skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations would pay the most. "The burden of running the country" would not fall on the middle class to support the country. The class based arguments are very unimaginative.

Why can't a consumption tax have progressive components? For example, if you buy a single-family residential property over $500k, the rate is higher, $1M higher, etc.. Buying a yacht? higher rate. Buying food? lower rate. A consumption tax does not have to be a flat, blankly applied tax.
Yes but the issue isn't specific to text. It works for anything that AI also produces.
The document does also say: "the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them".
Moxie has made his decision; now let him enforce it.
Thanks! I'm not sure, haven't found one. I'm kinda a sucker for heat maps so I just married the ideas...
I would say the quantity of the features does not mean that their quality is bad. We are very grateful to our open-source community for helping us out with many of these features (e.g., custom environment names were developed fully by one of our contributors Akhi - https://github.com/akhilmhdh).

Quality of the code is something that we care about increasingly more as we go further. We currently have a huge frontend revamp in process that will make the code much more organized and clearer.

Tests are also something that we are going to add very soon! Currently all the testing is manual - but I must say it's a pretty extensive process, so the quality of features is maintained.
Oh cool, reproducible builds without GCM.

The only flaw is this:
> you cannot use the same phone number on both apps at the same time. Only the last app to register will remain active, and the other will go offline
Biggest thing is they're running Windows games on Linux via Wine, and idk how happy Microsoft is with that.
I am beyond disinterested in football. Don't really like hamburgers much. And it's certainly debatable how mindfully I scroll. I find value in mindfulness and am open to suggestions and teachings on breathing and meditation.

But you'll need a heeeeeelllaaaa more data before you casually add "psychic powers" to the claims :-)
It also relies on blank slate theory - ie that all groups should perform equally, and if they don't, that's evidence enough that there is a conspiracy against them.

Perhaps a way to test the "different groups have different abilities" vs "past bias" theory, would be to find people with high IQ / historical record of accomplishment who suffered great historical discrimination and deprivation (eg Ashkenazi Jews from the holocaust, Chinese families purged in the great leap forward) and then compare their descendants test scores and job outcomes in the USA.

You could look at outcomes a generation or two afterwards and tell whether their performance was high/low ie was "reversion to high group accomplishment" or "underperformed due to present or previous oppression"
If AI can create the perfect executive summary, then why not?

A good executive summary is better than just lead sentences.
Even doing this with a chemistry background is incredibly irresponsible. There’s more than personal know how at work in industrial and academic labs. Fume hood stacks well above grade and incinerators and permits or registration. Plus the waste disposal issue and byproducts. This brand of youtube entertainment is super bad. Same thing with people extracting mercury or whatever. Like what is the best end case: you’ve done bench work in your neighborhood and are a point emitter of byproducts and create a product that have no real end use. Chlorinated solvents are no joke and making a carcinogen for youtube views is beyond dumb. I’d call the cops if I saw my neighbor doing some home cooking like this it’s not well thought out and just selfish and irresponsible.
In my country quotes are legally binding.
Thank you. Yeah I think after finishing our initial pro-bono clients (two), will start only looking for paid ones.
I work in marketing and you would not believe how many meetings I have been in about this very topic.

There are specifically two forces at play:

1. Marketing copy has to be very risk averse. If your company loses a major deal because a buyer somewhere thought your product didn't check a single specific niche feature, you better believe the sales team will be crawling all your site to remove any non-vague verbage.

2. You and I and any technical user of a platform may not get any meaning out of vague-buzzwords, but we share the curse of knowing too much to bother wasting money on shiny new tools. The kinds of people who actually spend money don't.
The garlic like smell of DMSO just doesn't leave you if it gets into your skin. It's "safe" but really, really bad to have fingertips smelling of it for days. I wish I had those bovine gloves during my PhD...
I suppose that depends on the typical age of houses in your area? Just as supply lines inside houses might get contaminated, supply lines outside houses might get contaminated. Perhaps from sewage, perhaps from runoff, or whatever. Outside lines are more likely to be broken by sloppy excavation, for example. Simple isolation valves are sensible even in situations that don't require backflow preventers, such as on a private well.
One key thing is that a variety of query builders and ORMs - I'd point to TypeORM for JS/TS, for example - allow in-IDE verification against a set schema and type inference of the results in whatever language you're working in.
IDK, it's pretty much a social norm to put away your shopping cart, and yet...

People are selfish and will do anti social shit for convenience if they can get away with it.

Cars only go where they belong because the state can and will punish you with towing or fines, making the reward of being selfish and anti social not worth the risk.
You escaped an * one time too many in the last one.
> (because it only supports a fraction of the C++ features)

I'm pretty sure that both Mössenböck and Wirth would consider this a feature, not a bug.
Have you read the post you are defending?

