skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Marvin Minsky's hilarious paper: Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious. More fun than a barrel of an infinite number of monkeys.

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt

Abstract: Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the
mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden"
thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense
as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the
different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we
recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and,
particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and
suppressing bugs -- ineffective or destructive thought processes.
When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or
mysterious, becomes more understandable.

A gentleman entered a pastry-cook's shop and ordered a
cake; but he soon brought it back and asked for a glass of
liqueur instead. He drank it and began to leave without
having paid. The proprietor detained him. "You've not
paid for the liqueur." "But I gave you the cake in exchange
for it." "You didn't pay for that either." "But I hadn't
eaten it".
--- from Freud (1905).

"Yields truth when appended to its own quotation"
yields truth when appended to its own quotation.
--W. V. Quine

A man at the dinner table dipped his hands in the
mayonnaise and then ran them through his hair. When his
neighbor looked astonished, the man apologized: "I'm so
sorry. I thought it was spinach."

[Note 11] Spinach. A reader mentioned that she heard this joke
about brocolli, not mayonnaise. This is funnier, because it
transfers a plausible mistake into an implausible context. In Freud's
version the mistake is already too silly: one could mistake
spinach for broccoli, but not for mayonnaise. I suspect that Freud
transposed the wrong absurdity when he determined to tell it
himself later on. Indeed, he (p.139) seems particularly annoyed at
this joke -- and well he might be if, indeed, he himself damaged it by
spoiling the elegance of the frame-shift. I would not mention this
were it not for the established tradition of advancing psychiatry by
analyzing Freud's own writings.
In the early 1800s, there were an estimated 60 million bison in North America. They were hunted nearly to extinction, and today there are an estimated 31,000 (wikipedia).

Meanwhile, there are about 120 million cattle in the U.S. and Canada (over a billion worldwide). It's possible that cattle therefore have a larger impact on the ecology than did the buffalo, but there were always large grazing herds in the world, and far more numerous prior to the Industrial Age. It's possible that there are in fact fewer ruminants today than in pre-industrial times, if the great herds of millions of reindeer and similar creatures that once roamed the plains of North America and Siberia are taken into account.

Last year I began bow-hunting for deer in my part of New England, where there is an excessive population that damage forests, endanger drivers, and spread disease. I'm also hoping to raise meat chickens and egg laying chickens in the near future.

Hunt for your own meat and stop buying factory meat that has been pumped with all sorts of hormones and antibiotics. I love a good beefsteak and I do hope such will continue to be available, but harvesting your own meat is probably the best thing for the planet and gives you a much stronger connection to (and respect for) the game animals that we eat!
produce less meat

Eating less meat just means more waste. We need to stop talking about climate change as a problem individuals can solve with ecological lifestyle choices. We need international economic planning and the seizure of carbon extracting industry.
> "Shareholders are the public, it's a public company."

Yes, they are a subset of the broader public, but it's unlikely they are a representative sample of the whole. In fact, being shareholders immediately bakes a bias into their thoughts and actions. That bias alone separates them from The Public.

Yes, they are members of the public. No, they are not synonymous with The Public.
0 to $25K MRR in 6 months with 0 Marketing Spend and a cool little Reddit hack
We started building Rankz around August last year in a very competitive market and have recently crossed $25K MRR.

I have documented the exact growth strategies we used to gain the initial beta users as well as how we got first 100 paying customers.

It also include a little Bait & switch hack I used to push my post as "Top post of the Month" with a link to the product.

Here is the full article - https://rankz.io/blog/growth-hacking/

Do you have a hack you used successfully?
A Death Certificate for Free Speech on the Centralized Internet
Is this just being down voted because of tone?

The premise seems valid: just because you can "survive" off of a low-to-no protein diet doesn't mean it should be espoused.
> South of the border you will never see anyone sniffing glue and I doubt there are many people in England who wake up in the morning with a burning desire to sit in the street sniffing glue

This is quite an unsubstantiated claim. Never? Of course you will, and do.

> There is also 'Bucky' that alcohol that is not sold south of the border.

This is patently false. It's made in Devon at Buckfast Abbey, so of course it's sold south of the border. And you see it south of the border all over the place. I know several places off the top of my head in Leeds and London where you can buy it. You can buy it on Amazon as well.

https://www.buckfast.com/stockists
I haven't heard of this and I know a good number of weight trainers. Doesn't this give people massive squirts? Can anyone digest a whole gallon of milk in a day? Gross
With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum for Naples Epyc Chips
Common mistakes startups make, a thread by Harjeet
Here's a link for those who are interested in reading it: https://web.archive.org/web/20041204143417/http://www.sics.s...

