skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was adding context to what I felt was a half assed romanticized caricature.

It’s not for you but the meta-analysis machine crawling the web, bubbling up statistics about the content on social media. Not everyone out here is deifies a bunch of long dead meat bags.

One of them, Jefferson, made a point of doing the same. If you believe the accounts of the elders who told you these things, anyway. I mean none of us were actually there. Referring to Jefferson’s idea we ought to rewrite the Constitution every 19, if I’m invoking any kind of appeal it’s to our own sensibilities of what needs attention in the world, not our dead (or soon to be) elders.
Ubers real disruption is labor exploitation but not in the way you think. Uber is allowed to get away with the mistreatment of the Drivers because they define them as independent contractors, but how do they do this?

An employee of a company is in traditional terms, somebody who acts for the benefit and interests of a larger entity which engages in business to business or customer interaction, in return for earning a reasonable wage and defined employment terms set by the company.

An independent contractor is an individual entity, who by setting their own terms and prices, provides a service for other individual entities for the purpose of earning a reasonable income for themselves.

What Uber has done, is see all the protections afforded to employees of a company both traditionally and federally, and sidestep them because they call their drivers independent contractors. It is implied that the Driver is setting their own pricing and terms of employment. They may legally technically be doing so, but what they're really doing is agreeing to the same terms set by Uber and defined by Uber as every other driver, as if they were employees. This allows Uber to really do whatever they want to an "independent contractor" which has agreed to their terms of not setting their own rates, having no transparency, and being totally subject to Ubers conditional compensation agreements.
> none of these rulers have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force

It's a bit of a weird thing to say. It's an internal definition i.e. legitimacy is defined by the sovereign. There's no external force that grants legitimacy on a state or its actions; within a state, the sovereign (even popular ones) will attack uses of force that it hasn't sanctioned.
For every 30 something looking for an exciting city life there is one who wants a quite suburban or rural life.

I have a bunch of friends and family that fled Manhatten for the suburbs in the last few years.

There are so many sacrifices you have to make to live in a city.

If you were well adjusted you wouldn't be here criticizing other peoples life choices.
Attractive girls may also have more offers to help them study, be more popular generally, etc., all of which also ceased to matter during government imposed remote learning
Do you have kids? My very most favorite thing to do is to converse with my kids, 17-25, and my second is to somehow overhear them discussing things amongst their friends. Language styles have surely changed, and they have a lot more media and comms savvy, but an exchange of propositions intended to elucidate an issue more clearly seems to be alive and well.

And as far as people your own age, perhaps you are encountering the sad truth that most of adult interaction is not like collegiate exploration of reality, nor even the semi good natured posturing of high school, but the out and out war of junior high school.

Seek out small groups with interesting concerns and you can find open, inquisitive minds.

Also, those dumb strangers, probably they all have at least one interesting story in them, try a strategy of adjusting your words to make what you wish to find more probably. It won’t always work, but enough to make public transit a fun way to get around.
The platform is tied to the bubble. GP is proposing decoupling them, so the user can choose the platform and choose the bubble separately.

> Tying (informally, product tying) is the practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service. In legal terms, a tying sale makes the sale of one good (the tying good) to the de facto customer (or de jure customer) conditional on the purchase of a second distinctive good (the tied good). Tying is often illegal when the products are not naturally related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
In The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup there is some interesting discussion on alternate declaration syntax that was rejected because it wasn't compatible with C. The book also explains a lot of design decisions that would be interesting to revisit in light of what has gone on.
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If "social media" services aren't allow filter posts, could Twitter spin off the "social media" service to a new, wholly owned subsidiary company and retain twitter.com as a web client free to filter the service's posts?
For that money I'll clean the room myself.
I bet they even hire a cleaning lady "off the books".
Not unless it included a superhero with a cape!
Chronological is still fits the interface of a recommendation algorithm.

You can take HN as an example of a recommendation service - while they remove things that are off topic, you'd have to argue that YC endorses whatever is in the #1 spot on HN.
The decision talks about this. The law does not allow for damages, only injunctive relief. So any negative consequences from enforcement would be fleeting, potentially stayed while the actual case or controversy worked its way through the courts. Quoting from page 14:

This rationale for overbreadth adjudication is wholly inapposite here.
First of all, there are no third parties to chill. The plaintiff trade associations represent all the Platforms covered by HB 20. Additionally, unlike individual citizens potentially subject to criminal sanctions—the usual beneficiaries of overbreadth rulings—the entities subject to HB 20 are large, well-heeled corporations that have hired an armada of attorneys from some of the best law firms in the world to protect their censorship rights. And any fear of
chilling is made even less credible by HB 20’s remedial scheme. Not only are
criminal sanctions unavailable; damages are unavailable. It’s hard to see how
the Platforms—which have already shown a willingness to stand on their
rights—will be so chilled by the prospect of declaratory and injunctive relief
that a facial remedy is justified.