Calling anybody who needs some evidence for psychic abilities a football-watching mindless drone is... Kind of a canonical insulting contempt.
So you don't run browsers on Linux, I don't see what you have a problem with then? The particular issue you're complaining about doesn't seem to affect you at all.
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/yfrq1
Good question! Do you have a personal strategy for deciding which task to prioritize, if any?
You really need to be practicing more of these breathing techniques :)
On Censorship of LLM Models
Wow, that sounds great! What led you to make these changes to the Signal Android app? How can others join you in these efforts?
Restaurants should generally be expected to get more and more relatively expensive, especially “sit down” restaurants, because of Baumol’s cost disease. There’s a large labor component that isn’t getting significantly more efficient over time.
I assume that means if I resell phones after putting a privacy-first ROM on them, or make a messaging app that doesn't get preinstalled by vendors or isn't available through either Google's or Apple's walled garden stores, that makes them "not commercially available".

This is, explicitly, one law for the corporations, and another for the commoners.
I'm crap at language. But if you told ChatGPT: "Have Ron write a screenplay" (or variations thereof), would it still output a screenplay or facsimile?

Does this philosophical question exist for hand calculators? They accept input and "personally" respond to it appropriately too.

To personify: What's the speaker-status of a person speaking echolalia?

To religify: What's the speaker-status of the oracle at delphi, or a person overcome by the holy spirit who starts speaking in tongues?
I’m not sure your argument is valid, I’m not sure of the point you’re trying to make as it relates to the point I was trying to make.
That being said, a government isn’t infringing on the rights of citizens when the government incidentally creates a situation where the citizen’s ability to exercise their rights is limited. I as a free person have the right to protest, that doesn’t mean the government is obligated to pay for my posters or advertisements, nor are they obligated to protect me, that doesn’t mean they’re infringing on my right to assemble and protest. I’m also not sure that reading books or news is a constitutional right, although writing and reporting is a constitutional right. A government not providing a means for prisoners to purchase or read books does not mean they’re actively infringing on any rights, it’s purely incidental if the prisoner has no access to literature because the government has no obligation to provide literature to prisoners. There is the question of cruel and unusual punishment, but if we go by historical precedent which is important to consider then not providing literature to prisoners is not a cruel punishment.
Some interesting writings by same person here: http://constellation.slowstart.org/blog/

One thing I don't get, why they call themselves "WebKit reviewer", they've made tons of contributions (of high value) to WebKit, way beyond what I would think a "reviewer" would do.
To be honest I am not sure what to do yet so we offer as doing all of these. Have had calls with 3 potential clients, all looking into our proposals one was in marketing and the others in development, looking to go into a better niche after reading these amazing comments. Should case studies be on previous work or can I do some for companies of choice?
How long until you have to turn the story mode off on every update? Microsoft does it.

The IOS version of signal has no option to permanently turn off notifications. So you say no, and the app reminds you asking if you wish to turn on notifications every x app launches.

Why is this so difficult to implement? If your asking me, then reminding me that I'll be asked again. Surely it's just a matter of adding a UI toggle with switch case of "if user says no, stay no".

Thats my only gripe with signal.
Most people buy an Xbox to play games or an iPhone for its advertised features, and it does that, so they're happy. If they felt tricked like you said, they wouldn't buy the next generation, especially with iPhones where the competition is way more open.

There are other ways I acknowledge hardware is truly becoming anti-consumer, like removing headphone jacks to sell wireless earbuds. Or Xbox HDDs.
Which, they have, eg https://www.engadget.com/fbi-encrypted-chat-app-anom-crimina...

But imagine you're the tech-smart mobster trusting your freedom to the rest of the mobsters. You really want to play text support, or you just gonna properly setup Signal to auto-destruct and pre-verify safety number and give those devices out?
Could you share some of these stats being thrown around that you're eluding to?
The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
Dallas area. Early days right now but I’ll post some content if it shapes up.
Everyone in the world wants to install a Postgres server on an Xbox 360. Jokes aside, I appreciate EatonZ's work.
This is incredibly misleading. The NSA itself stated in the documents quoted in the Washington Post story you yourself link that PRISM was its number one source of reporting (“The subtitle of this slide deck called PRISM the source “used most in NSA reporting.”).

In a single year 702 was used to collect 250 million American communications (https://www.brennancenter.org/media/140/download). Yes individual foreigners and foreign groups are certified (in an annual hearing, technically for a bulk warrant, at a secret court no one is allowed to attend). But 702 goes hops out from the original target to people they talk to and the people those people talk to. “Incidental” collection on Americans is expressly allowed. The FBI routinely uses 702 collection to build cases against Americans. It is a staggering program.

>Snowden thought it allowed the NSA to read anybody’s email

- source please.

