skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair that I shouldn't make such an unqualified statement.

While public spending as a % of GDP has indeed increased, that's primarily driven by two things: increased defence (and related) spending, and increased spending on health costs.

In the US, the growth in social assistance spending over the last 3 decades is driven almost entirely by the latter: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-expenditure-as-per....

At the same time, we continue to believe in privatizing basic government services: outsourcing social assistance to charities (including religious charities), outsourcing military and intelligence functions to mercenaries, or, on point for this thread, outsourcing ID verification to VC-funded private startups.
Best advice, plus best delivery of said advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0
You have to go to the game link, and then to a third page to find the changelog.

I couldn't find it on the main page.
If it were better to the degree you pretend, we'd all use that. That is not the reality, as such we can expect the amount of better to be marginal at best.
I've used Signal on Linux for several years and have never been unexpected unlinked.
Sorry it's late to edit. Actually the title is the HTML Page Title (but not the heading on the page) that was used by the HN bookmarklet.

I usually check that the site hasn't butchered the heading, but on mobile its hard to scroll through - for some reason the HN submit page only shows the first 50 characters of the title, although 80 are allowed.
I hear kittens are always ready to make more kitten videos, as long as kittens survive we can rebuild those from scratch.
What, how?

I got "hacked", I mean yeah it was a hack using an Android phone and Google's automated recovery system.

If not for the latter, my incredibru strong password would've saved me.

They also removed the phone and backup email from that account because I recovered the account once.

I sure hope 2FA cannot be removed once someone gains access (not without a call to the 2FA number/whatever) lol.

Either way, I'm not using it because it's a pain in the ass. I already hate that they lock me out if I try to log in from another country.

Gee, yeah I travel between EU countries, that's very unusual for most people.
Ask HN: Have you noticed an increase in the number of Stripe Disputes lately?
I work on a SaaS app in France. In the past few days we noticed an enormous increase of disputes in our Stripe account, all of them are linked to SEPA payment method (wire).

We used to have 1 every month of so, now we have had around 7 in 2 days.

[EDIT] - I received an email from Stripe a few minutes after I submitted this post on HN. It seems there has been an issue with the management of SEPA payments between end of september and start of october.

[EDIT 2] - I actually received the email before submitting this post, I just did not notice it ;)
I remember pre-internet, and it was hard to find communities of people who deviated from societal norms. If you strongly believed in something that was way off from what society beloved or accepted, you were alone and your drive for that topic probably fizzled out after a while.

It was also hard to reinforce your belief system if CBS, ABC and NBC didn't share your views.

Now, in Internet-world, you can instantly get connected with like minded folks and have your beliefs accepted, which probably reinforces your stance even more.

So I guess the baseline is, back in the pre-Facebook days, there were just less people on the fringe.
I feel the same. I'm slow on the uptake, because I didn't want to do any unnecessary rewrites and run the risk that there were bugs in there. Now I'm writing a new module, and it'll be less noisy to type the end-value it stores as a generic, as it avoids needless type casting and checking from interface{}.
I don't even have kids and I know the song because I know people with kids.
You'll have to ask the New London, CT police department about that:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
This is a really good article.

I think a significant insight missing from it is that corporations, states, wars, and the like are also alternate reality games — as was the cultural wasteland of mass-media-manufactured consent whose loss it mourns. Not just the genesis of revolutions, but also their aftermath.

It does glance at this idea but doesn't seriously engage with it:

> the bygone era of mass media was not a golden age of truth, … But what matters here is that… [i]n an age of alternate realities, narratives do not converge.

Is that really what matters? Is it even a new phenomenon, or a process that was ever interrupted? I don't think that, in the bygone era of mass media, the narrative peddled on NBC converged with that of Iran's Guardian Council or Pravda; nor did Joe McCarthy's narrative ever converge with that of the Port Huron Statement. And there are times, like the murder of Kitty Genovese, where the narrative did converge, but it converged on utter falsehood.

If this doesn't convince you, reread the article carefully, thinking about how well or poorly each thing it says about modern alternate reality games applies to the historical persecution of Communists in the US, anti-Communists in the USSR and PRC, or heretics in the Spanish Inquisition. You will find it an uncomfortably tight fit.

To me it seems more important to be able to coexist with people with different beliefs, people who aren't playing the same alternate reality game you are. Lacking that ability, dissent yields mass bloodshed, so polities ruthlessly suppress dissent in order to survive, condemning themselves to self-defeating delusion. We have centuries of practice developing institutions (that is to say, alternate reality games) that can survive dissent: liberalism, capitalism, academia, pacifism, Gandhian nonviolent resistance, parliamentary procedure, and now free software and Wikipedia. Other cultures have other institutions I'm unfamiliar with.

