skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally the pushback had against the NWO has always been for me. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I was fascinated with cyberpunk in culture, ideas etc. I knew that’s where the future was going to be - but being young and naive, it was always “it would so cool if...”

Playing cyberpunk games, etc got me into computers.

I suspect that sort of techno-curiosity and infatuation with tech is what brought many of us to the industry.

I’ve helped build tracking and spying systems my whole career under the guise of “data”

That dystopian reality of every single thing you do, see, seek has spread like a cancer into every aspect of our lives.

Heck, there are even stories (I haven’t confirmed their veracity) of people being attacked by governments for attempting to be totally off grid.

It is completely impossible to detach from the system.

——

I recall when we used to talk about Eschelon in the 80s and 90s and nobody believe our crackpot conspiracy theories then.

But now the we are many generations beyond the original Eschelon, it’s been hyper-normalized, and there is nothing you can do about it, because-fuck-you-that$-why

So, I don’t have any “whataboutism” - many brilliant minds have been exploited for authoritarian profits, and you can’t escape the world we have all worked to create through evolving technology.
Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs
As an example of this: yesterday I sat down just to add a “testimonials” section to one of my websites. By the end of the work day, I’d redesigned the entire site (which I’d just done back in January), something I had no inclination of doing when I first sat down.

I got nothing else done that day, all because I got a whiff of inspiration, causing me to lose all sense of time and place in an obsessive pursuit of bringing a fleeting vision to life. I didn’t eat breakfast, and I didn’t stop to eat lunch until
my stomach hurt. There were several times during the day where I got caught myself forgetting to breathe.

But I’m mostly happy with how the website turned out, so there’s that. There’s some things that need to be done still, and it’s really, really hard for me to put the brakes on it over the weekend. Hell, here I am talking about it on Saturday morning.

Come Monday, maybe I’ll unravel a clumsily packaged mental model of what needs to be finished up in a whirlwind of keystrokes.

Or, just as likely, I’ll get annoyed by some trivial problem with a piece of code I’ve written, and go down a rabbit hole of studying alternative approaches until I find something I’m happy with, at which point I’m already waist-deep in the middle of some new project that may or may not ever see the light of day.

Equally likely is the possibility that too many sleepless nights will have sapped any semblance of focus and I’ll find myself just mindlessly going through the motions of being a semi-functional adult, forgetting all about finishing up this redesign.

Or, maybe I’ll get frustrated by a bug and decide to take a break from software development and come back to it later, like the time in 2012 when I realized that I’d accidentally trashed the source control on a project that I wanted to roll back a crappy refactoring job I’d just done on it, resulting in a five year gap on my resume and Github commits.

Thankfully, I’m self-employed and married to an incredibly understanding woman. ADHD is a hell of a disorder.
Using the word patriarchy to describe modern western society is always going to derail any conversation about men's issues into a flame war.

EDIT added 'modern'.
I am so, so bad at this at this point I should be able to provide some pointers! But I can't. Interviewers lie. When I am the interviewer, I know I do. Or at least enhance the truth.

Only experiencing it will tell you the truth...
The most likely cause is bufferbloat: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...
It’d surprise me if you couldn’t embed the necessary hardware required to run this inside a USB cable.
In which way is it portrayed and what is the reality?
If Warren Buffett is regular, it can't be all unhealthy.
It is actually a real issue and not just from the tech side of things. For example, have you seen what is happening in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam because of China? Do some searching about the infrastructure China is building, and taking over in these countries. I've seen it first hand, it is nuts. Zero care for the environment, local culture, etc... total mess.
Why wouldn't you just buy a rootable Android device in the first place? Cheaper, better phones and far less hassle to install your own OS on.
Are there any modern/future/sci-fi map generators out there? All the ones I've seen have been fantasy-focused. Something that generates modern sounding names, vehicle roads, airports/seaports/spaceports, that kind of thing?
I'm a bit late to this thread but have you looked into RepHresh Gel?[1] It's a vaginal suppository that supposedly encourages lactobacillus growth. It's approved in the EU for the treatment of BV[2] but sold in the US for "odor elimination." It's definitely a bit pricey - $16 for about a week's worth on Amazon and from what I understand the EU guidelines suggest using it somewhat long-term to treat BV (something like 12 IIRC) so it's far from a quick fix.

[1] http://www.rephresh.com/RepHresh-Products/RepHresh-Vaginal-G...

