skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often consider Kant's first formulation of the Categorical Imperative as a moral guide.

Internally I paraphrase it as: if everyone does this [action that I intend to do] will it be a good thing. I notionally insert "[everyone] who would wish to".

This situation is like the 'desire path' situation where an authority has imposed a pathway, but many pedestrians choose a different path because that is more useful. Ultimately the unpaved walking route will ride, and could cause a quagmire to form (in UK); should one then take the less practical, imposed, paved walkway?

I think the same conclusion forms for me. No. Because eventually the lack of utility in the imposed pathway will be made clear, and then the flaw will be designed around and utility will be increased.

Some might see this as shortcutting (ha!) the categorical imperative...

So yes, video sharing services need to be financed. But this doesn't mean we just roll over and accept alterations to the fundamentals of the web that make it worse.

Ultimately, my connection is that the whole system of brainwashing (advertising) people to increase consumption, or redirect consumption according to other characteristics besides thrift|utility, is detrimental to humanity (and the Earth) and needs to be done away with.
You're right. I believe school children should get meals, for free in the richest country in the world. Crazy idea.

They don't agree, but are somehow still good people.. lol
> since the fall of the USSR and some of it's satellites states , it seemed like we were on an upward trajectory in terms of human rights, democracy and civil liberties.

The fall of the USSR is the victory of capitalism and most above all the spread of neoliberalism, definitely not an upward trajectory for human rights, democracy or civil liberties. If you think it's been going up, it's because you were not in the group that has been crushed by it, which means you were in the group that, on the global stage, was crushing the other. Our collective well-being always depends on exploiting someone else, unless you're one of those who is simply exploited

> we are by definition always meant to be under some kind of semi-authoritarian regime?

No, we are not doomed to live under a semi-authoritarian regime because we are not doomed to live under a "regime", or more precisely, a State. Alternatives have existed and have all been crushed by conservative, usually capitalist movements but also Stalinism. They failed not because of their inner issues but because they didn't have enough power in the balance to survive against antagonist movements. Which is enough for me to believe there is some good in it, and it's worth fighting for it
> But most software company exits are now PE deals (something like over 75%)

Can you provide a source for this? I don't doubt it, but I'm wondering if this is accurate for startups that have raised seed+ funding.
I'm surprised that you describe mob rule as something good. Would you like someone to park a bunch of big trucks in front of place because they won't pay you protection money? It's extortion and should not be held as some ideal. If you want to protest to let customers know something that's fine - the minute you harass or stop customers/business you've crossed the line.
Not exactly. Here is the story of what happened, when McDonald's
opened in Denmark (similar system to Sweden) - and thought they could avoid an agreement with the union.

https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...
Dude, they are having a mild recession because of an energy shock and inflation. It's like being the slowest guy at the olympics. But for just one race.
I'm not sure what you mean by your question. PoW solved a problem no other known system solves. There is no trade-off here.
We don't even know if LVT would solve housing.

We'll just have to wait and see then. Detroit is going to try it out and we'll see how it works for them.

we know exactly how to solve housing. People just don't want to.

It's a collective action problem. One of the ways we usually solve those is through government action. LVT is a candidate for exactly that!
> I don’t think you are going to get any takers for that job. “You only are going to get shot at 1% of the time, if you survive you can call for police backup.”

Thanks for elaborating the point, this is exactly what I was trying to get at with the "you go do it then". How are you going to convince people to join the police knowing they'll be going into places where people will be armed but you yourself are not armed and somehow need to enforce the law and project some level of authority if the situation is hairy.
Exactly, which is the case in many European cities. For example, Antwerp, Zürich, Stockholm, all cities where you can feel a lot safer crossing the streets(“jaywalking“) than in any big city in the UK I’ve visited
Bouncers are there to keep your customers safe, so they don't go elsewhere and never come back. You don't need to mandate bars have bouncers. They want bouncers.
I see that indirectly, Spotify likes to recommend me stuff that has gotten attention from a few specific human curators: NPR desk concerts, the Mark Radcliffe Folk sessions (a BBC program I believe), and A Prairie Home Companion. So it's not an either-or, I would not even have heard of those curators without Spotify.

But some of the best stuff Spotify has found for me, has had ridiculously few plays and no obvious human curator connection.

Bandcamp just isn't in the same league, and I'd say Spotify is far better on serendipity too. It's far from predictable what it will recommend, there's not many human curators you can say that about (including the three I mentioned).
Because the important distinction here is between (1) media that is state-funded in the sense that the state owns it and guides its editorial priorities, and (2) media that is state-funded in the sense that like almost every other enterprise, some small share of its operating budget is a consequence of state spending.

