skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina...

Any imperfect measure that becomes a target gets pursued at the expense of the original intent.
Tax Evasion, rather different. It was based on their visible wealth, not snooping on their accounts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Tax_evasion
Are you saying you're more morally aligned to China because it's harder for them to reach you outside of China?
That argument doesn't hold. Yes, climate action is needed. But, for many countries that have to lift their populace from poverty, 'goal #1: No Poverty' and 'goal #2: Zero hunger' may carry higher weightage as they tend to their immediate and short/medium term objectives.

Unfortunately, there is no long-run without considering the short-run.
The mapping from AZ Name (account-specific) to AZ ID (global) shows up on the EC2 overview page in the dashboard.
I’d watch that sci-fi film
My understanding is that protein folding is not a bottleneck in drug design.

Yes, once you identified a target protein, its structure is useful to selectively target it. But the main bottleneck is identifying such targets. In other words, the main difficulty is to figure out what to hit, not how to hit it, and protein folding mostly helps with how at the moment.
Covid-19 and sperm: What we know so far about how the virus affects fertility
Haha this is very true :) Like bolognese, some of the cooking corners of YouTube contain chefs arguing about adding or not adding pancetta similar to vim vs emacs.
> The dude was a modern lunatic homeless man venerated into legend status for thousands of years.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” It's funny, but if you visit some of the vagabond subreddits you can read some very Diogenes-esque philosophies. I don't think they're all crazy - there's a subset who chose that life, and I think some of them have chosen well. Diogenes wasn't mad; he could just hear the music we can't.
Suppose you did pay each legislator $50M to work for the good of the whole country. Do you think this would prevent Manchin from being influenced by a $5M lagniappe? It's an extra 10%! And a certain well-known politician infamously took care to fleece the secret service for overpriced golf cart and hotel room rentals, despite getting hundreds of millions per year in emoluments revenues. Some people are really motivated by every penny despite what economists might tell you about marginal utility.
Sure, but I recognize concepts we were dealing with in the nineties; I assume you are aware of ODMG and OQL.
And SE/SRE reviews
An AI May Have Just Invented “Alternative” Physics
QI doesn't protect the government, you can still sue it for violating your rights.

QI protects agents of the government, you can't personally sue a cop for violating your rights. (Either because he was following illegal orders, or because he's an idiot who doesn't know/doesn't care about the law.)

You are correct that QI was a legal fabrication, and is in its current form an incredibly poor one at that.
Please, please, please, avoid status cuisines. It's going to be hard to do, because they make good PR. But you will be helping your users a lot more of you hold them off with a ten foot pole. What do I mean by a status cuisine? They are meals that are intended to show that the cook is a worthy person, rather than that the meal is practical, healthy, and good to eat. Here are some examples:

The endurance cuisine: designed to show that the cook has time to spare, the endurance cuisine requires that no ingredient is pre-processed in any way. Grind your own grain, bake your own breadcrumbs, chop your own veg. Using grapes? You should have peeled them!

The hair-shirt cuisine: you have to endure some discomfort if it's good for you, right? This cuisine specialises in sour tastes and unpleasant mouthfeel - often using grains that our stone-age ancestors sensibly gave up for nicer ones.

The gold plated cuisine: this one's obvious. Pricier ingredients must be better - or at least show how much the cook can spend

The obscurantist/connoisseur's cuisine: it can't be good if it's easy to find. The cook can only be good if they know exactly how many 'extras' you need in your virgin olive oil, and what classification of wine you should put in your coq'au'vin.

(Okay this is a bit tongue in cheek - but only a bit. I really do think a lot of recipes are unnecessarily onerous in some way)
Yes, just an example of one of the many performance minded complications that C# brings to the table. You can even use raw pointers if you want to.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
I think the burden is on you to explain why it's not the case. Nobody is being forced to read/share that content. People are choosing to do so.
I mean, GDScript doesn't exist outside of the Godot engine. Debugging for it is the same as debugging a Godot game. All GDScript functions are C++ methods. Also, there are type hints if you want.

If you're going to be doing a very large, ambitious game, odds are you'll also be creating your own C++ methods and thus debugging using C++ tools and the game engine tools...
How does that fix the issue where someone is on a week-long vacation? Seems like a letter a few weeks in advance is they least they could do.
> hand over the actual rule-making to unelected government bureaucracies.

I think they mean executive agencies like the FDA, FCC, EPA, etc. These agencies make rules that effectively carry the force of law. For example, the BATFE is (in)famous for arbitrarily changing their rules to criminalize things they don't like, with no new mandate from the legislature. These rules are effectively laws, because if you break them, you can go to jail for many years.