[2] https://www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=f7138438-b72c-4...
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190928130035/https://fant.io/p...
Trouble with Tesla: Couple sold damaged car but told they can’t sue
We use science to investigate, but not solely. It is not the only set of tools in the kit.
The management methodology The article presents is interesting, but a little too neat. It fails to address some of the obvious practical problems that would come from applying it (though perhaps the book does). In particular, what happens when two reports simply cannot agree?

Many business decisions are time-sensitive. They cannot be endlessly deferred until a consensus is reached. And even reasonable people, with access to the same information, can reach opposite conclusions that will never be reconciled. In these cases, somebody has to break the tie, as even a sub-optimal decision may be better than a non-decision.

Also, in the matter of strategy, it's true that knowledge workers are better informed within their domain, but they are also usually blind to larger scale factors. The individual soldier knows the ideal outcome is to defeat the enemy, and is best informed as to how to overcome a particular local strong point. But it doesn't follow that he is best placed to make the tactical or strategic decision to attack or not. Nor does it follow that a war-winning strategy will spontaneously emerge.
‘Cancel Culture,’ Roaring Twenties-Style
> Could it be made to persist?

I don't think persistence is necessary. How often do people actually power off their smartphone? What most people think of as the "power button" only locks the screen (and puts the CPU into a "suspend" state to save power). Most people would have an "uptime" of months on their smartphone.
Economically, risk is impact times probability. If there are more than just a few companies that are reasonably comparable to one another, then it should be possible to quantify an executive's risk by looking at the past performance of similar executives.

An executive can, and should, arrange matters so that they come out ahead of the average worker even if they fail at their jobs. In that case, their risk is still lower than the average worker's.

Maybe they take some kind of big psychological risk? I doubt it. I'll bet that they are as rational about their jobs as we are about ours, and they see it as a pure transaction with no emotional attachments.
Because it is bullshit. The current US administration is pushing issues now that it has ignored in the past. Eventhough in the broad view these issues are improving dramatically. Look at China today compared with how it was two or three decades ago and it will show massive improvements on living standard, environment, human rights, protection of minorities, intectual property rights, rule of law etc.
But lets be honest here - isnt there a massachusetts solar panel company with a patent on precision slicing large blocks of silicon? They seem like they might be the experts we need on making larger pieces of silicon.
The title says half of people survive advanced melanoma, but the article says 52% of patients live for 5 years. Are these medically the same?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a...
I guess Hacker News is now just filled with people who think they are smarter than large companies.
I think that's not entirely fair. While MS could definitely invest more resources in F#, I wouldn't say it's been neglected (or dying). Just to mention a few developments in recent years:
1) IDE support via Ionide in VS Code
2) Easy install with NuGet
3) cross-platform FSI supported via NET Core
4) some pretty cool updates recently around anonymous records, optional yields, nameof (just to mention a few)
5) no breaking changes (I'm aware of, anyway)

I'd say the future looks pretty bright for F#. It's really resonating with an audience that wants "functional where I want, but practical where I need".
> Thinking of violence as anything but utterly ordinary, necessary and proper has been the exception rather than the rule in human societies. People still believe in war as a noble adventure that turns undisciplined boys into proper men.

One thing to consider is that a lot of this is literally propaganda.

If you want war, you need rally public support. Or at least it is helpful.It is tripple helpful for young men to go there voluntary and see it as calling. You need then to believe certain things to facilitate building great army.

The army and war being shown as aspirationa was often political. Even censorship rules often facilitated that goal.
After knowing many sex workers, if a poor friend came to ask you to choose a career - in what context would you recommend her to work as an escort ?
It’s probably not as bad as the video depicts but most H1Bs who have been waiting for green cards for a long time are probably depressed because they cannot change jobs quickly or take a break for a while. Career choices are very limited. If they are fired, they have to leave the country in 60 dsys (even this period is nebulous). It's not slavery but the next best alternative (going back to India or China) is far worse (from a quality of life point of view) compared to a $300-500k/yr job.
Since MRI doesn't show "thought patterns" it's just not a good tool to look for differences in such.
I’m glad it wasn’t in the title. It was a good read and a real surprise when I got to that part.
I find that the extent to which men (and to a lesser extent, women) have this support varies between secular and religious (or at least Christian) communities. Christianity (as I’ve experienced it, anyway) promotes sharing feelings—for example, many churches have some notion of small groups or community groups in which (among many other things) people share things they struggle with and are supported and prayed for by others.
Thank-you. HN's original title policy shouldn't apply when the title is so flagrantly clickbait.
Troops Could Have Night Vision Injected into Their Eyes
I totally understand your position.

