jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> growing economic inequalities and stress

Statements like this don't inspire sympathy to me and probably others. I was poor too growing up, but I didn't carjack anyone. It's more complicated than "violent video games beget violence" and it's more complicated than "poverty begets violence" and it doesn't make it more OK.
What’s weird about it? It’s the most obvious declarative way to build a hierarchy of objects in vanilla JS. It’s easy to read and straightforward to understand; if you want abstractions around it is completely obvious how you would go about building those yourself.
I think it's two different tools. "Underpowered" chips have their use and their place. Why deal with embedded Linux when I only need to twiddle some IO on a simple protocol?

For me the issue isn't the brand dying out, its decentralized uniformity. If the main organization spins into oblivion (when talented people give up because of this turmoil) who will make sure the unified IDE keeps with the times?
Human rights advocates have long defended the sovereignty of one's own body. It's a slippery slope to force people into medical treatments. Historically, there have been many examples of forced medical experimentation, drugs, and surgeries which are hard to reconcile with the idea of personal liberty over one's own body.
> This "just stop using it" attitude you always get on Hacker News and reddit about facebook and their various messaging platforms baffles me.

Unfortunately, seems that for many people on HN, HN is almost all their online social interaction, + tech people on signal/mastodon. Some don't seem to understand the concept of having family and friends who are not tech-savy (or even hate tech). Or understand the concept of social capital.
This will probably not be something you want to hear, but this is EXACTLY why you should host your own blog on your own server. No threat from someone potentially shutting it down for no reason.
I dont mean to put you on a defensive but, what makes me want to go to YOUR site. Where will the content come from, users? aggregated? How will the content be shared? Social networking? reddit style?
No one else is concerned about the abuse of IRS data?

Apparently it's possible to do an end-run around "legally protected" census data via IRS data.

ps. I can see Microsoft's recruiting patterns from colleges with this map.
Nice one! Detroiters should get the reference.
Ahh, not surprised one bit. That place is where I was raised, but alas, I was a part of that mass exodus. Besides family (and some awesome Mexican food), I don't miss the city one bit.

There is NOTHING in Detroit. NOTHING! It's as depressing as it is telling. I feel this exodus is a vicious cycle that won't stop anytime soon. No one is there, hence no new money is being invested, thus more people move...ad infinitum.

The primary culture of the youth (read: thugs) isn't helping one bit either -- they tend to get more dangerous and erratic each year.

If you have any questions about growing up in Detroit, feel free to ask!
Been there, seen that, all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

From the system I maintain:

/*
e - ExternalStatus
i - InternalStatus

e\i | D F N X
--------------------------
D | A B C D
F | E F G H
N | I J K L
X | M N O P

*/

switch( $inst->Status ) {
case 'A' :	case 'D' : case 'M' :
$stats['d']++; break;
case 'E' : case 'F' : case 'G' : case 'H' :
case 'B' : case 'J' : case 'N' :
$stats['f']++; $stats['d']++; break;
default : $stats['n']++;
}
It's silly to generalize on the mental capabilities of all 9 year olds.

It's sillier still to apply those generalizations to a "9-year old" with a beard and who made other 9-year olds cry to their mothers saying he made them feel stupid.

I know plenty of examples of 9-year olds who are more mature than many 20 year-olds I know.

Plus, 9 years isn't all that young to be watching or talking about porn. Perhaps just one standard-deviation from the norm (just a guess, based on my personal experience).

I'm also not sure what exactly the alternative to "free rein" is with regards to porn (other than blocking it completely). I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have anyone watch me as I jerk off to porn, much less my parents. I'm sure they would want to be there either (at least I hope so).

BTW, did you know it was only a few centuries ago that 15 year olds were wed and started families?

The great thing about this story though is we know how it ends. The boy who jerked off to hardcore pornography at the age of 9 (or younger) is all grown up and he's not a murderer or a rapist. Instead, he's won recognition for his intellect, and seems to be an all-around OK guy.
I actually do little or not dedicated working out, we have pedometers from work, and i hit 7k easily during the week, and 12k over the weekend. I am pretty sure i can run a sub 10 minute mile (but would have to run one to confirm).

Goals.... one thing id like to try is eating basicaly paleo and working out to see if it relieves allergies, and i guess of course id love to be able to see abs and have a good uooer body, however to reach that level (and i suppose workout/paleo), will likely require a deep time/cognition effort
The fact that some governments don't do it is precisely the point. This project would allow identities to exist outside the control of the local government. The identities would be accessible by local communities, competing local governments, foreign governments, NGOs and others.
Or, to phrase it another way, the Allied forces (and the Soviets) could afford to include this "extra" armor organically in lower-level formations. As opposed to the Germans who were forced to concentrate their relatively-scarce armor exclusively in mechanized formations.

