skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They very much want capitalism, but not a corrupted form of it.

Let me clarify and demonstrate that we basically agree. The difference is inclusivity vs exclusivity.

They want exclusive socialism - as in guaranteed high base living standards - for an ethnic elite, built on the labor and deprivation of an subservient ethnic underclass working natural resources that the ethnic elite hold own over.

There will still be those who own more capital and less, but importantly they will be limited to the ethnic elite.

There are plenty of historical examples of this: slave economies in the Americas, extractive colonialism, apartheid, Jim Crow and so many other examples.

I would agree that liberal capitalist democracy runs counter to all of those goals, because it is (at least in-theory) inclusive.
Are you using the chronological timeline? If you're using the algorithmic timeline, this can happen even if a user isn't shadowbanned. Facebook does this too.
It depends how it is implemented. If I go to your profile and see all of your tweets - i am fine with them not being on my time-line
My old Alfa reliably engages the reverse lights, but often at the cost of shorting out the instrument cluster
It's a new thing to me, I hadn't really considered it. Do they have that for movies and stuff? I can't think of a clear case when I've seen it
Moving atoms must be 6x10^23 more satisfying than slinging electrons. Kudos to making the leap to building infrastructure for the community.

May I ask what made you take the leap?
One time I had a conversation with a coworker who was asking me what they thought was a simple question.

I tried to explain over and over again that I didn't think the question was very simple, that there could be at least 3 different answers depending on the context and that he would have to specify more. But he was so certain that it was simple that he didn't want to listen to any of my explanations. Eventually it came down to him trying to force me into saying either:

a. That I was too stupid to answer or even understand the question.
b. Some false solution to the problem that I already knew wouldn't work with the reliability we needed.

From that point on, I was pretty damn sure that I didn't want to work with this coworker ever again, and I eventually left the company largely because of them (this obviously wasn't the only issue I had with them, or the company at large, but still it played a large role).
> This seems like startup 101.
On one hand, I can see why it's fraud. On the other hand, I can't - because it seems indistinguishable from a lot of businesses.

This is the problem right here. Fake it till you make it bullshit. Rather than actually innovating, just pretend you are.
Perhaps you mean "neurotypical" when you are saying "normal".
Solving puzzles with hypothesis
I created a really popular park in a mid-sized city. It’s surreal to see all kinds of people play on it.
Wait, wasn't "es4x" the name of the scrapped edition of ecmascript which was decided to be too ambitious and replaced by the much more conservative ES5?

Answer: no. That one was branded "e4x"
Agreed. LeCun comes across as a Meta employee and apologist first, and a scientist second.
the lack of domain expertise of a white-collar worker to be able to judge the veracity of charitable activities

That's why the first thing EA did is evaluate which charities are most effective. In a few seconds you can find things like https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/donate/organizations
Except now they will be bullied with “you only exist because so your mom could have gotten a lighter prison sentence”
The combination of the new Circles twitter feature with the non-algorithmic timeline is a good attempted remedy for this - people can share their niche tweets only with circles which allows filtering which audiences they're for. It has problems, but multiple people I follow have successfully started using them to make their main timeline less cluttered.

Having people's tweets obliterated by a new Algorithm(tm) because it decided they are bad definitely doesn't feel like a good fix for the issue.
You think that there should be a guide rail, or you should orient yourself towards something for meaning to work. My point is that we come into this world with more or less a trajectory (think of it as an orientation if you will). I think you have to be socially isolated or depressed to not see how your values lead you to meaningful action. Someone who is well integrated into their culture or subculture does not care to question if there is a meaning to life because they are already doing meaningful things.
^ This is the software described in the thesis

Very impressive. Both the markup language and the performance.
Unfortunately, I think the sentence is appropriate and hope it serves as a lesson. We have too many startup founders today that think lying, cheating and defrauding investors, customers, employees are table stakes or worse "hacking it" or faking it till you make it- is OK and justified. Look at how casual SBF seems even after being caught as a fraud. There's no remorse. Its disgusting to many Americans who work hard, follow the rules and make low wages doing an honest job.
Oh wow, I didn't catch that. Awesome work man, I'm fan of Cozo and hope to make contributions in the future!
no it'd be like saying people who design bridges don't need to know CAD

you're saying they can't pour footings for a data center -- not the same job at all

(or even can't set up a build system, which, god bless)
That's more of a NIMY - Not in My Yard kind of thing.