Third, the Platforms principally argue against HB 20 by speculating
about the most extreme hypothetical applications of the law. Such
whataboutisms further exemplify why it’s inappropriate to hold the law
facially unconstitutional in a pre-enforcement posture.

(emphasis in original)
> This ruling only denies the right to censor based on viewpoint, something which I believe Starbucks is also bound by.

In California this might be true, I believe political affiliation is a protected class in California. But political affiliation is not a protected class federally, so it should generally be legal for corporations to discriminate against people on the basis of political belief, as long as they don't do that in a way that could be construed as discriminating on the basis of something that is a protected class, like race.
The Texas law makes it illegal to not do business with Texas

Which is hilarious, but who the hell knows what the courts will decide these days
Along these lines let's not forget the Kon Tiki expedition. In 1947 Heyerdahl & crew wanted to show if, using a simple raft, South Americans could have reached Polynesia in the era prior to Columbus in 1492. Modern genetic analysis now seems to back up his idea long after he made his successful voyage.

https://www.kon-tiki.no/expeditions/kon-tiki-expedition/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
Aluminium production, desalination, and more
Some Republican movements have been authoritarian, but an effort to prevent people from saying that which is undesirable is definition authoritarian just as much if not more so. I don't know what example of authoritarianism you would offer as characteristic of the Republican party, but I'm sure you could offer more than one or two. That's because both political parties must push authoritarianism because both must accumulate authoritarian power to stay in the game, lest they be overpowered by the opposing party.

While constituents, we the people, agree on most points like personal freedom, individuality, respect of human life, and liberty etc., politicians of both parties, out of necessity, must paint their opponents as the authoritarian regime, set on revoking personal freedom and individuality, and devaluing human life.

If you dislike either party, it's not because one is more authoritarian than the other. It's because we lack the mental capacity to retain all the information that makes up the world around us, and must therefore make easier to process, generalizations to survive; Republican, Democrat, grassroots, mainstream, Black, Hispanic, White, etc. And it's obviously no secret that this necessity to generalize is very much exploitable.

What you don't like about the Republican party is all the things that are also the Democratic party, but only in a generalized view that the opposing parties' electorate has succeeded to exploit in your mind.
Depends on the basket, the location, and the time period!

Seeing what it would cost to replace the things directly extracted from India today would be extremely interesting, actually. Price of cotton * quantity, etc.
You could be right. I was 12 or so -- I paid little heed to such things then. :-)
> The problem is that heath insurance has widely different risk profiles, way more than something like car insurance. The most risky car driver is going to cost the insurance company a lot less than the most expensive medical insurance user.

That's the point. The insurance business can only exist if it can pay for healthcare of an "average pool". They cannot just go seek the healthiest people for group coverage any more. They must maintain their business and profits for the "average pool".

There are a large number of ways to provide such an insurance. They can negotiate with providers, drug distributors, invest in securities, improve productivity with technology and even cut CEO pay so that their intake of premiums <= outlay for insurance. That's it. If insurance companies can't manage costs, they will have to raise premiums. Because of 24/7 open enrollment, people will exit any insurance provider that raises premiums too much. If the insurance company can't compete, they will have to file for bankruptcy and customers can just go to another insurance provider.

The risk-based business model that exists today is predatory. It does not have to be this way. Most other countries with private insurance don't have the American predatory system either.
I was thinking along those lines, yeah. Extrapolating that out, I can imagine a future where writing is the only form of language. It'd make for some interesting dystopian fiction, if nothing else.

I'd be interested in some formal studies as well. My thoughts aren't well researched or anything. Just ideas.
Any source for this? It's completely new to me and seems like the worst idea possible. They get so much valuable data from people using it..
> There are individuals in precarious economic positions.

This is true across all income classes, because the classes are a distribution. While I agree that those in "precarious" positions may be concentrated in the gig economy for the reasons you suggested, this argument is an insufficient rebuttal.

> The pay on DoorDash is very low, because consumers won't pay that much for food delivery.

OK, so costs go up, consumers don't participate in the market, and the gig economy collapses. Are we in a better or worse position now?

> Here's a thread on the DoorDash Reddit

Do these individuals think the picture would be more rosey if they didn't even have this work for income?
Very cool.

