skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, the single most important thing I've ever learned is: try to be effective when you're communicating.

I used to feel an obligation to correct other people if they had false beliefs. This was not an endearing trait, and even worse, I was never particularly successful at convincing the other people.

One day, I read a passage from "How to make friends and influence people". It said something along the lines of:

"The point of an argument is to convince the other person of something. If what you're doing is not working, then do something else."

BAM

I'm not perfect, but these days, I try to listen a lot and speak a little. And the little I do speak is designed to appeal, as much as possible, to my audience.

As a small bonus: I really try not to get drawn into arguments with people who just like to argue (instead of those arguing in good faith). "OK" is an amazing response to shut those kinds of interactions down in a hurry. You can't out box the heavy bag.
I feel like the ratios changed a lot which makes it seem like the old Internet died. But there are probably more people running their own servers than there used to be. It's just that that makes up just something like 1% of the user community instead of 100%.

"The old internet" is what you got when only nerds were online. Replicate that and you got your old internet back. Cue the above mentioned decentralization work...
How do you make illegal monitoring access to services? Because at the core this is what tracking is based on.

Even if you trickled tracking down to IP addresses and time of usage only you could still have a very useful database of users across services.

Oh and by the way, tracking was not invented by Internet companies, all payment systems and credit cards have been doing tracking for ages before that and selling their data to third parties.
Naked greed is perceived badly, because it's frankly rather lower class.

But cut-throat monopolistic market domination, gaming, and consumer/employee abuse - that's just sound business ethics.
Reminds me of Stack Overflow.
You are right that it does not answer OP's question. I stand by my words, it is still the best comment I have seen. Sometimes it is right to "dont X, X is bad", as it is an opinion which people may freely communicate. I will happily accept my text turning grey for expressing my opinions.
Depends upon perspective.

Can walk into shop and purchase magazine and the magazine owner wouldn't know what you read, when you read it....
Equally the outlay would be just for the magazine compared to internet connection, computer capable of browsing the internet and then still have to transfer it to the TRS-80/100.

Then there was the important aspect many miss-out upon today, when you typed something in from a magazine, you got to know the code over just running a program. You made mistakes, and often the magazines would have erata sections to cover typo's from the last edition and with those mistakes - you learned even more than just hitting run.
Wouldn't letting him escape be way more embarrassing?
I think the may be less that it is impossible and more that none of the manufacturers do it so consumers cannot choose to buy it.
Re: flossing and Step 2: Make it the absolute smallest possible version of itself - you only have to floss the teeth you want to keep.
If they can't find a legal loophole, they will indeed just start paying regular taxes. As many companies do around the world.
I don't know how common this is, but the Boston area has https://www.cleenland.com/, a store that offers most household items in bulk, so you can go fill up a mason jar or something with detergent or shampoo.

Maybe something like this exists in other cities? If not it should, and really it should just be an aisle in the grocery store.
Worse than that: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube think they are doing us a service by inferring our bubble based on what we consume and then give us an ever-smaller bubble thinking it's what we want. What I want is full-spectrum coverage of topics: I want to know what the American left, right, and conspiracy fringe think of something, what the Euroskeptics and EU-supporters think, what the prevailing opinion is in Moscow and Tokyo -- and then draw my own conclusions if it's important to me.
I would argue that cooking is particularly amenable to being broken down into discrete activities that one can at least take a first pass at in an hour or so. And, for all the stuff in my kitchen, the number of things you need to get started is actually pretty minimal. (In fact, as with many things, you're probably better off keeping it simple at first.)
that's a really good question
I'm not attempting to establish credibility for BuzzFeed News beyond the statement of fact I made the my first comment. BuzzFeed itself doesn't win journalism awards, regardless of how you useful a signal you consider those, because their listicle stuff isn't journalism.

I have no interest in debating the nature of BuzzFeed News's journalism beyond making this distinction clear.
Hallelujah. When I see stories like this, I'm always reminded of what a strong, natural human predilection there is to choose sides. But when I look at the reports, the simplest explanation seems to me that both sides are true:

1. Ghosn was a talented CEO who engineered big turnarounds at Renault and Nissan, who also was likely embezzling from the company.

2. The Japanese justice system is fundamentally tilted toward the prosecution, and is especially unfair to powerful foreign individuals.
Apple Accused of Crackdown on Jailbreaking
This is an extremely privileged point of view. Politics actually affects real people, whether you like it or not.
How can you make monitoring logs illegal? Because that is pretty much enough to start tracking users.
So he got a special treatment, then fled, thus justifying the special treatment.
Wow. You're correct. Absolutely incredible that this is the only comment actually responding to the article's content.
Why should submitter explain the submission?

