skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grandparent comment argues for "businesses [which] are democratic institutions" and a "hard cap" on wealth which will presumably be taken and distributed to people with less wealth, for the goal of "do[ing] substantial good".

Ergo, arguing justice (FSVO justice) for society.

As such, I am of the position that this is one of those rare situations where the term "social justice warrior" is meaningful and accurate.
There is a paragraph in the article dedicated to this, starting with:

> Security researchers have expressed doubt about how useful this check is at preventing compromises.

Doesn't cite the HN thread, but two other cases.

> I think? this is the same work, just now merged into the kernel?

That is my understanding, yes. From the article:

> In December, De Raadt sent a patch to the OpenBSD mailing list expanding OpenBSD's restrictions on the locations from which a process can make system calls. ... Now that patch has been merged, finishing a process which De Raadt said has taken five years.
US Added 1.2M EVs to the Grid Last Year and Electricity Use Went Down
This brings up another interesting point I haven't considered before: how to make things not only functional, but beautiful for folks with different kinds of color vision. I wonder if there's any research into the aesthetics of design for including color blind folks.
one presumes it is not when there is any quantifiable damage, no matter how slight. I assume nobody is proposing banning water, etc. But even plain water can result in large amounts of environmental damage in certain contexts.

If the point is just to ban things when the risks outweigh the benefits, that is simply the status quo.
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Hey Joshka! Thanks for checking it out and commenting. I like the one article per page format over a click -- easy to scroll along and see what I want without much interaction. I get why someone might want different though or prefer no images. V1 of the site was full black and white newspaper style with many columns -- closer to what you're saying.
> People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software"

Uh, that's just like, your opinion, man.
They didn't do very well by Giordano Bruno though who proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets and got burned at the stake.
If I am hiring someone on contract, I don’t want them learning the technology on the job. I want them to be a subject matter expert and not a “jack of all trades and a master of none”.

When I was looking for a job after being Amazoned a few months ago, I saw two types of jobs that I was qualified for - a generalist developer who knew AWS really well and a specialist in a niche of a niche in AWS that I was the subject matter expert in.

I spammed literally hundreds of resumes using the Easy Apply feature where they were looking for generic enterprise CRUD developers and heard crickets.

I applied for two positions where I was a specialist and had two interviews and one offer within three weeks.

I also had two full time offers based on my network FWIW
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As an aside, US income tax is very progressive by international norms.

https://www.econlib.org/lower-income-americans-are-taxed-muc...
What's Next for Databases and AI?
I'm intrigued to hear where you think databases and AI are headed.
What's your take on the upcoming trends and developments in this space?
Oh I read it the opposite way- he won’t be exclusive but Spotify would get the revenue from all advertisers. So say he releases on YouTube? The ad placement and revenue for that would at least go via Spotify and presumably Spotify would take a tidy chunk of that.
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For the scores, right now, they all keep accumulating on the same page, but I may do weekly/monthly lists, so previous highscores won't stay on the main page for too long.
There was massive personal wealth already in antiquity and also destruction of ecosystems. Not sure that is specific to modernity.
That’s like saying meat is not bad per se, because there are happy cows raised on green pastures getting petted by children all day. Yea, those cows do exist - the three of them are just outnumbered by the billions of animals kept in killing factories.
The amount of bitcoin mined exclusively in west Texas when the energy is at a net negative is negligible compared to the rest of the mining activity, by people who couldn’t care less about anything other than their profits. There is NOTHING charming about that technology.
It's "self evident" yet a large Cochrane meta-analysis finds no benificial effect of masks whatsoever:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Congress necessarily delegates some tactical authority to the agencies it creates and funds under the executive branch. Once we find out one of those agencies is doing nasty shit , like purchasing citizen’s data, the question for me is who do I complain to? The current president isn’t going to side against his IC otherwise he’ll get figuratively or literally Dallas-ed. Congress 503s after midterms. The courts are going to say “whatever LOL! what standing do you have?” If I dislike what the IC is doing, what should I do?
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It's an election year. Party constituents eat polarizing rhetoric and outlandish takes like it's a breakfast bar. Journalists are happy to stock that bar.

fwiw, it wasn't Biden that created the court it was Merrick Garland: https://www.justice.gov/opcl/redress-data-protection-review-...