I think the parent post is referring to the library example. At a certain point you don't get to keep the land around you from being used in any way other than it was exactly when you moved in.

Eminent domain is a different issue that should have a much higher barrier to use, and has likely been abused historically.
Reading about SBF it seems like he was just doing arbitrage trading crypto between Asia and the US. When new players arrived that money fountain dried up and he turned to riskier ventures which blundered. None of that seems particularly brilliant, yet he was perceived as such. Plus he was a billionaire giving his money away. I think people just want heroes and ignore the red flags.
Long ago, Jim Gleick is sort of an example. Was a well-known science writer in the early 1990s, mostly for an excellent book called Chaos. He jumped onto the nascent internet train, starting an Internet Service Provider in NYC called The Pipeline, with a custom hardware and software stack (I wrote some of his software). This was around the time a soon to be very famous browser company called Netscape was getting started. He was successful and sold for circa 8 figures (big money back then) a few years later. He went back to writing after that. The startup wasn't directly in a subject matter sense related to his book work, but his intensity and curiosity and need to understand and make something were consistent across both endeavors. Hope that helps.
Not be selfish.
That is encouraging. The dodgy code I see in Nheko itself must, then, be mostly UI stuff, probably coded the way dictated by Qt.
What he wrote about delusions and nightmares in the ICU really hits close to home. When I was younger I ended up in the ICU for an accidental poisoning. Initially I went in and out of consciousness, having horrific nightmares fed by the morbid happenings around me. We had many interesting patients come through the ICU. One person was there for a suicide attempt on prescription drugs. Another person had been in a car accident. At one point we even had a prisoner who had been stock-piling drugs to kill himself on. They had him hooked up to a dialysis machine which apparently works well when the drugs aren't fat soluble? It was like a real life episode of House.

Meanwhile I wasn't mentally doing that great. When I was finally conscious I started hallucinating and hearing voices. I was hearing insults from the staff that weren't there and felt like everything was done with malicious intent. It was quite traumatic. I actually remembered these delusions for years afterwards and had trouble accepting that it wasn't real. It's only been a recent thing that I've even been able to speak about such experiences without shutting down emotionally. The work that doctors and staff do at ICUs is extremely valuable. But it's definitely not a great place for a vulnerable mind.

I feel like there is more that could be done in such a situation. e.g. where someone is profoundly hallucinating. I was over-stimulated and noise was making everything worse. If I just had of had a dark room to recover in I probably wouldn't have been traumatized. Maybe even ear plugs or a mask. But I didn't even have that. I'm also kind of surprised by the OPs story because the ICU I was in was like this closed surgical ward filled with medical staff. ICUs don't really seem like a place to have visitors. I get the feeling many people there aren't even going to be conscious. OPs dad is lucky to have had such good family support.
What can you do in Twitter that you can't so in Instagram?
Could you elaborate a little about how these are implemented?
This really gets on my nerves! Some twit of a programmer (probably via a committee) "knows" whether a system has connectivity.

For some people Facebook is the internet and for others it is Outlook. Somehow a twiddler at MS has decided that a file on a web server at some wanky location is the internet and that's the final answer.

"I cn haz a file" is fine lovely internets! No it bloody well isn't. You should be constructing a response to a challenge from the other end, not a response to a simple GET like it's 1999.

I run quite a few systems/sites that have multiple internet connections - deciding whether the internet is available is quite a nuanced thing and that Windows internet detector is bloody stupid, naive and a fucking hindrance.

