skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point really had nothing to do with Bezos in particular. He's one data point among hundreds of America's billionaires. And their collective wealth is by no means tiny.

You're right in that the U.S. has socioeconomic issues for political reasons. But we can't disconnect the billionaire class from our political class. Billionaires have ridiculous, outsized influence over politicians and therefore public policy in the United States. And that influence ranges from crafting tax law that benefits them to modifying rules and regulations that given their businesses advantage.

When wealthy people have tax law changed in their favor, we could charitably say that it is "indirectly" pulling money away from social programs that matter.
I read a lot of independent blogs. When you see a blog post with a good tech analysis, subscribe to them as a lot of people write non-tech stuff as well which would never make it up on HN [I wrote about RSS here: 1].

You can also set up another RSS reader and just import a couple of those "Awesome blog" lists on Github. That way you have a collection of random shit you can browse through and sometimes you get an interesting title.

Get on an ActivityPub server (Mastodon, Pleroma, MissKey) or set one up yourself. You can find a couple of threads on here and Lobste.rs where people post their Fediverse accounts and you can follow some of those and then branch out and find other people.

[1]: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/rss-the-original-federated-so...
I was going to say the same thing. I read "Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels" years ago when I was getting started in electronics. It's also how Solarbotics got started.
In addition to the mortality we're seeing people with permanent damage to lungs, kidneys, heart and other organs. There are people in their 20s and 30s who didn't have "serious" cases (as in they didn't need to be hospitalized) that are still having symptoms 3 months after onset that prevent them from working. There are estimates that up to 10% of people who have covid have symptoms lasting longer than 3 weeks. There could be additional economic consequences if a largish number of people end up with permanent disabilities due to covid-19.
Utopians like the author are simply unbearable. Socialist fail to see that business will dry up with making everyone comfortable and free market capitalist fail to see that there aren't many new frontiers to gain profit from to increase everyone's wealth. Growth and ingenuity is slowing in the only remaining frontier, the technology sector, as well. No growth lasts forever, the greater physical universe is bound to the stipulation of limited growth as well.

The west is in decline and it may take the rest of the world with it. If you want to survive learn useful skills, become more self-reliant, and protect you and yours. Utopia is impossible, unlimited wealth and happiness is impossible, matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred.
I mean, if you're against their rules, fine. But to the original question, it's clearly a model that seems to work.
One simple thing is for sure, if inequality continues to rise, or even just the perception of it, social unrest will follow. At some point, if you want a peaceful and free society, the low-income worker and up needs to feel that they can live a dignified life.

Remember the quote from the Communist Manifesto? "We got nothing to lose but our chains". At the time that was written it was certainly true for most workers, and we know of the revolutionary decades that followed. This perception can certainly take hold again, and there's no reason why revolutionary times wouldn't follow again.
For the record, Sails === not dead (unless I am also dead)

In all seriousness: I maintain it every day with a team of 4 other core team members with the help of an incredible community of contributors.

https://sailsjs.com/about
Reminder that Sweden, with their relatively lax COVD restrictions, are a month past no excess mortality: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden...
> I think Snowden had a point when he said that the answer to bad speech is more speech, not censorship.

Yes! A lot of people get angry when you tell them that, but I think that people should be able to say vile, hateful things. Not because those things contribute anything meaningful to society, but the only way you can possibly have a chance to challenge the views of those people is by knowing that they have those in the first place.
Let's presume for a moment that the new edge is like... Nirvana, it's the promise land, it's browsing utopia, let's assume that it really really is.

Do you earnestly believe it will stay that way if an actual sizable chunk of the market starts using it?

Or do you think Microsoft will do exactly what it did as described in this very article, which is use it's monopoly position to enforce its own interests to the detriment of society at large?
A alternative to this has recently been published at ICML that claims to be faster. The website and tutorial video are very nice, too.

https://linear-transformers.com/
Haha yeah, totally. Modern Western culture as we know it is only about 500 years old, though it arguably takes influences from the Greeks and Romans back another 2500 years. Even 500 BC though isn't that old in the grand scale of things. It's interesting how we refer to everything before ~500 AD as "ancient" when civilization really began around 3000 BC—that is to say, the "ancient" period is more than double the length of the post-ancient. It's mindblowing to think what could've happened in those entire centuries during which we just don't have records of certain areas. Partly the reason why I'm super interested in archaeogenetics, revealing the tremendous amount of history locked away in our very own DNA.
Maybe this is an unavoidable byproduct of having everybody on the web... I started using it around 2005, I can’t imagine how people who started with homepages and newsgroups must feel.
If you think that, it's a testament to the skill of the web developers who have spent countless hours battling browser bugs and poorly or non-implemented standards to ensure that their site works and looks the same on every browser.
Yes. Like I said, if the law allowed it, he would support racial discrimination too, according to his statement.
It's not just that. They're killing any contraction to a very very narrow narrative. Voat had a lot of bad design decisions that made it as bad as it is today (https://battlepenguin.com/tech/voat-what-went-wrong/).

