skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key point being made is that corporations give both an opaque knowledge of their funding and also a multiplier effect of that funding in a way that a wealthy individual cannot. You saw this immediately with astroturfing on candidates and issues all neatly hidden behind the PAC facade, with no way to discern who funded it.
Ad hominem attack aside, I agree with much of what you say. But your argument hinges on a hypothetical that hasn't happened.

Forget about the libertarian wet dream, your bias is clear. What is the negative externality that you believe society is imminently facing and must be regulated? Do you believe Uber is on the verge of shutting down?
If someone turns artist names and the quirky-but useful bits of prompting like 'Unreal Engine' as an image sharpener into a Mac app with Instagram style filters they'll make some money...
Telephone companies are common carriers (AFAIK) and have additional rules they must follow. Twitter is not.
Is this due to global warming?
Is it just me, or does this article look like a textbook example of a press hit / submarine marketing (as described by pg [1]), for Hilton's recently-launched anti-AirBnB campaign [2]?

I don't know if I can trust this. It's almost ridiculously anecdotal, and in a big enough market it's unfairly easy to find anecdotes to support almost any claim. There are no metrics about typical cleanup expected or whether cleaning requirements are truly growing; running a dishwasher and cleaning your own messes seems patently reasonable as part of the "deal" of this kind of rental. And as a very infrequent AirBnB user, it's not clear to me how the $143 cleaning fee works. Is it only applied if you make a huge mess? Are the expectations on cleaning and possible fee made clear going in? Or is this always charged and part of the standard fee?

I wish this kind of PR nonsense didn't exist; if so, the organic decision to write about this might be signal about a real trend. But given that it does, this may just be an attempt to pipe lies into my brain. I am suspicious.

Edit: This line is extremely telling when carefully parsed: "[AirBnB] said around 55% of its active listings charge a cleaning fee, which on average makes up less than 10% of the total reservation cost."

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AirBnB/comments/wwqibv/hilton_launc...
The bubble must by necessity have some sort of interface associated with it in order to get the content to the user. There’s a generic platform (HTTP, browser/mobile APIs) and then the “bubble service” implements against those to reach the user. Seems like a completely natural form of tying to me. Are you proposing we force another layer of middlemen to be added in between there?
I think modern genetic analysis has proven Thor Heyerdahl wrong. From the linked article:

> Heyerdahl's hypothesis of Polynesian origins is overwhelmingly rejected by scientists today. Archaeological, linguistic, cultural, and genetic evidence all support a western origin (from Island Southeast Asia) for Polynesians via the Austronesian expansion.
Nope, you are using a definition of democracy that is "all the things I like". Democracy is widely understood as voting-based mechanism for conflict resolution, it's just the implications that are not widely appreciated - if you take out "doing all the things I support", what remains under "democracy" is "doing all the things I don't support but the majority does". For every person, democracy IS just the ugly parts - the rest is "what I'd do anyway in my personal dictatorship utopia".

On a completely separate track, what is described above is just an extreme example of what is actually happening. Some proxy of majority voting forced me to finance, in addition to the things I would gladly finance out of necessity like police and roads; or even unnecessary things I'd gladly donate to like NASA or National Parks; such things as e.g. the continuation of the war in Afghanistan, student loan forgiveness, healthcare subsidies, TSA security theater, etc. They did it by taking some part of my earnings, i.e. forcing me to work extra instead of having more free time for the same salary. Then they used the money to bomb a foreign wedding or give some deadbeat a chance at grievance studies. I guess it's good it is only a part-time enslavement.
Where did they say you can't choose a side? It's also possible that I moderate content, the majority is conservative, and I'm not choosing a side.
I feel bad for anyone genuinely surprised. Our society is hardly a meritocracy. Look over at your nearest manager. Are they over 6’0”? Not surprising.
It's a pretty normal thing here in Massachusetts that you can get some placards to post on the street for when people are bringing in moving vans and whatnot. I believe you get these from the town you live in.
Show HN: InstantView for YouTube
InstantView is a Chrome extension that opens YouTube videos in a popup on the same page when a thumbnail is clicked, allowing you to check out videos without creating tons of tabs or losing your place.

I started working on InstantView years ago responding to someone on Reddit asking if there was an alternative to the Chrome extension "FasTube". Since then it's gone through several redesigns, rewrites, and feature changes. I also began using it to test out some fun audio visualizations that can be used on any YouTube video (that doesn't disable embedding).

GitHub: https://github.com/isaackd/InstantView
Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instantview-for-yo...
What a low effort rebuttal. Why are you comparing gig work to indentured servitude? Is Uber forcing people to drive cars? If your argument is people don’t have any other options, is that really uber’s fault or is that fault of the society?
This is p0f 3.09b. Does anybody know of updated fingerprint files?

