skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've drunk the propaganda kool aid.

Terrorists are not Marvel villains that just want to sow pain and destruction against all that is good.

It's just a label applied to the "enemy", and the enemy usually is not much different than you, they just have a different opinion and a different enemy than you do.

The Capitol idiots are idiots like us that wouldn't storm the Capitol. They don't pray to Satan and bathe in blood. They've just drank a little too much propaganda kool aid like you've done, but from another jug.

Trump isn't the root of all evil. Blindly following personalities and ideologies is the root of all evil.
> I have to admit that it smells like phlogiston and aether to me

You know what else smells like phlogiston? Oxygen. There really is an invisible, odorless, tasteless gas responsible for combustion, plant growth, and breathing. 17th century chemists thought that it was released during combustion, absorbed by plants, and expelled by the lungs. Turns out it's absorbed during combustion, released by plants, and taken in by the lungs.

Phlogiston was a reasonable theory, well supported by the available evidence at the time. It was also wrong. Most theories are. But this could not have possibly been predicted a priori.
So an army of bots can create fake reviews for my business and it will look legit so long as they also give consensus reviews for a bunch of well known places?
Meet "Wavelet Rasterization" by J. Manson and S. Schaefer, from the paper:

> Because we evaluate wavelet coefficients through line integrals in 2D, we are able to derive analytic solutions for polygons that have Bézier curve boundaries of any order, and we provide solutions for quadratic and cubic curves.
That's one of the books I used. It's a good one.
Each of us is a 1 man company. And like any company our mission is to maximize profit as efficiently as we can (i.e minimize work).
Around 40 years ago Texas Instruments created the Speak & Spell as an English language educational toy [1]. I couldn't find anything quite like it in Japan. However, General Instrument produced a chip that could generate allophones for speech synthesis around the same time [2]. Much to my delight, the SP0256 could generate just about all the phonemes found in Japanese speech.

I wrote a program to display hiragana text on an EGA monitor while generating corresponding speech from the SP0256. It worked very well, but unfortunately had a terribly robotic quality. I wisely decided to put it aside and instead accepted Chibi Maruko-chan as my instructor.

I haven't been to Japan for a few years, but I imagine there must now be toys like the Speak & Spell to accelerate children's basic reading skills.
Have you seen any?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_SP0256
Geeze, cherry-picking much? This is just anti-progress ranting, ultimately.

SpaceX has done more for the space industry than any other industry this century. I look forward to my lunches in Riyadh, personally .. assuming the military-industrial-complex doesn't get its way and we're all victims of their aggression, instead of the progress SpaceX offer ..
> If the scenario was the following: letting 10 criminals go free, or having 1 innocent person imprisoned, I would always choose the latter.

Really? It seems like you meant the former.
It's weird to see such a widely used technology dismissed as not being useful (it seems we get those articles weekly on HN). There are literally millions of users and billions of dollars worth of value transacted daily[0] but this is just not good enough evidence for the critics. If they can't find a use case that satisfies them, then surely everyone else using it is just wrong.

[0] About $3.5B daily for Bitcoin.
There are thousands of things engineers bikeshed about that have no objective answer but still end up being a major source of discussion. So I would say the odds are good, given that in a bikesheddable argument both sides are correct.
If it’s not too intrusive, may I ask which country and what you like about it?
The collective horde will always attempt to eat our leaders.
There are no true theories, only theories that agree with observations and allow useful predictions.
>Items are inherently centralized

Sure, but web3 gives you access to a giant ecosystem that you can just plug right in to. You can safely create trades including items from multiple games. To say that this ecosystem adds 0 value to me is a stretch.
I can only second learning from documentation rather than using (video) tutorials or blog posts.

If you're strong in reading and gaining knowledge from documentation, you will generally be able to decrease your time to create working solutions. The reason is that you get faster in finding the information you need and become independent of the availability of explanations by other developers.

I'd only consult other explanations if the documentation is poorly written or my way of using the software is uncommon and I'm looking for opinions or alternative solutions.
It takes third of the lifetime. It's massive waste of time and energy if you get only money out of this.
you need distribution of wealth, not growth for that
There seems to be an unhealthy obsession to label food products as Italian -- not from "somewhere else", meaning, of course, worse, no doubt about it and don't you dare even question it. To the point where walking into a supermarket can turn into a xenophobic slap sometimes. Honestly scary.

Edit : I've had the same experience with Japanese food. As far as we can tell, there are two or three real Japanese restaurants, owned by Japanese. And ONE French bakery in Rome. This is the third capital of the EU by population mind you. I mean, they literally have a border with France ! Good luck finding decent bread.
> What speech laws were in place in Weimar Germany? What was Hitler advocating for before he took power? Without that this isn't the evidence you say it is.

