skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote (not data, not agreeing or disagreeing, just one point):

I have good mainland Chinese friends who are members of the CCP. They don't believe in communism, they're members of the CCP because 'it looks good to have the CCP on your CV'. They know the government killed people in Tiananmen square.

They do link the CCP to the fact they're richer than their parents (I see this as the US deciding to 'open China' back in the 70s). And they value stability more than the individual.
I mean, life is finite. Eventually someone else has to join the party.
I would frequently have to download linux distributions for my work, and they would download in seconds. I was maxing out my gigabit lan connection. At the time, they throttled individual connections, but not total bandwidth useage, so you had to use something like a bittorent client that creates many simultaneous connections to get the high speeds. Latency was a big problem though. Skype calls were often very poor. And power is pretty spotty in Pyongyang, so all of this is assuming that there's electricity.

Graduate students at PUST (and other local universities) have unfiltered internet. Undergrads have a more limited access where they would have to request that I download a webpage for them, and then I'd go download it and stick it on a usb drive. One of the main limitations is that students are not supposed to create accounts on websites because this would lead to tracking of them, which would allow NSA/CIA to target them.
Zuckerberg for actually having a spine when it comes to China, unlike Tim Cook

What spine? Facebook is blocked in China. It costs him nothing to take this stance. If Tim Cook tried the same, China could seize the factories and Apple would have no product to sell.

I'm sure in private Tim Cook would admit that Apple needs to diversify their manufacturing out of China as a hedge against the risk of a hostile government there. That is a process which cannot happen overnight, however, and so in the mean time it's best to tiptoe around the sleeping dragon.
> the response of the Chinese workforce seems rather paradoxical - criticising an accommodatung work environment, which, mind you, is only possible because of freedom of speech

You’re questioning, and implicitly criticizing, these workers for exercising their access to free speech, for complaining about an aspect of their employer’s position about their country of origin.

Such an implicit critique undermines the foundations on which free speech stands. Speech is free regardless of the benefits and privileges granted to those who would speak.
The Econtalk podcast latest episode is about a surgery clinic in Oklahoma that has full price-transparency policy. I am outsider to US healthcare system, but after listening to it, it seems hardly controversial what would be the right thing to do here:

https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
Existing solutions that cover this are services like Onedrive, Dropbox & Co. Copy things into one folder one a device and it will show up on all other devices. Either directly downloaded, or easily be available for download.

with a couple of clicks you can also share the things via URL with someone else.
Does this mean if they reply back to that comment, then they are not bots or shills?
It's not even remotely a way of measuring empathy; it's a way of measuring center-left political sentiment in America. Basically, this study reproduces Jon Haidt's work while obfuscating words like "empathy" with actual, measurable personality traits commonly known as empathy.
I have been on the USS Pueblo. When I was in North Korea, this was one of the many military monuments that foreign visitors were required to tour when visiting the country. The guides who took us on this boat made sure to emphasize how this was an armed warship that was committing an act of international aggression and violating a sovereign nation's borders, and which was captured by an heroic North Korean military mission. A couple of extra photos: https://imgur.com/a/8DDBrz1
I'm sure I could make better use of your home by demolishing it and erecting a homeless hostel. Isn't that more important than your prior claim to live there?

(This is a m-e-t-a-p-h-o-r, not a literal proposal, but what Starlink is doing to astronomy on a global scale is pretty much equivalent. The onus should be on Starlink to (a) not do that, or (b) pay for complete relocation or replacement of the telescopes they've just wrecked. Yes, that's a lot of money. Boo hoo ...)
I disagree. Surely this has happened _because_ children have been treated as numbers, not humans. The one thing this needs is humanising quotes and narrative.
One presumes that's what the beta blockers are for.
I don't think it's actually trending downward, the hardware survey only shows devices connected at the time. I have two vr headsets and I only plug them in when I'm actually using them, so according to the survey I don't have one. I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Also, totally ancedotal evidence, but four of my friends bought into VR in the last few months since the price finally came down low enough for them to do it and they wanted to play Beat Saber. If that can sell headsets Half Life certainly can.
I dont want to see 3rd party stuff my friends share. I want to see my friends content.
I was going to reply "but SharedArrayBuffer!" until I checked the site below and came back to reality.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=sharedarraybuffer
Nothing in the XPS 15 is glued in place. I'm literally using a laptop that has a screen from 9550 (4 years old), battery from 9560 (3 years old), motherboard from 9570 (2 years old) and other parts that I've accumulated randomly while upgrading my laptop from 9550 to 9560 to 9570.

And the parts that I wasn't using after the upgrade I've all sold to other people who had their mobo or battery fail. Nothing was wasted.

