jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>> It seems much more likely that I don't fully understand their perspective.

I think two things are going on here:
1.) There is a radicalized minority of conservatives that believe in Q, storm the capital, etc etc. I think this minority is growing in size, as their publicity alone is lending them credence. It's easier to get someone to believe what they want to believe, than the truth if it goes against their world view, etc etc.

2.) The large majority of R voters are not off the wagon lunatics, and many claim they liked trump the least of all the R cannidates in 2016. But I think huge portions (*of both sides*) are so conditioned to whatever group of beliefs they hold, that they will never switch or compromise. So now we have a bat shit crazy president, because he out primaried several indistinguishable moderate opponents in 2016, and the whole R side (that is not stark raving mad) went with him, purely because they couldnt even start to entertain the thought of ever voting for a D. And now some of them are becoming radicalized, and it's kinda scary when people you know to be rational are asking you about election fraud... remember, its easy to believe what you want to believe... Below is something I posted some time ago, where I tried to outline how I thought many trump voters rationalized voting for him.

>>. What I fail to understand, as a foreigner, is how someone can vote for a president who is an outright liar. Look no further than his last tweets as of right now.

I don't fully understand it myself, but as it's been explained to me by trump supporters is: "don't listen to what he says, look at all the good policy, look at how hard he is on China, look at how many jobs there were pre covid, etc etc". Whether or not you see his policy as good, some people do, and they are willing to overlook his madness because they think he is achieving good things. (actions speak louder than words, etc) Some of his supports do bring up his appointing of tons of federal judges, and this what I would probably consider the most valid reason for voting for him (if one is aligned to a more conservative viewpoint), as his judges are more likely to enforce (or not) the laws that align with "traditional" republican political ideals, and that's the what matters to the voters.

Or also because they've always voted R, and Biden= socialism (which is worse than satan worship according to some people's moral codes..), or Biden= Let our cites get burnt down by rioters. This goes back to the, it's easier to vote against someone than for someone. And now that I put this all in words, this second justification is probably what I heard the most during trumps 4 years, some peoples defense of trump always came down to, "but hillary would be way worse". Some level of cognitive dissonance definitely plays into it.

Also having some subset of the population support a populist, pathologically lying sociopath is not necessarily a new or uniquely American problem. It's just that the problems seem to be amplified when they are American, cuz everyone is watching.
Looking at some of the examples:

Version 1 is word-salad, but the word salad usually includes the subject and object of the sentence.

Version 2 pretty much always gets a feasible sentence, but sometimes the sentence is completely unrelated to the original.

Which one is more playable is a bit subjective. DeepL looks quite a bit better than either of the google-translate versions though.

The DeepL version definitely looks far better than 1 or 2.
I'm not sure it is really that big of a fear, but shooting at people is totally psychopathic. Random property damage happens WAY more often than random murder.

Shooting down a drone is like throwing a rock in a window or graffiti. In a lot of areas, those crimes are a huge problem.
That very much depends on the price ticket attached to 'fail'. Agreed on the tech debt, that's an excellent way of putting it. Other people might call it tradition but I think an improvement is long overdue.
The only platform that is still monetizable for the little man is the web. I hate to say it but developers brought this to themselves. The amount of pumping and hyping that mobile development got over the years is through the roof. You don't need an app for that. (But then again, developers make money making the apps, not by selling them)
When you do find it on pinterest it's on a contextless image that links nowhere.

Many times I've been looking for some obscure part that I would like to purchase, only to find search results flooded with pinterest images of it that are utterly useless-- they don't even tell me what the part is called, and certainly don't let me find where the image came from.

If pinterest was using a GAN to generate plausible random images would we even know?
I checked the logs and you're right. The URL was originally https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/google-reportedly-in-talks.... That article is simply pointing to the Reuters source, so a moderator changed it in accordance with the site guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

Normally when we do that we explain so in the thread, like this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... But this one happened overnight when no one who is public as a moderator was awake. That's a flaw in the current moderation system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of today's elite countries have unspeakable atrocities under their belt, even if you only consider the post-1900 modern era.
We have to compare it to what's currently offered. The short bed, the high sides on the bed, and sloping roof that looks pretty low for the back seat passengers.

Hard to tell how well that built-in ramp on the tailgate will hold up, same with the bed cover. May be fine for loading a small dirt bike, but I have my doubts based on the photo I saw of it. Looks to me that it won't take much to warp those out of shape and if they do warp they won't open/close easily (or at all).

