skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You might disagree with the goals and outcomes, but

...they don't? Yes, naturally, or they wouldn't be doing that stuff. And you might disagree with my assessment, but I don't, that's why I made it.

> US supports US interests

That's a abstraction so simplified it says nothing at all.

> pro-US power, weakened region

There's a lot of murdered people included in that. Regions don't get weakened, people get killed. Euphemisms are a powerful drug.

> Don't conflate actual goals with the justifications (human rights, freedom of speech, etc) government uses to convince own population.

I simply "disagree with their goals" (like I "disagree with the goals of Adolf Hitler"), not because they lie about them. (on the topic of thinking, not having several "truths" to keep track of really helps with that)

There is a reason these things are used as justifications in the exactly the same way a scammer will talk about gain and not loss. The fact that the scammer actually intends to scam doesn't make it any better. That they don't actually WANT to do anything good makes it worse.

If the US population the US government derives its sole legitimation from knew half of what is done in their name, to serve very, very narrow interests within the US, not theirs, they would be furious.

You're conflating all of that under "US supporting US interests", and for that end, the US has to lie to itself.
As someone who has recently started figuring out this whole ADHD thing, definitely seek out help for it. There are a ton of really powerful tools and support systems that make a tremendous difference. Especially organizational systems designed for people with executive function deficits (whether that's ADHD or not, doesn't really matter!)

Caddra has an interesting chart here for suggestions: https://caddra.ca/pdfs/Psychosocial_October2016.pdf

I also like Russell Barkley's lectures and books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzhbAK1pdPM&list=PLzBixSjmbc...

and

http://www.russellbarkley.org/books.html (especially Taking Charge of Adult ADHD)

And additionally, if you find that these things speak to you, medication makes a tremendous difference. I really can't overstate the degree to which it can change your life.
Promoting quality discussion and letting people share their experiences in a professional manner makes me a daily reader of HN. Thank you for your work!
Thanks, Dan and Scott!
You literally said "there can't be a rule for everything" and that's not how civilization operates. Sorry you can be hostile and belittle me all you want but you haven't made an actual counter argument. Regardless of your opinion of me, the fact remains that without more codified rules, HN moderation remains arbitrary and inconsistent, and this will be more apparent when dang and sctb retire.
My experience is that this doesn’t apply to the see you next Tuesday word, at least here in Canada. It’s seen as very offensive according to the Canadians I know. Speaking as a Brit, that word is thrown around quite casually in the UK!
AWS has Preview products which are released to the public and they handle rollout on a region by region basis.

AWS has 10x the number of products of GCP and still maintains a rapid pace.
This is hilarious, no non-technical person gives a shit where their data lives. We can’t even get people to understand the cloud. The QA department at my work doesn’t even understand where my app ends and our vendor’s app begins, and that’s their job! My mother thinks any text box with a search button beside it is Google.

Nobody outside of the tech ecosystem gives a crap about tracking (they already see ads all around them anyways). Nobody would even been aware of an alternative to Facebook, the same way people are barely aware Bing exists. Hell, people can barely get off their asses to vote and you think they’re going to care what the EU parliament does?

The only way Facebook will go down is by a major outage. Grandma logs on one day and can’t chat to her grandson so she calls him up instead. Boyfriend opens messenger to chat to his girlfriend about their date tonight, but can’t because it’s down, so he texts her instead. Friends can’t upload pictures of their trip so they use email or google photos.

It would take a sustained outage of a few days to break the habits Facebook has created in us. I don’t see any way for a competitor get past their moat, they have too many features and too many people on board.
The odds of the mods deleting it seem pretty slim seeing as the author of the post is their boss man.

The thread need not be deleted anyway. Nothing wrong with thanking some of the people that keep the site running smoothly. Especially on a day dedicated to giving thanks.
Historically, famine was commonplace. We make a big deal about it now, but from what I gather, The Irish Potato Famine is remembered ironically in part because it was kind of one of the last big famines in Europe. Before that, famine wasn't even newsworthy.

Famine and disease are not a good comparison for sexism. Yes, we want to eradicate both, but there's a difference:

Technology can give us new vaccines and increase our crop yields. It can't change human nature.

That's all there is to it. Even if we were able to change people to make them incapable of sexism we would not have changed human nature, we would only have robbed them of their free will (and thus their human nature).

Without the ability to do evil, you can't be good.
What sort of speed hit will you take developing on a Linux VM? I’m thinking of heading that way.
my company only provides laptops to their remote employees and we cant use our own machines
Iirc all the talks were recorded by confreaks. They said they'll be up within a month of the conference. That _was_ an excellent talk - the presenter was very engaging. :)
While im curious about your story im even more curious about why and how it could somehow be abused by cyberstalkers?
The boss management company is then incentivized to hire incompetent bosses. Their entire business model is profitable in proportion to how often it fails.

