skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great picks. I started Coddling this week - I've learnt so much already. Incredibly insightful. Haidt's Happiness Hypothesis was the best book I'd read in a while, also highly recommended. It's about much more than just happiness, but how our mind/self/consciousness/emotions work.

Escape from Freedom (also known as Fear of Freedom) is great, as are a lot of Fromm's books. He's my favourite psychologist, and by a long way favourite Frankfurt School writer. I also love Man for Himself, The Sane Society, To Have or To Be, The Art of Loving. He's wonderfully BS-free, combining insights into psychology, society, work, politics etc.
Can you expand more on what you mean by “this is why I think that the current hardline focus on escaping the reality of a changing world is going to be short-lived. At some point, as traditionalists get more of what they want, the idealists of the world will pull away to such an extent that their new normal will have the wholesome things manifested rather than just shadows of what once was.”
I think more accurately it’s L8.
I am against making any drugs illegal but shit like this is why we can't have nice things.
to those asserting crucifixion was rare, the account also has jesus as crucified simultaneously with two thieves..

i doubt stealing would be as severe a crime as treason, so this would indicate that it was a common form of punishment
This seems like one of those articles which works by defining very specifically what the author means by “hate” and then being able to conclude that “hate is good”.
I disagree with blaming the internet.

These forms of schmalz the journalist at hand fed his employer also fed into a cherished world-view. Cherished by co-workers and by the dozens or so jurors and organizations that plastered him with awards. All of this happened before the dominance of internet in German journalism as well. But most importantly, you don't need the internet present for those things to happen. What you need is a deep bias.

e.g. at Der Spiegel

- a left-leaning political stance is commonly held; in 1987 they in a successful attempt to derail the campaign of an conservative politician, stirred up what became to be known as the Barschel-Affair [1]. It ended with the suicide of the conservative politician and the social democratic successor stepping down a couple of years later, when in the affair's aftermath his own corrupt doings were laid bare.

- From 2000-2007, when the "national socialist underground" committed their serial-killings against immigrants (and a police officer) Der Spiegel was at the forefront portraying them as "Döner-Murders"; that the killings were all part of the inner workings of the Turkish mafia.

- an "Israel critical" stance is somewhat commonly held; in 2010 you could get away with articles with complete made up facts about orthodox jews in Jerusalem (hint: bad people that don't use cell-phones etc.) [2]

- In 2016 a court ordered Der Spiegel to redact 14 claims it made against an investigative journalist [3] and subsequently agreed to redact the whole piece.

- In 2018 at another publication, Die Zeit, in a prime example of biasedness, its editors-in-chief publicly smeared one of their own inhouse journalists after she in one of her articles dared to pose the question whether the NGOs cruising the Mediterranean Sea to rescue refugees were always helpful or whether they might increase the human toll after all (since smugglers counting on those NGOs to pick up "their slack" started to massively lower the quality of vessels used to transport the refugees) [4]

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barschel-Aff%C3%A4re#Berichte_...

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ultraorthodoxe-juden-m...

[3] https://www.ksta.de/kultur/rechtsstreit-um--schmaehartikel--...

[4] http://schmid.welt.de/2018/07/19/liberalitas-hammoniae-die-z...
Thats interesting.

Most non-mainstream media makes you dive through the 501-C##'s papers, ICANN whois records, etc to find out whose voice you're hearing. And then you gotta dig like a shameless conspiracy theorist to find out what that means about what you're reading.

Socialist media tells you who/what it is. Right there in the title.

Why the distrust for Workers' Rights?
The author is not clear on his limits about when art leads to revolution. Does the 'Night at the Opera' of the Belgian revolution count as a way to use art to promote a revolutionary vision (in this case, independence from the Netherlands)?

Or how about all the works of poems, prose and literature, where sentiment of a revolutionary or nationalist aspiration (say against a foreign empire occupying your people's lands) are hidden through code words, to avoid the imperial censors, like we saw by the many peoples of the Austrian Empire in the 19th century?

Or is he talking about art as the ends itself to promote or prevent a revolution rather than a means? That seems like an impossible aspiration to reach, so the qualification seems pointless. The masses won't risk lives for art, but they will for bread. And if you write a song to that effect, they'll gladly sing along.
Similar thing happens to me from time to time.

I have a semi-systematic way to deal with this:

1) check I drink enough water, I eat enough, I had enough sleep. I.e. me and my wife have managed to avoid few really depressing evening conversations by looking at each other and saying "We are too tired to talk!", drinking few cups of water, taking a shower and going to bed early. Next day is then so much better :-)

2) I try to remember, when I was outside last time for an hour-long walk? When was the last time I have seem my friends? If the answer is "long ago", I make plans to change this.

