skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they are, humans have never been rational. It is much more important to have vaccines and antibiotics than to be happy. People reading this crap who then get the urge to strip down to a loincloth and run into the woods should be aware that these viewpoints always portray the best case scenario. Forget germs, starvation, or exposure (which are enough to make you miserable / kill you by themselves), what about other people? What if someone mugs you and takes your stuff. What if another tribe comes in and says (understandably) "look, food is scarce, we're claiming this herd of gazelle. If you hunt these gazelle, we'll kill you." If you're a woman, what if you get raped? If you're a man, what if your wife gets raped, are you gonna go kill the guy? You? What if you get killed trying to do that, what happens to your wife?

No, living under modern society is much better, happy or not.
Wow cannot thank these guys enough. Every scam that is serious about making money has SEO-carpet bombed Google to death, making any serious search for the truth impossible (unless you’re one of those people who always knows to go to the 7th page of search results).

Also here’s a pro-tip. If you’re searching for something and a bunch of Youtube videos says “Is XYZ a scam??”, the answer is “absolutely yes”. Those videos pretend to be honest reviews that wind up finding out that “surprisingly, it’s not a scam and looks pretty good”, but it’s all a lie.

Other scams, usually by virtue of providing a 100% incentive based compensation structure:

- Selling mattresses

- Real Estate sales or seminars of any kind to someone inexperienced

- MLM or Pyramid Schemes

- Typically anything that advocates obscene amounts of positive psychology and a scientology like version of a Christianity

- Insurance sales

- Selling internet services for a company like CBeyond

- Any college of any-kind that makes a profit short of coding boot camps (and they’ll probably turn into a scam within a few years which is sad)
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>It’s super nice to have, and I’m always amazed when languages with “strong” “support” for iteration don’t have it. Like, C# doesn’t. So if you want to iterate over a list but also need indices, you need to fall back to a C-style for loop. And if you want to iterate over a lazy or arbitrary iterable but also need indices, you need to track it yourself with a counter.

One of the Enumerable.Select overloads takes a callback that receives both the element and an index. No need to drop down to for loops.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb534869

using System;
using System.Linq;

class MainClass
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var list = new[] { "a", "b", "c" };
foreach ((var element, var index) in list.Select((el, i) => (el, i)))
{
Console.WriteLine($"{index}: {element}");
}
}
}

The shorthand syntax for tuples and destructuring is new in C# 7, but the Enumerable.Select overload has existed since the beginning of LINQ. So prior to C# 7 you would have to use an anonymous type or similar to get the same effect.
Of course they are. They’re living closer to what our species evolved for. Civilizational people are constantly having to check their preferred behavior for the greater good. Sure there are perks to having a civilization but there are costs, too.
Is this written by a bot?

Another post by this "author" rambles on about Black Lives Matters and white women sucking horse cock:

https://medium.com/@NewsPowered/black-lives-matter-protester...

What the hell am I reading here?
> Who cares if someone hacks a computer that is only used for excel and casual web-browsing?

I’d say most users would care if all their Excel documents got encrypted by some ransomware. Backups help, but they’re not a silver bullet, and the type of unsophisticated user you’re depicting probably doesn’t have them anyway.

Aside from that - does that casual web browsing include anyone checking their email? If so, now the attacker can probably get full access to their email account(s). Even a purely automated attack can send spam or scams to the user’s contacts, which is bad, though arguably not the end of the world. If a human attacker is targeting the user individually, they can do much worse - starting with using the email account as a stepping stone to all their other accounts, and limited only by their imagination. I suppose that most users aren’t likely to be targeted in that way, but you never know.
Efficient enough for me. And yes, for me those keys are out of place for navigation.
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You're pretty hard on something you evidently don't understand. A Cavendish banana is definitely not a plantain (and doesn't cook particularly well, imo)

India is the world's largest producer of Cavendish bananas, but they are grown in the Americas too, and according to this report http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5102e/y5102e04.htm Cavendish is the largest produced type worldwide.
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I'd say it's a lot easier to create a website than it is to create a computer in the 70's.
According to this[1] it has a FHD antiglare (1920 x 1080) IPS multitouch dislay.

Having used an antiglare touchscreen before they are a lot better then the glossy touchscreen equivalents. Not technically matte but not glossy either.