There's plenty of content in the link, and afaik we are all still being spied on by utterly unaccountable forces.
See my response to the sibling comment from mashby.
Sure, and those old sorts of forums still exist (well, the ones that didn't get eaten by Reddit and Facebook—OK, so I guess they kinda don't) but if you want the Web as it exists for most people to go back to standards and competing paid & free+libre solutions, I'm pretty sure banning spyvertising is gonna be a necessary, since those are the two main "services" most people use online, other than email (the rest is mostly shopping and reading news-type sites, both of which would also be improved by banning spyvertising).
I felt the opposite - the attempts to paint the protagonist with run of the mill human qualtiies led me to emotionally invest in him even more. This makes you experience the gut-wrench even more.
Washington Post,
Engadget,
Mac Rumors
I've read "Atomic Habits" by James Clear and "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. Does "Tiny Habits" bring anything new to the table? Or is it a reformulation of these other ideas?
US Coast Guard discloses Ryuk ransomware infection at maritime facility
Parts of it were good but there was a tonne of bad stuff too. Entire sites devoted to content that is beyond indecent that were completely open. Networks of sites devoted to exploiting young people. Nothing has entirely changed in that realm except that such sites are more rare. There was a whole cottage industry of software dedicated to making using the Internet for younger audiences possible. Without it the Internet was a funnel for the most base garbage humanity could produce.

I'm all down for decentralization but I think part of the protocol should be dedicated to enabling us to filter the content we receive.
i can't find any reference to it using supercavitation though the nose certainly suggests it. however, that nose can also serve to improve breaking the surface tension of the water upon entry.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/77/77403-0...

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/german-bt-torpedo-b...

https://robdebie.home.xs4all.nl/me163/weapons16.htm
Of course not, because extremism is on the rise according to this article...

If they got one whiff of what the wild west days were like, they'd be writing their Congressmen. They couldn't shame corporations into taking down sites they disagree with.
As if they can't slap 2-3 procedures costing several grand during the resuscitating process and say they were "essential" when they were not required at all? Good like proving otherwise...
thanks. land value tax is one of the great mysteries of life for me. bookmarked it for new-year watching.
At the bottom of that page is a link to general browser recommendations: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS/Browser_Recommenda...

One piece of advice that I'm glad to see included in that link: "Disable or uninstall any 3rd party "anti-virus" software. Most of them do more harm than good when they interfere with your browser's secure connections."

If you're using Windows, there is little need to use anything other than Defender (built-in). Any 3rd party anti-virus is intercepting your traffic for analysis.

Some 3rd party anti-viruses are even crashing browsers: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17555930
I just gave up on discord last night. Third or fourth time I came across a link to what sounded like an interesting server, then couldn't log in with existing credentials. I want to like it and use it, but frankly it's very tiresome to get going.

I'm not clicking on the link inviting me to your server any more. Have fun with those who fight through the silly spinning spider thing.
A potentially interesting project: a Show HN OPML file generated from the sources posted on HN and weighted based on frequency of posting and up-votes for articles from those sources.
From the article, who knows? There's some fear, uncertainty, and doubt thrown on the question, but the author doesn't seem to have tried it, just analyzed marketing language and usage documentation.
shit link
>Or you know, follow politics and meet with your elected representative and push for issues that you care about to make the world better for everyone.

It's impossible to make the world better for everyone, just those you care about (and that's only if you're fortunate enough to not trigger counterproductive secondary effects).

That said, I think GP is suggesting that you take your antenna out of the waveguide of impotent turmoil and bickering and focus your attention and energy on intentional, concrete objectives. Actually meeting with a representative to drive an objective forward is exactly in line with what is being suggested.
One aspect about old archived stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
The actual "old" Internet is the stuff that predated the web: Gopher, IRC, Usenet, MUDs, Public Access Unix systems, telnet...
Just want to say Google: Can we please get the option to disable left turns onto major roadways from a side street with no stop sign for the major roadway?

I frequently have to reroute myself due to these “shortcuts”
Infographic - Global Remote Work in 2020 Statistics
Or the revolutionaries take the power and then behead the president, then the 1%, then whoever disagree with them, then whoever think that the beheading is out of control and then some random people that is not nice enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
>Twitter is the most intellectual, and underrated, social network, because people follow too many political accounts and celebrities instead of other people

I mostly agreed up until this. These days it feels like on Twitter, everyone is political at least some of the time. Even a lot of otherwise interesting people who talk about technology 95% of the time, politics just HAS to slip in the other 5%. I don't even really blame them, certain groups treat you like a political enemy if you aren't constantly kowtowing their politics, it's like paying protection money to the mob. Most of these types have personal blogs where you can get their high effort technical posts without the low effort political trash, I'd say go to that instead of Twitter. Fuck Twitter.
Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like
> Many don't know why winzip/winrar has the option to split an archive into multiple files (so they can fit 1.44" floppy disk

Good archiving programs came with the option of using erasure/error correction codes so that the archive would still be recoverable, even if some of the floppies were returning read errors or became unreadable altogether.
> Can you think of a picture of yourself on the internet from before 2010, other than your old Facebook photos?