Reddit is turning into Voat. A lot of centrists and moderates that leaned a little right are leaving, and they're not going to come back this time to view one or two subs. Where Voat is a hard right cesspool of monothink, Reddit is soon going to be a hard left cesspool of monothink.
I'm curious whether this new project has been driven in any way by the difficulty of integrating data from Wikidata into Wikipedia. It various a lot by language, but the user communities are quite hostile to Wikidata in some cases. I think it's generally on the grounds that since Wikidata is a wiki, it can be easily vandalized and its data can't be trusted.
>Gas lighting a whole generation of people to settle for less because “things” don’t matter, money doesn’t matter and what really matters is living in a tire shed telling yourself that everything is OK.

Other people telling you what you should want is obnoxious. But I take it as axiomatic that whenever someone is doing that sort of thing, they're really debating themselves. Every debatable assertion is the outward expression of inward uncertainty. It's healthy to accept that.

If someone is telling you things don't matter, then they are trying to convince themselves. And if it makes you angry, then you are trying to convince yourself they do matter. You can just say "maybe, maybe not" and possibly consider experimenting to find out. Get things, give them up. It's inevitable that in life, first you get things and then you give them up, anyway.
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I will reply for the quantitative developer role, given your description I suppose that it's what you are looking for.

Succinctly, I would say that it's a strong computer scientist/developer highly interested in finance to be able to understand/discuss/implement business requests.

It's important to be able to work under pressure (when there is a problem on an automaton for instance, etc.). It's also important to be able to frequently switch between tasks.

I would not say that you have to be extra smart.

I started as a computer scientist in a bank, turned quantitative developer and then trader a couple of years later.
How, precisely, do you propose this would work with raw keyboard modes? Or graphical context menus?

The discussion around this is so strange and weirdly nontechnical to me.
For a second I thought they had gotten rid of the # of record pricing and made this a hell of a lot simpler. But I guess now it's just all hidden in a FAQ at the bottom of the page, and it's actually worse than it used to be.
There's two parts, I believe. One is the outright blocking of certain websites. The other is the throttling of every foreign website because the exchange points coming in/out of china are always congested. If both netflix and comcast's streaming service are similar in price and catalog, but netflix is always buffering because comcast is throttling netflix (intentionally or otherwise), then you might be inclined to go with comcast just for less hassle.
Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech
I dig the salad ingredients, huge fan of chicken-related salads.

And yeah haha, it's just sheer laziness and lack of discipline. I've eaten what my coworkers often affectionately refer to as "cat food" (bowl of canned meats and peas/carrots or chili) for most of my adult life so my bar for taste is pretty low lmao.

I would say it's a "price I pay for the convenience" but I know damn well I could buy an Instantpot and throw a bunch of food in it + push a button and have meals for days, in the heat of the moment it always just seems easier to go "welp, I'm hungry _now_, and this garbage food is r-e-a-d-y-t-o-e-a-t so we've got ourselves a plan." haha.
This reads more like a hit piece. Just close the browser and use chrome ff as default anyway. You are on windows platform, aren’t you ? This discussion was already over and Microsoft already lost.
I do not know about absolutely loving Edge, but I just setup a new work computer and am using edge exclusively. I cannot promise that this is forever, but it is working for me right now.
I stumbled upon a hobby electronics book back as a teenager and actually debated going to school and doing EE back then. Ultimately software won out, I suppose because it was so much accessible to me back then.
For the first time in almost a decade on HN I see ALL parent comments (six, as of now) greyed out. This can't be right... 32 comments stemming from these downvoted ones can't be a good sign for discussions. Sometimes economically/politically sensitive news are depressing in the comments section and I think we can do better. I don't even know how to comment about the article now, fearing random rage of someone else.
Excess mortality doesn't paint the complete picture anyway, although Sweden didn't go into lockdown they did require people to work from home if able which would have reduced mortality rates from workplace incidents, traffic, etc.
I hear this a lot, but it's a silly argument. Lock-in doesn't come from using the special services. It comes from your data being hard to move.

Before I moved reddit from a datacenter to AWS, I was "locked in" to my datacenter. It took weeks to get all the data out and into AWS.

Working around their special services isn't all that hard. Nothing AWS offers is that hard to replicate outside of AWS if you want to. The hard part is getting your data out.

