skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graham is in the bay area and he knows he'd get the smackdown from LGBT activists if he said what he meant, so he is using coded speech. The breathless tone that there is something wrong on college campuses these days (without being specific) is a dead giveaway.
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Petition to End Daylight Savings Time in the UK
To truly compete with Amazon, they need convenience. Buying packages from mom&pop retailers to ship can yield anywhere from 1 day to 3 week delivery times. Aside from a strong anti-Amazon conviction, where's the motivation for consumers to do that?

To achieve convenience requires either building out a logistics infrastructure on the scale of Amazon, which is clearly a business Google doesn't want to be in, or to approach the problem from the opposite direction. Brick and mortar retail is declining, especially post-pandemic (but also pre); that said, there is already an infrastructure that exists transfers goods to retail locations - it's just spread over 10,000 companies rather than 1. However, if you can write software to better utilize that infrastructure so that you allow consumers to find items that are already physically close to them, and ship using either "last mile" crowdsourcing (and eventually auto-driving vehicles), or at least direct consumers to where the items are so that they can travel less than 30 minutes and get _the_ item they want, then you can come up with a credible anti-Amazon alliance.

Example: I want to buy a sun shade for a pergola. There are probably 10 stores within 20 miles of me that carry them, but I have no idea ahead of time the brands, the price, the color, the size, etc. I could spend an hour calling the stores, and have irritated minimum wage cashiers do inventory searches for me an attempt to answer my questions. Alternately I can go on Amazon, make a purchase, and have it shipped in 2 days from a warehouse 900 miles away from me.
Isnt PG claiming that the "rules" are to value free expression and not turn people into heretics and that those who "break" this rule are bad and unworthy and never able to have new, original ideas and thus should never be listened to?

Sounds like he is trying to say "Crush <outgroup>!" to me...
> Is there some group out there now in possession of hundreds of thousands of .gpx files with detailed tracking points of peoples' residences, favorite running and cycling routes, and what times of the day they're usually away from home? Nobody knows.

Yeah it’s called anyone who goes on Strava.
The border issues between China and India are a consequence of the expansion of the British empire. India simply inherited these borders when it became independent.

China is not really expansionist. What it does is to formally refuse to recognise borders drawn by the British as at time when China was weak and being carved up by Western powers.

Regarding Aksai Chin (Eastern Ladakh) even the British were not consistent, putting it in British India (Johnson Line) or China (Macartney-MacDonald Line).

Regarding Arunachal Pradesh the situation is quite clear from a Chinese point of view: This is a part of Tibet that was thus in China until the fall of the Qing Empire. At which point Tibet declared independence and the British took over Arunachal Pradesh from Tibet/China.
Obviously this was never accepted by China.

These issues are never black and white.
Isn’t the Sidekick name already taken for hardware devices?
Thank you for sharing. As someone who scores much, much higher on the “conscientious” scale than the other big five personality traits, what you said rings very true, but you framed it in a way I had not previously thought of.

I wonder if this is worse in the US where Americans find so much identity in their jobs. Regardless, as you said, people need room to just “make a living” and find purpose (and hopefully contentment) outside of one's work if we can’t all be following our passion (if we’re lucky enough to have even found our passion)
As for most attempts to classify people, it should be strongly stated that any single human would fits several quadrants depending on the subject, the phase in their life they are in, or even the mood of the day.

I read this two dimensional presentation only as device to discuss a theoretical point, and not something that could have any practicality.

In particular, I think a lot of people switch from the "sheep" quadrant and the "naughty ones" pretty freely. They'll want to obey rules until they hit one that they feel doesnt' make sense and/or needs to be broken, and ideally will get back to being "Sheep" once it doesn't make sense to be a "naughty one" anymore (i.e. rules have changed, or better, they changed the rule)

That's also a reason why I see places like startup hubs where people consciously behave in unconventional ways (= be jerks, most of the time) to feel like they're "naughty ones" shouldn't be lauded, and being indepdendent minded should be balanced with benefits to the surrounding people or society (if you break big rules, it should have a big payoff for everyone)

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.
The recent history of PG's twitter outpourings has been about the danger posed by political correctness and progressives more generally, in the face of criticism of things like AI bias.
Loved this essay. The phrase “aggressively conventional minded” is genius, and may contribute a lot towards the solution.

As someone coming from an ex-soviet state, I’ve felt personal alarm bells ring more and more, as I experience the kind of intolerance and double speak America is heading into. Both the left and the right my opinion are missing the key points on freedom (the left suppressing and labeling, the right militarizing).

