skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do think that the US government propagandizes inside, and outside all the time and has done so continuously, since the birth of the modern communication era.

This is a valid point, and one that deserves focused thought. Because it's both very right and very wrong.

The US does generate constant propaganda on most issues of consequence. BUT. The US also generates constant propaganda on multiple sides of every issue.

The propaganda ecosystem is far more robust and distributed in the US. Whether it's straight journalism or spambots, or individuals expressing their heartfelt beliefs.

Maybe that's doing it better? Maybe it's just one mess after another?

One thing I know - it's quite a different from the sort of propaganda you get from a country where the national government maintains a list of forbidden words, events, and attitudes.
In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes
Facebook to pay separate $100M SEC fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
So, I must be in gratitude with USA, for helping a fascist regime on my country for nearly 40 years ?
I think you misread the comment.
> You may have already mentioned this but will you be publishing a physical copy when your done?

Yes. Just like with "Game Programming Patterns", once the chapters are done, I'll put together a print edition, eBook, Kindle, etc. Based on the length, I may end up doing it as two separate volumes, which is crazy to think about.
Here's the thing about lawsuits, even if you're innocent, you're still probably ruined.

I call that "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

Strong anti-SLAPP legislation can help with some of that, but it's far from 100% and it's far from universal.
Me too! The maintainer of Luxe (and now Wren that I've passed the torch) is fantastic and I'm really excited about the future of both of them.
No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now
Memory in the brain is very connection based. Spaced repetition is a good technique for strengthening connections, but not for structuring it usefully.

I find the best thing is to make as many connections as possible to and amongst the things you want to learn. For vocabulary: find patterns in the spelling of the word, draw the word, use the word in a rhyme, make a joke about the word, etc. Also, connect the words together such that you can traverse a network of them in your head.
I'd think anything cheap enough to fit in what you're treating as your annual % income budget's basically fine. You won't ruin yourself or significantly harm even a modest fortune with it. More like "don't invest any part of your principal in a restaurant, it will very probably fail, but only after you've thrown even more good money after bad and suddenly you're 20-30% less rich for no good reason".

An ice cream stand or a taco truck or whatever, those are cheap enough you can get them off the ground without touching your savings given even a "modest" (call it) $100-120K after-tax income, provided you have some patience (to save a while for the big expenses rather than pulling it straight out of investment principal) and are doing a lot of the work yourself (which is the point, if it's a hobby, I'd think). Any money it makes is strictly a bonus.
Dude?

You have done nothing but reinforce the point. If anything, that's even more reason to make sure China is not run by jackwads in the future. I mean, what are you disagreeing with?

That the US is run by jackwads?

or that China should not be run by jackwads when it becomes the superpower?

Or are you just off on some other tangent altogether? (more whataboutism?)

Because this subthread is about the idea that jackwads in China should be able to do something simply because jackwads in the US do it. Which is a patently ridiculous notion.
100 percent.

Gusto manages (well, let's be honest, bedshits) benefits for my employer.

Gusto has gotten the money from my employer (and fyi, I'm a founder, so I'm very certain because I see the payroll pulls). We use a Gusto benefits card; I was getting refunds because the benefits card didn't work for my parking provider.
It’s going to be a BlackMirror future: shiny and happy on the outside, soul-less depressing on the inside.
Some are very different from my names for them; Visualize Success is my #1. And the chant "how awesome this will be when it comes together." Then later on we would have this "Start with the Result/ What's the effect you want?" (also mainly as a vision, but maybe as a writing exercise of various sorts).

Now flip all your visualized result-thinking on its head and, having identified all your needs, find someone in the world who has the same needs and help them achieve them.

Superpower modes come when you're tuned into the needs of more beings than just yourself, which takes the emphasis away from "mental" and "my own" and puts it more on "the situation" and "the people in it"
I have been patiently waiting on the Soffos[1] product from Fountech to be released to give it a try. I am assuming that there is a repetition algo in there as well.