Hitler's rise has many causes. One of those causes was that anti-semitic racism was part of everyday culture. It was a meme that was propagated across generations via speech. Then Hitler weaponized that meme (again, using speech) to rally support after the Great Depression + fears of Bolshevism + WW1 grievances made people's minds more pliable to scapegoating.

Weimar Germany did have hate speech laws, albeit not ones that were properly enforced. That's moot, though, since it's not my claim that a specific speech restriction is effective at preventing the hate speech -> genocide causal path. My only claim is that that causal path exists.

> Lone wolf terrorists seems a better example. I assume you're referring to school shooters. The problem is that's an issue of the US, not of speech laws.

I'm really referring to hate crimes perpetrated by lone wolves, of which shootings are a subset. For example, the supermarket shooter that wrote the N word on his gun barrel. I read his manifesto, and his grievances were ones that he'd adopted from online ethnonationalist forums.

Again, I'm not trying to claim that some speech law can stop hate crimes. Maybe they can, or maybe they'll backfire. I'm just claiming that this notion that speech that isn't direct incitement hasn't historically partially caused hate crimes and genocide is a fantasy. The above case is some evidence backing that position, and there are others like it.

Ideas are extremely powerful. They can inspire unhinged people to take drastic action on their own terms, when perhaps they may not have otherwise done so. They can be part of the fuel for the rise of demagogues. That's what appears to be the reality.
what's wrong with contrarian view, or perhaps you just want to read things you agree with only.
The “Ghost Town” of Vilarinho Da Furna, a Drowned Roman Village
Love the link to https://slowlearnerclub.com/. I'm definitely in the club.
My assumption was always that, from the get-go, iPhone just had that much of a bigger market share in the US compared to e.g. Europe. I remember in Finland in the early 2010s most of the people in my age group (~20-25 years old) had Android phones while I've understood in the US I'd been in the majority. Not suprising that that situation lead to different networking effects in the US vs elsewhere.
Happy for you.
I have many autistic (actually diagnosed) friends and I've heard most of them say they're wrong multiple times. It comes with knowing people for years. If you know someone for years and they've never said they're wrong, that has nothing to do with autism. They're just an asshole.
The Woke Civil War at the New York Times
Also, did you receive a car in the first place.
AI doesn't have to only try to win to be good. It has to give the perception of competition. Perhaps just scaling behind the scenes based on how the player is progressing
For something like reddit, who cares about consistency ? Under massive load no user cares about knowing the exact number of votes, all the replies to a comment, etc... It's also perfectly fine to refuse some writes if the load is too high to bear.
You have far too much faith in organizations
Ahahaha thanks, I haven't stared working on that mental model. I'll fix it when I do :)
This actually sounds quite fun! Like actually rolling a dice in front of them and telling them that if it's a 1 or a 6 you won't be able to help them.

And if they ask why, you could just say that they saw the dice, the Gods have spoken and they don't want you to help them.

I might actually try this, could be fun!
How would that work?

We have Yelp, Google reviews, Amazon reviews… how would something like that work on a blockchain/ledger and not be gamed just like the review systems we have now?
SIX: The US never picks on anyone who could actually fight back.
If it were only Apple's restrictions preventing this, why wouldn't Facebook release such a browser on Android?
wasn't the original purpose of BTC blockchain made as decentralised payment gateway?

since, that failed, or became impractical it seems people now trying to come up with contrived use-cases as a means to dump a bunch of shitty tokens on greedy retail investors

if vitalik wanted he could create a new chain buterinchain, press a single keystroke to mint 1,000,000 tokens and those tokens would instantly be worth 10s or 100s of $, without any use-case. it's just a joke.
There are probably multiple reasons for this. But here are a few that come to mind:

Nepotism -
It would be naive of me to think there is no nepotism in hiring.

Hiring abroad can be a nightmare -
Let's say the $50K employee is in another country.
You now need to:
A) Become familiar with the legal and tax implications of hiring someone from that country
B) Establishing a company in that country in order to hire that person
C) Finding out how to manage your new company in the new country. Paying taxes etc
The reason employers of record services like https://deel.com/ have become so popular is because hiring that $50K employee will now probably take a lot of time and money.

