skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've got it: the point isn't persuasion, the point is exhaustion and disengagement. If you can keep shouting until the other side goes home, your opinions become more prevalent. You can then make your opinions so prevalent that other folks assume there's no point to engaging (voting? commenting?) because of how outnumbered contrary opinions are. At that point, your opinion has become reality. It relies on psychological tricks to subvert the one-voice-one-vote rule (c.f., State Street).
Any arrest or criminal record also reduces your future earning potential significantly and hence your tax value to the state. In some studies it can be mid-20%-ish.

Drug convictions or even arrests make you ineligible to enter many other countries, make it very difficult to travel, and make it difficult to get a job.

You don't have to end up in prison to waste the state's money and to materially impact your life and productivity.
As someone who returns a fair number of items (we also order quite a lot too), who cares... I mean, what is that data used for? why would you care about giving them accurate data?

I just pick random answers usually.
Skip the gas, buy cigarettes and booze.
Yes you have it correct.

When introducing myself to Europeans now I've started saying the state I'm from, such as "I'm from the state of Idaho in the US". Utah is a different state/place than Idaho (see liquor laws, state lottery) and both are very different than California or New York. They're almost like different countries in some ways, especially over the last 10 or so years. Not too long ago you could pretty much live anywhere and the main difference would be where you buy your booze and your tax rates, but that's increasingly changing.

On the rather extreme end, there are some serious movements for secession from the US. Funny enough they don't usually go very far because (shockingly /s) the red states drop their enthusiasm when a red president gets elected, and the blue states drop theirs when a blue get elected. But if we had a steady president for 3 or more terms, I would bet you it gets serious again.
> Having fewer assets than liabilities does not necessarily make a bank insolvent

For that to translate into insolvency, all it takes is enough tension to accumulate in the banking sector. And the last months haven't been pretty. Truth is most banks are severely exposed and, if the wind start blowing in the wrong direction, it's going to be the end of them.
It makes me wonder, is quadratic regression a thing?
You linked to an HN thread which linked to a reddit thread as proof of this. I would like you to know that is absurd since the reddit thread makes an accusation with no proof.

The 'proof' is a screenshot of a post that was called '92 of the top 100 subbreddits controlled by the same 5 people' that got removed. Why did it get removed? Who knows?

Do better. If you want to be better than reddit don't do the same dumb shit that it does and check your sources.
Do you have kids in school? Our kids aren’t allowed to pack peanuts in their lunches because parents can’t put an allergic kid in a cafeteria otherwise.
You are also mistaken.

Please explain how the Lightning Network loses most of the benefits of Bitcoin.
I'm thinking you didn't read it, then, because it isn't making any claims about LLMs!
I notice that Mojo still seems to use numpy or something that looks "numpyish" for compatibility. Will Mojo also have an alternative syntax for doing things like matrix multiplication that looks more native like Julia's?
Is Meta doing worse than Google/Alphabet? Would you have more faith in Zuck or Pichai?
Thanks for sharing your anecdote. Because it hasn't been my experience, I prefer to take scientific studies as my guide.
Where did you get these numbers? It's wrong and presents a misleading picture of a 10x implosion in 2008. There were never even close to 31k banks in the USA. It peaked at about 14k back in the '80s and has been going down ever since. It did drop precipitously after the 2008 crises, going from around 7K banks to today around 4500 banks, but this is a very far cry from 31k to 3k.

https://banks.data.fdic.gov/explore/historical?displayFields...
> The only way to prevent this from happening is to threaten violence or threat of violence to either of these people.

That's a weird view.

We could also just, you know, vote away banks. I'm not sure why a centralized bank would result in violence.
Shopify will release earnings earlier as employees ready themselves for layoffs
Trust me, I know what vehicle exhaust smells like. ;)

Living outside the city, I'm not constantly fatigued to its odors. So that's not a factor.

But more to my original point, it disproves the "wind > location" idea (in my geography), since odor acts as a tracer for packets of air coming from the city.

I wish I could calm your anxiety, but on the bright side I am truly touched by your outpouring of concern for my respiratory well-being! Thank you, kind stranger.
And then the sixth paragraph says:

> So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy.
If they try to charge you, just contact support, be nice, and they will give you an option for free.

