skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scrubbing our misdeeds from history isn't as bad as valorizing them, but it is still a form of denial that prevents us from learning from our past and growing as a society

Given those statues were built to valorize our misdeeds, I don't think getting rid of them qualifies as scrubbing our misdeeds from history—it merely brings us back to zero.
I dunno, I feel like this whole article just makes it clear how fundamentally flawed the idea of calculating your way to good (in both the moral and the practical sense) decisions is. It's clear from the article that even the first-order effects of a kidney donation decision are incalculable: no one really knows the exact risk accrued from the CT scan, or the surgery, or the upside to the recipient. It doesn't seem OP included the direct costs of the transplant itself at all (all those tests and scans and screening interviews, the travel and lost time from work, and then the cost of the two surgeries). Then one could go on and on with calculating higher-order effects forever. ("I'm married to someone who gives $500K a year of their income to EA causes, but if I die in surgery there's a 5% chance they will commit suicide out of grief, denying XYZ dollars in future income to the cause...")

Indeed, OP tries to present a bunch of arithmetic to justify their decision, but admits that it ultimately rested on an emotional gut feeling: "It starts with wanting, just once, do a good thing that will make people like you more instead of less."
US needs much more than the IRA to get to net zero by 2050
For simple applications and small quantities of data Postgres is a lot more complicated than SQLite. Just the requirement of a database server is a hurdle. Factor in that the data is stored across multiple files in some different directory, and you’ve got a lot of headache when you’re just dealing with a simple application and small amount of data.
It can't be theft by definition, as no deprivation is taking place.
A hung jury does not automatically mean a retrial. The prosecutor has to re-evaluate the situation. If SBF could convince 1 person on this jury, what does the prosecution need to do to prevent that from happening again? Is the expense of a second trial worth trying to put a single non-violent person in jail?
Overall wage growth in real terms has been stuck for some time - now that it's 1% (1%!), it's considered among the highest for 20 years (for 20 years!). Absolute numbers have been fired up by inflation, but in real terms we're as stuck as ever. Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor... , look at Fig.2.

For the record, I currently make what I was making 6 years ago in absolute terms (pathetic, I know), but I am just about in the top 10% of wage-earners in the country I live in (UK), so it doesn't really matter.

As far as I know, the story is not particularly different across the big European countries.
More guessing or deciding what they need/want vs verifying with them first.

The rub is there’s no value to build it until it’s verified a little (email addresses and LOI/CC pre auth) first.
Back in the day, WordPress always ran on Apache with mod_php, correct? Wouldn't that be unsafe to use sqlite, since every request ran in a separate thread?
Yep. You’re on the money. Look at it this way. The product I worked on got acquired, and we went from a 5 person bootstrapped company that knew the product intimately, to all sorts of far less familiar customer support, sales, etc people needing to do various sorts of “admin” actions. I flat-out refused to subject these newbies to Django admin, and prioritised building proper administrative tooling. That decision has paid dividends. Django admin by its nature is always going to expose idiosyncrasies of your data model and by its own admission doesn’t give you infinite opportunity to insert your business logic layer.

Cue someone used to working in “scale until you die” startups telling me that any time not spend on juicing MAU is time wasted. I like working in sustainable businesses.

I’ve worked with Django for a decade. I’ve done ungodly things with Django admin. Things most people wouldn’t dream of. I am completely over doing any of that. This isn’t a fault of Django admin. It’s very good at doing what it’s intended to do. It’s just a very common beginner’s trap to try to push it further than it wants to go.

There’s plenty to critique Django admin for. I fought with it just last week. At the same time, most complaints I see about it tend to be people (IMO) misusing it. It’s the service panel. And yes, people other than the engineers that built the thing have reason to pop open the service panel. These are your mechanics. But, and especially for SaaS products, don’t conflate “user” with “customer”, and not think about your other audiences.
I believe the only feature is “boot environments” at the moment. In fact they've diverged so little that, according to various sources online, one should be able to take a working 23.05.1 config (read: pfSense plus) and install it on 2.7CE without issue.

In the Netgate world, it now seems that the CE edition is the most stable, inheriting changes/fixes after they've settled into the plus channel.
> I can't help but feel that the process of spending longer piecing something together through Google and documentation integrates the learning better in my memory, and produces better problem solving skills (because I'm having to figure out more things on my own).

You should question this assumption. Why do you believe that more time spent learning a subject is an indication of “better integrated learning”? What does that latter phrase mean to you?
Police rescue 1k cats, bust illicit trade of feline meat
An off the shelf NAS might be better. Some of them allow installing your own operating system such as TrueNAS. These boxes come with the right form factors, CPU, RAM, number of NICs, power consumption, etc.