This was archived from http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf which now returns a 404 Error.
Fair enough, but just be honest about saying rather than trashing other people's work: JavaScript has a ton to learn which a C programmer will not know, and Python has a history of reasoned decisions.
Use some sort of parental controls app, lock the phone down so it can do exactly the things you want it to and nothing else. If necessary you can have a spouse or other trusted person set a password on it that you don't know, so you can't just turn the restrictions off.
I did miss that, and I'm sorry. You weren't positing the system as "fully" open source at all, so I certainly apologise for not making that clear in my writing. Quite the opposite, I misunderstood and/or did not read your writing closely enough nor pay enough attention to it - and so I mischaracterised your post. My bad.

Thank you for your transparency and forthrightness - and hard work in your involvement in porting coreboot to the new platform. The world needs more people like you.

In the future, I'll read more carefully - take some time to digest what I've read - and write in a tone which conveys a bit more charity than I have done.
But SV doesn't get to redefine ethics. They have to confront the same problems, criteria, and choices as the rest of us.

For example, I used to contract to the US military in the DC area. That work invited many of the same concerns that SV does -- privacy, security, freedom of speech, acting preserve and defend the Constitution's principles. Today I work for a big pharmaceutical. Comparable concerns apply here too -- honesty, doing no harm, serving people in need, improving and extending their lives.

Ethics are universal, no matter where you live or what you do.
Mitigating Noisy Inputs for Question Answering
I'd like to see restrictions to what terms of service can permit. For example, it's one thing for me to be giving the 1st party some legal rights to collect information about me, it's another thing to allow essentially untrusted 3rd parties to collect as well. Some limits must be in place.

If this means some services are no longer viable because they can't make ad revenue, then maybe that's a good thing. Nothing is free, and we still live in the Wild West with companies getting away with monetizing our information behind our backs to subsidize the service. It's one thing to "pay" me for the time I watched your ad, it's another thing to "pay" me for a profile of my activity on the site or sites, which has enough information, generally,
to uniquely identify me, and contains demographic and personal information determined by black boxes.

My point here might simply be, if it's my information, I should be entitled to know how it's actually being used.

But the first action I'd hoped to see is to make devices like the Amazon echo, and google home illegal.

> Probably the clearest example of a place where there's a reasonable expectation of privacy is in the home. A person doesn't have to be a homeowner for the law to protect that expectation; tenants who rent their homes also have a protected right to privacy. Moreover, invasion of privacy doesn't just mean that someone physically enters a place where a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. It can also happen if someone uses electronic equipment to monitor or record what someone is doing in the home. [1]

This also goes for guests of your home, so as far as I'm concerned, Amazon (or my friend, or both) are/is breaking the law whenever I enter a home with one of these things installed. The regulation should demand a Amazon (in this example) to explicitly state how they are protecting my rights given the presence of an active microphone in the home. As things stand they are clearly not respecting our privacy.

Even Apple, who makes a point about how "Hey Siri" works isn't completely off the hook. I'd be interested in talking about Japan-esque laws requiring a sound to be played when Siri is activated, much like how a shutter noise must be played when a photo is taken.

The point here is, it's MY LIFE, I should at least know what's being done with it.

1: https://injury.findlaw.com/torts-and-personal-injuries/what-...
High video call quality with a stable connection
Building a custom malware sandbox with PANDA
I think that there are some alternatives, but they definitely aren't feasible in many parts of the world at this point.

That being said, I do think one could make a strong argument that Exxon lied to investors through omittance of a truth that they new. Not that they were harming the environment, but that they misrepresented risk to the business due to environmental harm.
New Saefko Trojan focuses on stealing your credit card details, crypto wallets
The Treble services that reside in /vendor are usually talking to… surprise, custom Qualcomm kernel drivers. I don't think there's been any attempts to just map device memory into these services and make them actual drivers. Actually that could be a step back for freedom, since the kernel drivers' source has to be at least dumped somewhere for GPL compliance.
Paleontologists believe that it was the shift from fruits and nuts to a high protein diet of meat that allowed our brains to grow dramatically compared to other primates. We are omnivorous, and our bodies require a certain amount of plant matter ideally, but clearly meat is an integral component of a healthy human diet.
There is no option to pay instead of getting ads. I'd happily pay for Google's search sans ads/tracking and their focus on the dumbest user possible, but I can't because they don't offer the option.

I do agree that most people won't prefer paying with money instead of attention, but that doesn't mean they won't prefer paying with money over not having the service.
Laughed harder than I should have at this. Thanks for the morning chuckle.
A lot of people have a problem with eating dog meat.

Wolves that eat deer don't also breed them to the point where they contribute to climate change. Hunter gatherer folk don't breed them to a point where they are a significant factor in climate change.