All this and I've got a pretty slick looking powerful laptop!
Straw man, almost no one is suggesting 50+ floor apartments in residential neighborhoods. Simply adding a few 4-5 floor apartments buildings with retail at the bottom would greatly improve quality of life in neighborhoods.
I've tweeted a few Ansible tips and gotchas over the years, covering some of the corner cases and a few neat tricks

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Amoreati%20ansible%20tip&...

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Amoreati%20ansible%20gotc...
Yeah, for sure. For all I know there's some major play-benefit to the newer sets that I don't know about and haven't happened to see with my kids, off-setting the use/play cases for which they're definitely less well-suited now.
Valve originally was a game engine company just like Epic and Id, and they still are but have broaden into a platform and publisher. All three companies built games to show off the capabilities of their engines. Valve is unique for also caring about storytelling and rich game mechanics compared to Epic and Id, at least at the time. HL1 was as much about being a tech demo as it was about being a great game.
It's pretty self explanatory. In fact you answered your own question.
The article is fine as is. Posting it on HN is a distraction.
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My little brother is gen z (born 2001) he seems very aware of it. I (1985) have talked with him a lot about it and he's very wary of taking out loans for school. He's open to basically whatever it takes to graduate with as little debt as possible. I don't know almost any other kids his age but I hope it's a commonly discussed topic for them.
I’m wondering if anyone knows if stripe does this ?
I don’t think it makes sense to compare HN to other social networks. It wasn’t started as a business that would need to turn a profit, it was started as a side project by a rich guy (Paul Graham) who wanted to see what smart people thought about things.

If HN fails to ever hit 1M users, PG (or Sam Altman) isn’t going to shut it down or cut off its funding, and neither he nor Y Combinator are expecting or relying on it to generate revenue. It continues to exist after over a decade because the Y Combinator folks find the content and discussion interesting.

And hey, that’s all well and good. I’m glad that HN sticks around when a more profit-driven site would’ve failed years ago. But it’s important to note that what works for HN likely wouldn’t work for anyone else.
ear plugs for a 2 hour sunn o)) show is a must, glad I started using them in my early 20s going to basement hc/metal shows
Is HS a social network? I think of it more like a forum. On HN I don't really care exactly who I interact with. It's just as good to me without my family and friends being users (better, in fact :). Real social networks aren't like that.
Who will win the media wars? – The battle to control eyeballs
So Google is encouraging illegal copyright usage to make other companies more profit. Do they at least get a kickback? And why doesn't the government go after them like they do after pirate sites then?
I find tales of POWs resisting where they can fascinating.

One of my favourites is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hegdahl:

He got blown overboard by a gun turret's blast, a story which his interrogators found so unbelievable they assumed he was an idiot and gave him free run of the POW camp, which he used to gather intel and sabotage vehicles.
> Hollywood movies

There is plenty of evidence showing China's propogandistic influence on Hollywood movies. References to Tibet, Taiwan, etc. are often removed.
They probably check the ISP to determine if the IP is static or not, and then map the name if it is.
I am honestly not surprised. In my country the current government came up with the idea to slam an additional tax on banks because they "think they earn too much" and they need to share with the society.
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Space telescopes are objectively superior in every single way. It's like a photograph under clear conditions vs a photograph in fog. Look at Hubble vs much larger terrestrial scopes. Starship's booster could launch something much larger than Hubble at a fraction of the cost.
Can you provide some examples? I don't remember Turok or Unreal having gripping stories.
Yes, you lose many of those capabilities, but you also gain new ones. I bet agar.io would never have been played had it been a Windows executable or a Steam game. The friction in starting the game and playing the game is so low, that it drawfs all other downsides by far.

In fact, this is the exact justification why HTML/JS business apps have thrived, because even though JS has tons of problems, all of them can be overlooked when you gain the capabilities of the web.
Don't trust the hardware survey. If the headset isn't plugged in it doesn't exist. Not many people leave the headset plugged in 24/7, so I don't think the HW survey is a reliable source.
Who's to say those employee actions are not being scrutinized by others and reported back?

As the US and China implement different tit for tat policies, relatives at home can be punished for the actions of relatives abroad.
>I am talking about exchanging a keyboard, battery, SSD

None of those things are as simple as you're making them out to be in the form/spec of the Macbook.

>And if people don't care about the time, they do care about the cost.

Apparently not as Apple has the highest customer service scores in the entire computing industry by a large margin. People care about having working computers and, by and large, people who buy Apple computers buy them knowing that out of warranty repairs may be expensive.

>why do they charge more than the cost for the broken part?

Because it's costly to recycle those parts. You can be cheap or you can be sustainable. Right now, you can't really be both.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21562295.
Thanks for sharing.