Yet, as PG points out, the independent minded are good at figuring out solutions. No matter what, the fundamental ideas that America is built on is focused so heavily on freedom that I trust the aggressively independent to protect, and the passively independent minded to innovate.
Naturally, there's a relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/978/
Would be nice to have the firmware opensource.

Do YOU have to maintain the codebase of your operating-system?

If you want to know howto maintain Code for multiple ISA's ask netbsd and openbsd.
I just realized how social can fix this issue.

Every account has a default setting that is ultra-curated content, works nicely, politically correct, etc.

Deep in the options, you can ‘unlock’ all (requires 18+ notification, verification, or whatever depending on laws), then it will be an absolutely uncurated FILO sort of absolutely everything going a mile a minute.

The unlocked settings would let you upload code-snippets to do curating, so people could share things and invent new ways to curate.

This solves the issue with the risk of censorship.
Amazon Virtual-Con
Simple Essence of Algebraic Subtyping: Principal Type Inference with Subtyping
Yes and even some like factory that sounds totally English actually come from French too. One day I’ll work harder on my French language merhod for English speakers that is based on cognates. There is so much that can be shortcuted with little etymology thrown in.
Reminds me of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Hard, unwavering discipline. Resolve to stop reading it, either entirely or outside of rigid conditions (eg, no more than N minutes at X in the morning and Y at night). Then do so.

Some people have good luck modifying their network configs to enforce this when their willpower or habits are weak.

Fortunately there isn't a physical component to the addiction so it is safe to go cold turkey. Usually after a few days or weeks it gets easier but if you slip up it is very easy to fall back into old habits.
Best sci-fi of 2020: 6 finalists for Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel
Mostly white boomers here afraid of more competition.
> How do intelligent people end up reducing the world into such obviously untrue caricatures?

Hot take: as a function of increasing age
The Samsung G9 Odyssey monitor rollout is not going well at all. I want to give Samsung £1200 but they haven’t convinced me their process is controlled enough yet.

One of my friends designs chips for both Apple and Samsung. He said Samsung promised to provide proper specs after the Note battery issue, but they never did. Just went back to winging it after a while.
It’s not just some fitness smartwatch, as the linked Tweet might lead you to think:

> Pilots told the tech website that they had not been able to download new Garmin software with up-to-date versions of the aviation database, which is a legal requirement for flying. The Garmin Pilot app, which is used to schedule and plan flights, was also hit by the attack.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23937097

PS in case you’re not into aviation - Garmin is used in smaller aircraft, not airliners but this is still a significant disruption - smaller planes and helicopters carry out important roles such as firefighting, heli ambulance, flying doctors services (e.g. in Australia) rescue ops etc.
Well what about if the rules of the conventional quadrant become "Anyone who says or implies 'Crush <outgroup>!' is bad and should never be listened to"?
Ask HN: Life planning and goals – Tools and methodologies
Dear fellows
As I feel HN is composed by successful and rational people, I really want to ask your tips, tools and methods to create and/or organize the goals and planning of your future days and years.
I'm tired of working for surviving and feeding the feedback loop, so I want to create a meaning for my life and accomplish my goals, but I have a huge intelectual debt in this area (planning, saving, finding meaning in life).

Thanks
I've recently written a pair of explanatory articles regarding the Fediverse, the decentralised social media network.

https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-19-guide-to-the-fediv...

https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-20-what-is-the-fedive...

The solution to centralised power and control already exists and is thriving, with approximately 2 million users strong. Take a moment to learn about the Fediverse and you'll be asking yourself why you didn't know about this before. Don't complain, act for Internet freedom.
I definitely agree with this, and I also agree with others who say that Garmin's software is generally the weakest part of their offering
You don't understand probably because your paycheck depends on not understanding, e.g. you think you are benefiting from the current status quo. Others call it unfair because their paycheck also depend on it.

What if the market says you can get away paying less for group X? What if X is some historically marginalized group? Does it make it OK? What if X = remote workers?

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
"The judge placed some limits on the subpoena. He said police could use the images to identify suspects only in the arson and gun theft investigations. Detectives could not use the photos or video to pursue suspects in vandalism or other lesser crimes — even if police found such evidence."

Do you, in good faith, honestly believe the police won't attempt to use the evidence for any and all means they deem necessary?

It's like the leaks that came out not too long ago, how even the FBI was querying NSA databases when they suspected someone of being a criminal.... I don't even need to say more to demonstrate how abusive the "law enforcement" (blackmail) system is.
I think this was addressed in the post with the example of school conformists who "rebel" along with the rest of their group doing the same things, with the same clothes, language, fashion, music etc.

In your example, the aggressive alt-right "individualist" would be the equivalent as the high school rebel who is just acting a rebel and conforming to their adopted group.

