skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the root of the conflict between the West and China is the arrogance of the Westerners and the (slowly rising) confidence and impatience of the Chinese.

The arrogance is not only the jokes or bamboo ceilings. The deepest arrogance is the unwilingness to understand the Chinese way, let alone respecting it.

Why do the Chinese tolerate their government? Are they silly or are they all cowards? No. There are just trade-offs. And there is reality. So, do the homeless in US cities who live under bridges enjoy the democracy? Do they really have a way to change their way of living by having the right to vote? The Chinese people are practical and still in the low tiers of Maslow's hirearchy of needs, and the government provides them with the basic needs. Yeah, we have electricity, phone signals, roads and bridges for the smallest villeges scattered in mountains. Not sure if the US can promise the same.

And there are so many myths about Chinese legal system or sensoring. Yeah we got problems in these fields, but such problems are not always pushed top down. The Chinese people also have a huge influence on the court system, and the justice popular in China may not be popular in the West. About the punishment to people refusing to pay the debts, or to people refusing to give up seats belonging to other passenger on the trains. The Westerners throw so much FUD at it, but it's actually quite well-accepted by the Chinese. So, what do you actually want the Chinese to have? What you think is good for them, or what they actually want? What makes you a better decision maker?

And the arrest of people making outrageous remarks on the Internet are actually well accepted too. The police may actually act on request of other civilians seeing those remarks and get offended. And most such remarks are actually bordering or well into the territory of hate crime. Don't you talk about joking about presidents. More like humiliations, and not to officials, but to veterans, war heroes, moral code, and other people and things honored by the majority of the society. Do they deserve arrest? Perhaps and perhaps not. But the Chinese people are not complaining.

So, do you Westerners really want diversity of cultures or not? If you really mean it, try to understand the Chinese and respect their way. Like you claim to have done to the Islamic way. If you don't, just shut up and let it be.
Lol literally fake news, was this story reported by someone not familiar with wikipedia? Wikipedia being an open source encyclopedia is obviously subjected to margin of error so to speak. The point is that info can be built and it's done voluntarily over time on many 'items of interest'.

Fear mongering on sources heh, well you can go to many science related pages and at the least find sources from reviews which can be from very credible sources such as the NIH.

This is a weird troglodytic shitting on wikipedia.
Technical interviews are done outside the US where they are legal.

Some places outside the US will do both an IQ test and a programming test.
This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." Please don't turn the dial all the way to ideological flamewar 11, especially when a thread hasn't even started yet. The only outcome to that is yet another tedious feud. Those can readily be had elsewhere, and we're trying to have a site for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I smoke this stuff everyday since I was 16 so I'm biased. Basically I need more than experimental evidence or correlations to believe the results as this completely invalidates my past behavior. Don't expect me to flip my opinion over night based on logic. Humans aren't logical creatures. If I changed my opinion then I'm basically admitting to taking drugs to make my brain stupider since I was a kid.

Of course putting something in my brain that never belonged in the first place would likely be bad for my brain judging from common sense. However, thanks to the fact that I've been enjoying getting high for years and due to the fact I don't want to admit I've been damaging my brain I'm going to google search very specific results that support my bias.

See here:
https://www.inc.com/cynthia-than/the-surprising-way-to-be-be...

The above link is a more convenient scientific result to believe so despite offering nothing more then the NYtimes article (just correlation and experimental evidence) I'm going to choose what I like to believe and this harvard study is it.

Logical conclusion: Marijuana increases IQ. Also I'm high right now, which makes my judgement more precise because my IQ is higher at this very moment.
I do it like this because the asdf central-registry variable (which I can't write here because of asterisk problems) is supposedly deprecated:

(asdf:initialize-source-registry
(:SOURCE-REGISTRY
(:EXCLUDE "exclusion-string1" "exclusion-string2")
(:TREE #P"/Users/me/Lisp/my-repos/")
(:TREE #P"/Users/me/Lisp/quicklisp-repos/")
(:TREE #P"/Users/me/main-project/src/")
:IGNORE-INHERITED-CONFIGURATION))
Does alcohol induce long-term damage on the brain in proper adults?
The original article refers to one instance with potentially negative consequences where the age of majority (18) is the basis for access. Why not, in line with the authors' suggestion, increase the age to 25?
Thanks for the great work!
Being offended by #3 isn't really unique. The whole anti-Israel vs. anti-Semitic thing is a good example of this difficulty. Same with people being critical of long-standing American institutions -- Americans get offended. The only time people can really make it clear in their mind whom they are criticizing is when they are criticizing a particular leader, e.g. Trump, Xi, Kim Jong Un, etc. Everything else just riles people up for no reason.
Dark mode looks better most of the time and if done right doesn't make coding/reading/navigating/etc. significantly more difficult.
Insulin and the Free Market: A Brief Inquiry
They'll be rolled out with Manifest V3 which as of last week was "still very much in development" https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte...
You don't have to "believe" it, it's a personal anecdote, just like yours. No conclusive evidence has been entered either way.