Nah, because I never felt compelled to put pictures of myself on the Internet before then. I still don't.

What I miss is the personal website, where people shared information and opinions about things they loved. That Web has been crowded out by, well, people posting pictures of themselves.

It's like that point in the party where the stimulating conversation ends because the host decided it's time to break out the slide projector.
I think you can do a lot more than a single dish. Learning how to peel common vegetables, boiling a pan of water, baking a potato, boiling/frying an egg, making a really simple tomato sauce and boiling pasta could all be taught in an hour. If you can make a basic pasta + sauce, bake a potato and prep some vegetables you can start cooking lots of other things as the skills are transferable.
To be clear, I'm not claiming that it does correlate... I'm only saying that you can't be sure it doesn't. It could be a selection effect, in that while it is said by everyone everywhere, we only hear from people in their cultural prime, which is just before the collapse. On the other hand, it may not be something everyone everywhere says, and it may be something that is mostly said by people in collapsing empires, in which case, it may very well be a true observation.

My main claim would just be that we don't have enough data to cite this quote (were it real) in mockery, as it is not quite as obviously wrong as it may seem from the very casual view of history.
Pearl-clutching swine. Die.
Warren Buffett on why companies cannot be moral arbiters
We prompt once on reboot if your location is not set at all.

We deliberately round to the nearest 0.1 degree for privacy (>5 mile box), but typing in a nearby city or airport code is usually fine.
Strange Superconductor Sends Electrons Both Ways
Ask HN: Best carry-on luggage for hackers who travel?
Hello HN and sorry for the potentially OT question.

I am required to travel a bit for work, including domestic (US) and international, and would like to optimize my life a bit more by making sure I never have to check luggage on a flight even when I have to stay away for a week or two, it's just too time consuming and error prone.

I am thus in the market for a good carry-on with optimized space. As I started my research, one obvious design choice is to go for a two wheels rather than a four wheels, since the space in the second one seems to be much more efficient (sadly, the market seems to overwhelmingly prefer the former option).

Currently eyeing the TravelPro Maxlite 5 international expandable carry-on [1] with a declared 45L capacity, but was wondering if any experienced traveler has some interesting recommendation.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

[1] https://travelpro.com/collections/carry-on-luggage/products/maxlite%C2%AE-5-international-expandable-carry-on-rollaboard%C2%AE
Yeah, ketamine is used as a sedative and painkiller in people who don't tolerate opioids. It's used off-label in low doses for treatment of depression and chronic migraines -- though is almost always administered by a doctor in a structured theraputic regimen.

The success of an approved drug like ketamine in treating depression and chronic migraines has opened the doors for studying other hallucinogens.
When a book is presented as a popularization of science, it's reasonable to expect that it is evenhanded with the evidence that is available when it is written.

Gladwell would probably end up making his books stand up better to criticism without making them any less interesting. It's fun to read about how much practice talented people have done. The problem is when you distill that down to a soundbite that sounds like a conclusion.
> The point of an argument is to convince the other person of something. If what you're doing is not working, then do something else.

That's not the point of most arguments. Most arguments have an audience, and often that audience is also involved in making choices.

If neither your opponent nor your audience is swayed, yeah, you could just be entrenching everyone in an oppositional attitude.

That being said, discussions are typically better than arguments when that is an option.
Cutting the Wire
> In our lifetime, 20kg of plastic

Yeah and you can be pretty sure that kind of quantity does not stay in the human body over 50 years+. So there is a factor of how much is in, and how much gets out. This, and not all plastics are equal, and some (most?) of hydrocarbons are fundamentally inert and unreactive and whether or not they cause harm is a big question mark.
Things That Went Right for Climate Action in 2019
The Reuters article is based on an article published by the WWF about a study they commissioned at the U. of Newcastle (Australia). Press release is here (https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/press_releases/?348337) and the summary is here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxvyl3v5s9d0a1v/PLASTIC%20INGESTIO...). If I'm reading this right, the study itself was a analysis of 50 other studies, not original work. A brief about the methodology is here (https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/plastic-inges...).