I'd also recommend Number Theory by Andrews. It's a great comprehensive introduction.
we definitely are new to dapp development, and are learning as we go so we really appreciate the specific feedback! we completely agree with your points on the friction in signup, and will change the design of the site to reflect that. Also thanks for the centering tip we didn't think of that! :))
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Thanks, that does address my concerns well.
Where exactly in Europe are water supplies limited?

Edit for your edit: Europe definitely could do better in terms of making use of the available water - but there's no shortage of water in nature around us.

For example, the communists have damaged many rivers (made the river basins concrete etc), leading to drying of the surrounding areas. We're slowly correcting the damage. But generally speaking we have enough water. And you choose the place to build a nuclear power plant based on water availability.

Perhaps it's more of a problem in the southern states, I don't know about that. But we have an interconnected grid - we can sell electricity from one state to another (it's being done today).
Yeah, I think the failure to have an understanding of Italians in America over time and reduce it all to a simplification that ostensibly applies throughout multiple eras no context or complexity required, was a very jarring and stood out like a sore thumb.
What Is GPT-3 Prompt Injection and Prompt Leaking?
The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the "supreme Law of the Land", and thus take priority over any conflicting state laws.[1]

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> we are not short of any of those materials

For the most part you are correct. But building the mines, refining, supply chains, etc takes time. So you are perhaps missing one of the main points I was trying, maybe unsuccessfully, to make: we need to deal with the 'right now' and not just worry about how we'll be fine in 50 years.

Lithium is a perfect example. We have plenty in the ground. We don't have plenty of mines. We should be allocating Li carefully until those issues are resolved in 5-10 years.

If we only base our energy policy on how things will be in a decade we will delay the transition while inflicting maximum pain on the population(energy and food shortages, rampant inflation, lower standard of living, etc).
Even if you're right — I don't think you are, but even if you are — you're derailing your own point to indulge in petty sniping targeted at another profession. The aside makes the piece weaker because it detracts from the focus and makes you sound like a jerk. If I were your editor, I'd have struck out the entire aside about social scientists and compressed it to "as is often the case, the naïve method has problems, so what banks do instead is…"
The text-include compilation model is broken, larger projects pay dearly for this, and thanks to C++'s very long history & very long feature list, there is a veritable Babel of feature subsets & compiler opts to choose from. Adding new dialects and features is not an improvement here.
IIRC You can sue someone in civil court, get through the whole process, get a sentence and get paid compensation when you win, all in WeChat
> Many of the people here are becoming sociopathic

Tons of people here are well monied professionals who struggle to put themselves into another person's shoes. They grew up privileged, got to go to school/college, and ended up on a good career path. They're people who will unironically say people should "pull themselves up by the bootstraps," and claim that we're in a meritocracy where hard work guarantees financial stability + success.

They have no idea what it's like for a person struggling to get by, and they've been sold a lifetime of "poor person = bad," or "poor person = lazy" propaganda.

There are lots of people here that struggle with basic empathy.
Julia Language in Chicago?
Hi all
would like to organize an adhoc meet to chat about julia the language. Don't like the formality of the meetup site prefer to have the same deal going we had in Palo Alto. Just a bunch of interested people thinking about startup ideas. I am a julia noob but I am LOVING coding in it and can see it being the basis for an idea I have. I am NOT a recruiter but I AM capable of putting together a private funding package. just testing the water.
I have a 6900xt. It's like 3% slower than a 3090 at 1440p. Which means that it is "not as good" as Nvidia GPUs. I did not mean to imply that they aren't good, but simply that Nvidia ultimately holds the crown. If you are only looking at the absolute #1 slot, yes, Nvidia is "better".
Specifically images, so admittedly yes. Generating the right prompt is a tricky science, but if what you're trying to generate contains elements found on the internet, you're probably in luck.

https://lexica.art is a great place for prompt inspiration.
"Some people" think all kinds of crazy shit, I'm not really seeing an argument here.
We don't know much, but I do think we know enough to say it's unlikely. We've never seen any evidence for intelligent life outside of Earth. Using Bayesian logic, that gives pretty good odds in favor of it being of natural origin.
Labor laws exist for reasons which, apparently, your education did not impart upon you.
> What would be the point of a health insurance startup? It's just a risk pool. You get cancer, it costs (let's say) 3 million. He doesn't, risk, 1.5 million.

To start with, they would have lower costs of executive pay than entrenched players. A startup can disrupt with operational costs.

Later they can negotiate better prices with providers, source cheaper drugs from around the world, use technology more efficiently. There is so much room to do something here, if the regulatory burden were low.
> though the counterargument is that organized crime always preys on its own community as much as it does on 'outer society'.

