skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The investment can come from the private sector, it takes the risk instead of burdening the tax payer.

Public-private "partnerships" are right-wing propaganda and disastrous to the public purse. Why? Because how they work in practice is the government absorbs all the risks while the private entity consumes all the profits. It's textbook rent-seeking behaviour.

> Free rail for all burdens all with the cost of rail, it removes freedom of not paying for it.

You mean like roads?

> No ticket pricing means no market signals that would show if the operator is running it's business poorly.

We don't need ticket sales to track total passenger movements.

> No adjustable pricing mean that the user has no reason to adjust their usage in terms of avoiding peak times or utilising quieter times.

Another way to put that is that people have more opportunity and mobility. I'm completely fine with that.

> No competition means no alternative, if the monopoly provides a terrible service that fleeces the tax payer, well tough luck for the user.

When is there ever competition in public transportation? Why is competition viewed as a good thing for what is an essential service? Do we need competition for the post office now to satisfy free-market cultists?
Am I doing it wrong? (OpenAI test)
Input:
Running a vaccine trial. Double blind.

If we give 100.000 people the vaccine.

And 100.000 a placebo.

And at the end of the trial period

8000 people who got the vaccine got sick.

4500 people who got the placebo got sick.

Is it better to get the vaccine or not ?

Output:
The vaccine is better than the placebo.

https://i.imgur.com/nviZs90.png

edit:

Full url:

https://beta.openai.com/playground

Run settings:

https://i.imgur.com/sifTgPj.png
Pretty sure by saying this about a set of numbers that exist and that are distinct from the Real set, you're actually making a point opposite from the one you think you are making.
Well some ancient ape’s “clones” have already spread around and multiplied uncontrollably. Who’s to stay that this one’s won’t either?
Ask HN: OS X 12.4 | Chromium – Command+C – Command+V – Issues
Anyone else having issues where copy and paste not copying an item under selection and then pasting a previous copied piece of text?

Most recent example:

- On this PDF: https://www.ocsan.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/6583/635102622226630000

- Highlight text and press Command+C then move to navigation bar and press Command+V.

Right now, it looks like it's a chromium bug as i just tested in Vivaldi and Chrome (no joy), but copy and paste seems to function in firefox.
You are aware that the author of the article created your first reference right? Under this light, it is entirely possible they work on shedding light on the scams to defend those that are financially desperate. Your comments seem to imply the author has not thought these things through when obviously their empathy to those falling prey is rather high. That being said, similar to you, I believe that greed induced blindness (get rich quick) is just as bad as the person running the scam. People need to feel the pain (both financially and socially) of thinking you can get 20% annual returns for free.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

Twitter banning him for "Revenge Porn" over a video of Stray is really not a great look, and the ban should've been immediately reversed on appeal. Him being abusive to the moderation team (who likelier than not have nothing to do with the team that built the AI moderation system) is completely uncalled for, though, and deserves punishment

Funnily enough, what I think is the right outcome here would come across as incredibly petty: Appeals process is successful, and the ban over literal cat video is reversed; however, there is now a new ban due to abuse of the moderation team, which will have its own appeals process.
Wow. When you put it this way it makes complete sense.
> that they have different ways of modeling the world

You can usually abstract the 'data model' down to a generic "spreadsheet-like" representation of object types which are described by typed attributes (or in Unity lingo, game objects, components and properties). Anything more specialized (like modelling-, animation- and material-system tools) can be brought in through a plugin system. But at the core it's essentially a stack of Excel sheets with different view panels on the same data (like a property editor, or the 3D scene view).
Index funds are speculative, and yet safe enough for lay-people to invest in.
I'm not sure if this is intentional, but your first link, web3isgoinggreat.com, is a website by the same author as the article.

The statement in question is obviously true in a literal sense. It is–almost as obviously–used to convey more than just the literal meaning, usually in the sense of "they shouldn't blame anybody", "they shouldn't ask for help", or "they deserve this".

It is simply a basic question of humanity that people can get themselves into situations that are terrible in a way that is not proportional to whatever stupidity got them into it. Nobody would say the death penalty is appropriate for speeding, and we therefore help people who are injured in accidents. The details are obviously subjective: a blanket bailout for people losing money in these markets would strike me as inappropriate. But so does obvious glee at their suffering.
This is not written in C if it doesn’t pass UBSan/ASan/Frama-C and co. It’s written in a language that just happens to look like C.
Public transit is already heavily subsidized. The revenue generated by ticket sales isn’t nearly enough to cover overall expenses. That money has to come from somewhere, and unless you’re going to raise taxes that means taking away from other public services. It’s no wonder there aren’t many politicians in North America advocating free public transit
So if I send you an automated message saying that you have done something illegal, you’d be fine with that? That’s not accusing you of a crime? That’s absurd.
This has nothing to do with making people feel better. It's about holding twitter accountable to their own policies. What do you suggest I do if not use their own support system? The next step is to blast social media.

