skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You did not answer a simple question - how do you decide someone is a free loader, whether they freely decided to not produce?

If someone chooses not do anything valuable to the society (while having obvious ability to do something - like no illness, no disabilities etc.) — it is the definition of freeloader I use.

So, do you think it is immoral or not?

If you don't know, lets' leave morality.

Do you think such people are helpful to the society?
I don't want to shoot other humans. I've been in a situation where I nearly needed to, and I'll never fail to be equipped to do so. I had to shoot a cat about a year ago, and I'm still a bit fucked up about it. A human would be so much worse, and that's not something I want to experience.
Unarmed security guards aren't approaching random houses with unknown situations for noise complaints.
Maths. particularly anything with floating points, the calculations are often close but off.. Probably because it is predicting an answer rather than calculating it.
Legalizing multi family units for one.
Feynman clearly did not lead an exemplary personal life but his second wife also accused him of being a communist so I'd take her testimony with a grain of salt.
NAT means we can work with IPv4 already and makes IPv6 moot. you just supported my argument.

Honestly, all they had to do was add alpha characters. Just doing so would have gave us more IP addresses than we ever needed while keeping it human readable.
The owner of archive.is does that to people running PiHole.
Did you use Chat GPT 3.5 or Chat GPT 4? GPT 4 solves this correctly when I ran it (but admittedly, by nature of the way it works non deterministically, it might have failed for you but worked for me)
Retribution is an important component of an effective judicial system. It provides approximation of justice (yes) and creates deterrence. Also that was an IT company (or rather many companies) in name only. By that definition those patent troll holdings are “IT companies” too
Dude. I lived in Ashkelon for two years. In this time I worked with people from Gaza too. There's no nuance there. Whoever talks about it has no clue. Antisemitism for these people is not a curse word. It's a society that similarly thinks about women as lesser, less deserving beings for example, without any reservations.

To them Jewish lives aren't important. And the fact that Jews are allowed to tell them what to do generates explosive righteous indignation.

Imagine yourself being ruled by chimpanzees. It wouldn't matter to you how benevolent they are, whether you have food or roof above your head. You'd feel like it's absurd, and whoever drove you into the situation where an ape tells you what to do must be brought to justice. This is how the average Gazan feels.
> Is human readable IP that important though?

It kind of is, yes.

But at this point I'll take what I can get. Just give it to me already.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

I am aware of the fuzzy nature of the provenance for all these books - its always fuzzy. Now you can take the document at face value, and say it mentions this or that, the idiomatic language, the patina, etc - I am familiar with this sort of reasoning for guessing the age - and I agree it is totally fair.

My problem is that there is often this grand claim eg that the book is ancient ie '2nd half of the 12th century' (say 1175) but then the only actual traceable thread is from 1897 - ie for only 12% of the time do we know where it was. This is the same for every 'ancient' book I look at, its the same story. Yes the 'translators' justify the text, and then their embellishments as attempts to be faithful to the original.. but there is no original!

Perhaps you appreciate my outlandish theoretical possibility which I will now outline for you..

Could it be that much of history is 'edited'. I mean, that bits are changed according to whatever is expedient and 'the message' is redirected for the present? As crazy as this may sound, just a few hundreds years ago, very few had access to books. The super rich of the time, really could control history, most common folk could not read. They couldn't even understand the Latin mass. So, the possibility is that perhaps control of history is a governance tool, and this tool itself has an ancient pedigree.
The barrier for our company is that there's simply not much benefit to upgrading our AWS networking stack from ipv4 to ipv6. It's definitely doable, but there's no real benefit (especially when your infrastructure is behind Cloudflare (or any CDN) which adds ipv6 support for end users without needing the underlying infra to be ipv6.

Even if we were setting up a VPC from scratch, it would probably be ipv4 since it's what everyone knows how to easily do. There's a learning curve with deploying a ipv6 network and very little benefit when it's all behind a ipv6-enabled CDN.
You're correct, a malicious browser can wreck havoc in the user's account. The advantage of a hardware token is that it can limit the damage: if log in and important operations require the hardware token, we can make sure that a compromised browser cannot exfiltrate the user's long term secrets, and cannot permanently hijack the account. Done well enough, the account would only temporarily be compromised (which I reckon is still bad), and the user can easily reclaim control by turning off their computer and log in with another.

As for why I care about compromised browsers, well… I hear malware is still a thing. I'm relatively safe, but I'm one bad vulnerability or bad decision away from letting a Trojan in. So I quite like the idea of protecting my most important long term secret with something that's immune to that. Maybe I'll even get there.

As for the service, most of the time their own stakes are pretty low. They ought to offer good security options, but I'm not sure it's their place to mandate stuff like 2FA.
Kirk is an exhibitionist, he wouldn't mind.
Have you come across iiif? https://iiif.io/ It's not exactly that, but it's the sort of thing that its standards and viewing apps aim to enable.
Customers never asked for ip addresses at all. They're just a technical requirement for networking.
I realize I probably never upvote posts either, thanks for the reminder.
It depends on the police department.

