skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad...
Having witnessed what advertising and marketing strategies do to psychologically vulnerable people, I now feel I am financing these services on their back.

I know someone who is in debt (and in denial) because she can't resist buying something that is "on sale". Her house filled with things she does not need but that were a bargain.

No, "targeted psychological manipulation" is not an hyperbole, you just are not the target. You, when you see "YOU HAVE WON A PRIZE!" blinking you think "Yeah, right, who falls for these anyway?" The answer is, a few people whose life is pretty miserable.

I'd rather have the internet financed in a sane way through microtransactions than the thing we have now.
A long time ago, my advisor in college asked me to help him set up some climbing ropes. They were all knotted up. He said, “instead of trying to pick the knots apart, just pick up the ropes and let them fall to the ground, and keep doing that over and over again — the knots will come undone.”

Thoughts can be like knots: if you try too hard, the knots just get tighter. If you find a way to let go and be loose, the knots can come undone on their own. (Funnily enough, my advisor had spent years in a Zen monestary when he was younger.)

I’ve had the opposite experience as the author and have actually worked through a lot of my own thoughts through meditation. Or, rather, many of those thoughts have worked themselves out.

The thing to remember is that mediation itself is the goal. It’s great that meditating can have a lot of positive side effects; but chasing those side effects kind of misses the whole point.
I once left cash on a machine and sat with store security while they went back through the video to see what happened to it. (They were happy to give me the money after seeing someone quickly pocket it before the attendant noticed)

If they wanted to cross-check, the videos see everything - but obviously it's not cost effective.
Yep, applying for a US visa now.

I wonder what the actual changes are, is someone in ICE stalking your FB looking for pro-Hillary memes or something? For anyone who actually needed a security clearance, they wouldn't need you to volunteer it.
Even better, plant trees, cut them down, build things out of them and grow more.
If you're referring to ["The TypeScript Tax"](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-typescript-tax-132ff...), Eric never said it was useless. "Many developers love using it, and there are many aspects of the TypeScript developer experience I genuinely love." There's a whole section called "What I Love About TypeScript" and he even uses it in some of his open-source projects.
What he actually says is that there is a cost to using TypeScript (an obvious fact).
And most JavaScript developers use [object concatenation](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-hidden-treasures-of-...) all the time, especially with Redux. He's right - every JavaScript developer should know what it is and how to use it, even if they don't recognize it by the word "concatenation".
Micropayments is simply the wrong model for numerous reasons.

I've written on this several times:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=micropayments&...

Nick Szabo, Clay Shirky, and Andrew Odlyzko far more ably:

http://szabo.best.vwh.net/micropayments.html

http://www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html

http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/case.against.micropaymen... (PDF)

A vastly more sensible option: a means-based, universal fee (a/k/a tax) and payments to creators based on both UBI and quality + access distributions -- a universal content syndication mechanism:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

$100 per person per year from the world's richest 1 billion inhabitants would match all present publishing income, and present ad spend. Truth is we're already paying for the content, we're just not getting it.
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There's not really any meaningful empirical proof of ad impressions now, just a very shady chain of trust between a handfull of companies who all have a vested interest in not scrutinizing these things too closely.

Once you're at the point where you are buying traffic to meet goals, you're not going to scrutinize the origin of that traffic beyone anything that would appear to be flagrant fraud to your customers.
I swim in public swimming pool regularly, crash every damn kid playing finding items under the pool with their friends.
This is the first of many forays to come by the US government to outsource identity management to Facebook. It’s coming, whether you like it or not.
For my fiancée, she deleted her facebook a long time ago, and she never paid attention to the username. We just made a best attempt at guessing the “user name”
Income. Job. Previous jobs. Previous travel. Previous residence. Entries to the US. Family member's biographic info (e.g. place of birth, DoB, etc). A medical screening in some cases for some communicable diseases (e.g. HIV used to be a ban, no longer, TB still is banned). Asking about spousal relationship (inc. personal questions) if it is a marriage based visa.

This is a HUGE step up. There's nothing even ballpark like this. It is essentially de-anonymizing anonymous internet speech and then using it all against potential immigrants. It also may punish people for not providing information they may no longer even have (e.g. old accounts).