Stainless steel is hard, and it's not easy to repair once it's bent or scuffed up. The finish is almost impossible to repair. You can't "match" that like you can with paint. So scuffs and dents are pretty much a permanent thing unless you replace the part with a new one, and stainless steel will make that expensive. This is why you see so many old Deloreans painted now. You can't "bondo" a dent and match the finish. You can't even "metal finish" it.

It's a "Luxury" vehicle, not a "work" truck. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but that's a pretty limited market when compared to work trucks or luxury cars.
I think Quora is such total garbage info and unfounded opinion I just add them to pihole blacklist.

Quora actually points to a flaw of algo only search engine rankings - do a lot of people link to it? Is it a lot of keyword intense content? Yep and Yep!

But the important - is it actually useful, relevant information - well that's secondary.
Anyone who owns property in the State of California, for one. Thanks Prop 13!
This is an opinionated source attempting to save face. The MIT Tech Review article[1] really points out the lunacy and details that slipped through his authorial cracks. tldr:

- Paid event where attendees flew in from around the world and A360 membership costs upwards of $30k per year

- Employees knew they should be seeking indoor filming permits (and shifted venue / accommodations multiple times) but decided to avoid / abandon the effort

- Mask wearing was not enforced and there was no self quarantine required

- Diamandis directed employees to be tested by a company he's intimately involved in, HIPAA violations occurred on a text chat, and they didn't report infections (as legally required) to California

Extract from MIT Tech Review article:

> His blog post also did not acknowledge that public health orders had banned gatherings between December 3 and January 25 in California. Diamandis would not respond when I asked whether he was aware that he was violating state health rules by holding his event. “I knew that there were challenges. But I don’t know that I want to answer that on the record,” he said.

That anyone could believe such an immunity bubble could be maintained when the White House failed or that they claim to have provided "Immunity Boosting: Intravenous vitamins and minerals" or "Regenerative Treatments" to safeguard against COVID just highlights the lunacy of the entire enterprise.

Their final infection rate was 43%[2] for those who were unmasked. That his surprise conclusion was "Bottom line again: Masks Work." when noting the 35 (!) AV employees that were there in person "isolated in one corner of the office" who walked away uninfected has not been a shock to nearly anyone for months.

Yet this blog post makes it sound like they were completely blindsided and that even the most intensive analysis of the available medical literature (or common sense) would say otherwise.

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/13/1018374/peter-di...

[2]: From his own blog which may not be accurate given Diamandis noted to the MIT Tech Review regarding discrepancies in the count "“Someone is tracking,” he said, though he said he was not sure who."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477771
Well, I've assumed Neal Stephenson has been releasing books written by a machine trained on wikipedia and fan fiction for years now. They're not good but people still buy them.
Science is about the idea that ideas are tested by experiment (or more generally, some objective empirical validation ). Economics, while traditionally a scene of some combination of occasional mathematical rigor combined with ideological opinion, has as of late been going through an empirical renaissance of late. Economics is changing.
Dimmable led bulbs come in multiple varients and don't work with all style of dimmers. Quality matters too.

The best bet is switching to Hue or other smart bulbs that manage their own dimming. It's generally cheaper too unless you have a dozen bulbs on one dimmer.
While I haven't seen a formal plan announced, I think there are financial, logistical, social, and political headwinds to it.

- Financial: Companies are saving major cash by reducing office space and the associated perks. It's no longer a fight to serve the best meals, have the best designed space, and the greatest views. Further, eliminating business travel increased margins across the board.

- Logistics: Many companies in the Bay Area (especially SF proper), NYC, Boston, Chicago, DC, and other places are highly dependent on mass transit. How many people will want to use it after this?

- Social: Some % of the population has been convinced that anyone can contract and die of covid quickly and easily. All the restaurants, coffee shops, bars, etc, etc around their offices have withered and many have died in the last year. If companies don't feed their people, will they hope everyone brings a lunch?

- Political: The Biden Admin just announced masks are likely necessary into 2022. Further, we're seeing new covid variants/mutations triggering lockdowns all over again.

Any one of those may not be enough but collectively, it will create major resistance to any sort of "in the office" demands.
The code is on github, they link to it from the page.

And personally, I do have the problem this attempts to solve. Whether this is the right solution to it I don't know. But the problem does exist.
30th sounds good. It'll be cool to meet other Chicago HNers.
Sure, this sounds logical and by all means, design the damn thing.

But. Communicating clearly and succinctly what it is you do is important. You can't go into an hour long exploration of the UX field every time you meet someone. let alone do so and explain which parts you do, and don't, and why. So we have a dozen different job titles, each putting the emphasis on another part of the field.
Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_...