Note: this might only work for prime members who order frequently.
I can't say I was impressed with ChatGPT help when I tried it. I figured quizing it on reading comprehension would be a great task, given that it is a language based model and a skill seemingly in short supply amongst my coworkers and self. After confirming that the specifications of a standard I am implementing were within its knowledge, I tried to have it explain the difference between two parts and it failed so miserably that its understanding of the content was below even my managers for whom this is only something they occasionally review. Any attempt to correct it only resulted in it providing an apology and new misunderstandings. Outside of work, I tried using it to find an old movie, probably from the '60s, about a man refusing to shave his long beard and featuring a scene with him being chased around his home half shaven, but it merely made up scenes about beard shaving for several other movies. Admittedly, I have not tried uploading any of my companies code to give it a less memory based task.
Which is amazing since windows 11 is full of mentions of green energy, lowering energy consumption and asking you to lower screen brightness to lower carbon emissions. Total green washing when you consider the gigantic amounts of ewaste that arbitrary cut off date will lead to. It's just funny tbh, like I get it's most likely very different teams working on those things but it's tone deaf at best.

But hey at least the OS has a revolutionary new green technology called... Battery saving mode!
> Is there a way for a company to implement sufficient privacy protocols that would appease the most privacy-concious users?

The trivial way is to just not send data back to the internet. Nothing you listed here is impossible to do client side.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
5.59% for Firefox in the desktop category. (mobile is tough for any alternative browser - chrome has a hard time on iOS although I'm sure only being a skin over webkit doesn't help)

Desktop is a better market to compare anyway, if including Edge. Is Microsoft even trying anymore on mobile?
This is without even getting into projects under NDA.
It's a fuzzy boundary. I agree in theory but where is the line where something is too big? We encourage companies to grow as large as possible and hope that competition will provide the counter friction. The only fail-safe is the government trust busting on a case by case basis which might not be optimal.

Are there any regulations that could provide economic incentives to small businesses and make it increasingly difficult for large companies to grow larger? Wealth going in one direction is not a very stable system.
An unlocked bootloader makes the phone vastly more insecure (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790499). Phone firmware cannot be fully open-source nowadays due to manufacturer restrictions. Even the most open-source Android fork will still have to include binary blobs from e.g. modem manufacturers.

Additionally, the updates that the forked OS provides don't include firmware updates for essential parts like the modem (this is also the reason why phone updates are not available in the first place). So it's essentially a security theatre.

Firefox doesn't use per-site isolation, doesn't use process sandboxing and - on top of that has a JIT, so there's W^X violations. Normal app sandboxing via Android permissions is not sufficient for something as complex as a browser. The potential for possible exploits inherently is massive. Other browsers (chromium-based) like Vanadium have very sophisticated sandboxing, so there's no reason to use something inferior.

Traffic over tor is good, but shouldn't be used with authenticated services, as it deanonymizes your connection. Instead, it should only be used for specific (unauthenticated) actions, like browsing news.
Infinity is a concept not an actual specific number. How could it be even or odd?
A lot of ethnicities are torn apart and stay that way. Ask Kurds. Or XXI century Russians for that matter.

I am just pointing out that Soviet Union has encouraged large ethnicities to coalesce, collect their shared history and culture (often inventing large portions in process) and build a nation state on top of that. This is not something you should take for granted, but that's what you've got under Soviet rule.

Not everybody got that privilege, of course. Ethnic Russians, but also Jews and Germans, did not get to have their own nation state in USSR. Technically, Jews had one but it was a joke[1]; Germans briefly had one[2]; Russians hoped to have one after WW2, with capital in Leningrad, but were derailed (Leningrad affair[3]). RSFSR was like a one huge Washington DC in that regard, with glistering Moscow and Leningrad but it was more like Puerto Rico as you descended into Nechernozem'ye[4]. No statehood.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German_Autonomous_Soviet...
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_affair
4. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Нечерноземье
In school we were taught "we care for the elderly, we aid the less fortunate" but that doesn't rhyme :-(
Please visit your local credit union, post haste
We literally had a project on the HN front page a few months ago that could identify users from commenting styles.

Removal of the comment itself matters, nobody owes you information forever.
Whoa that went off the rails fast. If that’s what you think then I’m certain you have completely misunderstood my position, and I’m not explaining it well.

I was referring to the global closing of the gender gap, for example, which is occurring due to changing norms. You can read about it.

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-202...

https://www.oecd.org/stories/gender/social-norms-and-gender-...

Why do you think I’m in a minority? What makes you think people here or elsewhere disagree with the idea that some images aren’t entirely appropriate in the workplace? I haven’t said anything that’s even remotely controversial. In the US the law agrees and corporations agree and we all are subjected to anti-harassment tracing every year just to remind us, even while some people reminisce about the good old days when pinups at work were acceptable.

We are talking strictly about the workplace in this thread, not about the freedom to express yourself in your personal life. It seems like you might have missed the premise here and are jumping to wildly mistaken conclusions.
Hello - I am sorry that you've had those unpleasant experiences. I, too, have experienced similar feelings. Through legalization (in my state) and experimentation, I determined the root cause (certain types of weed and percentage of THC) of my paranoia/bad feelings. Now, I know what will make me feel good and how to avoid the negative outcomes of weed consumption.