I've worked with multiple groups of foreign nationals at multiple jobs, and no discernable pattern related to ethnicity emerged. Sometimes one group would talk in their native tongue, sometimes not. It turns out that stereotype isn't a reliable metric.
I think it's pretty safe to say that Earth will not end up looking like Venus from a simple fact that there were times in its history when greenhouse gas concentrations were much higher than even the wildest projections you'd see today, and yet here we are. Now granted, there weren't any people back then, but the planet did not turn into Venus.
How could anybody be less capable than this crew?

Their replacements would be more aware of their true responsibilities.
A lot of people are saying 21 drinks a week is a lot. While it's 21 more than I have a week these days, I've gone stretches in my younger years with several beers a night. Easily drinking 21 a week.

21+ drinks per week is 2 nights out for some people.
Not OP, but deeply interesting to me and especially so as I travel around South America.

I am completely fascinated by the home infrastructure choices in different parts of the world. I'm currently in Sao Paulo and the hot water setup is a little scary. There's no hot water reserve or hot water plumbing at all.

The only hot water source is in the shower. It's heated electrically in real time by a 5000W appliance that sits just above the shower head. The only way to change water temperature is by turning a knob on the appliance. In homes with bad grounding, this results in shocks often enough that my hosts have shown me Brazilian memes about it.
I live in Seattle and I think you're wildly exaggerating to the point where you are sharing an inaccurate story.
Yeah, it's a scary situation. A couple of days into the outage you start to hear about people looting and you can understand how a situation like that can get out of hand really fast.

As a curious note, my sister fled to Bs. Aires a few months ago (along with a the thousands of others that have been leaving), now she's going through this blackout over there.
Do you have a link to that?

My only issue is that chrome is great bec I can have multiple profiles on the same windows user account, but that’s kinda anathema to the paradigm of how Microsoft wants us to use Edge.

I use chrome profiles the same way ppl use Firefox containers, my only hope is that edge builds something similar.

I’ve also been using Vivaldi, I love it but I’m worried about using duh a small project that is still dependent on chromium.
Huawei Braces for a Steep Drop in Overseas Smartphone Sales
Maybe it's the uniform pattern of the air pockets?
get customers and show profit. They will find you.
Of course the media present doom and gloom. But many of these companies have diversified their business. Most companies mentioned in this article have diversified their customer base and while there is some short term pain, most will move past this. Longer term, I think we are creating a competitor in China. I can’t imagine the Chinese government, seeing how vulnerable they are, won’t invest heavily to produce internal competitors.
I've been running it on the Edge Chromium Dev build for a few weeks now, works great!
there was a reddit ama where someone asked about adblockers and they said:

"we occasionally hear requests for a built in ad blocking experiences in Edge. For most users, we find that extensions (combined with strong defaults around tracking prevention) are the best option here because you can choose from a variety of experiences and defaults, but we absolutely want to hear from you if you think this should be built in."

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...
Are there any programmble http proxy servers? I write a fair bit of VM/container control software and often need to map URLs to specific entities on the network dynamically. Never found a good programmable proxy with routing table API and always had to hand roll.
> because that's what everyone has always done

And we still print them out. People still prefer to read on paper. This doesn't change no matter how much the digital revolution wages on.
I think it would be impossible to completely isolate them. Even if you completely air-gap all the computers in the plant, still the workers carry internet-connected phones. Even if you ban those, the staff can still become target of disinformation when out of work. Maybe the best approach is to just keep it connected, acknowledging the fact that they are potential targets, and then applying sufficient security on all information channels, technological or human.
It is not quit clear what exactly they think regarding ad blocking. Edge team AMA on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c094uf/hi_reddit_were...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193808
I'm not sure how much practical effect such an age limit would have.

Even at the height of the drug war, when cannabis was illegal in every state in the US, it was incredibly easy to get for anyone who wanted it.

Now that it's effectively legal in many states, it's even easier to get. People below whatever minimum age limit might not be able to legally get in to a business that sells cannabis, but already plenty of underage drinkers get in to bars with fake ID's, and they could always get the cannabis from their friends, black/gray-market dealers, or just grow their own from seed.

