skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in what is called an "urban village" in China, and aspects of it are similar to Kowloon Walled City. That is: there are a lot of quasi-legal mid-rise buildings so close together that if you walk in the alleys between them you cannot see the sky. Most apartments do not have a window, and those that do mostly just look out on the opposite building. Migrant workers live in dorms on the ground level and squatters convert rooftop greenhouses to small living spaces. The wider streets are still technically walking streets, although there you will also find cyclists and electric scooter delivery drivers squeezing through. There are lots of rats and cockroaches, but because gentrification there are also buildings that have a concierge and occasionally spray pest control.

The big difference between urban villages in the mainland top-tier cities and Kowloon Walled City is exactly that they are managed with laws. Although these villages are considered by middle class people as sketchy areas full of black society (mainland version of triads), in reality it's mostly just migrant workers trying to make a living. Plus, because mainland China, police (and informants) are everywhere, so it's relatively safe compared to the actual sketchy areas in low-tier cities.

The good things about living in an urban village are that there is very cheap food, the people are very friendly and you can walk downstairs to get everything that you need without having to visit a chain store.

The bad thing is that these areas are seen by the government as a necessary evil, and as soon as the surrounding areas get rich enough, they just clear the whole place out. Like, full on demolition bye bye. Because the vast majority of people living in urban villages are migrant workers, they have very few rights in the city (public schooling, healthcare, housing etc), so evicting them is easy.

If you're interested in this kind of living a great blog to follow is Shenzhen Noted: https://shenzhennoted.com/

Of course, you can also find a similar lifestyle in European cities, where most buildings are walking distance from a fruit shop, a kebab joint, a bakery and a pub. North American condo living is a totally different thing because it's dominated by shopping malls and chain stores. Even the working class towers in North America have fast food chains downstairs. The kind of local/community lifestyle we have here is something i really wish i could transport to the North American cities. It's so much better, imo.
This doesn’t address my point. The majority of Americans are not wealthy, so of course the majority thinks that.
Worst case offer a way to disable it or adjust the acceleration gain.
Aliens land? Monsters emerge out of the ocean? :P

There'd be a big war and after that who knows what the world would look like. The fact you still see the world as necessarily dipole, a tension between great powers vying for control over "the little people" kind of makes my point.

There is no difference between an American and a Chinese hegemony. The problem isn't that the hegemony we have is American. The problem is hegemony.
Wealth taxes became a big part of American political discourse because your populist politicians realised they can promise voters astoundingly expensive things by framing them as being just a small percentage of the wealth of ultra-wealthy folks like Jeff Bezos. You can't pull off that rhetorical trick by taxing capital gains.

Of course, in reality I don't think this would work anyway. All that wealth only exists on paper - it's just the nominal values of their shareholdings at the current market price, and if you make everyone sell at once that price plummets and the illusion disappears. I'm not sure it even makes sense on a fundamental economic level. You can't turn shares in Amazon into healthcare in the way that you could, say, Bezos buying a less fancy yacht. Even though the yacht and the healthcare use different resources, other businesses in the economy with a choice between what resources they use to make their products receive pricing pressure to change that choice and ultimately, it should all sort itself out in the end. That doesn't work here. The only way for the sums to work out is for other people who would actually buy things to forgoe purchases worth as much as whatever you want to fund and buy Amazon shares with them instead - and the whole reason populist politicians want to frame this in terms of wealth in the first place is because what they want to fund is huge compared to the size of the US economy.
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Mazda has said that they've decided not to have touchscreens in any of their cars going forward.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335

I don't know what their stance is on built-in surveillance technology.
I just don't feel that is the case. Because money given to a poor person will likely be spent on essentials, not saved. The wealth tax will likely be less than what a wealthy person makes in capital gains/dividends each year so meanwhile their fortunes are growing. So while it definitely helps the poor, it's not going to tighten that gap.

Something more fundamental needs to be done with corporations and how disproportional the rewards are to the owners/shareholders and the employees themselves. I have no idea what this would actually look like though.
I find China's productivity impressive. We can observe that wealth is increasing for a big part of the population and that is a good thing!

