skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The farming sector only contributes marginally to our economy

Dangerous thinking - economic contribution isn't the only factor - so is ease of regulation and food security. There are plenty first-world nations that felt itself too good for some basic industry, only to become externally dependant later.
Xeet in the hip hop industry means something completely different.
When you are selling an open source project, what outcome do you expect? People who are interested in the project non-financially will demonstrate their value in other ways (PRs, reviews, docs, etc) leading to the more common succession of maintainers without exchanging money. I don't think it's reasonable for software authors, who take the route of giving their projects to buyers rather than top contributors, to act surprised when the consequences roll in.
>When traveling to the United States covid contact tracing information is still required to be collected for people who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents

This seems obviously like an excuse to track where people have been rather than the stated purpose.

What if you don't have a cell phone, you then are unable to return home?
You don't need an addon for https://safebrowsing.google.com
Complex, but Robust Human Moral Decisions from Moral Machine
Consider a dataset D', which is a noisier version of 'ground truth' dataset D. If this dataset is sufficiently large, a model can be trained on it and be a better estimate of D than D' itself.

I applied this in cognitive science in graduate school [1] [2]. We would train a machine learning model on a large behavioral dataset (e.g. Moral Machine [3]), and then compare this ML model with a choice model (read: logistic regression) and identify residuals which we would use to featurize the choice model.

This let us find some complex, but robust empirical phenomena:

1. Age of Responsibility

Consider the dilemma when choosing to save an old person versus a child (gender matched). Similarly, consider the dilemma when choosing to save an old person plus an adult versus a child plus an adult. A linear utility model considers these two dilemmas to be equivalent. Do people?

They do when the young side is crossing legally or there is no crossing signal. But, when it's just the child crossing illegally, they are not penalized as much as a child and an adult crossing illegally. This is controlled when changing car side and gender. This suggests some preferential moral status of kids, in line with many legal norms.

2. Asymmetric Notions of Responsibility

Now, consider choosing between a high-value individual versus a low-value individual. By the Moral Machine standards, two axes of value are woman-man and fit-fat. Consider three scenarios when heading towards the high-valued individual.

a. The high-value individual is crossing legally.

b. There is no crossing signal

c. The high-value individual is crossing illegally.

Interestingly, the empirical proportion of (b) is the mean of (a) and (c).

However, this does not generalize when the car is headed towards the low-value individual. In that case, the lower-valued individual is saved at a rate almost identical to when they are crossing illegally. This suggests some type of motivated reasoning.

We applied a similar methodology to build an integrative theory of risky choice that combines prospect theory and expected utility theory [2].

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1915841117

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe2629

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0637-6
Why is it insane? I never consented to this. Why do I have to do so much to protect myself when I never signed a contract with any of these advertisers?
So is this only for the web components or does this include the icons as well?
A reasonable expectation of privacy is not absurd. I don't think anyone cares if you're gathering data about how many cars pass through the Holland Tunnel everyday.

But that's not what this is about, is it? It's about hoovering up intensely private activities on a platform that we must use to survive, and then selling it to malevolent actors to exploit us.
Huge thanks for the list! Interesting to wonder just how influential or generally just of what nature cybernetics would be today without funding issues, lack of categorisability and the field slowly drifting away from the original vision Wiener had.
How is this from the right wing?
1) that seems to be a lot harder than it seems. Entropy is a nightmare, and data corruption is a big problem.

And having a general purpose
system capable not only adapting to all the various situations and challenges likely to be faced, that also would have the reserves to deal with them usefully AND reproduce is something we can only hope for in our dreams right now.

And until such a thing exists, it’s only speculation it wouldn’t have similar types of problems, eh?

Humans are the most adaptable and intelligent anything we have yet run across, and we still regularly struggle to solve the problems we run across even in our comfy and well known existing biosphere which is right here, and that we’re quite well adapted to.

And that is assuming a one way trip. Energetically, what could it hope to return to us that would be worth the cost we’d sink into it to try?

Panspermia/species wide genetic reproductive drive, maybe - but then sending a robot doesn’t scratch that itch does it?

2) opportunity cost of time is a thing. Some would argue even that time itself is the most valuable thing we have. Pausing yourself for a million years while your competitors don’t, could be a real problem. Also, think of all the new TV shows you’d miss!

Agree on the von neumann probe problem. The lack of them doesn’t lend credence to it actually being straightforward or even possible solution for sure.

But hey, maybe all the UFO folks are onto something, warp drives/wormholes exist and are cheap, etc.

In which case, disclose it already assholes so we can start doing cool stuff with it!
What does consulting exactly mean? Do you still write code?
So is polyfill https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service
I bet UsagiElectric or similar could probably crowd fund a purchase or two.