The Netherlands, where cannabis has been effectively legal for many decades, has a much lower percentage of youth who use cannabis than the US. It's just not considered cool there, as it's not forbidden as it is in the States. Often, the attitude among natives in general there is that it's something that mostly tourists or foreigners do. But in the US, forbidden fruit is going to look twice as attractive and taste twice as sweet.

So setting a minimum age limit might have the paradoxical effect of making users out of more youth than would otherwise try it.
Crowder is hilarious, and I love seeing conservative youtubers continue to fight the good fight.
This seems like the same "solution aversion"[1] argument that lots of conservatives have when it comes to rejecting the possibility of "global warming" / "climate change".

I would argue it's also wrong, especially in the modern USA flavor of capitalism after the Friedman Doctrine[2] said that shareholders are actually immoral for not maximizing profits despite any other social responsibility. This is a "Paperclip Maximizer"[3] utility function where companies eventually figure out how to use legal, financial, and psychological/addictive tools to overwhelm the defenses of all consumers in a society. It's effectively a flavor of social darwinism.

Interestingly, capitalism might be kept in check given a strong enough government (eg. regulations designed and updated smartly to keep corporations from abusing the weakest consumers), but ours has largely been captured[4] by corporate interests.

[1] https://bppblog.com/2018/03/27/solution-aversion/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
No. Pay attention to what other people do that help what you're doing. That raises the mean by reducing drag.
Or the reverse: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/07/stuxnet-like-malware-from...
There is a difference between “stay away from me” and “I’m going to fk you up”.

If the former also fits your definition of “enemy”, I get your point.
World of Forex Trading
No, the whole point was that Costco's inventory is curated.
This is great! Any plans for Safari support?
> I don't think a single blog in the world…

Well, yeah, you don't typically print blogs. Remember that academic publications are still printed, and columnar presentation can be very useful for annotation.
Still stuck on the previous version. The store shows 1.20, but even switching to "developer mode" in the Chrome extension overview and clicking on "Update" (button) and restarting the browser had no effect. Still the old version.
That’s pretty offensive. Some people just live a different lifestyle.
This is the problem. This is the core problem. This is the reason, even with intervention, rehab, psychiatry, access to modern "tools", substance addiction is so hard to fight. This is why the "War on Drugs" has been a failure. All these comments address symptoms.

Can someone give their reason as to down voting this comment?

There have been numerous articles posted here as of late relating to loneliness, suicide rates, etc. What do you need to see the bigger picture? I don't understand why this is so difficult. I feel like there must be some ideology in the way here or maybe politics or cognitive dissonance. I mean you could have just ignored the comment if you were in ambivalent disagreement.

Having worked in social services for 14 years it has become clear to me that social support, ie healthy family structures, friends and coworkers, as well as having a meaningful reason to get out of bed in the morning are the most important factors when it comes to overcoming addiction. I'm not aware of much research regarding this aspect of treatment. All I can say to that is that I have a very paranoid and pessimistic view as to why.
Also the videos were presumably damaging to the Twitch brand for anyone who saw them, which translates into lost revenue for Twitch.
The good fight of hate speech against minorities?

Or

The good fight of acting in bad faith of dogwhistling and spreading misinformation?

Elaborate how he's "fighting the good fight"
Capitalism never ended slavery, it has actually prolonged it. The constitution expressly includes an exception for slavery: if one has been convicted of a crime. This has led to the prison-industrial complex. [0] Guess what demographic is disproportionately represented in these prisons? [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...

[1]: "African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites." (https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/)
Good catch, the links in my previous post are not accurate. The correct links for [2][3][4] are:

[2] http://www.cammesa.com/uflujpot.nsf/FlujoW?OpenAgent&Flujo%2...
[3] http://www.cammesa.com/uflujpot.nsf/FlujoW?OpenAgent&Flujo%2...
[4] http://www.cammesa.com/uflujpot.nsf/FlujoW?OpenAgent&Flujo%2...

The 500 kV lines form the backbone of Argentina's power grid. The drastic fall in power flows shows the massive shedding of load and generating capacity, as presumably plants disconnected from the grid for safety. One can step through the next few hours to see how generation was restarted.
> Do you think kids should be allowed to make this mistake when they don't understand this difference?

Does banning it actually decrease usage (I'm genuinely asking, as it's a highly political issue and I can find articles claiming either side)? Also I feel it's much more our duty to inform people as much as possible to empower them to make the best decisions (for the same reasons I think a lot of anti-drug campaigns that exaggerate the dangers of drugs do more harm than good, or why abstinence only sex ed is a net negative). Kids are going to do stupid shit, it's an invaluable part of growing up. If they're not directly harming anyone else, it should ultimately be their choice - even if we think it's a bad one. What makes an arbitrary age any better?