3) so far these instances were far-apart enough, but I started to keep a journal, and review it whether it is time to go find a therapist :-)

W.r.t. enterpreneurs on Twitter, I follow @sehurlburt and she is quite open with her going to therapy and sometimes even shares some of her workbooks :)

I am not self-employed, which means that I have one more option you probably don't really have when feeling unproductive, and that is claiming I am stuck on a problem to colleagues and asking for help. It can sound weird, but pair-programming can help me with this, despite me being stuck is not fueled by technical problem, but mental state :)
"There are times in which one must dispense
contempt sparingly, because of the great number who deserve it." Guy Debord.

I think this gives some clue why few people same to hate strongly today.
Apple or Google don't ban URLs or websites on their Safari or Chrome browsers. Is that due to historical reasons or are there any laws regarding this?
Re-using code doesn't wear it out or contaminate it. This is one of the worst analogies I've heard here.
Or did he .... We won't know until someone opens the box ...
Everything is quiet with the Kobo and Walmart partnership
I'd be interested to hear how you describe the current situation in Cleveland. I just finished my first semester at a school nearby but spent no time in Cleveland aside from the airport, so even though I've been nearby, I really haven't been exposed.
They really misuse the phrase "virality" over and over here. There's nothing beyond word of mouth spreading it from one user to another. It's more UX that's impressive.
I think you might be overly worried - it sparked a lot of discussion about cross platform app design, React Native, Electron, etc., that was probably interesting.

I think you may have picked up on a site-wide (profession-wide?) tendency to be interested in new toys.
They need to dramatically lower headcount including professors and likely lower salaries as well. The total expense of US higher education needs to come way down.
Why are you worried if $1.2B of American taxpayer dollars is going towards quantum tech if you're not an American taxpayer?
I got a new phone recently and was dismayed at how easy it was to reset the 2FA on various accounts. Some fall back to SMS in that case (which has well-documented insecurities), while others allow you to call customer support and reset it without providing too much to prove that you’re the account owner. There has to be a path for people who lose or break their phones with their Authenticator apps, but I’d feel better if it was a little more difficult than it seems to be in most cases.
You know, I feel the same way about Half-Life.

It's a good game and lord knows I played it enough to know it like the back of my hand, but people keep bringing it up like it is the Monolith from 2001 bringing us gamer-apes into the modern world.

It's still a first person shooter. A well-made one, but not revolutionary. Unreal came out six months before it and it also had story-driven gameplay and used environmental effects like lighting too.
That's where Google and FB have an advantage. They track everyone's location and interests. They could probably do it.
Small? My copy has 384 large pages.
Could some of the situation be due to differences between German and American conceptions and assumptions about journalism? I mean on a nuanced level; obviously German journalists don't think they should publish falsehoods. Purely as examples of differences that could have an impact: Maybe fact-checking is more the responsibility of the journalist; maybe 'news' is perceived more the way American journalism perceives opinion pieces, with their accompanying lower standards of accuracy (something I still don't understand - outright deception is commonly accepted in opinion pieces, in the most serious publications). It would be a mistake to assume all journalism is conceived of and operates in the same way, in all countries.

Also, Der Spiegel has long had an extraordinary reputation; my impression is that, of publications outside English-speaking countries, Der Spiegel has the best reputation among Americans. I'm not sure that many do their own evaluation, though Der Speigel looks like what we expect serious journalism to look like. Taking a longer view than just this immediate problem, do they deserve the reputation? If not, I'd be interested in who others recommend (outside English-speaking countries).
Not sure why this is being downvoted. You are correct. I suspect the downvotes are because people don't read carefully and assume you are endorsing it, despite the fact that nowhere did you say it was good or ok, simply that they can.

There have already been indications that the US intends to print their way out of debt. We have already printed billions over the past few years. If you look at graphs and charts of inflation, it's breathtaking.
Yes but to have your MP they'd most likely have rooted your device, they could surely do the same to your mobile.

If they could do one, they can do the other. Just a matter of efforts I guess
I thought this was incredible: What's Next for Marketplace Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl14Ty5-0Ko

Great explanation of this space and their views on augmenting existing regulated markets.
It should be illegal to do that.
>pick on a single signal

You dont have to do it manually. Nowadays you can grab whole 2.4-2.5 range(most common drone remote frequency), process it in real time, at 3 locations simultaneously, and produce signal position map with every transmitter inside the triangle or interest. Even amateur fox hunts can be automated to the point of trivializing whole thing with couple of those https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kerberossdr-4x-coherent-r... . More professional hardware does exist, quick search gave me http://spectrafold.com/quadrus/product/dru-244a-1-4-pci/ so Im sure MIL already uses this instead of primitive manual techniques.
I wonder why the other app showing identical content didn’t get banned, maybe it is a bigger revenue earner for Google?