Conformists are essential for any group cohesion. I imagine a key part of a conformist in any group is to define the out groups.
> so he is using coded speech

Please give us the decoder, because "it's code for whatever I feel like it is" is really not helpful.
Agreed. Getting in/out of the harbor is the pilot's job. That's their part. I think the metaphor works well. The limit is when you dig deeper into the impact of depression/anxiety. Then it starts to break down. But even then - still useful.

I think having a destination does help with depression. It certainly helps with knowing when you're off track or are having issues.
Pokemon Gold/Silver's new compression algorithm didn't save space, but time
Part of it is surely fear of missing out, in this case fear that everyone else will know something you don't. Exactly what we fear of missing out on probably varies a lot from person to person. I don't care all all about the football results, but many people do, as it's a staple of their conversation in their social sphere.

For the HN crowd, we survive and thrive on what we know. We're in an industry that moves rapidly, and we perceive that successful people thrive on knowing more, or knowing first. Of course that's only partly true. Successful people know just enough, and then actually get the job done. Knowing where to draw the line between reading about what others have done and doing stuff ourselves is really hard. It's always easier to read about what others have done, and it feels productive, but past a certain point it really isn't.
That it's ranked at 40
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It is insulting via the sexist, racist, and stereotype routes simply because you meant it to be insulting. You explicitly use the "image" of a white woman in a stereotypically unflattering situation as an insult. In this case it's your implication that [quoting you] "a specific type of asshole" must be associated with the image of a white woman as represented by the name "Karen".

Only a serious level of bigotry would make someone pretend it's not racist or sexist if the word can also mean something else, in this case a simple name. It's what you meant by it and what you associated that with that matters.
considering that the entire point of programming is to automate your job, i'd say it's just about right.
I can provide you a valid user centric use case: we have shops in different cities, we can preselect on the order form the closest one according to the city, if the customer chooses the pick up delivery method (faster than courier). We don't need to be more precise that this and asking the user defeats the purpose, it will have to take another action just to allow this. We don't do anything else with this information.
SpaceX is raising up to $1B at $44B valuation
Yes, I suppose a simple parameter would do the job. Probably not worth anything fancy.
There’s plenty of training material available - the internet is full of pictures of people wearing clothes.
They said “game on”, you said “we own other team“ ... off to the races!
An awful lot of people in tech are semi-delusional libertarians.

(they present as rationalist and then do things like cherry pick evidence, is why I say semi-delusional)
The issue is the speed and magnification of ideas, not necessarily the "adult" content.
The citogenesis xkcd is right, but could & should take one more step and say openly:

Wikipedia has became part of the media ecosystem, not much different from any other part of the media ecosystem.

Journalists at typical outlets are also engaged in re-publishing -edited or verbatim- content from other outlets. Among those practices, churnalism [1].

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism
It is designed to be. If it wasn't addictive they'd change it to make it so. Otherwise you'd be thinking about the other 10^12 things in the world.
In my opinion, the founders are those who want to do the job the most, those who have the biggest motivation. "PC has consistently missed deadlines and meetings" - this doesn't sound like PC is motivated to do their job, so I think it's better not to continue working with PC
You are getting downvoted for this and deserve it. I want to say that this is NOT censorship for the following reasons:

1) Downvoting is not censorship, even if the reasons are arbitrary and capricious.

2) Disagreeing with you is not censorship.

3) I find it difficult to believe that HN is downvoting you because they are imperialists who are trying to suppress an ideological challenge. They are probably downvoting you because your arguments are badly written and badly thought-out.

For instance, I am also anti-imperialist and I downvoted your comment. It's not because your bold anti-war stance is threatening my politics. It's because your comment doesn't add anything useful to the discussion and is indistinguishable from outright trolling.
Take Peterson for example.
Lol okay ? Literally everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology. Let me see your amazing startup or business.
Anders Tegnell: Why we aren’t wearing masks in Sweden
Do you offer some kind of "cron snitch" feature as well?

ie, a backup job that runs at cron, if it doesn't report back I need a "ping" so I can fix it.
>No matter what, the fundamental ideas that America is built on is focused so heavily on freedom

Freedom as long as you aren't threateningly critical of America.