> We jiggered with this

I think they are referring to the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, which made it so Senators are elected by the people instead of selected by state legislatures.
I wouldn't say it's a Ponzi scheme, but I tend to agree that they aren't much different because the price of the stock or crypto only goes up by the demand for said security. The only thing that matters in the end for an investor is that there's someone down the line that will pay me more for my shares than I did. I don't really care if the valuation is based on pure perception (in the case of most crypto or GME) or solid fundamentals. I've been more successful trading on human psychology and pulling profits early than any other approach I've tried.
EdgeDB is looking like a dream db (with batteries included) to me, congrats on the launch!

I wonder if you might wanna join efforts on building your cloud offer with guys at https://neon.tech/ (i'm not affiliated, but I'm waiting for your cloud offering)
Yeah I'm with you, I trust the lawyer over David.
The fact that so many popular sites/services are experiencing issues due to a single AZ failure makes me think that there is a serious shortage of good cloud architects/engineers in the industry. It would be one thing if this was a Regional failure, but a single AZ failure should not have any noticeable effect.
Don't forget CBDCs with smart contracts, plus your social credit score hanging over you like a sword.

"You Will Eat The Bugs" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_8LTUmHWP0

edit: I should add that the video above is a joke, but what scares me is the fact that the technology to make this reality already exists, and is a large political crisis away from being imposed.
Convenience was always expensive.
HPMOR has been submitted to HN a fair number of times over the years -

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But it hasn't gotten much interest here since March 2015 -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203359
And that would then allow the attacker to…? Modify the code without a trace to intentionally insert malware? Access logs that don’t exist?
Instagram walks back its changes
Wow, if that's the average I would be very surprised. Median makes more sense, but average?
The real Mary Sue in this story is Hermione. Harry actually has massive problems that he doesn't recognize until after the story ends. Also, the primary antagonist have been massively buffed to compensate for the improvements to Harry.
Interestingly normal youtube recommendations continue to be pretty good, but the shorts feature is just a cesspool that's far worse than tik tok.
Don't be so xenophobic jeeze! Embrace some cultural diversity :). We're only coming to build a better life for our families.
Nihilist anarchism and Max Stirner may be up your alley. The Wolfi Landstriecher translation is the one you want.
The British Library Has a Vulgar Dictionary – You Can Learn a Lot from Slang
>GNOME 3 would absolutely have not been pushed as the future of GNOME so unilaterally if the lead devs showed any restraint or signs of listening to their users, given how much initial outcry there was

I really doubt that. MATE exists as a continuation of GNOME 2 and it is just not very popular. The users who care about such things seem to be a very small minority.

>X11 is the GUI server that most desktop Linux users use as of 2022!

This is not the issue. The issue is the number of developers who are interested in working on the X11 support in GTK is shrinking. If there are no developers to actually work on it then it simply cannot be done, what the users use is not relevant anymore.

>Have an ounce of respect for your users, and at least ask if that's what people want / are comfortable dropping.

>if a good chunk of the Linux userbase uses your software, then it's good to at least ask if people are OK with the direction being taken.

There is no point to asking this. If you ask most users whether they want you to continue doing free work for them indefinitely, of course they will probably say yes. There is a contingent who never wants anything to become deprecated just out of principle.
Wow. And painted as a utopia for the proles.
thats why he shared mckenzie's website; he's the commenter
We don't have that yet. Maybe it will be possible to bootstrap EdgeDB to run on top of SQLite, but that will be a ton of work and limit the schema/language. Nothing prevents you from just running EdgeDB or even bundling in your app except packaging that can get a bit hairy.
If you have the opportunity in your current job to take on a P&L responsibility that includes being a manager of people (I see you are an EM), you can pick up quite a lot of the day-to-day running of a business. Even a couple of years of experience would make you a well-rounded manager and expose you to different aspects of the business.

The "boring" parts of running a business: contracts, legal, hiring, marketing, sales, finance etc., is where you need exposure.

PS: I started as a programmer, after 10+ years as an engineer I moved over to business operations, rose to become Chief Operating Officer and managed a $100m/yr P&L and then quit to start my own co. I didn't do an MBA.
Have you ever worked in a support role? A few minutes is plenty for >95% of support requests. Those last few percent can certainly be a doozy though.
India created a similar system (that is somewhat better) when one of the law minister in the government started getting unsolicited calls for loans. :)

Phone users can activate Do-Not-Disturb by calling or SMSing their provider. Users can opt for complete blackout of marketing messages or opt into "categories" where they would be open to marketing (like Real Estate, Auto etc). Marketers have to register themselves and the phone numbers / id they use to do the marketing. If a marketer contacts someone on the DnD list, a 3 strikes rule applies - warning, fine, ban. A marketer who uses an unregistered number (a business phone or their own personal number) to make a marketing call will be warned, fined and will face disconnection of service on repeated violations.