>They protect. They serve.. it's honestly very simple. Not all police are lazy/corrupt/ego-driven maniacs. Not around here anyway.

They are not, but departments are unwilling to get rid of the bad ones most of the time.
sure! share the love (if it deserves love).
because advertising and marketing are still very much industries where your "face card" matters and where companies will spend millions of dollars elsewhere if Chet from Advertising gets laid off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...
If they're using it to "house cash" then the only thing they need is continued inflation of housing costs. Even if it were lower than today, the inflation is the only thing needed for them to continue investing in it as its then considered to be a protection against inflation if nothing else.
you seem to miss that humans aren’t cogs, and a motivated human can perform better than a demotivated one.

having fun can actually increase value produced.

so, yes, it very much has something to do with it.
They are originalists, and if the origin changes, so does the meaning. Change the origin document if you'd like to change the meaning.
CRDT Survey, Part 2: Semantic Techniques
>> in the long run decoupling will be better for their respective countries

Globalization and collaboration making a huge difference in pace of the progress. Segregation and compartmentalization are very bad for everyone in a long run.
I was halfway expecting goatse
the short answer is yes. the long answer is: are humans involved? yes, then yes.
Which "group" defines more crimes/bad behaviors on average? Maybe there's a correlation there.
> the "nothing to hide" argument stands

No, it doesn't, because it's not an argument. It's just an assertion--and one which, as another poster has pointed out, is false. Everyone has things to hide. But "hide" is not a pejorative term here; it's just a recognition of the fact that people have private lives that they don't want to share with everyone. The so-called nothing to hide "argument" depends on ignoring that fact and treating "hide" as if it had to be something nefarious.
>Bigger problem for startups trying to muscle in on LLMs is that there isn't much room for improvement on existing solutions to do something radically different.

aye - unless you are able to notch a 10x cost/performance improvement. The migration overhead will just make it not worth it to switch.
Why does that matter? Youtube premium isn't locking you into anything. If you decide you no longer like the service you can get rid of it.
Because there is no agreement on what is ordinary "intelligence" is, let alone artificial one.

That's why.
> The people who should protect lack credibility on one hand and are demonized on the other hand.

The former leads to the latter. Despite media (both fictional and non-fictional) largely carrying water for law enforcement, they just can't help but paint themselves in an incredibly unsympathetic, uncharitable light. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199352063/seattle-officer-re... - a bodycam recording[2] of the SPD union VP speaking to the president shortly after an SPD officer ran down a woman using a crosswalk, by doing 74 in a 25 zone, at night, with no sirens. He didn't brake until after he hit her.

[2] Since she was 26, according to our fine boys in blue, her life had 'limited value'. This is what the guild's leadership think of the people they are supposed to 'protect and serve'... When the cameras are rolling.

When you're actually behaving like a demon, is it any surprise that you're demonized[3] for it?

[3] Demonized isn't even the right word. They'll face no consequences, as the SCC is both incapable, and entirely unwilling to reign in these animals.
I upvote things I think are valuable; empathy, humor, thoughtful explanations. Just when I think about it. I also upvote comments that sparked a lot of good discussion for visibility.

I downvote things that are rude, mostly terse point scoring behavior (not addressing what was said but implying something about the poster).

I flag outright aggro stuff.
Yes! Some of my favorite discussions I see on Hacker News are the ones where there are good points on both sides and I'm able to just go down the line and upvote an entire conversation thread of people debating with each other.
I wouldn't recommend using a gas stove if you don't have a good way to ventilate.

My backup cooking in case of some long term power failure is a two burner propane camping stove along with a few camp-sized cylinders of propane. That plus I usually have a small pile of firewood and at least 20lbs of charcoal for the grill. If the power goes out for any lengthy period of time I'll be cooking outside.

As for making your current stove better, ensure you actually have a decently strong vent hood that will actually ventilate outside. You'll need to size the blower enough to actually force air out of the house which will vary based on how far the air needs to travel. If your fan is too weak it won't be able to adequately push the air outside at any useful rate.
I thought re-visiting The Long Boom would be interesting given the a16z manifesto.

In addition to simply being better written, I find The Long Boom to be far more consistent of a vision and far less self serving.
I remain steadfast in my belief that Frasier is the peak of the sitcom genre, never to be topped.

This looks great, I'll play it when I get home for sure.
Holocaust is terrible, and terribly complex subject to study. In this particular context, I also suppose it is hard to find balanced views. Most people who speak on the topic have a significant agenda.