> causing Snowden to panic and bring in the undereducated Greenwald

First of all, the “undereducated” part is a strange assertion because it’s well established that Greenwald went to NYU law and worked for the prestigious white shoe firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz afterward. He had also at that point been writing (for the Guardian, Salon) specifically about NSA surveillance for many years. By what measure is an NYU trained lawyer with years of experience as a legal and surveillance journalist “undereducated?”

But also, the Washington Post has itself reported that Gellman’s contact with Snowden began in May 2013 - Greenwald has said his started in February. So the timeline does not add up here. Even in the piece you link he acknowledges working with another journalist Snowden worked with (Poitras) at the time he was trying to persuade his editor to publish the first story.

> he shared information with the Chinese governmen

This is false and defamatory (and invites a lawsuit, although you’re picking on someone who faces shall we say challenges defending himself this way). Snowden has repeatedly denied this (plainly baseless) assertion (eg https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/snowde...) and the article you link shows just the opposite - that he provided information openly to journalists (SCMP was famously independent at the time and routinely on the bad side of mainland government though that sadly changed years later).
> a type of frog has 'anti-freeze' in it's makeup so it can freeze and re-thaw

Nit: it can't actually recover from freezing solid. It just has lowered the freezing point of the remaining liquid to below the temperatures it's going to encounter.
Porn system development isn't that bad, most shops replace obscene material with a Mickey mouse pic or similar.
anytime i read something like that i have to wonder: if it can make such a big difference, why can't i see that difference in the world? perhaps it really only goes as far as the child level party tricks. or perhaps psychic abilities don't really matter.
I also really love how they set up the lock screen in windoze to open a new instance of Edge whenever someone clicks it in the middle. Time and again someone asks me why their computer is running slowly and I alt-tab to reveal dozens of copies of Edge displaying idiosyncratic Bing queries about the various subjects of lock screen photos. Yes thanks, these inexperienced users really need that sort of help to open many instances of an also-ran browser that makes their jobs more difficult. These users are incapable of clicking anywhere but the middle of the lock screen, even when they're trying to do so.
Haven't written on paper for a long time, almost forgotten how good it feels to write on one.
A lot of people, me included, are upset because now all of the SMS message history within Signal is locked inside Signal, and it doesn't seem to transfer to the default app.
From the paper:

Interestingly, change in respiratory rate was negatively correlated with change in daily positive affect (Figure S5; r = - 0.24, p < 0.05), suggesting that participants who showed the highest reduction in respiratory rate also showed the highest daily increase in positive affect over the course of the study (Figure S5).
Imagine listening to a book on tape, like even scifi/fantasy and being like wait, what just happened? Or it kinda acting like the Grandpa (minus humor) in Princess Bride, basically someone who's read the book and can stop/replay bits especially via audio. This would be a godsend for people w/ ADHD, or auditory processing disorders.
> Phthalate exposure from drinking water via cPVC or PEX is low when compared to other dietary sources. Nonetheless, a shift from cPVC to PEX pipes in households would decrease potential exposure to phthalates.[1]

Almost everything I drink out of is lined with plastic. Milk or juice containers, water bottles, and most reusable on the go cups are made of plastics or have a plastic liner.

[1] https://hero.epa.gov/hero/index.cfm/reference/details/refere...
Yes.

Fundamentally, if the pilot of an airliner wants to crash, they will be able to crash.

With very rare exceptions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
It doesn't matter at all: they'd only be lifting unused nuclear fuel, which isn't a hazardous material. This isn't comparable to the 238Pu radioisotope generators; it's much safer.
Perhaps they are just being humble. For a system of this complexity it is hard to review without having the level of understanding that comes with contributing.
Better yet, pick a few shades of grey ranging from white to black and a few shades of _one_ other colour. https://fly.io/ comes to mind. Also, here is a great video on choosing colour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq8LYj6kRyE
I love telling people all about how I tore my biceps clean off the bone and a surgeon went in there and just screwed it back on.

There's now a screw in my humerus that's holding my muscles together. Also got a sick scar and a story to gross out people at parties.

Definitely wasn't worth $15k though.
Given the knife laws in London - you must have a valid reason for carrying a knife - making certain apps illegal to have on your phone without reason is suspicion enough!
> gaming the system

I think this is the point. Because the game is actually the psychology around why people buy shit. I can't make myself do that. For example. I can't ride the wave of hype because I don't believe its value is real or sustainable. Well a lot of excuse, right, that's why it's my trap.
Well written. But not surprising. Gitpod's quality and customer support have really gone since they started to receive funding and shifted from customer focused growth to VC focused growth. Before they were a joy to deal with. That combined with the failure to deliver on the 2 year old promise of an Asian cluster means me and my team are in the process of moving away. Since the shift to VSCode, the latency issue is even worse. Gitpod was amazing. I wish the got back to building the best in breed web based IDE instead of trying to be the cloud backend for existing IDEs.
I've found it more useful to focus on "How to deprioritize tasks?" There, it's helpful to have a good understanding of the operative principles and values. All sorts of possible to-do items come up that only kinda sorta express those values. Those are the enemy. You have to get good at the logic of necessity and sufficiency to recognize which ones you can ignore entirely.
But as you said, the main finding reported was an increase positive affect.
This is called the timnit method of negotiation.
Meanwhile, having engines that have higher specific impulse helps quite a bit as well. That is to say: a nuclear engine needs less propellant to provide the same amount of delta V (actual work). Since the majority of a rocket's mass is in the propellant, this scales non-linearly.

