skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you think monopoly regulators would like it if YouTube videos were indexed with higher accuracy and detail in google searches than Vimeo video?

So sure, google can say ‘here’s a standard way to provide subtitles for a video which we’ll index’, but then that becomes a complete SEO side channel - google needs to validate that the subtitles actually match the content. And that means their bots downloading the video itself. And google really doesn’t want to go out there and argue that video needs to be downloadable by bots, because that’s the whole YouTube-dl case right there.
California is only one state, I would also be upset to lose my 3% interest rate. Oil and gas companies will price that in and goes 1-2% over what you would lose. So maybe I just have a skewed perspective of relocation packages since I only have o&g to compare to
The psychedelic Renaissance is at risk of missing the bigger picture
The rain of regulatory sanity needs to fall too.l
I mean speculation IS just another type of gambling, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XD4gQS_-qY
> If I take Italy as an example, you might get "nuked from orbit" (from an eastern European perspective) just because you said your pizza looks better than the one of your friend next table.

> And that has nothing with a "lack of self criticism". It is just how basic social interaction are there.

No, not really. Coming from an italian.
"with a knack* for cultivating the rich and powerful."

Do tell. Can we have an "explainer" cause this was some "knack" and it would be good to know how this works so we can guard against it. For example, some claim that this was no "knack" and that Epstein's nature was transparent:

[Belinda Gates] continued, “I regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/melinda-gates-jeffr...

So not a 'universally effective' "knack". But whatever it was (some claim more mundane sort of 'mechanics' were involved) it worked wonders on "rich and powerful". I wonder what sort of "knack" makes "rich and powerful" compliant. Too bad we don't have a 'paper of record' in this country anymore, otherwise we would be handing out Pulitzers to "journalists".

Anyway, thankfully bad Jeff is dead and per NYTimes he must have taken his "knack" with him to the grave.
Probably not, but you should always assume that if they have the capability (and they do) that they will do the least intrusive thing they possibly can (it can't be the most intrusive thing because of a public relations nightmare scenario also because that would raise their risk too) to minimize their risk. I'm talking about a system that gives some sort of score to a candidate based on whatever Google can find on- and off-line about that person (off-line through their partnerships... for example banks, social networks, internet service providers, etc.) I am only speculating but I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like that in certain markets. Anyways, always assume the worst when it comes to Big Tech. Data is the New Oil as they say.
i'm actually referring to something a bit different. i observed that many people seem to act especially preachy about certain opinions they objectively can't be truly convinced of (yet). my interpretation is that they actually preach to themselves to convince themselves.
We're working toward our first working prototype, right now you can play with our SDK[1], and learn about how to build decentralized software[2]. You can check out our roadmap[3] with realtime estimates of when we will hit various milestones.

[1] https://docs.freenet.org/tutorial.html

[2] https://docs.freenet.org/components.html

[3] https://freenet.org/dev
This was always the weird thing about WeWork, after the collapse of it's ridiculous valuation people were like "Well, it's still a business, similar to IWG, it has some value". But the truth is no, the only thing WeWork had was a series of liabilities. They had signed a bunch of agreements to rent office space long term at a high price. The valuable part of IWG is that they have rental agreements with buildings that are low cost and they rent that space out to businesses for more money. That's how they make money. But WeWork didn't have that, at best they had expensive leases they needed to walk away from and some potential customer demand that is elastic enough that it'd go to 0 when they started charging above their own costs.

The article makes out like WeWork lost 47Bn over the last 5 years. No! It was probably worth 0 when the first IPO blew up. The only thing that kept it alive was Japanese face saving.
I feel like this is pretty obvious - then again I suppose some people cannot relate to those who have fallen into the state of mind that makes one end their life.

To whoever reads this I guarantee that someone in your life (perhaps you) is suffering greatly, sometimes it may be hidden or on full display.

I've had chronic pain my whole life and have dealt with depression and many other issues so I think I am qualified to talk about this.

One thing I didn't like about this article is how they point out self harm in adolescent girls. This is such an overused stereotype. People of all ages and genders self harm--and I have plenty of experience with it.

There are many reasons why one might end their life, but often people are thrown into situations that definitely intice the idea of suicide. Some can be worse than others and are truly inescapable.

For example in my case it was mainly not being cisgender and having childhood trauma. A lot of people sadly don't have any empathy for trans and gender non-conforming people. You cannot choose fundamental parts of yourself; most wouldn't be willing to choose to be rejected by society anyway. Some trans people don't have a lot of dysphoria but it can hit others pretty hard.