Larger Talent Pool + Competition -
The company still competes with other remote first companies that pay $200k for the same role. Therefore, simply paying less will cause candidates to seek out other companies that pay more. In addition, offering $200K to anyone anywhere in the world means that you have a LOT more applicants, which could allow you to choose the best when money is no object.
Yes blockchain based tokens (so anything but pure currency) always runs into issues when they meet the physical world. Oracles are just trust anchors and as you say there's no way to avoid the reality that physical auditing is necessary to ensure clean exchange of goods and services. OpenBazaar has run into numerous issues over the years and it's been out there as a marketplace before Ethereum ever existed; they all stem from the general difficulty of interfacing with the physical world.

This isn't the case for digital only assets though. There are certainly much fewer digital assets people use than physical ones, but they're there. Domain names, forum membership, entry gates, game skins, etc. How many times have you entered a community and thought it would be great to have a tiny bar to contribution, like a small membership fee, enough to weed out spammers and young children?

This is aside from enterprise oriented chains like Ripple that just use chains help facilitate regular business.
My read on the advances of blockchain is that it allows monetizing everything on the internet. When the internet started the biggest sell was e-commerces. Soon after people started dreaming about tipping blogs and webpages, crowdfunding, donating to projects online, charging a fee on Tor, making people pay to message zuck on fb, send money in whatsapp, etc.

I think it opens a lot of doors, but gaming is definitely not a door I’m excited to open.
They technologically cannot. The central entity has no power to decide to keep user funds, nor can anyone compel them to do so, because they don't truly have the user funds in their possession; rather, the contract has control of the funds, and they don't control the contract, the immutable rules burned into the contract upon its creation control the contract.

The central entity get to initially craft those rules however they like, and so can certainly design the contract to act favorably to them; but then the contract gets (immutably) deployed, and everyone else then gets the opportunity to look at the rules of the contract-as-deployed, to decide for themselves if they're equitable. If they're not, nobody will bother to interact with the contract.
I have a couple of thousand books on my ageing Kindle. Looking for a new ereader, will check out Kobo. Do you buy books from Kindle and convert them to ePub?
For decades we've had cipher block chaining. Decades!

I don't know why it's so special now.

Please do not use authoritative use of git as a proof for the value of "crypto."
Correct. Blockchains are for validation not data storage
Because for some reason the universal wave function results in a subjective experience. If you can math that, I'll concede that Math = God.
>why couldn’t a platform like Steam do the same thing

It definitely could. But as a society do we want 1 private company deciding how commerce in video games is done and governing its participants and potentially taking a cut from everyone. Web3 supporters think the platform that provides this should be decentralized and not controlled by a single entity.
It was the paying customers of Redhat who complained the most to me. They had previously been able to use centos as a test for things, or for places where the more enterprise features were unnecessary.

Dunno how that story ends, I jumped ship. I think they were looking into Rocky.

Treating the free tiers as just a taste of the paid tiers is a misunderstanding of how this business works. It also reduces the worth of the paid tiers. Gitlab will be worth less as a business because of this, but perhaps they're focused on selling CICD and giving up on competing with basic github.

And Docker simply gave up on their stranglehold of containers. Of course people complained and looked for free alternatives, and it will be Docker that suffers. They don't have much of a business model.
You hint a some major changes: "what the large public sector entities need to resort to keep their income-tax-dependent system alive".

So how do you envision a public sector to be funded, if at all?
> What if bitcoins got disallowed as a currency in most places where you can use it to buy things.

Places where bitcoin is rarely accepted as currency (like Norway where I'm living), does not make it "unpopular" for ransomware (or other anonymous digital payments). As long as someone accepts it as payment, it will always be popular in that type of scenario.

I dislike the idea that anonymous digital payments are inherently bad; since they can be used for criminal transactions; which I often see here at HN. Being anonymous should not be a crime.
Addresses in OSM are divided into their constituent parts, so you have separate house number, street (or place), city, suburb, country, etc.

Of course, you still need country-specific code to account for all the various abbreviations, e.g. Str. in German, or the cardinal directions and road type abbreviations common in the US (blvd, hwy, dr, etc. ... I've recently fixed a bunch of those in OSM and it's quite a list). Well, and checking alt_name, local names and names in other languages in OSM as well.
> a return to simpler lifestyles for forever

Seems to me it is often portrayed that way by opponents strawmanning it or by media simply very lossily compressing it into a few sentences/seconds chunks. But I'm not sure how many of the proponents really have that view. Even in cases where degrowth writers have "simple life forever!" type phrasings my impression is that that's not really the focus of their work and they're not really strongly wedded to such a vision for the long term. Their core focus is the imminent (as in 100 years) negative externalities, not the long future after that.