As carnivores wolves don't really have a choice to not eat meat. You do, though. With a couple of different choices at the supermarket or simply ordering different choices on the menu, you can help cut down our global emissions.
I have a feeling that in CS you need a decade of experience, a wide range of experience, before you can even get on the path of mastering something.
Shah Jahan: Mughal Emperor, Creator of the Taj Mahal, Champion of Fine Cuisine
> "Killing your host quickly is a bad for a parasite"

Exactly. If the virus mutates such that the time before symptoms appear gets longer that's bad for the rest of us. But if it's the opposite (i.e., it kills faster), then that's good news and it will - in theory - eventually burn itself out.
Selling a vaccine for a disease to virtually every person alive can make more money than selling drugs to treat a disease to the few people that actually get that disease.
> If everyone stopped traveling for fun, that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions even more

Animal agriculture is responsible for 14~18% of greenhouse gas emissions [0]; aviation only ~5% [1].

[0] - https://skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to-gw....
[1] - https://www.transportenvironment.org/news/aviation-2-3-times...
Ah, sorry, misread that.
Because the tourism economy makes keeping natural land viable strategically by selling its beauty to tourists while livestock economy requires land use.
We were foraging for blackberries along a popular walking trail once, and an older man gave me a bit of advice I'll never forget: don't pick the lower ones- thems the ones dogs pee on.
Six Terrible New Tech Bills in Congress
Startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly
I wonder if the Government could slowly phase in the import of certain drugs from a country like Canada like Insulin, etc. This would allow a new industry to sprout up in Canada without harming their existing pharmaceutical distribution and supply.

Eventually when everyone can order their medication online with next day shipping the Pharmaceutical Mafia in the USA will need to compete. Otherwise, I don't believe the Government regardless of party will change things since there are billions involved in lobbying.
I just screenshotted the text of your comment and set it as the homescreen and desktop wallpaper of my phone as a reminder to stay vigilant about minimizing my phone usage. Thanks!
Imagine if every office worker worked remotely how much less driving would be necessary.
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>That seems... REALLY high; nobody I know has that kind of time

Netflix drops a series of something and you have millions binging it all in a sitting the first few days. Take Stranger Things, Netflix revealed that 40.7 million accounts watched at least part of the series in the first 4 days.

It's not uncommon for me to see in my Facebook feed, almost daily, people saying "I completed SERIES what do I watch next?".

The number doesn't surprise me at all, especially given there are people that are streaming stuff like Netflix most/all day at work on their phones with them propped up, then going home to watch something with their partner or binging an entire season on a Saturday.
I don't think it was that, to me, it sounds like much the same entitlement thinking that is sweeping most of the developed world these days.

"Aren't I entitled to your stuff? Aren't I entitled to have everything done my way? How dare you try to do things your way with your stuff?"
Neat for you, but probably not scalable. Hunting and gathering always had that problem. For the other 6 billion people on the planet, big Ag is all that's going to feed them.
>Even if you believe there to be ethical meat consumption (a notion I find dubious in modern life

Why is that dubious ? Ethics is personal. For me, consuming meat is ethical. Unless I'm forced to not eat meat then I won't stop.
It lists a virginia creeper in my area. Which has poisonous berries and can cause skin irritation...
> As far as I understand it, AMD doesn't natively support thunderbolt and that's an emerging standard that people really like.

Most of the AsRock x570 motherboards support thunderbolt currently afaik
Basically anything on the JVM or .NET. I used to use Java and C#, had to use C++.NET for a job, and now I'm just done. I much prefer compiled languages and scripting languages, and I don't see much of a need for something in between. I also don't like working with Windows or Android, so there's not much reason for me to care.

For actual preferences, I use and like Go, I'm playing with Rust quite a bit, and I use Python, Lua, and JavaScript for simpler tasks. I'm also somewhat interested in Nim and Swift, but the latter just doesn't seem interested in being truly cross platform and I don't have any Apple devices, so it's in hold for now.
Oh goodness. Citation needed.

And I'm curious whether you happen to be independently against deportation and incarceration. I suppose we'd better open the borders and prisons just to prevent disease, right? Or maybe there's a broader ideology at play here.
Sounds like their automatic compression functionality on their CDN isn't exactly working the way its supposed to. I know AWS Cloudflare has something like this that I use in conjunction with saving website images on S3.
> The way to grow from this book is to deeply learn what they did and how they did it, and then try to rewrite page 13 in a number of ways. How nicely can this be written in “a lisp” using recursion. How nicely can this be written without recursion? (In both cases, look ahead in the book to see that Lisp 1.5 had gotten to the idea of EXPRs and FEXPRs (functions which don’t eval their arguments before the call — thus they can be used to replace all the “special forms” — do a Lisp made from FEXPRs and get the rest by definition, etc.).