Would love to see some of these go to a good home. Whether that's publicly available via someone on Youtube, or another museum.
Not in Blighty.

We would regard being paid to donate blood (!) as rather distasteful. We do not have a lack of donors and I do not know a single heathy person who hasn't voluntarily donated blood at some time in their life.

NHS blood donation teams regularly set up temporary donation centres in shopping precincts, library's, universities and workplaces, so you can pop in and donate blood whenever is convenient for you. The only payment you get is a cup an tea and a biscuit afterwards. And the feeling you may have helped saved a life.

I'll let somebody else make the comments about medical capitalism in the USA.
It's still an important PSA
Whatever happens, the end result on two different nodes doing the same merge operations (or a commutative ordering of those merge operation) would be identical.

Think about a CRDT document: if two people edit the same line, regardless of what happens, once the documents synchronize, the final state of the document will be identical. That’s also the reason manually resolved merges don’t work because two different people might resolve the same conflict in different ways. But again, the conflict resolution being identical under any commutative ordering of simultaneous operations is the hardest requirement of CRDTs. The commutation requirement is what kills the “always theirs” or “always mine” strategy (there are other scenarios but that’s the easiest one to demonstrate).
> Had it not been for the greed of Fastly's employee

I don't think he had anything to do with the sale.
Growing fruits, vegetables, and grain without raising animals as well means mineral inputs which are derived via mining and fossil fuel sources. This is indeed “emissions” and over the long term eventually results in soil depleted of nutrients, alongside significant ecological harm from runoff from artificially added fertilisers and other inputs.

Industrial scale grain farming also means heavy use of machinery which, again, all runs on fossil fuels. Whereas pasture raised cattle requires far less of these sort of inputs. A balanced approach to agriculture recognises the important of pasture animals such as ruminants and also recognises the damage excessive row crop farming causes.
Google Postmaster Tools – Compliance status update
I checked, and here are the top domains that are still using Polyfill.io as of today: https://pastila.nl/?00008b47/8a0d821be418cdd5003a2d620d76589...

However, theguardian.com is using it from its own domain, which is safe. But most of the other 5000 websites don't.
If you are only working for money, you may or may not already be monetizing burnout itself.

If not, it looks like a growth industry, and it might be a good idea to monetize the things that burn other people out.
And don't miss out on his antics in the Activision Ice Hockey commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do09o30A284
Experimentation is a key part of learning how things work together, and when they don't. Having learning too structured can impair deeper understanding
We won't, as can be seen by everyone recommending having an LLM write your code.
All VC backed startups are default dead. It's terrible phrasing. You're basically asking if you should stay at your default dead startup or be at another default dead startup.

Another irrelevant data point is how long you have failed to make revenue. We see patterns of startups building things for 4 years, then hit product-market fit 2 years after launch. You have the runway for that, and you've already put in the time. However, there are startups that start from scratch, launch a thing in 4 months then get to PMF 2 months later. You rarely see data where someone launches something 4 months and sees PMF 4 years later. Starting from scratch isn't bad.

It sounds like the problem is with your cofounder and the processes that led you to this point. So based on the given data, I'd say do something else.
> As soon as all the computers went online, the frivolity had to stop.

Very insightful. They ceased to be "our" (user's) machines and became "everybody else's" (vendors, criminals, scammers, "debug-by-update" OS-vendors, etc., etc.)
Carry on, then, dear sir: Clearly, this is all sorted for you, including the tailgating you defend in LA.

Best wishes. Try not to kill anyone.
Well, what came to my head pretty quickly when reading this was "there should be separate tables";) Thank you for the article, I didn't know about the statistic configuration in postgres. I can use your lesson straight away, as I'm desining a database for online gaming platform and now I'm sure that there should be separate tables for currently running and finished games:)

Also: very clear and easy to follow language, props to the author. Cheers.
I think the answer is yes and no. As a language (and as far as tooling is involved), I think Nickel is entirely suitable to fill the same role as the Nix language (maybe at the same scale as Nixpkgs the performance will need some work, but that's it).

Unfortunately, being a Nix replacement involves much more than just being a good language for configuration. It requires to interact tightly with all the existing Nix code that has been produced (basically, Nixpkgs). This is the hard part, which isn't there yet. Some design document that was started a long time ago can give you more details: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/pull/693.

The best current take is organist (https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist), which is much more limited in scope (basically development shell), but has some form of interaction with Nix and Nixpkgs, albeit limited. I think the recent development around json-schema-to-nickel and the availability of JSON schemas for NixOS modules (as mentioned at the end of the post) might make it realistic to write boring NixOS configs in Nickel (and have the nice in-LSP validation), but we haven't had the time to try this combination yet.
...of course? Macs are very popular among graphics professionals. And QuickLook is how to instantly preview a file in Finder on a Mac.

