skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what is the proper way to express concerns about _this_ kind of things with enough nuance and moderation so as not to be automatically considered an anti-scientist tin foil hat ?

The nuance is key. Frankly, I don't recall much in the way of nuance, I pretty much always saw concern about vaccines framed as a battle for freedom against a tyrannical political party.
How about Thu for Thursday?
They could have fixed the one in the other direction that incorrectly said Cal Tech until recently.

But more into easier is probably the guerrilla freeway sign heist adding an I-5 NORTH indication on the 110 north by Dodger Stadium before the tunnels
We changed the url from http://web.archive.org/web/20150920010813/http://www.hover.c... to the current version of the original source.

Please don't post archive.org links unless there's really no alternative.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't get it. I am a Smug Lisp Weenie. Lisp is not a syntactic sugar - the only reason it looks like it does is for metaprogramming. Those parens are not syntax - they indicate the underlying structure of the code, a tree which may be manipulated by Lisp macros.

Why would anyone pretend to program in Lisp without any benefit? Also, Python is the worst imaginable engine for running Lisp. [correction: I see there are some kind of macros...]
Surely there's an automated battery of configurations that devs can test against if they really want to fix the bug?
Please try to keep the level of discussion one step above junior school. Otherwise there is no point in us communicating further.

I didn't say there are no risks but those risks must necessarily be very low, as otherwise with a sample size of billions of doses issued even effects in the 1 in a million would be readily identifiable.
It’s a pension fund with a lot of VC deals, and a rather profitable one at that. It can easily eat $95 million in losses.
The point is that the holder(s) of the cryptographic keys is the only one(s) that can effectively manage (and transfer) the coins on the blockchain.

When you transfer the coins to a crypto exchange, the exchange becomes the holder of the keys and therefore you run into the risk of the crypto exchange mismanaging the coins, getting hacked, losing them, etc.

This can't happen if you securely hold the keys yourself (with a proper hardware wallet, seed backups and a reasonable amount of OPSEC).

But even in the case the crypto exchange is holding your coins (or they get stolen), legally, the coins are still yours, of course (well, unless the crypto exchange goes through bankruptcy proceedings, I suppose).

But you run the risk of never getting them back even if they are legally yours.

Which is why it's better to hold them yourself if you can.
Yes, this is true, but I still get better delivery through delivery services. For example a lot of email providers send any email coming from a cloud hosting IP directly to spam.
Amateur hour across the board. From Twitter's King to all these crypto firms.
You might be surprised at the percentage of the business world that is run on spreadsheets.
It's wayland actually, with a lot of QT stuff.
That's an extremely charitable interpretation of the events, in my opinion. Misappropriating custodial funds is not ever acceptable when you are running an exchange, no matter how good your EV looks like.

And I'm not buying into his whole effective altruism thing. What I think is that SBF had a strong desire to make money, ethics be damned, but had a troubled conscience. Effective altruism gave him moral comfort and helped him rationalize his actions.
See also: Basecamp valuation tops $100,000,000,000 after bold VC investment (2015), https://archive.is/A0Wb1
I think it is one of those things people might broadly support, until they themselves get a speeding ticket and start throwing a fuss. Traffic laws, in particular, are things people want strongly enforced on everyone else.
>Lots of people have been banned from platforms, rightly or wrongly. You can't get banned from email. You can't get banned from having your own website. You can't get banned from the telephone system.

This right here is why I can't take anyone seriously who takes the free speech "issue" surrounding corporate platforms. There is no free speech on a platform, ever.
Only if your vaxxinated. If you arent then your gonna die, pretty much for sure.
Valid, although once the gold is in my hands it's kind of hard to debase it. Of course the weakness is that it may be impractical to check it is debased every time you receive it (although it is practical for large transactions).

Each money has its own weakness. One of the big weaknesses with fiat and gold-backed money is that it can be debased even while it is in your personal possession.
> …decentralization of social networking is not only not "impossible", it's actually inevitable.

When has any medium gone from centralized → decentralized?
MS Teams with the Planner and ToDo integrations.
Planner:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-planner-in-mi...

ToDo/Tasks:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-tasks-app...

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/microsoft-to-do-list...

Teams already has chat, meetings, calendar, wiki (but a very shitty one), file storage, docs via a OneNote document.

I kind of agree with OP, it looks nice for my personal stuff.

