skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am reminded of that Berkeley ethics professor, Clanton, who snuck up behind people at various protests and struck them in the head with a bike lock, seven times. This was not at just one event, either. He did this at multiple events. Even got one of his targets wrong, hit one of the people on his own side. Just three years probation. Three felony assault charges were dropped. One can only imagine the ethical gymnastics there. All of the steps, however, I've heard laid out, so he need merely assemble them. First, you classify a bunch of people as "Nazis." Second, you convince yourself that their speech is violence. Third, you're nobly defending people from the depredations of the violent, and if that means skulking up from behind, well, that's just being practical.
So they do… basically all the things that the West used to do over the last few hundred years (some of them far more recently) to get ourselves into the position of economic and political power in the world we are in?

I mean, not to say they aren’t bad but we need to have more acknowledgement of the things our countries did in the past and why they were wrong, and looking to make reparations where possible, and not just hypocritically pretending that we didn’t do them while accusing other emerging powers of the things we did…
> overall been quite friendly an empire.

Yes they friendly helped install military dictatorships in Latin American countries. They friendly invaded Iraq under false pretenses. They friendly waged wars and used economic sanctions against countries that for on reason or another didn't conform to their dominant position.

Don't misunderstand me. The US has the power to oppress, and is an opressor. It is business as usual. Just cut the crap of calling it "friendly".
In my opinion the most misunderstood concept from physics is probably any exponential relationship. I realize we could view entropy to be one of those if we flip the relationship around and equate for microstates making my statement the superset. But generally speaking, Ive seen both lay people and experts struggle to reason about them, especially with complex numbers.
You’re saying that building roads and bridges is not beneficial to countries which deeply lack roads and bridges?
You're completely right, the only criticisms of serverless in this bizarre thread are from a complete lack of understanding or experience
> then [the US and other western countries] monopolized 'the internet' with their own government-anointed unprofitable big tech monopolies

How did the government anoint Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook?
Don't Be an Underpowered Middle Manager
> They're seeking to upset the global money standard.

The disturb the global standard, which happens to benefit the US greatly while hurting the rest of the world (especially the global south). Terrible!

> They use (basically) slave labor,

While it is true that China has a lot of manual labor and less worker rights than most western states, China isnt the sweatshop it used to be anymore.

Nearly every "simple" labor intensive industry, like textile industry, has moved to countries like Bangladesh, while strangely no one seems to care about their slave labor.

Also, wasn't the "slave labor" the reason why the US cooperated with China, essentially making them what they are today? [1]

> They manipulate their currency.

How dare they? https://brrr.money

> They entrap other nations with predatory loans for infrastructure.

I could write a book about this but whatcha doin' over there? [2]

> they happily pollute the earth as if tomorrow isn't a concern.

China is ranking 48 in Co2 emissions per capita, the US in ranking 14 (2021) [3]

Also they are investing more into renewable energy than every other country, by far [4]

> They are scraping the ocean clean to feed their people.

China fished 11.7 million metric tons in 2020, the US fished 4.23 million metric tons, China fishes approx. three times as much as the US. [5]

But China has 1.4 billion citizens, while the US has 331 million citizens, so China has over 4 times the citizens.

Also the average Chinese eats 40.3kg of fish every year, while average American eats 22.2kg of fish every year. [6]

So to sum up: China fishes three times as much as the US, while having 4 times the population that eats nearly twice as much fish as a US citizen does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme

[3] https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-china-the-main-climate-c...

[4] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-invests-546...

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/240225/leading-fishing-n...

[6] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt...
Have you ever tried psychedelics yourself?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36551062
Writing style is also a lot more individual than people recognize.

Iirc word histograms almost uniquely identify authors. Of course this is on larger amounts of text, but I guess you could identify users over seperate platforms this way.

E.g. Intend to use ellipsis (...) to separate thoughts in online conversation a lot. But I try to not do that in reddit, where I try to stay somewhat anonymous.

Still, I assume that it would be possible to correlate my reddit and HN account just by comparing the word histograms (ie which words I use and how often).
> course I can't give him a pass on how crass it was telling that women he has a PhD in physics (he does not)

To be clear, he does have a PhD but it is in physics education research, not physics.
The point being, freak events are not nearly as freak as they are being made out to be.

Edit: but I agree with the "wow". I can't even imagine what a wall of water that tall would look like. That is just so outside normal experience.
> Anyone who has studied in the area knows that there's self-sorting by field, which runs, from most to least conservative: Ethics < political philosophy < political theory. Most 'activist' philosophers are in politics and sociology departments, not philosophy departments.

