skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with torture is that you are trying to influence others than those being tortured.

Take the Guantanamo Bay example. None of the people taken there for interrogation had any connection to the unspeakable taboo events in question, however, their treatment sent a chilling message of terror to everyone and anyone in the whole world.

That message was a simple one - 'you mess with us and you can expect this'.

This technique controls domestic dissent and that is always what concerns an empire more than the real or imagined external threat. Hence nobody proactively took action against the war even if they did grumble amongst themselves about things like the Patriot Act.

It is just part and parcel of statecraft in any era of empire.
Oh yeah I’d second that, this book is spectacular
I'm Only Going to Say This Once – Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) Principle
Regarding your first point, I think that would make it too easy. Part of the challenge is figuring out what the differences are.

I love your second idea though! Someone should make this if it doesn't already exist. Although if it's not gamified, what's the incentive for people voting between two designs?
So many late nights at that McDonalds, and in that area. (Dundas and Bathurst - Toronto). Even this video is an idealization. That corner gets grimy at night. At least it used to around that time. And that burger she bought was not what they look like coming out of there. I have to laugh a little...

At least they don't use waxes in the model burgers anymore. That's a step toward honesty, at least.
Trailer homes are pretty incredible when you think about it. They're the closest we've come yet to building houses on an assembly line in a factory.

People are already building house components on an assembly line in a factory. By components, I mean entire rooms and sections of houses.

I wish some brave soul would undertake the task of creating, I don't know, the VW bug of trailer homes. Doesn't have to be a luxury thing, just something with character and identity. Something you can be proud of because it has a personality, just like the millions of others like it.

If "the VW Bug of" means a willingness of the manufacturer to modify the traditional chassis and body layout to better accomplish design goals, then GMC did build something along the lines of what you describe. ("something with character and identity. Something you can be proud of because it has a personality, just like the millions of others like it.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_motorhome
At least people can overcome abuse and thrive off of it. I don't know a single person who had an extremely cushy childhood who is 'on fire' for anything or striving for greatness.

You need adversity to be great. Not all adversity is abuse. The American dream is about overcoming and flourishing to the limits of your will power, taxing people who have succeeded to provide succor to people who don't care about themselves is corrosive to the national spirit. Come visit some time, I'll show you around.
As a counterpoint to what is seems most people are saying, my friend had a mail order (and internet order eventually) business for 35 years, and they had a big sign on the wall of the sales floor that said,

"If you bought the wrong part, you now have a spare".

In other words, they never offered a refund, only replacement of the same product, and you had to send the old one back to prove it was broken on arrival.

People loved them and almost all of their customers ordered more than once, so it didn't seem to affect them much. But who knows, maybe they could have been a lot bigger offering refunds!
I try to mention this whenever Earthsea comes up, but she revisited it after a long gap, so anyone who enjoyed the Earthsea trilogy should go back and read the rest of it.
It can be a way to have an otherwise impractical lifestyle for some people. I have a friend that lives in a large pickup with a tall canopy/camper he built. Big enough for a smallish mattress, stove/cookware, table, and outdoor equipment including a kayak. The whole thing is just incredibly clever in how it utilizes space.

He works remotely, usually using library wifi. Then he just drives around to wherever the best climbing/skiing/kayaking is at any given time of year. Not quite the lifestyle I'd want to lead, but it certainly works for him.
I don't doubt that cows at their protein bars, but we were pretty far removed from that causality chain (Why were the cows near your mail? Why was FedEx leaving packages near cows?)
Is there an ActivityPub or similarly decentralized alternative? I don't want to get invested in reddit only for them to shut down their API (it'll happen, always does) and force me to use their garbage mobile client.
... because raising large rounds at high valuations has worked out well for other media companies like Buzzfeed, et al.
The Design of Everyday Things makes me rethink every user interaction or problem I face, and not just at work. Every time I open a door, I begin to think about that experience.

Recently, Educated by Tara Westover, and in the past The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, both have taught me to approach individuals with the true ignorance of their lives that I have. You don't know where people come from and what life led them to where they are when you meet them. Try not to make assumptions. Additionally, I have to remind myself that I grew up loved, cared for, and privileged compared to so many other people.. the fact that I could read their story and post here is a testament to that, helps me try to stay down to Earth and that I had some advantages growing up that others did not.

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker... I used to be a chronic advocate for sleeping less until I read this and did my own scrappy post-research. I'm much more conscious of my health and my sleep now.