[1] https://www.fountech.ai/work
Yes, settle down, I did it merely to initiate some fun banter on folks here, but it looks like we are getting some valuable insights and I am interested in what people of this time have to say on this topic. This is a copypasta after all.
Even in business context this can be weaponised. For example two executives in a company discuss some sort of business strategy and mention the competitor's CEO by name (also the competitor's company happens to be named after its CEO so it's impossible to discuss it without saying his or her name). The competitor's CEO GDPRs the emails and learns of the secret business plan as a result.
There are two alleles for this gene. You get one from your mom and one from your dad. In this case one allele has a mutation that is causative. So you inject some anti-sense RNA matched to that mutation, it will bind to the mRNA of the transcribed mutated gene DNA. Since it is now bound up, the mRNA cannot be translated by the ribosome and turned into protein. This means that only the other allele (without the mutation) is translated into protein.
If you don't mind my asking, how easy is it to export and import data with Anki? What sorts of formats does it use?
I even dispute the notion that there is anything wrong with being anti-American. It's not a personal insult unless one chooses to take it as such. I am American by birth, have lived abroad, and find the way things are done in the US to be abhorrent on many fronts. It seems to me anything done well elsewhere is rejected out of some weird sense of independence. America's profit driven healthcare business ruined my life and is still making it miserable. The only decent care I have ever received was in a European country. There is a default idea on the internet that America is the world. There is a default idea in much of America that conservatism is "true America". There is a default idea that success as a human is "being rich" and "winning". My family has this belief system and anytime those beliefs or the country are criticized, even if its one amongst 100 comments, its focused on as how everyone is biased against them and they are "victimized" by this. I find the incredibly common idea in the USA, that one should be less critical of the nation because "this is the best place for us to get rich" is the opposite to what I consider important values, and is in fact antithetical to the hacker ethos. The hackers I admire don't do so to enrich themselves...they do it to fix problems and improve the world, even if only for one other person.
Some numbers from Saul Griffith at Otherlab:

Decarbonizing with massive electrification will bring about a new American abundance. https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d...

How do we decarbonize? We don’t need a miracle. Everything we need to solve climate change is already here. https://medium.com/otherlab-news/how-do-we-decarbonize-7fc2f...

Green New Deal: How much does fixing climate change cost the US? A real-world argument with numbers you can check for yourself. https://medium.com/otherlab-news/green-new-deal-how-much-doe...
Sure, I don't mean that it was evidence at the time, rather that suspicions held by the advisor seem to have been proved true. I presume that advisor felt justified in warning others that the author might be a problematic hire, and a scandal like this is evidence that the suspicion was correct.

I think the right question to ask is whether an advisor is obligated to give positive recommendations for an advisee if they come to regret having taken them on. My sense is that the advisor was correct to notice that socially something was "off" about the author, and correct that others might regret hiring her, just as he(?) had come to regret choosing her as a student. I don't know though whether it's legal under current EU law to act on these observations and experiences.
We weren't actually using Slack. There are self-hosted alternatives.

You can also add a TOTP code to the command to get 2FA if you're really worried about limiting the attack vector - I actually gave a conference talk about that years ago.
> As long as schools use Windows, it won't die.

Kind of funny in this context, since the specific impetus here is Microsoft narrowing the applicability of academic licensing.
And they say Americans don't do propaganda.
Europe tends to like good standards.

Americans tend to question them and then do whatever they want to do.

Europe also tends to cultivate a village mentality where people trust each other to follow decorum.

America tends to operate as if vaguely hostile strangers are rolling through town all the time.
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Nice work! As you may have noticed HN does not support markdown, so you might wanna change this post.

Also, I'd recommend to repost a direct link to the GitHub repo and add "Show HN:" at the beginning of the title. You may have a better chance of getting attention that way.
There was a push in Germany to migrate to Linux, and they eventually gave up on that, so yeah, there are some prior examples.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-e...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/27/lower_saxony_to_dum...
It's definitely "learned" in a very specific context. For example, I learned all US states and their capitals for a Pub Quiz. That means cards with state/capital. Then at some point there was a quiz question called "Which state capital is the last if sorted alphabetically?" And I couldn't answer it because it didn't fit my learning pattern.
I think you're feeding a troll here. Anyone with time enough in engineering or programming can recognize and respect these sorts of tradeoffs without trash talking least favorite tool.
https://brandonsanderson.com/books/legion/legion-skin-deep/
Legion: Skin Deep is a modern-day thriller/mystery with some science fiction undertones. In this story, Stephen is taken on a case to find a corpse with important information encoded in its DNA.
Spaced repetition is how learning naturally works. In real life, if something is interesting, or it just keeps cropping up, you'll remember it.

The fact that spaced repetition is proving valuable now is because people in general are confused about their motives for learning stuff.

Anyhow, when it comes to learning, motivation is primary, not method.
Exactly what I am working on.

https://www.primerlabs.io

Primer generates Anki apkg files too.

I am way behind schedule to launch it. But I am working as hard as I can to ship soon.
You're talking about servers. I would bet credits to navy beans that most of the licenses are for workstations and laptops.
I think they're reinventing ActivityPub
But private, no such luck?
Sure, but to bring that mentality to adulthood seems ridiculous.
I found this to be a rather refreshing take on the traditional "tech people didn't consider the consequences" - it doesn't place blame on the tech person, and reflects thought and awareness before and after. (It's easy in hindsight to say "people suck, so this is a terrible idea", but far harder to do in advance).