The fingerprint file dates to 2014, well before Windows 10, and about Linux kernel 3.12. There's lots of things it just doesn't identify.
One of the few "privileges" the people who usually talk about such things still haven't properly acknowledged.
Maybe I am stupid but what's the point in reimplementing lisp in lambda? Just to prove how beautiful simple lambda calculus is? The lambda functionality is allready in lisp. And lisp is beautiful simple!

() is nothing and (is something)
What does the implementation show more beautiful than that?
Not related to the Texas law, but the RNC has already filed FEC complaints accusing the GMail spam filter of censorship. So I imagine a creative Texas lawyer will probably try to make the case you're describing.

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/29/gops-gmail-feud-escalates
> If the government of Texas wants a free for all social platform, they can create one.

Actually, it seems like they can create these laws, that have been upheld by the court system as being completely legal.

And then if social media companies break these completely legal laws, then they will be massively fined and ordered by the court to change.
Who wants to be a manager??
Users should protect themselves from this. With the expectation that they will, there will be tons of tools available and this scenario will be a nonstarter.

Decentralized defenses against bots will be far more effective than the central planning of information ecosystems we have today. Just watch.
Good. This is especially welcome news in the context of the unprecedented attack on kiwi farms.

As I said in a different thread, we have laws preventing businesses from discriminating. We do not allow shops to put up “no blacks here” signs. Why do we allow infrastructure providers from doing essentially the same thing?

Censorship, of any kind from anyone, government or corporation is an abomination that must be stamped out. We cannot have a civilised society as long as censorship is accepted.
The last one was terrible, what are you talking about
I would think that users could be allowed to choose to have a spam filter on their own account--in the same way that I can choose to screen calls on my telephone service--but, if Google unilaterally decides that I am not allowed to receive the call even if I am interested (giving me no way to opt out of their spam filter or allow people I consider not spam), then that could be a problem.
Attractive people are more likely to be intelligent. Obesity and other "unattractive" traits have negative impact on cognitive functions and IQ. And being smart is attractive trait on its own!
Complete BS.

Green Energy has radically lower thermodynamic efficiency and energy density than ANY other currently used energy source (especially fossil and nuclear). These two qualities of an energy source have a direct relationship to economic efficiency and utility. Economics and Energy are 1:1 causal - economic growth ONLY occurs with energy growth. Lowering the quality of energy means lowering economic productivity, efficiency and activity.

When they say it will result in "trillions of net savings", this is PRECISELY the same as saying that you can increase profits by driving all costs to zero. It's either fraud or ignorance to claim such a thing.
n = 8

(Pilot study of only 8 people.)
This is a fair argument (not one I agree with), but this is much larger than gig workers, and quickly jumps to minimum wage, UBI, etc.

I have views on that, not appropriate for this thread, and I accept if someone wants to make this argument. But again, this is a social critique...nothing specific to the gig economy.
Fortunately there’s hundreds of years of cases and frameworks to help us get this right. Application of the law won’t turn on minor technical details.
You can find the full report, along with the appendices with the list of crew and passengers, here: https://books.google.com/books?id=twnY7_eFDuQC&pg=PA7287&lpg...

The tables are also more nicely formatted in this version. And Google has kindly performed OCR as well.

You can download a PDF of the entire 1912 congressional record, of which report is a small part, here: https://books.google.com/books/download/Congressional_Record...
Most deep learning these days requires CUDA acceleration to enable GPU / TPU for the libraries (i.e. PyTorch, Tensorflow), which is an absolute nightmare to set-up.
A lot of people talking about Uber, so I'll mention that with Uber, you use your own vehicle. That vehicle loses value the more you work for Uber with it. Uber is extracting that value from your vehicle and using it to profit from.

Uber, Doordash, etc should be paying for the depreciation of every vehicle they use, as well as fuel usage.
Depends on the diffuser you're using, the _a (ancestral) diffusers are aberrant in that they can yield good results with very low sample counts. I typically use 16 samples and get reasonably good results, but it's highly dependent on the prompt and settings as well.
I appreciate the nudge to go for a walk/read—at home I can end up sitting on my couch mindlessly scrolling hackernews comments.

I had to work from home consistently during the pandemic and I despised it. Once a week or so is ok, all the time is hell—I can’t bounce ideas off my colleagues or have serendipitous conversations. In fact I’ve made some not-insubstantial personal sacrifices to avoid working from home. Everyone is different.
I wrote a lot of Perl in the first dotcom era and was very happy to switch to Python and Ruby as soon as I had a chance. There were some nice things about Perl but it was just too hard to maintain a large, active perl codebase with multiple engineers making commits. Perl coasted along for a long time on the momentum of CPAN but it wasn't enough.