And, given the language "people could be ingesting...", "suggests people are consuming...", I'm a bit suspicious of the numbers given. The study itself is said to be under review for publication and has been for over six months now. Anyone know if that's a long time, normal or short?

Not sure if this matters, but the naive math doesn't really work... they say "about 2000 pieces a week" and that they were "fibers", and "about 5 grams". The pieces are stated to be < 1mm in size. Assuming an average of 1mm x 0.1mm x 0.1mm "fibers" (rather large IMO), that's 20 cu mm or 0.02cc. Given plastic's density that's 0.03g, not 5g. I wonder if someone misplaced a decimal point or confused mg with g.
I wouldn't argue against your experience. Or that people don't use Knuth much or at all in their work. Most people don't use textbooks much or at all in their work.

Per the question, the context of my answer is learning CS and in particular self-directed learning. If the question was about resources for work, I'd probably say "StackOverflow" and be done with it.
Thanks for the report! I will temporary cut the listing price in half to make up for the trouble.

I believe it may be a cache issue from our original build and you having visited previously. If you could, please hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) or visit the job portal directly: https://portal.remote.io/

I'll work on a quick temporary fix as well.

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DiscoverDev for great technical blog posts.
The Intercept to get an alternative media.
Fox News to understand people I disagree with.
The Economist.
Fraying floss is the worst!

I floss semi-regularly but will go periods of time without flossing due to the annoyance factor. I will try these. Just looked them up and are decently cheap.
I've heard that less new websites and blogs are actually bad for large services like google in terms of their search product
The Brain Senses Touch Beyond the Body
Wow, thanks! I knew about

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but it works only for beginning of the line. CTRL + R shows results with keyword anywhere within the line and pressing it again shows next result. CTRL + Shift + R goes back one result.
Oh yeah, I strongly agree those need to be stopped to. We keep hand wringing over all these leaks and such and "oh gee how to we improve security?", when the clear solution is to not allow it in the first place. That way a leak doesn't become some lame civil matter, but "oh, you had this plainly-illegal-to-collect info? Looks like your business is over" (which would be a rare occurrence, if it were actually that risky to do it, since it'd be hard to keep such collection secret given how many people would be involved and so how many potential whistle blowers there would be, and how large a "paper" trail is necessarily involved in mass-scale data collection, making it extremely easy to investigate and prove)
At first I had to keep checking the settings because I thought it had turned off. But when I turned it off it looked extremely blue and painfully bright. Even looking at a white screen I can't notice the orange tint at all anymore. It's pretty amazing.
I’ve read a competing theory of Japan which says prosecutors are so over-worked they only go through with cases they know they’ll win. I wonder how one would decide?

In the UK, the CPS only prosecute cases with “a reasonable chance of conviction”, which I guess means they essentially choose the conviction rate they’re aiming for?
Isn't it great to live in age of the new nuclear arms race? And all that was needed to get there was to accept the Boltonian percepts that international cooperation is unamerican and unpatriotic!
> It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in.

It's mostly not. The vast majority of daily political yammering and scandals has no effect.

People mostly use politics as a way to dodge real problems in their life that they could be solving. You see this most clearly with the way people bat about words like "capitalism" into nonsense definitions. Their criticisms are almost always manifestations of personal issues.

More generally, people mature when they stop believing politics will solve their problems. It is very sad to see people who spend years hoping their candidate will get into office to reorder the world for them (spoiler, they won't), when they could change how they live today to actually reflect their own values.

As for breaking news, etc. If its actually important, it will get to you anyway, I promise.

You don't have to spend time on Twitter, but if you're looking for internet places to go like the OP is, you can find things there that you will never find elsewhere. I'm answering his question sincerely. You can make new friends and start new collab projects through places like Twitter and Hacker News. I've done it! You're not gonna get that reading CNN or BBC or whatever. You're probably not going to get any actionable, meaningful information from news sources like those, especially day to day.

Twitter is 100% amazing, hugely underrated, and a return to the mode of being that we had pre-1500's, where most knowledge was obtained through dialogue instead of one-way broadcasts, and I will die on that hill.
I have a bash alias mapped to a single letter, and when I connect my macbook to the various three desks with multiple monitors, I can cmd-tab to the iterm window, open a new tab, type the alias, and it will infer which desk I plugged into and fix my monitors. Left, middle, right rotated. Etc.
Anecdotal can mean both "rare stuff that happened to some extreme outlier" and "personal experience of millions of people which don't have stats available, or official statistics push under the carpet in different creative ways".
NASA maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic 'candy cane'
Saw Titanic there on premier night. It was a glorious theater. Too bad it closed.
You must have missed the recent city council election, then. The parent comment is spot on