skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s good right? If people want to lend us money at sub-inflationary rates to finance our own growth and prosperity, that seems better than shoveling it to defense contractors who are mostly building weapons to fight the types of wars that we don’t have anymore. And the conventional wars we’re well prepared for I’m mostly fine without.

I’m not one of those nutters who thinks we should castrate the military, but it’s insane to think the level of spending we have is not way higher than needed.
Or even more radical simply stop issuing Treasuries and just run an overdraft with the Fed.

Paying interest is entirely a policy choice. Congress can change the rules of the game if it wants to and can stop paying anything.

After all what is the justification for paying banks and financial companies additional interest income when benefits and pensions need uprating?
>and there appears to be literally no way to regain access to his facebook account.

a blessing in disguise perhaps?
I don't see any mention of how TomTom will provide any money, support or logistics to OSM. Am I missing it?
Even if your employer 'had no say in the matter', it is still generous. Somebody had to pay for that medical leave whether it came out of the profits of the company you work for, their insurance company (which leads to higher premiums for everyone), or came out of the taxpayer's pocket.

It sounds like you could benefit from a completely different environment. If you can't find any joy working in your chosen field, it might be time to explore a completely different field. Many people have switched careers because of this.
How America turned against the First Amendment
It should at least attempt to simplify its theorem, if even mechanically.
FYI, Tax cuts and Covid spending are not social capital, they're just tax cuts (and free cash).

Social capital is things like education, healthcare, equality etc.

I think we agree about actual spending on wars being small and necessary spending on necessary wars being basically zero over that period...
Go back to the shrink and get the diagnosis and the meds. You have ADHD.
Wells Fargo mortgage staff brace for layoffs as U.S. loan volumes collapse
NIST has a standard(s?) that says password strength rules are dumb and regular rotation is not necessary. Great, except we all know both are still widespread even by US sites. There's no 'oi comply with the NIST standard' regulation (for most companies anyway).
People are working on it --- it's called "Web3".

It's still a work in progress but it's aimed squarely at the issues raised in the article.

In my opinion, the real key and the primary focus should be on a single, secure, widely accepted internet currency with very low transaction fees. This is obviously easier said than done. I don't think Bitcoin really fits the bill. Maybe Ethereum or something like Polkadot if they can somehow get enough service providers to coalesce around it.

Right now, the defacto currency of the internet is privacy. And it's main selling point is simplicity --- out of sight and out of mind for most people. If every service provider tries to roll their own payment system, it will quickly become too complicated and a security nightmare that Joe User will just avoid.
Interestingly, the claim that: "there is no reason why many citizens and businesses in the EU are not able to send and receive money immediately" is made on the record by the responsible official, Mairead McGuinness, Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union.

Which seems incorrect as 10 second payments EU-wide obviously require universal adoption of updated IT systems and more stringent control to guarantee that 10 second deadline.

The increased costs will inevitably have to be paid for somehow, likely via incereased fees.
John Carmack considers him a true engineer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQro0rkg2DE

I think Carmack would call him out (Elon) if he thought less of him. Carmack seems honest to a fault.

I don't think "smoke and mirrors" is justified.
I assumed they didn't pay for any of this stuff and the vendors give them products to make a video about them.
Google bungled the G+ rollout quite badly.

They seemed to forget that the thing that made Facebook gain traction initially was a very gradual rollout targeting affinity groups (colleges and college students) at first, with quasi-private networks, before they opened it up to everyone.

Google did the invite-only thing for a while but then IMO tried to grow too quickly too fast, and it felt like a Potemkin village situation.

My feeling is that if you want to launch a social network, you need to concentrate on an actual existing social group and get substantial penetration into that group, then slowly branch out. Trying to get anyone and everyone to sign up from the beginning is almost guaranteed failure, or at least a very hard uphill battle with trying to please everyone at once.
Edo, what was it? For burnout or ADHD?
This will be huge. This will allow anyone to accept digital payments, eg. at a farmers market, using the bank accounts everyone already has.

The only thing missing is forcing banks to provide an API for third party integrations, but I think there is a separate proposal on the way for that.

Imagine being able to accept instant payments from everyone in the EU, without having to sign up for a service like Stripe or Paypal, just using a normal bank account from any of hundreds (thousands?) of banks in the EU. And your customers don't even need a credit card, just the banking app they already use every day.
This isn't a question about evolution. They said he executed very well early in his career, and that's a good example of a colossal early-career fuck up (that coincidentally got him kicked out).
At what point do you think personal responsibility kicks in? Everyone has the option to eat healthy - the messaging on healthy diets is everywhere. Everyone has the option to study - Khan Academy is better than most private school instruction. It is free. Broadband is subsidized or free for poor families. Food is subsidized for poor families.