But if you are a company, why? And why trust their cloud with your data over a company like Google or MS?
It's also possible in the last few days people sold shares at the discounted price, who were saving for retirement and other things.
Thanks! I just signed under up. I love Emacs.
FWIW, that user experience is most likely Coinbase, or something very much like Coinbase. Not only is the UX good, but customer funds are taken seriously now and have been for a long time.
I live next to an AirBnB, it hasn't added tremendous value to my life.
On the topic of censorship / cancellation my limited experience so far has shown me that defederation happens and plenty of servers are entirely unreachable from the rest of the ecosystem. I’m not sure if this is an argument in favor or against anything, but at least it shows me that there are different standards and ideas at play and they really don’t fit well together into a coherent view of what Mastodon is. It really depends on “which mastodon”. poa.st and hachyderm.io are both Mastodon instances but they generally don’t cross as an example.
That is not what happened and is a fake myth origin story. AWS was started from scratch with a small team in south africa. The best description of all the myths and the real thing I've heard is here: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services

It sounds good to perpetuate the "but Amazon.com had extra capacity they could sell" but it's not true.
The server is in my house though. I don't think it will get stolen.
Don't forget avoiding taxes. The one and only way we can be sure they gave the money away to someone else and have no control over how it's spent.
In hindsight, I think I chose how to present this poorly, because yes, in this case, the allocation is what is killing the performance. I look at it, and I just see unnecessary implied behaviour creating a performance problem. Usually it isn't the allocations themselves that kill you, but it certainly is the case here.
Sorry, it's a very parochially British viewpoint. Perhaps where you
are there's also the same undercurrent, just not visible in the
mainstream. You may have to dig a little.

Cultural malaise often hides beneath the surface. One of the most
frightening accounts of this, on a more international stage, is what
Slavoj Zizek had to say on it; He said that in the former Yugoslavia,
humour kept ethnic tensions at bay. The civil war was foreshadowed by
a creeping political correctness and people "not finding things funny
anymore".
Looking at the home page I see nothing even remotely related. Are you sure it’s the right link? Where should I look for relevant details?
This post would indicate that you are talking about the latter case, in which case you were not laughably wrong, but rather dishonest about the risks. You are talking as though people have the ability to be Apple, but everyone you're talking about is not in Apple's position, but in KDE's.
Last few weeks I had already seen more starling ads on Twitter than I have ever before.
Ask HN: What software do you dream about, but do not have time to do yourself?
ACA isn't an insurance plan. What was or wasn't covered, and what your out-of-pocket costs were, have nothing to do with ACA. ACA forced you to pick a plan or face tax penalties, that's all, the rest is on the plan you chose. If you had chosen to not have insurance at all, you'd have paid way more that 10k and maybe even more than what you've put into your premiums already. I pay $1640 a month for full family coverage with a $600 deductible per person, per year, the second best plan I could find. I think you got a pretty bad plan at 2400/month with a 10k deductible.
> On email, if using a custom domain...

The problem starts here. Not many people who are not tech savvy even know what a custom domain is. Let alone having an email with a custom domain.

> You can't get banned from email

Ask people who get locked out of their gmail account.

What we techies miss is that there are more people who don't understand technology and are not willing to spend time learning about it as they have other more important things to do. Tech is just one of the tools they are using to get their tasks done. We cannot expect people to spend time understanding everything about tech. It is not surprising that it took a commercial company with aggressive behaviour when it comes to controlling users data to put BSD on regular non-tech consumer desktops. And why Microsoft Windows succeeded in being on regular consumers desktop OS whereas commercial Linux-based OS struggled; and the company that successful put Linux on mobile devices also has quite a record when it comes to users data.

We techies can talk a lot about decentralisation and owning data. But the regular non-tech users really don't care. They just want simple things done quickly using tech and get on with their lives.

Recently I saw videos from multiple news channels on how to use Mastodon. They were at pains to explain to users how there are multiple servers and one has to choose a server, which is run by individuals or organisations. And if the server goes down then the user has to move to another server. Regular non-tech users really don't want to get into this complexity. Has anyone ever seen TV channels explain with great effort how to use Twitter?
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/hunting-squares-c2ad824147aa has a good explanation of Lehmer factoring machines.
That only matters if you're storing it. The big issue is 99% of code out there uses mutable template types for containers, and if you ever declare a container that doesn't have a mutable template type, you stub your toe as your new container isn't compatible with anyone else's code. You can't even easily copy your way out.

std::unordered_map<std::string, const std::string> m;
m["foo"] = "bar";
std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> m2 = m;

doesn't compile.
Stripe is an outstanding set of products that are not, AFAIK, making a loss on every sale or in a yet-to-be-proven business model.
Lots of suspiciously downvoted comments here.
Problem is that this is totally normal for CJK users, where you really want to type in a syllabic or phonetic or similar system and get drop-down selection menus for Chinese/Kanji characters to replace your writing with. Doing that for emoji is basically the same thing for CJK users. For Latin script users, however, this is very disruptive.
> You see claims like this all the time but they are so blatantly ahistorical its fascinating.

> No one but white men could vote in the U.S. until the early 1900s when women were given the right to vote.

