skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> AI aren't children

That doesn't mean they couldn't or shouldn't be regulated as if they were. At some point, intelligence will be protected, and the implications of creating and training it may be governed in similar ways as humans currently allow.

Just as I see a clear and total delineation between commercial and non-commercial entities, defining non-adult and adult (or 'able to consent' and 'unable to consent') may be litmus tests for whether certain laws will apply under a non-human-centric world view.
Ha, yeah I was just wondering about that. I haven’t re-read more than a few passages of it since that class. I remember the world Ellison described and the feeling of being there on the street with the narrator was so real.

Turns out it’s only $2.99 on Kindle right now. That’s inspiration enough to give it another read :)
I've never noticed such happening by eyes, but I've definitely seen distant ocean reflections (tiny randomly-shifting specks of light) being misinterpreted as colors by Bayer matrix camera sensors.
Ah, I assumed touchscreen-only right away.
Check IDs before handing over the tickets. Cuts resale to in line at the event, which tanks the efficiency of the resale market.
You could just read the bill, its pretty plain language. For the LOLs I'll read it for you. The DARE act boils down to crypto is completely socialized in the Bahamas UNLESS the business is being operated under pretty typical accounting principles. Or rephrased, hands off anarcho if you're not a crook, but if you're a crook then what amounts to "The SEC for the Bahamas" is your new CEO. This is not exactly the way banks are run in the USA, but its close enough to echo. It seems a reasonable way to regulate criminality in an industry. Its very easy to follow the common sense laws to avoid, essentially having your company nationalized by the regulator.

Who is "they":

Under Part V Section 41. Co-operative Power paragraph 2, as what boils down to "the SEC for the Bahamas" they will cooperate with other nations equivalent of the SEC "other domestic regulatory authority". So if the US SEC or US bankruptcy court asked them nicely, they can at their discretion (see paragraph 4) cooperate. My point above is the "they" deciding to do this is kind of unclear. Certainly gaining control of assets would kind of be the job of the bankruptcy court so if they asked the Bahamas Commission to help out, could, and in my opinion, probably did.

Based on my opinion of what I've read about what happened, SBF violated the entirety, not just one or two paragraphs, but the entire section, of Part III section 17 "Adequate systems and controls for digital token exchanges", subs a thru e inclusive, so they could be operating entirely on their own.

They could be doing all of this on their own or as a favor to the USA SEC, I donno. But no one seems to have considered Sec 41 in their rush to decide to "they" are whom are deciding things.

Anyway, regardless who decided to act:

Under Part II Section 5 paragraph 2 sub h, "do all things, and take all action, which may be necessary or expedient or are incidental to the discharge of any function or power given to the Commission".

The power they're probably invoking is Part II Section 4 paragraph 2 sub b, for the purposes of ensuring the "... development and maintenance of investor protection standards with respect to digital asset business..." So their legal purpose is to stop crooks from embezzling investors money. Combined with the paragraph above they likely think the leaving the investor assets in the control of SBF would be a little unwise as everyone seems to think he's already stolen billions of dollars worth of them, so what little is left should be preserved or at least removed from his opportunity to continue to pilfer.

Under Part III section 19 para 1 sub e, when they declared bankruptcy the registration to operate is auto-revoked and then para 4 hits "Where the Commission has suspended the registration of a digital asset business, the Commission may impose such conditions upon or give such directions to the registrant, including timeline for compliance, with which conditions or directions the registrant must comply."

So I have not seen the paperwork served on SBF in a leak or whatever, but it probably resembles the above.
This is hacker news
In Oregon & Washington, there are "truffle dog classes." They teach the dog how to sniff out whatever they call "truffles" up there. (Maybe someone who knows the species can tell us what they are.)

I'm pretty sure my dog would be great at this, but then he would be worth stealing. Ergo, I'm not doing it. Aside from the fact that it would be a 10-hour drive for me.
Assuming Car() is a receiver function, you should be able to infer "how" the Car is "fetched" based on the type receiving the function call.

func (d CarDB) func Car() (Car, error)

The above tells you everything you need to know.
As for usage, again, the type and now also the variable names should let you infer everything you need.

func f(db *CarDB) {
c, _ := db.Car()
}

The function name makes as little of a guarantee as to the underlying "how" as these other factors.
PageRank Manipulation and How Google Fight It
> What agony, losing a child in slow motion.

These words are both poetic and heart-wrenching.
The UN has no voter mandate.
Since this i s HN, I can be this boomer and say: We survived with blogs, forums and IRC. Without a problem.

Dear, friends, your "convenience" and "dopamine" habits created monopolies which normalized surveillance to the point of no return, and literally are giving away data and your future to the algorithm overlords.

The results of this immature behavior are the pillar on which WEF and other billionaires are building "the fourth industrial revolution" where you will have literally zero value in the production chain, you will eat whatever they tell you and play it "safe" in the name of your "positive" social score.