Solutions such synology provide web interface, phone apps, and applications for syncing, photo management and backup. The units come with software for domain name, SSL certificates, monitoring, drive management, WoL, etc. There is a lot of software functionality useful for NAS built in.
Because it can be obtained for free.
Diet and exercise absolutely does work. It's just that when you frame the intervention as TELLING people to eat less and exercise more, it is very ineffective. So from a physician's standpoint, it's not a great approach.
This is one of those things where I'm sorta sympathetic to the idea here, but depending on how it is done I very much might NOT be sympathetic to it.

If a restaurant doesn't want kids there, there are usually subtle ways to sorta let them know. And I wonder if they're trying to change how the place is perceived, that's hard if the locals already expect it is more of a family place.
And just making your one database server
bigger also scales a lot, there is nothing
stopping you from adding a terabyte of RAM.

Underrated development strategy. If your max envisioned workload won't exceed what a single server can reasonably handle, this is orders of magnitude easier&cheaper&performant than anything else.

Additionally, I think a large percentage of the HN crowd underestimates what a single large-ish single server can handle these days. Probably because we are all used to only seeing tiny virtualized slices these days.

192+ threads, 2TB of RAM, terabytes of crazy fast PCIe storage. This was multiple racks of servers not too long ago, now in ~2U and it costs less than a car.
No. Rust forces you to spend endless hours doing mental gymnastics which shouldn't be needed in the first place (linked data-structures, owned arenas, or even just boxed slices are impossible in safe rust).

And you just keep refactoring/improving/desperately trying different ideas, because it never feels right.

It's ok if you don't agree but pls don't try to make my responses look like I like Rust, I don't and I'd happily get those years back if it was possible.
Scientists built the largest-ever map of the human brain
I'm a huge advocate for washing with soap and water, but this gave me pause:

> washing your hands with soap and water is one of the most effective ways people can keep from getting sick, and from passing the [COVID-19] virus to others

So not to doubt handwashing, but I thought we overwhelmingly determined that COVID-19 doesn't thrive on surfaces (very long) and its primary transmission vector is through the air, from respiratory system to respiratory system, clinging to small moisture particles as it goes.

Also... this article is a bit of a stub. Diagrams would be nice. More detail would be nice, I'd expect better from a company like Pfizer, who I do trust to make vaccines, but this marketing content is low-effort.
The modify NOTA people call for it to be a tax credit ($10k/yr for 10yr) or a check(also 100k split up over 10 years) from the federal government if you do not make enough money to pay federal taxes.
You are confusing the function of springs and shock absorbers. Yes, springs can be compressed, but that is their basic function. Shock absorbers on the other hand should be configured so that they never reach the end of travel.

You seem to be saying that the down pressure causes the suspension to be compressed, but the basic design must cope with that, either by fitting heavier springs, or using a self-leveling system.
>Really feels like a subtle signal that if you don’t toe the line on every EA organization decision, you must be an outsider.

Bingo. I like Scott's writing in general, I've interacted with him a few times, and EA criticism is one of three or so topics where disagreement gets you the outsider treatment.

He's slightly more amenable if you can provide an example that would've been "more effective," but "this was a bad decision"-type critiques will default to "the bigwigs are smarter than you."
> But can you personally verify all these reports?

Can you personally verify all reports about anything?

> Will anyone research in chinese resources?

What "chinese resources"? We are talking about unlawful behavior by the Chinese authorities. They are obviously not providing any records about it, and China has no free press to investigate it.

> I'm sure some of the events are true but what are the incident rate / false positive or negatives.

Just a minute of googling for publicly reported cases surfaces tens of them in recent years. Given the obvious risks of retaliation which come with public disclosure, it would be very surprising if these cases were not just the tip of the iceberg. The rest of that iceberg would be your "negatives". The complete opaqueness of China's judicial system makes it impossible to quantify them. So what? Does that somehow diminish the relevance large number of cases which we do know about?

By "false positive", I guess you mean somebody choosing to incur the risks of going public (to themselves and to their relatives back home) just in order to tell a made-up story which will gain them neither money nor fame nor any other advantage. Can you come up with a single plausible reason why anyone would want to do that?

> In my region I think the probability is extremely low.

Based on what, other than having never been personally subject to it?
If that's your blog, well done! I am totally on board with everything you say there. I've been thinking this way for years, thanks for articulating some more reasons why this is really important! Love your work! :)
When reddit first added fake/branded posts as ads for a short while it was possible for people to post on the branded posts. It was hilarious (vicious roasting of the products and brand) but of course that was quickly locked down.
I assume this is a Blade Runner 2 thingie.. which I actively deny its existence, as the first (and ofc the only one) is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made, so there was never a need to make another one.

