skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analysis of politics is only coherent if you ignore the existence of ideology entirely. It's true that "facts" don't necessarily unite people of competing ideologies because that's not how ideology works.

You could say a politically charged fact like "People of race A commit crime at 2x the rate of people of race B".

One person might then conclude "We need to put more police in predominantly A neighborhoods".
Another might conclude "We should bus kids from A neighborhoods to B neighborhoods to normalize education rates".
While yet another might say "Our public education shouldn't be funded primarily via property taxes, which systemically leads to under-education of lower-class individuals".

Same fact, different conclusions. You can't reduce it down to just "allegiance" or "feelings". I'd argue that understanding your ideology is the only way to make sense of politics. Most folks never really stop to examine their ideology, and just end up wherever they've been left by teachers / parents / talking heads.
>Reddit's public-facing data is very useful for ML/AI.

assuming that the users generating the data are humans and not bots....
Audio is getting really hot, I really do feel a lot of folks are missing how important and game changing the AirPods have been. In some ways they are the new iPod for Apple, they cost about the same and I’m almost certain at some point Apple will add storage to them and we will be able to take them with us without our phone. I believe they are expected to sell 75 million units through the year, those are no small numbers and presents a huge opportunity for audio startups.

Audio is one of those things you can consume on the go, while doing other things, like exercising or commuting. In some ways audio is far superior to video in our modern fast paced world.

As a little self promotion, this is exactly why I decided to create an app that uses some open machine learning models to read articles to you, I believe folks on the go will benefit immensely by staying informed and learning new things. You can check it out at https://articulu.com
Its not unambiguously good news. There are several countries such as Japan and Sweden that are looking down the barrel of inverted population pyramids in their immediate future and the consequences are expected to be dire. Yes, overpopulation can and should be a concern, but underpopulation should be one as well, and already is for pockets of the world.
Yes, the practical skill of navigating by stars is not practiced by most people because we have better navigation methods. But the knowledge of how to navigate by stars was not erased by the invention of the gps. That's still part of humanity's body of knowledge.
I'm not sure the comparison to the phone company is very applicable. This would be the case if Patreon would be a pure payments proessor, like Mastercard or Visa (or maybe Stripe). But Patreon provides pages on their own website within their own brand identity for these creators, stores their digital media, promotes them through their search interface etc.

In my opinion, Patreon is more akin to a newspaper deciding which ads to show next to their articles or to a shopping mall deciding which shops to rent space to. And of course every newspaper will reject ads that would infuriate their readers (or journalists) and shopping malls will not rent to businesses that might damage their reputation (depending on how "upscale" it is this might be everything from soup kitchens over gambling outfits and payday lenders to brothels).

Now, you might disagree with them whether they have drawn the right line there and consequently take your business elsewhere (just as you might not want to visit a shopping mall with the wrong mix of shops), but I find it a bit of a stretch to frame this as a "free speech" issue.
^ exactly. To me, the notion is odious that individuals born into exploitative circumstances [be they human or otherwise] forfeit their volition / consciousness as a result of those circumstances.

Rousseau : "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
what about the gmail receive limit? its 60 emails per minute or about 80k per day

if you hit 1 minute over 60 you get blocked 24h
Thanks for the thorough response.
The map/territory insight is a very impressive one, and can often cut to the center of a debate, decomposing it into an argument about semantics.

My two favorite examples are the idea of defining "species" and the idea of defining "life". In both cases we have rough criteria, but both are things that are kind of "we know it when we see it" but with the understanding that at the edges we have cases that don't quite work because the definitions are convenience (and descriptive), not fundamental (and prescriptive).

So people debating whether horses and donkeys are the same species because they can interbreed are trying to make the territory fit the map.

And people debating whether a virus is "alive" are also trying to make the territory fit the map.

Both "being alive" and "belonging to the same species" are useful concepts on a gross level -- distinguishing plants and rocks, and horses and monkeys, but they break down at the micro level, which is totally okay, because we don't need a perfect model for it to be useful, so long as we constrain ourselves to the domain where it is useful.
> It's still called 'spin' simply because it's hard to find a term that explains what it really is.

No, it's called spin because it's a quantum mechanical form of angular momentum that simply has no analog in classical physics, and some physicists at the time suggested a physical interpretation that was consistent with an older form of quantum theory.

