skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm feeling your cognitive dissonance. People blame the victim when they identify with, or are, the offender. Is it really a surprise that these people seem less well-informed than the people who actively worked to implement surveillance and conceal it from them?

If I keep a secret from you or lie to you, and then go to the trouble of calling you ignorant for it, is it because it's noteworthy in any way? No, things went exactly according to plan. It's only the sound of me justifying my own deceit by instead blaming your ignorance. Such an ignorant person deserves what he gets, I tell myself. (Edit: "They trust me - dumb fucks.") It's a flimsy defense mechanism that won't serve me well in the long run. So is pretending I'm a cog in a machine that would just roll on anyway without my help. (Well I mean, it will actually, at least in the short term, but that doesn't mean I have to be part of it, and anyway I might decide to be the one person who turns around and inspires a million people to actually stop that machine.)

Why don't you meet with these plaintiffs and educate them instead? Give a presentation or two to help them sound more savvy or whatnot. There's probably no money in that kind of thing, but it feels like a million bucks.
Honestly the problem doesn't appear to be very complicated.

Basically people primarily buy stocks (maybe housing too?) not for the income they produce but for the price gains of the stock itself.

The goal of the central bank is to meet it's inflation target by injecting money into the economy via policies like QE. The stocks rise in price as intended and therefore the yield decreased. What was not expected is that the stock owners do not care about the low yield because the capital gains caused by QE outweigh the comparatively low dividend payments (in some cases none at all).

So why not tax capital gains more and dividend payments less?

Capital gains happen whenever anyone (central bank or other investors) buys stocks for more than you bought, the profits are not bounded by the success of the company.

Dividend payments however always have to be paid out by the company based on how much profit it made and therefore they are independent of the share price. A stock with low yields is unattractive and therefore gets sold to buy a stock with higher yields.
Do you have a link to a description of this? It sounds like a great way to manage dotfiles with actual context.
> My CS friends know more about databases and distributed systems than I do, even if I know more about representation theory

I don't mean to be rude but this was a very foreseeable outcome of a masters in math. Why didn't you foresee it?
>When I read the above, the first reactive thought I had was "What about Ralph Northam? He is in his college yearbook either in blackface or a Klan robe. What about Justin Fairfax? He's been accused of multiple sexual assaults. Both of them are still in their elected positions"

Therein lies the danger of bias and silencing "one side" of a politicial conversation. Because the mainstream media does not blast the story everywhere and call for their heads, bad people are allowed to do bad things, even if they're members of a party that does a lot of good things.
If they are using stack ranking they deserve to fail.
Weird to hear about my school in the news, mostly because I stay on the other side of campus and don't give a flying fuck about the D1 sports. Besides, we're usually not that competitive.
Especially since HN skews male and the success of a dating app is dependent on it's ability to onboard female users.

Which is also why this won't be successful. Female users overwhelmingly prefer the current state of dating apps for various reasons that I won't get into here.
what a complete mess
"Bioware Magic"
every time I read a story like this I think the author's earnings have just peaked but they don't realize it
I love the idea, but in reality I don't want women I'm not interested in approaching me at a bar. For women, it's even worse. The nice thing about 'traditional' dating apps is you each get to screen each other before any interactions.
You wrote "But you don’t get to dictate social norms for everyone else." My response of "you don't get to dictate boundaries" refers to that.

No assumption there, other than what you've been asserting about social norms as somehow justifying violating boundaries.

Doesn't matter that you have some anecdotal experience with the people you've asked. I've asked people about this in person and they seem to agree with me, so it's a wash.

And I'm sorry your enjoyment might be lessened, but maybe that's just a price you have to pay in a world where other people and their respective enjoyments & preferences exist.

Lots of people find hugs & contact both pleasing and comforting. Maybe there's even a general biological need for it. That doesn't generalize to suggest that unsolicited random hugs & contact with you in particular is necessary or welcome.
I didn't take OPs comment as a 'snipe' -- America has a relatively weak left wing political base / history. Most of the canonical left wing thinkers, events, and successes have occurred outside of America, so it's always nice (and a little surprising) to hear about little tidbits of history like this.
I remember writing a timer-based switch debouncing routine for my microcontrollers class in undergrad.

Too bad people have to resort to homebrew hacks like this to fix their $1500 laptops.
They're all interchangeable, right? Unless the first compound was really, for some reason, between a deuterium and an H3. But the difference in energy levels would be hard to detect.

In any case, the scarcity of signatures outside violent environments indicates that no primordial HeH compounds survived, and these are recent re-occurrences.

So, "the first type of compound". Less punchy, I guess.
Silicon Valley in general has mandated positivity to the point that if you ware honest about anything, you are labeled "negative" and shunned.
It's a surprisingly sizeable mistake to think this way. Google was loved because they gave things that were better than the era state of the art. Hotmail users moved away to gmail because it was dead obvious. Maps used to cost a lot and were clumsy.. now you can fly over them in a browser.