FWIW, high CBD, low THC if I am smoking flower and for edibles I know my limit is a measly 5mg, and I usually start at 2.5mg.
The problem is not intractable if the analysis of reviews is statistical and reputation-based instead of content-based. They can look at how many reviews were added over time, how the product page has changed over time, if the reviewers are genuine users or if they only leave 5-star reviews on a handful of sketchy products, etc.

Of course, it would be much easier for Amazon to do this, because they could look at IP addresses, purchase history, mailing address, etc. - but it's in their best interest to let the spam continue, apparently.
I've visited a flat in the Barbican.

It was like prison cells in a panopticon.

> aspirational development for "middle and upper middle class professionals" [1] and remains highly sought after to this day.

In spite of its brutalist architecture, not because. London has a severe shortage of housing/the UK is too centralised.
I am nuts! I often work on two main C# projects. One uses a data adapter with data table objects. The other, is about to have EntityFramework completely removed. Reduced it to only handling database connections.

Original developers used code first. Looked into the dynamic SQL created by the framework and it was overly complex statements. Replaced with simple hand crafted SQL and Dapper, used just to bind the results to objects. This cut transaction time down dramatically, about 30 seconds down to less than two. I could still cut that down further with batch transactions that are no longer logically grouped.

Simply combining SQL, CSS, and HTML with a custom DSL allows for creating interlinked reporting. Did this on a microC II OS embedded system with SQLite running on hardware with 8mb flash and 64mb RAM. Port the DSL, keep the same table structure, and the same reports can be used in a new environment with new hardware or different database backend.

EntityFramework might be useful in some places. I have yet to work in a domain where it is.
Balaji: I just burned a million to tell you they're printing trillions
Using TPM with closed source firmware, especially written and designed by Microsoft, probably full of backdoors, when you don't even know what it's doing is a worse choice.
Sure, those 24 consecutive quarters of revenue decline under Rometty is an obvious indication of cutting edge. Cutting edge research on how to turn investors money into into option traders profits.
I agree. It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but I am not sure if we would miss out on anything if we just had a symbol(s) for specific really large discrete numbers.

Sometimes I wonder if there's a better math language waiting to be invented that eschews the non-discrete.
I think they always did AOT compilation from the AS/400 instruction set to the actual hardware. In the '90s I worked for an external company that did some compiler work on a horizontally-microcoded implementation that didn't get close to shipping. (I don't remember many details, and if I did, I expect they'd still be under NDA.)
Given they make money hand over fist... I think they're doing just fine with their current strategy. I obviously can't give details, but they basically print money.
What are those "systemic and cultural reasons" that exist in every single country and culture on the planet?
I am sad J. G. Ballard is no longer with us to comment on IBM's plan.

IBM is replacing humans, who can identify an exceptional events which weren't anticipated by planners, with AI, which only regurgitates past training data.

I'm sort of imagining IBM human resources department now as some hellish mashup of Ionesco, Nietzsche and Ballard (with a piquant dollop of THX 1138 to provide that absurdist, institutionalized aroma IBM seemed to love.)

At least the TVA was smart enough to recruit biological entities to run it's bureaucracy.
The problem is that "Watson" wasn't a real thing, it was just a name they gave to any solution they were trying to sell.
You're a bit overly focused on semantics here and misinterpreting the rationale behind it.

Behavioral addictions are acknowledged in DSM-5 although this does not extend to compulsive sexual behavior at this time due to insufficient (yet growing) evidence to suggest similar neurophysiological mechanisms for a clinical textbook to label it as 'addiction' [0][2].

A recent review article breaks down the differences from gambling which is considered a behavioral addiction in DSM-5[1] and had not been in prior editions.

Whether or not CSB/hypersexuality is an 'addiction' in the medical sense is controversial amongst medical experts and essentially interchangeable with what a layperson considers to be an addiction and it is therefore very reasonable especially noting the overlap of salience, conflict and relapse[1].

Although there is insufficient evidence at this time to conclude either way whether diminished satisfaction has a similar mechanism to tolerance or lack of control has a similar mechanism to withdrawal there is also no strong evidence to support the argument that CSB is not an addiction and consequently they are currently treated as separate entities.

The pertinence of this is to not conflate conflicting/controversial expert opinion with generally regarded truth and therefore stating that parent is 'wrong' for believing it is addiction when many experts share the same opinion[3].

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.13297

[1] https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/11/2/article-p166....

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677151/

[3] https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/11/2/article-p210....
I don't mean to be rude but yeah, this is exactly what AGPL was intended to combat. It's a lesson learned for these developers, and Google did nothing wrong or even unethical imo.

A lot of people treat licensing emotionally (e.g. WTFPL, or picking licenses that feel good, or that we saw in another project), however business people are very logical and will unfortunately exploit this.