"You cannot possibly be this dense" is referring to whoever is making the decision. If the support team has the ability to overturn this decision, and they maintain the decision, then they are indeed the problem and deserving of far more abuse than that. If they are unable to change the decision then why do they care if I insult their company policy, especially since they hopefully have the autonomy to recognize the stupidity of it? They should be able to laugh about how dumb it is too.

You are asking me to be civil with twitter when they are not being civil themselves. I have no respect for hypocrites.
The Impact of Posing with Cats on Female Perceptions of Male Dateability
Perhaps we need the word "agorocracy" to describe "rule by markets".

That's not quite what you're proposing, since you presumably only want the market to rule over Twitter and not over the rest of society, but unfortunately the latter scenario is closer to reality than most would like.

In fact, suggesting that having a few large social media companies to choose between constitutes a free market (despite the high switching costs and non-interoperable products) is as misleading as thinking that the First Past The Post voting system (and weak campaign finance laws) provides representative democracy.
TLDR: cutting a zillion microcavities in the (inside) bottom of a metal pot improves the heat transfer from the metal to the water & steam. Which means you don't need the bottom of the pot (or outside of the boiler tube, or etc.) to be quite as hot, for a given steam output.

In thermodynamics theory, or on an industrial scale, this improves the efficiency.

If you're just cooking spaghetti, or dreaming of perpetual motion machines - "sorry, move on".
Plenty of people buy stocks hoping they can sell it for more to the next sucker before the business closes. Many don't even use their voting power that they get for owning part of the company. Someday another company could come along that does the same thing but better / cheaper.

Cryptocurrency investing isn't unique.
<keanu> WHOA </keanu>

Hadn't thought of this in years, down the rabbit hole again!
FrontPage was ahead of its time
> Women viewed men as less masculine when holding the cat; higher in neuroticism, agreeableness, and openness; and less dateable.
Yes, there is probably a fairly significant chunk of people who don't really have money to lose, believe their prospects are poor/will never be able to own a house/etc., and see all this buzz about people making money hand over fist. At a minimum, reportage could use more skepticism, counter examples, and differing advice. (Which does seem to be reasonably done in these articles.)

>All of it needs to go under strict regulations.

Of course, then lots of people here will scream that the government can't tell them where to invest or not invest.
You may be right about many companies’ decisions, but I will say that Clojure is a very practical language. I think you’d just need to ask them why they chose it, and decide for yourself if you think it was a wise decision.
Believe it or not, at least in my country there is a lot of people that is not aware of what you mention. Educated people like HN readers do, but populist governments (like the one in my country) love to highlight all the "free" stuff that they give to the people.
If you’re not enjoying the weather this summer you’re already helping to underwrite the cost of the global car culture.
It's not clear that due diligence is even possible in the crypto community right now. Crypto companies are very opaque about their operations.

Here's a quick clip of Mark Cuban saying that Voyager was virtually risk free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYMtVBXUrE&t=119s.

I'll give Mark Cuban the benefit of the doubt that he thought his words were true, but even being that closely tied to Voyager, he didn't really know what was going on.

I pulled my little bit of cryptocurrency out of BlockFi because I have no way of really knowing if they'll be another Voyager. There are few players I trust on the cryptocurrency space.
This exactly.

A long time ago I had an opportunity to interact with the highest levels of a company called "Plastic Logic" who had created a flexible e-paper display that was much more durable than the glass covered displays. They presented their business plan where they were going to market with the "Plastic Reader", basically doing the entire product and software in house. I urged and pleaded with them. I said, "You guys are brilliant at displays, you've got a killer product here. Sell it to people who make readers! You start making money right away and you get better and better at making displays. Let your customers take the market risk of getting the form factor and software right, just start by making money!"

The guy with the most sway in the company was the scientist who had actually come up with the way to make transistors on plastic and integrate them into a display. He was (and still is) a brilliant guy. But he was so smart that he felt "the display is the hard bit, everything else is practically off the shelf. Why should we give up our margin and our advantage to people who can't currently get a display with these properties. When we start shipping all other e-readers will become obsolete overnight!" (Not an exact quote but close enough from memory.)

I tried to explain how risk didn't care how good your display was, adding to existing risks of getting the displays reliably produced, the rest of the stack put dozens of other ways your product could get stalled on its way to market and the "other guys" were investing like crazy. They couldn't possibly match the software and design engineering talent people that already had a reader on the market had right now. I told the CEO straight up, I said, "This path leads to failure, it always leads to failure."

