skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this misconception stems primarily from the 2008 Obama campaign where groundbreaking work was done directly by Obama's campaign staff using social media for outreach and organizing. This was largely driven by open and direct channels of communication to Facebook staff and the hiring of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his work with the campaign.

In retrospect I think the relationships built between the Democratic party and Facebook were more about Facebook the company dipping its toe into the wider world of lobbying and the personal relationship of Chris Hughes to LGBT issues and his partner's burgeoning political career. It had less to do with Facebook's Executive staff having deeply held Democratic values or entrenching corporate values that align with the Democratic party and was driven more by a desire to see favorable economic policy for the company.

In the years since we've seen almost 0 movement by political campaigns to pursue this kind of outreach short of your typical ad buys. I think Democratic candidates realized that they were funneling huge amounts of time and money into a service that is actually a competitor. A competitor that is more regulated and less scary than what modern political parties actually track, retain, and use to target their base.

I wonder if Warren isn't getting as much grass roots traction in large part because she hasn't realized that what Facebook does is chump change compared to the operation she needs in place to win.

Let's see how far a candidate gets who takes a similar stand against LexisNexis and threatens to cut off their H-1B visa rubber stamps.

The modern political campaign is basically a startup on the scale of Facebook but your verticals are online, email, direct mail, text, calls, and door to door sales. Oh, and you have physical offices in 50 states, your CEO is perpetually out of office on the road, your sales model is largely B2C, the unpaid interns outnumber the poorly paid full time staff by 100:1, your runway is a couple of months, and you have to completely pivot the company to an entirely new business model 1 month before your IPO (GOTV).
Both of you provide some sources or anything more than “I could imagine X...because Boeing has been in the news lately.”.
n-permutations containing Pattern 321 exactly once = (3/n)(2n)!/((n-3)!(n+3)!)
In the instances you mention, the government tended to pass gun control or confiscation before engaging in widescale tyranny. In 1938 Nazi Germany passed a gun control law that effectively gave 'true Germans' vastly more gun rights (which had been compulsory rescinded at the end of WW1) yet, they it simultaneously prohibited Jews from owning any weapon - even knives. [1] The holocaust began in 1941.

In 1924 in the Soviet Union all firearms were banned except for smoothbore shotguns which pose minimal In the danger outside of close range. [2] This was greatly expanded with increased penalties and also eventually applied to knives as well. The culling of opponents and directed starvations began around 1929 leading to the deaths of millions of Soviets.

In 1966 China laid out the foundation of their now famously strict gun laws. That was the same year that Mao began the "Cultural Revolution" leading to the deaths of millions of Chinese.

Ultimately their civilians, by the time the worst came, had no way to pose any resistance. And so they died.

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As for our situation, I think we can appeal to the declaration of independence: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

You're comparing a transient discomfort for a relatively tiny number of people entering the country illegally, to events where millions of citizens were systematically and intentionally killed or starved to death by their governments.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_the_German_Jews

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_the_Soviet_Unio...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_China
It is kind of strange, but nevertheless, that's how it is. They are supposed to use the maim option with discretion. And it has caused death several times.

The police used to have smaller caliber pistols, and IIRC they put 14 rounds in someone leg, which didn't stop him from approaching the policemen doing the shooting. He still died though! This incident was one reason why they were later equipped with the more powerful SigSauer for more stopping power.
> rowhammering the data you want into the next job

This wouldn't quite fit the "obfuscated C" contest, but I feel like there should be a prize for a system that does useful work this way.
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it's a cute saying, but I've never actually been shown a success were someone just executed perfectly without any idea to execute from.
So I've never had "Social Media", but I read Hacker News too much, and contribute a bit.

I'm wondering if Hacker News is better or worse than Facebook/Instagram.

At least on Facebook and Instagram, you usually interact with your friends, right?

Here, I feel like I read a lot of insightful posts and stories and have good discussions. But I'm not making any friends or strengthening any friendships.

Is it worth the time? I don't know. I'm definitely addicted.
What are the specific "actions of the CCP" that have actually occurred to date that supposedly justify violence from the protesters?
Did I say he should not be" allowed to write software or work at a university"?

It is concerning to me that RMS would allow kids to make adult decision while at the same time saying that adults selling software to other adults under licenses he doesn't like should be punished.
Exactly. A rogue bunch of MCAS engineers hacking Airbus is not based on any kind of reality.
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I feel the same way. I dislike the act of commuting if it's longer than 20 minutes or so (from "when I decide to leave" to "arrives at destination"), but really enjoy being in an office that's at least somewhat designed for work and is cleaned nightly. I also like lunch with teammates.