Users can file a complain by calling or sending a simple SMS to 1909 in the following format: complaint / nature of call, phone number or SMS id, date as dd/mm/yy. The service provider will then take the action. E.g. - https://imgur.com/uPO1HQS (screenshot of a list of complaints filed by me and the action taken by the service provider).
It's a large transaction (by most people's day-to-day standards) with usually a random person who you have no business or other relationship with, who takes the car and drives off, hopefully to never be seen or heard from again. A private seller doesn't want to be dealing with credit card chargeback disputes weeks after the fact to get the money they thought they already had.

A used car dealership is better positioned to spend time dealing with chargeback disputes than a private seller, but why bother with extra work when you can just put up a sign that says "no credit cards" and never have to deal with it?
Can we just chill on the whole “using this single word incorrectly breaks your whole argument” thing?

A lot of folks on HN end posts about a company with a sentence like “Disclaimer: I used to work for X”. This language (probably taken from contract law or something) is meant an admission of possible bias but in practice is also a signal that this person may know what they’re talking about more-so than the average person. After reading a lot of posts like this, it might feel reasonable for someone to flip the word around say something like “I need to disclaim…” when beginning a post, in order to signal their proximity to a topic or field as well as any sort of insider bias they may possess.

So sure, “I need to disclose” would’ve been the better word choice, but we all knew what GP was saying. It seems pedantic to imply otherwise.
Yes but they have the ability to shut down accounts with no grace period or recourse.

A rare case where one-sidedness goes both ways. Except I'm guessing a business owner will lose more sleep over an account termination than Stripe execs will because somebody criticized their service.
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> what is missing from that is Workforce Participation,

Sure, but the statement I made was job growth ways high AND unemployment remained low. The AND is important for the very reason you point out; U-3 is not a useful stand alone metric. Combining it with job growth data helps provide a better picture of the job market.

Employment still grew by 375,000 jobs last month. This was far above expectations.
From the other side, editor X is doing their best to present a neutral and accurate view of a topic, and editor Y (who is a random stranger to them) keeps trying to add survey data which editor X believes to be methodologically unsound to the point of irrelevance.

(Disclaimer: I didn’t investigate this carefully enough to have a well formed opinion about the outcome.)
This is an excellent long-form article on the history of AeroVironment and their history of developing light-weight long-endurance aircraft. Beginning with the Gossamer Albatros and Solar Challenger, which may surprise some.

That largely confirms a view I'd previously formed that the principle beneficiaries of lightweighting materials and solar (or small-engine) aircraft + nav & comms capabilities will be in warfare and surveillance applications.

A solar + battery styrofoam + balsa aircraft with cameras and transmission capabilities could loiter for weeks or months over a region transmitting close-range realtime imagery. Given comparable mission costs for manned aircraft (listed in the article) at $20k -- $40k/hour, it would be possible to "darken the skies" (or at least saturate regions of interest) at very low cost.

A smaller number of response UAVs could address specific points of interest with a response of a few minutes to hours.

All without putting pilots in harm's way.

The nature of ground (or surface naval) warfare will be profoundly changed. This is to bullets and shells what bullets and shells were to pikes.
I got a lot of shit (still do) when the news first broke for pushing back against the notion that AlphaFold "solved" protein folding. People really wanted to attach that word to the achievement. Thank you for providing a nuanced take on exactly why that doesn't make any sense.
You are looking at a preview signup page. Two clicks in you can find links to the whitepaper and code on Github: https://wickr.com/security/
>He grew up from a well to do family & saw relatives ruined by tumult.

To be accurate, he had family who advocated for and participated in the anti-democratic junta in Athens.
Your European country exists as it is today because brave citizens worked with or near guns to defend your ideals. Gun education and gun safety is not necessarily glorification.

YouTube is a cesspit though and I can totally see some overcaffeinated "content creator" churning out videos that misrepresent and pervert the otherwise sane tenets of firearms education.

But - there's the "think of the children" hypocrisy again. Think of the children, and "do something about" (i.e. ban) guns. Or ban videos about guns?

Kids can look at genitals all day but heaven forbid they watch a video about a gun? Or play video games that feature guns? Where's it end? We've exchanged one instance of hypocrisy for another. No thanks!
https://web.archive.org/web/20220726092834/https://www.busin...
A million dollars per year for life? Most people would kill for that deal. Not the HN crowd, but most people without hesitation.
Given the scope of the effort invested in attempting to prevent duck and goose crap on the world's docks, I'm skeptical that this tactic is effective.
Yes indeed! The skilcraft chemistry set, The world book encyclopedia, the cool aunt who would by me Saltpeter and sulfur from the drug store. It was fun making my own black powder at age 12!
> Having more money in your bank than the police believe you should have?

