions Uber has is in losses:

2022:

Uber lost $6 billion to start the year, but reports a rebound in ride-hailing and no issues with driver supply https://www.marketwatch.com/story/uber-posts-nearly-6-billio...

2021:

Uber is still losing a lot of money https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-still-losing-a-lot-of-m...

12 Years After It Was Founded, Uber Says It Might Finally Make a Profit https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/09/21/12-years-after-it-...

2020:

Uber lost $8.5 billion in 2019, but it thinks it can get profitable by the end of 2020 https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21126965/uber-q4-earnings-...

2019:

Uber lost over $5 billion in one quarter, but don’t worry, it gets worse https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793793/uber-5-billion-qu...
Yes! The front-end code for Lichess is what got me to learn Mithril years ago. Really clean code for such a complex application. Here’s a great example:

https://github.com/lichess-org/lichobile/blob/master/src/ui/...
This will codify that breaking the law is a cost of doing business. Uber already killed a person by disabling the brakes on their self driving car.

But this isn't about Uber, this is about power and corporate personhood.
I am interested, too
> Perhaps we need an army of (paid?) dogsbodies to manually go through every paper ever published and assess the sentiment behind each citation?

This would be very difficult to do. In many fields, papers are written on the assumption that the reader is really quite familiar with the topic, so the potential recruits to this army would be thin on the ground. They are busy doing other things, doing research and writing papers of their own. Unless there is a new funding agency that would hire this army, I see no way to make progress on this. And the researchers in the field would be very unhappy to see their grants cut by a factor of 2, just to fund this army.

I like linkages as much as anybody else, but we use natural language in papers for a reason: the message is complicated. In my own field, I might read many dozens of papers before I found one that said another paper had been disproved, for example. And -- to raise another topic -- it's very hard to publish a paper saying that another result had been confirmed, since reviewers would reject it on the basis that we already knew the result.

Besides, in many fields, citations are provided just for completeness. "Previous studies have dealt with -TOPIC- (-CITATION_1-, -CITATION_2-, ...)" is quite a common construct in the natural sciences, for example. Exactly what information can be gleaned from this is uncertain to me, beyond "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_1-", "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_2-" and so forth. And this citation linkage is already available.
How often does this happen? In the past 10 years I've had to change exactly 0 of my passwords, let alone 200
Google markets YouTube as a platform for everyone. Anyone can open an account. There is no membership fee, or political party affiliation required. Their advertising rates and revenue depend on having the largest possible audience. They present themselves as a "public square" and thus should be obligated to allow free speech as one has at a public square.
Yep, you have outlined the problems with grants. As they look forward, and due so in a one-time lump sum, they hold considerable risk, and thus the providers of the grant money need to ensure they pick correctly, but this just leaves us with a centrally controlled economy and bureaucratic nightmare.

Instead, you should seek to discover the intrinsic value as it is occurring, and therefore no risk to the granters. I believe it is possible to do so through a modified Vickrey auction. A Vickrey auction is one in which the winners pays the price the second place bidder placed. In this modified system, the top 90%(or some other optimizing number we can work out) of bidders win, and they all pay the price of the highest non-winner. A certain subset users of the Open Source software are asked to give their true value for some sub-set of open source products as they use it and using statistics we could extrapolate that to the rest of the population.

We would then use these weights to give away all grant money. This might mean that Firefox can be funded exclusively through this pot, and they would no longer be beholden to Google for default Search. It would mean the grant writing process would go away. It would mean, as ads make products less valuable, that ads go away.
You said "It's not about avoiding looking like a hypocrite, the major theory is [...]", which is not the same as "The major theory is that it's not about avoiding looking like a hypocrite, [...]".
Wikipedia does have an article on P.D.Q. Bach [1]. Do you have any sources to contradict the article’s claim that he’s a fictional character?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach
> That sounds like an awful lot of work to sell 8.5 billion worth of Tesla shares.

IDK. Most people work their entire life not even getting to 1 million.
> Uber's success wasn't just the technology...

Let me be pedantic here: Uber isn't successful. They were able to build large-scale operations by pouring billions upon billions of dollars into it, and they haven't figured out how to make their business model work.

They're no more a "profitable transportation company" than the New York subway system.

I would argue that a lot of companies could scale that type of business if given $25B to burn.

Since Uber spends so much of its money on marketing and retention, you could easily make a case that the only way a taxi system can work is if there's a centralized, single system that the government mandates.
Maybe it's time for mandatory penalty minimum set somewhere in the 3-100x profits made due to breaking the law. I'm tired of reading about how e.g. an investment fund settled for 100M with no admission of guilt after making a billion breaking the law.
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They really aren’t unless you have an incomplete model of how the legal system works. This is a good example of this.

There is no default. Court cases have upheld that it is legal for cops to establish a safety perimeter, even when that distance is undefined. Thus a cop could argue that the necessary safe distance is an arbitrary number like 25 feet or 50 feet.

This law defines it as 8, potentially giving you greater freedom.

The legal system as a whole is inherently restrictive, but individual laws within it may be otherwise.
This points to an IT department that has no slack. If you want to run a company that moves quickly, why would you have IT be the bottleneck?

As with all the other criticism in this topic, the fault is with the execs, and not the frontline IT workers.
Second best. I think UBI + Open Source beats it over time. And I have examples to prove my point … you are welcome to provide some the other way:

Wikipedia vs Britannica, Encarta

NGiNx and Apache vs IIS

OSS browser engines vs IE

Science va Alchemy

etc.
We are talking about electrical water analogies.

Stability issues are beyond the network being electrical and correspond to the electromechanical dynamics of the grid.

These types of analogies are very sound and well studied [1].

Great power engineering books, such as Olle Elgerd's Electric Energy System Theory, make extensive use of these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical–electrical_analogie...