Left unanswered is what do about it - the implied "require some effort" isn't likely to be successful, as the incentives to make things easier is there, and the incentive to promote long term civility is...not.
The planet is only responding to a stimulus and experiencing a sort of fever which will cause major shifts in human consciousness by inducing increased suffering and eventually mass-ego destruction.

It is at this stage that we will be able to work with the underlying intelligence of the Universe and reach our next stage of evolution.

The 'end of the world' only means the end of the mind-identified state of consciousness and a return to pure consciousness and the end of all suffering.
Hahah! Well, modern tech is all about re-inventing what we already had in the 90s isn't it?

But seriously what I have in mind is a lot more interactive than that. Roughly, your blog becomes your "account". You can follow other "accounts" (blogs), and you give other "accounts" permission to post on your blog in the form of comments, etc. When you change details on your account, like a profile image or whatever, it will get updated on all the linked accounts that follow you. I dunno, it all works pretty elegantly in my head.
Is the repetition algorithm superior or inferior than Anki in your experience?
Presumably car manufacturers are also “tech companies”, along with online-only banks + lenders.
Modern x64 is very difficult to beat and takes a lot more than just raw core count. The out of order execution, prefetching, multiple execution units, SIMD, cache, cache synchronization etc. are all very strong. I think the space where more weak cores can be utilized but not GPUs is pretty slim. Intel themselves even had that briefly with their high core count out of order atom core chips that didn't take off (or weren't given a chance).

I think software that can take advantage of more than a few cores without just using brute force fork-join parallelism in some of the heavy loops is rare. I don't think it has to be that way, but the problem comes down to software architecture which isn't going to be solved by leaving each application programmer to their own devices. It will take libraries that give them the means to do it without having to reason about low level synchronization.
Yeah, I live in DC but road trip to see family in the Midwest every so often. I dread Breezewood.
I think you meant Gabriel Werner's excellent Fluent Forever.
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Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies
Sears, the original amazon, offered many financial services.

Sears ->
Discover (founded)
H&R Block (located in stores)
Dean Witter (acquired)
Allstate (founded)
I truly believe that spaced repetition is near-magic and it is a tragedy that it's not integrated into our society and educational system at a fundamental level. It makes me shudder to think of all the years spent learning things only to forget them weeks or months later.

In any case, I've recently embarked on a long-term educational plan utilizing spaced repetition. My goal is to learn dozens of languages, historical events, philosophical theories, lines of poetry, and various other information.

I'm curious if anyone else has used spaced repetition over a long period of time with a deliberately ambitious plan. Most people seem to just use it for dabbling in language-learning or medical school, and not as a way to embed massive amounts of knowledge in the brain.
Bananas and dates (to name a few fruits) are plants, are whole foods, and are filled with fructose.

A single potato with skin has 6 grams of fiber and around 60 grams of starch.

As for the vitamins and minerals, the only thing found in a relevant amount in potatoes is potassium. Contrast this with eggs, organ meat or even muscle meat.

What would you say is the problem with saturated fat?

Also, out of curiosity, are you vegan?
I do it by hand,

some pain points,

1. hard to make sure a design looks ok on different screen sizes.

2. hard to create layout in some cases (vertically centralized, for example)

3. hard to make sure a design looks consistent with different browsers.
I'm a big Matrix fan but am curious about what options they have for integrating and managing it in a typical enterprise environment. For example:

-what happens for stuff like user management with Active Directory etc?
-what happens for things like FOIA requirements considering it is e2e encrypted?
If a person watching this closely without any knowledge of the people in this video, they may just see Linus as one arrogant brat who could care less about anything the person speaking is intending to convey.
They aren't blaming you for using the LTS version, and they aren't blaming Ubuntu for having an LTS version. The blame is (implicitly) on Ubuntu for not making sure the libraries their LTS version ships are up to date with the latest security patches. VLC itself isn't vulnerable - the problem is that some distributions are compiling it themselves with old libraries, which is 100% their own fault.
Indeed, that might be a good fit for the networking layer. So it could be an ActivityPub server/client built on top of WordPress. Quick, someone give me $50M to build a product with zero monetization options.
Hacker Noon: Are freelance developers different?
I find it awesome that they actually have a defined and documented Appeals Process.
So -- remove the button.