Define "internet" and then have a crack at defining "internet accessibility". Those things are quite specific to individuals. orgs and so on. Connectivity is way too complicated for a simple, naive check.
Sounds like the story of HP Labs Smallbase (now Oracle TimesTen):

"TimesTen was founded in HP labs by Marie-Anne Neimat, Sherry Listgarten, Kurt Shoens and Kevin Wilkerson, under the name of Smallbase" [0].

The you have that "Marie-Anne approached HP management about spinning out TimesTen as a separate company" [1].

Smallbase HP Labs publications (I couldn't find the originals) cited by [2]:

** “Smallbase API Reference Manual (Smallbase 4.1)”, Database Technology Department,
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, April 1995.

** M. Heytens, S. Listgarten, M. Neimat, K. Wilkinson, “Smallbase: A Main-Memory DBMS for
High-Performance Applications (Release 3.7)”, Database Technology Department, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, December 1994.

--

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimesTen

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3019296/44marie-anne-neimat

[2] TPC-B on Smallbase and P21 -- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TPC-B-on-Smallbase-and...
I got it crashed on my try

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14

~480:9 ratio, source was scaled to 6300x120 to get it past YT (more optimization possible probably, ran out of uploads)

https://imgur.com/a/e3BbnUR
It is pretty frustrating to me that Holmes was only ever convicted of defrauding investors and not patients.
Followed this back to the homepage and the docs, and determined to try this out based on the quality of that writing. Clear and a pleasure to read.
I meant something like this:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/09/12/191382/a-new-and...
So much emphasis on thinking about gear changes does seem a bit unfamiliar to me - but it could just be since my first driving experience was also manual, I was learning all this in the background while my main focus was trying not to hit anything.

Never did anything as exciting as you but I do feel like maybe being a passenger for so many years gives you an ear for when a gear change is needed, and you hear "sorry, wrong gear" and feel the lack of acceleration or whatever. As for /why/, I just imagined cycling up a hill.
Probably bsdiff; a few hundred lines of code hacked together over a weekend has saved people over a hundred thousand years of waiting for software updates to download.

Next up is probably scrypt; it would rank higher if cryptocurrencies used it, but instead they use nerfedscrypt which defeats the entire point of scrypt.

Third is probably FreeBSD/EC2. Of course I didn't do all the work for that, but I can certainly claim the status of technical project manager.

My day job, Tarsnap, comes in fourth.
> "apply the rules consistently" is like "unbiased journalism", it is an impossible standard that literally nobody adheres to.

Yes, but some claim to do so while deliberately doing the opposite, while others say they're bad at it while actually trying. Corporations (such as Twitter) are exclusively toward the former end of the spectrum.
Enron was publicly traded and the fraud affected a huge number of people, retirement plans, etc.

Holmes defrauded a few dozen investors that quite honestly should’ve known better.
Enforcement was historically quite lax, especially for public figures. It's quite common to see a tweet which is just a screenshot of the "we locked your account until you delete this bad tweet" popup that someone got for posting something horrible, and the screenshot (containing the post that got them actioned!) doesn't get deleted. It takes a lot of boundary pushing to get your account nuked unless you get targeted by DMCA notices or you REALLY piss off someone with connections.
Yeah, and there's also no guarantee the computer's certificates are even up to date (eg. first time you connect a PC after a fresh install off older media)
nice, excuse my ignorance I had actually never seen it differentiated in that way but it makes a lot of sense.
Before you jump the gun again...

> Not about saving money

Then why even bring it up, let alone cite it as something that change[ds] one's views?

> maybe you disagree fundamentally with things like assisted suicide

In fact I do not. There was a time when my mother wanted to end it, and I wasn't the one who stopped her. I respected her right to make her own choice. Her condition subsequently improved to the point where she no longer wished that, leading to the current status quo, but that's already far more than any of the pissants in this thread deserved to hear about it. Expressing one's own wish for a supposedly-loved one to die is indefensible, even if they also wish it for themselves.
>I don't see how forgiveness is ruthless

for that type of person, what it really means = you're dead to me

hence why they mention mourning as a key feeling. I think I'm like this too.
Yes - my wife is a physician and she routinely describes how well meaning family members make care harder for their loved ones by trying too hard in the wrong ways. Requesting more care doesn’t get you better care - “squeaky wheel gets the grease” doesn’t really apply in many situations.
Even if their backup was to invest in medical index funds of some sort, this would have been a better usage.