Also, not exactly a secret given that it had a PR release and the judges are known. Maybe the secret part is getting in front of them.
I recall seeing that called "Request coalescing" in Faster Than Lime's article https://fasterthanli.me/articles/request-coalescing-in-async...
It's good that this is in this thread, as I bet a ton of power users (I check HN multiple times a day for years but likely only a time or two have glossed over the FAQ), did not know FLAG could be used as a downvote tool. Interesting choice by PG, I agree with the previous comment, we have all come to know FLAG as a violation tool on most platforms. Now we know.
> You wouldn't have that item without that compensation.

You are swapping cause and effect. First comes the item, then the compensation.
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Why isn't the <html> element 100% supported on caniuse.com?
Major car manufacturers have dozens to hundreds of recalls a year. Some serious and some as minor is a missing some pages in the manual. Tesla is by-far not the highest on the list of recalls.

Sometimes minor mistakes happen because they're minor. The assumption that this minor issue points to major issues is just not supported by the evidence.

Now that I've looked into the hundreds of recalls other manufacturers have ever yeary it makes me wonder even more why this particularly minor one is such a big issue that we are discussing it here.
Of course I’m not going to spend time or money training an independent contractor.
Codebreakers had a pretty big impact on me as a teenager - both feeding and fueling my curiosity of everything "infosec". I'm sorry to see he's passed.
> You have a lot of faith, it seems, in the ability of the already rich to somehow make better decisions

Not at all. A large fraction of the "already rich" did not get their wealth by productive efforts. They got it by convincing other people to take the wrong end of zero sum trades, thus siphoning wealth out of other people's pockets into their own. Even in the case of Jeff Bezos, who has certainly created a lot of wealth through Amazon, it's also true that his own personal wealth is not entirely due to that productive effort; a significant part of it is due to Amazon playing zero sum games with its supply chain and its workers.

In other words, the real problem is not wealth accumulation, but wealth accumulation through zero sum games, or more generally through gaming the system instead of producing. (There was a pg essay on this years ago.)
Sub 0.5 second is world record for normal beginner minesweeper. So, could be, yea.
For folks interested in this topic who have not seen Cosmopolitan and RedBean, αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (2020) is a great read too: https://justine.lol/ape.html

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This is why I never take the jellyfin evangelicals seriously. Plex is good software - nothing has been taken away and my experience with it has been consistently good and stable for multiple years.

> plex reporting all my media, habits, etc to their movie studio bed partners

There is no proof that they're doing what you're claiming. From what I've seen, people love trying to to push jellyfin by making things up about plex. Also a polished UI/UX counts for a lot more than the solo-user jellyfin crowd thinks.
Seems like a bit of a leap from the renaming of birds to collapse?

Can you explain the causal chain there?
If you’ve got elastic liquid assets, go forth and grow.

If you’ve got property, as in, the asset most normal folks own end to end and drives their wealth - negative externality.

Interesting take.
Society has collectively voted that Amazon massively improves their lives. If they didn't think so, they'd still be choosing to shop at Sears and Kmart and hosting their software on HP enterprise servers in a musty office basement.

That's all the clear and evident result of the market system which is very democratic. People vote with their dollars every day. The winners of these billions of daily democratic votes rise to the top and losers die out.
Another solution, that would most definitely work, would be using something like NoMachine or Parsec to just stream the desktop to your other computer. Parsec would probably give you really good quality as well.
U.S. Strikes Iran-Backed Groups in Syria and Iraq
OLMo: Open Language Model
Communist societies tend to be a lot more destructive of their environments.

The reason is straightforward - people take care of things that they own, they don't take care of things they don't.

For example, which is threatened with extinction - ocean fish, or cows?

Are you more careful with your boss's money, or your money?

And so on.
> Unproductive wealth is the real devil, the hoarding of inelastic goods like land, gold, and oil.

They're not wealth if they're hoarded. Undeveloped land, or gold and oil in the ground, are no use to anybody. They're only wealth if they're used. And that requires lots of productive effort to develop the land, or to get the gold and oil out of the ground and into productive use. I agree that unproductive wealth is the real problem, but we need to be careful how we define it.
Key difference being Wolfram actually has achievements to his name.
Yep! And we come from the industry too, we're young but we know what we are doing.. and in my many cases look for new ideas to work on. Even after talking it through my team, they said we shouldn't do it for anything less than 4k a month in comp, we can figure out stocks later if it's worth the time to discuss.

We have our heads on straight when it comes to not being frauded into free labor, especially in this market with all these newly minted AI know-it-alls that don't know a lick of code. I just don't know how to say I'm not interested!
What cost is allowing Bezos to exist?
> Keeping the network secure isn’t valuable?