Still the test for me is how a society treats its weakest members. And in China, one is severely restricted to even talk about its weakest members! That hampers everybody in knowing how they're doing. In light of the information we outsiders have, the censorship is hurting these people. I'm not willing to accept this oppression as a matter Chinese citizens are best equipped to decide when they are not allowed to learn the facts.
Maybe I've just been out of the scene too long, but can't let mention of Linux gaming luminaries go without Ryan C. Gordon of Loki Games/icculus.org. For many years, if there was a big project coming to Linux, Ryan Gordon was likely to be the wizard behind it.

His homepage: http://icculus.org/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/icculus
https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS-VR-Blurry-Pictu...
Thermodynamics doesn't lie.

Operate at an energy deficit and I guarantee you'll lose weight.

Is it going to feel horrible? Hell yes.
Yeah, no issues with my speed. Again, if I'm accelerating faster than pretty much anyone on the road, the problem isn't my car's acceleration.

Also, no one on the roads has any trouble catching up. The reason why people tailgate is because they're annoyed by people driving slowly (while possible still at the speed limit) in front of them.
(I was busy answering your email when you posted this, so maybe it's easiest to just include that response here.)

The articles aren't 100% identical, but it's unquestionably the same story, and when HN has had a major discussion about a story recently, follow-ups count as dupes unless they contain significant new information [1]. Commenters in the original thread were well aware that the pricing has gone up. Indeed, that was the only significant thing about the story, so I don't think there is significant new information today. One way we check that is to look whether the comments are saying the same sorts of things as previously, or whether they are focusing on something new. In this case the discussion seemed much the same.

Front page slots are the scarcest resource HN has [2], and optimizing for curiosity [3] requires minimizing repetition. Follow-up posts on controversial topics often get a lot of upvotes, but because they're mostly repetitive, it's an important function of moderation to downweight them. I'm sorry your article got caught in that mechanism. I know it sucks to get downweighted off the front page.

I completely agree with you that their announcement was unclear, and in fact was having a conversation by email about this with some users yesterday. You can see one artifact of that conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22003612. HN's title rule calls for keeping original titles except when they're misleading or linkabit. Bland corporate press releases that are designed to bury the lede are misleading [4], so we tend to change them. If you want to suggest an accurate title, we can still change it. The only reason I reverted "Postman announces 50% price hike starting Feb 2020" is that at the time, I had no easy way to be sure that that was true.

I hope this helps explain things a bit, and sorry for the disappointment.

Edit:

I haven't had a chance to look into the details of what happened with those old posts you've linked to. It's possible that that case differed significantly from this one. But it's also possible that we just missed the duplication. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN, so we miss a lot. For that reason, it's impossible for moderation to be consistent [5]. Our principles are consistent, but the practice isn't. If you or anyone see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the most likely explanation is that we didn't see it [6]. In that case you can help out a lot by bringing it to our attention at hn@ycombinator.com.

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4. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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Alphabet’s legal chief David Drummond is leaving the company
Ha, I did the same. Built little casings in LEGOs. Good times
Seemingly, the Commerce clause gives the fed's near unlimited power.
I've found this to be a pretty great resource: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision...
Former heavy drinker here. I used to get very drunk about once a week (exclusively in social situations). I had to cut down on alcohol significantly few years ago, due to a health problem that came about unrelated to drinking. Now I get drunk maybe 2-3 times a year.

I was disappointed that I didn't get any of the benefits I frequently found mentioned online. I didn't lose any weight, my skin didn't look better, my thinking hasn't become any more clear, I didn't become more productive and my relationships haven't improved. But those were all in pretty decent shape while I was still drinking regularly.

All in all, life just became a little more boring. It wasn't even that hard to reduce my drinking, after having come to terms with the life-becoming-more-boring part. I just wish there was some substance which would fill the same niche without the health risks. Weed isn't really it.
I agree a few more things need to get in. But AFAICT the abi is not stable and you may need to recompile all dependencies when updating the compiler.