The answer: Yes, it is.
"Will you be worried about looking silly while wearing them?"
I wear them all the time.. recently at gyms but used to wear it in the park when it was warmer..
In both places, I was stopped, asked in a very polite manner either "what are those?" or "I've seen those, what's your opinion of them?". People were curious, and while they thought it looked weird, they never once seemed to look down on me for my funky style. Plus it helps to get the most basic black color.
One of the most dangerous ideas to get in your head is that you can invest your money in such a way as to get a more than 10x return in less than 30 years; it leaves you vulnerable to a great number of scams and bubbles.
i believe lists of its obsessively chiseled, unique, world-class features would only get contrasted with its pardonable shortcomings as an editor.

so, that question is a no go because the thing has a transcendent dimension, it puts you at the heart of the storm, the center of computing where you commune with the gods of our field in perfect calm.

once you slay the dragons. best of luck!
It seems that their data is mostly coming from their own user base (the discord data is biased as they admitted), which is mostly comprised of programmers and other techies. I don't know how far this generalizes to the rest of society.

I personally like dark mode during night time, but almost always prefer light mode by default. There's just something about dark mode that is... gloomy and depressing. It feels like an overcast day, whereas light mode feels like a bright sunny day. I've noticed that most techies do prefer dark mode, and I also recall reading that techies are disproportionately night owls - I wonder if there's a correlation there. I suspect though that this preference is reversed for the general population.
There is not way to be sure, which is why (per the second link) it's best to invest a little every regardless of what the news headlines say.
> It stems from the belief that our brain is dissociated from our mind/identity, and therefore existential-like issues should be treated as separate from the brain.

I have a "put on the brakes" mentality about hallucinogens, and it stems from a Christian worldview, where existential issues encompass both the brain and the mind/identity.

If anyone is interested in knowing, the reasoning about hallucinogens from a Christian worldview would probably go something like: (a) everything in life has a spiritual implication or connection; (b) we are created above all to know and love God; (c) knowing God comes above all through being grounded in truth and reality, centered in the word of God (scripture), prayer, and community; (d) while hallucinogens seem to have some positive effects on the brain, they also cause one to have intense personal experiences that are disconnected from reality, potentially opening oneself to negative or false spiritual influences; and therefore (e) the major risk of hallucinogens is that they can alter people's spiritual capacity to know and desire God.

As for using it to treat depression, anxiety, terminally diagnosed patients, etc. -- I would be the last to want to deprive distressed people of a straightforward cure. But I'd avoid recommending them anyhow: my fear would be that while hallucinogens might help temporarily (i.e. in this life), the effect in the next could be catastrophic because it may have contributed significantly to suppressing their innate human capacity to know God, find his love, grace, and forgiveness, and be satisfied in him. Meanwhile, there are other helpful ways to treat things like depression that God has given -- the beautiful natural world, for starters ("forest bathing" is a thing because it's a really good idea; modern cities contribute significantly to anxiety).
I can't recommend any brand. The research is weak regarding oral collagen supplements. I'm planning to switch to vitamin C infused gelatin, as there's some research backing that up. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27852613
I think what they might be trying to get at is the concept of an “active placebo.” That is, a treatment that does something, but can’t treat the condition that’s being studied.

I disagree that psilocybin is any sort of placebo, but I think this captures the intent of the grandparent comment.
>So then we are in agreement that wages are not a function of value created by the worker.

Wages are a function of value created. As a trivial example, wages are capped by total cost to employ, which is driven by wages and legal requirements. There is no way around this on a large scale without a business losing money, i.e., dying.

>which is a completely unrelated number to value

No, this is untrue. Marx had the same thought, but didn't understand that employers also compete for workers, which is why the poorest workers are vastly richer than Marx could have understood.

A simple way you can check it empirically is to take a dataset of companies, compute mean revenue per employee, and correlate to mean wage by company. You'll certainly find that these numbers are completely related.

You can do the same thing using work sectors using BLS data on pay by job type, then revenue generated in those jobs. Again, you'll find a strong correlation between revenue generated per employee and per employee wages.

These empirical tests you can do yourself should convince you wages are tied to value added.

If you then do proper factor analysis to account for other costs varying between companies, such as cost for materials or equipment, the correlation between wages and value becomes stronger.

Edit: here's a dataset to get you started [1]. 1000 companies with # of employees and median wage. Find revenue per company and you're all set to do an initial analysis.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/graphics/how-does-your-pay-stack-up/
Maybe you are having a hiring problem?
Have you tried testing your candidate funnel?
One cannot even define "misinformation" in a fair way. The entire concept is anathema to a sane, rational person.