This is like a 10/10 in privacy invasion, the old process was like a 4/10. The medical is likely the most invasive but the doctor only gives them specific information about diseases.
Some good bets:

1. Extremely expensive neighborhoods generally have good schools.

If you don't have tons of money:

2. A small towns with large a university.

3. Neighborhood schools where 90+% of students are in walking distance of the school rather than bussed in or driven in.
"Have you belonged to, contributed to, or worked for any professional, social, or charitable organization?" (list all)
The concept here is crucial — respond to adventurous behaviour with clear-headed guidance.

I 'hacked' my school as a teenager and disclosed my findings — I received a 'thank you' and a free pass to skip the helpdesk and talk to the sysadmins whenever I wanted.
We have the technology. It's called planting forests and then sinking then in the deep ocean. It works. Every other technology is much much much worse. Including this one.
Is there a way to make an ad "blocking IO" from the point of view of the ad network, but my browser can keep on going (sans ads of course).

Sort of like laying the phone down when a telemarketer calls.
It’s pretty hard to steal gas from a gas station though. They take the money first and you can’t really take extra gas since it’s all measured.
It's already been spent many times over.

If there are folks who are still unaware of monster budget deficits and runaway government spending in the US, please read some news.
I can pretty confidently say that we will never fully understand human cell biology/biochemistry. The interplay between proteins, genes, metabolites, etc is mindbogglingly complex. I say this as someone who works as a chemical biologist and uses CRISPR/Cas9 in my work to perform gene editing in cancer cells.

We are still quite a ways away from performing real editing in humans, and even then it's gonna be a crapshoot. Most traits are polygenic, and we don't understand how tweaking one gene will effect distal biology.
> a huge honey trap to get people to even unintentionally "lie" so the USG can revoke anyone who enters the country's status at any time for any reason (super dangerous).

of course, this is inarguably the case. they are also attempting to change the deportation rules for temporary residents to where you have to prove you haven't left the country in two years (which they can always claim is not proved to their level of acceptability). dark times.
Yeah, what people miss is that nano-machines have been stalled for a while despite being a clearly simpler problem than repurposing biological life. Silicon based computation really lots like extraordinary and particular situation which allowed humans exploit miniaturization fantastically. And people have been aiming to duplicate this success in other fields futilely for many years now.

Editing DNA is far, far away from creating chips, which a ways from writing software. It's very likely well in the realm of "AI-complete problems".
An acid trip only lasts a short term.

But you're right, there's no need to make it a life commitment. There's no need to do anything, really.
If nobody had ever been kicked out of their normal apartment after having their rent artificially raised to build those 80 sqft apartments, I might agree with you. If nobody had ever had their house forclosed for the “greater good” and had efficiency apartments put in their place, I might agree with you.

Both of these scenarios have happened. I don’t agree with you. This isn’t democracy in action, this is fighting back against unrestrained capitalism which would make everyone’s living conditions equally miserable in an effort to extract the most money possible out of them.

And as an aside, it’s not as if the apartment owners have no say in the process either; its worth wondering why they aren’t throwing their considerable power around as well.
That's an agent that serves users to ad networks.

"To Serve Man."
That was called various names, winnuke being one of them. It was nothing but a manually crafted TCP or UDP packet causing winsock to segfault.
"Nothing" you say? What about wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with hundreds of thousands killed in the name of lies hidden behind "human rights" narrative?

It's rather glaringly clear that we, Western populations, are constantly fed with biased information from Western media, making us believe that our utopian notion of "human rights" is superb and that we know how to achieve it, at least in theory, while in practice our US-led coalition used these beliefs only to justify its tragic agendas leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties; that's much worse effect than what China induced in Tibet and Xinjiang, no matter how you look at it.

Yet, after all this, we still somehow believe that we have an upper hand in the "human rights" game?
That's even more ridiculous given the level of surveillance on the outbound side they have these days. There's no way someone could leave the country and then re-enter without CBP knowing.
Have you thought about forking/compiling ublock origin and loading it yourself?
Some of the best info on this can be found in the book, The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung.

Also, here's a short video by him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk
That still required the daemon run as root. This runs the daemon rootless as well.
There's no way to punish a government without punishing the country. The sanctions are not on the people themselves, for instance Iranians can and do visit the US.