A nuclear rocket is a big improvement over chemical rockets already.
Great concept! I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't actually chat with the books (like ChatGPT), but rather only ask isolated single questions. Is this on your roadmap?
Hate to be cynical but every time something like this comes up I can't help but thinking "You're telling me the leg bone's connected to the hip bone?"
Does the link have some issues? I see a hair in the upper right part of the screen and it scrolls too.

I thought it was my hair strand and tried to remove it. I realized it was not my hair and then suspect my monitor has damaged. Opened a new tab and finally realized it was the page haha.
You make a fair point

I seem to remember when studying economics that someone analyzed management behavior and found senior executives were typically decent at their jobs and more or less had incentives to make decent decisions. Middle management was completely risk averse, had no skin in the game and made decisions only insofar as they wouldn't be fired. I wish I could find a link, but I read it years ago, though this more informal discussion cites similar work (they use family-owned businesses as a proxy for middle managers who do have skin in the game)[0]

I do think that a CEO showing accountability sets a standard for the rest of mgmt and the organization, which is perhaps more accurate; though I'd hope that organizations find ways to hold middle management accountable for failures

[0] https://www.wealthmanagement.com/equities/why-management-nee...
They could, but it would be against the fundamental philosophy:

> Relays don't talk to each other. Only the relays you are connected to will receive and store your events. This is an important aspect of Nostr. Relays don't communicate between them. For this reason, you should connect to as many relays as you want to send your data to.
Nuclear Power Plants Are Pushed to the Limit as Demand Surges
Not at all, I assume egg prices will normalize in a few months / quarters to previous consumer costs - call it $1.50-$2 a dozen. It's super odd though that we're launching a company that allows anyone with a backyard to raise chickens / get eggs. For a lot of people, eggs are a bonus byproduct of raising them. A lot of people get joy from it, reduce nearly all their food waste, fertilize their yard, teach kids on taking care of them, they'll take care of you, etc. :)
I really did loath the removal of SMS. It went like this for me: I would set up non-techie family with signal and that would be SMS and secure messaging for them. Then Signal removed SMS, so I had to explain to them that I had actually set them up with something "unstable" and needed to change their apps around. As a consequence, they're more hesitant to try things I suggest and I can't blame them. As for the actual messaging, inevitably they'll forget to juggle apps and just default to SMS and there's only so much I can go against the stream here.

This is cool, but I think being the default in the mainline app is critical. Also, iirc signal doesn't like modified apps, so this might be on shaky ground.
One of the creators here (the one who tucks apples). We’re dead serious about this and intend to raise a preseed round from the top vc’s. Yes, it’s not a perfect technology, yes we made this for a hackathon. But we had that moment of magic, that moment where you go, “oh shit, this could be the next big thing”. Because I can think of nothing more transformative and impactful than working towards making backward engineers obsolete. We’re going full send. As one of my personal hero’s Holmes (of the Sherlock variety) once said, “The minute you have a back-up plan, you’ve admitted you’re not going to succeed”. We’re using this as our big product launch. A beta waitlist for the polished product will be out soon. What would you do with the 30 minutes you’d save if you made the backend of your react tutorial todo list app with GPT-3? That’s not a hypothetical question. I’d take a dump and go for a jog in that order.
Just get a usb extension cord
I have used Fastmail for many years and recommend them for the quality of their service. I'm in no way connected with them, merely a satisfied client.
The CC transaction fee is generally about half of that. A normal sized restaurant will have their own merchant accounts for CC transactions and not pay the POS provider any percentage.
> that's someone's child on screen that more likely than not, had no idea what they were getting into.

Do you have sources on this? Abuse was rampant throughout the adult media industry prior to the wide availability of broadband Internet in the late 90s, but since then there has been an ever increasing tide of completely willing participants who go into it with open eyes as a way to support themselves.

Why bother trying to "trick" or force someone into it when it's umpteen times easier to find a willing participant.

Human-slavery situations notwithstanding, of course. Such productions are not mainstream.
So, you think my responses are simply about how smoking is bad?
Is that how you feel about all the public infrastructure and institutions? It's nice to want no control at all, but then you have... no control at all. Usually that does not benefit the weak either.