The journalist of the Syrian War who took an anti-American stance and was targetted by American drone strikes would prove otherwise: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
Why would you quote him of all people. The guy is a racist at worst and a bigot at best.
AFAIK, there's no such thing in city planning as "Medieval mixed walkable". Rather, business of the same guild worked in close proximity, so that one wouldn't undercut the others (AKA a price cartel). It's why we have meatpacking districts etc. Maybe it's different in UK, though.
Exactly. Like Bari Weiss said, "Twitter has become the editor". US journalists now write articles to satisfy their twitter following.
What?
The username just shows as *_ for me?
LaTeX Typesetting – Part 1
Social justice and true equality aren't conformist ideas though. We live at a time when wealth inequality is around the highest since our country has kept track and you think equality is a mainstream conformist idea?
I love this! Can you do reddit now please? :)
I think that's plenty observed actually. When you look at who's been shot, beaten, and gassed it's largely protesters, not people rioting. Although it's easy for police to make the claim that it's rioters, since they seem to declare every protest a riot.
Library access and quality where I've lived in the US is fantastic, and at least in California access to all local libraries is extended to any state resident so there isn't a significant socioeconomic hurdle, and other places I lived in at least had very convenient interlibrary loaning. I live in Switzerland now, and quite frankly so far I've been slightly disappointed by the non-university resources even in a larger city here, both in physical buildings and online, but I haven't explored the full reaches of it yet.
Tesla sues Rivian for allegedly stealing secrets, poaching employees
That’s at least outdoors
>I've checked wikipedia and it seems that affirmative action that was designed to remove all those inequalities was introduced something like 30 years ago, so one generation lives in the environment without discrimination.

The conclusion ("one generation lives in the environment without discrimination") doesn't come from the premise (that affirmative action was introduced 30 years ago).

Yes, affirmative action was introduced 30 years ago. But it hardly put an end to discrimination (among other reasons, because even if affirmative action was great, well applied and totally effective, discrimination is not constrained in the domains that affirmative action affects).
Freedom = optionality
Of course it would! You know the location of each station and your watch would automatically adjust depending on your location as you travel (using GPS or whatever). People with mechanical wristwatches might find it tedious :-)
I think it might be the "new" in "news". I think our brain has an impulsivity towards novelty.

Perhaps it's hitting the reward centers of our brain that is designed to validate productive behaviour. Although as we know there's a fine line when it comes to consumption of so-called news as to wheter it is actually productive.

I guess like any addictive "substance" it can be difficult to regulate and control.
You're not wrong, but I think you're missing his key point, which is that a forum for free thought simply isn't if it's policed by content moderators around a set of culture rules, no matter how high-minded the intentions. Now for sure, WP has moderators, and they are human, but they're pretty tightly bound to enforce only the rules of admission. They're not vested with the power and mission to censor opinions deemed odious or disharmonious. I'm sure abuses happen and the slope is slippery, but moderators tend to respond to conflict there. Not predefine and block it's alleged precursors.
The fact that an article exists, and it’s possible for him to sue, is a right and luxury afforded to us by this American belief in freedom.
Installing updates and stuff is easy to automate.
>I have a lot of sympathy but fear that RISC-V will lead to even more fragmentation than we see with ARM

Don't fear change, it's a cool thing.
At the notes, there is something that caught my attention:

> Many professors are independent-minded — especially in math, the hard sciences, and engineering, where you have to be to succeed.

And I disagree with it. You don't have to be independent-minded (from the group) to be "average" successful. Quite the opposite.

Follow the lead, follow the procedures, always take the skeptical side and you'll just coast through it. A lot of people succeed doing exactly that.

Research? Take the latest papers in an area, try a similar research (nothing too out of the consensus) and write a grant request for it.

The hard nonconformists, those will have a hard time. And the sad part is that most of them won't be nonconformists "for good reasons" but rather they will be most likely quacks. And I say the percentage is high exactly because academia does not favor anything out of the beaten path and independent thought is shunned.
Of course he is. Crush the tattletales!

Children think in terms like “tattletales” and “naughty.”
Looks like the Murphy book is $80 in hardback, they have a similar priced kindle version that doesn’t even have a cover image. Feels like this book is really for the college textbook market. Likely why it hasn’t gotten wider coverage.
Intel 7nm Delayed by 6 Months, Considering Using Third-Party Fabs
I can only read the discussion of "aggressive conformism" at the end as a giant subtweet of cancel culture. There's a real, and sudden, movement in the political center against this idea (c.f. the Harpers letter), and pg is clearly picking a side.

Which is fine, I guess. I personally didn't think the letter was so awful. It's hardly the worst problem in a world where we have federal paramilitary units being deployed to pick fights with hippies, but there are excesses (David Shor for sure shouldn't have been fired).

The problem is there's a baby vs. bathwater issue with the reasoning. The same people who spit bile about Shor are the ones who just pushed BLM from a fringe idea that couldn't get purchase into something approaching social consensus. Did anyone see the ballgame last night? What's your position on Kaepernick now?
Tesla Sues Rivian over Alleged Trade Secrets Theft, Employee Poaching
People hate to think.

It’s painful.

Passivity rules the world and the weak willed will always follow.

It’s is the deplorables that can save us from ourselves.