No? Why not?
—-WARNING: META-DISCUSSION——

Fact check: Harsh but mostly true. This used to be the forum for the rationalist and capitalist community in tech, or at least people that tolerated them or were willing to engage without downvotes. Now it attracts those with such distaste for rationalist viewpoints to the point pg himself is altering his essays[1]. His original point was much clearer and more memorable than his revision. Are there any alternatives to this site that look more like the news.ycombinator of 5+ years ago? Maybe a discord or subreddit or telegram group?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html

EDIT: the replies to your post only reinforce your point, you are being called a kook (“completely insane”) for your post, which is antithetical to civil discussion.
That's correct, but we're talking about an essential feature request.

If the algorithm is going to insist on treating all black people like criminals because their crime rate is higher, than it's a bad algorithm and needs to be fixed before shipping, or scrapped altogether.
I love this photo because to me it represents a sort of "American Gothic". I've spent most of my life in America and I can confirm that, as many of the linked tweets say, it does look like that "most of the time." The Breezewood rest stop is exceptional in that it is the platonic ideal: it looks far more like everywhere than anywhere. You don't have to have been there to have been there.
You're replying to someone that is criticizing whataboutism by using whataboutism.
...But certainly not the first one lost to climate change.
> I'm just saying humans can and will adapt.

The human race as a whole can and will adapt. Just as we have to particularly virulent strains of influenza. That doesn't mean it won't be a tragedy
yeah, corporate oligarchy with a compromised food chain is utopia!
Answer: Stockholders
Can you post your learnings and deck online. Would love to follow your journey.
In your personal life, switch everything you can to electric: electric cars and electric home heating/cool (with a heat pump or radiant hyrdonic). If you can, get solar panels to power these things. This will decarbonize you and your family's footprint and move the cultural norm ever so slightly. Financial packages that make these decisions the rational decision and building codes that allow this to happen are also essential.
Interstate highway America is exactly like that. If you have the time, drive the state roads. Might be a bit slower but the scenery actually changes.
This has improved a lot even since the 80s. I remember road trips as a kid and the difficulty of finding vacant lodging. Now, there are groupings of multiple large hotel chains with vacancy at least every couple hours, even in relatively remote parts of the country.

Having driven across the US a number of times, I think the last product this isn’t true for is good quality coffee. There are still parts of America where you can travel several hundred miles without seeing a single standalone Starbucks.
This should be an HBS use case.

In a quest for money they didn't need and likely were not gonna get much of anyways, by removing perks MS currently offered academic institutions, they've risked teh creation of a much greater threat that can undermine their entire business. CERN is an organization which could truly help create a set of alternative tools to MS products.

Talk about killing the golden goose.
I think the real problem is Twitter refuses to make sophisticated filtering available to users. Simple mute, block, and keyword filtering are inadequate.
Include the Meta-Model: http://www.nlpls.com/articles/NLPmetaModel.php
>Americans imprison more people than China.

But we have due process and most of these offenses are due to the failed drug war. Whether or not people should be locked up for drug offenses is one thing, but the laws being broken are pretty clear and generally aren't being used as punishment for expressing anti-government sentiment.

>Americans imprison and torture children at the border

This angle is pretty ridiculous. The border facilities are totally overwhelmed by an influx of people who by law are not allowed entry to the U.S. The vast majority are economic migrants, not assylum seekers. Moreover, they made the choice to come here knowing full well the illegality of their actions, and they are not being "imprisoned," they are being detained for a few weeks while the overloaded system processes their claims. Calling it torture is an exaggeration. Also the miserable conditions at the contentious facilities recently in the news are not representative of ICE facilities in general.
I wonder if your idea - or this "magnetic liquid" - could have application in "artificial muscles"? Fascinating to think about...
It's unique only insofar as its nearly a perfect average of every rest stop or highway turnoff in America.
TLDR, you can visit these countries with the right visas and paperwork and nobody cares if you're a tourist. If you visit for several months out of the year and clearly have a business relationship with these sanctioned countries, then you have problems.
> For example, even without government interference, you would expect “Taiwan” to have different first-sentence descriptions in the Chinese–Simplified, Chinese–Traditional, and English Wikipedias.)

I agree with your sentiment, but that's not the best example. There is one Chinese Wikipedia, and articles are machine-transliterated between simplified and traditional forms (plus a few more forms using region-specific vocabulary).
I believe Slack did this too; if you've ever signed-in to Slack within a country that is currently restricted, your account was just deleted without warning.
Well, I'm of the smaller European countries that were fucked around by those Europeans colonial powers, so there's that...

But if you think it's some badge of honor for your country to "fuck around much of the world", and you think only bitterness for not being able to fuck colonies etc, as much as before is why anyone would oppose it, sure, more power to you...
Well, this isn't that. The interpretation may vary slightly, but there are definitely established meanings for "platform" and "utility" for a judge to work from (though "platform" might be only the plain-English meaning, "utilities" such as power and water companies are a regulated category which can be used for reference if nothing else).