So why do you think they wouldn't?
It isn't making the analogy. Some people in these comments should read more than the headline:

> Admittedly, my kidney and my consumer preference for straight-cut jeans are not analogous

It's saying that eliminating a market via the law has been done before with human organs. The analogy is that this market was outlawed because it was deemed difficult to regulate and that allowing the sale of organs would harm the most vulnerable. This is definitely analogous with the market for invasive personal data.
Private schools don’t really “out compete”public schools at the same price points and relative home “stability”/income bracket. There are plenty of nice public schools in middle class to rich neighborhoods that easily hold their own to private schools. If you want to compare apples to apples. Most of the kids in those neighborhoods do as well as the kids going to private school.

The real problem is the pyramid of needs. In lots of blighted neighborhoods people struggle just to get by, hope they don’t get shot or mugged and can pay next month’s rent. You can shove as much money as you want into a school in that neighborhood and it’s going to underperform because the kids are worried about their next meal, parents getting high, cops harassing them, being downtrodden because they’re “poor”. How do I know? I lived it. Lost friends to it. I got out because I was the kid who aced everything that came him in math and science and honestly didn’t have to try very hard until I hit college, so I got up to a lot of the same BS other kids did.

I also had stable home life, unlike many peers, at least until 16 or so. I’m pretty sure the state still spends almost as much in $$ on the students in that district to this day as some of the richer communities, but the community has changed and I don’t think the graduation rate has changed much either, getting out of there is pretty much luck of the genetic and family draw and environment matters more than money.
yeah let me just write an entire operating system to create a to-do list app
The Inner-Platform Effect (2006)
> Don't think I've made this claim.

That's true, but it sounds a bit as if Lisp interpreters are something very unusual. The syntax and other details may differ, but the general idea of executing source code via an interpreter is very old, often implemented - similar also the idea that the code can be mutable. It's just not very fashionable, since some Lisp dialects are designed such that one wants the compiler to be able to statically check the code for various things, before runtime.

In Common Lisp we would not want to introduce variables into an outer scope by enclosed functions. One would explicitly set up a scope.

Example: this is a macro example, which creates a scope, where the matching match-variables are also Lisp variables.

CL-USER 165 > (pmatch:when-match (append (coerce "hello" 'list)
'(#$a)
(coerce "ld" 'list))
(coerce "helloworld" 'list)
(length a))

3
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn't End It
How about copyright?

Every piece of data you create could be considered a copyrighted act, owned by you.
2004 was only a year after the war started, so yes many wouldn't have been swayed of their patriotic view. It was still too soon to know definitively it hadn't been worthwhile going to war. By 2010 it was extremely clear the Iraq war was a mistake and wikileaks only added to that.

Saying the above, the reason to release wasn't to sway patriotism, it was to get the truth out. For that reason it was the right decision even if it ended up with a portion of society disliking Assange for his so called 'treason' (which of course it wasn't as he isn't an American).

Anyone that has blind patriotism without any doubts, to the US military, after Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib can't be helped.
> When you look at Alphabet or Meta engineering, you see their schemes serve to give them the ad profile data, while making it inaccessible to competitors.

That's exactly what Apple did with their supposed "opt out" work a couple of years back - they take a lot more data than apps on their platform are allowed to.

BTW, they only did that privacy work because they couldn't reach an agreement to get direct cash out of Facebook abusing users on their platform, to spite Meta: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/12/23303095/apple-meta-faceb...
Many .gov websites seen on this list.
I just got to see Sun Ra a couple weeks ago in Central Park. They still put on a good show with a lot of the details you are describing.

For anyone interested in something similar, check out Shibusashirazu Orchestra from Japan. Very similar performance of a conductor, lots of solos, dancers, etc.
> Which is something totally different from saying that it is never for sale.

I never said otherwise.

If that was your takeaway from my comment, I'd politely question your reading comprehension!
I really wish we didn't have to trust the websites we go to. This exploit is a good example of the problem. I go to a website and something in the content of the website forces you to go to an entirely different place. I didn't click on a link, it can just do this based on any criteria it wants to apply.
They don't require that you install an application to track you via the cell phone. Some countries do require that although the countries that I've been to recently that used to require that are no longer requireing that. But they do still request that you provide a phone number and a location of where you're staying.