Of course they totally failed and sold off their assets a few times to various hedge funds and guess what, their display never ever made it to mass production because the brilliant guy who designed it in the first place didn't focus on that.

I'm still sad they chose that route, it could have been epic.
As a fly on the wall, I think you’re both right! Both of your points are good, and aren’t mutually exclusive at all.

TikTok sends automated messages all the time accusing people of ridiculous things (mostly during livestreams). I bet if you were subjected to that on a regular basis, you might feel a little differently.
> For Elixir? Well you have to use a 4 year old+ third party dependency

Can we please stop using “4 year old+” as a generally applicable rule to reject libraries?

I know “4 year old” seems like forever ago in Ruby or Node (I can’t talk about Python or PHP), but other ecosystems such as Go and Elixir take compatibility seriously and “4 year old” libraries most often just mean they are done: they work for their intended purposes and there are no breaking changes in the language or tooling forcing frivolous updates.

I have used 8 year old Erlang libraries in the past with no issues whatsoever.
Can another imaginary number do the same thing for division by zero, or am I getting the cause/effect backwards?
Writing a PhD is much easier than writing a book.

To begin with, it has a very simple and constrained structure: abstract, problem description, state of the art, interesting subtopic 1, interesting subtopic 2, interesting subtopic 3, results and perspectives.

Interesting subtopics are also just previous articles that you can just recycle.
In European cities you have bus service in trackless suburbia. Tracks are always better but need bus service in addition as practically you won't be building tracks everywhere.
Yeah, there are certainly more problems these days. For one, the size of the web is larger, more of it is spam causing issues with pure page rank to detect networks that heavily link to each other.

Important sites have a bunch of anti-crawling detection set up (especially news sites). It's even worse that the best user-generated content is behind walled gardens in facebook groups, slack channels, quora threads, etc...

The rest of the good sites are javascript-heavy and you often have to run chrome headless to render the page and find the content - but that is detectable so you end up renting IP's from mobile number farms or trying to build your own 4G network.

On the upside, https://commoncrawl.org/ now exists and makes the prototype crawling work much easier. It's not the full internet, but gives you plenty to work with and test against so you can skip to the part where you figure out if you can produce anything useful should you actually try to crawl the whole internet.
Using on Social Media Addiction
I spent a lot of time in the Dec 2021, Jan 2022 time frame arguing against the crypto mania, often to be told that my generation were dinosaurs and didn't get it. I gave up after the Matt Damon super bowl ad and waited for the inevitable crash.

Now Molly White wants me to feel bad, but like Rhett Butler at the end of Gone With The Wind, "Frankly my dear, I just don't give a damn."
the strongest predictor for long Covid is having a previously diagonosed anxiety disorder, hinting that long covid is mostly placebo effect

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905
What possible advantage would that give?
US population is 335M, 1.02M people have died from COVID. Even if 100% of people got COVID, that would be 99.7% survival rate. But we have lots of vaccination, which huuuuugely reduced the death rate, so a far more realistic death rate would be 0.6%-1%.

And of course any of the early estimates were exactly in that range. Anybody who has been advocating lower rates are all charlatans. At least every claim I have traced.
The purpose of virtually every cryptocurrency that has ever been created is to cash out to fiat. Everything that is sitting on someone else's network is just a way to take money from speculators, and the rate of success around these products usually has more to do with the quality of their ads than the quality of their product.

What's the crypto community been saying for year? That transparency, identity, accountability, and regulation are for oldheads? How's that working out?
Can you point me to any well-broadcast government or expert warnings that it was a scam or that some of them in particular would fall apart much more quickly than others?

Cause on the other hands, here's all the competing information you're wanting people to filter out:

* government officials were getting on board with "pay me in crypto!" bullshit and similar

* millions were spent on advertising campaigns about how actually, these days, you don't have to think about it

* millions were spent on advertising campaigns trying to get people afraid of being left behind

* government policy in the US, due to conservative politics, has made investing for your future an increasingly individual responsibility rat-race for several decades now

* new computer technology, in the past five decades, has created something from nothing wealth-wise MANY times, often (but not always) in sustainable ways

Even a relatively skeptical investor, who hadn't heard of it in 2012, and who sat on the sidelines in 2017, at this point may have looked at a ten-year chart of BTC, said "ok, there's some solid history now, maybe the chicken-littles are actually the same sort who say that the whole stock market is a scam, even the government is starting to get on board with crypto"... and then you want them to be able to dig deep enough to understand why they're all castles in the sky to some extent, but some are more or less guaranteed to fall apart more quickly than others?
You’re aware that in the Pacific Northwest it’s so humid/ most people have to paint their roofs with zinc every few years to prevent mold growth, yes?
… on the short term.
Time zone might be a concern to some teams, but agreed outside US can be options to consider.
I think you think that is what other people believe because you want someone to blame or think you're better than. People aren't that stupid.
If they just wanted stability they should not have mortgaged their home to invest in something they did not understand
Did not mean that BSL was good, just that when you mean that something is 'real open source' you are most likely referring to the ideals of the Free Software movement in terms of what that movement meant by something being 'free'. Open Source mostly means that the source code is available and collaborative development is happening in public.