Iranians and US citizens should protest against their governments causing this political situation. From my limited research, neither party is innocent. Bothering GitHub doesn't have a purpose, they are only blocking Iranians to comply with laws.
"Endless Pool".
One word: Kapotgepolderd.
That's not the same thing. Those services cost extra. If you go to the store and take home the things yourself, you're avoiding paying the extra fee for those services
I think it is more of a "perjury trap". If after admittance, they need a quick way to kick you out of the country they can dig into things and say you lied on the forms.
Most fish farms force fish to swim through a current of running water. I think most are concrete “runs” that continuously pump water through. At least what I’ve seen in the US is that way. There are now many overseas fish farms.
The first chapter of SICP also has a similar (but not identical) O(log(n)) algorithm in the excercises. Fun stuff.
That's quite inspiring. Do you mind connecting via email? (Not a media request; just to learn and exchange some ideas)
That's right. Or we can resort to the hypothesis that there is a secret society of Jews who despite being average and not in any way smarter than blacks, appear to be surprisingly organised at infiltrating every slice of our society that we associate with success. And yes, the funny thing is that Jews are an oppressed minority so we can't just paint them with the wide "white privilege" brush.
Many such systems are easily exploitable by means of simply bruteforcing them by EAN code.
For competitive swimmers, 10k+ days are fairly common (or used to be), split generally between morning and evening workouts. Sets might be based closer to 1:20/100m, which drops the total time a bit, though 3h in the pool isn't unusual.

A single workout of 5-6k is pretty typical.
> 5+ standard deviation increases in many traits is on the table

Interesting way to put it. The same absolute increase will not be 5 standard deviations for long.
> I don't have numbers to counter this off the top of my head, but congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a rare syndrome, but still common enough that it is taught to every medical student and tested on our boards repeatedly.

You are confusing Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (ie 21 alpha hydroxylase deficiency), the bane of every 3rd year med student and adrenal medullary hyperplasia, a much rarer condition (I don’t recall it ever coming up during medical school).

Congenital Adrenal hyperplasia involves the cortex where the corticosteroids are produced. Epinephrine and norepinephrine are catecholamines produced by the medulla. AMH is more similar to pheochromocytoma though.
Lou Kerner believes that "that Crypto is the biggest thing to happen in the history of mankind". He has a community-first crypto VC. He has written multiple articles on how bad Libra is.

I question the bias of the article.
This just seems silly.

I applied for a security clearance ages ago, before social media, and I could understand the gotcha style questions and background stuff when applied to a security clearance.

I didn't expect anyone to honestly answer the question about if they had ever been a member of an organization dedicated to overthrowing the US government... but I understood why it was there.

This, this is just dumb and seems like it would produce nothing but bad will.
I don't know what it looks like in the US, but here in Europe it is often faster / more convenient to use the self-checkout. The lines are shorter, it's easier to bag everything, and it's easier to keep an eye on all the prices.

Plus there are random inspections every now and then, and usually cameras on each machine. To top it off, they don't take cash, only debit cards, so it's very easy to find any wrongdoers. I wonder if the anonymity of cash is part of the 'problem' here.
I would change “ostensibly free” to “nominally free”. While you pay no up front cost, you are worth a dollar value to these companies.

That money isn’t being spun out of thin air, it’s being extracted from you somehow.

Whether that method of abstraction is getting you to buy something you otherwise wouldn’t have, or by using your data to manipulate others to do the same; they exact their toll on you.
It looks like we're nearing peak global emissions. The growth rate seems to have slowed dramatically the last couple of years.

IFF that's the case, we've added 375 billion tones of carbon to the atmosphere. Some estimates say that 50% of carbon is removed from the atmosphere every 20 years. So if our emissions stop growing, we'll eventually reach an equilibrium not far from what it is now. Plus, don't most estimates have carbon emissions rapidly decreasing as renewables become more cost effective? I've seen some estimates as high as 70% by 2050.

Anyway, a tree over the course of 40 years, can sequester 1 ton of carbon. The Amazon Rain Forest has ~390 Billion trees. So, if we could plant another Amazon Rain Forest and keep our emissions where they are (or hopefully reduce them) couldn't we avoid any further warming?

I've had this idea forever, but I'm just doing the math now. If we lined every street and highway in the US with trees, that might be enough to sequester the carbon we've added (and will add before equilibrium) to the atmosphere.

There's 5.3 million miles of road in the U.S. If you spaced the trees 10 feet apart, you could plant 528 trees per side per mile, or ~1000 per mile. That means, we could plant 5.3 billion trees, or 1/75th of an Amazon Rain Forest. If you added in every country in the world (there's 64.25 million miles of paved road and probably well over 150 million miles of paved and unpaved roads), we could plant like 1/6 to 1/2 of an Amazon.