[1] https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-se...
> That said, metaphorically we're already in The Matrix. Humans were just fuel for the system. When I see so many over-weight/obese "consumers"

Well, if we go with The Matrix, then these battery specimens so far have only been storing energy, not releasing it.. =)
I'm not sure you know enough to compare the two.

Disease, for example, is mostly a product of settled societies, not hunter-gatherers. Crime was a different issue as well, when tribes knew all the members. And sure, tribes had conflicts, but they were often not as violent as the total wars of the last couple centuries.

I'm surprised so many people who know nothing except modern society are so quick to make sweeping assumptions about a distant and unrecorded past.
Oh for sure. Especially nowadays with YouTube, you have 14 year olds who learned programming and then made tens or even hundreds of thousands releasing a game on the iOS App Store. I did mention Bill Gates though.
And how many ways can a float blow up?

NaN. Global state flag registers than destroy multi-threading. Propagation of errors. Casting errors. etc. And that's just one variable!
You might have picked M&M peanuts randomly, but sugar is a big part of the creeping force of civilization, and hard to fathom its impact on you until you take a break from it for several months.
I know. Just because you're not dead, doesn't mean you're not affected in a way that matters to you.
Looks like the labels in the grocery store on The Handmaid's Tale.
They went from being THE banana for much of the western world to being extremely rare as in available on a few farms in Florida & Hawaii and Asia. I was inaccurate in saying they were all wiped out.
Boo hoo. How do you know it wasn't just a bad banana?
Pilot Wave Theory to the rescue (maybe).
Reading too much of Dan Brown, are we ?
There is a horrible story in the book “Googled” by Ken Auletta. There is this panel at Davos in 1998, and a couple of executives at Google are there, along a few pseudo-intellectuals of the digerati like Mary Meeker and Esther Dyson. At the end of their speech where they talk about how blah blah amazing the world is going to be, the only one who stands up and says no this is bullshit, the web isn’t about serving the individual, and letting them be whatever or have whomever choosing what can happen to them, it’s about serving society, is the ambassador from IRAN. I felt sick the rest of the day about how right he was, above all these supposed experts, so long ago.

I looked it up and it’s page 331 in the paperback for the full story, or just look for the only page-mention of “Esther Dyson” in the index.
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Ask HN: Why do Chinese datasheets have these iconic serif fonts?
I've compiled a few random screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/S5PyL

I've always wondered this. Sometimes the font is Times New Roman (perhaps a default in Chinese operating systems?) and sometimes it is this iconic font (https://i.imgur.com/2OX6RgY.png) that is not to be found in the west.

It is so prevalent that Shenzhen I/O, an assembly programming game used same fonts in their mock datasheets: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/10/shenzhen-io-manual/preview/page/30/
Shrew has been a reliable client for me for years.
So what should we use instead? Let’s assume you’re 100% correct and Mozilla needs to die. What’s our replacement? Which of the other browser vendors listen to the community whatsoever? Mozilla is a large ship, and hard to steer, but it’s not impossible to change. I think killing it, however it is achieved, isn’t the right move. Baby, bath water, etc.
The invention of TV dinners and the preservative revolution is the best parallel ive seen compared to the invention of the internet from a regulation and unintended consequence perspective.
Damn. If only those child pornographers knew this tip.
I work 50 hours a week and still found time for two hikes this week, in the morning before work.

Like the idea of spending more time playing sports, only have time for one jui jitsu class a week.
I guess when you're acclimated to extremely high infant mortality rates, nothing else really bothers you too much.
Who says hunter gatherers didn’t conquer and enslave?
It never fails to amaze me how simple iterated rules can generate patterns that look so deliberately designed.
Yeah, and driving a car with no seatbelts or airbags works fine too... until it doesn’t.

People still ride motorcycles, many times more dangerous, which proves that (IMHO fortunately) safety/security is NOT the only thing that everyone cares about.

The general authoritarianism in the comments here, and implication that everyone always and only wants "more secure", while neglecting all the other factors, is a bit unsettling...

As the old saying goes, "Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."
Interesting, while I have known about it, I haven't really read Ted Kaczynski (aka Unabomber) essay "Industrial Society and Its Future" [1] (aka The Unabomber Manifesto) before until your comment. I absolutely abhor his actions and what he had done, but the essay is a brilliant read.