No one has a monopoly on the truth. No one is omniscient. No one actually knows how life works, or the fundamental nature of the universe.

So how can any of us presume to define for everyone else what is true or not?

The most we can do is have our personal understanding and beliefs. This makes all information subjective. In the eye of the beholder.

To think otherwise is megalomaniac insanity.
Just commenting on the first paragraph. Not going to touch the second.

I'm not convinced his last name has anything to do with understanding him, rationalism, SSC, SSC's wider influence, etc any better. His thin pseudonym is what was actually well known anyway, and without his last name the article would have still included the fact that he is a psychiatrist in the Bay area.

You imply there is a particular goal of his that you could figure out by knowing his last name. That sounds ridiculous, but I guess I'll ask anyway: What is that goal that you figured out through knowing his last name?
Also, it’s not “never optimise”. It’s “only optimise once you’ve identified a bottleneck”. I guess in a profit-making business you only care about bottlenecks that are costing money. Perhaps this one isn’t costing money.
“worth their salt” is doing a lot of work here. No true Scotsman fallacy?

I think you might be surprised by how few programmers even know what a profiler is, let alone how to run one.
Successful people and businesses can be wrong. You are not making a case for why those development practices are okay, but are simply appealing to authority.

I and most other customers would argue that 6 minute loading times are atrocious, and if there is an easy fix like this, it makes me lose a lot of respect for the developer who doesn’t fix it. It maybe would even make me avoid them in the future.

A reputation is built over years, but can be lost pretty much instantly. Companies have to continue serving their customers to enjoy ongoing success.
That doesn't refute the mathematics demonstrating that people can reliably do this with skill rather than luck. Eventually Brady's not going to be able to play football professionally either. But he still does, and when he can't do it anymore that won't indict his professional record.
The modern tragedy of government at any scale is the inability of small-minded people to accept the fundamental paradox of Capitalism: that it is _simultaneously_ the best system for arbitration of price and one of the worst forms of government.

It is no accident that all the remaining first-world nations have a very similar setup: a healthy free-market nucleus operating inside of a strong pro-social shell.
Among other things, it organizes a yearly international tournament https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2021/llbws/
I don't know about a mud comeback per se but I think this comment is very on point. There even was a mud (Written Realms I think?) that got into the GPT-3 beta. They have some interesting blogs on their experience.
Oh, well that's not so good if it's just emulated x86.
Current Stanford student here willing to answer any questions.
I just looked at one example being Richard Dattner who founded Dattner Architects, an architecture firm based in New York City.

The Wikidata item for Richard Dattner[1] was created in 2020 by a bot importing data from authority files such as VIAF. Other than being a human with a name, Wikidata didn't know anything else about Richard so I added a few properties from some public sites where the information can be found. I also created a new Wikidata item for the firm Dattner Architects[2] which Richard founded and linked it to other Wikidata items which Wikipedia indicates were architected by this firm.

I can see how no one has yet created a Wikipedia page for Richard Dattner or his firm because:

1. There isn't much public information on the Internet about Richard Dattner or Dattner Architects outside a few specialised architecture websites.

2. Not many English Wikipedia pages mention Dattner Architects as being an architect and when they do, it's because Dattner Architects were asked to redesign or upgrade a small part of a building or larger site, and English Wikipedia likes to combine small topics into large topics hence it's very unlikely that a head house (station house) of a larger train station would receive it's own article. Wikidata has no problem with having individual items for specific parts of a park, site or train station but no on has created the subordinate items yet.

3. The firm appears to be mainly involved with New York City based projects and therefore outside of Wikipedia editors interested in New York City architecture, would be less likely to have European editors (for example) interested in creating a new article.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94687303

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111631560
It may be less about being "in bed" with the ISPs than the philosophical point of view that internet service is properly a private sector concern, not a governmental one.
I agree that steel requires more skilled construction workers. What I said is that because steel was scarce, more concretes had to be used in the construction. In turn, they didn't need to hire that many skilled workers to work on steels, and they could afford to hire more workers to work on concretes.
I checked a moment ago, and M1 MacBook Air delivery timelines for non-English keyboards haven't changed from where they were last week. I ordered one to see if it gets delayed. I think those would be the first to get impacted.

It'd be good to get some clarity from Apple before taking this delay as an established fact. Nikkei overhyped (IMO) the impact to Apple's supply chain in its coverage of iPhone inventory last year, at the very beginning of the pandemic.
outliers hold no interest for me. what percentage of people who tried to become successful financiers made it vs what percentage of tech entrepreneurs started a successful company?
That is what PATCH is for.