skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>PS: I find wording it as "sheep" to be unneedingly pejorative towards people who just don't break the rules and let others live their own life. In other classifications it would be "lawful neutral" for instance.

One can do society more harm being passively conformist than using mildly pejorative terms. In Paul Graham's essay, the object (the "sheep") of the critique is more dangerous than its subject (the author). I would even go on to say that it is an ethical duty to be independent-minded.
Hip-hop holiday[1]-themed top-10s work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7PlSJNFfII

The composition's originally from the turn of the century, but as you can see above they've gone mainstream in the decades since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xviBEvbxgZ0

[1] not exactly christmas, but it's got family, decorated trees, vacation time, TV specials, and a guy in robes with a beard handing out presents. Porting should be trivial.
> Going from carrying things on your back to using a wheeled cart doesn't have a corresponding disadvantage.

Doesn't it? What if those "things" are weapons that you are carrying to battle?
I can see the opposite as well. Extravert people can socialize more easily outside work. Introverts still need to socialize if they are not antisocial. For me(introvert) it much easier to socialize at my workplace: No need for smalltalk, we already have something in common. Outside of work you have to start a conversation with a stranger which can be really hard for an introvert.
Just something that they voted down recently: tie EU funding to democracy. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-summit-poland-netherla...

Likely after this EU decision the the killing of index.hu was green lit by Fidesz
Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, season 3. Probably about 30-40hrs of content (a lot of history happened!) and I find his content is a real good for first-timers.
This reminds me of how a friend (as a teenager in the 90s) would buy expensive video cards from Best Buy and CompUSA only to swap them out with cheap cards off eBay, re-shrink wrap the box and return for a hefty profit. I thought it was a clever, profitable hack at 16 years old but now I’m ashamed I didn’t just call this what it was: theft.
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While I agree with some of this, there's a hubris in it that I find a bit distasteful. It seems to claim that there's only one type of person needed for society to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's the type that most aligns with who he identifies himself to be.

I think that the article is using caricatured descriptions of two categories that are more broad (people who are oriented toward change and those who are oriented toward stability) and highlighting only the good of the preferred group (his own) and the bad within the "other". The truth is, there are beneficial and destructive individuals in both groups, and there are perspectives from each that we need. I would argue that what society really needs is not the ascendancy of one group above the other but mutual respect and discussion of ideas between groups.

Which is kind of where he was going with the discussion of ideas. He just didn't have a big enough tent.
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Far right populism in Europe far precedes the existence of the EU; it seems fairly perverse to just blanket blame the EU for it.
This only applies to aircraft coming out of storage, so it's not going to create a disruption.
The winter solstice isn't even a precise thing. It can be a different day depending on whether you're going by sunset or sunrise for example.
My guess is at that high cutoff a small number of errors make a big difference to the final score.
Thanks for sharing. This is a perfect example which proves lambda/serverless/cf worker are snake oils.
I bought an alternator for my wife's car. While replacing it, I discovered this:

https://imgur.com/a/E53NxjE

Prior customer bought, discovered the holes were machined incorrectly (part would not bolt up), clearly marked the part, returned it, and Amazon put it back on the shelf to send to the next buyer. With the car half torn apart, Amazon offered they could get me a replacement item in 8 calendar days. Yeah, that's not going to work, so I took it over to a milling machine and had it milled out to fit (first photo shows immediately after milling, second and third photo are before, third photo has the new part doweled to the old part to align one of the holes and show how far off the second hole is). Just like this case, Amazon A2Z was willing to accept the return and ship another one, but the real customer failure was during the previous return, not when I had the complaint.

There's a customer satisfaction angle that "Earth's most customer centric company" should probably be considering here.
Yeah but unless there's someone who is a domain expert, deeply affiliated with experts from other domains, willing to drop into HN to give free advice... gurus are what you get.