> In the quantum world it's still possible to be in both states or places at once - and that's where the quantum weirdness is. Nobody would care or talk about it if being in two spin states at the same time wasn't more strange than wearing a shoe and a tie at the same time.

Again, because they are conflating it with classical notions. Superposition has classical, deterministic interpretations which feature none of this apparent "weirdness".
The feasting might go a little bit easier if you also join in every time the hobbits or Gandalf smoke "pipe weed."
As a society we need toilets to survive. Diseases spread by human waste such as cholera are a major reason why average lifespans used to be short.
This cuts both ways, though. Elevators are quite nice, but what about nuclear weapons and Skinner boxes? (aka, smartphones) I'm not trying to paint a broad brush where technology is either all good or evil. But, quite a bit of the magic of population size and telecommunications are wasted on useless or evil efforts. And, at some point, there will be too many people. We can debate on the number the Earth can safely support, but we must agree it's lower than infinity.

So, there must be some balance to overpopulation and destruction it brings, and underpopulation and the progress it halts. Do you think there's a good balance we can / should arrive at? Do you think we're anywhere close to it?
Yes, I have worked in both and I would prefer the cubicles from office space to open plan.
If this is true (which I might be willing to concede), then should the same standard not be applied equally to anyone who self-identifies as a communist in today's world? Simply existing as a communist might be a call to repeat the same mistakes of the 20th century (and 21st century, because they're ongoing), which are in no way less horrific than the mistakes of fascism.

Silencing has the opposite effect to what you wanted. It's the Streisand Effect. Your act of censorship only serves as arsenal for the people you are censoring, because they can point at it and say "look, if they didn't have anything to hide, they wouldn't restrict us from talking about it."

This is why I won't call for silencing communists, even though I vehemently disagree with their ideology. I have a bit more faith that humans can recognize bad ideas themselves and do not need to be told what to think.
THIS! I was similarly confounded when i first heard the term ghosting recently. To me ghosting should mean that someone that is constantly lingering about - and not disappearing. I would have used the term blanking out, or maybe fading out, or even better something like bamfing [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamf].
Excellent work. Now disallow catch-all email addresses. I'll wait.
> Sure, but once one person takes parental leave you're back to being fragile on this one aspect.

That's the point! I'm not sure if you're arguing for not taking any action against fragility (since it's going to happen) or arguing for infinite redundancy - there's plenty of room between those 2 extremes. Your argument sounds a lot like "Sure, but once you lose a disk in your array / a node in your HA cluster, you're back to being fragile"
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Google now pays more in EU fines than it does in taxes
I often think about this too, are people who understand incredibly complex things dying off / retiring faster than technology can keep up with it ?

I think about maitaitining really complex infrastructure, you kind of see this in Japan. So much complicated infrastructure, so many people checking out.
In many US companies, severance increases with years of service. In the case of my former employer, as the company's balance sheet got worse, successive downsizings provided fewer benefits. There were legal protections that slowed the rate of those decreases.
The cause as per the GP is not technology:

> But in a world of shrinking population, entire fields of practical human knowledge and know-how can be lost forever.
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I meant that it doesn't affect it in the sense that it doesn't change the way the cache behaves or ask it to flush or invalidate any of its contents. You can have a pipelined CPU which needs the barrier insns but which has no cache at all (most likely in embedded). And if the problem you're having is that your data is in the dcache but not the icache then the barrier insns won't help, because they're not architecturally defined to do that.

I certainly agree that you need to understand the architectural model to write reliable (and cross-cpu portable code) -- and the architectural model for Arm does distinguish barriers from cache maintenance -- though if you're writing exploit shellcode then "works most of the time and we can't do better given the way the bug we're exploiting to get code execution" is sometimes what you're going to end up with, at which point knowing what the specific hardware is doing can help.
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I read it in '80 or '81.
it is pretty easy for people to pack up shop and get their money through some other channel.

Maybe they're looking 'solve' this by offering to be the content creators distribution platform as well. I Imagine they could structure it like they'll take a lower commission if you also use their platform.
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I Just Don't Like React's Tic Tac Toe
Quiverfuls are quite rare even in religious families with multiple children. It takes extraordinary conviction to continue when you are already feeding 10 children on one income. Even if those children do some of work.
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I've wondered about its premise, actually. Anecdotally where I live (the Netherlands) I don't feel that "smarter" people get fewer kids than "dumber" people do. Is there any data about this? Say, #kids vs education level?
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The book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

After I read it, I felt like I could see the world for what it really is: just a bunch of fallible humans all pretending they knew The Way Things Should Be. Popes, CEOs, tech gurus, presidents, the lot of them all desperately clinging to their beliefs lest their followers abandon them.