For me it's this constant weight on my shoulders, and no matter how much I try to get rid of it it won't go away. Looking in the mirror and seeing someone else look back is depressing and gets old real soon. But even if you move past those issues society seems to do their best to make people who are already suffering suffer more. The constant hate, high murder and violence rates. In some cases your very existance is deemed as a crime that deserves death. It is hard to trust anyone when nearly everyone around you rejects the idea of you.

For a long time the only thing I wanted was to stop suffering--in other words die.

Hormone therapy made me feel better, but the thing that helped me the most was psychedlics. They've made me overall less depressed, and now my current ideology is that I am going to die eventually, so I may as well try to actually live before then.
I ended up writing more than I intended to :) so I'll leave it as that.

TL;DR: Some of my thoughts and experiences.
PS. Don't do psychedelics (or any drug) without proper research and preparation. Make sure to test them as well!
I think the point is that the critical differences are on the inside, not on the outside.

People can go through worse experiences on the outside and recover and overcome.

This points to the somewhat obvious reality that how people handle and respond to their environmental conditions is a critical factor in outcomes.

Sometimes you have to fix the internal root of feelings, emotions, and suffering. You can believe the difference IS the person, without being overly judgmental. In fact, realizing that person themselves needs to be changed is often a key part of recovery.
The changing requirements part is mystifying part of Agile. How do you build the a proper foundation without knowing the base requirements it needs to support day one and plan for day 30/60/90/365 days needs. Its almost like its written by the PO/PM without really understanding anything else but their slice of work and how they can make it easier for them.

Money and time (for us humans) are finite, big things at lease have to be targeted precise efforts, a good plan and architecture that maps back and supports the requirements.
Track document visibility state seamlessly across browsers
Seamlessly track the visibility state of your document across different browsers. Know when your users switch to another window or tab.
and nothing will be done about it.
I’m 6’1”, and my goal weight is 210. In theory I should get down to 180, but expect I’d be too skinny. Currently 246, so I have 6-8 months for my personal goal, and at $1200/month, I may self fund for the remaining 3-4 months to hit that goal. Not sure if I’m willing to drop another $6k to hit 180lbs.
Even Autopilot, the most advanced autonomous vehicle technology currently available to consumers, requires consistent driver attention at all times.
I don’t think that this is universally true.

Sure, most of them want to stop suffering or are looking for a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

But I don’t have a shred of doubt that it’s possible to make a conscious good faith choice to stop living.
Hired cars sometimes pay their employees that way (the driver gets $/hr no matter what), hence you have to schedule well in advance.
Not sure what you classify as big, but we're a relatively small team (grown to 7 devs now) working on a CRUD-ish B2B desktop application, mostly installed on-prem. We have a few hundred customers, well over half have some custom modules or integrations. Our niche involves sending and receiving data to official systems.

Between our customers and the gov't, we constantly have to deal with a lot of external systems that change. With our customers we're often notified when stuff breaks, as very few of our customers have complete overview of their dependencies.

So, being a small team with a relatively large codebase in constant flux and with customers who are quite price sensitive (so can't afford huge QA team), one of the better architectural decisions we made was to accept that we will have bugs and instead focus on reducing impact.

Application-wise this means ensuring DB schema upgrades are done such that older versions of our application can use an upgraded DB without issue, and have a way for users to easily launch older versions of our application. Application updates are distributed frequently, and DB upgrades happen automatically over night.

Few customers have a separate test systems, so this also allows them to test new major versions in production before rolling out to all users.

Another choice that's worked out well is to not adhere to DRY when it comes to the integrations. Often customer B needs an integration that's the same as what customer A has, but with a few tweaks. For example they might both use the same ERP systems, but have slightly different configuration or workflow.

In those cases we've found it's almost always much better to copy A's code and modify it, rather than refactoring into a common base. Yes we might have to fix a bug multiple times, but it also means when changing A's integration due to a change request, we don't have to worry about messing things up for customer B.
How useful would it be to Uber for me to tell them I’m arriving at X and will use Uber? Enough for a small discount?
Co-working could be a great place for people to meet people working on interesting ideas. If WeWork had focused on producing great collaborations, it really would have been a game changer.
> (Lol, it would be rich if they said it was covered by FISA because it went from USA to "space" and back in to US)

That pretty much was German BNDs excuse a few years ago. "Law only restricts what we do on state territory, space isn't even foreign ground"
In theory you are right, but in practice a handful of companies control the services everyone uses and the infrastructure behind it.