Google's business was to answer query. The rest was philanthropy. If they start to operate like any other crap stock they'll go the way of the loo.
I want a folding screen because it will make every part of using phones a nicer experience. There's a reason tablets exist: tablets provide a superior user experience. The foldable form factor lets you put a tablet in your pocket. Nobody understood the need for the iPad when it came out either.
Ryan likes to optimize things and doesn't want to waste time and money at a bar if there's no possible "matches".
The problem I have with Maps is not the eventual monetization (By ads?), but how much Google sucks at doing that in a non disruptive way; not to mention I'm constantly arguing with the app as what is the best path, but I digress.

If they are to monetize it, they should take a hint from Waze (That, funnily enough, was bought by Google few tears ago) as to how do in map advertizing right.

They also have a lot of missed oportunities: The very few times I had to search something when using the app (Be it having to rush to a gas station, or in desperately need of an ATM) Maps has failed miserably.

Finaly, these apps are optimized for "First World" environments, and they also fail just as miserably in other places (Or other dimensions, as the one my country, Argentina, seems to be in)
Sounds like you might have bad hardware or a corrupt install. Phone app freezes should be exceedingly rare, to the point of nonexistence for most users. I assume you have not jailbroken your phone?
If you're not wedded to the snap ecosystem, you can have this with Fedora Silverblue, which uses flatpak instead of snap.
> it's actually nice to be able to select text and NOT have it auto-copied obliterating my clipboard

Can't you just use ctrl+c and ctrl+v and ignore the other clipboard?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/clipboard#Selections
This place gets that ways some times. I like reading the comments here, as there are a lot of insightful comments that I often learn more from than the article itself.

Though sometimes it feels that if you are not working at one of the FAANGs making $400k/year that you are a total loser.
Sort of, though not really.

Imagine I have three changes, C1 modifies F1, C2 modifies F2, and C3 modifies F1. There's no relation between F1 and F2.

At low-ish rate of submission, you test and commit C1, then test and commit C2, then when you try and test and commit C3, you rebase, and re-test and commit. (the merge doesn't conflict so can be automatically fixed)

Now assume all three changes are submitted by 3 different engineers in the span of a minute and engineers don't want to manually rebase. The rebase/build/submit time is less than the time between changes!

So you have a tool that queues up the changes, and at each change you

1. Rebase onto current head

2. build with the new changes

3. Submit

But that's still really slow. Since everything is sequential. If my change takes ~30m to test, it blocks everyone else who depends on my change.

So OK, do things in parallel: Build and test C1, C1 + C2, and C1+C2+C3. Then, as soon as C1 is finished testing, you can submit all 3. There's still 2 problems though: C2 is unreasonably delayed, and "what if C1 is broken".

So, if C2 and C1 don't conflict, you can actually just submit C2 before C1 even though the request to submit was made after. But when there really is a dependency, like C3 and C1, the question is, do I build and test {C1, C1+C3}, {C3, C3+C1}, or something else. SubmitQueue appears to try and address that question. "Given potentially conflicting changes (not at a source level but at a transitive closure level), how do I order them so that the most changes succeed the fastest, assuming some changes can fail, and I have enough processing power to run some, but not all, permutations of changes in parallel"?
Promotion-oriented design, no doubt.
The big secret with permaculture that I wish wasn't a secret: There's more things you can do, but there are fewer things you have to do right now. If you're home and it's sunny, you're mowing the lawn, and you can't stop in the middle.

If you wanna prune shrubs, chop and drop weeds, or plant bushes until the sun sets, it starts raining, or GoT comes on, you just can. Doing lawncare with thunderclouds passing overhead is just bad juju.
I hate Facebook as much as the next red blooded HN member and agree on public subsidies, but

FTA (from Facebook)
`“a significant deviation of our understanding of the terms and conditions”`
` the ruling could affect its long-term operations in the state, raising costs and putting in doubt plans to use 100 percent renewable energy to run the facility, Facebook said.`

I live in the state. A lot of silly in government, always has been, and I'd really like to see tech (and other good) jobs not be continually driven out by politician's short term thinking.
Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms
Any reason why AppleTV YouTube navigation using my iPhone Remote app is virtually unusable? Did Google do that on purpose?
It seems like it’d be possible to quantify what % of views derive from enflaming content. A few starting points we could look at, # of people banned and reach of said content, auction price of ad inventory that is temporally or visually adjacent to inflammatory speech, etc. It wouldn't be an exact science, but curious if it’s 10% or 70%.