Or less! Obeying the law is illegal!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
Am I reading this right? We're going to pay $100Bn per year to 100 people chosen at random to run the country?

Why would they have any incentive to do a good job?

Also, why would they have any desire?

Also, that seems like a lot of money. >95% of people would be happy with the $1M per year salary.
We'll be closely looking an Neon and we know the team. There are some related things that we have to figure out before investing time into the integration.
I've yet to see a charger I've bought anywhere not give the warning the first time I plug into it

Happens pretty frequently with cables, too
It's reasonable to consider that the majority of well-received (wanted) nude photos may also have been unsolicited.
Pay closer attention to the innocents swept up by generalizations.
Laws which make a just action treated the same as an unjust action are foolish and, themselves, unjust. Anyone who uses "usually" to justify an enforcement which applies always is being disingenuous and careless with rhetoric which revolves around possibility and treats it as hyperbole. There are profoundly important reasons why people are to be treated in a certain, naively trusting manner until proven guilty.
Sending an unsolicited picture of a concerning rash on your kid's butt to his doctor should not be intercepted by Apple.
If McDonalds can't afford to pay a living wage at the local cost of living, nobody will immigrate to work for them.
How much more junk mail would we get if postage was free? Orders of magnitude more, I imagine.
I like the idea, but I suspect the companies doing this make enough from the 1 person that falls for their scam that they can afford to spend 1 cent on everyone who doesn't. I don't know what the monetary tipping point would be where this type of scam stops being worth it for scammers, but I suspect it would be high enough that it would be equally prohibitive for actual consumers.
Looks like this particular issue was due to power loss, and for power us-west-2 has one clear advantage: It's power is directly from the Columbia river and highly unlikely to have demand based outages.
Why are almost all setups Mac based ? ;/
You are going to end up with a lot of meaningless laws… they will pass laws like “apple pie is now the official American dessert”
And its cousin, the "forced reinterpretation of villain Y as misunderstood and justified".
it's called oxygen as a service (oaas) and if you've seen total recall you'll know bezos and musk are working towards it.
> QI doesn't protect the government, you can still sue it for violating your rights.

Sure, QI doesn't protect the government, but sovereign immunity does.

> QI protects agents of the government, you can't personally sue a cop for violating your rights.

Yes, you can. And you can win in some cases. But, if they were within the scope of non-discretionary job duty, even if illegal, though, they are protected by absolute immunity, if their act was an illegal exercise of discretion but not within a pattern unambiguously previously litigated as such, they are protected by qualified immunity.

> You are correct that QI was a legal fabrication

It is no more or less a “legal fabrication” than, say, the exclusionary rule.
AWS works with multiple availability zones (AZ) per region, some products by default deploy in several ones at the same time, while others leave it up to you.
I believe this would defeat the purpose of sortition. Giving all representatives such a large amount of money would instantly make them unrepresentative of the population they were selected from. They would all be in the uber-wealthy class, and be incented to make laws that favor that small subset of people.
> There is little doubt that Bombadil is among the Ainur, one of the Maia on par with Gandalf and Sauron.

Tom Bombadil is the slacker version of Melian the Maia. Instead of marrying Elvish royalty and running an enchanted kingdom, he shacked up with an orphan and runs a nature park full of angry, semi-sentient trees.

He could do a lot more if he really applied himself.
I assume that you don't have parental controls turned on for your 17 year old child, so she would be unaffected by this feature.
> if you take your suggestion to its conclusion, no "philanthropists" would own a media company, so who does that leave?

Everybody else? The problem is that these billionaires have too much power. There are a lot independent journalists. They are constantly attacked and censored by these big media companies. The run hit pieces on independent journalists and label them conspiracy theorists without giving any examples of misinformation.

Another example is how billionaire owned YouTube only considers big billionaire owned media companies as "authoritative sources" and promotes them in the algorithm.

There are many things that are labeled misinformation and get censored when reported by independent journalists. But then all it takes is one corporate media company to claim the same thing and now all the sudden it's okay to say.

In summary, when you ask "who does that leave", it leaves a ton of people which is why billionaires try to attack them.
The Senate routinely takes voice votes for which no rollcall division is recorded.

But there is generally little incentive to make votes private because in general legislators want to engage in credible credit-claiming (including about margins of passage and rates of bipartisanship) and parties want to preserve the whip as well.
I jumped on to see a demo and got stuck at the start where it wants me to add DB credentials. First thing is that I just wanted to fool around to see what I can do with it - it would be nice to have some playground DB for that instead of having to connect an existing set.
Second thing - I'd be kind of hesitant giving access to my production DB to it this way. Do you consider adding some credentials store so I could feel that you guys cannot use it from your side (in case you get hacked)?