As popular as HN is, there are surprisingly few people willing to do this.
Yeah, I just use google pay with them, which shows nothing, so there's nothing for would-be identity thieves to steal except my name and address hopefully.
What else is this site for?
> protestors are being arrested by secret police in the US

I genuinely don't have reliable information to determine whether they are peaceful protestors or violent rioters, nor whether the police are secret or not. Where would I go to find out?
They have an established track record of killing people on planes. Might want to review some of the commandments and make sure your adherents abide by god's will as a good PR move.
I am in the UK but I am willing to relocate.
The problem is that most of the enforcement mechanisms need unanimity. Now that there are two of them, it's a difficult problem.
From what I understand the specific behavior is actually and intrinsically linked to the idea of a white woman in America and has historically existed for quite a while among black circles (from the 1800s at least). Discussing Karen as if it’s new belies the actual history of it. [0]

0. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/891177904/whats-in-a-karen
One of the main reasons for his rise to fame was the opposition to bill C-16. A bill he claimed to oppose because of its free-speech implications, when all the bill actually did was extend existing legal protections of identifiable groups to also include gender identity and gender expression.
Those exact same protections already existed on the basis of race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, and mental or physical disability.
If Peterson's gripe is with compelled speech then how come he didn't strongly criticize the existing legislation for other identifiable groups, but instead just singled out the new protections for transgender individuals?

> straying from a conservative path is morally fine, but subjects you to personal risk of worse outcomes.

Which is a baseless and very questionable claim to make.

> Many people intentionally mischaracterize Peterson as intolerant.

Peterson is a Christian conservative with some fairly patriarchal ideas [1,2], so I think characterizing him as intolerant is pretty fair.

[1] "[Western feminists avoid criticizing Islam because of] their unconscious wish for brutal male domination." https://twitter.com/aliamjadrizvi/status/1001164042856271874

[2] It is "hypocritical" for a woman to wear makeup in the workplace if she doesn't want to be sexually harassed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTglME9rvQ&t=7m12s
EU demands major concessions from Google over Fitbit deal
Absolutely true, but it's worth mentioning that it does free up capital. That could go straight to a CxO's bonus, but also to larger budgets for Project X/Y/Z.

Not having to commute is also a big time saver, and that one is just on you, the worker. The Mr Money Mustache blog calculated that every mile you cut off your commute saves you like ~700-800 bucks a year.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-...
From what I've read just today on HN, many would likely argue that this was not a peaceful protest because perhaps it inconvenienced others on the bus. Should've just shut up and followed orders.
Google for “golang”.
> I'm curious to hear why you need an explicit moral order in your life at all.

>Imagine you didn't believe in any religion

> would you shoot me? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't.

You misunderstand morality and religion. Consider the following:

1. Religion is not morality nor is it the source of all moral knowledge. Actually, the problem with the word "religion" is that it's very difficult to define and its current usage is historically speaking relatively recent. I prefer to avoid using it because it seems to accomplish little else than stir up connotations, misconceptions, and confusion. It's much better to address individual truth claims and ask for justification. Religious claims are no different. You just have to know what methods of verification are appropriate to what kind of truth claim. Method, of course, follows apprehension of the real. Also, everyone has a religion in the sense of holding something as the highest good. The question if whether what you hold to be the highest good is the highest good. Failure to make the proper identification is disastrous, even if apparently so or immediately so.

2. What is an "explicit moral order"? There is a moral order in reality that we discover. We reason morally every time we make a decision and that moral reasoning draw from our knowledge of reality and the moral order within it. Now, Cartesian materialists will find this difficult to understand because for them, the world is just a pile of homogeneous dead crap arranged in various configurations (they can't explain the "illusion" that the world is otherwise because they've necessarily reduced the mind to meaningless motions of homogeneous dead crap we call a "brain" for some reason). In any case, we can come to know moral principles explicitly precisely because the moral order is real and not an arbitrarily imposed fiction. In our day to day affairs, we also engage in prudent reasoning that considers the various circumstances we find ourselves in. All of this involves reasoning about the good.

3. Why wouldn't someone shoot you? There must be motive and motive has moral meaning. Of course, it's also true that we live in a society heavily influenced by Christianity, so your example doesn't supply us with the kind of critical experiment you were hoping for.
Start investigating biodiversity informatics. There are a lot of different aspects in this space: genomics, georeferencing, image processing for feature extraction, etc, as well as typical distributed systems infrastructure.
https://www.workaway.info is what you're looking for
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That's how things tend to work when people are so alienated or disenfranchised from the system that change within the system becomes impossible, yes.

And while people like to dismiss any group whose concerns they disagree with as being merely an "angry mob," more often than not that "mob's" concerns are legitimate, and their anger is justifiable. Laws don't get passed to "pacify" them, they get passed because public pressure and awareness turns public opinion in their favor, making it politically infeasible for those in power to continue the status quo.

That's not the way it's supposed to work, but that's the inevitable result of a democratic process and society not working as it ought to begin with.
Guantanamo Bay. “Terrorists” are sent there and lose all constitutional rights while they’re there.
I would like to be able to explain the cost part better. It may just be personal bias of course.