Citation needed. I have studied in the area, with multiple degrees in philosophy and political science, but I don't know what you claim that I know.
To sort of add to this, I’ve found that meditation has had far more profound effects than psychedelics ever did. Maybe they help to kick start things or show how much of yourself you don’t know.
Nonprofits try really, really hard to make money well beyond their near-term expenses. Wikimedia Foundation is (in)famous for this.

First, they want a rainy-day fund to cover fixed expenses when income fluctuates. Second, and more importantly, they might want to create a massive endowment that provides them with stable income so that they're not beholden (or accountable) to donors or their usual business partners.

The only difference, at the end of the day, is whether they ever want to IPO.
The biggest benefit to microservices to many people is the fact that everyone else is also doing microservices.

Externally mediated taste is how a lot of people operate. And they may have a vague idea that they should not defer as much to it, but they don’t have the experience to take the risk. So they double down on consensus.
Blender (the 3D modelling software) is a fascinating case of this. To make loading and saving files fast and lossless, it uses identical on-disk and in-memory representations. In other words, everything is in an arena, and saving and loading is just a memcpy of the entire arena. Considering the massive potential complexity of a Blender project and the myriad issues you could have with serialisation and deserialisation, this seems like a great design to me.

The trade-off of course is that your data structure design is kinda sticky, insofar as you need to be able to open files for older versions.
Source to the systemic contrary?

If GE decides it wants to build widgets in another country, GE does.
As someone who is very much in favor of legalizing psychadelics and has enjoyed his experiences with them:

No, there is a lot of strong evidence that psychadelic trips can trigger underlying issues such as schizophrenia, etc.

However, some portion of these people would have it triggered these latent illnesses regardless of the use of these substances. The hard to answer question is how many people would develop these conditions without the drug use, if the drug use significantly accelerated it, etc.

On the subject of HPPD, I am more skeptical. It's very poorly understood, and there's been correlation shown for just about any sort of psychoactive substance, SSRIs, etc. Studies have claimed that anywhere from 5% to 25% of people who have taken recreational psychoactive drugs are impacted by it. Which, well, I have not done and am not qualified to do such a study, but having spoken to hundreds of users of psychadelic drugs over several decades and never encountering a single person who claimed to experience HPPD, it's hard to square up my anecdotal experiences with some of the reports.

Something is going on there - there's enough people that report the symptoms that I don't believe it's made up or anything like that - but it doesn't seem to be nearly as simply as "Anyone that does recreational drugs has a chance of developing HPPD"
>But basically I think of a serverless function as like a one-shot container that is spun up when a webhook or some other invocation method is called, handles some kind of request, puts out some kind of response, and shuts down.

we used to call those "cgi scripts"
I think there is a bit of a difference whether the massacre happened in the 1860 or 1960, and whether the last larger massacre of protestors happened in 1970 and is generally, officially and publicly recognized as a bad thing with memorials etc. [1], or whether it happened in 1989, involved tanks and hundreds to thousands of deaths, and people are persecuted for even mentioning it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Pretty normal in the world of startups. Just take a look at the "team" page on a presentation / pitch, and you'll often see big top 10 school logos - especially if their work experience isn't all that, compared to their academic pedigree.
Legibility is also based on what you're used to. E.g. I find nested parentheses horrible to read, but Lispers swear by them.

You could get a decent IDE to fill in the gaps for you. Otherwise make lots of snippets and save yourself the mental overhead while you get started on making things.
I'd work on this if I had ramen funding (I can support my family on 3k/mo, with some upwork/Fiverr gigs on the side of need be.

I'd set up a social benefit company that's co-owned by workers and contributors. We'll create scoring mechanisms for every action, and for hourly w2 work, etc. Pay out dividends based on your points.

Points would also give you power in town meetings, we'd also create the idea of regions so the fantasy and sci-fi region with the GOT, star wars, star Trek, etc subs could meet and decide on matters affecting their subs.

Each major sub with 10k or more could schedule a one on one with the board, but issues and feedback are always accepted.

Protocol wise the major differences are: we'd centralize auth/login as well as taxonomies like channel names or subreddits, or things like tags. We'd also centralize usernames.

Doesn't matter what server you sign up on, your username is still just username, not username@stupidserver.com, and any channel in the Reddit app namespace could only have unique sub names, so AMA could only be added once, so there's that one topic one major community thing Reddit has going for it.