I fundamentally agree that ad-driven revenue models have perverted many business models for content-driven sites (UGC or publishing). Many of the examples are publisher driven, are there any market examples of (perhaps small) UGC content sites that don’t rely on either selling personal information, or an ad-driven model?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/clipboard#Managers there are many clipboard managers for X
The advantage of Google Search and the willingness to lose millions (billions?) Of dollars on a product is a powerful combination.
> Who needs more than a 4" screen and a quad core processor?

Not me, but you can't buy them anymore. :(

> you should understand that some things are also done for a passion for tech.

Oh, I agree absolutely. I wasn't intending to refer to those people in my comment. I was observing that hugely expansive devives are routinely and very commonly bought by people with no tech interest whatsoever and used in a way that demonstrates conspicuous consumption. If fact, Apple clearly markets to this group of people.

For those who don't do that (most of those on this site, I expect), I am sorry if anyone was offended. (Incidentally, I _am_ one of those on this site who bought into early Amigas — and earlier 8 bit machines.)
Athletes & fans can find other sports. There's plenty of room in professional Baseball for athletes if Football is no longer an option.
Baby got measles because of anti-vaxers
What's most important in this conversation is to remember that we're not talking about football. We're talking about college athletics as a whole. Just because degrees attained while playing college football are largely worthless because of how little time is able to be spent studying does not mean that degrees attained with less-demanding sports (say, gymnastics or soccer) are equally worthless.
The Linux world has a lot of conventions you just 'need to know about' in order to navigate. It works very well for experienced people, but it isn't helpful for newcomers. When I was first starting out I didn't understand the versioning system or what it meant. Were releases named something like "Ubuntu Standard 18.04", or "Ubuntu Preview 19.04" it would have helped clarity. LTS doesn't mean anything to average people.

Small things like would help me convince family members to switch
Because self-organization/self-reproduction is a hard problem that living things have been imperfectly trying to solve for millions of years without the creation "grey goo"?

I mean, for a self-reproducing entity, energy is still going to be a limit on motion and energy isn't easily available in the natural environment. All the potential sources of energy require a particular chemical path to be transformed into usable energy and just constructing an entity capable of reproducing itself given specific materials and energy doesn't give you this.
> to treat healthcare like a market when consumers a) have very little ability to discover the price

There is HUGE price discoverability capacity in healthcare. But the US is not a free market: every single player has some sort of regulatory capture to mess it up, including workers, that get tax benefits and are blind to price through employer provided insurance.

Price sensitivity does work for high deductible plans, pointing to the basic economic principal-agency problem of the current system: if you have low copays and you cant choose insurances because your employer pays for it, you are a price insensitive patient.

My favorite example is OneMedical: one of the biggest complains patients have is "why do I have to pay 150 a year", while their healthcare plan is thousands A MONTH and a single doctor visit costs 300 U$S!

> have little option in substitution (if my appendix is ruptured my substitution to getting surgery is dying!)

Emergency healthcare is a small fraction of overall healthcare spending, and it is NOT expensive because of insurance, its expensive because hospitals are expensive. It doesn't make sense to complain to an auto-insurance company that fixing cars is expensive, its completley out of their hands, and they actually work in your favor to reduce costs if they can.

And medicine has PLENTY of substitutes. From cheaper drugs, to less accessible and lower quality healthcare. It's called the Iron Triangle of Healthcare: cost-quality-access. You can find your place in the triangle.
'lying to themselves'

In my twenties, I concluded that most people lying to me were actually lying to themselves. They weren't trying to make my life harder or deceive me per se. It was simply not possible to state the truth to someone else and keep lying to themselves.

It made social BS vastly easier for me to cope with.
People vs things is not a thing.

Imagine someone wrote a paper that said men are horrible at management or anything collaborative because all their testosterone makes them so angry that they simply get too emotional to work with others.

If you are a man -- and who knows on the internet -- you know this is garbage. Yes men have more testosterone. That is a fact, and no one is arguing. Yes, testosterone means you are more likely to get angry, but it doesn't follow that your anger levels prevent you from working. Come on!

But now, instead of believing you, people say you are hysterical and anti-science, and you have to do a study to prove you don't get so angry you can't work. Every day people post examples of men who went ballistic at work. The study is inconclusive and you are wasting all this time trying to prove that the testosterone doesn't make you angry. Every time you lose your temper, people point out that you are a guy and of course you're prone to that.

That's what this "people vs things" distinction is like.
I think this is totally possible to do as DIY, as seen in that subreddit. :) Anyway, probably someone will do it first, and post a photo series of the steps, and then more who want a new and sustainable Lisp power-user keyboard will be inspired to do it.
Some modes I like:

- use-package: Download & enable all packages automatically on new machines.
- super-save-mode: Save files whenever focus changes
- projectile: Switch bt. projects, open files in a project
- helm: Better find file, M-x etc.
- cider: For Clojure
- ag: Integration with ag, bound to f3
- magit: better git
- golden-ratio: So that current buffer is larger than the other buffer automatically
- writeroom-mode: For focusing on text with large margins
- turkish: Write Turkish with English keyboard and have diacritics applied automatically

Some shortcuts:

s-e -> opens my emacs config so that I can make modifications faster.