So I say it again: Find the way to decentralize, create new habits, throw away your phones and fancy toys and start working for humanity and against the dark patterns of today's pharaohs.

Outside the tech bubble, the real world is waiting patiently and asking for your help. Transhumanism is not the future of humankind.
What are you implying?

Seems straightforward enough. Startup threatens to disrupt incumbent. Incumbent does shady things. Startup sues. Incumbent settles for money and IP that makes the threat go away.
CodeRunner's pretty great as both a text editor and fairly comprehensive IDE for many languages. Its on Mac tho might not be helpful
> much more enjoyable

?

> played with obesity

plagued maybe. but also, no, corpos don't make people fat, and crime rates per pop are not as us/them as one might expect: https://i.redd.it/zzbhmc3gd4u31.png
Ban it.

Problem solved
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the difference between France and America distilled to its very essence like these two posts.
Thank you. I'll use this to explain whataboutism to my students.
I think these efforts point out something valuable, although probably not in the way the creators intended. Lots of people use "markers" of reliability, like citing your sources or making sentences with a certain kind of structure or tone, to estimate trustworthiness. These articles make it clear that it is entirely possible to have those markers, but be entirely incorrect in your assertions about the topic in question.

There is no particular reason to think that this is something only AI models do. Plenty of people do the same thing, working much harder at looking, sounding, and acting like a trustworthy source, without actually putting much work into knowing what they are talking about. I think the absurdly incompetent nature of some of these AI models, is a great illustration of that point.
A Quick Benchmark of {Open,Libre,Boring}SSL
Well, "changed my life" might be a bit much, but "Free Software, Free Society" really changed how I viewed the field I was entering. I didn't really "get" why a developer would just give away code, but the combination of seeing firsthand the power of the libre ecosystem of code-sharing and reading RMS's philosophical arguments both helped solidify my position and also handed me logical tools to use to reason about it and defend my position.

I read it as an e-book originally but ended up buying the signed copy.
In a situation you have to make choices as to what is important and, I don't think transferring knowledge is as important as everyone thinks in this case. The users don't directly make twitter money so there's no direct losses from downtime, plus advertisers are being scared away so the indirect losses from downtime from not being able to show ads is also minimized at the moment. The biggest cost is tipping the exodus numbers so far that what is left of twitter loses it's network effects to attract new users onces the next version is launched and the exodus is really far from that level right now. So, what's the expected value of a 12-48 hour outage on the small chance that something totally breaks and it takes your team of really smart people that long to figure it out without the knowledge transfer? I would say it's pretty small. On the other hand what is the benefit of using a decent chunk of the remaining six billion in cash in the company to pay off and push out all the people that will work life balance the plan into not working (and the smaller subset of wokes that will actively sabotage it)? I would say pretty high, given what the plan apparently is. There is also a time value to getting this done because the faster they do it the faster it can fade from collective consciousness and the faster things die down enough for Elon to step back from the CEO role, put a kinder, gentler but competent face in that role, rebuild advertiser relationships and make this thing print money.

I know if I was in his position I would be trying to fire more people than I actually think I need to right now just to make sure I don't have to prolong the bad press with later layoffs and to ensure there are roles to fill in three to six months when I get a full handle on the business and know what I actually need. This would accomplish both generating good press and ensure I can fill positions with people aligned with my vision and work ethic.
I am going to repeat myself here.

Quick Google search for "icu beds per capita" finds: https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-...

US: 25.8 / 100K population

Germany: 33.9 / 100K
Noam Chomsky's political books- Manufacturing Consent- and his reporting books, like Turning The Tide. Lots of strong opinions about Chomsky. For me as an American his work presented life-changing evidence documenting the operations of power.
http://www.helenos.org/wiki/FAQ

I find the FAQ to be more enlightening than this page. It explains what it is used for (OS research research in Charles University, Prague) and how it is different than other operating systems (genode, minix, hurd).
Considering that on these Apple devices the Apple store is literally the only entry point for running actual programs on these devices, I would say it is indeed pretty equivalent to "not being able to setup the computer".
Not really "products". But the stuff coming out of MS Research is mostly great!

But granted, MS Research is not M$…
So they gave up on what they believed in for money?