1. There's no guarantee the correct theoretical model of your program fits the type system of your programming language.

2. Sometimes there are multiple correct models for different purposes in the same program, similar to how sometimes you need multiple views onto the same database tables.

3. Sometimes you just need the ability to bodge things.
flygarmin.com is back online.
Salafism itself is aggressive conventional-mindednessness. I'm sure they would say that it is the west that is sliding into lawlessness. The laws are very different but the thinking is the same.
Reading news is procrastination. It's easier to rationalize than other forms, however. Not as obviously useless as watching TV. It's addictive because you don't have to go do work or something novel, but don't feel like you are wasting time.
Why would they even try on HN, a site that famously looks down on any subject that isn't STEM or closely adjacent?
Because there's a mechanism for changing that government: the upcoming presidential election. Whereas changing a cultural movement like the one we're watching unfold is a lot more difficult.
Because a dojo needs lots of space. If it's not an elite dojo it means the prices for commercial space have crashed in this location.
The EU is trying to have its cake and eat it too. An economic union with independent economies. A political union with independent politics. A human rights union with ghettos of language.

It's ridiculous that anyone thought a union between Ireland (where corporate tax is optional), Spain (where personal tax is optional), Germany (a straight-laced financial behemoth), the UK (the remnants of an empire) and Greece (a perpetual basketcase) would ever be successful.
WFH has been great for me and my wife hopes I never go back to the office. Saving two hours of commute time is a huge bonus giving me more time to spend with the family or work on projects around the house. And like you wrote, I put up laundry everyday so I don't have to spend time doing it in the evening, same with dishes, cleaning bathrooms, etc. Even better, dinner is now ready at 5 or 6:00 instead of 8:00. When I get into the groove I can crank my music and not worry about disrupting my coworkers.

The downside for me is the daily meetings that I now have so that we can handle all of the old hallway conversations. And while I have a home office setup, the desk and chair are sub-optimal at best.
Agreed. I think the "opposing" aggressively conventional people would be believing in the rule of law, authority of the police and social and cultural conservatism. These, 10 years ago, would be seen as mainstream ideas.
> Doesn't it? What if those "things" are weapons that you are carrying to battle?

I'm not sure what your point is.

Are you suggesting that some things are better kept close at hand and not on a cart? The invention of the cart does not remove the ability to carry things.

Do you mean to make an appeal to the evils of war? If so, the morality of a use case doesn't have much to do with the efficacy of a technology, though I think you have a point of discussion there. War is hardly always evil, but maybe you could argue that adding efficiency to the ability to wage unjust war is a disadvantage. But, again, you have to get very abstract to make that argument.
They're protesting the policing of minorities, and you stand at the ready to police their protesting... by asserting their minority status! In lots of protests this isn't a "small minority". Please think more carefully. The author of TFA would not appreciate your aggressive conformity.
In fact it's mostly worse than that, because it's barely even "speech", it's people getting picked on for making trivial "mistakes".
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What is the problem for which calendar reform is a solution?
An elderly Asian guy can totally be a Karen. We don't have another single word at the moment to convey the same behaviour in a different way. You can propose one and try to convert the usage though.
Almost all geolocation services read a field from MaxMind's db file.

It's a nice solution. Why log into your alt account to crap on it?
Not necessarily. A "forced off-airport landing" could also be the result of an engine failure beyond gliding distance of an airport. Or engine fire, medical emergency in remote area, etc. There are many emergencies that could force an aircraft to the ground, off-field.

Not all off-field landings result in an accident, or "crash".

From our own regulations, NTSB 830 "NOTIFICATION AND REPORTING OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS..." https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/830.2

>Aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage. For purposes of this part, the definition of “aircraft accident” includes “unmanned aircraft accident,” as defined herein.

So while some off-field landings could be classified as an accident, that would only be the case if the off-field landing met the above definition.
>he plays fast and loose with the facts

I don't expect essays to be scientific papers. The term comes from the French verb essayer 'to attempt, to try'. It's a genre widely known for being exactly that: a (mostly) brief rundown of ideas, without an exhaustive empirical demonstration being necessary nor expected.

On top of that, it's a ~1500-word blog post on his own website. Get real.
In this article, PG creates a personality test of sorts that, I think, seems intuitively true. Then, absent any real evidence, he assigns political roles and moral value to each of the categories he invented.