Calling (2) "state-funded" when the signal was clearly intended to indicate (1) is disingenuous and eliminates the value of the signal.
The article mentions "decent and safe working conditions"; it's not about money.
Frankly? Yes. The drawn out death rattle was annoying to follow.

But if you list the causes of SAABs demise you get pretty far down the list before coming to "2 months vacation and 36 hour workdays" (it's 25 days and 39 hour work weeks btw).
There are many different types of intelligences or smarts

Skill is a form of "functional intelligence", where skill = talent + grind. The more talent, the less you need to grind, but combined the two are killer. To me, "smart" where the grind is 0 is not "smart", but just "lucky" (born with talent)
It's anti-western.
It's not about extra staff for one late project, it's about extra staff to handle the anticipated increase in the number of projects SpaceX, Blue Origin and others are planning to be throwing their way in the next few years. They are already starting to struggle to keep up; this is about preventing it getting worse.
Surely you'd find something to discuss about one's previous twenty years of building software. Especially if the last ten years have been in the same domain. Somehow it all worked just fine before 2010 or so. Also, one's tolerance for silly things and short-term memory for useless puzzles don't increase with age.

You know you live in a clown world when memorizing nonsense makes one more employable than learning some front-end stuff to be a little more full-stacky.
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Matthew Wilcox dunked on it savagely too in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZS6Ea4%2FKI0mKiRMv@casper.infra...

It is your job to do this. You seem to have taken the attitude that you will give the Chrome team exactly what they asked for instead of trying to understand their requirements and give them what they need.
>So good to hire from.

Nothing you said supports this statement. This comment pretty much explains why most roles are not at risk of being outsourced: it’s a pain in the ass to deal with.
> So what does it say?

It depends on the definition of tenure... if tenure is defined as a closed interval (i.e. defined only for developers who've joined and then left) then it means that, of the developers who have departed, none had wanted to grow with the company, or the company had let them go. For a startup company this might not be a good sign.

If tenure is defined as the length of time the developer had worked, OR, has worked so far, then it means they have a core group of developers and aren't growing the development team particularly quickly. Again, this might not be a good sign for a startup.
The police are a gang
Does SpaceX pay a fair share of taxes or do they weasel out of it like every big corporation?
I don’t think this was intentional, but you missed the third category: people who love to write code but only have time to do it for the paycheck.
Also third party keychain managers (which are also often proprietary), so no need to hand your preciouses directly to Goaple.
Ah yes, the Murdoch-owned New York Post. Definitely an objective source for information about the Biden administration.

There's nothing bizarre about the DOJ prosecuting someone who has no filter and constantly brags about his disdain for the law. In fact, it makes you quite an obvious target for prosecutors. See also: Trump, Donald J.
Minor typo: "Here’s a surprising property of circulant matrices: the eigenvectors of a circulatnt [sic] matrix depend only on the size of the matrix, not on the elements of the matrix."
Libc and much of posix predate threads. There was no way to fix everything without changing the APIs, which they did in many cases but not all.
Arguably it's less direct due to the superlatives and exclamations. For example:

> Christ. That's literally the remap_file_pages() system call
definition. No way in hell does "ON_BEHALF_OF_KERNEL" make any sense
in this context.

This could be

> That's the remap_file_pages() system call definition. "ON_BEHALF_OF_KERNEL" does not make any sense in this context.

If someone I didn't know or was unfamiliar with gave me a review like this I'd frown, but since Torvalds is known for this then I'd shrug it off probably. It's a good, thorough review though.
"Over that same period, the most rural county type had a 54% higher gun suicide death rate and a 50% lower gun homicide death rate compared with the most urban counties."

I am not sure I am reading the data the same way as you. To me this shows urban areas have a much higher homicide rate which would be more associated with safety.
I've never used the voting. It's a quality signal and they are notoriously difficult to get right. Netflix infamously switched from stars to like/dislike and everyone hated it, and yet it provides better signal and recommendations become better and therefore you get better content surfaced that you'll enjoy more. I'd guess a similar thing happened with YouTube.

Zooming out there's typically an ecosystem benefit, because otherwise why would they do it. That ecosystem benefit isn't always about money, if no one watched videos there would be no business. In fact a business that is often much better than a business with no users that isn't, so user happiness and experience tends to be prioritised highly in products/companies like this.
Securoty clearance, after getting a visa and work permit? Sure, why not?

And not all jobs at those companies require clearance, far from it actually.
Then it seems to be more of a problem with excessive regulation then suburbs themselves.

As a thought experiment, even the wealthiest city in the world couldn't afford a single bridge if regulations required bridges to be made out of stainless steel.
I'm not sure where you got the idea of "laws = authoritarianism" from my questions, but it definitely is an easy strawman to knock over.

In fact, I believe the level of laws a society has should be negotiated by its citizens. I prefer a more liberal society, but that does not mean I do not want laws.