I think Jason Hickel is an interesting case. I've learned a lot from reading both his work and that of his critics. His "What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification" is a good intro to his thinking[0]. I think very little there is really incompatible with expansion into space in the longer term.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1...
There is none, modern humans are so productive they struggle to think of things to work on, they should just work fewer hours.
degrowth is unavoidable: population will stop growing soon and natural resources cannot be exploited at the same rate as they are now. So we'd better prepare for a nice and managed post-growth world or we'll face the worst consequences of it.
Probably a scam. Blockchains aren't for storing data
Same!!
That's why I just say "Hello <my name> here, how may I help you?"
I am not located in the US and dont have an american payment method. Amazon will still let me shop ebooks from amazon.com

I have previously had problems (I dont know if its still a problem) with being allowed to buy US books from other ebook stores, like kobo, when I did not have a US credit card.
> Pensioners, children and other unemployed must be protected by laws instead of direct political influence.

Of course then nothing stops those that have the vote because they work to disenfranchise those pensioners and other unemployed (the children will be theirs as well so are likely going to be protected).

Laws are indirectly made by those who vote!
> It's much more likely that the manager was actually asking if the author had reviewed the technology stack recently

Yes, this is more likely. But autistics expect communication to be true and relevant. When it is not, it sounds like incompetence and dishonesty to an autistic.

If anything, allistic people allow a certain benefit of doubt in communications before assuming incompetence/dishonesty. And then they generally play along with incompetent/dishonest people if the social context requires it.
People here on HN are such NPCs when it comes to blockchain. Yaah sure cite another times that VISA has more tx volume or whatever.

I've been working more than seven years in this tech and don't let yourself be deceived - wide scale PKI and immutability of storage is very useful for lots of things.

Sure, 99% of all projects are shitcoins. But it changes nothing about the core tech.

E.g. there are people building quietly the new software supply chain package managers with fully content-addressable and re-producible builds where all hashes are stored onchain to be immutable. But yeah, it's not a VC funded milliondollar project so people can't be happy/angry about it
That's hardly unique to the US

British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on Terrorist Watch List
https://www.wired.com/2011/02/uk-border-fired/
An interesting thing about Open Source game projects is that, if successful, they only ever work on that one game.
Still, apps do this against the interest of the user, to keep them inside their app.

In some apps even if you find a setting that disables this "feature", they then don't open links not in my default browser (firefox) nor in safari, but chrome.
Most things you can ask them, they have no answer for. They revel in it.
The blockchain as understood today is a sloppy idea plagued with even sloppier implementations. 100% of the blockchain's legit use cases can be solved with free software that predates it.
This is the first I'm hearing about this case. Taking FB's text at face value, I would say: My comments:

> We received valid legal warrants from local law enforcement ... investigating the alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant.

Law enforcement should not be investigating this IMHO; and the availability of people's Facebook interactions record lets the police access additional information they would not otherwise have had in their misplaced investigation.

> The warrants were accompanied by non-disclosure orders, which prevented us from sharing information about them.

That's just dandy, the government will order large corporations to keep everything secret from you, and of course Facebook is a law-abiding corporation, so of course they will hide this from you.

Secret investigations, constant mass surveillance used in secret investigations, extremely carcerally-minded legal system, and a trigger-happy police in case you somehow get the wrong idea about resisting anything. Verily, the USA is the land of the free.
I am an ex-physicist and was always annoyed by the color ←→ wavelength mapping in school books. Then in biology class they come up with the retina cones that are supposed to detect only a specific wavelength (or "color").

First belly dancing exercise to break out of the mapping.

Unfortunately the cones are explained as e.g. "red color cone" - and this leads top the second belly dancing exercise and handweaving about other colors (the ones not covered by the cones), using paint mixing as examples.

Colors teaching at school is a complete shitshow. Fortunately this is not something that is important until you are in a relationship and have to paint a wall.

Or that you have this idiot eye doctor I had as a 10 yo kid, who told my father in front of me that I was colorblind and would never do science. Fuck you idiot who said words I remember till this day (as someone who loved science) - I would be so glad to make a copy of my engineering diploma and of my PhD in physics (and all the papers I wrote) and shove it into your ass.

I really resent such people who do not realize how easy it is to crush a kid's dream, similar to the doll vs truck.
> It's a "problem" only if you assume nation-states own the brains of their citizens

It is a problem for a nation-state whether you assume that nation-state owns the brains of their citizens or not.

> There's a lot of brains draining from Russia right now due to Putin's policies. Should we deport them all back to Russia?

Nobody said anything like that. You should respond to what was written and not to what is in your head.
You make an excellent point. Where I work our company policy was that Linux VMs in Azure were either RHEL or CentOS. Since the scrapping of CentOS we've switched to Ubuntu LTS, with Premium support from Canonical where needed. I can't imagine we're unique in this.