I don't think it was common knowledge that theranos was a scam in the medical industry until relatively late.
> the power of numbers

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't that the point of democracy? If enough people agree with your view then that's what gets implemented. The point of the parent is that you can't let people with the loudest voices and most free time abuse the system.
Possibly Visicalc? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
I'd like to say by educating people and showing them how to spot that, but I'm afraid that would just make spectacle more elaborate
you can get matte screen, same product as papermate uses for ipad pro to let Apple Pencil feel like it's writing on paper

after a couple years of matte, i can't stand iPad Pro screen w/o it

used to swear by trackpoint, it can't "gesture" or "multi-touch" tho, magic trackpad converges Macbook with iPad, so worth getting one for desktop Macs too
Picking 1/10^9 would also have had the advantage of making the distance from the pole to the equator ~1 gigacentimeter.

Exploring a bit, picking 4 times that, as an estimate of the circumference, would give us a basic length unit of 4 cm (a pretty reasonable unit—bit over an inch and a half, fits right in with the variety of Chinese cun standards, for example). Then our immediate volume unit is 64 mL, which seems kind of small (on the scale of 2 floces), but ten of them make a decent "pint", so I think it can work—it's ~13% bigger than an imperial pint instead of ~12% smaller. the corresponding mass unit, at ~64 g, which again seems a bit small but manages to line up an average person's weight right around 1 kilo.
I had a family member who wasn't even in ICU, and still experienced delusions simply from being sick and being in the hospital for a few days. He thought there was a group of family members around the corner waiting to jump out and surprise him and was insistent that I tell them not to disturb the other patients. I had to argue with him to get him to accept that, no, there is not a random group of family members waiting to jump out. He insisted he heard them talking and stuff. It was pretty disconcerting for me actually because he has always been a psychologically-bulletproof person. Definitely an eye-opening moment for me.
You're correct, at global scale it's still peanuts (and of course it's not a single server but redundant clusters of servers).

I have a problem at your math though, I'm guessing with the overhead and the pretend-IE headers it could be a whole Ethernet packet (which can be up to 1,500TB/day, but realistically it could be around 500TB).
Would society be any better off if she got 20 years vs 11 years (also accounting for the $300000 those 9 years would cost the government)? I guess read https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/elizabeth-holmes-sente... and see if it changes your mind. Her life is basically ruined with the only consolation being the fact that her husband is rich and I doubt any would be fraudster would repeat what she did if they knew they could get 11 years for it. I think there is a case to be made for penalizing some of the more calculated frauds, like there is a huge Medicare fraud problem and there'll be cases with loss amounts in the millions where people get 2-3 years which in my opinion is too low to have a deterrent effect. But giving her any more just seems cruel and would ultimately just hinder whatever restitution she is supposed to make.
I have been in the ICU and can relate to the hallucinations.

During one intense round, I was convinced the hospital wasn't real, and that I needed to leave immediately.

My IV was preventing me from leaving, and I couldn't have that.

So of course I ripped it out and tried my best to leave. The staff wasn't having it.
It seems the less likely an event is to occur, the less likely your vendor put work into handling it.

This recalls perhaps the biggest mistake in the GPS specification, the 1024-week rollover period. A timespan long enough to be impractical to test without expensive simulator hardware, short enough to be virtually guaranteed to cause problems in long-term installations... and long enough for OEMs to ignore with impunity. ("Eh, it's 20 years, by that time I'll be retired/dead/working somewhere else.")