And yes, there is far more of this on Insta.
I think it's due to how they cultivated the image of their walled garden app stores as curated and moderated against "bad stuff" like adware etc and now you have people with a puritan/sex-regressive stance leaning on that image and sesta / fosta bills to "protect us all".

With the recent push for PWAs, it will be interesting to see if communities like artstation use these instead.
you could use a pretrained object detection model with some lightweight logic built around it (e.g. send you a slack notification when a human object is detected in at least 5 consecutive frames between these hours) but you might also want to find-tune a pretrained model to work well given your camera's angle, lighting conditions, etc.
There are several other definitions, though I agree the word does feel awkward here regardless of which one you choose (tho some are better than the definition you used). [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dialectic
Establish the culture of not being afraid to "offend with facts", which academia is now lacking.

Run universities as nonprofits.
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Your last paragraph is very misleading. While it's true that the US has printed billions of dollars in the last few years, that is not all that significant when you consider that we have trillions in circulation. Also, our inflation rate is far from breathtaking, and has been consistently hovering around 2% a year for decades (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10YIE)
What Are Stablecoins?
So, mysql is a frontend to InnoDB?
Cockroach is a frontend to RocksDB?

Note:
Redix has a pluggable storage engine, the current engine is "badgerdb", the next is "bolt" and it is already integrated and I'll release it soon.
* A mind for numbers - Barbara Oakley
- great framework for learning how to learn
* Checklist manifesto
- good for investing better
* 12 Rule for life by JP
- Great read, very in depth but only two rules (guidelines) are that needed.
Strongly against making drugs with very low potential for harm illegal, but that’s definitely not tobacco related products.

I feel it undermines the logic based argument to legalize recreational drugs. As well, smoking costs 3x the tax revenue from society, coming from single payer, I don’t love paying for people picking up smoking / vaping since the dangers were known.
What is the correlation between status as the best in the world and cost? I'm not saying it's perfect, but surely there is some relation.
I'm all for burning Facebook to the ground but the rise in the use of antidepressants started well before modern social media.

It does look associated with alienation, so does travelling alone, but social media use is probably a result of loneliness, an attempt to connect however feeble, not its cause.
I am wondering why are not just tagging this apps, then by default not allow you to install unless you confirm on an alert box and put your password. Seems a win-win, you keep both camps happy and probably spend less on attempting to filter your content so not to trip over AIs detection algorithms and bad moderation from the stores.
Is it cause or effect though?

The actual reason could be that your business model is not sustainable. Eventually you will then be pressured into ever more desperate ways to get income. Inevitably that will include ads on the web.
Sometimes people just like to dialectic a word into a sentence, even if they don't know what it means.
I tried applying tsne on an neuroimaging dataset analysis for which I had been using principal coordinate ordination techniques. Results were just OK. The implementation I used in R had a number of parameters to tune, but my interpretation of the visualization changed with those parameters...so I was unsure which to go with.

I wonder if one reason for my difficulty was the noise inherent in functional MRI data.
Is there an R implementation?
> If you look at graphs and charts of inflation, it's breathtaking.

I don't see what you're seeing. Inflation has been close to (the Fed's target of) 2% for the last 10 years. That's much lower than its historical values. So if anything the US has chosen less inflation in recent times.
This likely has much more to do with the U.S. government wanting to break encryption than say...find cancer treatments. Quantum computer efforts were probably already funded in a much smaller way through the NSA's black budget, but they must of thought they might as well make it public and give it a much bigger budget.
Federally guaranteed student loans exceed $120 billion every year. That is a massive subsidy, and it may be increasing costs for more people than it helps. The glut of admissions being able to pay artifically high tuitions is emboldening administrators to add more dormitories every year, expand the administrative class, and build rec centers -- raising tuition even further.

> Last year, FSA provided more than $120 billion in
federal grants, loans, and work-study funds to
approximately 13 million students at nearly 6,000 participating schools.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/2017report/fsa-repo...
Looks like an arms race to me. Whoever can get to it faster gets to decrypt the existing algorithms. Can someone more knowledgable validate this?
Are you new to programming? There are entire industries using only C++ for their software (like game industry)
I came from Vietnam, in my views, Vietnam is China-lite or China-CC.

The other day my American friend (who was my roommate) came with me to visit that country and we had a pretty interesting conversation on the taxi cab from the airport to the hotel. My ex's dad worked in the government and his role was essentially censor the press (and my ex was particularly hush-hush about that). Now on my ex's views, she said her dad has no illusion about how shitty the situation is, either. In her description of his job, that is to walk the thin line to allow the press to say as much as possible without making anyone really pissed off (and take revenge on the journalists). My American friend, predictably, didn't like that and thought that was just an excuse.