All of them are under immense stress from the internet revolution, and it's anybody's guess how that will shake out.
I think it really depends on the task. Where HIPAA violation is a real threat, the equation changes. And just for CYA purposes those projects can get pushed to a cloud. Which does not necessarily involve any attempts to make them any more secure, but this is a different topic.

That said, many scientists are operating on premise hardware like this: some servers in a shared rack and an el-cheapo storage solutions with an ssh access for people working in the lab. And it works just fine for them.

Cloud services focus for running business computing in a cloud, emphasizing recurring revenue. Most research labs are much more comfortable with spending the hardware portion of a grant upfront and not worrying about some student who, instead of working on some fluid dynamics problem found a script to re-train a stable diffusion and left it running over winter break. My 2c.
"Meta" is a diversionary tactic. It's not the New New Thing. It's a diversion from the fact that FB proper and its subsidiaries are aging out of relevance to the younger generation.

"Better hold on to that FB->Meta stock though - they're building The Next Future over there and its going to be bigger than Facebook ever was!" - said the guy holding a big gigantic chunk of the stock and coincidentally running the company.

The layoffs puzzle me though - Facebook took great pride in Hiring Only The Very Best Talent From Top Tier Schools. Surely now that they're making a shift to an imaginary product they would want to hold onto every single one of those talented people that cost so much to recruit and retain, right? The article and Zuck are intentionally vague about where the cuts will be made of course; so if you were thinking about holding out and trying to continue to work from home you might be mindful of this.

At 134.39 as I type this, Meta stock is plain in the toilet - well down from a 9/2021 high of $376. Thats a big drop in a year and somebody knows why too.

TL;DR - "Meta" itself and the idea of the metaverse is a distraction from the reality that the things holding up the Facebook stock price are/have collapsed. This is a charade. Cuts will be made to keep the stock from falling further. The distraction isn't working and nobody is buying it.
Not in my experience. You just need to belong to a group outside of work. It might be a church, a volunteer group, a community group, whatever. I have so many friends from outside of work groups.
That's a bad example. The unoccupied hotel was vandalized before the homeless were moved in. Yes, it a boondoggle, but nothing to do with homeless.
> Disregarding any editorializing from the AP

I can't!
That's the only thing you provided.

I do now understand your opinion of those quotes (and I don't disagree, FWIW) but that had been left out until now.
I've seen them used in places we could have skipped them more often than in places we needed them.
Agreed. Without courage there's not much you can do.

Who's going to practice something for 10,000 hours? One who is strongly motivated to do so. Who's going to do well in school exams? One who is strongly motivated to do so (e.g. to please his parents)

Being strongly motivated is about following your own bent. Which takes courage. If you lack courage you won't even be able to perceive what that bent is. But if you have courage then you'll make your mind up and get stuck in.
I completely understand the hobbyist appeal - it's the same reason why people still buy hard copy books and comics - but from the average consumer perspective there's no real reason to do it since you can easily buy the same or better quality tunes direct from digital distributors.

Nowadays I most only buy music on Bandcamp, and if I want to throw more cash to the artist there are other venues like Patreon or even just a Paypal account where I can do that. Paying for physical media or merch is of course another indirect way to funnel money to the creators, but if getting money to the creator is the main goal, there are often more efficient ways to do it too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/xxyaow/this...
google search with site:edu
It takes a while for ecosystems to catch up. Java 8 primitives in library code took a few years to happen, I assume the same thing will happen in Go.

Generics are typically very useful in a few very specific contexts but in most applications you can get by fine without them.
Lots of places (Hetzner for example) will rent you servers at 10-25% the cost of AWS if you want dedicated hardware, without the ability to autoscale. You can even set up a K8s cluster there if the overhead is worth it.
I studied a number of books in that field last year, and much of this entire thread is missing some key points.

The learning psychology field often differentiates practice from deliberate practice, where practice is just about anything and deliberate practice is focused learning.

In deliberate practice, you have to work at near your skill level, you need to apply proven learning methods, it should take maximal effort, you need a feedback mechanism to course correct, etc. A great deal of focus goes into creating effective mental models and intentionally removing ineffective mental models. It requires good coaching. As you progress in expertise, your practice should involve more risks and failures. (And there's still much more to be said here)

Gigging and noodling aren't going to make for efficient practice as it likely won't be full concentration, won't involve feedback, won't involve challenging material at your skill level, etc.

Also, you can spend 10,000 hours jamming alone in your bedroom on same set of guitar tabs and make shockingly progress compared to someone who spends just a few hundred hours intensely studying music books with a metronome and tape recorder.
Heh, well homeless people are voluntold to gtfo the streets and go to a homeless shelter or get a fine or jail time in Europe...
I'm not really sure there is evidence for that. In fact, depending on your interpretation of why posits[1] work, we may even have empirical evidence that the opposite is true.