Not really the heartwarming david and goliath tale he is going for I think.
Yeah sorry, I got confused. You have to have the GraalVM installed, yeah. The open source CE will do.
Songkick was not doing well it seems:

> Songkick shut down in October 2017 after earlier declaring bankruptcy. In January 2018, Live Nation reached a $110 million settlement with Songkick to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the startup had filed under which Live Nation agreed to acquire Songkick’s technology assets and patents.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/ticketmaster-10-million-...
Since I am not a US citizen, the US constitution doesn't really matter to me. The UN, as the only global body we have, does matter so.
The UN is a waste of *every* country's taxpayers' money.
Counterpoint: Dice is terrible. Sure it makes sense for bigger artist that will sold out, but for most it is not necessary and it forces you :

- To have a smartphone

- To give out your phone number

- To create an account

The worst? You can't even resale the ticket if the event is not sold out! Usually if I'm unable to attend a concert, I'll put my ticket up for sale for half the price, but with Dice, you just wasted money on empty seats. Great.
> the only free Jetbrains product

Patently false: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
I completely agree. Each nation has it's own flavor of monetarism and governance that results in a unique outcome with varying degrees of real time control. China have more arbitrary control over business that results in greater real time arbitrary stipulation of monetary outcome. Governance over business is less arbitrary and more predictable in the USA, most of the time anyway.
The phrase “release early, release often” has nothing to do with shipping or production. The phrase comes from open source projects making their code available quickly and iteratively, often before reaching even an MVP, as part of the normal development process.

That said, your points about rushing out incomplete and buggy software do seem to reflect the status quo. Every project I have worked on in the past 10 years had technical debt that often interfered with my engineering efforts, because almost no one bothers to clean up their work after they get their branch working.
The Hiding Place. It gave me a much better perspective on life, and made my own problems feel small and approachable.
Mostly agreed but I think the appropriate regulatory response is to split Ticketmaster into three businesses: a venue operator, a ticketing company, and a ticket resale company, and to forbid exclusive agreements between them.

As separate companies they’d seek the best deals and wouldn’t collude to exclude new entrants in each others’ markets.
The scooters here in Paris are competing with a large numbers of bikes, cars and motorized scooters and feel more dangerous than the others vehicles.

There's also the common doubling-up of people, and you occasionally have to add taking selfies into the mix.

There's a lot of other options for shared mobility and they all seem way safer. I don't think that's universally true for a all cities, but certainly for Paris.

(Not a Parisian, but currently enjoying a week here)
That isn’t relevant because it’s not a mental disorder. Your logic would defend holocaust deniers likewise
Father of four here, had one two months ago.

> It also doesn’t help that dads aren’t the patient after a birth, so they aren’t fed or given a bed.

Yes, and? You're free to go to the cafeteria and buy food or leave and go buy food. And there's usually at least a chair. What do you expect, a Marriott?
Because it actually does have an unusual taste--the added aroma--which many people like. So smelling is believing.
What’s an example conservative opinion? That we should reduce taxes? Or that white males are the most oppressed? Or both?
https://avherald.com/h?article=5013c619&opt=0

More detail

> An ATC report states in writing that the rescue vehicle entered runway 16 from the west at the height of taxiway B without authorization and collided with flight LA-2213.
> In January 2018, shortly prior to a pending trial, Live Nation settled the lawsuit for $110 million, and also acquired the remaining intellectual property not sold to WMG for an undisclosed amount.

It sounds like after the sale of the part of the company not involved in the lawsuit to WMG, they basically had no reason to keep the IP so they sold it to whoever wanted it.

Which happened to be Live Nation/Ticket Master
This is really high up on my list too. I came in with the same preconception about him that you describe. It was inspiring to see how he changed throughout the book.
Looks really nice but I haven’t tried it yet. I wrote a small book on my take on Haskell programming using a small subset of the language (read for free on my web site https://markwatson.com). When I update my book I might add an Okapi example. I have played around with Spock for simple web apps and that is nice enough, but I am really impressed by the care in putting together the Okapi documentation web site. Great material, nicely presented.
I would have asked how he could assert the truth of the proposition "Truth in mathematics is a social construct", since its truthfulness has to be a social construct too.
(I assume that mathematics encompasses formal logic too)
Ethereum Good Boy, Bitcoin Bad Says Greenpeace
I ran into this a few weeks ago with an Intel 12th Gen NUC. The Windows 11 install media does not have drivers for the LAN nor the WiFi so it just sits there saying you need to connect to a network to complete setup.

How on earth did Microsoft okay releasing a Professional version of their OS that offers no suggestion on how to finish the install when no network devices are detected?

A simple Google found me the answer but it is piss poor UX to offer zero options when it knows there is no network interface to enable.

People like to joke that you need the Terminal in Linux still and yet I couldn't even install the brand new Windows 11 on a computer without needing to open a command prompt using a keyboard shortcut and enter some cryptic command which rebooted my machine and enabled some hidden option.
Might be a bit US centric, but my recommendation is:

1. Read the reddit personal finance wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index/

2. Read The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins

3. Read The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

4. Read the Bogleheads' wiki https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page

5. Use a personal finance app to track budget and spending (I use Simplifi).

6. Track your Income, Expenses (just the broad category), Bills (per invoice), Assets, Debt on a spreadsheet with columns per month. I make it easy and put the hyperlink for the source of truth in the name of the row.