I would like it to be "feature complete" without having regular churn like C++. Or the recent battle with Python that was a sort of last straw for Guido. C is almost completely stagnant and that's a good thing. Posix as well. If you want to be a long term systems language it seems stability is a critical feature and Rust needs to get that in the next few years. IMHO or course.
My entire family, outside of myself, has struggled with alcohol. I watched it turn them from brilliant, creative people into miserable wretches that avoided living life like one would an allergy. For every single one of them, they started out drinking heavily at parties. Then they would have a beer after work to 'relax'. Then two. Then four. Then six. And then their livers, marriages, and careers started to fall apart around them. They stopped leaving their homes, and then their chairs, and then their beds -- until they were dead. Their livers failed along with the rest of their health. Alcoholism isn't a war or a battle, it's a slow, insidious invasion and dismantling of your coping mechanisms until you have literally nothing else to turn to.

It always amazes me that casual and habitual drinking is an accepted thing. People even seem to take pride in their alcohol tolerance, and congratulate each other for drinking more of the substance than others would even attempt.
In an oversimplification, there are two means to motivate people; the proverbial carrot and stick.

Call centers (and most low paying jobs) operate with a goal of minimizing costs. Most incarnations of motivating people with a carrot involve spending money on bonuses for performance, raises, etc. So those can't be implemented because it would raise costs. Another option for the carrot is promotions, but my impression is that there isn't a lot of upward mobility in call centers; at least not of the variety that eventually gets you out of the call center.

So once all your options for motivating people with carrots are gone, you end up with the stick. And this is what it looks like when your only motivation option is the stick.

You could probably operate a call center that handles calls as quickly using bonuses and such, but you would be more expensive. You'd have the benefit of having happier employees, but that's not a thing businesses are willing to expend money on. And even if you did, some enterprising soul in a few years would propose eliminating the carrots to save money and youd be back to square one.

It also doesn't help that most of these workers also lack a lot of other employment opportunities. In tech, for instance, it's hard to run a shop using sticks instead of carrots because your workers have plenty of other potential employers. They'll just quit.
well to be honest, when the media which includes print, broadcast, news, and even movies, portray men in a bad light over and over and over it can have an effect.

many parts of the legal system and quasi legal system; think colleges; de facto treat men differently. this is especially true in cases of divorce, domestic violence, and campus issues.

this is not to say there are not many cases where the outcome is correct but there are too many instances where the deck is stacked against them before they even get to the table.
Not only do they only want to hire those types, but I've been in plenty of rooms where the stereotypical young engineer outright refuses to acknowledge the older people in the room, as if they're beneath him/her. They have no respect for that person's opinion, and therefore show zero respect to that person.

We've all been in rooms where someone misses the point, or says something that proves they're not keeping up with the conversation -- it happens. What's unique about people in the bay is how unforgiving and judgmental they can be about those errors, and it's only heightened if the person is above a certain age.
No one's going back to the messy spaghetti-generating "just-jQuery" pattern of yore.

I devised a way of using plain closures to create DOM nodes and express how the nodes and their descendants should change when the model changes. So a component is a function that creates a node and returns a function not unlike a ReactComponent#render() method:

props => newNodeState

When called, that function returns an object describing the new state of the node. Roughly:

{ node, className: 'foo', childNodes: [ childComponent(props) ] }

So, it's organized exactly like a react app. A simple reconciliation function (~100 lines) applies a state description to the topmost node and then iterates recursively through childNodes. A DOM node is touched if and only if its previous state object differs from its current state object - no fancy tree diffing. And we don't have to fake events or any of that; everything is just the native platform.

I implemented an in-browser code editor this way. Syntax highlighting, bracket matching, soft wrap, sophisticated selection, copy/cut/paste, basic linting, code hints, all of it... It edits huge files with no hint of delay as you type, select, &c. It was a thorough test of the approach.

Also, when we animate something, we can hook right in to the way reconciliation works and pass control of the update to the component itself, to execute its own transition states and then pass control back to the reconcile function... This has made some really beautiful things possible. Fine grained control over everything - timing, order, &c. - but only when you want it.

Sorry for the wall of text.
kneejerk thought : total _dollars_ cost is $2.5 trillion, whereas other dimensions have costs too, lives lost, morale, reputation. Not sure how to think about any of that.
I'm seeing a lot of this in my extended family. If society isn't telling you that you have a primary role in creating and supporting a family, and that you're necessary for the future of society itself, it turns out that you need a lot less money to survive, and you have a lot more time on your hands.
Perfect example of a Dad joke, however.
For reference, here's an older 0-100km/h list for 9s: https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/rotherbach/beschleunigung-0-... (and the full list https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/rotherbach/beschleunigung-0-... )
Bushfires are a natural part of the ecosystem in Australia. Many plants are adapted specifically to survive and thrive after bushfire conditions. However, bushfires on this scale is somewhat unprecedented.