The point is that it is always opt-in, though. There is no such thing as "use it as you like unless the copyright holder opts-out" anywhere in copyright law. You cannot just e.g. use substantial portions of someone else's texts in your own publications[1], sample a part of someone else's music for your own song, use someone else's graphics as your own, use an unlicensed font, etc., without a written permission by the copyright holder.

The EU directive merely ensures that existing laws are enforced instead of being systematically violated by large corporations.

Independently, of course, you could ask whether copyright law should be that way. I personally don't think so, and think it should be changed in various ways that strongly disfavor large corporations, but that's a completely different discussion. What I try to explain here is the rationale of the EU commission, which primarily thinks in legal terms, not my personal views about that matter.

If you ask for my personal views, I do find it appalling that large companies like Google (and Uber, Microsoft, AirBnB, etc.) continue to try to circumvent laws in ways that no small companies could get through with in court, simply because they have the business power and enough lawyers to give it a try.

[1] beyond fair use, which is very limited and does not apply int his case.
>people trying to defend the CCP in a thread about Hong Kong and almost every pro CCP comment was flagged

so just to play devils advocate here, say someone is Chinese and wants to post on HN and has a pro-government view of his own country, which is quite common, you're saying they don't even need to bother posting?

It's always interesting to see where the tolerance of opinion ends.
> i'm afraid life is a bit more complicated than that, dear.

I had vouched this comment until I read this sentence.

The OP is being offensive but being patronizing strengthens their prejudices.
Why wouldn't you want to run doom/linux on all the devices?
> but I think they hope that Google will suffer enough from this decision that they'll have to reconsider in the future.

Reconsider what? What is Google doing wrong here exactly?
>> Happened to me about three times during way more than 300 interviews.

Yeah - because the other people would simply prepare for their interview, be it bullshit or not.

If I were to come to your interview and were to bullshit you - I would have spent enough time in front of the mirror trying various ways of copying the behaviour of people who did all the work for me. It's not that hard to build up a story once you know where to start from.

>> Other than that, I stand by my technique, but it‘s mainly a question of tone. The first whole paragraph of my carefully A/B tested script solely concerns itself with making a candidate comfortable, as interviews prefer natural extroverts.

I don't know. There are loads of issues I had to deal with and I don't remember how I did that any more. There are even more issues which I would completely agree were "dumb decisions" but be absolutely logical if I looked back and realised were political decisions. Now, if you allowed me to look back at my IM history/code comments and see why I did what I did.

>> 90% of that time, this question actually ends up in a mutuably enjoyable conversation.

So basically what you're testing your interviewees for is how much they have prepared for interviewing with you (they're happy because they were preparing for your questioning/you're happy because they made the right answers). The question is whether their ability at being interviewed correlates with their ability to excuse themselves from doing the job.
I know. Pretty scary!

I actually believe China is the playground for the future, unfortunately.
Yeah, the whole problem is that traditional publishing is designed around creating the best experience for publishers, not for authors or audiences.

The reference formatting thing is just one of the ways they make it obnoxious for authors (it would be better for authors if you could just send them a list of DOIs and their computers should make it look the way journal style dictates — ELife does this). Idiosyncratic rules about the naming of sections or formatting of methods or supplementary material make transferring article between journals (even at the same publisher) unnecessarily tedious.

From the audience perspective, nobody wants to vault over the paywall to click on the link to click on the link to get the pdf that displays in a pane of the browser window. Nobody wants an enhanced pdf, whatever that is. I don’t want to see a pop up with the articles you think I should read next because they happen to share a single word in the title. I just want to click a link in pubmed or google scholar and go direct to the pdf. A few months back someone posted an enhanced google scholar that just linked directly to the PDFs from sci-hub. The user experience was so good that it really highlighted how obnoxiously bad publisher sites are.
Also look up the "Gorgon Stare" and ARGUS-IS. We have these cameras already.
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Axel Springer AG (who were the primary lobbyist for the law) actually attempted to use the law against Google in late 2014 for four of their biggest sites. It took two weeks for them to give Google a free license again. They cited a 40% loss of clicks from Google and a 80% loss from Google News as the reason.
Putting it that way somehow seems to make it even worse.
In response to your first link: If you do want tap water in a restaurant, as long as you order another drink as well they'll be fine with it.
Celebrating 100 Years of WWV – The NIST Radio Station WWV Celebration
Why is that? I've long been against Apple's stance of not allowing me access to the hardware I own, and this exploit seems the best of both worlds: If you want to make sure you're secure, just reboot the phone.
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I'd be willing to pay any reasonable amount to use one of these for short trips, but please make a model using bigger wheels or any bump in the road would either destroy them or my back, probably both.
Little-known facts about exoplanets
How to secure app pipelines in AWS
It ends where it supports behavior that eliminates the ability to enable being tolerant. This isn't difficult.
Author must be a fan of rap music. Look no further than Bobby Shmurda and Tekashi 69.
The constructal law of design and evolution in nature (2010)
A Web Tool to search Amazon by price per lb, liter, terabyte, and more
As far as I've seen, educational tech products are mostly garbage. It might be that the worst players are sucking up the most money and attention via marketing and political shenanigans, but I honestly don't get the impression that anyone is even trying to genuinely execute well in this area. It basically feels like stuff made solely to tick boxes and not actually empower users.
I really don't think the banks who participate in this system are "unaware" of the consequences. Again it's really just that the incentives aren't there or aren't sufficient to make them care.