I lean to agree that it's more of a shift in public perception of Big Data companies. And hurting Google even when it might be one of the better players.
My current project, Loop Thesis, is completely HTML5/Javascript. It's going to be a downloadable game, but (at least right now) I can bundle it entirely in a web browser, and often do for demos.

It's complicated.

I don't regret writing Loop Thesis in Javascript; there are substantial benefits to the web as a platform. If I went back to rewrite Loop Thesis from scratch, I wouldn't do anything different. But benefits aside, there are also complications and headaches, particularly around timers, audio, controller support, and garbage collection. I think there are concerns that have to be balanced.

There's definitely room for more games on the web, and there are huge benefits to looking at it as a platform, but I don't want to give the impression that it's all rainbows.
I always wonder about claims like this where one nation says a ship was within their borders and the other nation says it was in international waters. This USS Pueblo is one incident. Israel attacked a Turkish ship in international waters. Iran attacked oil tankers in international waters.

All these incidents ... I can't help but think we never grow up as human beings all the way until becoming international super powers.

It's like a geopolitical "I'm not touching you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgXDYiHhp5Y

It's bullying behavior. It's an aggressive provocation.

Will we ever grow up?
If you're talking about life expectancy, certainly lifestyle means more than an excellent (as opposed to a good) hospital system.
Being partisan is fine for a journalist! But your premise in the OP is that Assange had to choose between burying the documents and publishing them -- because he had a responsibility to inform the public over what were matters of public interest. I don't think he did either of those two things, I think he did a third thing.
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Beat Saber really seems to be the closest thing to a Killer App for VR right now. I'm introducing it to people who have never really been interested in video games and they fall in love immediately. It's also the only VR game I've played that has felt like a complete, novel, and interesting experience that I keep coming back to.
The update to the article seems pretty relevant. YouTube says the music is not from the official Youtube Audio Library, but could be from a channel titled "YouTube Audio Library".
This, coupled with new software-defined microinverters that work whether the grid is up or down[1], is changing the game worldwide for safe solar AC. I for one am very excited.

[1] https://enphase.com/en-us/ensemble-technology-enphase-instal...
Haskell because of the type system. It's very satisfying to start a change in one location and have the compiler automatically tell you all the other places you need to modify across the whole project to finish the change and practically guarantee that it runs correctly. It's also great to not have to rely on human documentation to learn how to use a library. Looking at the type signatures is enough to learn how to use most of them. The type system also alleviates the need to write many tests.

It's also efficient in that it runs very, very fast thanks to being compiled. The size of the compiled executables can be very small too, when you chose to use dynamic linking of the libraries. Choosing static linking comes with the advantage of not having to worry about installing library dependencies (beyond libc) where-ever you chose to run the resulting executables.
Seriously. Mastodon started at thousands. People wrote articles insisting it would never go anywhere. It's still growing with thousands of instances for every sort of community three years after the dismissive op-eds started, and it didn't have the benefit of a major profile promoting it.
Seems like it. I’d say we have nothing more to worry about.
No you don't. The Chinese Communist Party being made up of Chinese people mean does not mean criticism of the CCP is criticism of Chinese people.
Then they can print out a quote for me before the appointment listing the codes that will be billed so I can obtain the cost from the insurance company. My point is that they don't want to provide them before the appointment to prevent shopping around.
The OP also ignores the staggering cost to commission and decommission a nuclear plant. Costs to decommission alone are $1-4 billion.

Solar can be deployed quicker, cheaper, and faster for anyone without access to a decade timespan and a billions of dollars of capital.
It should read “Chinese Government”, not China, too.

The Chinese government was not elected by the Chinese, is not in any sense a legitimate representative of the Chinese, and has no more right to rule over China than I do. Conflating criticism of the CCP with criticism of the country that they illegitimately rule is CCP propaganda techniques 101.
Maybe not in the most literal sense, but I can't see how to read "So your throat hurts after a few days' work? I'm finding it difficult to muster sympathy" as anything but dismissive.
The collapse of the information ecosystem poses profound risks for humanity
The metric relevant for social network sustainable growth seem unlikely to be total user count. It’s probably a mixture of metrics around inter-connectivity and rate of adjacent edge growth.
That number is multiplied by the social cred of Wikipedia. Right?
Pretty sure behavior which includes laughing at someone who got the crap beat out of them means, "low on empathy." No matter what their self-talk might involve.

It's not like evil people walk around with self conception that includes "gee I think I'll do some evil today."
I had/have no idea how this works yet.
> in terms of quality of evidence, there is sadly a relatively strong pseudoscientific strain of thought that denies any astronomy done from space. If we stop taking high-quality photos from the surface of the Earth using relatively mundane methods, then the flat-Earthers win.

This isn't a real problem with the quality of the photos. Such people should be kept out of power and otherwise ignored.

> what if Kessler Syndrome sets in?