Especially interesting is paragraph 171, as it pertains to the recent concerns about AI and our increasing technological dependence. Note that he wrote this essay way back in 1995:

"What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide."

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
USPS has put almost all of their available services online for free and made them very easy to use (and they have also placed self-service smart kiosks in most post offices which are just great too).
I liked 8.1 a lot I.0 was a bit rough
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"Capitalism is an accelerant for addictive behavior"

I'm not sure that what we have would be described as capitalism any more. If you buy FB stock, are they using that to build new machines that pay dividends over time?

You can make an analogy involving software, sure, but it really seems quite different to me. The way I think about it is this: if we all had amnesia and forgot that company XYZ existed, would it still have any value? Under traditional capitalism, yes, they would just need to advertise a bit and rebuild their customer base. But FB and google would be worth close to zero no matter how much software they have.
> They're not happier or healthier or longer-lived than the western world. In fact, the overall high-level trend appears to be that happiness is correlated with being sedentary.

Source?
While I definitely do not agree with your value judgement, people should in fact accept that the tradeoff was made for them.
Windows 7 is still supported. Geez. It came out in >>2009<<.

Also, Windows 10 bricks every one of my lower end computers. Windows Defender, Telemetry, and more eat 100% disk usage. It's indefensible. Worse, Windows 10 refuses to let you CORRECT the problem. They make new user accounts that are ABOVE the user's top permissions so you have to go to insane lengths to disable a service.

And I say all of this as someone who professionally supports Microsoft installations. There's NO need to defend Microsoft in places that don't need it. They're big boys. They should just get their shit together and handle criticism.

Like why did it take 15+ years to get proper rescalable command prompt, or virtual desktops? I've got literally dozens upon dozens of stories of Microsoft products being half invented, half completed and half reliable, and MSDN documents that companies rely on for $$$ decisions that end up being erronious or conflicting with other KB articles.
Keto is a high fat diet not a high protien diet. Replace "keto" with "Atkin's" and I have no issue with your comment, in fact i would agree.
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I've wondered about this for years! Japanese tends to have similar class of fonts, e.g. plain/old school looking serif fonts. Metafilter seems to have pretty good answers [0].

[0] https://ask.metafilter.com/87263/Why-does-Chinese-printing-o...
A tweet from 2016 or so referencing a longer writeup I made: https://www.gwern.net/Statistical-notes#proposal-hand-counti... My idea was that CNNs were good enough that you didn't have to use hacks like QR-codes or specially-designed papers; I think that someone has already done something equivalent, unless I'm thinking of you guys! (Even if you did go to CNNs for pure hand-counting, it's an obvious enough idea I doubt you got it from me, and in any case, it's implementation that counts.)
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The USPS’ “problems” are Congressionally-inflicted. In 2006, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act required the Post Office to have a 75 year reserve for retirement and medical benefits. Yes, that means they have to cover benefits for postal workers yet to be born.

The USPS is the only agency in the Government that has such a burdensome requirement. Even the Armed Forces, which arguably has a much higher liability for medical coverage and has to pay retirement benefits to soldier’s families, is only required to have a 20 year reserve.
It seems all communist regimes were alike :)

Some packagins from communist Poland:

https://www.google.pl/search?q=prl+opakowania&safe=off&sourc...
The hint is to look at the next instruction.

Spoiler: https://pastebin.com/msjkXkKd
That's how Wikimedia does it and it doesn't need all the fancy concurrent editing logic.
Your claims are baseless. If there are any semantic differences between clojure and clojurescript they are so minute that I'm not aware of them. I'm a full stack developer and use both daily. There are no performance issues inherent with using clojurescript either. I say this having made a non trivial UI and pushing loads of data through it and seeing what everyone else has made. Check out precursor app.
I think that was pretty close to the basic premise behind a lot of public broadcasting 30+ years ago (the bits I've seen lately strike me as more commercialized, but I'm not sure whether that's a change in the shows or in my perspective). There's a lot of contention underneath that topic, but the fundamentals of shows like Sesame Street or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are much closer to what you describe than to modern television and gaming material.
Removing the telemetry on Windows 7 (or 8.1, where I'm at) is far easier than the questionably effective flaming hoops you have to jump through to do the same on 10. It's a matter of uninstalling a few updates and that's more or less it. I've disabled automatic updates as well, but check daily to make sure I'm up to date as far as security is concerned.
Exploiting the online tools to re-route unwanted spam would only work for mail that has paid postage and been processed through the system. If you're using Informed Delivery you'll see that most of the "current resident" spam doesn't appear in your digest because it hasn't actually been mailed (it's placed in your box by the postal carrier directly). Would a named re-route hack work on the processed spam? I say 60/40 in favor of yes, until they catch on. Lots of magazines and catalogues tack on "or current resident" after the name and if the USPS routing regex is not too strict you'll either be able send all your Sears catalogues to Abu Dhabi or you'll discover an un-handled edge case and break your mail. Either way, sounds fun.
For those not familiar, Ishmael is a philosophical take on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)