So if you're going to put all your data into AWS anyway, you might as well use their services and save yourself some time and effort reinventing what they've already done. If you really need to move out later, then make the investment in rebuilding the tools they offer.
I like this idea of a platform for curating content. I'm imagining something like Reddit (multiple, unrelated subreddits with independent moderators) but where only hand-selected discussions can be seen?

It's intriguing, because it would still suffer from bias (like any platform) but maybe the diversity of moderators would neutralize that a bit, and maybe you'd see more cross-pollination between groups because of the quality of the discussion.

Given 1) how hard it is to bootstrap a new social media platform and 2) the resurgence of independent blogging, I'm wondering if a prototype could come in the form of a pluggable comment system, but where you hand curate the comments that show up (or could even feature them in a subsequent blog post)? Something as easy to set up as Disqus, but OSS and designed to de-escalate rather than escalate conversations.
I was expecting at least an aside for Rasputin, although I'm sure these other clowns were pretty terrible too.
Can really please ELI5 what the end product would look like? Couldn't understand anything concrete from the article.
That already happens, that's what Wikidata does. [0]

[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:RDF
> Without getting into any specific politics here, which platforms do you go to for nuanced, rational discussions?

real life, at least for many topics
We did the math: you’re 1 in 7 billion.

If you’re in the US the 2nd amendment affords you the personal choice of thinning the herd by 1.

“Internet macho man can’t do the work himself. Shakes the dice he’ll be spared while whatever at y’all”

This shit is real tired.

You said it yourself: humans don’t matter. You made your point.

Good job belaboring the point any 10 year old can see. Exceptional people!

Personally I’d prefer if folks like you ate your own words: you don’t matter individually any more than the rest of us then so who gives a fuck about your shallow Jaden Smith level twitter posts.

Ffs social media is a wasteland of stupid
They do have this _problem_, if you're at all aware of how X11 works.

In fact, Linux literally does not have a built-in system clipboard.
> who found that her decision to write about the media in the midst of her maternity leave, rather than Black Lives Matter or Pride, reflected poorly on the brand

people have different interests. and not everybody wants to be an activist. in fact people should be encouraged to talk about different issues.

It's crazy to be ousted from your company while on maternity leave because you tweeted about "editorial standards" and "defamation lawsuits" without first making a public statement about BLM.
LessWrong 2.0 seems to run a community still. I haven't visited it recently.

https://www.lesswrong.com/
I think this is what a lot of people do today. The problem is that (positive, non-mob-like) network effects are limited if you want to effect real change or make your voice heard.
In 1912 the federal income tax rate was zero in USA
I dont really think so - the goal is to fill in the gaps of knowledge, not to replace existing wikipedias and whatever policies they may have.
meilli looks very promising! Thanks for this.
>Now I want nothing more than to see them sued/fined heavily for this.

Do you also want Apple and Google to be sued for "bundling" their browsers on iphone/osx/android/chomebook etc?
Yeah meal prep is great, for a while I did that by making utterly obscene quantities of the dirt cheap ground turkey and rice + beans you can buy in bulk.

But getting into pre-cooked food is like a bad habit, so easy to fall out of the practice, because "just tonight I'll go grab some pre-made stuff instead, and tomorrow I'll make more meals."

Friendship over with other appliances, microwave is my new best friend again ;^)
So these VCs are sexist because they blocked someone I’ve never heard of for an unknown reason? Maybe they are just fragile snowflakes like he implies, but that’s orthogonal to your accusation.

Also, blocking anonymous trolls online is wonderful for your sanity. I wish HN had the ability.
I've thought about a related idea, for a forum where only positive posts are allowed. I imagined it as something like a subreddit where a SentimentAnalyzer is a mod, and it deletes any insufficiently positive comments and bans any sufficiently negative users.
Really enjoyed your previous posts, looking forward to your book reviews!
Short version - I worked in that country for a few years and still care deeply about it.

If you want the long version, or you are interested in ways you could also be involved in that kind of project (or know C# and WinForms and want to help??? :) ) my email is my hn username at gmail.
Wait what, they show the pop-up, but there is no permission toggle for access?
It turns out clickbait and social media have almost made this a no-go.

IMO all good communities will continue to exist in small niche zones like HN, small subreddits, and in whatever future forum/Reddit alternatives are being created.

I don't see that changing, especially as the internet goes more and more mainstream, and converges on the lowest-common denominator.
It is definitely not the old community, which has mostly moved onto Facebook (eww) and slate star codex.
Make your voice heard by a mass audience and effect change.

Have nuanced discussions.

It could be human psychology forces us to pick one.
From the get go, it was estimated that 80% of the world population would be infected within 18-24 months.