The irony is that Google probably would not have done this if the codebase just omitted a license entirely. When I worked there, they wouldn't allow OSS with no license.
That’s not the only thing people do to help allergic kids. I mentioned this in an adjacent thread.
When you say LN transactions “don’t provoke any of the benefits of bitcoin’s public ledger” what does that even mean? What benefits do you perceive are being lost?

Your initial description seems accurate, but then you erroneously claim this has nothing to do with bitcoin.
I like .app too. I think of a web app when I see it. Did anyone mention .co? That seems really close to .com and it's even shorter and seems pretty legit. Any more details on the project? maybe we can help come up with a cool name? good luck!
I'm a big fan of https://brutalist.report for this

"The day's headlines delivered to you without bullshit."
At first I was thinking of another type of history....
Yes, I thought you meant otherwise. Yes, I was confused about it. Yes, I really thought that. Truly.
Looks that way to me. For email, I'd rather be the customer than the product...
> And those businesses that require ID?

People can get extended validation certificates that are strongly authenticated and use that to sign their messages online. As you say: no one is signing b2b contracts using 4chan, they are using DocuSign. The free market already provides this service, no one is preventing it. But you are moving the goal post. Million dollar deals? We started with your demand that people should sign their social media posts and pictures with government PKI and your hope that any content not signed that way is considered an ai fake and trolling and dismissed as irrelevant noise. So don't give me this shit about optionality.

You argue that people should, no that they must, trade the tyranny of anonymity against the tyranny of accountability, for the betterment of humanity. And that is what I argue against. It is the scare of moral degeneracy bred by actual freedom, which you call tyranny, that i argue against. This wish to mold the citizens by fear of social repercussion, this law and order ideology that dwells in the depth of your demand for accountability. You keep repeating the word optional, and i call you out on it, as you made it clear you wish to marginalise those who won't partake. You ask for nationalist governments to provide a single identity throughout social communication, then pretend the obvious issue is an amorphous fear, while we all know who wanted book authors to be authenticated and certified in the age of the printing press. I hope your fascist fantasy fails, that people fight it because they prefer pseudonymity, prefer to have different identities in different contexts, prefer actual choice and opportunity, over being peer pressured into regurgitating acceptable opinions, over being scored on their government issued identity for being in line with party ideology.

Oh and that paddling back and generously allowing some fringes of society where anonymity could still be tolerated, while namedropping the worst hive of scum and villainy? I can do that as well, your utopia is my dystopia, ruled by the ministry of state security, the secret police and home owner associations.

> Others should have the opportunity to not be subjected to your personal political opinions

lol same. f u and see you tomorrow
I've found that with regard to ink, there is no one size fits all solution. Some pens work with fast-flowing inks, other pens don't work as well. So there is some amount of trial and error that goes into pairing pen with ink.
That was back when reddit was 'absolute free speech' oriented and nothing the guy posted was illegal.
I use firefox everyday at work and home and can't think of a single thing that 'needs' to be fixed from a user perspective. It loads up the internet and is fast. So I don't think defining Mozilla's vision as 'fix a bunch of random issues' is very wise. Gnome key-ring support and porting to rust? How is that going to grow the user base?
The Ongoing Saga of the Dark Side of the Mac App Store: New Scam Apps
Uncountable. Information complexity obeys no conservation laws.
Brutalist web design is, I think, the best web design. Or at least, it's the sort that I find works the best for me. One of my problems with most modern web design is that it's so full of unnecessary visual fluff and frippery.
Somewhere out there, a recruiter is gearing up to demand 5 years experience with Mojo before they will look at your resume.
A file extension of [fire emoji], this is not easy to type from a terminal.

Edit: It's even stripped on HN!
True. They waited too long. They cited "Covid Recovery" as the reason for all the stimulus in 2020 iirc but I wonder if it was only economic reasons that were responsible. It was election year after all.
> The first photovoltaic device was built in the 1830's, and mass photovoltaic deployment only became profitable in the last decade.

This is a bizarre comparison. The US invested about $1.5T total in developing nuclear power. Almost nothing was invested in developing PV. If only 1% of the money wasted on developing nuclear power had instead been invested in PV, nuclear power would have been dead by 1970. A recently passed bill earmarks $6B to keep nuclear plants open. Compare to recent DoE announcement to spend $82M on PV manufacturing. Even with this nearly two orders of magnitude imbalance of spending, PV is going to beat the pants off nuclear by making tons of money compared to nuclear power losing mind-boggling amounts of it.

R&D can not make nuclear energy cheaper. It is simply commercially unviable. If you can figure out a way to make it profitable, you can have all the nuclear energy you want, but a lot of smart and capable people spanning 4 generations have already tried and failed.