I think the C++ analogy makes sense. How many programmers entering the field today are choosing to learn C++ when they have so many other choices without all of C++'s baroque complexity and footguns?
I would agree that seg faults are not fun to debug, but if you think you can be speed up production and get the product done several orders of magnitude faster without ownership rules AND you can't use a GC, I do think it could be worth the trade-off.

> Why do you think it's especially aimed at Zig?

I honestly don't use zig so I really don't have a horse in the race, but when I read:
"nothing but Rust or Go has any merit as a replacement unless it also bring the same safety. A fully unsafe language in 2022 is dumb"

That seems to be targeted at replacing C++, which both Carbon and CppFront are not doing per se. Zig is the next big "low level replacement language" (that isn't Rust or Go) that HN seems to chat about so I took a guess.

Again, I don't think that's too relevant to my point (although I am curious if OP wants to weigh in on what they meant).
It's true that the issue is the number of users and interactions, but the difficulty of making any technical improvements is a part of that. Maybe not a huge one but if they never add features that people want that's going to hurt engagement somewhat.
They're catholic and orthodox, not protestant.
I wish I could get this guy to take a great photo inside my viola for me!
That was my first reaction, but:

The effect is only present in courses with significant teacher–student interaction.

When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades in non-quantitative subjects, in which teachers tend to interact more with students compared to quantitative courses.

If it was about getting study help, the effect would be mirrored in quantitative courses.
Asked GPT3 to write all necessary Ruby on Rails functions to build a Yelp clone
This says an admin was accused of editing posts, it doesn't provide proof. It then says users down voted him not employees of reddit.

Also subbit reddit admins aren't employees , I believe most people can create a subreddit and be an admin
Misleading HN headline IMO. I think the most interesting thing here is that:
1) attractive females have better grades in-person but not remote
2) attractive males have better grades in-person AND remote
You misunderstand the meaning of "free" in the phrase "free market".

Read The Wealth of Nations and you will see that Adam Smith was a vociferous advocate of regulation. Because "free" was not "unregulated" in the original conception, it was rather "open to any participant, such that they have the opportunity to benefit", which as we have noted over the past 300 years of economic history requires regulation and enforcement mechanisms (funded by taxes).
> because the spec is a little complicated

Patching over the old work--hopefully without breaking anything--always is. I'm just stating that much of the hostility toward C++ comes from the fact that we have so many superior options to choose from now--options which profited from the lessons C++ learned the hard way, and incorporated them into v1 instead of patching them in as options at v23.

And this is not to strikeforce anyone with a "Rewrite it in Rust!", but to suggest that C++ is maybe not the best choice for new work in 2022.
My manager is like 5'6 and my skip skip is like 5'1. This is in faang.
One of mine is a shorter black man and the other is a husky latina. Their boss is a shorter woman.
I agree actually, that's fair. Assuming a default position to not be a political statement does complicate things when you try to classify what is political due to giving the status quo a bit to much leeway, but honestly this classification is a waste of time.
If you think this then you haven't looked very hard. It's trivial to find a wealth of articles and commentary (scientific and otherwise) with a simple "attractiveness privilege" google search, for example.
I would be far too nervous to even try attempt anything with air traffic controll or medical. I imagine they're crazy interesting to work on and some really cool problems to solve for but commercially as a side gig, the stakes just seem so incredibly high.
> That battery production isn’t a thing in the West is already well known fact.

Er, no. 13 large new battery factories are expected to come online in the US in the next 3 years.[1] General Motors is building four. Ford is building three. SK Innovations is building two. Stellantis (Fiat, Chrysler, etc.) is building two. Volkswagen and Toyota are building one each. This doesn't include Tesla, which isn't saying.
China's ambassador to the United States is now complaining about the US cutting China out of the battery supply chain.[2]

[1] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Ramps-Up-Batte...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/china-s-e...
The pandemic was a great leveler for this. I've had a bunch of people say "I thought you'd be taller" when meeting in person.
Confounded by health.

No mention of this or any confounds in the paper. Which leads me to believe this paper is clickbait "science".
I'm not entirely certain. I know you could upgrade the ZX80 by installing the "New ROM", and I believe that was basically just the ZX81 ROM. Not clear if that gave you everything in a ZX81 such as SLOW MODE (see other replies).
My manager is shorter than 5’6 also in FAANG
C++ is a great language, the sub culture that keeps unsafe C patterns alive in the language, not so much.

Example, back in the heyday of C++ frameworks bundled with compilers, bounds checking strings and collection arrays were the default.