I feel like if you added in shrubs and flowers and combined the insect biomass increase, this could actually be a thing... I mean, you could also potentially bio-engineer trees for maximum sequestration & particulate absorption. And probably there's trees you could plant 3 feet apart instead of 10 that could sequester the same amount of carbon.

We could probably capture a lot of particulates from the roads as well, naturally cool cities with added shade (and make them prettier), and increase insect biomass (which has shrank like 75% in the last 27 years).

At least in the US -- Oaks, Chestnuts, and Walnuts sequester a lot of carbon per square foot. Chestnuts are native to the northeast, and Oaks are native in the west (California oaks are one of the prettiest trees IMO), and Walnuts are native in the South.

Pin Oaks don't take up much space, they grow really fast (70 feet in 28 years), and weigh literally tons. They thrive basically everywhere in the U.S. beside Arizona, Florida, and Coastal California. It also has shallow roots, which would keep it from destroying sidewalks / roads. Pair them with Hemlocks, Gold and Red Euonymus, & Climbing Hydrangea -- and our roads would be beautiful!

I dunno. It sounds crazy. But it also seems obtainable.

I'm not sure how this impacts methane, though. Unfortunately, global beef & pork production is growing quickly.
Which resources?

Money can buy employees and manufacturing capacity. What are the things that would cost more per unit the more you buy?
No, it doesn't. There are lots of self-made people. A pure inheritance model is both defeatist and inaccurate.
And yet IQ (which is a pretty good proxy for intelligence) is a highly inheritable trait, as shown by several twin studies.

It is a fact that I had a hard time accepting, considering that it flies in the face of my beliefs about merit, hard work and the importance of education. These things are important, but genes play a huge role too.
"I'm usually up until 1-2am": maybe a lack of good quality sleep is your real problem? Bad sleep has been correlated to weight gain
Gould was a paleontologist, not a geneticist. Gould's reputation is zero in evolutionary biology, an industrious fool.

See this letter to the editor if you want to see what the giants of evolutionary biology thought of Gould:

John Maynard Smith, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, recently summarized in the NYRB the sharply conflicting assessments of Stephen Jay Gould: "Because of the excellence of his essays, he has come to be seen by non-biologists as the preeminent evolutionary theorist. In contrast, the evolutionary biologists with whom I have discussed his work tend to see him as a man whose ideas are so confused as to be hardly worth bothering with, but as one who should not be publicly criticized because he is at least on our side against the creationists." (NYRB, Nov. 30th 1995, p. 46). No one can take any pleasure in the evident pain Gould is experiencing now that his actual standing within the community of professional evolutionary biologists is finally becoming more widely known. If what was a stake was solely one man's self-regard, common decency would preclude comment.

But as Maynard Smith points out, more is at stake. Gould "is giving non-biologists a largely false picture of the state of evolutionary theory" -- or as Ernst Mayr says of Gould and his small group of allies -- they "quite conspicuously misrepresent the views of [biology's] leading spokesmen."[1] Indeed, although Gould characterizes his critics as "anonymous" and "a tiny coterie," nearly every major evolutionary biologist of our era has weighed in in a vain attempt to correct the tangle of confusions that the higher profile Gould has inundated the intellectual world with.[2] The point is not that Gould is the object of some criticism -- so properly are we all -- it is that his reputation as a credible and balanced authority about evolutionary biology is non-existent among those who are in a professional position to know: http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html

>IQ tests have been thoroughly debunked as highly dependent on cultural biases and assumptions of learned knowledge.predicted by genetics alone.

They really, truly have not been debunked. If you are willing to read a short book on the topic, I would recommend this one which has an epub version here: https://archive.org/details/IntelligenceAllThatMatters/page/...

If you are interested in the truth, I ask you to approach this subject bloodlessly, as you would a programming problem. Read the book I linked to. Then re-read Measure of Man, if you must.

But before you do, allow yourself to consider that bio-determinism is allowed to be true. There is no god or law of physics that prevents this from being the case. Imagine that these were just brute facts. If they were, your actions may change but your normative commitments do not have to.

I think if you read the literature neutrally, you will find g-factor is basically coherent and well-motivated, and intelligence is heritable. But when reading on matters touched by ideology, I think it is important to allow yourself to believe you can be persuaded.
Don't think that's possible. They have to open and close registers for accounting etc.

Maybe someone was in the store and just had not yet closed down the checkouts.
The yes/no section is weird:

Were you a member of the Nazi party?

Have you participated in a genocide, or attempted genocide?

Have you attended a public school in the US as a foreigner after 199x, without paying?