1. https://spectrum.ieee.org/floating-point-numbers-posits-proc...
that's a success if it didn't cause any harm

Go is the cloud native language, there is no need to change your production code only just to add the latest shiny feature, that goes against the philosophy of Go

people will adopt the new features slowly but surely as they get battle tested
If you have to ask, don’t do it.
Your phone number is also your permanent cross-app tracking advertising identifier.

This is why every app and vendor asks you for it.

I change mine every 90 days.
" I've always wondered about that kink between the G and B string, a major 3rd gap, when all the other strings are spaced perfect fourth. It bothers me because it's an anomaly that breaks the symmetry and increases the number of shapes to keep in mind."

One of the deeply beautiful things about the guitar is this "ugly" asymmetry. People with analytical minds that desire order always get bothered by this 3rd, why not go to all 4ths and be more elegant???

Because art and music arent always about being elegant! Tuning a guitar in all 4ths lets you play like a snooty stuck up jazz musician, but ultimately there are so many richer bar chords available with that 3rd in there that who cares if it is "ugly" to have the 3rd. People forget a plain jane normal guitar chord like a G chord or something is tonally actually very complex. It isn't like a basic g chord on a piano G B D. The "basic" G chord on guitar spans many octaves and has a non-obvious combination of notes. The 3rd in there for guitar tuning allows you to explore all those complexities with the given limitations of the human hand best.
The term is dehumanising and has no place in adult conversations.
Rumors are that he plans to WeChatify twitter under X.com, so there’s more of a chance that twitter gets put under something larger and becomes neighbors with Square.
Most of a rocket's weight is fuel. Ironically, most of that fuel is needed to lift the rest of the fuel from ground level to some altitude A, then the remaining fuel is used to get to A', and so on.

If you could first lift the rocket to a high altitude, you could get away with far less fuel. The smaller mass would mean faster acceleration (think a rocket fired from a jet fighter).

note: I'm not a rocket scientist or physicist :-)
I wonder which patch version of MK they are using. IIRC the 3.0 patch (had the contest advertisement) was the last patch that allowed juggle combos. After that the opponent would fall super fast after the first juggle hit. It kind of ruined the game for the pros.
Isn't it TikTok that's looming?
Why not just check the reference? If there isn't one it isn't to be trusted, if there is just cite that.
If you're talking about something like Encyclopaedia Britannica or the ODNB, they are/were extensively peer-reviewed. I have seen plenty of references to both in scholarly literature. Infact, for some niche or historical topics, I often find my old print edition of EB to be more useful than Wikipedia.
Isn't the "runtime" mostly a wrapper around V8?
Only if you on the lower income scale and don’t have any real assets, real estate, savings, stocks, or retirement.

Politicians must think their constitutes are financially illiterate. Actually for their base, they probably are.
I commend you for building a beautiful tool, and your landing page is great.
I personally find the pricing quite expensive.

It's a blog. How can it be that expensive to host a blog, especially if you're just getting started?

Looking at other options - first one come to mind is Card - that's much more affordable.

I am glad you're giving a free trial - that's not a bad deal, at least people can try it before committing.

$15 a month to host a blog vs spending your own time figuring things out and being proud of having built something from an open-source repo (and perhaps contribute some knowledge back like this blogpost OP posted) could be also interesting.

Feel free to change my mind.

Btw, dont wanna sound like an asshole - if I was a business (not an individual) I would purchase from you for sure!
> Until now, the mainstream of the developed world has provided a strong inoculation against any such views spreading - namely, that it can be safely and instantaneous disregarded as mental illness. No further inquiry necessary.

Too true.

> That's the part that's about to begin changing.

Agree...it is becoming more and more common on the internet (in varying forms), and appearing in places where it would have been formerly rejected outright.

> Slowly at first, as people like Kanye West come to realize they've been gas-lit. I expect this change to pick up steam though I can't guess the rate right now.

The rate is not necessarily a costant - for example, if a catalyst was to appear on the scene, the rate of change could take on a much more steep upward trajectory (for good or for ill).

> HN will be the last dark dominion of Left-Hemisphere-Dominance to be dragged, demanding citations and invoking logical fallacies all the way, into the present.

My intuition strongly suggests your intuition is right...but then this sort of thing can be taken into consideration.
What if the server has AI and a name?
https://www.genesiscloud.com/ is pretty decent
> untouchable jurisdiction like Russia

When the international organization can point directly to you as now holding $100M+ worth of crypto tokens and you're in a "jurisdiction like Russia," then the international organization isn't who you should be worried about.
This is a cool feature that I've idly wondered about in the past, but I didn't know it was actually spec'd/implemented in Bittorrent.

You could imagine hierarchically pushing the entire of TPB or whatever into the DHT. And even, each torrent having an `index.html` that renders a page containing links to the rest of the sub-torrents, so that the entire site is hosted in the DHT.
Even as a big cloud detractor, I have to disagree with this.