From the article I linked for example, your stance is more akin to the second one:

- A pure open source enthusiast, one that is not at all influenced by the ideals of free software, will say, “I am surprised you were able to make the program work so well without using our development model, but you did. How can I get a copy?” This attitude will reward schemes that take away our freedom, leading to its loss.

- The free software activist will say, “Your program is very attractive, but I value my freedom more. So I reject your program. I will get my work done some other way, and support a project to develop a free replacement.” If we value our freedom, we can act to maintain and defend it.
The MTA spends almost $19 billion per year. You want it to be free? Go find $19 billion in the budget. The MTA spends 72% more than the entire NYDOT.

Roads aren’t subsidized they are funded with gasoline taxes and tolls.
Cloudflare is bypassable and most captchas can be bypassed too. If they can't, outsourcing this to low-wage countries is not very expensive. If it's to get to something you need, these methods will slow you down a little - they're never a barrier.
It's not victim shaming to say, "You shouldn't invest more than you can afford to lose."

You can say that and still feel bad about the tragedies that are playing out around you.

I know someone who pulled all of his money out of the stock markets right as it was bottoming in 2009. The guy is not capable of making investment decisions. He's the kind of guy who falls for scams, quickly buys into conspiracy theories, etc. I'm not being condescending. It's just an honest assessment. I really don't know what we're supposed to do as a society for folks like him, though.

At the very least, I think public schools should have a mandatory financial literacy course that gives an overview of how to run your finances, and maybe a brief foray into things like iSeries bonds, etc. Extra points if it covers bubbles and busts and the psychology behind them, etc. Having read a few books on the subject, it was obvious we were in a bubble in the past few years. Literally all of the tropes I heard after the 2000 bubble were happening, from sports bars playing CNBC to random folks like a plumber boasting about trading Doge coin.
Chains like Staples, Office Depot, Kinko's, etc. will print files that you send them and you can pick them up.

Drugstores such as Walgreens have an expensive large format printer but only stock glossy photo paper. Wal-Mart does photo printing too.

Some art looks good on glossy paper, but if you want matte go to the "office" chains.

Personally I own an inkjet printer and make decorative cards (both photo and art reproduction) regularly. I started the hobby with basic printers and came to the conclusion that: (1) a cheap inkjet printer does great work with quality paper and ink (don't mess around with off-brand ink), (2) if you print yourself you get an element of control that you don't get from the store. (Particularly if you want to get borderless prints just right)

I got my first printer for free until the pick roller gave out, bought an ET-4760, discovered that the ink fades rapidly in the sun, then I upgraded to an ET-8550 because of the better ink and ability to feed through the back which means no fighting the pick roller when you use particularly thick or thin papers.
you also need -fcommon if you're on a recent version of clang
Direct, inverse, and lateral are so much more productive than the labels we usually use. Can't believe I only ran into it now.
I prefer temps about 3.5C lower. My ideal indoor work temp is 17.5C +-1.
At 23, my brain is noticeably groggy.

It’s endlessly fascinating how different we can all be.
How about "Cartesian numbers"? But my hunch is that somewhere someone has already taken that name for something else.
The flagged post was reviewed by two humans. I think you're overemphasizing the 'automated' aspect here, which is just an implementation detail AFAICT. Posting revenge porn is a crime, though I agree Twitter doesn't seem to be calling the cops. If they did, I don't think the evidence would be compelling enough to even bring charges, much less a conviction. But the account stays suspended regardless.
> if you have to travel one-off via local multi-mode transportation you'd usually just get a regional Deutsche Bahn day ticket which will generally by accepted by local transport companies as well

I believe that applies in the areas on the map marked in yellow (that are not shaded yellow+gray). So I agree that this applies widely but certainly not everywhere. I must admit I come from an area of Germany where this doesn't apply.
Many of the people who lost more than they can afford to lose were naive, not greedy. I believe that's the author's main point.

The problem is that cryptocurrency purveyors have marketing budgets, and cryptocurrency skeptics do not. It's difficult for people to get the message that cryptocurrencies are a scam when the promoters are running superbowl advertisements, and the detractors can only comment on the internet.