The rest of my ideas are TBD, though I'd like if Reddits could have need subreddits.
>I'm not sure what computer you're logged on from, but to take that as an example, I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to advertise

TBH, I can't recall the last time I saw an ad for a Dell product.
The CO2 scrubber, would do the trick, I was thinking about hypocapnia but that probably isn't affected by inhaled CO2 but the rate at which you purge metabolic CO2. So not sure there is a downside to pushing it too far the other direction the way there is with O2. But I think a real scrubber based solution would be cost prohibitive and perhaps finicky and noisy compared to a ventilation based solution that would do 95% of the job.
Wait a minute, you don't want to make jongjong's speculative crypto investments bear fruit so that he can retire in the Caribbean?
Here: why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder?
China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.
This is sarcastic right? I'm struggling to tell.
But that's been happening for some time already, while this spike is recent.
They used to, now they mutter amongst themselves, casting occasional contemptuous glances at you and me.
If this is aimed at free-market living enthusiasts, I believe the response from them would be that the market is currently not stopping anyone from opening non-profit healthcare providers today.
welcome to the H1-B visa system!
CiscoRank
Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
Do not do this. Was CTO of Healthcare company that focuses on heart failure. In the course of my work I learned that if you're in the hospital, they only give you just enough to keep your SpO2 in the desired range. If they give you too much oxygen, you can get oxygen toxicity. Your body will also get used to trying less hard for air, so when you go off your SpO2 drops dramatically. You have to slowly titrate off. This isn't a thing you want to fuck with.
Cryptopals is a great resource! But if you come up to set five or so, then I’m not sure it could be called basic.
> Moral instincts are correct on average because they reflect the bulk morality of the society that the person was raised in.

Why would you assume that the society a person was raised in is moral? It's demonstrably and indisputably false in many cases.
How did hubzilla do it? They support activity pub, but their central theme is "nomadic" identities which can be brought anywhere and are independent of a server.
Your body, your choice, except for fast-tracked vaccine injections.
South Korea is cutting ‘killer questions’ from an 8-hour exam
You said that demo doesn't use calculus at all, and yet I see a sum of infinitesimal divisions of a surface area. I know an integral when I see one.
Literally the person I initially responded to said:

> The only problem might be the software patents that their code leverages.

We are talking about patents because Wengo brought it up and I was asking how they are applicable here.
Based on UK Biobank data and self-reports. Possible reason is: “The mineral lead in instant coffee was more abundant than that in other coffee types, and long-term consumption of instant coffee may result in excessive lead. Additional substances added to commercial instant coffee, such as creamer and flavoring agents, might partially explain the negative effect.” Additives aren’t accounted for here.
Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?
It somewhat works if you tell Firefox to get Desktop Site...

But they also broke the back button
they forgot to fix the Settings page on anonymous tweets which sending constantly data and receives a HTTP 429 Too Many Requests
I2O was interesting because for a (short) time it was considered a threat to Linux and open systems.

https://lwn.net/1998/1008/a/rms-udi.html
https://lwn.net/Articles/102772/
https://lwn.net/Articles/104420/
GPT4's multimodal image mode can decipher pictures of captcha without a hitch. AI can damn near break anything lately.
The concept is more foreign than you ever expected.

Here is a person criticizing 37Signal who wants to optimize for profit.

The tweet was just last week ... in the current economic climate.

https://twitter.com/moritzplassnig/status/167278031492050124...
I just found this ranking page in the Nitter issue [0] which was discussed here [1].

Does anyone have more info about where it gets the data from and if there is some kind of archive/history of it?

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919#issuecomment-161...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542179
As someone who is also a long time seller on Amazon, my unscientific A/B testing seems to point at greater Buy Box control being tantamount to greater control over an ASIN's product details. I work mainly in drop shipping, and it's a constant battle to even get a UPC to actually point to the correct product info. Chinese sellers love to make a product's retail UPC point match to an ASIN for an arbitrary number of that item. But it just seems like in cases like that, Amazon likes to side with whichever seller is making the most sales on that ASIN, no matter the what the facts are
It's not obvious that this must happen actually.
Bernard Arnault is as rich and sometimes richer than Elon Musk.
But there is no big Bernard Arnault cult in France.
He is recognized as a very efficient business shark but not worshipped.
It's all about cultural relationship to money, and France and the US have a quite different relationship to money, although they have in common that it's a werid relationship to money.
Why qe need WebAssembly if we have Java
For sure. When the majority if your (elite school) class "meet expectation" by going to the same elite jobs, getting a normal job can seem like a failure in life - even though that job would be pretty sweet for the majority of the nation.