I also don't really like the language "big bad banks". I believe you have a bunch of self-interested people (aren't we all?) and a corrupt system. People who go home and kiss their kids. If regulators aren't doing something that's in societies best interest, we should be figuring out why (corporate capture perhaps?).
We don't, and probably can't, know the ripple effects from each individual lost species. Some will have an important place in the incredibly complex food web. So we'll lose other species in other parts of the food chain. Some may turn out to be critical to something we find important. Once they're lost, no matter how critical they turned out to be, it's too late.

At the other extreme, we do know the problems associated with extensive monocropping. We've seen the effects of monocrop agriculture and forestry through the 20th century. The more healthy biodiversity we can keep in all species, the better for us.
Ah yes, you're right I remember that. It made some funny headlines.
How Not to Meditate
5 Year survival rate is one of the standard measures for the effectiveness of a medical treatment.
The physicist can drop a stone with a certain mass from a tower of a particular height and can predict that the next time she drops that rock from that tower, it will take the same amount of time to hit the ground.

Social science, which is most definitely science, must deal with the additional complexity of dealing with weird, quirky, fickle human beings. In a real sense, you and I are not the same people we were yesterday. Rocks and towers are much less interesting from that perspective.

Some physical or hard sciences, even without people, are lousy at predicting. Meteorology is a science, and there’s a reason for the old saw that the weather man is never right. What meteorology and social sciences have in common is they study complex dynamic systems where knowing the state of the entire system at any given time is difficult or even impossible and seemingly insignificant differences in precision can produce entirely different predictions.

Sometimes it is not the scale of complexity that makes a problem tough to tackle. I believe we agree that mathematics is a science, and I’ll make the modest claim that theoretical computer science is a branch of mathematics. We cannot predict in general whether an arbitrary Turing machine given a certain input will halt or run forever. Nevermind the simple question of whether a computer program will eventually terminate: Rice’s theorem tells us that in general we cannot predict whether an arbitrary program has any interesting property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem

Science is more than just high school physics problems.
You are right the authors are clear on being Christian and that they are part of western tradition. And for disclosure my fiancé is Hindu and I am a Christian so other more unusual mixes can also learn from each other.
It's not just the EU and its institutions pushing that narrative either. For example, before the European elections the BBC ran an article about all the great things the European Parliament has done which gave it credit for this and described the controversy as follows: "Supporters say the rule helps to ensure that artists, musicians and other creators are fairly compensated. But tech companies say it will destroy user-generated content." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48024400

No mention of the fact that MEPs had very little to do with the contents of the law, which was mostly shaped by shady back-room dealings between the French and German government, or of the concerns non-corporate-affiliated artists and content creators had about it screwing them over, or the bizarre voting fiasco.
I worry that widespread camera tracking is an effective route to determining identities of otherwise anonymous online accounts. If you can work out times when people are unlikely to be posting content online (e.g. because they are seen carrying bags of shopping) you can gradually, through process of elimination, work out who is the real identity behind some online account, or at least some probability. For example, if I make some number of posts on hacker news, every person who has an 'alibi' at the time of a post cannot be a candidate for the true identity of the account.
I live in Sweden where the age of consent is 15. On paper it's technically legal for me (35 years old) to have sex with a 15 year old.

Almost everyone in society would castigate me if I actually went ahead and did that, some going so far as to call me a pedophile but definitely labeling me a creep going after children.

Don't confuse the laws with what people think.
Probably lies in education and narrative