Found it ironic that in a comment about Lisp, Kay forgot to balance his parens. :)
You and it sucks you're being downvoted.

You know that lifestyle where everyone was poor, sickly and died at a younger age, that's a totally better lifestyle!

Here's some stuff they conveniently left out that my Polish grandparents told me. In that lifestyle you may eat the clean meats on special occasions, but you eat the less desirable parts on a regular basis. Mostly in soups and stews because it stretches the food for longer. You save the bones and make soups out of them. Oh and you ate a lot of fat. Like smearing pig fat on bread. Technically pork was the cheapest meat. Only one purpose animal. Hens give eggs and fertilizer. Cows give milk, fertilizer and pull carts/plows. Kill them only when they're useless. Plus you may get meat from a butcher on special occasions. People hunted a lot back then. Rabbit, deer, etc. So, they would supplement game for livestock. Because game meat is not considered desirable by civilized society.

Oh and fish. In eastern Europe, fish. Like always. It's cheap as shit and plentiful. It's also not considered meat because of Lent. Which is stupid. Fish is meat. Grow up. That's why people say they don't eat meat, but still eat fish. It's a catholic concept.

The idea that the old world ate less meat is misleading. They ate less prized meats. Today we consider top round off a cow as a cheap cut. That use to be a Christmas roast for many poor families.

Vegan diets are being proved by lots of studies at being pretty shitty for you. Even when I did it with my then girlfriend for a year. My bloodwork went to total shit and I always felt like crap.

This whole article and crap is just a bunch of power hungry assholes in the UN appeasing to childish hippies who never picked up a book outside the metaphysical section.
Why Proof-of-Work Does Not Scale
Depends on who you mean by "they", no? I'm pretty sure the people who do any of those things are a small minority of Less Wrong regulars. (But there are indeed "rationalists" who live in group houses, are polyamorous, are obsessed with the threat and promise of superintelligent AI, etc. Not that any of those things seems to me to imply being a cult in any useful sense.)

I read LW pretty regularly (FWIW, I don't live in a group house, am monogamously married, and expect superintelligent AI to arrive slowly and be less exciting than many LW types hope or fear) and don't remember seeing anything there that matches what you describe -- though of course maybe it was deleted or something.

But there is this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/s93F5JmhCxKDxWukD/rememberin... concerning someone who committed suicide and (though this isn't mentioned there) left a suicide note describing her experiences of sexual abuse in the rationalist / Effective Altruist community. Nothing to do with Eliezer Yudkowsky in there, though, so far as I can see.

There is a comment in that thread that could very uncharitably be said to match your description. It's a response to someone saying "she complained about such-and-such failings in the rationalist community; let's change for her" (the failings in question aren't, or at least don't appear to be from the description in the thread, about sexual abuse), and the reply is concerned that spreading the message "if you complain about things and kill yourself then that's an effective way to get the things addressed" is dangerous because it might encourage people to kill themselves. Which might be wrong, but is pretty different from complaining that committing suicide "is an unfair way to start an argument".

Anyway, this is all a bit of a digression. As to whether Less Wrong is a counterexample to the claim that every online community with active moderation gets described as "toxic": no, it certainly isn't, and plenty of people have called it toxic. For what it's worth, I think it's a distinctly less toxic place than it was (say) three or four years ago. (The website was rebuilt from scratch and a new team of moderators installed, and both of those made it much more feasible to deal with the small but vigorous group of neoreactionary loons who had been making things unpleasant there for everyone else.) And for sure it's much less kooky than the real-world Bay Area rationalist community is alleged to be.
The comparison to Liverpool and Manchester is that Glasgow sees worse life expectancy despite similar climate, population, wealth etc.
>Never understood the obsession with drinking milk on its own

It's something that's been consumed for millennia. There are societies based on pastoralism where milk is a huge part of the diet. I'd hardly classify it as being an obsession.
Sounds like half the story. It'd be interesting to hear the other half.
Surely that has more to do with all the people with money moving out to the suburbs and favoring shopping locations closer to them more than it does with a few streets being closed off to traffic.
Sushi!

Homo Erectus was thought to have subsisted on raw meat. There's evidence of intestinal parasites that suggests such a diet.

Apparently, at some point, we decided to cook our meat, which reduced the parasite load and removed the need for low pH comparative to other carnivores.

But not too long ago, humans did eat some raw meats. Primitive hunters sometimes ate raw hearts, and drinking fresh blood was not unheard of. 1,000 years ago, the Mongols would sometimes nick their horses and drink blood to sustain them on long journeys.
Isn't it obvious? Nobody posts anything except the most anodyne corporate-friendly pabulum to LinkedIn.