It’s so farcical to suggest that independent mindedness always manifests as “intellectual freedom” and conformism manifests as “political correctness.” (He doesn’t use that phrase but that’s clearly what he’s trying to get at.)

We live in a world where people with power over others (even people with pretty small amounts of power like professors) have historically been allowed shielded from the consequences of espousing hate. It is not “conformist” to advocate that people should be held accountable for what they say.

What PG has done is come up with a “good” category and a “bad” category. He then says that the people who agree with him are the good people and the people who don’t are the bad ones. He does so without considering that his support of Silicon Valley tycoons and professors who are upset that their students criticized them could actually put him in the conformist category.
Your website says you studied science and have built software for spreadsheets and for 3D printing.

I work with oceanographers. There are many who get by with rudimentary programming skills but love the help of developers who can help them build tools to analyze and disseminate their data. They love spreadsheets because they don't know how to make databases.

Having mechanical or electrical engineering or CAD skills helps them design enclosures for instruments, having software skills helps them add autonomy.

However it is not a field where, at least as I've seen, engineers have free rein to improve processes simply for the sake of improving them.

You are right that research funding is tight and in most of the world it is getting tighter. Right now many projects are burning through funds while scientists babysit their kids; the research vessels are only now trying to resume operation.
I would guess most European welfare states offer disability benefits for severe depression. For example Finland has disability pension system for people who are verified by a doctor unable to work anymore. Severe depression is an acceptable condition for this benefit.
Agreed. That’s why I put “promoted approaching” rather than “approached”. But you’re 100% correct.
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I'm working on a standalone desktop app as a side project. Think of it as something comparable to excel product-wise. I'm struggling to imagine how to price and license this. I think it's primarily going to be of interest to businesses, in particular project management. Does HN have any advice or lessons learned in this area?
Can’t you just ask the client which timezone it’s in? Every browser knows, and it will be a more accurate answer: the user might be on a foreign VPN or temporarily in another TZ, but not working on that timezone.
Given I am in the UK alas that doesn't explain the issue. The USA is a bit of a unique unicorn in its for profit system but the world over there are these issues. I understand why the public is like that, a lot of people don't understand the scientific method but doctors have done all 3 of the sciences and then gone on for another 6 years of graduate and post graduate study.
This is not a trolley problem and is just a language trick: "to support" means "to quietly endure" and "to promote". If you wanted to a variant of a trolley problem for this it would be: there is a lever, if you pull it then something happens (you don't know what) and if you don't pull it then something else or the same thing continues to happen (you don't know what will or won't happen).
I feel the same way, but I think this era is much more directly similar to the "red guards" period during the Chinese cultural revolution than Soviet examples. Some of the parallels are just so direct -- students denouncing their professors, forcing them them to recant, the ideologies of the students growing more and more rigid and narrow through the conformity of the mob, until they often ended up even denouncing the professors who encouraged the movement to start.

No one ends up being safe from this kind of thing as it grows. Even Mao almost lost control of the tiger, even though he thought he could steer it. My grandfather fought the Japanese as a preteen and later fought with Mao, and even he was disappeared for three days by the mob during the cultural revolution because someone denounced him as not ideologically pure enough.
Garbage trucks don't show up every morning, do they? The parent poster was describing a situation where multiple trucks roll up in the early morning every day. I think it's pretty clear the two scenarios aren't really comparable.
I didn't notice that. I was grouping it together with the Times/Economist/whoever else rankings.

It does make my criticism irrelevant in this case, good point.
The current practices and thought-processes of social justice advocates are hyper-conformist in my opinion.
Of course not. "Democracy" isn't just it being written in the constitution "this is a democracy". That's a terribly simplistic view. By that measure, NK is democratic...

In fact a true democracy only exists when a huge number of very complicated systems and institutions are working properly. You need a well-educated population with equal access to opportunities, a free, healthy, and diverse press, an independent judiciary, a healthy political landscape, etc.
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Say what you will about Cisco licensing (too damn expensive in my opinion) but Cisco has consistently been rated as one of the best tech companies to work for. Which is something no one would say about IBM.
Is the EU more or less cohesive than 5 years ago? 10 years ago? What's the trend?
There’s a lot of websites on the internet that are happy to discuss politics. This one was created to have a narrow focus.

From the guidelines: “ Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's "anchored" by $50 million (of which half is support). But what does "anchored" mean here? The article also lists an additional $20 million from UF. I wouldn't be surprised if there was even more.