My argument does not have much data behind it, and I welcome studies that contradict my stance.
Agreed. The problem with a mission statement like “do no evil” is that in today’s pluralistic world (especially in the west), there’s no generally agreed-upon definition of evil.

Philosophically, defining “evil” requires defining “good” first, and a definition of “good” depends entirely on one’s notions of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny — one’s worldview.

In google’s case, it’s probably better business to simply remove the motto than to risk offending large groups of people in the quest for philosophical rigor.
Add the INF treaty to this list.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-02/us-to-suspend-cold-wa...
And M.I.T Chinese students are abusing amphetamines before the exams, irony. Almost every high I.Q person I have met is alright with using drugs ... maybe ask the high I.Q persons before we act as a nanny in charge of their well being?
What a radical idea right?

I'm pretty sure you don't understand the difference between long and short term usage.

Try drinking 40 cups of coffee a day and not sleeping for four nights. That's detrimental for your brain too.
I think it would be very desirable to increase the variance of outcomes without significantly decreasing the mean.

The way research funding is structured now, researchers are incentivized towards taking small publishable steps without too much risk. This is needed of course, but it isn't going to bring about another Newton.

I think we desperately need a few more Newtons if we're to prosper in the next hundred years.
Not if they use parallel construction
> A lot of people are saying 21 drinks a week is a lot.

Because it is a lot.

> While it's 21 more than I have a week these days, I've gone stretches in my younger years with several beers a night. Easily drinking 21 a week.

So...you used to drink a lot. What's your point?

> 21+ drinks per week is 2 nights out for some people.

Yes, some people are very heavy drinkers. Again, what's your point?
This is no longer the case. At least in Tennessee.
Yeah, electric showers are common in much of Latin America. In theory you could build them to be safe, but often they aren't. I showered with a tank-based electric shower today: you fill the tank, plug it in until it's hot, unplug it, step underneath, and open the valve. This arrangement has less risk of electrical shock, but it's far less convenient. Because the power was out, I filled it with hot water from the tankless gas heater, but it was able to cool enough in the process that it was more like a lukewarm shower than a hot one.
Try also Brave. It is fully open source and based on Chromium.
Sounds to me like the uninterested person is the one who made the decision.
Social platforms need to be held legally liable for the content they host. Unless you’re a “dumb pipe” doing one-to-one comms (email services could get an exemption for spam filters), you’re a publisher.

Hire moderators and the editors. If that doesn’t scale, then you need to cut back on the user-created content you host.

The content can be shared in other ways via the internet, but networks inside the network shouldn’t get a free ride anymore.
If Google aka YouTube doesn't allow Conservatives to voice their opinions on the platform then there's the very real possibility that the president himself may get involved.

As we all know Google is on shaky ground atm.
Not even remotely to the same extent as China. Even Joaquin Guzman gets a trial.
> we're trying to have a site for something else here.

I think with the state of things and the current culture war going on, then for the sake of the board this topic needs to be thrown down the hole. Hence my flag.

The very first posts on this thread and first replies are like battle lines drawn.
I am curious as whether this will be relatively forgotten or it will become a manifestation of the streisand effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect ). With hordes of troll users streaming crap, just for fun and to fight against what they perceive to be a corporate overlord (twitch being owned by amazon).
> Even occasional users show a slight negative Delta IQ in the tables.

So, this is true. But it's also lacking context: that same table also shows a nearly identical gain for adolescents who didn't smoke marijuana at all, suggesting that the negative results for the "used, never regularly" cohort are within the margin of error.

Also consider the scale: the authors say that -0.38SD corresponds to a decline of ~6 IQ points; that means that usage cohorts 1, 2, and 3 each declined by less than 3 points. I'd have to do more background reading, but I suspect that creeps into confidence interval territory. Similarly, we are left without a good explanation for the relatively smaller decline in IQ for the 2 waves cohort. By and large, not confidence inspiring.

> Perhaps you're okay with taking something that makes you even the slightest bit dumber, but I am not.

I'm not okay with taking things that'll make me dumber. However, I'm not convinced that marijuana usage, on par with* reasonable alcohol consumption, would make me dumber. Beyond that, I am confident that several other environmental factors are far more important: absence of lead paint, proper early-life nutrition, &c.

> Do you think kids should be allowed to make this mistake when they don't understand this difference?

I take issue with framing it as a mistake. Per my anecdote, I think that adolescents harm themselves more in a culture that treats alcohol and marijuana as taboos. We should definitely put effort towards stopping adolescent addiction; I think our efforts there will benefit greatly from a culture shift.

* Edit: "on par with" meaning "suitably scaled," not "one joint per beer" or something silly like that.