Keeping the network secure has the same value as you apply to the network. If you're a Bitcoin maximalist this is infinite. If you're absolutely opposed to it it's zero. For most people it's somewhere in between. We can't pressupose that the energy expenditure is valuable because it is functionally necessary to the network.

> So whose paying for all the energy exactly? How long until they’re bled dry?

This is sort of like saying, "if gambling isn't valuable, where is the money coming from?" It's an activity some people want to engage in, and in the interests of liberty and self determination they should be able to do so. But when it has negative externalities of a severity that can't be ignored, something has to give and it had to be curbed to the point we reach a tolerable balance.

To be frank, Bitcoin hasn't demonstrated that it has deeper value than being a speculative financial asset. We've got a lot of speculative financial assets, most of them don't cost 2% of our energy expenditure in environmental externality.
As someone who has worked extremely hard to acquire assets great than 15 million, who do you suggest has the authority to come and take some of it away from me. And what will they do with the resources they confiscate?
That would seem to set up very strange incentives. Are there other agreements like this, where one distributor gets a cut of advertising that is derived by an artist/speaker on a totally different platform?
I agree wholeheartedly with this concept. I wonder if the most realistic way to do it is to hardcap inheritance. As much as I'm uncomfortable with the power hoarding with the Bezo, Gates, Musks of the worlds, I'm much more uncomfortable with their hundred great grandchildren still being the most powerful group on the planet. An honest meritocracy type should even be able to get behind that. Bezos built something, his kids were just born into it. Cap their total inheritance at $15M and call it a day.
I've given up on Google's ability to keep its products useful. For search, I switched to Kagi a few weeks back and haven't had to use Google for anything since.
By "the last item" you're referring to "Avoid Async Rust at All Cost", right? Personally I don't think that's abuse; I would have flagged that post if I'd seen it. That's despite the fact that I agree with a lot of what's in the post. The title is just too inflammatory. And there are more inflammatory bits in the post, such as saying the feature is "objectively bad", and saying that a community member's post "gracefully omits" some information (where the word "gracefully" sounds like an accusation that they were being disingenuous). Totally unnecessary. Chop off the inflammatory bits and you'd have a perfectly good blog post making an interesting point, but as-is that post was not going to lead to a productive discussion.
I don't necessarily want to dissect every little story, but this post was a funny edge case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203106

a tame story that got some discussion, but was marked as a dupe. But I didn't see any other posts linked in the comments as expected. I search for other submissions and see two other posts... with 0 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190710

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39186297

I don't really have a critique or solution here, I imagine false negatives are an inevitability. Just sharing.
Anyone know of any good introductory resources on combinators? Stephen Wolfram's book seems too advanced for me.
They should have at the very least sent a SWAT team to break fown his door at 6 AM, arrest his parents etc.
70% of US suicides in 2021 were white males and most of them were young.

If those problems weren’t so specific to them, then why is that rate so high?
Love it. It feels great, and I particularly like that you can left-right click on the numbers like a pro!
I guess I'm late to the party, but here's my take.

There are 100 balls. First the host chooses N uniformly from [0, 100] (unknown to us) and makes N of them red and 100-N of them green. But it's annoying to paint 100 balls, right? So he does it this way instead: the host takes 100 white balls and puts them all in a row. Then he takes a black ball and puts it between balls N and N+1, and he declares to himself that all the white balls to the left of the black one will be "red," and all to the right will be "green." Then he has us randomly select two white balls without replacement, and depending on which side of the black ball they were, he'll paint just those two balls red or green accordingly before showing us! Since we never see the other 98 unpainted white balls, we'll never know the difference between this setup and the original.

(I think it's intuitively obvious that this setup is mathematically equivalent to the original, i.e. generates the same distribution, so I won't try to justify that rigorously.)

Actually though, the host does it slightly differently, again without changing the underlying distribution: you see, he actually starts with 101 white balls, all in a row, and he begins by randomly selecting one of them and paints it black, and then proceeds as above.

But this gives the whole problem away: there are 101 white balls in a row, and three are drawn uniformly at random without replacement. The first one is declared "black," and the other two are red or green depending on their positions relative to the black one. All three-ball sequences are equally likely, so by symmetry, the probability that the black ball is between the second and third is exactly 1/3. The other two balls, the ones we draw, are different colors if and only if the black ball is between them, so the probability that we get two balls of the same color is exactly 2/3.