(bind-key "s-e"
(lambda ()
(interactive)
(find-file "~/.emacs.d/init.el")))

Zoom In/Out:

(bind-key "M-=" 'text-scale-increase)
(bind-key "M--" 'text-scale-decrease)

Full Screen
(bind-key [f11] 'toggle-frame-fullscreen)

Also I try keep emacs config in a single file (~/.emacs.d/init.el), I tried using multiple files, but it is not worth the effort being that "tidy".
You are not wrong. They even changed the Boeing logo to sneak the MD logo in (and now it looks stupid).

I believe it was also said after the fact that the process for the 787 was a huge mistake and they'd never build a plane like that again.

Silver lining I suppose.
You might be interested in looking at and reading parts of The Grammar of Ornament. In particular some of the “principles” he spells out. I’ll link that page below.

“True beauty results from that repose which the mind feels when the eye, the intellect, and the affections, are satisfied from the absence of any want.”

https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n13

The book’s evaluation of leaves and nature at the end is also relevant.
Folding it out lets you use half of the screen and treat it as a normal (almost hand sized) phone for regular day to day stuff, and only unfold it when you really need those extra pixels.

Protecting the screen from damage is an exercise left up to the reader.
EconTalk from last week[1] shed some light on the convoluted world of drug pricing and pharmaceutical patents. While I agree with your point that AI could help with medical progress, I would also emphasize that we're being held back by meat-space institutions as well (in this case, drug patents). One of the key takeaways was looking at the return on marginal investment in gaming the patent system vs developing new drugs. As firms achieve success, they become conservative, wishing to hold onto current profit levels. The patent system, as formulated, enables the drug company to make a meaningless change to a drug and receive an extended period of patent monopoly. This keeps out generics, raising prices, and reducing investment in drug research.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/robin-feldman-on-drugs-money-and-sec...
Oh, yeah, my mistake.
Thats why the average company on the s&p500 only survives 10 years so 75% will be whiped out in 10y. At the time ibm was founded the average company stock lifetime was +70 years. So maybe IBM won't die soon but their customers will with this attitude. Every company is a tech company today.
Win Kubernetes for Developers (LFD259)
What's exactly a monothlic ? Is it only related to codebase (monothlic vs monorepo) ? Or it's about runtime like microservices vs monothlic.
Why worry about that when actually living bio-bots haven’t?
Probably a slow news day, and "molecule" is being recontextualized to meaning differentiated elements that have bonded. So, disqualifying molecules formed solely out of the same element.

Diatomic, homonuclear elements are less interesting, after all. A new compound is more interesting than a pure, elemental gas, in the context of the primordial universe.

On the other hand, if you know anything about the periodic table, atomic weight, and how elements are formed to begin with, you immediately think to yourself "HeH. Yeah, sounds intuitive... is this news?"
Car Physics for Games
this is the exact thing that Rule Lists can do as proven by Cynthia Rudin and her team show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxcwKN2dXs and https://today.duke.edu/2017/07/opening-lid-criminal-sentenci... She also has an open source code for the rule lists here https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/code.html
So Facebook "determined" that the passwords were not "internally abused" or "improperly accessed". But, they could have been accessed. When employees have access to passwords, how does FB know that they were not transferred outside of FB? An employee could have taken pictures, or have a photographic memory and remember a large number of passwords.
Are you looking for Hyperswitch[0]?
I've been using it ever since I needed to start using a mac.

[0] https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch
is XChaCha20-Poly1305 better if I don't need the performance of hardware accelerated AES GCM or am not guaranteed to always run on a device that has that hardware acceleration (AESNI, CLMUL)?
Self-repairing roads would be amazing.
I stopped using google maps when they tried to force me to turn history on to update my home address.
Sustainability in food production: moving beyond the pastoral ideal
Of course but that level of detail would have been unnecessary and distracting in that context.
>But to invest in what?

Maybe now that they changed OpenAI from a non-profit, to what they dub a new type of legal entity: a non-profit that pays out “profits” to investors - and they further claim this will be the most valuable company in history by orders of magnitude - maybe they want to milk google users which they can write off by investing in the non-profit they control effectively own (even though legally non profits don’t have owners).
> the days of visually distinctive aircraft designs are long gone

SpaceX hopes to eventually provide business-class and other Earth2Earth service with its BFR/Starship/SuperHeavy, a two-stage (1st returns to launch site) stainless-steel rocket. The design is still in flux, and may or may not end up with enough wings to be somewhat "aircraft"-ish... rather than just a belly-flopping skydiving spacecraft with a bit of body lift and wing-like control surfaces. But it's certainly visually distinctive.