So your question is moot because there is no JOI in Blade Runner (the good - orthodox - 1!) :)

But because I am "a generous god" ("300" reference), for the fans of Ryan Gosling, you can always watch his SNL - Papyrus skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Empty office spaces can be converted to residential – but it won't be affordable
> he's naive enough that he thinks that will work in court under the eye of the whole media

I mean his publicity tour immediately after FTX went under worked pretty well for a while. He got Kevin O’ Leary to blame CZ in front of congress. And Michael Lewis painted a pretty positive picture. He talked to everyone he could and the vast majority of the media were not sure if he did or did not commit a crime.

All he has to do is convince the jury to have a reasonable doubt.
> Frankly, Id be worried with social and ad tech companies on my resume. I basically throw these away now.

I sort of unintentionally ended up in ad tech recently, and deeply regret it. I enjoy the technical issues, but...ironically, anybody who would throw out my resume because it has ad tech on it is exactly the kind of person I would want to work for. C'est le vie, I guess I'll stay in ad tech.
He didn’t “convince” them of anything. He used family connections and those initial investors didn’t do any DD. Other investors noticed those investors put in some money and did the same. Cryptocurrency was also a buzzword so it was an easy sell. It was less of a “con” and more of privilege. And taking advantage of greed.

Same thing happened with that one woman that ran “Theranos”. Just know the right people. Although I think she was a slightly better public speaker. The yoda voice shit was weird though.
If you felt that was an ad hominem, know that was not my intent.

I do think it is a very salient point to bring up that when those words were written the concept of digital ownership and copying did not exist, nor did any meaningful parallels to such.
So how do you tell and how long do you have to wait - because the difference only ever seems to come visible with a certain degree of hindsight and/or luck.
It's not a practice run... it's a hearing-within-a-hearing to discuss admissibility. i.e., What evidence can be placed in front of the trier of fact (the jury).
Let's be real though - sugar tends to be a lot more palatable than butter, especially when baked or dissolved in acid. I could eat an entire bag of crunch bars, but set me down with a box of sticks of butter and I'm not going to make much progress.

Fats also tend to be more filling, and aren't as addictive as sugar, especially refined sugar.

So I think the real cause here is we've discovered novel ways for making huge amounts of calories both palatable and addictive in a way things have never been before.

The closest I can think of is fruits, and they come with a lot of fiber, and again if you make it into juice, it tends to still not be palatable to drink gallons of it. Whereas people will literally drink a 2 liter of coke in a single sitting.
Your framing is a bit one sided. One of the framers of the constitution also said this:

"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. "
-- Thomas Jefferson [1]

This is the core of the message that Nina Paley is trying to get across here.

My understanding is as follows: Copyright in the US was always intended as a balance. You get an exclusive right to your works for a limited time (to encourage you to publish them in the first place) , and in return the works are supposed to enter the public domain afterwards (to enrich society in general). Throughout the 20th century this "limited time" kept getting stretched and stretched to the point where people worried it'd become indefinite.

Currently the balance is a bit off-kilter imo, and could use a bit of re-tuning. But it has always been about some sort of balance.

[1] https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12...
I will forever now use "a moment" as the amount of time to process the rest of the sentence.
They should simply ask them to leave if they can't keep their kids in line. If parents can exchange social shame for a fee, I'd expect a lot more bad behavior to be tolerated.

This reminds me of the Israeli day care that instituted a 'late pickup fee' and found that suddenly everyone was simply paying it, where they had previously made a real effort to be there on time.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the culture on Twitter now is quite different than it was a decade ago, and the platform has calcified. A decade ago the common adivce for how to connect with people - Tweet often, comment often, follow accounts - connected you with a lot of people, and you would often end up following each other.

I started a new account recently (hadn’t used my old one in years), and doing so now got me just about zero attention. I got zero followers from comments, posts I made, following others, etc. It was like shouting in an empty room. Of course, there were ways to “increase engagement” that I tried and they did increase my follower account - but to what end? At that point it just feels like a weird game where everyone is trying to scam each other.

I tried another social media app recently, and was surprised to find it was like how Twitter used to be. When I followed people, a bunch of people followed me back. A bunch of people reached out to me, so that even though I haven’t put _any_ effort into engagement so far, I’ve made a lot of connections. People there are one social media to be, well, social. On Twitter, it feels like a mercenary game of “What can this person do for me?”/“How can I trick this person into making them think I’ll make them rich/healthy/wealthy/successful.”
The only thing uglier than the Django Admin is all the third-party packages which attempt to make it prettier.

Grappelli was OK for a short time, but even it's too dated to use now.