At the same time, I love being able to work from anywhere. I can visit family more often, take weekend trips with Tuesday flight pricing, save $500+ every Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I wonder if the (long-term) winning model will be something like self-organizing hubs + remote workers. If enough employees are in one location and express interest, create a local office.
> It's not insane, but it would be a horrible and bloody hot war, the likes of which we haven't seen since WWII

Uh, no.

The US overt, initial war aim would be an existential threat to the Chinese regime, and China is a nuclear power with intercontinental delivery capability. It would see multiple times more total casualties than WWII, and that's just be on the first day that China was convinced that the US was serious about the effort.
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You have much more influence locally than you think! Go to city council meetings and speak your mind. Local politics is the easiest and highest-impact way of making a difference that affects you personally.
The 'whole US'? No, of course not. If an entire city was against the dictator, then they could do what al-Assad did in Syria: gas the entire city. The problem with an insurgency is that most of the population is either for you or at least pretends to be... so it's impossible to find those working against you.. and that support could be active (by fighting themselves) or passive by refusing to report insurgent activity, for example.

IIRC, the minimum force is 1 soldier per 50 citizens. That's enough for the military to be so prevalent in an area that it would be impossible for insurgents to operate. For the US that would be 6 million soldiers (+ soldiers for the unpopulated areas). Those numbers usually don't include civilian police forces, but even if you did include them, the US military would be millions of people short.

But yes, the insurgency needs support from the people. Not a majority, but a network and general support must exist in order for it to survive.
You're lucky you get to die soon enough for that to be appropriate.
Interesting. Wordpad could always handle LF-only well enough and came with Windows 95 and onwards so you could always use that. Not sure why that wasn’t more widely known. (Though on newly added lines it did add CR+LF rather than staying consistent to the source file).
> At the very least it does mean not suppressing opinions that you consider 'wrong'.

true!

> This is not black and white.

Potentially true, but I feel you're fogging the issue (something that happens a surprising amount of time in these discussions involving china).

I distinguished between dissenting comments and bad comments. While that's not utterly B/W it's actually pretty clear.

> In fact, and since someone mentioned the American nationality of HN, the lack of subtlety and the need to see everything in black and white, right or wrong, is a common 'criticisim', so to speak, about Americans.

Ah good old racism! And it is racism BTW. Americans are crude, stupid and gunslinging morons. Well, I've met a very few like that, very few indeed.

Can I make some obnoxious and unfair generalisations about the chinese? You're OK with that I take it?

I'm a brit BTW.
I used to walk around taking pictures and memorizing some key points to later upload the data from JOSM, but it was very time-consuming and a lot of time was spent matching the aerial view with my street-level pictures.

So I started trying to use Vespucci from my Android, but it's interface is really sophisticated and not ideal for "lightweight" work, such as adding POIs (when the streets, paths and shapes are already in place).

I also liked a lot Street Complete, but it does not allow _adding_ new POIs, just completing existing ones.

Finally, a Frenchman developed OSM Go! (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.dogeo.osmgo..., open source on Github, but not yet available on F-Droid), which is the sweet spot for me: not as powerful as Vespucci, but much easier to use for adding/updating POIs. It has recently been translated into English, and though the UI is not perfect, it greatly improved the ease of contribution.

So now I am much more inclined to, when walking around somewhere with incomplete mapping, simply stop for a few seconds, add some missing data (wheelchair accessibility, opening hours, or a minor POI such as drinking water or even trash basket), and keep on walking. No extra homework required!

The amount of effort the community devotes to such apps and to OSM in general is incredible and contagious!
Not a flea market, but I found a pristine Super 20 Club crystal decanter for 5 bucks with "New York Giants" engraved on one side. It just caught my eye randomly and had a good weight to it. Had no idea what the Super 20 Club was, so I poked around.

After a number of emails to sports memorabilia auction sites and a university historian, I was able to identify it. The Super 20 Club was a term for the members of the press/media who had attended the first 20 Super Bowls (amazingly, there's a Super 50 Club). They received sets of one decanter and six crystal old fashioned glasses. Interestingly, the recipients had their names engraved on the decanter, not a team name. One expert I contacted hypothesized that the previous owner of the decanter was a noteworthy (ie celebrity or friend of the team) season ticket holder, who had Giants season tickets for the first 20 years of Super Bowls. It was probably worth about 100 bucks to the right buyer, but sadly broke in an accident some months later.

I've also found a football autographed by the '82 Patriots, a Nighthawk X10 router, and some high-end kitchen appliances. I never spend more than 10-15 bucks per-item as a rule of thumb.
I have started using a personal mediawiki instance with Cargo for semantic data. I realized that I wanted to have full control of my data, so I didn't like the idea of going all-in with Notion or something similar. I'm a heavy user of wikipedia so mediawiki just "feels" natural. Installing it is a huge pain.