That's the answer: whatever is the color of the first ball we draw, the second one has that color with probability 2/3. Thus, the second ball is red with probability 2/3.
> a society which taxes inelastic goods and negative externalities and returns that wealth to the public over one which does not.

The problem is that this kind of society, even if we assume for the sake of argument that it would be preferable, is not really achievable politically. The only way to implement it is to have a government that has the power to coercively tax people, and all history shows that governments will not use that power to redistribute wealth to the public at large; instead they will use it to enrich themselves and their preferred special interests.
10 years from now I definitely think we'll have personal AI's in our pocket updating us on what's going on. They will cater to our preferences and (i hope) heavily look into stories while telling us about them.

The best future is where everyone gets a super powered reporter in their pocket.
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> I wonder how he had so much access to technology and his own files while behind bars?

Just like Hans Reiser. /s
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Show HN: HN stories categorized by topics of interest
Hi HN,

TL;DR: I made a website that takes all the top stories on HN and categorizes them into one of ten topics of interest using LangChain and GPT-4.

I've always liked the idea of getting a personal mix of news tailored to my interests. Hacker News is pretty close to that ideal, which is reflected in the time I spend on here every day.

It's a great mix, but playing with LangChain, I got the idea for a weekend project. Roughly speaking most posts on HN fall into one of these categories:

* Programming, Software & Computer Science
* AI, Data Science & Analytics
* Business & Entrepreneurship
* Science & Research
* Cybersecurity & Digital Safety
* Design, User Experience & Creativity
* Finance & Economics in Tech
* Work Culture & Career Development
* Media, Content & Communication
* General & Diverse Interests

Using langchain with GPT-4 Turbo (JSON mode), I sort every top submission into one of the above. Costs for using the API are currently at 15$ a month, with few optimizations.

For ease of use I also added the possibility to consume the news topics via a responsive webpage, RSS and email digest (daily,weekly,monthly).
And even so his net worth was not near billions in today's dollars. Seems like being uber rich isn't necessary to achieve those things.
> He built a company employing over a million people, created novel goods and services, including services my job depends on (AWS).

And if Bezos had not founded Amazon, you and others would have been unemployed and poor?

> Take away the ability to do that, and who is going to found the new companies?

Other people. There are many people who are driven by their non-financial passions that would benefit society. History is full of philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, doctors who weren't after money, yet managed to contribute more than Bezos ever could.

PS: I have no problems with Bezos, to clarify.
A 3 day warning was given so they could get the stuff and people out ;-) - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/30/politics/biden-jordan-att...
> This was my initial gut reaction as well, but then I remembered the incredible violence and devastation that Christian Europeans brought upon themselves and others over the last 1500 years.

Don’t generalise to all European Christians. It was the west European Catholic and Protestant Christians. Orthodox Christians were and are up to these days much more civilised society.
"The slippery slope is a fallacy!" quoth those actively greasing the slope.
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Yes, you're correct, it's the decimal separator. I remember now that this is not international. I believe the comma is used in the US? Having grown up in France, I'm used to the dot.

And that score is indeed suspicious, although there are some protections to prevent cheating. Someone would have to be quite motivated to go around them. But it might be possible, as you don't need to flag all the mines in order to win, you can wind by just uncovering the non-mines. I felt this could be allowed as this is really the same outcome. But I can see that if you're really lucky, the mines are placed in a very convenient way, a quick win could happen. But I assume this can only happen on the beginner grid, not on the larger ones.

In any case, I'll reconsider this, and may force all mines to be flagged in order to win, that might be safer.
I did this at community college ~15 years ago. So I'm mostly improvising regarding my cycle being that long. I'd say it's around 60 minutes.

Specifics don't matter after a while because you build new habits and do them without thinking.

But the thing our teacher told us was to stay up until you get more and more tired, until you feel your eyelids wanting to close, but power through it and measure the time between the most tired and the most alert after that.
> Like most EPA regulations they will be enforced on the manufacturing/commercial side first.

Is this actual knowledge or just a prediction?

> If you're legitimately concerned

I am, but not just about the impact on me personally. I'm more generally concerned about whether the actual costs of such a regulation will be less than the actual benefits.
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A land value tax alone would address the vast majority of this, considering that virtually all wealth derives from land access/ownership.
And the people elected a leader who strongly opposes what you’re saying is the independent nation of Taiwan’s perspective
Technology isn't a requirement.

Humans predate computers.

But technology can come in handy, don't you think?