The number of "What if I used Bootstrap made everything look like a horrible Bootstrap site?" packages is hilarious.
Heavy element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST
s/probably/probably not/
I am really jealous of few people I know who intuitely draw amazing diagrams. Some of them are not even good engineers but can draw great looking diagrams. For me its a constant practice to get better and better but I still get amazed when I see high quality diagrams. Visual aesthetics are all around underrated, good diagrams are just so pleasing to look at.
Courts are selective about what evidence can be entered. You can't just show up with say reams of papers or random (deepfake) videos and present them.

If you weren't aware of this consider it an awakening. One of the best ways to beat somebody in court is not to have a stronger argument but to prevent them from presenting evidence.
advertising revenue share, paid newsletters, ebooks, courses, side-hustles, indie hacker apps... basically any way you can make money online.
> The benefit of print media is its forced-decentralization and stand-alone nature. It can survive for 100+ years on a shelf, and I don't think any digital data format could match that.

MDisc definitely can, if its claims are to be believed. Maybe you can find some specialized tape too?

Hard disks and normal optical disks probably could too, as long as you have a sufficiently large redundant array of them with error-detection on your bookshelf— If it can't last that long, just keep doubling the number of starting drives until it can.

If you want to get fancy, you can try to pay for something around HD-Rosetta, or Microsoft/Hitachi/Soton's printed glass tech.

And then of course if you wanna get simple, you could always stick your digital data into a mountable book/scroll of printed QR codes (or equivalent).

Of course, none of these options are actually deployed at any significant scale.

But I'm not sure you can realistically expect any arbitrary book to last for centuries either. IIRC Modern print media uses acidic paper as a cost-cutting measure, causing it to become brittle and crumble over time…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidic_paper

"[…] causes huge losses in library and archives collection […] 90% of the resources published by the mid-1990s […] have all the features of acidic paper. […] established to care for the heritage of the past, are not able to effectively carry out their mission […] it is not possible to save all the documents from the 19th and 20th centuries […] In recent years, most books have been printed on acid-free paper […]".
Or Firefox or Chrome
When the owner of a device is using it, they should have the right to inspect all data on that machine in plain language and to inspect all communications to and from that machine (again in plain language.) They should have the right to stop any communications at any level they choose using plain language menus.
Nice work - this is really cool!
Just shows the power of crypto buzzwords had over an non-technical audience.
It was a misdeed putting up the statue in the first place. We shouldn't pretend that didn't happen. We should acknowledge it and call it out for being a mistake.
Not really surprising. When he was on his apology tour before getting arrested, he basically fell apart like this anytime someone asked him good questions and forced him off script. He ended up running from public Twitter Spaces several times because of that. Well you can't bail from the witness stand.
"Appeal to credibility"? Are we just making up fallacies based on a formula now?

Yes, given two alternatives, one should prefer the one that is more credible in light of the available information. That certainly doesn't mean that the more credible of the two is incontrovertible, but it does take more than armchair skepticism to controvert it.

Skepticism is about paying attention to all of the evidence that has been presented. Coming up with cute phrases to justify offhandedly dismissing information that you don't like falls more into the realm of pseudoskepticism.
I think that the stuff with which you grew up should enter the public domain around the time you're an adult. Anything you were watching or reading while growing up is a key part of your culture, and I don't think it's reasonable for it to be kept in the hands of a few people.

For me the proper range should probably be around 20 to 30 years, but I'd be willing to entertain special restrictions in certain conditions.

Beyond that, I think that we don't do enough for the sake of preservation. I think for software to have full copyright protections it should be required to preserve a copy of the source code in the library of congress. And any library or tool licensing from the era should be restricted to the same duration as the copyright.
I'd like SQLite to run on client side with persistency.

Not specific to SQLite itself, but that would enable a lot of uses for it.
This writing style is great - and necessary - to turn a rather dull topic into interesting reading.

I want to see how this author handles things more exciting than court cases!
I’ve helped too many teams migrate from SQLite (after a ton of growing pains and suffering from tech debt) to agree with this.

I think SQLite is awesome for some things. It’s also hard to beat in some cases. But if you use it in a non-ideal situation, you need to know when, why, and what your refactor path will be to get to the right technology. And there should be a good reason for doing that, and I can’t think of one that makes sense.

The teams I helped often said something to the effect of “SQLite is great because it got us this far!”, and while I appreciate the optimism, they wouldn’t have gone a shorter distance with MySQL or Postgres. They made the wrong choice, period, and lost a huge amount of productivity to it.

Yet there are people out there who have chosen something like firebase where SQLite would be perfectly fine and far simpler, too. I love SQLite, but I think it’s promoted incorrectly at times. It makes for some brutal growing pains when it’s used in the wrong places.