At what point is it a failure of the person and not the system?
default android feature as well [0]

[0]: https://support.google.com/android/answer/9069335?hl=en#zipp...
AI works the way human intuition does. Try explaining professional intuition to someone; it's not going to be a convincing argument unless they're willing to trust your expert gut feeling.
I'm sorry, I don't want to sound dense but I'm not clear what your point is.

Are you saying that CD Baby is a better distribution technique than standard labels because you get good margins? I didn't know CD Baby until I just looked them up but they appear to be a distributor, so your $3.65 metric is still being paid by Spotify/Amazon/Apple. Please correct me if I'm wrong but that is much higher than the normal published numbers by 10-100x.

Is this an RIAA moment where labels are trying to make other people look like jerks rather than accepting what they do, or are people using the "per 1000 streams" poorly because they will always look worse on successful platforms?
The question of scale is extremely relevant here. It's a well-known phenomenon that as organized/structured entities grow, there are certain thresholds at which they transmute - the structure itself changes to support the new level of scale.

In terms of human groups, we've traditionally dealt with this by means of hierarchies (with all the built-in shortcomings).

Personally, I find a homogenous mob terrifying. Being in agreement with millions of others implies that the subject of the agreement is extremely basic and common (like "we all need air to breathe").
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Apart from being incredibly optimisic about clouds and light pollution, this is really cool. Showing where the satellite should pass from a streetview perspective is a really nice addition I've not seen before.
As a brit, I am waiting to see whether it is politically viable for our society to finally actually have to do things like "pay interest" and "live within our means". For at least 20 (more like 40) the majority of our society have fucked over the future and minority groups (like anyone who doesn't own a house) in order to be totally insulated from economic reality. I somehow don't think that will change suddenly...
It is possible to claim the official title of CEO and still have others actually perform the tasks traditionally associated with the role.
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Thankfully you’re not charge of designing my phone
Ask HN: how to recover tabs from a lost Chromebook?
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> uses the word "open source" VERY liberally when selling you stuff.

RedHat has consistently been the most aggressive supporter of Open Source out of any for-profit companies. Not only do they contribute to open source projects, they consistently release their own code/projects as open source early on, which could easily be kept proprietary (if they chose) and used as a competitive advantage over others.
If they don't, or are otherwise uncivil, you can contact the local mapper community. Often you can find them on this Discourse forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/

The local (mostly national) community can often explain why an edit was reverted (if the mapper who did it won't), or mediate with that mapper if they are in the wrong. Just keep in mind that we are all volunteers.
> The thing is, SMS 2FA is still way better than no 2FA

You describe using the same device as second factor as the device you use to log in. What's the security benefit in this case compared to a password manager with a strong stored password alone?
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Sounds too good to be true but the results are impressive - 10% faster python for free with no breaking API changes.
You'll find out when it's too late.
Is that UX role part time or meant for overseas remote? That's a pretty low salary for someone who at this point in your company would have a lot of influence and could have great impact.
All sides of the political spectrum do this but it’s hilarious to me the “The 1950’s were amazing and we had high income taxes!” and ignore all the other things - like the entire world was bombed to shit and the seeds of stagflation were planted then.
I've been pondering: If 1% of Twitter users move to Mastodon, can it even handle it? 1% is ~4.5M users, currently the entire Fediverse is around 5.5M users, so that'd be nearly doubling. In looking at the server lists when I tried to sign up, many of them were closed for invites and mastodon.social where I had previously signed up wouldn't load the homepage.

Sounds like the mastodon.social admin is ordering new hardware. The article mentions an admin of 80K users spending 300+euro/mo, extrapolate that out to 4.5m users and that's 17Keuro.

Not trying to FUD here, just thinking about what it would take to get Mastodon to take over.
Did the US ever sign a peace treaty with North Korea? Maybe no fighting at the moment, but a war is a war!
There are countless people who I couldn't enumerate who I might be potentially interested. I don't want them 'recommended' or algorithmically forced on me, but retweets and quote tweets have effectively surfaced their work over time. I absolutely don't want to have to do that again and again across social network. Twitter 'mutuals' aren't like facebook friends. They're a two way asynchronous conversation with a pool of people with varying relationships of wildly different kinds. Many of whom are pseudonymous.
>The only major thing it's lacking for me is traffic-aware navigation."

This. I use mostly OsmAnd, I especially like it when on bike or pedestrian mode. But yes sometime traffic info is a must so I use GM few times per year for this.
> If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth.

What's the lie supposed to be here?
what is a good source for this data? their terms stipulate against scraping, but I'm curious if there is an authentic "open" source for the raw data?
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I wonder why are not the "slow" methods banned.
The people have independent ideas and wills - and not a hive mind - is what I'm saying.

> China doesn't collaborate, it just takes until it reaches scientific and technological parity. Once parity is reached, China cuts collaboration agreements and keeps further advancements within China.