Everyone always thinks about the consequences of the above as 5 Shermans (or T-34s) vs. 1 Tiger. But the more important distinction was likely 2 Shermans + infantry vs. 0 Panthers + infantry.
> One has a chain of reasoning and supporting data. The other does not.

I suspect most people who believe in an afterlife have a chain of reasoning and supporting data to back up their belief, too. Personally, I don’t believe that reasoning is sound or the supporting data is high-quality or convincing but I also don’t think the distinction you’ve drawn is really all that meaningful.
It's not. First of all, a phone is physical hardware, Signal is an application.

Does Signal also need a music streaming integration? Restaurant listings? A torrent client?
I think drive and thirst for knowledge is more “nurture”, but the base is heavily correlated with genetics.

I think it is the same with people holding world records in sports. You can get insanely good no matter where you come from (let alone some unfortunate medical conditions) with only drive and enough exercise, but to win a gold medal, you have to be born for a given sport (of course on top of the insane amount of motivation and exercise spent on it!). Also, probably it is less sport-specific, so someone becoming a world-class soccer player would have been similarly good in a similar sport.
They have to. If they allow even the possibility of a monetary transaction to a United States citizen, they fall under SEC, FINRA, and FINCen, which among other things, requires compliance with AML/a KYC process.

This kills the Signal value proposition.

You can move money electronically legally, or you can be anonymous in the U.S. It us incredibly difficult if not nigh impossible to do both.

It's part of the U.S. soft power projection scheme. If you want access to American markets/easy movement of financial assets, you leave audit trail.
Exactly when is this ID used? Is it transmitted with every request chrome makes? What is I remove Google apps and use Firefox?

Personally I think you should choose your battles. We have bigger issues with Google than this. Like the unlawful location gathering that is getting more scary every year.
For a start, most computers have more than 64 MB of memory these days.

The GC has changed a lot in the past 20 years too. Here's a great talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcQ-hIfiljA
These kinds of reports are always interesting to me since I have kids, and I'm trying to think ahead to where to go once they outgrow Scratch. Reading about the gap between the engaging visual curriculum and then dropping down to C for "real coding" makes me a bit worried that something similar will happen with my kids.

In order to avoid that I'm investigating Racket--it's powerful enough that you won't outgrow it like you would with traditional learning languages like BASIC; in fact it's much more powerful than most mainstream languages. But it's still got fantastic support for visualizations and programming with images as values, so I feel like it'd be a good choice for a next step where you wouldn't have to compromise between "serious" and "engaging". The main drawback is that while the htdp.org curriculum is pretty solid for a textbook, it's definitely not as engaging as some of the interactive curriculums like http://learn.code.org or the one shown here. But the potential there is huge.
I think the lesson here is that it is subjective and the ability to use multiple such tools together would be best.
sudo apt-get install golang
Do you see it the same way you view goldbugs?

I can grok all sorts of reasons to speculate on gold, but I see that as speculation and not some rational investment that provides a greater value to society. It's ok, as long as it's a niche. The bitcoin rage seemed, IMO, to be about speculation wrapped in anarcho-libertarian talk about threatening the existing financial world. It's one thing to be a niche, it's another if it's destructive (whether it is capable of that or not, but just the perception).

Some other thinking that makes me wonder about that: http://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2013/12/bitcoin-what-again...

Fine to upend reality if you can produce a cogent explanation of how everything will work afterwards.
The requirement to protect your trademark is a good thing.

There are a fairly limited number of useful marks because companies need fairly short names. Imagine if trademarks worked like copyright and modern companies had to worry about infringing the mark of a company that hasn't traded since 1940?
It shouldn't take long given that it's developed in JavaScript.
Right! I'm working with the web since 2006 but still I find this book a must to read.
> The meaning of $500 varies wildly across earth.

Oh, come on! This argument appears so often, but it is absolutely irrelevant: a person without a computer is unlikely to participate in the Free Software movement, with rms at the helm or without.

And living and breathing projects: all projects would be more healthy if they were all strict to business. No activism of any kind, but the one aimed at improving the product. You don't need to fight for gender equality if you don't care about the sex of the contributor!

If sex means zero to you, then both sexes are truly equal, because 0 equals 0.
that's called being lazy
How is it not sustainable? Tourism is profitable.

It's regulated because of suffrage arbitrage -- most of the local population doesn't care what the government does to tourists and the tourists can't vote in local elections. But that's just taxation without representation. It tends to be inefficient, because it suppresses the natural amount of tourism by over-taxing it to the detriment of the local economy. It also hurts everyone when everyone does it because then you're the victim of it on the day when you're the tourist and it's you who has no vote in unreasonable lodging restrictions or taxes.

And cities don't need to regulate the amount of housing in order to build infrastructure for it, all they have to do is observe it. If you build more buildings they need more sewers, but you shouldn't need their permission to build more buildings, they should just build more sewers with the property tax you'll be paying on the new buildings.