For the United States that's what they're requiring of non-citizens phone number and address where you're staying. Of course US citizens and lawful permanent residents are exempt from that. Just like US citizens and lawful permanent residents are exempt from using facial recognition for international flights. US citizens and lawful permanent residence are exempt from a lot of border control policies. The border control people generally understand this but it's these companies that don't care and want to blindly collect the information that's the real problem. They are becoming a proxy for an overbearing government.
The number of websites is decreasing, which is good:

clickhouse-cloud :) SELECT date, count() FROM minicrawl_processed WHERE arrayExists(x -> x LIKE '%polyfill.io%', external_scripts_domains) AND date >= now() - INTERVAL 5 DAY GROUP BY date ORDER BY date

┌───────date─┬─count()─┐
1. │ 2024-06-22 │ 6401 │
2. │ 2024-06-23 │ 6398 │
3. │ 2024-06-24 │ 6381 │
4. │ 2024-06-25 │ 6325 │
5. │ 2024-06-26 │ 5426 │
└────────────┴─────────┘

5 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.204 sec. Processed 15.70 million rows, 584.74 MB (76.87 million rows/s., 2.86 GB/s.)
Peak memory usage: 70.38 MiB.

PS. If you want to know about this dataset, check https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/18842
Supercookies?
> The ads in Outlook are if you're using the free @outlook.com email address. I'm using it with a Zoho email account and I haven't seen ads.

Not true. It’s baked into the default mail client (outlook). Outlook is now the default mail client replacing mail.
This is the end-stage of having third-party packaging systems without maintainers. This happens vanishingly infrequently for things like apt repositories, because the people maintaining packages are not necessarily the people writing them, and there's a bit of a barrier to entry. Who knew yanking random code from random domains and executing it was a bad idea? Oh yeah, everyone.
I bet a few HN folks could honestly crowdsource a purchase an item or two and give it to worthy entities.
And even if an EV is powered by a coal plant, the air pollution is in industrial areas not the residential areas where people live, so there are health benefits regardless of the climate impact.
High-fat diet, microbiome-gut-brain axis signaling, and anxiety in rats
TL;DR: The litigants had no standing (you can't sue because someone else got hurt and collect the damages) and that the case failed to actually link any government officials to the "suppression of speech".

I think an important thing here is the ruling is pretty specific - they are essentially saying it still could be litigated. If there was a future case where speech was suppressed and a government official was complicit, that would be grounds for a 1A lawsuit. But you can't just sue because you are butthurt that Facebook takes down your post but not Fauci's.
Subresource integrity wouldn't work with Polyfill.io scripts, since they dynamically changed based on user agent.
Welcome back, I missed the fearmongering you were so well-known for back when the EU Commission announced their investigation. You're probably someone with a sizable 401k or Roth IRA, I'm guessing?
A $2 Geofence with an ESP32-C3
How would you even pronounce it?
Assange did not release unredacted information. The person he entrusted to clean it, did.
Since Windows and Linux don't have an equivalent of SIP, if you're comfortable using Windows or Linux at all, then you should be comfortable disabling SIP on macOS.
This exact argument has been made since people had PCs on their desks (the 1990s, at least). We're still trying to figure out how to do it well.
Bonus points for "steely-eyed rocket-woman" although it looks like rocket engines are "just" an example/test-case, which makes it even more impressive.
Some of us already have learned that lesson. Imagine how it feels to have to watch the same people touch the same hot stove over and over again. And people wonder why programmers quit and go into farming...
> Yes, the language is not the issue, the issue is that it isn't English.

Take it a step further.

The issue is that the value of the commit messages has been lost or degraded because they are not understandable to the maintainers and development team.

The same issue would (presumably) be raised if it were in German, Caesar cipher, English in random alternate UTF characters, formatted in some weird way that substantially reduced utility, or even just borderline unintelligible English.

(And if that’s _not_ the case, then this _is_ an issue on your end and I’d say you’re in the wrong. Ignore the rest.)

I’m guessing you’re worried about coming across as a dick because in your framing this is veering into language, culture, and all sorts of other things where some sensitivity should be employed. It doesn’t need to go there, though.

The focus is the utility the messages provide, that you value that utility, and that this does not provide that utility. In that sense it’s no different than asking someone to update a PR to include documentation updates, add comments to their code, or something similar.
They are trees, so not O(1) access or update, more like O(logn), with some memory fragmentation for every update, insertion or deletion.

Tuples and binaries give O(1) read access, so depending on your use case, they may be better.

Also look at zippers, finger trees and ropes for more dynamic use, especially local operations (cursors).
Because organ donation endangers one's life and significantly increases all-causes mortality. Major organs are also zero-sum - someone becoming organ-rich necessarily requires someone else to become far less healthy.

Loss of privacy is incremental, not automatically life-threatening, and not zero-sum.
HyperCard Simulator is a centralized, web-based service which aims for compatibility with historical HyperCard stacks, including the HyperTalk scripting language.

Decker is an open-source standalone application which is similar in some ways to HyperCard, but differs in many details, including the use of a unique scripting language descended from APL. Decker is not designed to be compatible with HyperCard stacks.
This desperately needs a hoop or a bin to aim for, then it's golden.