Talk about blatantly ahistorical; nonwhites and nonmen could vote in some individual states before federally protected, and race was federally made invalid as a basis for denying voting rights with the 15th Amendment in 1870, 50 years before the same was done for sex by the 19th.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is not what gave racial minorities voting rights, though it did address mechanisms by which states attempted to limit the effect of those rights. (As did the 24th Amendment, in 1964.)
KiwiFarms is the perfect example on how that it is still true. The Twitter crew forgot about them after a week and it went back to normal.
Here are two books everyone should read:

https://archive.org/details/b2136140x

https://archive.org/details/confessions-of-a-medical-heretic...
Most financial companies have large balance sheets, a small amount of equity that is highly leveraged, and asset values based on many assumptions. If the assumptions change, a business can go from everything is great to insolvent really fast. That is why such businesses are highly regulated. With crypto we see why this regulation is so important.
Acquaintance maybe, but sometimes I want to keep a close relationship and my memory was transplanted from a goldfish.
Alike Minds Think Great
The same happens with Jira. It's a nightmare since if you press escape to quit the emoji mode, you abort your input and lose focus. There should be a way to configure that shortcut to whatever suites you. Anyway i don't get why web apps bother implementing their own emoji input, the operating system does it already (the windows key + ; shortcut for example).
And to reply to those who simply ask people to change their habit: it's rude. Imagine the other way around: all the English typing people having to insert a space before a : for whatever reason, would that makes sense to you?
This is just not true. Uber and Lyft definitely sell rides for more than they pay out to the driver. Lyft, as an example, has 3.9 billion in revenue against COGS of 2.2 billion.
Sadly, this is very true!

It's a total nightmare out there!

I have clients on big Hosts like SiteGround, and sending email is a problem!

I'm 100% in support of the idea that services should be protocols though! :-)
Knight did not blow up due to fraud, so they were not "below board." Losing money is not against the law.

Furthermore, Jane St only trades their own capital - ie. not capital deposited by customers in an exchange and not capital provided by selling ownership stakes of itself on a public market. This is a clear distinction from Knight.

It's as if some guy just had a bunch of money, traded it and made some more money, hired a bunch of people to keep trading it, and it has made a ton of great returns and people are asking: is this a scam?

Who would it be scamming? The only suckers are this guy.
I receive as much social media spam as I do email.
There is a reason why there has never existed a society in which the majority of transactions were done by people exchanging gold or silver coins kept in little leather pouches. It's just too impractical.

- problems with availability - in most traditional societies, there just weren't enough coins to meet transaction demand, and so people transacted based on credit or other informal ledgers.

- problems with theft

- problems with weight

- problems with people shaving some of the metal off

- problems with counterfeits -- not actually easy to test the percentage of gold in your coin

- problems with credit markets. Credit markets need to move money around quickly and efficiently, and be able to raise large sums. That's not compatible with socks filled with gold buried under your rose bush. The money needs to be available in the credit markets so it can be efficiently deployed, moved around, etc.

So from the beginning, gold was used for specialized purposes -- e.g. to settle international trade or large payments, rather than as a primary means of payment.

There is no way to get around this. The moment you introduce gold, merchants will start borrowing gold by selling Bills of Exchange -- effectively promises to pay gold. These bills of exchange will be more valuable if they are bearer instruments, and so the merchant will make them bearer instruments (to allow raising more money). Then you get a market in which people are buying and selling bills of exchange at a discount. Now you have a discount rate and a money market, and all you are missing is a financial crisis in which a large bank steps to staff their discount window when the smaller traders are forced to close their own. All of a sudden, you are back to credit-based money, as the Bills of Exchange are themselves used to settle more trade than the gold coins. It's just a lot easier to carry a piece of paper that says "X promises to pay 1000 gold coins next year" then it is to actually lug 1000 gold coins around.

The ease of convenience, the needs of merchants to tap capital markets, will ultimately subvert whatever metallic standard you come up with. Then, financial crises will drag in the government to start regulating and centralizing the capital markets.
Rent one for a week and see if you like it! It's an opinionated camera.
I suspect part of the issue was that until Visual Studio 2015 MSVC did not have a stable C++ ABI [0].

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-...
Just because that is a common feature of ponzi schemes, that alone doesn't make it a ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme takes some sort of initial investment from new investors and gives that back to old investors in form of "return". Meaning, the system itself doesn't rely on any sort of growth in order to return, only the sign up of new people into the scheme, which is why they can seemingly deliver such reliable returns to early investors. Eventually you run out of new people to sign up, and the entire house of cards falls apart very quickly.
Pointers! I spent my whole youth, started programming at 7 years old, and believe me, when you don’t know English, reading the GW-BASIC book back-to-back is a performance. But I had always been limited, until 19 years old when a college teacher taught us the pointers.