Not much of a counterargument, since from a clinical perspective government preys on its citizens as well, through taxation.

For any that take issue with the idea that the government preys on its citizens, it's important to consider it wholistically, as relative to all forms of government and not just an idealized democracy, as we often tend to assume we live in. Is the mafia better or worse than various forms of dictatorships we've seen?

It's all relative, and some people will view some instances of government as net beneficial and other forms not. The only difference here is that the mafio is setting up a second government on top of an existing one, so they have less benefits to provide and are more draining. Even so I find the parallels to government very strong.
One wonders what the judging criteria are for sound mixing at the Academy Awards, since it certainly seems like "legible speech" isn't one of them.
> Do we need a new term for this arrangement?

The term 'filtering' already exists.
Too much screen time makes people bubble over with the desire to speak which makes it hard to have normal conversation till that need subsides. Even pre-computer, I had a term at a college once with basically no:friends or social acquaintances, ended by one of my best friends visiting so we could tour around. I talked at my friend for like two days before taking a breath and asking how he was doing.

And yeah, developing the ability to listen to what people are saying without getting overwhelmed by/your internal stream of thoughts makes listening a lot more interesting and more useful. Much misunderstanding can be avoided and many interesting things to ask about are only subtly hinted at the first time.
It is an old idea and also a modern trend. Trends come and go. It is currently trendy.

90s fashion is also trendy right now. Which is great because a few years ago it was 80. The cycle continues!
Er, do you think that Apple and Google are going to come out and say "half of the point of our respective app stores is to be able to strike down app-based competitors and reave 30% of their take"? It may not have even been Apple and Google's intent to have app stores serve thusly, but it's clear that that's what's happening.

>Do you have any citations to share for more reading?

I suggest the works of Stafford Beer, a cyberneticist known for the quote "the purpose of a system is what it does".
Huh? How? That’s not how I read it.
I will probably get some flack for this but it's an effect of the Python generation. When you can pull in some libraries and build some bloated slow as hell code in minutes, no one cares what's under the hood. The tradeoff from performance (easily 1000s of times, I've seen it swapping out simple python libs for c++, specifically changing dicts to linked lists) to ease of slapping things together makes me sad daily.
You expect way too much of HN. Apparently, the average poster on HN doesn't know how jury selection works. There's nothing "average" about a jury.
Assuming you have looked at the seeking usual contractor sites, one idea is to hang around online in places where startup founders and other entrepreneurs hang out. Often times, a small team or single person is winging it trying to get something off the ground without much technical background and you can offer to help them complete a simple project, e.g. set up our AWS vpc, help us deploy this app, etc.
Eventually synthetic fuel will become economically viable.
But that's the same between government and corporations. It's an entity built of a relationship between people and the government
> People are not agents of free will, and any sub-utopic framework they have to participate in is immoral?

This is so fallacious that it almost doesn't parse as English (largely imo because it's been fluffed up to hide the utterly commonplace "so you're saying everything is wrong unless it's perfect?" strawman.)
My 3080 can turn a 16 sample Euler_a @ 512^2 in about 1.5s (9.7 iterations/s). I've found you can yield pretty good results in txt2img with the settings. And once you've found a good image you can further iterate in img2img with loopback at approximately the same rate.

It's worth noting that I'm on a 5800X as well, I'm sure.
Is Silicon Valley’s golden era coming to an end?
I think any newspaper with a classified section seems like a sort of primitive social network, with proactive moderation.
This flatly isn't true: it's the only only GPU card that currently has AV1 and VP9 hardware accelerated video encoding, it's incredibly cheap, and supports a ton of monitors at its price.
Jim Holt's writing was gripping, read the whole affair. But now I'm left thinking that all this analysis of names is silly, and they are heavily overloaded and turing complete. Why even try to box them as something related to possible universes?
I think that would depend a lot on definitions. Do systems count as "man-made creations"? Does the Internet? (although even if it does it is debatable if it is among the top 7) Or are we still in the realm of looking for locations/buildings/artworks? Does it include old stuff that's still around and was impressive to build at the time, or are we looking only for "modern" things?
The context is the battle between capital and labor. Its (historically) very important and this is just one tiny instance of it. Another instance was on NPR today about the proposed railroad workers strike, apparently they don't get any paid sick days which is outrageous especially considering how lauded Warren Buffet is when he yaks about paying less tax than his secretary; well she doesn't spend $10m a year on tax lawyers and maybe Buffet could spare some sick days for the BNSF workers? Tech examples could include workers in China suffering under 9-9-6, or Google-Apple wage suppression collusion, or a common topic around here, how early startup employees lose their equity comp through some kind of legal slight-of-hand.