I am finding that the system works well enough, once you get VisualEditor working. However the main problem is the habit of capturing my thoughts and work products. It's a tough habit to get in to.

Ultimately I want the wiki to be just one piece of a larger system that automatically organizes all my articles, files, mail, posts, etc. The idea being that I can work with whatever tool is easiest for any particular situation, and still be able to cross-reference all the information in a way that is useful and easy to search. We'll see if I ever get there.
Is this not the same idea as "My vote does not matter"?
I'm not defending psychology. But you've inserted your own narrative and interpretation into this group of studies which do not necessarily follow. In addition, although they are still important in a lot of ways this is a fast developing field and some of these studies are fairly old.

Your assertion that [2] and [5] are evidence of problems with the conclusion of [1] does not follow. [2] and [5] are findings of atypical neural activity in specific systems/areas of the brain in response to imitating and experiencing emotional stimuli. [1] is a finding that people with ASD score poorly on a test of theory of mind. It does not at all follow that they are evidence that the result of [1] is incorrect. They could just as easily by a reason why people with ASD are lacking in theory of mind rather than be evidence that the result is incorrect.

It's the same thing with [4]. I also don't see evidence to your claim that great apes do not have them. I only see a lack of any kind of studies on MNS in almost all animals. This is the only excerpt I found on them is in [9], and it says nothing of the sort, and it implies that there haven't been any attempts at observation of MNS in other animals including hominids/apes.

There is nothing on whether or not hominids do not have MNS, and on dolphins there is only (at this time) conjecture. On the other hand animals having mirror neurons but not having theory of mind does not mean that mirror neurons are not necessary for forming theory of mind. It just means that it's more complicated than that. [8] asserts that it is a part of it. In fact MNS is now believed to be a separate system from the ToM system (even if they are related and interact) [10].

Although [3] cast some doubt, it is by no means a conclusive dismissal. It essentially says one area of the brain previously studied probably has several different functions instead of just a social-cognitive one. It shows only that the specifically relevant previous work is less conclusive. It is also from 2007, and has nearly 1000 citing papers. One such paper that is fairly highly cited is [10], which compensates for issues presented by [3] by looking at a different area of the brain. Here is another study which examines a different aspect of the brain [12]. It also cites a few studies which it cites as specifically showing reduced activity in regions in the brain which are part of the ToM/mentalizing system.

It is not obvious to me from the evidence you've provided what the problems with ToM are, especially with regards to people with ASD.

[8] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976340...

[9] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810456/

[10] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524046

[11] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...

[12] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
What are the 19 first?
Perhaps missing out will create a forcing function in your life where you start to focus on the people that are important to you - whether that's your children, neighbors, parents.

Maybe you'll move locations to be closer to the people you love. I've often wondered if I might have lived in a different country if I couldn't watch my friends from afar.
After their 2016 electoral loss, the Democratic Party huddled up to develop their "Better Deal" agenda, to explain what they would stand for, should voters return control to their party.

Antitrust was a huge plank in that platform.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/31/16021844/a...
1M per year?
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I think it's reasonably sound logic from a libertarian perspective.

The more concerning thing is he's not allowed to simultaneously discuss that line of thinking while working at MIT.
Previous discussions:

2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109771

3 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276

4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881

7 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363
To be fair, C++ has no ABI, de facto or otherwise. The best way to write C++ that can be called by other languages is with extern "C"
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I really like how thoughtful GitLab has been about this, but it doesn't really address the social aspect or in person working dynamic if there's no one else on your team in the same location. That's a tradeoff GitLab is clearly aware of and thought about, but for me, having "an office that's in an office building" doesn't exactly equate to "is in an office with coworkers".
City governments are really accessible. There are regular public hearings where anyone is entitled to monologue at decision-makers for several minutes at a time, sometimes with hilarious results. I mean, could you imagine the President being required to sit through 3-minute-per-person public comments?

Elections are swayed by tiny numbers of votes. Power rests with small groups of retired homeowners who bother to show up. And decisions made there have a greater impact on your life than most elements of federal policy.
Having my ideas challenged by strangers on the internet has been very valuable to me over the years. I do wish conversations on forums like this were transient though. It's one of the reasons I really enjoy IRC. I fear that my opinions from $CURRENT_YEAR might come back to bite me someday in the future. I should probably not use my name as a username, but ultimately I think that the BigCorps can resolve usernames to real identities without too much hassle either way.
Welp to borrow from gool ol' Neil Peart, those who wish to be would probably pick the latter; but those who wish to seem would put more emphasis on the former!