> People who save bucks on usually one one thing are usually not just frugal in that dimension.

That sounds dangerously close to an argument that poor people are undesirable and should be excluded.

And it isn't even accurate -- poor people have to eat too, and better that you get their business than somebody else. Plus, rich people will take a good deal on a room (see also: how they got rich), doesn't mean they don't have money to spend when they get there.
Revisiting: probably how thin the font is.
> I'm not so sure it's a huge issue.

Have a read of /r/medicine, it absolutely is.

They're already making (probably split-second) choices between endangering themselves without PPE or leaving patients untreated, in countries that have a long, long road ahead.

PPE seems to be the primary equipment shortage, not ECMO/ventilators, though that's an issue too.
Yes! That's what my comment was hinting at.

We have:

* work to be done

* people willing and able to do the work

* resources with which to do the work

So what exactly is stopping us from putting those three together?
I'm using caps right now, they work- it shuts down all resources attached to the billing account if it goes over. There are many levels of alerts before it hits that though.

its on the "total spend" of a billing account level though, and obviously you'd have to be a billing administrator, so to work with it would is awkward; many billing accounts across disparate projects is basically the only way.
I don't have a boat, my friends who do have one bill based on what it costs to maintain it. Do they tell the HR person or clients "I have a boat I need to maintain," never, as that just gives away leverage, but they only seek out roles that facilitate their life.

The language itself, "should I get paid" assumes a parental allowance relationship and we should get out of the habit of using it. "Get paid" is a day-labourers colloquialism. The form of the phrase itself defines you as the passive subject.

Bill for work, draw a salary, agree to compensation, accept consideration, negotiate a package, earn bonuses, settle invoices, sell services (not time), sell equity - do not "get paid" by anyone. It's a psychological impediment that keeps people poor.
It may undercut itself from the get go, and that may be a common take down the road, but as a weapon, it’s very effective in certain times and certain places against certain people, now.
This could be a sensitivity or allergy to hop oils which will be present in quite high amounts in currently popular craft styles like NEIPAs. Old school macro lagers don’t have a lot of hops and use German hops which are lower in those oils.
This article is an example of the pure propaganda that 'mainstream financial media' participates in on-the-regular. Why that is I don't know. Symbiotic business interests I guess.

It's not that the information is incorrect. It probably is and it does tell us something about some of the big players around Coinbase.

But the whole bitcoin 'ecosystem' is essentially a collective criminal organization, with some players being closer to the dirty parts than others. (I'm leaving out everyday holders of bitcoin, just talking about insider types.) These big Coinbase players might not 'touch the poo' directly, but their hands still get stinky.

The price action in bitcoin is determined across a network of exchanges, most of which do not use real dollars (or other govt currency). They use crypto only for trading, including the fake 'stable-coin' tether.

Tether (the company who issues the currency tether) has been shown definitively to be running a scam and are completely dishonest.) They have issued $35Billion worth of their fake dollars. Until recently they were issuing on the order of $1B per week!

Tether is a sister company to the exchange Bitfinex with the same owners and management. So essentially the same company. They just signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General where they paid a fine of $18.5M (notice difference in scale). The agreement spells out exactly how they have been scamming people. This is based on information coming from the company itself. This is not FUD, just FACT. (interestingly since they signed this agreement ~10 days ago, they stopped issuing tether.)

One of the central players in this ongoing criminal operation who has been taken out is Crypto Capital Corp. They ran a shadow banking system for many of the big exchanges, including Bitfinex and Binance. The Feds seized $850M from CCC for money laundering, which precipitated a crisis for these entities and intensified the criminal activity of the many industry insiders connected through this shadow bank.

My guess is that Tether issued $35B in fake USDT (tether) almost exclusively without dollar collateral backing. (the original premise of tether was each would only be issued on receipt of a true USD by tether, and therefor each USDT was pegged to a USD, the peg holds for now but the dollar backing is not there, that's another story.)

Most of this $35B was issued over the last year when we have seen a huge rise in bitcoin price. The tether currency only has one purpose, to buy cryptocurrency. So this is a huge amount of liquidity introduced into the market. (Compare to the hype around Tesla's $1.5B bitcoin purchase.)

It is the price appreciation that drives this whole market, including the business of Coinbase, even though they do not deal with tether.

The OP article mentions none of this! Sure, it reveals some insiders, perhaps on the more legit side, but ignores the real engine of this speculative bubble/fraud.

It has the effect of 'white-washing' this dirty game.

It's really gross.
If you are having a problem wiring from the US banks to the "abroad banks" while living abroad it is clear that you do not give a shit about it as if you are banking with the first tier foreign banks ( i.e. banks that have correspondent accounts with the US financial institutions such as JPM Chase, Bank of America, Citi, HSBS, Wells Fargo, etc ) it would be the case.
While it's a very difficult problem to crack, I do think there's a way to serve both the bookmarking ("single player") and recommendation ("multiplayer") use cases with one product. Fred Wilson has a good article from 2015 on this dilemma [1].