The perverse incentive has to land somewhere; not sure there's a way to neutralize this one. But it's an interesting idea.
I'm surprised to find no mention of Rationality: From AI to Zombie (alternatively known as The LessWrong Sequences), which seems to treat the same subject matter:
https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
Indeed, thank you! I'm always impressed how quick and precise they reply when reached out to via e-mail, too.
I'm surprised it's so low, actually. I'd have guessed 75% as well. And yes, I am a web developer, spending about half my time in rails and the other half split between JS and misc ops stuff.

Thankfully rubyconf explicitly says that it's not the place for rails-focused talks, which results in a lot of great discussion on other aspects + usages of the language. :)
What is "Valles Heilung des bonus"? I'm German, I have never heard that and it brings up nothing in google.

But yes these types of bonuses are common, especially as stock options with vesting. More so outside of Germany as far as I'm aware.
World first as wind turbine upgraded with high temperature superconductor
i'm sure it would still suck for a lot of people but all i was saying is that if they wanted to change the product it should have been an addition of the bar as an enhancement instead of the swap out of a beloved row of keys.
Yes, they had to rename Global Warming when the warming cycle from the cool 1970’s peaked in 2007, when all their predictions started failing - such as our children will never see snow - last year in the Alps we has so much snow, that we couldn’t get out of our resort. Tibet just had highest ever recorded snowfall in 1 week.
CO2 levels have been way higher before, they are still a long way below optimmum for earth fertility. Earth has also been much warmer before, the whole premise that a few degrees warming, would cause a catastrophe is nonsense,made up by climate doomer cultists
Won’t happen anyway, sun and planetary cylces all indicate imminent cooling. Sun has far more effect than the miniscule .04% CO2, H2O is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.
I prefer warm to cool, so I moved from UK to Portugal, amazing how so many seem to want cooler weather??
Climate models are all totally useless, too many variables involved. Go to weatherbell.com and listen to Joe Bastardi, he is a genius who knows more about the weather than any of the thousands of so called scientists that have jumped onto this crystal ball gazing bullshit gravy train.
Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git
Amazon/Microsoft will happily price match Google for enterprise customers when there's overlap in offerings because they can still profit off their far larger selection of unique offerings.
For first hand accounts and excellent reporting on the Camp fire take a look at the Blancolirio channel on YouTube.

Juan Brown does some great work and has some very interesting content, such as exclusive access to the VLAT refueling and refilling operation, a 50+ minute interview with one of the nurses that helped evacuate the hospital, and he lives just 40 miles from the fire, so lived it's effects.

He also has some truly brilliant content on the Oroville Dam, the near disaster and the subsequent multi year rebuild project.

https://www.youtube.com/user/blancolirio
What’s a fake thunderbolt 3 port? Don’t all TB3 ports support 40gbps?
They're fans of the torture and assassinations though! In before I'm accused of mischaracterization, a quick web search will reveal Mr. Trump's emphatic glee regarding torture.
They shrugged their shoulders because we (the techies) didn't adequately explain it to them.
We got trapped in Houston during Rita. Then we bought motorcycles and it never happened again.
Very nice concept! We use something similar for daily follow-ups, it's a bot that integrates with Slack and pings us on a daily basis to check what we did yesterday, what we are up to today and if we are having any problems. Pretty simple yet powerful: https://dailybot.co/
That's not what he is talking about. You can also always quit your job in Germany.

He is talking about payments that are conditional upon you staying at the company for a certain amount of time. Relocation bonuses and stock option vesting are a very common type. If the bonus is high enough, it makes it very unattractive to quit. He is exaggerating though.
This isn't a public forum; it's a private one. If you don't agree with the opinions of the moderators or the culture here, you're welcome to build a competitive site.
I second this as well. Healthy mind in a healthy body and all.
"The best" is purely subjective.

I look at indigenous cultures who were able to resolve conflicts and share resources without hierarchical governments. They developed approaches to doing things western culture is only now relearning.

Also, your "best people" developed systems to addict us with little concern for their systemic impacts. If that's your version of best, I want better.
I have this feature enabled and don't have issues with the touchbar locking up (2017 model).

My main gripe with the newer MacBook Pros is the overly large and sensitive touchpad (I've tried everything) which is a real pain for palm rejection.
Thanks.

> I did and do care about certain foundation issues.

I meant more that while many foundational questions are interesting, the absence of conclusive answers don't stop most working physicists from making progress in their areas of professional interest.

For example:

> I care whether free will is even fundamentally possible

We act like it is. Similarly, we predict our past with greater fidelity than we predict our future, and we have a sense of "now".