That book made me realize that all the truths everyone "just knows" and takes for granted aren't necessarily truths. They're beliefs, or myths. Even so, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with that: a culture or civilization needs beliefs or myths to function, but what those beliefs are can determine the ultimate fate of that civilization and whether it's sustainable.

What I really took away from it is that I no longer really believe anything. Or perhaps more accurately, I recognize when something I hold true is actually a belief and not truth, and am willing to question it or understand that I continue to hold it despite any supporting evidence. I learned that beliefs are choices people make, for reasons their own.

I was always an atheist, but I realized religions are just more beliefs like any other belief people hold as true.

I learned that some beliefs can be beneficial ("If I'm good to others, others will be good to me") and others destructive ("Humans are the pinnacle of evolution"). Ideas don't need to be true to be helpful (which is why the relentless drive in tech communities, often, for the objective truth or a logical ordering and categorization for everything rubs me the wrong way).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)
I think little of the advice so far is that useful.

What happens when you burn out is that you engage in a unsustainable situation, often for some time, until the effect catches up with you. To not burn out again you need to regain the connection between e.g. working to much and a decrease in performance. You need the realization that engaging in this unsustainable situation will hurt you again.

Also burn out is often a nice way to say that you are essentially having mental health issues caused by the situation you are in. Not generally something to take lightly. And not something you want to experience repeatedly.

I haven't read it yet but "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" might be a good start.
> Glad to read that as the top comment, because when they came out, I expressed strong doubts about this new features, and I mostly received mad comments in return. The alienated react fans stated that I didn't understand what modern code was, what a great idea those were and how from now on, everything will be better.

Your post boils down to "Seems like it might be nice, but there might be bad sides, too" which seems fair, but the rest of your post is dressed up in a weird gloating dismissiveness and an exaggerated narrative about you, the epic heroic, fighting back the baying React Fans like in Doom's cover art.

I wouldn't celebrate your skepticism just yet, especially not just because you found someone else on HN to commiserate with.

There have been what I think are some convincing arguments for it in the comments and linked urls like https://overreacted.io/react-as-a-ui-runtime/.
There are a few libraries that calculate complexity or cost of a GraphQL query, e.g., [1][2]. We think that differences of our approach are that we extract more diverse characteristics, allowing for a wider array of management policies, and that we explicitly decouple management from the backend implementation. In consequence, our approach works irrespective of the programming language used for the GraphQL backend, prevents malicious requests from even hitting the backend, reduces backend load, and lifts developers from having to integrate cost / complexity calculations themselves.

[1] https://github.com/pa-bru/graphql-cost-analysis
[2] https://github.com/slicknode/graphql-query-complexity
This is delightfully crazy.

Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse.

Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.
I thought of this. But the OP stated that the traffic is unprotected making this security measure moot.
Great marketing for your services since you're putting them in your profile.
Agreed. But I suppose I was using a broader definition, like anything more than 3 or so kids.
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Two points. Burnout caused by other people taking away your control of your life can become a form of PTSD actually. Take care of yourself physically.

Second, more importantly, burnout comes from using willpower to do something you have no hope of success. Your brain is trying to stop wasting resources.

Problem is your brain isn’t so smart that it knows what is the problem so it stops anything closely related.

Take a break. A vacation. Do something fun and rewarding. Succeed at small things. Go back to work on smaller things you know will succeed. May require changing directions or jobs or careers but the change doesn’t have to be major. Just get back to success.
When a website presumes to normalize my Gmail address, I presume they aren’t interested in my money.

You are well within your rights to prohibit duplicate signups from the normalized address, but please don’t presume to replace what the user entered.
Lots of religious people are perfectly nice and reasonably, by the way.
That is essentially losing 1 customer vs handling thousand spammers.
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I'm a Computer Science Under-Grad (3rd year) who finally got an ACM DL subscription. It's a big library, are there any notable go-tos that anyone who has a subscription should take advantage of?
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"Any" includes murder, do you realize that?
Infinite Jest. I read it one year ago and I still think about it almost once a day.
> That is simply not true,

You haven't disproved my claim, you introduced a different one (that high skilled workers earn good money).