Regardless of what strategy the government is pursuing, I know personally that many Chinese researchers do collaborate on an honest basis. They have to put a lot of effort into dispelling the prejudice that they just want to leech technology for their government.
Does Photoshop give a warning when you're about to use a professional feature? "You're about to use a B2B feature. Please note that this functionality can be removed on a whim. Do you wish to continue?"
Why should I, a normal consumer, expect my psd files to stop working if I had the gall to use a pantone shade I knew I liked?
The worst part is, what did we get for that $31 Trillion in debt and other spending? Are we any better off?

Did we convert to a clean grid? Connect every city by rail? Fix every road and bridge? Fix healthcare and education? Reduce crime to a minimum? Reduce homelessness to a minimum? Did anything improve materially?

Did we... do anything constructive and meaningful with that $31 Trillion?
Lots of areas to cut spending, but naturally not even considered, even in comments here.

Also this is just us national debt right? There’s still each state’s own debt, and cities therein
It is strange how the main people running th sr companies are completely unknown and unrecognized. I don’t know if it is coincidental or by design. For most other big tech companies there is usually a lot of guessing by the media of who’s next to lead.
Yes, at best with experience a designer can visualize how a particular color will look in print when they see it on screen.

But that's true when viewing anything to be printed on-screen.

The only way to get there is to do a lot of printing.
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Agreed.

What was it that someone once said (not sure who)?

”Never pick a fight with someone that buys ink by the barrel.”
Keep in mind, things are not as simple as some talking heads would have you believe:

* More than a fifth of the treasury bond debt owed by the federal government is owed to... none other than the Federal Reserve, which is financially part of the federal government. Every year, more than a fifth of the debt interest payments made by the US Treasury go to the US Federal Reserve, which dutifully sends them all back to the US Treasury every year.[a]

* If you own any US treasury bonds (whether directly, in a 401(k), in some other kind of retirement or pension plan, or in an index fund), that's your share of the US national debt: It's the amount the federal government owes you.

* A dollar is an obligation of the US government, backed by its full faith and credit, just like a treasury bond, but unlike the bond, a dollar pays no interest. When the Fed buys and sells treasury bonds in the open market, it exchanges non-interest-bearing US obligations with interest-bearing ones.

Our financial system is more complex than most people grasp, due to a general lack of education in and understanding of macroeconomics. Be very wary of simple, seemingly obvious, morally appealing narratives. Usually, they're not even wrong.

[a] https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-interest-rates-fuel-loss...
C++ and Java wouldn't be where they are without CS researchers, so I think the point still stands. These people aren't doing useless work. They're the ones making sure Concepts won't break the entire ecosystem and that have made the JVM the beast it is.

Grit and determination will get you far but like it or not there is a ton of work that requires knowledge of mathematics and theory that you can't avoid if you want to make good things.

What's kind of neat about Haskell is how closely researchers can work with users and collaborate on solutions.

Remember, the GHC team is pretty small. Their IRC channel isn't huge. Releases still get made fairly regularly and GHC is running one of the most advanced industrial strength programming languages out there with a large ecosystem.
Who is advertising it as a twitter replacement? Maybe some twitter users are desperate for that, but that's not how I have seen it proposed in the past. It's a microblogging social network, yes. But explicitly federated.

In any case, there's no single "Mastodon" entity that does any advertising.

It's just the WWW.
> One of the big reasons why FP languages have so little penetration is because the advocacy usually feels like someone trying to talk you into a religion.

Eh, I doubt it. I've encountered a few Haskell snobs in my time, but most people that I know who use FP do so completely silently and will discuss the merits and (and challenges) with you freely. I think the real issues with FP are lack of good tooling, package management, and being a major shift in thinking for most developers. It's a common theme for someone to say that learning FP (seriously) was the most impactful thing they've done to improve their software chops.

> The other major impediment is gatekeeping

??? what? I guess you could argue that pure vs non-pure functions are gatekeeping, but there are absolutely legitimate benefits to pure functions that basically everyone can agree on.
But Python/Ruby (and JS? Not sure how far they are with optimising that or what the comparison would be) are very slow compared to Haskell. So people are paying that price all the time without getting any benefits that Haskell (etc) can over next to it. I agree with the GP; performance is really not very interesting for most projects and most (Py/JS are the top dev languages by far I think) programmers/companies are agreeing with that by using low performance environments that make them productive. So productivity seems to win out.

For sake of the environment and hardware upgrades, I think we definitely should make an effort and we can see that improvements in compilers and PL theory do help with this when the goal is practical programming languages using these techniques; Rust does, Haskell was meant as academic language for a long time.

I think robustness/security should go first anyway as hierarchy of concerns; that's where things are really breaking now.