Are these behaviours tied to something physically fundamental, or are they emergent? Nobody knows.

It'd be nice if we could have a long chat with a grey parrot or an octopus and find out whether it has a different view of past and future. Maybe we'd learn that it remembers in both directions equally well, and so doesn't really distinguish between them. Perhaps our future-directed memory was just an anatomical sacrifice like many others during the food-energy bottlenecks that dot humanity's evolution, and the cost of survival of our ancestors is us having a peculiar attitude towards time (and sports, like Wayne Gretzky's line about skating to where the puck will be) compared to less closely related organisms on our planet. ("Squawk, the future-memory part of your brain is missing, like the part of your brain that would deal with your vomeronasal organ. You will pass me a cracker now, while convincing yourself that you decided to. Squawk."

Since we are unable to have such interspecies conversations right now, we can only discuss this among ourselves, and are all stuck with essentially the same anatomy and no fossil early human brains to compare to ourselves.

I can understand the temptation to think that the very common idea of a fixed past and an undetermined future is a feature of the universe as a whole rather than something like impacted wisdom teeth or an inflamed appendix.

On the other hand, I think outright working (as in a likely self-funded job) on answering free-will-or-not is somewhere between pretty unproductive philosophizing and early symptoms of the sort of obsessions which overtook Linus Pauling, Brian Josephson, William Shockley, or Jack Parsons (among sadly too many others). Yes, that's a dickishly prejudicial thing to admit to, whether or not the attitude was determined by the information on a slice of the universe coupled to physical laws that let one recover the information everywhere else in the universe. As almost all of the content of any cross-universe slice is practically inaccessible to us, blaming eternalism or determinism for my "hot take" seems like a cheat.

In practice, though, none of this is likely to even occur to me consciously as I grind through different field equations, or try to match results from a static (time-independent) spacetime to a mostly-similar dynamical (varying over time) one, for example.
That's the reason to run adblockers... You may not be able to if you're on mobile. Much of the web is horrifically bad without ad blocking these days.
There is a decent amount of community moderation through downvotes and flags, plus some algos deciding to kill certain comments (they can be seen with the showdead optuon)
That's what I meant by reciprocity.

Brits have their own quaintness filter for some of the words that NorthAms see as out of bounds.
Destroying a market economy keeps leading to the same disastrous results.

That's the part statists keep ignoring.
The company offers you 10k bonus with the condition that you stay at least one more year. Otherwise you have to pay it back.

If you intend to stay anyway or are not so keen on leaving, why should you say no?

It's similar to stock option vesting and that is very common.
You didn’t refute any points, just listed things you like about it. The battery life is not good, the keyboards have a tendency to jam, it’s overpriced when higher amounts of RAM and processors are selected, got rid of a great idea that they’re not open-sourcing so no other laptop makers can use it (MagSafe), has an unwieldy large trackpad. Other than that, yeah, the hardware is good.
Wow, I never knew dang was named Dan. I always said it as the word dang in my head
Ive had this idea years ago.. so glad to see someone finally launched it. Accountability is HUGE for Single Founders and Consultants.

V2 should have Expert Bosses for specific Verticals ( premium plans! )
> as opposed

From The Rising Sea:
Grothendieck on simplicity and generality by C. McLarty:

Grothendieck describes two styles in mathematics. If you think of a theorem to be proved as a nut to be opened, so as to reach “the nourishing flesh protected by
the shell”, then the hammer and chisel principle is: “put the cutting edge of the chisel against the shell and strike hard. If needed, begin again at many different points until the shell cracks—and you are satisfied”. He goes on to say: "I can illustrate the second approach with the same image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months—when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado!"
Deals poorly with walls of fire and choking smoke.

Or elderly, disabled, infants, children, pets, ...
It's extremely disingenuous to assume that attacks on George Soros are necessarily anti-Semitic. Soros is a quintessential politically-active-billionaire bogeyman like the Koch brothers, or Sheldon Adelson (who is also Jewish). In fact, Zuckerberg and Sandberg are Jewish themselves, and I don't think they're necessarily the self-hating type.

Sure, actual anti-Semites probably also criticize George Soros, but (a) of course they would, and (b) why the fuck are you paying attention to those bozos anyway?

Of course, accusing people of anti-Semitism is, in reality, usually a dog-whistle for calling them Nazis.
The following is a decent and reasonably priced reference:

"Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists"

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Notation-Guide-Engineers...
This guy mad a lot of easy to use libraries https://github.com/mafintosh in nodejs, so don't know if they are useful to you
They need fireproof storm shelters like the tornado shelters in areas prone to those.
The interesting thing is that in the first few seasons NCIS got a lot of the computer tech mostly right (modulo some dramatic license regarding easy access to every possible data source the government might have) but as they relied more on Tim the IT guy as a convenient oracle for moving the plot along it quickly dove into "enhance, enhance, enhance..." mode.
Article 13, as written by the European Parliament, is bad, says Google
Ask HN: Do you have cyber insurance?
Does it make sense for a startup?
Yes it would. But you can only reduce effects:

Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Reduce Motion.