(It’s been mentioned on HN a few times which is how I think I became aware of it.)
guess what tobacco companies bought after the public started seeing dramatic health complications? you guessed it!
Even though your whole contribution to this discussion was semantic.

The definition of reasoning is: "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way."

As if evidence could not be a component of reasoning that leads one to logic and sense.

The only reason why you don't want to engage this further is because you knew your quip was fruitless from the start.
I'm not speculating about my experiences working for a couple of startups in Silicon Valley... I signed a bunch of NDAs. I have no idea what happened to the author of this article.
False choice.

The current level of economic struggle in the US is both unacceptable and unnecessary.

I might take the hunt, and or form community with other peers who have had quite enough.

Together, it's not a bad equation.

I lived that kind of way for a time having delivered from the wilderness to food on the plate before age 16.
Wait, what? Mattresses?

I am confused and, I confess, Google is not exactly helpful - like you suggested.

I don't think I've ever been scammed when buying a mattress? I don't think anyone has even tried to scam me while buying a mattress. Then again, those two traits would make for a good scam.
One of the things that was pointed out last time this topic came up (only a few weeks ago) is that most all of us who benefit from modern civilization enough so to be commenting about it on HN are enabled by massive amounts of cheap, wage-slave labor from the poorer half of the world.

So while the average 9-to-5 job, smartphone-browsing lifestyle is probably preferable to the brutality of being a hunter-gatherer, if I were a garment factory worker making 100$/month under terrible conditions and long hours, then things might change -- I'd personally take my chances out in the wilderness.
> It's pretty clear that you haven't researched much, given that you had absolutely no clue how many calories are burned from an hour of exercise.

Treadmill manufacturers have every incentive to overestimate the number of calories burned in an hour, so I was generous and used that number. If I had to pick a number myself based on my personal experience, I'd probably have gone lower. The laws of thermodynamics put that number somewhere above 0, I'll admit.

My point was that a population that burns 10,000,000 calories in additional exercise will consume >10,000,000 additional calories as a result of having exercised.

> And the vested interests of the fitness industry are not nearly as strong as the food industry among others, and I don't think it's fair or accurate to characterize the massive amount of research showing the benefits of exercise as being corrupted by money.

I wasn't referring to the fitness industry, I was referring to the food industry. Companies like Coca Cola are among the largest funders of pro-exercise research.[1]

The food industry has an incredible amount to gain by getting people to believe exercise works. They get the PR benefits of showing everyone how much they care about preventing obesity by spending a lot of money on the research, they get to influence that research by cutting funding to scientists who produce inconclusive or negative results (which shapes the way the population thinks about exercise to fit the Coca-Cola narrative), and they release themselves of all liability in the obesity epidemic by shifting the blame onto the consumer.

It allows them to credibly claim that any consumer who experiences negative health effects from drinking their soda could have mitigated those negative health effects by exercising, but chose not to exercise. Muddying the waters on exercise is the food industry's perfect panacea, they want this to be true more than anybody.

And they're winning, too. Remember all that stuff the tobacco companies were doing in the '50s and '60s? That's the food industry right now, except they're winning. Because people will believe anything about exercise.

[1] https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-sc...
As stated, this can be a problem at times: "The couple said that the Finnish health care professionals have had no problem with them except that the administrative systems do not recognise a situation where a pregnant person has the male social security number."
On the subject of disrespect: characterizing the entirety of the vast diversity and prehistory of hunter-gatherer society as "running around naked looking for an animal to kill."
thanks, fixed. wasn't sure if this was something worth building in a scalable manner, so there's still a lot of manual labor involved on my end, and a lot of room for dumb mistakes :)