Without in any way attacking or discrediting Jan Grabowski, one of the coauthors, he also has an agenda (and that's fine). See for example this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Grabowski#Views

Distilling the Wikipedia article (oh how ironic), Jan Grabowski's view appears to be that any commemoration of Poles who helped Jews during WWII is inappropriate, since it was dwarfed by those who cooperated with Nazis. There were certainly many who did, directly or indirectly, and I won't offer or dispute any numbers. But he seems to be against even mentioning those who unambiguously did help their Jewish neighbours.

He then authors a paper about how Wikipedia white-washes Polish involvement in the Holocaust. I can't help but feel the paper is influenced by his views - indeed, can a historian ever entirely divorce themselves from their views? But then, if true, the far-right nationalists editing articles on Wikipedia are also writing with an agenda.

I guess I just mean, I find it hard to be outraged by (clearly malicious if true!) personal-view-tainted edits on Wikipedia, based on a paper that also seems tainted by personal views.
I guess if it's bringing the world's nations together to celebrate the accomplishments of their peoples, to compete in an arena rather than on the battlefield, then it's fulfilling Coubertin's vision.

In an old-man-yells-at-cloud kinda way I do find it weird that they're calling it "sports" rather than "games". We could just as meaningfully bring everybody together for Olympic Backgammon and Settlers of Cataan.
Very clever. For those wondering, this won't gunzip since it's compressed using zlib. you must do a chain like this: URL Decode -> Base64 Decode -> Zlib Inflate.
This was something nice about CL implementations like SBCL. When you needed fast you can fully type everything and unbox it effectivly, but it got out of your way when you didn't. Something approximating best of both worlds. Of course the fast code started to look like c, but that's not such a bad thing if you could localize it.
So use onion routing.
Why do some CEOs take such ... interesting(?) ... photos?

Is it supposed to present him in such a way (other than just me thinking that's odd)?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/walmart-effect.asp
The bureaucracy is a well-oiled machine on its own. It has a self-perpetuating nature, following its own set of survival rules, just like the principles of evolution by Darwin.

There's a classic book called "The Bureaucratic Phenomenon" that delves into this very phenomenon. Interestingly, middle management doesn't exactly boost the value of the products or outputs, but it keeps growing to cater to its internal demands and desires.
I think we've found our tagline! :-D
I've used state run websites. They generally do not work. Incentives matter, if you want good products you need to incentivize making them.
Yes but it is awful on mobile because I have to zoom in and always check if I did down vote by mistake.
Nobody. America's homicide clearance rate is a coin flip
Everybody on the pro-GoF side talks about how valuable it could be. Do we have any demonstrated public health wins from it we can look at?
it's called communism, and it's not pretty - i grew up there
Speaking as someone with over 100, it is not.

Seen frequent references to 500 though.
The purpose of a vaccine is to inoculate against a disease. The vaccine failed miserably at that. If the disease were actually deadly enough, more people would have chanced an experimental mRNA injection into their bloodstream vs taking the disease on via natural immunity. You didn't have to propagandize and gaslight people to take the smallpox vaccine: it was self evident how deadly the disease was. And yet, the world was never shut down for small pox.

It was clear very early on that for the vast majority of the population (over 99%) there was no tangible threat from Covid. And yet the theater of Covid was carried on. I still remember the footage out of Wuhan in early 2020 that scared the bejeezus out of me, of people just falling over in the middle of the streets and people with hazmat suits showing up and carting people off. Only in retrospect can we see that was all a production. People don't literally fall over in the middle of the street from Covid infection, fine one minute and near dead the next.

So from that background, why would you trust anything the government tells you, when the government showed no good faith effort to seek truth or be reasonable? Many who pitched the lab leak theory were dismissed, shut down, censored, and ridiculed. From the same conformists that sought to manipulate healthy young people into taking an unnecessary vaccine and to give up a portion of their youth to terror and tyranny.
If every civilian didn't pay his taxes, the bomb order couldn't be funded. Non-proximal moral causality breaks down pretty fast when there are alternate non-evil uses of resources.
Never upvote posts. I upvote comments, though my bar for upvoting is embarrassingly higher than my bar for dishing out downvotes.
> it's an absolute pain in the ass for bidirectional communication

You're right and that's what I love about NAT, IPv6 in contrast is a hacker/spy tracking digital superhighway right through my front door and straight into my devices.
Currently all stores are walk-in locations, in shopping mall, office, neighborhood. I think it can support drive thru with well setup facility.
Fully agreed.

While I applaud the effort of making YouTube less hostile and invasive, the only real solution is to stop using it.

But then I know people want to have their cake and eat it too - let Google pay for all the hosting and bandwidth but want to use alternative clients
CSS Arts using only background gradient on a single div element
I assume IPv6's are less trusted by spam filters
This story is hard to believe as told.

Even back in the early days of the internet, non-government Class A blocks were few and far between. I doubt there was a form you could fill out and authorize a transfer to a random individual by merely having an e-mail address and a domain name.