The only thing I dislike is the slightly counter-intuitive quick fading effect when minimizing or switching between apps. Outside of that though, any iDevice feels snappier with that option enabled (== effects reduced).
I guess it's not unlike how people who hire personal trainers to push them to work out. Some people just need a little encouragement.
If we want to be technical, I think there's also an argument to be made that moderation of online forms is a hard problem that "good hackers would find interesting" which would arguably satisfy the guideline that

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

and if there's a broad community sense that moderation is particularly good here, there may be something interesting to be learned from that.

In any event, it's (American) thanksgiving and they're about the best mods I've seen!
As a Greek, while of course Modern is not the same as Ancient, it is a lot closer to it than the other mentioned languages, for sure. I can read Ancient Greek texts easily, after only minimal education, which focuses a lot more on learning different meanings of the same words than new words (for instance δαίμονας). Heck, the grammar is practically the same on many things.
Codified laws are always interpreted by judges. Our legal system is not a computer program; humans are in the loop, and that is a feature, not a bug.
Absolutely. I was involved in volunteer emergency response for one of my past employers. I learned that for earthquake prep we kept a container full of cheap bicycles in the parking lot.
Hear hear. Like so many of us here, I deeply appreciate all they do to keep the hive humming.
This is a badly argued article.

It says the problem with renewables is scale: "Renewables aren’t growing fast enough to even match the torrid growth in global electricity demand." But that's exactly what renewable proponents hope to fix. Nuclear is growing at <2%, so the author's preferred form of energy looks even worse by this measure.

It also makes bizarre comparisons between Germany's installed solar base and worldwide growth. Besides being a nonsense comparison, installed base is a terribly misleading way to characterize solar, because most solar was installed within the past few years.

Solar capacity is currently growing faster than coal, gas, and nuclear power combined, and its growth curve is exponential. The cost is falling rapidly. Nuclear may have a role to play but solar will be very hard to compete with.
Growing up, my family relied on government aid to buy food. My father had a stroke when I was in 6th grade, and despite being able to recover, my mother realized that she would be unable to support my siblings and I without him. I am the second oldest of 6 kids, so I was old enough to kinda understand the stakes facing my family.

My mother then went back to college to earn a degree in nursing. She pushed herself harder than I think a human should need to go to ensure my sisters and I had a stable platform upon which to launch our lives.

I then received an incredible need-based scholarship to university and this was hands down the best thing that has ever happened to me. My mind was expanded farther than I thought possible by the people I met, the culture of embracing and admiring the results of dedication and hard work, and the realization that I have agency to change my circumstances. I realized my life could be more impactful than I ever dared to dream as kid in my small, rural town.

I studied Chinese and CS, and stumbled into opportunity after opportunity that pushed me to grow as a citizen of the world and acquire skills that allow me to take part in it.

I am now working on (what is to me) one of the most interesting problems that humankind is attempting to tackle. I am learning incredible lessons about how intelligent people can make progress in an arena of extremely high uncertainty. I am learning what processes lead to innovation and technological advancement. I am surrounded by people from every corner of the Earth from a diverse array of milieus.

I am incredibly grateful for these opportunities to learn, adapt, and (hopefully) become an agent of change for those that had challenging starts in life. I know there are many others that were just as “deserving” of the chances I received, but for a myriad of reasons were never graced by the blind luck I was.

For these reasons and more, I am thankful.
Apple’s Stringsdict approaches this exact problem, though unfortunately first-party documentation is limited. It’s a pretty mature mechanism and yes pretty freely within apple’s own frameworks. See “plural and gender support” here:

https://www.objc.io/issues/9-strings/string-localization/#Pl...
I'm thankful I got out of technology. The money is worse (so far), but everything else is much better for me.
Facebook doesn't want this kind of stuff on their platform. But, it can be very hard for them to stop it.

What language were the postings in? The article screenshots one English post, but possibly many of the others were in some local language. Facebook might not employ anyone with language skills in that language. Automated translation software often performs poorly with less common languages, if it is available at all. Even if the postings are all in some major language, they may have been using local slang or jargon, and unless Facebook has staff in or from that country, they may lack the cultural context to understand properly what is going on. Even if someone from that country reports it, it could be very difficult for Facebook's staff to fairly judge the report if they lack the necessary cultural and language skills to interpret it.