All the shutdown was intended to do was to "slow the spread" from the 18 months to 24 months, and to hopefully keep hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Once we knew how infectious it was, Covid was always expected to infect nearly everyone eventually, whether the economy was shut down or not.
Worth repeating for those who aren't paying attention.

The virus has affected the economy. There was no escape from that. With no enforced closures people, for example, aren't going to restaurants because of the pile of bodies. Sociapaths may wish everyone ignored the piling up of the bodies and acted exactly as they would have without all those dead bodies but that's simply not how humans behave. Some fantasy that letting everything rip would have had the economy unaffected is just delusional.

So now we look at how to minimise the effect on the economy. (1) overreact early. (2) testing and contact tracing (3) quarantine (4) mask wearing. Taiwan. South Korea. Japan. Hong Kong. These are the models worth understanding.

The government does national defense. This fight against the virus that is killing us is national defense. The problem was hopelessly incompetent government. Becuase, as a libertarian, this is exactly when you need the government. There's literally no other option. It's the same as property rights enforcement. It's the same as pollution control.

As a libertarain I do not feel I have the right to discharge firearms at random in the street. I do not feel the laws against and punishments for doing so infringe on libertarian principles at all.

And so it goes for steps 1 through 4. Don't harm others for your own comfort. The end. Wear your mask when going inside anywhere that isn't your home like a genuine libertarian. This way we minimise the economic cost of the virus.

This way we save the most lives - more important to me.

(And maybe consider that being libertarian has nothing to say about being sociopathic, that's kind of the point, but we can choose not to be as well. That pile of bodies, each of them was loved and is a person who is missed. Taring libertarians as not caring about that at all s^%ts me. There are socialists who also don't care and irk me similarly).
I don't care about the bundling. I care that I already chose Firefox as my default browser, but Microsoft tried to force me to choose Edge instead. There was no "no thanks" button. I had to use Task Manager to kill it.
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Conservatives get bashed on hacker news. We get it, there are plenty of neoliberals here. What you should understand is that when neoliberals throw out phrases like

the populist scaremongering about the “Chinese virus”

From the article

You really should know that you don’t understand anything about the plights of the regular folks.

To demonize the regular folks for pointing the finger at the cause of all the suffering, from destruction of jobs and community. to coronavirus. Is insane.
That was also the era when DBMS locking was iffy, so competing inserts/updates would happen once sites got too busy, and everyone was encouraged to turn off transactions (or, on MySQL, just use MyISAM instead of InnoDB) and put it on XFS or even tempfs for speed.

So many websites I remember came back up with "the last two weeks of posts are gone, sorry" or just shut down for good because it was all too corrupted to fix, and so were the backups, if they had any.
Hum, expert in here will correct me if I'm wrong, but, beside the bins, over the years, version after version, I feel that airframes actually slowly shrunk.
I'm not op but here's a sampling of a toolkit that's worked well for me.

The 3 dimensions of sobriety are about BODY, MIND, and SPIRIT.

A) PHYSICAL SOBRIETY

1. Go to AA/12-step meetings daily. 90 meetings in 90 days is a great first start. It's easy, free, all you have to do is show up. Get a sponsor, work the steps. It's the largest community of people who all never wanted to be there either.

2. EXERCISE! Can't stress this enough. Nature's free & sober fountain of endorphins. Aim for 3x/week+. Invest in a trainer at the beginning to help with motivation. Probably one of my most valued practices, critical for my sobriety.

B) MENTAL SOBRIETY

1. Therapy - 12 step meetings / groups are great, but it really works well when combined with an individual therapist. You realize there are loops of thought in your mind that can fester into relapses, and finding out how to articulate these feelings to a professional allows you to snip them.

2. Work - Start slowly, don't jump back into a career that's too demanding or stressful, but I found it important to be intellectually stimulated and constructive with my time.

C) SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY

1. Meditate! I strongly recommend Vipassana-style meditation. There are free, donation-based 10-day programs that are intense, but immersive.

2. Volunteer. Giving back to the community lightens your soul and spirit. Helping others helps you appreciate all the beauty in your own life.

Feel free to try any of the practices above or discover your own!
"Worst" here seems mostly to mean "horrible" as opposed to giving particularly bad advice.

I was looking for mention of the "Darién Scheme" by William Paterson and it was only there in passing.

Surely Paul Wolfowitz would have to be a candidate for bad advice in the modern post-Soviet era though?
I don't see any indication that Abstract Wikipedia articles are anything more than a sequence of "constructors" and those "constructors" are essentially just triples (with qualifiers) that a "renderer" turns into a specific human language.

The example they give is the constructor:

rank(SanFrancisco, city, 4, population, California)

And the English renderer will output:

"San Francisco is the fourth largest city by population in California."
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