A lot of scientific computing doesn't need a persistent data center, since you are running a ton of simulations that only take a week or so, and scientific computing centers at big universities are a big expense that isn't always well-utilized. Also, when they are full, jobs can wait weeks to run.

These computing centers have fairly high overhead, too, although some of that is absorbed by the university/nonprofit who runs them. It is entirely possible that this dynamic, where universities pay some of the cost out of your grant overhead, makes these computing centers synthetically cheaper for researchers when they are actually more expensive.

One other issue here is that scientific computing really benefits from ultra-low-latency infiniband networks, and the cloud providers offer something more similar to a virtualized RoCE system, which is a lot slower. That means accounting for cloud servers potentially being slower core-for-core.
> For if Russia loses, it loses its entire world position. But if Ukraine loses, or the war ends in a stalemate, the United States’s world position will hardly be affected. So the balance of resolve is extremely unfavorable to the United States. [...]

> If the Ukrainians are indeed becoming so strong that a collapse of the Russian war effort, and therefore nuclear escalation, is becoming likely, then the US must seek to thwart such a dangerous and risky scenario.
Me too, mostly. At least... in a lot of ways. It's weird having lived a whole life and done a bunch of crazy shit and then listening to people and realizing how fucking droll most of their lives are even at 30, how narrow are their experiences, even the ones that are "woke". I find it hard to relate. I even find myself condescending sometimes.

But nobody knows how to meet people, nobody has some magic playbook. You've got to press, and you've got to deal with rejections, because most people are too afraid.
> It takes many months to develop new housing in the U.S.

Applies to SF and SV too - and to the other citied
There is always trust involved. The question is: what's your threat model? You can compile Signal yourself, but maybe you don't trust your OS, or your hardware, or your cleaning lady, or your wife.

Signal cannot do anything if your phone got compromised by Pegasus, but they never claimed they could.

That's exactly equivalent with decentralised software.
> Wikipedia isn't even a valid source for Wikipedia itself,

First-hand direct presence isn't even a valid source for Wikipedia. Part of my account of the founding of amazon.com was removed because it wasn't "backed up by published citable sources". I pointed out that I would be the primary source cited by any such source, and was told that wasn't good enough: the contents had to be published somewhere else and then cited on Wikipedia.

[ EDIT: BTW, the page on the history of Amazon still has some bullshit in the early section (maybe others too, I wouldn't know), mostly because a journalist or book author misunderstood something, and now it's enshrined as the wikipedia version of the truth. The citation requirements are a good idea, but they don't protect against the nature of humanity ]
Wikipedia's editorial policies result in the amplification and ossification of (political, academic, medical, etc.) establishment narratives and standards, which are often corrupt for a wide variety of reasons.

I'm not suggesting I have a silver bullet solution to this problem, but as a result I tend to disagree that Wikipedia is this holy grail of knowledge. That's only true for uncontroversial topics. For everything else, you have to find all the silenced users on the talk pages to learn about the real scope of a topic.
Sorry I'm in the <50ms gang. B)
> "Go somewhere else" isn't a solution when a plurality of servers agree to tolerate racist, sexist, or just plain obscene conduct.

You've said this, but didn't bother to give a reason. Can't you go to church even when the plurality of people tolerate porn?
How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
searching for a distinction between actively controlling a gui client vs passively controlling a interface-less client?
There’re many people doing larger matrices, but of course they’re mostly sparse and so this isn’t relevant to them.
Or they could create a phone number like id that you then share with others, like a phone number. They would not need to store this
No one seems to consider colo data centers anymore as even an option?
I loved MK3 but was never a fan of Ultimate MK3. New characters were great, but the game felt like it was jam packed full of bugs, and the AI in single player was literally impossible. The computer would instantly counter everything you tried to do, and you could only succeed using various jumping around tricks - you could never win in a straight fight and enjoy the combo system as intended.
Should users with poor vision also have to use a special blind-person email provider? Because, I'd expect supporting screen readers to take significantly more effort than adding the setting I outlined.

Also, if I was homeless, I wouldn't want my email address to indicate I was homeless.

I broadly agree that it isn't Google's job to cater to everyone, but in this instance, the ask seems overwhelmingly reasonable—and less than what we expect in other circumstances.
yah, that was my experience at b-school as well, via core courses in leadership and OB (organizational behavior) that taught us how to build effective teams, set up humane incentive structures, effect organizational change (which happens through people, not process or technology), and more. i'm sure a number of my classmates glossed over that part, but it is taught and even emphasized.

the MBA degree simply teaches you the various aspects and phases of managing businesses, and about leadership (but doesn't create leaders). selfishness and greed, the basis of bad management, is in all of us, so it's misplaced to vilify the degree rather than the bad management itself.