I could go on and on..
It depends on who the "more people" are. Schools are the vast bulk of many town budgets. Young families are a net user of town services and enough of them would drive higher property tax rates. (In my case, the town also has negligible commercial activity and no transit--and is spread out enough that transit is basically a non-starter.)
I think the modern western practice owes more to what is most convenient in industrial setting than most considerate to the last moment of consciousness or spirit. fwiw I would personally go with hypoxia over deep brain trauma, of course also hoping it matters little whatever else may or may not be in store.
At least the Norwegians (and other Scandinavian countries) are publicly open about what they are doing. You'd probably never see this 'news story' in the UK or US except as the solution to some event that supposedly justified it
When TLS is used there is no metadata either... server x talked to server y for a while, but what, if anything, happened we know not.
Huh? I think that's plenty enough for most use cases. Sure, sometimes I want text based realtime communications, so I can't have that, but most of the time it's just semi-realtime where this would be fine. But it has to scale to that point first I guess, and maybe things would already have been refined until then.
I think there's a big problem with this whole comparison here. You're comparing a career which is almost entirely private-sector (programming) to one which is almost entirely public-sector (teaching). Teachers are mostly employed by local governments, after all, so that profession isn't subject to the market forces which affect private-sector jobs.

The reason teachers aren't paid well isn't because there isn't much demand for them, it's because the local governments choose to pay them poorly, and then they wonder why they can't find enough good teachers.

Companies that don't pay programmers handsomely will soon find themselves without programmers (or with really lousy ones), and then they'll go out of business. This doesn't happen with public schools.
I've given up most social media but have become obsessed with Reddit.

No matter how much I use it, I'm constantly amazed that I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about.

I'm not a fan of the redesign or their push to look at other social media platforms, but I understand the direction they have to go to build revenue.
What Happened to the 100,000-Hour LED Bulbs?
One of the great courses.

Your Deceptive Mind - A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/your-deceptive-mind-...

This course helped me find places where i was allowing my own mind to run the show by default without thinking critically about my own motivations, thoughts, memories.
How are you shooting yourself in the foot. Regardless of what approach you take, you're placing your trust in some random generator. Whether this trusted generator is formatting its output in the form of raw 0s and 1s, or an alphanumeric string, or UUIDs, is absolutely irrelevant.
I expect this raise to result in a number of enhancements to the user experience which make it a more pleasant and enjoyab[Open this link in the Reddit App?]le place to discourse.
I think Prismo is in development as well as another to-be-announced one. Edit: And Anancus is a link sharing app too I believe.
Zappos has a similar policy with regards to their unlimited free returns and exchanges. They have a tiny group of customers who abuse the hell out of it (and all their customer service reps know who those are), but by and large the policy is responsible for Zappos's massive success (before it was bought by Amazon).
It will be worse as human drivers learn to take advantage of the predictable risk-averse behavior of the self driving cars.
That seems extremely likely, but to get 10 1/2 years in prison?
The problem isn't your kernel that needs updating. That's the least of your problems.

The problem are the network appliances that are sitting between you and the server. i.e. the whole internet. To support feature X, everything between you and the server will need to support that (unless it's backwards compatible, but that's not always the case, as described in the article).

Decade-long adoption will solve this problem, until one day your packet gets routed through some router running Linux v2.5 and your connection silently fails.

This isn't good enough to build a faster (and more reliable) internet on, whereas UDP is a 40-year old standard, and we can assume everybody supports it, even Linux v2.5
Just because they didn't agree with his suggestion to make major changes to the protocol semantics didn't mean they didn't listen to him.
I don't think most people realize that those services limit you to one number per vendor in most cases, so they don't get banned for enabling fraud.
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Tracking Too Big to Fail
Reddit has been raising money for almost 15 years! I wish I had the connections to VC's that reddit apparently does. I can definitely spend all the money a VC gives me, then raise more money, and then spend all that money, and never turn a profit for 15 or 20 years.
No but organ harvisting is. Here’s a story from today.[1]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/06/call-for-ret...
I think about this a lot. If I were born in Europe, I would get a degree in mathematics and skate by doing easy work.

I was born American, I saw my chance for greatness, and I'm working on it. I'm currently a few years into my career - I've made a few hundred thousand for myself and at least a few million for my employers/society-writ-large, and I know that if I were European, I'd still be in school.

For me, the American system did a much better job of aligning my interests with society's interest.
I legitimately cannot tell if this headline is some sort of meta joke.
Seconding fast and slow. I'm working my way through it right now. It's pretty mind blowing.
My solution is unsubscribing from subreddits that are too clickbaity and do not "educate" me. I sometimes realize "Reddit is too fun today", "oh yeah, I am logged out".
Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype
I'm very much concerned that rather than traditional psychotherapy where a person has to confront the issues and trauma of their life we're moving towards the idea that if you drug someone enough they won't commit suicide.
I should also point out that the anecdote given makes reference to Prozac, a prescription drug which some users have claimed has caused their suicidal ideation.
It's possible you only notice the productivity loss, but the gains are so seamless (sharing a screenshot, a chat that removes the need for a meeting etc.) that they aren't as noticeable.