My dad, like many people of his generation, refused to work with that government. He refused to take any higher-up position. He is just a college lecturer for all his life. To him, taking upper management jobs means he will be corrupted just like the ones he despited. Now he is a disgruntled, angry old man who now faces the fact that there is absolutely nothing he can do to change anything in that shitty system. I believe if he took the job, he would have been able to do more good to the students than the corrupted people he despited.

One of the things that Vietnam has over China is that the internet is much much freer. We get access to Facebook, Google, etc. without problems. That was thanks to someone who worked in the government basically convinced the higher-ups to open up the internet and "fix problems as they appear."

I talked to one of my Chinese graduate friends who has a dad who did essentially what my dad did. I feel bad for both of them.

I feel that in dictatorship countries, making something happen is better than nothing.

I still don't know what to think about my ex's dad, but I owe my gratitude to whoever worked in the government to get the internet to Vietnam so I can be in the USA today to do really great, great work and to speak freely. But I only write this because I had the choice to get the fuck out. My dad and my friend's dad, they had a family to feed and couldn't get out due to many reasons. In that case, for their owns' good, I wonder if making a compromise and "do what you can" is a better choice for both the person and the common good. This is one of the cases where I ask whether the black-and-white, absolutist thinking of good-and-bad what was a too simplistic view of the problem. I believe many scholars in China didn’t say things directly because they were brainwashed or cowards. They know their priorities.
Use required types ! :) It is on purpose, but I understand it might be misleading. Thank you for your feedback. I made UI myself and as a developer I expect to get tons of UI/UX issues. Thank you!
Has anyone studied the effects of an American education in bringing more westernization and western ideas into China ? Surely all these graduate students aren’t gonna go back with the same exact ideology that they came with, per se
Tips to improve PC performance in Windows 10
Hardware RNG then.
Facebook Responds to Demand That Users Get a Say in Content Removal Decisions
I enjoy how Googlers appear to regularly name drop interns they’ve hosted as if the rest of us should know who they are. Never seen that at any other institution.
Speaking as a non-programmer, I find computer programming one of the most difficult things I have ever done. In a sense it's a lot like writing. Sure, everybody can write, but few people can write well. Writing a short computer program is easy, but writing a complex program, in a way that it both works and you (and others) understand it, it's the hardest thing.
I'm not generally a "don't trust the government numbers" kind of person, but in the case of inflation their numbers are wrong. They don't capture true cost of living changes and the reduction in purchasing power.

This article gets at some of the things I had in mind when I wrote my comment: https://www.investopedia.com/insights/how-will-fed-reduce-ba...

Also I apologize for lack of coherence. I'm very tired and should have gone to sleep 6 hours ago.

Side note: I really like your user name :-)
Random fact: Sir Hiram’s son Hiram P. Maxim went on to co-found the American Radio Relay League, the national organization of Amateur Radio.
The article sells itself short by calling what it defends "hate", IMO.

Here's something that might seem a bit controversial at first glance, but I think she has a good point:

> What frightened me in your essay was the gospel of love which you begin to preach at the end. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well-known characteristics of all oppressed people. They grow out of suffering and they are the proudest possession of all pariahs. Unfortunately, they have never survived the hour of liberation by even five minutes. Hatred and love belong together, and they are both destructive; you can afford them only in the private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.

-- Hannah Arendt, Letter to James Baldwin, November 21, 1962
It’s very strange wording that they use, they don’t want anything to be sexually “gratifying”. Like if it’s explicit content but you don’t find it “gratifying” they’re OK with that? It’s as if they don’t care about the content itself they just don’t want you to enjoy it.
America isn't in serious debt. But let's pretend for a minute that it is -- so, how do you intend to make them pay?
How's well is that working with meth? Opiates?

I've lost family and friends to both -- they were not "protected from themselves"

Lost my mother to alcohol, which is legal and kills 10s of thousands in the US each year.

I don't have an easy answer, but I do know that our current approach is wrong.
Cleveland is just an example.

I currently live in Canada and get the local news from Vermont. It's sublime and cathartic: local girls basketball team highlights. Interviews with part-time stat reps who also run the local store. No clickbait language between state reps, governor etc.. No culture war.

The national news is a circus, with each clown playing a part. It's ideological, clickbait, narrative-driven and parsed to remove anything that could upset corporate sponsors.

'Normal' is simply too boring for television.
Kind of OT but since this is a thread about fiction books, I read a very interesting short story on HN but can't remember the author or the title. It was about a person who meets god and then finally realizes that every person he has met on earth is his past self (or incarnation?). Anyone know that one? Also any good recommendations for similar short scifi stories?