Starlink can't result in Kessler Syndrome. The time it takes orbits to decay from that altitude is measured in single-digit years.
Check this out. I had decent and expensive insurance when my wife had surgery. We hit the max Out-of-pocket, which according to my employee docs was about $6500.
However, when I get the information from my insurance company it has totally different copy information with a OOP of $7300.
I talked to my employer several times and eventually filed a Dept. of Labor complaint because everyone is telling me it's ultimately my employers problem to fix.

Fast forward 3 months and after multiple go arounds and hours of phone calls they finally fix it. So what does my insurer do? They claw back fully paid payments for stuff that was done after my OOP was met. I have to call multiple doctors and argue with the insurance company for every bill.
It still confuses and unsettles me that Paint.net started as open source and then went closed source. I mean, people already had the source. All because someone tried to fork it? It just doesn't add up.
30year fixed mortgage rate of say 3.5% is only ~1-2% higher than the rate of inflation.

The cost of owning the house is really just interest + hoa + taxes + upkeep. You'll get your principal back out when you sell.

Over a long enough time period, the yearly home ownership costs will be less than renting.

Owning even in SF can still be a better financial decision than renting. There's a lot of tax advantages that you get by owning a home as well.

E.g take this place: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/201-Sansome-St-94104.... Costs about 5.4k/month. Removing principal & tax rebate its likely costing you ~4-4.5K/month.

Somewhat equivalent rental is 3.3k/month. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-916-pac...

Cost of owning is ~1k/month more expensive. However you've locked in your mortgage for 30 years. Likely after 7-10 years the place you were owning will end up cheaper than renting on a monthly cost basis.
Well, I think so too, but - just to play devil’s advocate - many of my former bosses would almost certainly say something like, “the cost of the web server is known. The cost of collecting the web traffic can be calculated deterministically. We’re just talking about a website here, the cost should absolutely be known.”
I'm surprised there is no startup that sells you membership in offshore healthcare. If you want to do anything, you just jump on a short hop flight to a man made island in international waters and get healthcare. Or, coupled with a trip to Thailand. It would be disruptive and cheaper.

My wife is a doctor and last night she tried to renew her credentials at a major hospital network here. She could not, despite clear instructions, open the PDF locally to add her signature. I inspected the web view in chrome tools and see it is an awful Microsoft product behind the scenes.

This is the reason this attempt by Trump will never happen (I'm supportive even though I despise Trump). My wife's incentives and the hospital incentives are aligned, even though no one will admit it. Even if hospitals are forced to give price transparency, they will just go and buy a shitty solution from Microsoft (I'm using Microsoft as a placeholder, but it can be any large tech company who wants in on the action), who will be happy to certify it for the law. It won't work and the hospitals can blame Microsoft. Microsoft will lobby politicians to water down the law so they won't pay anything but a pittance if things don't work. Consumers will get continually screwed. The doctors and the hospitals will continue to make great money because they will still not have to admit pricing this way, with zero transparency, is the golden goose of healthcare and why costs are insane in the US.
> Imo internet access is going to have immediate positive impact for billions of global disconnected poor.

do you really think that? is that why companies like facebook are so interested in third-world markets? or is it because they want to elevate their ability to siphon user data and hack human emotions to become addicted for more and more money, and also that facebook wants there to be little distinction between them and and the internet in these markets?

i don't think the internet has had as big of a positive impact on society as people think it has. in no other time in history has there existed such a powerful medium for control and manipulation.

and this is ignoring the fact that most of elon's projects are born out of narcissism and hubris.
I don't want to give free gifts to surveillance capitalist companies.
> The first, which is reasonable, is that a lot of treatments are bespoke. Fine. That's a justification for their being costly not for your having to imagine the cost because no one can tell you.

Treatments are billed using billing codes so they are definitely not bespoke.
Reddit, despite its own flaws, is the closest thing to Usenet in terms of a text-oriented display with keyboard-heavy navigation (with Reddit Enhancement Suite).
So it's not necessarily that there were 20+ MCU movies in the span of 10 years (and from what I understand the majority were at least good and some great), it's that during that time period the MCU movies became a dominant slice of the overall movie pie instead of the entire pie growing bigger. That, overall, seems to be Scorsese's gripe, because Avengers Endgame and DC's Justice League and Joker, etc... suck up so much oxygen Scorsese couldn't find a studio to back The Irishman so now he had go with Netflix. Now I'm starting to diverge a lot from where Scorsese and Moore intersect and it becomes more about Scorsese and a matter of sour grapes.
That's not really true anymore. In the last few years adaptive optics has closed the gap.

source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a22240382/neptune-gro...
I think drone stickes where civilian deaths are acceptable is comparable.
I wasn't aware a version 4 was in the works. Any word on eta?