The question to be debated is just how much power a government should have. Personally I would prefer that parents and their community determine what is right for a child to be exposed to instead of a top-down approach, but there is a lot of grey area there and must be negotiated culturally and politically.

What I do fear is that authoritarians rarely give up authority once given, and once given enough authority the populace's ability to negotiate government's role in their life democratically evaporates. Increasingly despotic leaders seek the power the government now holds.

The history of the 20th century shows this in extreme forms in the likes of Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, etc.

Especially in the case of Germany - Hilter was elected! - the people wanted his authority because he promised to fix Germany, promised to fix the morals of their society.

I see parallels in legislating morality, or the attitude that government _should_ legislate every moral or social quandary.

Anyway, I'd encourage you to steel-man your opponents ideas instead of assuming the most ridiculous, easily-defeated idea of it.
I think the post you're replying to didn't say it's good or bad, they merely reported some facts about unions in Sweden (not sure they're if accurate or not, but I have no specific reason to doubt them).
The FTX trial, day nine: Nishad Singh: "I have always been intimidated by Sam"
FDA faces pressure to act nationwide on red dye in food
On the contrary, that's exactly what most cities need in order for property prices to drop from insane to less insane.

LVT would exclusively take from people and corporations who own land. This in turn will allow more people to own their home.
The real message here is: "subscribe to my bad ideas if you ever want funding."
Not every role at SpaceX requires clearance.
Ask HN: Anyone else read A Confession by Tolstoy?
I’ve read a lot of books in my life, including others by Tolstoy and his contemporaries - and entirely different types of books such as Harry Potter and Javascript, The Good Parts.

Recently, I found and read Tolstoy’s A Confession. It immediately struck me as the most important thing I’ve ever read. Feels like it should be state mandated reading, has me absolutely frozen and inspecting my own life.

Has anyone else read it? I suppose at some level the purpose of my post here is to search for some additional validation to the tune of: “yes indeed, you have in fact stumbled upon a life changing 80 pages, as I also did some time ago”.

- your boi
Giving technical details to a foreign citizen is considered an export of ITAR or other restricted information and can get you personally locked in federal prison.
It’s been easily 15 years since I read Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by by James Gleick, and probably 25 or so since I read Feynman’s own books of stories about himself. I remember lots of stories about flirtation, and very probably promiscuity, but I don’t recall sexual predation. That’s not to say it didn’t happen. I haven’t read everything there is about Feynman’s life, and I don’t remember all that I actually have read. But I do not remember predation.
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Root Cause: Examining the way the world is, rather than how it should be, as per the parent comment's point.
How about when NBC, one of the main cheerleaders for the homicidal war in Iraq, was owned by a defense contractor that made billions selling weapons (GE)?
Uh. They have.

- Amazon: Prime Video

- Microsoft: LinkedIn

- Meta: Facebook

Even WordPress.com has their own video streaming service for small sites. The issue comes down to moderation and kicking bad content off. These days, virtually everyone has a video camera in their pocket, but when YouTube came out, it was very rare for someone to be able to create content. Thus they were able to scale up their moderation as the technology became less expensive to consumers.

This would be a problem for any new-comers as well, but one that can be mitigated by using consumer grade LLMs that simply did not exist a few years ago.
Other unions will deny services to Tesla in Sweden, strikers at one company are not alone. If they can operate without relying on another unionized company for anything they can still do it, and likely pay the same or more anyway as it will be in the media so many people will not take jobs there.
This strike is basically about auto mechanics working at Tesla service centres.
How about anglerfish or giant tube worms?
Patlabor 2, the Movie: realistic portrayal of modern aerial combat
Title was editorialized to remove clickbait content
Additionally, paper voting is easy to administer. Anyone can volunteer to administer a paper-based election and understand all the processes involved. The same can't be said about black-box cryptographic magic.

Scrutability and accessibility go a long way in establishing trust. Putting elections behind technical complexity does the opposite.
> Securoty clearance, after getting a visa and work permit? Sure, why not?

Clearance requires US citizenship.

> And not all jobs at those companies require clearance, far from it actually.

This is the more important point.
Yeah this sounds like it should be illegal, although it's probably allowed in the US. There's no way it is clearly communicated to candidates, I don't think most people would agree to a contract that says "FYI we might fire you after a week if HireRight doesn't like you, no we can't check beforehand you'll just have to hope you meet our standards."
Modern policing in the US is pretty terrible in terms of systemic corruption. If you add up the costs of, for example, overtime and detail fraud, it puts normal property crime in the shade.
I'm surprised nobody who's opposed to voting machines has set up a company to build/sell them yet. I assume people would buy them off your competitors if your pitch was "e-voting is bad, insecure, and has intractable problems. these machines are the cheapest and least-bad ones."