My personal opinion is that Goodreads and other similar services have failed to do this because they don't make their user-generated content a first-class citizen. The focus is on rating and making lists of books, not their users' thoughts and annotations on those books (which would tie content creation and consumption into a much tighter feedback loop).

I'm working on Trove [2] because I think this is a problem worth solving — we recently did a Show HN [3] you may have seen. Would love to hear if anyone has more ideas on how to tackle this.

[1] https://avc.com/2015/11/lists-2/

[2] https://trove.to/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582658
There's also a certain amount of positive feedback, I suspect - once you've had one hit, people will want you to write for them and, because it probably sounds hit-like (which stands to reason since your style has already been a hit), it'll stand a good chance of also being a hit which means more people will want you to write for them and rinse, repeat, cash cheques for 20 years, etc.
It's only tedious for brand new players, who should get over it and do it anyway until it is natural.
Things that don't change because they've always been that way are thing things that most need to change.
Alternate take:

Large civil projects are more complex than home renovation projects and are thus less likely to be accurately assessed by our simple planning heuristics. (see "the planning fallacy"). Each gap in the actual vs. planned outcome requires change-orders that slow down schedules and cost more money.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/project-management/
1. Partner with Elon Musk
2. Use partner's capital and experience
3. Profit
And now they are censors too.
You can't really blame someone for wondering about this when it happens so often.
The problem is that this outlook is often used as an argument in favor of some heretical position, instead of just being a defense against outright rejection. What is often forgotten (aside from the excellent points brought up by mcv) is that Galileo and Darwin were each among the very top experts in their respective fields, and many of those who rejected them most forcefully were laymen. That was the biggest difference between them and their detractors -- they were experts facing off many laymen and amateurs -- not their heresy. These days laymen often challenge experts and see themselves as Galileo just because their opinion is heretical, rather than because they've studied a subject more rigorously than others. Rigor and scholarship must precede heresy.

Another pitfall that's common nowadays is that many ideas that are presented as heroic heresy are just yesterday's rejected dogma. When dogma is rejected when a more rigorous heresy shows up, it doesn't lend more credibility to the rejected dogma, which is now heretical. In other words, these are people who claim Galileo's heretical status by arguing for geocentrism, which is today's heresy. Ironically, these days it is mostly reactionaries rehashing old dogmas that proudly describe themselves as heretics.
FTA: The average lifespan of a discontinued Google product is 4 years and 1 month.

"Living" products aren't skewing anything
Hate speech laws would not proscribe criticizing the President as an individual. They generally proscribe attacking people or groups of people based on protected characteristics such as age, gender, race, sexual orientation/presentation, etc.
You say that like it doesn't happen all the time. googlebot included.
I think there's an error in the blog post, because the 4th graph is the same as the 3rd.

It should probably be http://danluu.com/images/dunning-kruger/dunning_4.png which shows a positive correlation for "perceived logical reasoning ability and test performance". That then helps explain the statement "In two of the four cases, there’s an obvious positive correlation between perceived skill and actual skill".
I think its all how you present it, they just went along as they had never had said any of the previous statements. If they said sorry we made a mistake, I'm sure there would be a lot more praise for Microsoft.
I think it's a difference in perspective. The Microsoft XBox 360 teams hears "We want to hack the Kinect" and pretty much leaps to "We wish to see if we can somehow exploit the Kinect to crack the box wide open and make game piracy possible." It really doesn't hurt Microsoft much for you to plug your Kinect into your (statistically-probably Windows) PC and use it without modification, and once they worked out that's what was happening they probably simmered down a lot. Given the novelty of the Kinect, I would think their optimal strategy would be to encourage Kinect experimentation to the utmost; the faster the "hackers" discover great, compelling ways to use the Kinect, the faster Microsoft can productize them.

But they'll still come down like a bag of bricks on anybody who manages to crack XBox security with one.
As long as any adult can squander their life savings in any casino in America, I don't see why the SEC needs to protect them from this crap.
>Jeff Bezos can send rockets to another planet. Elon Musk can among other things build infrastructure to give everyone around the world internet access.

When taxes were ~90%NASA used to do the research and spend the money to send rockets into space.

Several tax cuts later and we had to be reliant upon one billionaire out of 650 picking up the rocket research where they left off (literally).

>Please let them, the governments have enough

Not enough to build rockets these days. That's why it's outsourced. NASA's budget got converted into tax cuts.

Also Bezos fucked up his program through his own hubris.

>they don't have a monopoly for good ideas

It wasn't Elons ideas that got SpaceX rockets worrking. It was NASA ideas + Elon cash.