It's a bit like 5 hurricanes hitting Florida in one summer. Aren't hurricanes normal in Florida?
Due diligence works both ways and it pays to do your homework on potential buyers and to ask them to prove their claims, or even ask them to put some money down, before proceeding.

I don't know the company or what they do but cynical me can also imagine a third party pretending to want to acquire in order to gain inside knowledge.
Google isn't turning up much. Is the project open source? Would love to take a look.
Do you need really need "sources" to know that shame acts as a deterrent not to do something, and/or as a motivating factor to do something, for a multitude of actions good or bad and has done so for thousands of years of human history? Simple observe...and you will have all the sources you need.
Sounds like now is a time for a return to philosophy! Much less capital intensive to be able to make a contribution by thinking, reading and discussing vs setting up a multimillion dollar research lab.
You can move when it gets too unbearable. You wouldn't be able to do the same with your savings.
It doesn't help if almost all external nudges in the domain that matter most (affordable, easily accessible food) are terrible. The few times I visited the US I was constantly shocked at how the food environment felt like it was trying to make me obese at all costs.
Your list has one glaring exclusion: social skills.

If you're a brilliant programmer, but an asshole and proud of it (or unaware of it), then yes, you will not get far on your skills alone.

Whether we like it or not, we are all part of a society, and those who choose to rebel against that, well, that's thier choice and accept the consequences. (Follow up: you can't really hide behind remote work if you lack social skills. Possibly, but not very likely.)

EDIT: Snark removal.
"Lichess is for professionals. Plenty of GMs ims and masters play on it. Even Magnus plays the tournaments. This is like saying Linux is not enough for computer professionals."

This is a misunderstanding. Lichess is used by chess professionals for playing online chess against each other (which is mostly recreation and not serious chess preparation). Software like ChessBase is used for game preparation.
It not totally superficial - a good haircut, shaved face, groomed nose hair, groomed ear hair, nice, clean ironed clothes and good shoes is signalling - it’s saying “All the little things have been dealt with and I have attention to detail - and I am also wise enough to acknowledge that this is signalling and I’m willing to play the game”
> "You would have thought when you're engineer you'd only be judged based on your technical skills [...]"

I'd not think that unless I was working with Vulcans from Star Trek. It's foolish to expect engineers to be immune from the messier irrational aspects of human interaction. I think perhaps some 'engineer types' confuse the concepts of how something should be and how it actually is. They think they should be judged solely on the quality of their work, so they mistakenly believe they will be judged so. Confusing that which should be and that which is.
Perhaps a combination of cultural and technical feedback loops?

Technology selects folks that like 'playing computer in your head' as Victor said [1]. This grows a culture where tools that help you avoid mentally simulating the computer are devalued. This selects more people even better at playing computer in their heads, etc.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin...
I have a suspicion that there may be a cultural difference in posture between the West and China.

I’ve been practicing a Chinese martial art for half a decade, and in the last few years I’ve gotten incredulous looks a handful of times when I tell someone my height. I do not stand rail straight anymore, I hate shoes with lifts in them because they throw off my balance. I am in effect shorter than I was, which puts me at the high end of average in the eyes of people who are below average height (who do stand up, and don’t mind 1 inch heels).
I've seen million dollar deposits get forfeited, people are insane! It might honestly be a good business model on its own.
I wonder how this all fits in with the recent trend towards Stoicism in Silicon Valley:

From Epictetus, a father of Stoicism

>1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

>The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, restrained, belonging to others. Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered. You will lament, you will be disturbed, and you will find fault both with gods and men. But if you suppose that only to be your own which is your own, and what belongs to others such as it really is, then no one will ever compel you or restrain you.

>23. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, so as to wish to please anyone, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life.
East coast journalism has a fetish for hating and describing SV engineers in the worst possible ways.
Good engineers are smart enough not to work at “hip” places unless it comes with a hip paycheck as well.
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