You can always quit out of the program for a while if you need to really focus, I do that often.
The broadband industry loves bullshit names
did somebody in a tiny house wrong you in some way, good god calm down
>Americans care very much about education but the system we're in doesn't.

This is demonstrably false. If Americans cared about education, they would demand their local governments do a better job of providing it. But they don't. Those governments pay teachers poorly, which doesn't attract quality people to the profession, and the taxpayers just complain about their taxes being too high.
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This helped me understand the duality of the logical/mechanical and the creative/artistic. Then merging the two.
Apple will limit websites’ access to your iPhone’s motion data
Note that this will probably result in a more sparse index and longer inserts if using UUIDv4 for a primary key where UUIDv1 is available in the dbms.
Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by 2100
>But supporting and moderating all that content isn’t cheap

What? Moderators don't get paid at all to moderate.
Like Mercer, who buys up local news outlets to push his propaganda.
> he workers were hired through a crowdsourcing gig company outfit called Figure Eight, which pays as little at $1 an hour for people to perform short, seemingly mindless tasks.

Wow. Shouldn't there be a 'minimum gig fee' for this type of work? I mean many tasks may take a few seconds for a few cents, but if you work a solid hour and only earn $1 gross income, that seems extremely exploitative (even if the recipients are in Burundi).
"Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most". I bought this on the strength of an HN suggestion.

It's like Design Patterns for human conversations: the result of studying how people interact, common patterns that work, and how things break down. Really crystallised a lot of insights I'd perceived but never thought about systematically. I highly recommend it.

Word of warning - there are a few books with this title. Look for the one by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen.

Also Thinking Fast and Slow, recommended elsewhere in this thread.
How does a company get bigger without providing value to their customers?
I don't think the number of open positions has anything to do with it. In fact, I'm much more likely to agree with you for low-paid position. Just about everyone here who isn't a student (and let's be honest, even some of the students) are extremely well compensated for important but relatively easy jobs. I don't mind 10 minutes here or 15 minutes there if it helps the team out (as opposed to the company).

I just think being unflinchingly rigid in either direction is the problem. If you expect people to work extra time on a regular basis, or consistently, that's bad. If someone asks you a question that will take 15 minutes to answer and you won't do it because it's 4:50 and not 4:45, that's just as bad.
The abundance of AMP links in Google search results, and how they purposely block actions, feels like some cheap SEO hack ala Experts Exchange in 07/08 or Quora.
Hopefully that will be the end of reddit and the start of something new.
Is there something wrong with it being fun?
The Power Broker. I picked it up out of urban interests, but it gets into so much more of how our political system has been shaped over the last 100 years, and it's scary (or reassuring?) how little it has changed. But also all the insane things Moses did to reshape how cities were built in the USA and how hard it will be to fix his urban sprawl motivation.
Maybe, maybe not. People are not equal. You can nly tax someone so much. 3 people making $10k/yr (this is below poverty in the US) at 100% is the same as 1 person make $100k at 30% - but the first group couldn't live after taxes while the second could.

Of course when the people are more equal your math works out. However things are never equal.
It might soon be time for The Oatmeal to add a new panel to his famous "Digg vs. Reddit" cartoon:

https://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter_2012/reddit_digg

I love Reddit and have no problem with this move in principle, though I do wish there was at least one social platform that would try to follow the Craigslist ethos and stay "proudly independent."

I'm not a big believer in crypto, but Reddit seems like one of the few platforms that would allow a crypto economy to develop and provide an alternative to the dominant money-making models.
Badminton is fun.

2 weeks of badminton. 2 weeks of hockey. 10 weeks of boring shit I have no interest in and don't participate except to avoid an F.
As the article eludes to, cheap components are used for the power conversion, likely on purpose. The LED's last a really long time, but the diodes and cheap over-engineered switching power supplies appear to use under-rated parts. It makes sense. 100k hour bulbs are not good business.
I think MS fully intends to have something like Electron available for apps to use as a target on Windows. They are desperate to make things easy as possible so devs of consumer apps don't abandon the platform or just make general performance worse by targeting standalone Electron.