Even if you could finagle a transfer by impersonating the company via e-mail, that would be a clear case of fraud and theft from the defunct company's assets. You couldn't actually expect to use or sell the block without anyone noticing.

> He ended up trading it under the table to a company that could use it, in exchange for the promise of free service for life.

If the story is true, what likely happened is that they coordinated the actual sale through proper channels and laughed at your friends' fraud, er, antics, choosing to give him a token gesture instead of actually buying anything from him.
In a similar vein, this was published recently https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books...
I might be interested. How many people are you? What is your background (professionals/students/etc)? Are you planning to work in Java, C, or C++?
There's an 8 year old Psycho Pass movie you can probably watch cold. If you like it, you'd enjoy the series. There's also a new Psycho Pass movie that came out in July (I haven't seen it yet and I'm not sure if it is streaming yet). An unfairly high level overview of Psycho Pass is something like minority report meets blade runner.

It's not new at all, and you've probably already heard about it or seen it, but I'd be remiss if I didn't suggest Serial Experiments Lain for fans of SF anime.
For the uninitiated, this might be a better starting point https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts...
I upvote items that are of interest to me, or things I'd rather see at the top of the front page (compared to what is there already).

For comments, I'll upvote insight or prosocial behaviour (praise directed at a free software author's comment, say). Plus, anything by people who are clearly authoritative and making posts which contain valuable perspectives. Plus, anything people need to hear.

Downvotes I try to reserve for people who are rude, clueless, or obtuse. An example here might be the "but solar panels use fossil fuels for their production" types of comments where the obvious next question - "do they produce more energy than they take to make?" - is left unasked and unanswered by the poster. Disingenuous comments, in other words.
> Are you under the impression that a large number of people who refused the COVID shots didn't also already believe that the virus came from a lab?

At its core, no. But there were a lot of people caught in the crossfire of information who simply got scared. For many of them, seeing SARS-CoV-2 as man-made could have counteracted that anxiety.
I upvote things I agree with and downvote things I disagree with.

Just kidding. I only vote on comments, and pretty rarely.
Oh neat! I'm currently playing Space Haven.
Social media users who have impracticably many dead authors’ books to read and choose not to are always going to complain about the impacts of cultural materialism, one comment at a time.
If it clearly outweighs the risks can you provide a study showing this? I can't seem to find any.
What kind of edgy and offensive image would you use?
Every week there's a new SDK & Docs generator popping out. Fern, Speakeasy, LibLab, Stainless. And now Sideko. How many more do we need?

Edit: just took a look at the GitHub repo provided and turns out it's just a wrapper around their API.
> If a model is shown to be wrong, the Party either needs to explain the inconsistency or change their model to suit.

"Trickle down economics works" suggests that this is not what happens if a model is shown to be wrong.
Can you share more on the shotgun stuff? Was that recently?
Show HN: Continue for JetBrains - how we made it IDE-agnostic
Hi HN!

Since launching Continue two months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882146), we've received amazing feedback, added features, and greatly improved reliability. But one of the biggest things we heard was the desire for a JetBrains extension. My co-founder Ty and I are super excited to share that we've released an extension for PyCharm, Intellij, WebStorm, and most other JetBrains IDEs - ready for alpha users at https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22707-continue.

Perhaps the most exciting part is that this effort was kickstarted and in great part developed by a community contributor! If you're curious what it took to make this happen, check out the PR here (https://github.com/continuedev/continue/pull/457). We hope to eventually support every IDE, so we made adding a new extension as easy as implementing a single class. If you're curious why this is possible, you can read more about the Continue Server and the architectural decisions we made here: https://blog.continue.dev/how-we-made-continue-ide-agnostic.
it's good that the US is now using sticks, not just carrots when dealing with China and it's growing geopolitical power. I just hope that we still give thrift to carrots, the stick makes carrots look better. we'd all do better in a more liberal China
> purpose of a vaccine is to inoculate against a disease. The vaccine failed miserably at that.

Inoculation means to prevent disease. The mRNA vaccines were extraordinary at preventing Covid, the disease. Sterilisation is a nice to have, but far from mandatory--modern polio vaccines aren't sterilising.

> didn't have to propagandize and gaslight people to take the smallpox vaccine: it was self evident how deadly the disease was

A meaningful fraction of Americans, Brits and Canadians are generally against inoculation [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009899/
As an armchair observer, China and businesses within it seem to have the general upper hand when it comes to production of most of anything. One popular tag line is that they lack true innovative IP type work but I'd say that's highly debatable. When it comes to pretty much any sort of physical production, the US seems at a disadvantage largely due to leadership and ownership direction starting from many decades ago.
I do.

I upvote comments I agree with.

I upvote comments I disagree with, but other people seem to agree with.

I downvote obnoxious or distateful comments.