The fundamental problem is that the web is client-server, which inherently leads to concentration of power - and this is what we've seen over the past few decades.

Freenet replaces the client-server web with something entirely decentralized. More detailed explanation at [1].

[1] https://freenet.org/about#introduction_html
I was talking about catastrophic events and how it can make you lose money without necessarily transfering it. In the case of wework, the catastrophe is the rapid decline in inflated prices, which makes the assets lose value without a real transfer in wealth.
I used to hate that I could never stick to things. I'd set a schedule for myself, feel good while I was on it, and then I'd fall off and go back to hating myself.

One day I was making nasty fun of myself for being really good at starting things, and something clicked. "Sticking to" something is functionally same as starting it over and over again. Which I'm good at. Am I ever going to stop starting to work out? No. My only problem is that sometimes there's a significant interval between "stopping" and "starting." What am I doing during those intervals? Hating myself on one hand and also trying to whip up irrational confidence that the next time I start will be the time I actually stick with a schedule. I could dispense with those things and reduce the interval.

It turns out I can reduce the interval between starting and stopping to basically nothing.

This approach isn't systematic enough to produce amazing results, but I'm happy to now be working out 3-4 times per week, and more importantly, I'm happy that if I miss a few workouts, I'm back to normal right away instead of spending weeks or months licking my wounds.

Later I made a connection to how people say that great athletes have short memories, in the sense that success and failure don't leave a lasting emotional mark on them. When a great athlete completes a difficult pass or gets it slightly wrong, strikes out or hits a home run, hits a shot or misses it, they process the information, but any sense of triumph or failure has to be gone in seconds by necessity because it can't be allowed to affect the next shot they take.

I apply that attitude to a lot of my daily life. I'll have time to feel proud or downcast after the game is over. Right now I have to take my next shot.

For me, I feel like that's a better emotional cadence. I don't instantly drop the judgment hammer on myself for a mistake. Not only does that stop knee-jerk emotions from wrecking my subsequent decisions, but my reactions at the end of the day are usually more moderate, thoughtful, and productive.
It’s interesting to me how much of the hostility to this drug has a moral dimension. I am quite fit for my middle age. It’s a relative superpower which confers a degree of status in this world. It’s not why I originally became fit 5 or so years ago but it’s something I increasingly notice or to be clear others notice and comment on.

I think the “fit” of the world get inherently uncomfortable that our relative social currency is being “devalued” if everyone can be like us with an “unearned” pill. And it comes out as hostility and skepticism.

I admit haven’t done much research on this particular topic. History should caution us that serious medication like this often has serious side effects which are not apparent early on. I get that. But unlike many others I don’t “hope” that happens like some kind of moral balancing. I get that reaction. In my gut I have that “I did it with willpower and lifestyle and sweat and these people shouldn’t just get it at CVS.” But that’s just the primate status brain talking.

Not that it impacts the outcome but I sincerely hope these drugs can improve people’s lives without significant negative problems. I can find my relative status elsewhere or better yet try to grow up past such impulses.
No tweet networks are cool, the entire space is lame.
Rehab helps about a quarter of the people it treats - provided you accept that they'll probably need multiple rounds of treatment. It's wicked to encourage the belief that a single round of rehab, followed by lots of willpower, is likely to solve problems.
You’re coming from a liberal (classical sense) perspective and learning something about power, maybe! But your suggestion that society is fixed by people following the rules harder sounds like idealism. Money and power buy leniency and loopholes. Why not try taking away the power instead?More rules and punishments sounds a little like more power to wield if you can look past the allure of a functioning bureaucractic process for disposing of rule breakers
Another hazard of the AI approach is that it’s probabilistic. Presuming the semantic information and implementation are all correct (which I will admit is not a given), they’ll always be correct, whereas the AI approach will sometimes give wrong answers.
And various non-consumers operate driverless cars in SF.
The article is about banning TikTok in USA.
That's just utilitarianism?

There's a bunch of things where the morality of what you're doing will change depending on a small detail, with the main action being essentially the same.

Eg, if you dedicate yourself to exterminating rats with dedication and professionalism you'll be a hero, do the same thing using the same tools and attitude to cats and dogs and you'll be a monster.

Which is exactly how it should be IMO. We build the world we live in by enacting change in it. Praising actions in a context devoid of its consequences is a good way to end up in a world where everyone basically hacks the reward algorithm without any concerns about the results of that.
A language humans use only in non-digital medium would be interesting. To avoid LLMs and surveillance-capitalism from knowing too much about you and your ways.
Oh yeah, because someone buying opiates to die a peaceful death would definitely care about purchasing illegal narcotics.