I was considering it for a while, calling them Expensive-Pencil machines or something, alluding to the paper they'd print out following your vote.
I didn’t realise he did anything wrong? Was he forcing himself on women or merely flirting successfully?
I'd agree with you that wordpress core of 10+ years ago had constant security issues, now, its mostly in plugins, and even then, not as often.
Undisclosed felonies is a popular one.
This is a very interesting problem that I've considered a lot lately, even to the point of planning out a competitor on pen and paper. Here are my thoughts. And, on a personal note, I would absolutely love to build a competitor!

Serving video at their scale and efficiency is quite advanced and non-trivial. Videos must either be transcoded multiple times and stored, or on the fly.

Now, consider what you're asking for in terms of ad-free. You want to watch videos, but not watch ads. Fair enough. But who pays for the bandwidth? Who pays for the servers and infrastructure for storing the videos?

I can only see four options.

1. You, the watcher.

2. The content creator.

3. The provider (YouTube).

4. A benevolent 3rd party, such as government or nonprofit.

Watching videos with ads is option number one. You are paying by watching ads. I never see ads from youtube, because I pay for premium. That is also option number one.

If you block ads, and do not pay for premium, then you are trying to do number three. You are expecting YouTube to pay all of the costs, but where are they going to get the money to do that? Economically speaking, it's an unsustainable position. Currently, they must make up the Lost revenue from other people who do watch ads. That means, in short, by you not watching ads, you make someone else have to watch more ads.

The approach I considered taking was to provide a pay-for-what-you-use (bandwidth) model. Watching things at a lower resolution costs less, for example.

It may only be a few cents per gig of transfer, but such a simple but fundamental change would have interesting repercussions. For example, content creators would be incentivized to be more concise rather than stretch things out as they currently do. Creators could also then be paid a portion of the transfer fee. So then not just views matters, but actual watch time. The balance of creating meaningful content and not just filler would be an interesting experiment.

Honestly, I would love to explore this option more. I would love to build it!

There is another alternative that I have considered, and that is to allow the users of the site to host the videos themselves. Sort of a torrent-based approach. It's still option number one (or two, depending on the details), but the users provide the infrastructure and bandwidth to one another. A certain part of me likes this approach, but I'm not convinced that it would be a good user experience.
The tax payer, Musk cannot be bothered either way with all the world saving stuff he does.
Unions are mob rule in that sense. If you want to work and the union doesn't want you to, you obey your union boss. Wherever you put power, it will sometimes be abused, even if it's worth it overall for you.
Does SpaceX pay fair share of taxes in the U.S or does it play the standard tax loophole games of other international corporations? It's not even paying the government sufficiently for the favorable efficiencies that it is asking for. SpaceX and its customers, not the general public, will benefit by additional licensing staff.
Hmm, I think its the same problem, you are somewhat arbitrarily drawing the line between "math" and the universe (or maybe I'm agreeing with you and don't realize it).

A halting/decide-able problem is one that is precisely about tractability - does it end, and can you decide that. The maths is about whether there is a tractable solution, in theory ignoring any energy/mass requirements.

The maths of the maths of the tractability issue is also one of tractability - if you provide an infinite solution to an infinite problem then is it a solution or an admission of defeat? You can't even decide if you can decide that you can decide.

If there is no maths for the maths for the decidability question of is it tractable (not even energy computeable), then in my mind there is no difference between the two, i.e. you have no higher order reduction with which to express the lower order problem. Without a constant time solution, there may not be enough math to express the solution to the problem, i.e. this may just be another set of infinities, as you mentioned the integers, irrational numbers, precision, etc. (which are lower order entities for which we have tractable mathematical solutions).

And the lower energy bound of the universe to the set of problems to me remains interesting, in that maths itself is an invented set of relationships, in the sense that the set is invented and less in that the relationships are invented (they exist but we value certain relationships over others, so the set is invented), so any maths that cannot survive and exist within the information space that is the universe is to some degree irrelevant - if there is no way to relate to it, does it exist? I think so, we simply lack the ability to process or observe it.

Consider, for instance, a constant time solution to the decideability problem, however the maths to prove it require a set of equations and theorems larger than the processing time of the universe. Then a solution exists, perhaps, but we will never discover it. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it does not exist for us, and we can neither prove nor disprove that one exists.
Isn't that cartel-like behavior and basically extortion? How is that legal?
Why would I use this over YoutubeDL hosted on a low power device like a NUC or Raspberry PI?
What are you talking about?
Just insert your Zelda Gameboy cartridge and play immediately!

If you want to use ROMs, just download the pocket updater and let it do all work for you!

https://github.com/mattpannella/pocket-updater-utility
Stripe Checkout now supports embedding
What are some FAANG-type companies that don't ask Leetcode-heavy questions?