Moral: timescale rollovers need to be designed to happen very frequently -- as in a few days at most -- or not at all. Unfortunately the leap second implementers didn't have that option.
Hardly unusual, half the kids I see could fit that description. Yet, here we are. Life finds a way.
As an American, I expected a big difference in Europe, but it felt kinda like an older, smaller town. New Orleans feels very European. And my point is that it’s distinct, and you know what it is that you’re feeling.

The mind fucking thing you’re talking about, the “uncanny valley,” is Canada. Vancouver is so much like Seattle, or any other US city in some ways, but there’s something off that you can’t quite explain. There are small details that are just wrong.
From my recollection of Catholic school, Judas was tempted into being the betrayer, but his legacy as the betrayer is due to his abandoning his faith in Jesus and refusing to confess his sins. Both Judas and Peter are supposed to have betrayed Jesus on Good Friday, but Peter repented while Judas let his guilt drive him to suicide.

The message is supposed to be the devil tempts us all, and failure is inevitable, but God/Jesus forgives all.
Uh, "everything" comes to mind:

- mail (Exim/Dovecot/Sieve/Spamassassin/greylistd)

- XMPP messaging (Prosody)

- Video (Peertube)

- Media (Airsonic, mpd, jellyfin, karaoke forever)

- "cloud" (Nextcloud running a host of services, Collabora office (libreoffice online), ...)

- wiki (Bookstack)

- revision control (gitea)

- search (SearxNG)

- "social media" (Pixelfed, Pleroma) (just for experiments)

- remote desktop/remote applications (Kasm, X2go through a VPN)

- VPN (Wireguard)

- privacy-protecting application proxies (Youtube -> Invidious, Twitter -> Nitter, Reddit -> libreddit, search -> SearxNG)

- ad block list provider for Bromite

- mapping/navigation (OSM Maps in Nextcloud)

- p2p (Transmission, MLDonkey, IPFS)

- surveillance (Zoneminder)

- build services (on-demand containers through Proxmox)

- minetest (Minecraft clone) server (for experiments)

- administration/bookkeeping (Elicon online, an old Swedish web-based system which I kept running)

- a virtual router to tie all this together (OpenWRT running in a container in Proxmox)

- Database services needed for the above (PostgreSQL, Mysql, Redis all running in a single container)

- Backup service (rsnapshot) with backup being mirrored off-site (and out of country) to my brother's network

- all the scaffolding needed for the above

...and more. All of this on a single DL380G7 "under the stairs", connected through gigabit fibre. Proxmox on the host, Debian on the containers, OpenWRT in a container as well. Some VMs for Windows-on-demand which hardly see any use. The machine serves my extended family as well as a number of public resources. Waste heat is used to dry produce. The machine hardly breaks a sweat. Power comes from solar panels on the barn roof.

My goal is to
>That's how we got flat Earth to get so big.

What evidence do you have for the causality here? I'm not convinced that's what has fueled the surge of anti-science movements like flatearthism.

Please share with us why you are so confident of this assertion!
This person is complaining about right-wing nutjobs — the Project Veritas person in this case — being mistreated. This is not worth further investigation.
You thought it wasn’t real as in you though everyone was an actor in a fake hospital building or you thought you were in a whole nother plane of existence?
That is irrelevant though.

It sucks that Apple does this but it doesn't actually change the fact that Firefox use is at 3%.
It’s unclear what the trade offs are. Much improved IO, but what’s the cost? I can’t imagine there’s a free lunch.
Activision claims this is false and has submitted documents disproving these claims: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1593344663385153537?...

"Epic is accusing Activision Blizzard’s partner Google of paying us not to compete with them.

To be clear: that's false.

Google never asked us, pressured us, or made us agree not to compete with them - and we’ve already submitted documents and testimony disproving this nonsense."
So that's what, 2 days on the Cosmic Calendar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar
> Somehow a twiddler at MS has decided that a file on a web server at some wanky location is the internet and that's the final answer.

Seems like it's the same in many linux distros as well as android and chrome os. It's right there in the article. So it's not really MS specific at all.