I’m pretty sure it’s possible in every single country in the world, perhaps except North Korea, but I doubt it. It might just be more difficult.
You can probably also hack into some of those educationnal OSes that already have a workable base, i.e xv6, os161, maybe even minix ? This way you wouldn't have to implement the initial tedious layers yourself.
Ive been using a tunnel to share my jellyfin server to friends for about a year. Its pretty much a proxy for it (add jellyfin:port to the config, start cloudflared, access on jellyfin.my.domain on cloudflare).

I havent had any issues with bandwidth but it depends on how much you push through it. Ive seen stories throughout the years of people pushing 30-50TB before getting a temp ban from using cloudflare services. Of course DNS still works but you just cant use their proxy/cdn/tunnels/etc
there are certain places where a lot of dubious, predatory drug rehab facilities have popped up in the last decade, since health insurance now has to pay for it, yet it's not quite regulated like other healthcare. if you see a lot of these it can make you very cynical.
I am aware of both of those, but in my case I prefer ddrescue for the syntax. For backup scripts I use dd and pv (and pigz).

I recall I started using ddrescue because one of my distros would not autocomplete with the if= prefix, but I can't seem to replicate it currently - so it's probably been fixed (or my memory is failing me).
It's a drop in replacement for everything north of the user's web browser - so it's drop-in from the perspective of the user, but centralized services need to be recreated for it. We're already working on a decentralized messaging system as a proof of concept, others will follow.
In Sierra Leone, 50 Cents Can Change a Life
What is crazy to me is that Adam Neumann came out of this thing about a billion dollars richer.

Now he is with Marc Andreessen (another hokey) in Saudi raising more money for the next hot air balloon.

What a delightful grift.
This is silly, though. For many reasons. First, I have no axe to grind. They found a trivial change that can be made and made it. Probably even simplified the code, as they used a better search that was introduced later in the codebase. Kudos on that!

Second, it also clearly took them more than 2 hours. They've been working at making it faster for many days at this point. So, it will take them a long long time to realize this particular gain.

Finally, my only two "criticisms" this entire time were on calling this a 7% improvement and claiming that searching for this would be a waste of most teams time. Consider, from that headline most folks should assume that they can get their EC2 instance that is running FreeBSD 7% faster. But, they clearly won't be able to. They won't even get a lambda invocation 7% faster. Nothing anyone anywhere will ever see will ever be 7%. They may see something 2ms faster, and that is, itself awesome. And may claim that this would be a waste of time to search for is irrelevant for this team. They weren't looking for this particular change to make, of course, so that this "criticism" isn't relevant to them. At all.
Surely if they owned $10B in valuable property that’d be reflected in the value of the company. So spending that much on not terribly liquid assets is lighting the money on fire from their creditors perspective if they’re not paying for themselves.
Traefik, bruv
My mother told me over and over to pull the plug should she ever end up on life support. When I found out she was on life support after a heart attack I immediately assumed that it would be her brother's choice to pull the plug or not. Nope, that horrendous decision belongs to the kids, namely me. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do but I understood and respected her wishes.
So you think Americans are less capable of learning such things if given a motivation?
The other secret is the vast majority of their revenue is not “co-working” but just people and companies doing long-term leases on small offices.

Which means there’s not as much buy long sell short as you’d expect, because they’re just competing directly with other leasers.
I don't know how anyone can drink that POM stuff, its like pancreatic cancer in a bottle
This seems...kind of obvious? No one just wants to die for death's sake. That wouldn't make a ton of sense. People kill themselves because they view it as the best of a set of bad options.
Yet the Blue Origin lander, the (now cancelled) Leiden/Dynetics lander, and the original NASA lander "Altair" (for the cancelled Constellation program) would all use the the same basic concept of the Apollo Lunar Module. So approximately nobody thought the Apollo approach was suboptimal.

The reason SpaceX was chosen for Artemis 3 probably had only to do with their very low price. NASA has no problem spending ungodly amounts of money on their own projects (Orion, SLS, their now cancelled spacesuits) but when they switch to private companies they try to save as much money as possible. It is likely that NASA could have funded all three Artemis launchers while still staying below what they would have spent on Altair.
What are the goals (or at least direction) of this network, if it isn't experimental like the previous implementation? I always was under impression that Freenet was about censorship resistance in the first place, just like I2P. In the current climate that requires packet mixing, DPI resistance, and many other things that make it resilient against practical de-anonymizing attacks and blocking. (tough to pull off!)