macOS is experimenting with UIKit, so we'll see how that plays out. But I wouldn't be completely surprised a few years from now if they announced a Safari-based competitor to Electron that has obvious benefits, like battery life and GPU acceleration everywhere.
In this case running your own server works against you.
last round was 200 million in July of 2017. if we assume they had around 30 million left of it in bank today that puts them in 10 million negative every month. how does an online community/discussion website that makes money from ads and with not a lot of staff and no other expenses lose 10 million per month? when are they going to become profitable and how? Is it just a tax write off thingy? I never understood these things.
You shouldn't blame them, but the exit from poverty is clearly marked STEM and it's really up to the individual to take it. Having come from this culture, the best advice I can give is that focusing on individual responsibility is most helpful. There's general a lot of self-pity and "us vs them" mentality when really the problem is more "us vs us". If you haven't heard of it, check out crab bucket mentality. It's very real and the only way I can see to escape it is to put all of your faith into yourself and your own plans.
0-RTT is one of those features where the decision was it's better if we build it and in the end nobody uses it (because it's so dangerous) than if we don't build it and then we all wish we had it, because now we need an entirely new protocol to get it.

Protocols that live on top of a transport (QUIC or TLS 1.3 itself) that offers 0-RTT are supposed to explicitly define whether and how it's used. HTTP is drafting such advice.

You should definitely avoid software that "magically" uses 0-RTT today without that definition being completed, particularly client software. Because of how TLS works, if you never use client software that can do 0-RTT, nothing you send can be replayed, so you're safe. The danger only sneaks in if you run client software that does 0-RTT _and_ the server has dangerous behaviour. Well, you can't tell about the server, but you can easily choose not to run that client.

No popular TLS 1.3 clients (e.g. Firefox, Chrome) do 0-RTT today. They've talked about it, and I can imagine it sneaking in for specific jobs where nobody can see how it causes problems, but I do not expect them to screw up and start doing 0-RTT GET /money-transfer?dollars=1million because they've been here before and they know what will happen when some idiot builds a server.

In client software libraries it's a bit scarier. So, if you use an HTTP library and one day it's like "Yay, now we do 0-RTT to make everything faster" that's probably going to need some stern words in a bug report.
I've been a fan of Reddit for a very long time (as the amount of data science work I've done with their data can attest to), but lately it seems like the incentives between Reddit as a business and Reddit as a community leader are not aligned, and that is a problem.

The increasing amount of dark patterns Reddit has been employing lately is concerning. (recent example: Reddit now gates content in mobile Safari to push users to the app: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1086002848926593025 )

That said, it seems like the really bad dark patterns I reported 7 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446841) no longer appear to be in place.
You can easily have it with 600-800ft
You might have a viable saas there. Check out email octopus and moonmail (also open source)
Seriously? I just assume most people on there are in high school, it seems like a place where the lowest common denominator ideas get upvoted and everything else gets nailed.
I find that the quality of the content and discussion on Reddit has been slowly declining. Even previously high quality/very specialized subreddits are getting overrun by poor content and snowflakes.
The UUID specification only has a small part of it random.
I wonder if the same limitation exist on Android? Also wonder if this can work with Google Voice? What the monetization strategy is? Finally is my contact list safe?
Agreed, I've mostly quit Facebook, which was never that enthralling to me, but Reddit / Twitter / Podcasts / Hackernews are all much more interesting. None of them are adding significant value to my life other than that dopamine hit, but I still haven't left them.
Because with technical measures, the cost is allocated to the party who benefits from vendor lock-in, rather than to the public.
This is a dream of mine - you must hear that often, but what did you wish you knew before building your superior place of living? Anything you'd do differently or not do at all?
I think you might be trying to "talk to" the wrong kind (or a very specific kind) of people if they'll only engage with you after receiving some social proof via Instagram. In my anecdotal experience, I've never heard of experienced such a situation.
A drug that actually works is far preferable. Talk therapy is expensive, hard work, tough to scale, and it's difficult to find a qualified therapist who is right for you.
It's a pretty bad time sink for some of us. I have it blocked on my work machines so I don't get sucked down the click and scroll rabbit hole when I should be working.
ESP's like mailchimp, constant contact, and other always have some issues with emails...mainly because of the contacts list..

I made the switch to mailclickconvert.com from constant conatct and its been much better.
That Meteor seems to be dying? Some good answers on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16782266
The Selfish Gene by Dawkins. The gene is the unit of replication, and this affects every process in this universe.
> I can be immediately connected with the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic people on virtually any subject I care about.

Politics on Reddit seems to fall into either The_Donald or "Orange man bad" with very little objectivity in the middle in my experience.
"Silence" by John Cage. Before it, I thought of Zen as an abstraction; after reading it, I saw how it could be (and ought to be) a way of life.