It’s as if I had seen the world with only 1 dimension instead of 3 for all that time.
Not quite.

Conceptually, you can have constness in your subtype-system (as long as you are sticking with interfaces (methods), as Liskov's subtyping model does, and aren't inherting potentially-mutable fields).

MutableMap and ImmutableMap are both subtypes of a hypothetical ReadableMap. ImmutableMap is the same as ReadableMap, but has an informal contract that subclasses shouldn't add mutability.
Are you thinking 2D or 3D? Animation?
Oh my, I need to update my understanding of CE markings if it's like this in this instance. This is going to be complete chaos.
I had no idea if my website was small or pico. Thanks! I qualify as 'small' in this list and I'm proud of that (10k viewers / mo).

My website is aimed at older children (education), it's no-code Bubble.io and I use google adsense to drive revenue. It _just about_ balances as cost neutral to operate. I do not update any content any more often than once every 3-5 years.
Back when I first looked at them 5 years or so ago, they were trying to sell me "hyperconverged infrastructure" which was basically just a thoughtfully designed blade chassis. Their software seemed very nice, kind of a software-defined-storage type thing that Just Worked and by all accounts it did work very nicely.

BUT, and this was a big but back then - their prices were obscene. Vaguely equivalent hardware from Dell was less than half the price and was readily available (Nutanix in my region had long lead times on gear at the time).
The point I was making is that systems have a tendency to centralize, even in the absence of a bad actor. Decentralization was really well supported in the Python ecosystem in former times, it no longer is. The trend is pretty self evident I would argue.
Seems like NNTP would be the better choice.
The former. The latter would be a theory conspiracist.
And much of what we percieve as real isn't. Your senses are used as an input to a model rather than being available in a raw form and we percieve the model. For example your brain takes a stream of data from your eyes as they flick in different directions and different focus levels. But what you percieve is a fully rendered model with no edges and an understanding of depth. But it is always an abstraction. The yellow blob at the edge of your field of view may be a lion rather than a wheat field. And the car 100m away could be the size of a mountain.
Lol. Just discovered that Munger coined febezzle to describe the "wealth effect" a boom/bubble produces. That gap between value created and quoted market cap can grow very large even without manifestly criminal activity. This is effectively a "bezzle", and likewise, will only grow until it explodes. Which is why the longer a bubble runs, the more painful it is when it pops.

http://mungerisms.blogspot.com/2009/09/philanthropy-round-ta...
When I worked there, margins on the cables were something like 85-95% so employee discounts were huge. On other items, TVs and such, the margins are much much lower so at most you got $25-50 off of the sale price.
It seems you have installed a lot of plugins or otherwise did many customizations to wp. Do you have a walkthrough by chance?
Looks promising for sure! I know its hard to fund etc. but it'd be nice if truly 100% open-source options existed! Even the ones that are open-source, then have pricing for SSO etc. which is disappointing. I see the same in the headless CMS space where tools like Strapi, make it very hard to adopt without paying $$$.
think of it as clojure to java, even without embodying the whole lisp ethos, it gives you a lispy base to write python code, plus extra niceties (threading -> IIRC)

plus you get to benefit from paredit under emacs
One thing I learned from this FTX situation is that VC firms are horrible at their job.

How does one of the world's largest VC firms, Sequoia, with 90b dollars in assets not do simple due diligence on their investments.

Do VC firms not do background check on executives, or look at financial statements of the company they put their money in?
I can't quite understand what the author's problem is. There's a bunch of conclusions without actually explaining the problem.
A strong conclusion from a weak study. I do think the way the police intervened probably wasn’t effective- a one shot intense enforcement effort.

A counter example is my kids school. Their was a real problem with people speeding through the school zone. School district police started showing up at least one a week for about 6 months and occasionally after that.

I don’t have quantitative results, but qualitatively speeds have remained down for years afterwards, especially because they still park a police car there every month or two.

I’m not saying speed enforcement is the right solution generally, but done correctly in the right circumstances it does seem like it can lead to persistent change.
I'm not being sarcastic at all. I'm not saying that Meta's actions are moral.

The comment above mine said "there's always a human at the end of the decision" implying that if Meta just had more ethical individuals, then Meta would make more ethical decisions. I am arguing that it doesn't matter whether the individuals have good or bad moral values, because the company values profit above all else.
Yeah I have owned a few thinkpads. I went for a desktop because I am totally fucking done with owning laptops now. I don't need one so I'm not bothering any more.
The Four Agreements freed me from the self help book cycle. They are the building blocks that all other advice is rooted on. Most sage wisdom, famous quotes, etc, is really difficult to really internalize if you haven't already run into a situation that demands it. However, T4A can be implemented immediately by anyone and gives you a framework that can handle anything you throw at it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Agreements