When I went to business school, a bunch of the grads went to investment banks, consulting firms, hedge funds, private equity, PM roles at tech firms, and the likes. At the same time, some of my classmates felt deeply unsatisfied that they "only" got offers from big 4 firms.
Peanut gallery comments really don't add anything to the conversation. Unless this isn't sarcasm and your point is that being technically correct is practically worthless.
Remember illegaly selling Tibia in-game currency on Allegro. Think I was between 10 and 13 y old. Good old times.

Haven't used Allegro much since I've left the country. Heard that after they got bought by someone, they made some user hostile actions like greatly increased their comissions from each sale.
Good to hear that. they are still strong and opposing Amazon.
Also, surely those four companies cannot be solely responsible for the emissions that allegedly caused that heat wave — which is assuming we can even attribute that heat wave solely to global warming. Surely this isn't the first heat wave that have killed people in that area.
It makes sense that it's a mathematical approach because Computer Science is ultimately a Mathematical discipline, the Church-Turing intuition aligns these machines to mathematics (and I would argue us too, but that's controversial).

Lots of elite CS courses start there, Cambridge did even when I was applying thirty years ago, Oxford does these days (back then it didn't acknowledge CS as a "real" subject, you were basically a mathematician and you'd just be studying this oddly practical sub-discipline of mathematics). Both teach an ML today. The place I studied began with an ML then too (today it begins with Java, which is I think inferior but they get $$$ so...)

My unconsidered guess is that your "begin with booleans" thing just gets to arithmetic via a long winding route, and either as it approaches arithmetic, or just before, it accidentally gets infected with Gödel incompleteness so you are no better off, with the same problems but maybe a greater appreciation of why they were unavoidable, except maybe you're very tired.
there is an apparent reason, because Reddit is imploding. they gotta go somewhere.
What's your use case for wasmtime in sqlc?

If you go that route (use wazero instead) and want to avoid cgo, you may be interested in my wazero based SQLite bindings:
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users.
This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M.

Hard to imagine that so many people in Germany suddenly switched to TOR, especially since there has not been any significant event lately that may have triggered such a decision (afaik)?

My personal experience with TOR (as an administrator of various websites and services) is that it is a major source of unwanted/malicious traffic (spam, etc.) and most of it is automated. The big increase is probably not users but bots?
No, I've built my own computer from parts I've researched that were given by aggregated reviews best ratio of cost/value for me. If I ever saw an ad during that process to any of those components, I would ignore that. If it would be obnoxious enough, I would go for competition instead just because of that.

Computers are actually pretty bad example of this here on HN, folks here do (or at least should) understand pretty damn well what they are buying and ads should never interfere with this process.

Patients shouldn't be researching cures for themselves, they should be given choices by professional doctors. If this process is broken fix that, and not justify amoral for-profit advertising instead.

I literally can't agree with a single sentence you wrote, it all sounds like from person way too deep in PR business justifying their jobs.
These agencies can compromise airgapped high security systems but have a problem with always on, internet connected Teslas?

I'm more inclined to believe Elon is primarily funded by the IC so they can get around the 4th amendment, especially starlink and tesla.
There is a difference between doing it on purpose (ie: evil) and doing it by mistake (ie: gross incompetence). The outcome is the same but the comparison is still not valid. One cannot be corrected, the other has a chance of being corrected.

This seems to be what's happening today. China has moved on and is now on track to become the world's first economy (at least by size) and the US is still the war mongerer it always was.
I hadn't heard anything about it.
I'm the opposite, I never really understood calculus until I realised that integration is low pass filtering and differentiation is high pass filtering, and since I was in high school I've only ever converted calculus into R, C, Fin, and Fc, and solved the filter.
Email was kinda federated in the start, there were hundreds of email companies. They all got eaten up and now only a few big ones remain.
It's simpler: a listing and all the reviews attached to it ought to be for an unique and specific product. If the product changes then a brand new, clean listing should be created.

If this is not the case it's that Amazon does not care.
Maybe related to the Proto-Nazi party AfD winning a district a few days ago. And this 5 day old news story: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-securi... "Germany’s far-right AfD placed under security service surveillance" - "The party is now treated as a ‘suspected case’ for far-right extremism".

I wonder if anyone can see inside the right-wing chat networks and if they've been mentioning Tor.

Although in the raw CSV's the spike started around mid-June...
Very well written and explained, thank you.

Cleaning and recirculating your environments air can achieve a big improvement in its own
There's an old joke about a professor of moral philosophy caught cheating on his wife. When asked how his conduct suits his professional title, he shrugs and says, "And if I taught mathematics, would I have to be a triangle?"