7. My general rule is that I need to have at least 50% savings each month from combined investments and income. This percentage is more defined by what year you want to "retire" and switch from capital accumulation to capital spending phases of your life.

8. This is the step I'm on now. I'm trying to learn finance in a far deeper capacity, so I'm spending time to learn accounting, finance, trading strategies. I'll run various accounts with different strategies and see how it goes. Those strategies will fall under the "speculative" part of my portfolio, which won't exceed more than I can afford to lose and still hit my retirement targets.
> Lastly, we analyzed the use of blue-light filters, according to an answer to a simple question: whether participants did or did not use a specific filter for filtering blue-light on their screens. Only 10.6% of the sample (N1⁄474) reported using filters, whereas 622 parti- cipants did not. The most prevalent means of filtering blue light were f.lux (Windows) and Twilight (Android) software. No significant dif- ferences were observed for all sleep-related variables mentioned in the previous analyses. A statistical trend was found for the duration of sleep on workdays (489 vs. 461 minutes, t1⁄43.595, p1⁄40.058, Cohen's d1⁄40.23), meaning those that used blue-light filters slept in average approximately 28 minutes longer on a workday than those that did not use any means of filtering blue-light. No other differences were observed. An interesting finding, however, is that the group of people who use filters had more (albeit without statistical signifi- cance) total screen exposure (8.6 vs. 8.3 hrs) on average and more screen exposure on PC (4.3 vs. 3.6 hrs) and mobile devices (3.6 vs 3.4hrs), but less exposure to TV (0.7 vs. 1.2 hrs).

The article is quite positive about blue lights and presents excuses for its findings in the discussion. They ask for a better study with more participants and more samples.

It also cite an interesting paper about patients with insomnia, so not the average hacker, who benefits from blue light filters to sleep better: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07420528.2019.1...

(I have access to these papers from work but there is a very convenient and famous website that we aren’t supposed to name on HN).
One of the companies I was in actually blocked the entire MS Store through policy, but this results in most of Windows 10 going batshit insane (e.g. the Settings app will not even allow you to change keyboard layouts, because to retrieve language files it must go to the MS Store).
Social constructionalism is to my understanding least surprisingly found in universities.

I think the issue is if you call every type of thought and communication "social construction" then you don't end up with anything useful.
Truffle oil tastes good, it’s not that expensive and I don’t care if it’s real
Consider working on genomics
I did not mean to say that it is not in the documentation... What I am saying is that it is not intuitive at all, and it has to be documented for anyone, not just for "beginners to programming" to know. The reason I am saying this is that "counter-intuitive" and "not intuitive" is often mentioned as a reason for the language being more beginner-friendly.
I think your perception is incorrect in both counts.

They went bankrupt and saved the app by selling it to Warner and selling IP to Live Nation.

And it doesn't seem like he was aiming for a heartwarming tale, the last message says "we gave it our best shot" and he is disappointed that there is no big, healthy competition.
Fill in the blank on this sentence a few times without thinking too much:

“It’s hard for me to _________________.”

Then, to make sure you’re not BS’ing yourself ask this follow-up question for each answer:

“Have I taken any action to fix this?”

If you haven’t, it’s probably a made up problem.

If you have, there is the starting point for your MVP idea…
That’s a very poor argument. No one is born perfect. We all have different levels of potential according to a set of skills. It’s up to us to go put in the practice.

Yes it will be easier for others. I don’t stop coding just because I won’t be to Peter Norvigs level. I still try and try and try and try …
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias.

What it did for me was inoculate me against all manner of foolish choices that I probably would have made during my young adulthood.

It's short, entertaining and practical. The mechanics of investing have evolved considerably over the years, but the author has released frequent updates. Also most of the lessons are timeless.

If I could sum up the most important point in the book, it's that in investing and finance, playing not-to-lose is unreasonably effective. Playing to win is usually a losing strategy.
The chart for my country show both an obvious jump from February to March and from June to September: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-economie/pr...
The essay is just amazing.
It's a good enough replacement for IRC.
The Law And Order episode "Rapture" is about a web site that automatically sends out its client's pre-written confessional and gloating emails after the Rapture takes place, which it cleverly detects when the two owners don't check in after a certain amount of time. Unfortunately they both die due to other less supernatural circumstances, the emails are triggered prematurely, and all hell breaks loose!

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderS19E...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343619/
This completely ignores the fact that twitter is run on advertising income, and that it's only value is its users. Twitter as a brand is in the tank.
Michael used to write lots of great Haskell material. I experimented with Yesod but used Spock (really simple framework) more. For business reasons, his company now supports non-Haskell languages.
Sorry, not being technical. The pits is probably a better way to put it. Point being just because the tank is empty doesn’t mean it’s safe. Should still fill with water.