Nowadays you either call at(), have your own bounded checked types, or enable the debug library, but naturally without influence on 3rd party depedencies.
You still see on subreddits like /r/wayofthebern and /r/conspiracy accounts which are posting full-time (i.e. dozens of posts and comments a day) with pro-Russia, pro-China, anti-US content.
Agreed, the manager does all the dirty work like negotiations between competing priorities and telling people no. His height and friendly disposition give him comparative advantage at these tasks so he can tolerate the job better than I could.
Then I expect that their assets or be confiscated or people will be arrested.

Facebook might ignore the law, but bank of America won't.

So that money will be taken away from them, by the government.

Or, they could confiscate assets or arrest people in Texas. There are lots of options.
That's a new angle I had never considered before, thank you. I have certainly hypothesized before that most people could be quite attractive if they took good care of themselves (exercise, sleep, etc) but I never connected that idea as a possible factor in the performance gap.

It's hard to argue that looking good isn't any advantage, but this could be an interesting nuance.
> If you're using a system with SELinux, your containers won't be able to use the same shared memory file.

That is false. Whether you mmap the same file is dependent on the specific SELinux policy - which is by design, highly configurable.

I am also surprised/skeptical that the default configuration for those OSes for a shared volume/mount point would disallow mmaping by default (which is all that is required) - since what is the attack vector they’re preventing? If you can exfiltrate via memory you could just do so via read/write.
I’m not so sure about that correlation. Some of the smartest folks I’ve ever met have been overweight. I’ve also known plenty of attractive people who were pretty dumb when you got to know them. I’d bet on a random distribution of intelligence across the spectrum.
The study addressed part of your hypothesis and found no evidence. There was no “beauty” effect found in courses where grades were quantitative instead of qualitative - where the grader presumably had less liberty to nudge grades up or down. This was prior to the switch to remote learning.

Presumably popularity and ability to garner help with studying would be the same for qualitative and quantitative courses.
You can already block specific email addresses. With the amount of spam this will be a daily problem for you.

Note -, I think spam is filtered before it even hits your account and goes to the spam folder however correct me if I'm wrong
There is no need to make comments like that, others will just complain about it.
Because why not? What's wrong with doing a totally pointless hobby?

BTW there's a decent ZX81 FPGA reimplementation in the MiSTER: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ZX81_MiSTer
For a lot of applications, that doesn't matter. It solves enough of the problem.
> "Today we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say," Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, wrote in the ruling.

I don't really understand this; from my perspective, it sounds like this judge doesn't really understand the first amendment (hopefully this is not the case, and the quote is taken out of context). Corporations are not bound by the restrictions laid out in the first amendment; only the government is. And it seems like this Texas law is an infringement upon the corporation's free speech rights.

> The Texas law forbids social media companies with at least 50 million monthly active users from acting to "censor" users based on "viewpoint"

What does "viewpoint" mean? I assume it's written that way to be vague and enforceable whenever the state feels like it. Is it a "viewpoint" to spread false information? Is it a "viewpoint" to spam?

I do agree that social media companies need some sort of regulation, as they have (unfortunately) become the only place where some groups of people communicate and get their news and information. But this does not seem like the right call, or the right law.

Also, this is a Texas law; if Facebook closed down all of their offices in Texas, presumably they could just ignore it, as then Texas wouldn't have jurisdiction over them?
Ask HN: Have you commented on HN about a court decision without reading it? Why?
Inspired by this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32876982

I'm curious how many people actually take the time to read primary source material—not just news articles about it—before writing a comment here.

In this case, the decision is long—113 pages!—so I can understand why someone wouldn't have read it in its entirety. But if someone doesn't have the time to read the decision, I don't understand why they think they're qualified to opine about it here, and why they think its fair to make other participants in the discussion waste time wading through their uninformed speculation. It's akin to writing a review of a film you've never seen and have no intention of seeing.

Is there something HN could do to discourage this?

(One idea that comes to mind would be banning news articles about court cases in which the article does not link to the actual text of the decision.)
>The effect is only present in courses with significant teacher–student interaction.

>Grades of attractive females declined when teaching was conducted remotely.

It looks like this study has done well to isolate the effect one's attractiveness has on a teacher's marking.
> if I’m invoking any kind of appeal it’s to our own sensibilities of what needs attention in the world

Will to power, essentially.
Gerard used the subtle term “social position”. People might take that to be “affluence” but it isnt necessary so. For example, a technically promising white child from any californian public school would be in a vastly better social position (from SV media’s POV) than a rank and file googler.
Just not being fat generally helps. I don't believe in fat shaming, and in most cases I don't think being fat is a sign of bad character, but I've had the experience of being fat (225 lbs at my heaviest) and dropping all that weight (today I'm 158 lbs at 11% BF). The difference in how the public treats you is night and day. People are friendlier and generally assume that you are more competent, sometimes overly so. If you want to be liked, be lean. Sorry to say it.

Facial bone structure is probably the most difficult thing to fix apart from height.