Hungary has fewer people that speak foreign languages (as percentage of working age population: https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/18155924_8861... ) than any of the other EU member states. Hungary is the country where the ratio of graduates decreased among the 25-34 year olds between 2014 and 2017 (which might seem like a statistical fluke, but the problem is EU average is increasing monotonically since 2008, whereas Hungary had a peak in 2015 and declined since back to 30% vs 39% of EU average(!), see also: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... 2017 )

This pretty much means Hungary has too few high-skilled workers.

> In every country you have lot more of low skilled than high skilled workers hence this is where the problem lies. There is absolutely no difference in how a shop assistant deals with clients in Hungary or Czech Rep. as in UK or US. So why the disparity?

And that's because economics works in the aggregate. Skills matter, because in Hungary you have too many people competing for those low skilled jobs.

Think about what does the emptying of the middle class means. Of what the Autor paper means that I linked. A lot of people move down. The low skilled jobs are threatened not by automation, but by having more people suddenly becoming "low skilled" (because if they are not high skilled enough to count as high-skilled, and middle-skill stuff is disappearing, then more people are now forced to try to find low-skilled work jobs).

https://qz.com/1010831/the-middle-skill-job-is-disappearing-... Hungary lost both low and middle skilled jobs, high-skilled jobs grew. Yet Hungary has comparatively few high skilled workers.

Hence those who are forced to work at "low skilled jobs" are now simply competing with each other more.
I had a feeling it was more complicated than the interviewee made it seem. It almost made me want to get their book, just to see what new model they had in mind. Sure, the UN model is imperfect, but all the measures used directly tie to population and don't use debatable correlations.
You can’t or you won’t work standing in a ditch with mud up to your knees?

You can’t or you won’t work in a chair that gives you a mild electric shock every 49 seconds?

Here’s a question: when your work environment is hostile to focusing on work that needs focus, what exactly is the point of distinguishing between can’t and won’t?
Seems like the perfect one to get one's account stolen
LightOn raises $3.3M for optics-based data processing for AI (2018) [PDF]
From the bizzaro-world where Firefox is the #1 browser, and there's plenty of time left to make a victory lap with a bunch of dildos.
> Simply existing as a communist might be a call to repeat the same mistakes of the 20th century, which are in no way less horrific than the mistakes of fascism.

Communism in itself does not imply violence towards minorities or putting people into Gulags. Nazism or fascism always does, the demonization of those not in the "Volkskörper" (or deemed too weak to be worthy) is the core ideology.

While I agree that autoritarian Communism has failed and those who still adore Stalin are morons, there are many more Communist views that do not resort to authoritarianism.
The news about companies making billions off targeted ads and data access agreements is interesting. We get that hackers made money off the Equifax and Marriott breaches. But this information about the data market had me thinking, is my data making these companies a few pennies or is there more on the table?

This app calculates the value of a person’s data based on two sets of information. First, the apps you use, their data sharing agreements, and their annual revenue per user. Second, the email you use and the associated accounts that hackers have stolen information from. We’re working on improving our estimation methodology, but the data brokerage market is pretty opaque. Here are the sources and methods: https://medium.com/fast-garden/fast-garden-assessment-data-s...

Thanks in advance for the thoughts, ideas, feedback.
That's if you limit the scope of the article to IT only though.

If you extend the scope to your entire life it's vastly different. It's easy to feel smart because you have all the (written) knowledge of the world at the tips of your fingers at any time.

I know people who constantly talk about articles they read earlier in the day, etc ... information get diluted from 10s studies, to an article, to a recap of the article this guy read, to this guy talking about the 10% of the article he remembers.

Sure it's fun and interesting but it's not "learning" or "knowledge", in 2 weeks he won't even remember it.
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I would imagine the consuming of media from historians by the general public completely dwarves the decrease of history degrees lost, so maybe it's a wash?
We're talking about people living in a van ... not on vacation, not on a road trip.

>you don't look for vans if it's important to you

Everybody shits, everyday! How is going to the bathroom "not important"? What is okay "on vacation" is not always okay when you're just trying to live and work and enjoy yourself.

Lastly, I didn't "choose a trailer" I worked my way up to one (financially), suffering along the way with all the inconveniences that come with no bathroom, kitchen or running water.