skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, would you for example include propaganda, which is specifically designed to spread fear? I always associated terrorism with physical violence.

Propaganda in the form of "$OUTGROUP are all murderers and rapists" is just fearmongering rather than terrorism, propaganda that threatens violence directly (eg. "Kill all $OUTGROUP") might be considered such, esp. if there is any reason to think that the propaganda is at all likely to be acted upon (so, if $OUTGROUP is "clowns" I don't think it would currently qualify, but "banksters" might).
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-00192-8

Also, I hate to say this, but reading that article whilst being shown ads for t-shirts with plant remedies gave me a bit of a pause. In these confusing times, we should probably raise the bar as to where we get out information from (established journals and institutions vs. blogs). https://news.rpi.edu/content/2020/07/23/cell-studies-seaweed... is perhaps a better link.
Thank you :) I thought that would be a cool use case for people (what with free YouTube not letting you play in the background) but I couldn't find a way to get lots of people using it.

Feel free to share the word about the free demo.
I dunno: perhaps irregardless began as an interjection, and then became the norm for certain speakers? Similar to hypercorrection.
You'd need to enrich it or use a breeder reactor if you wanted to do that all on Mars. Nuclear is so energy dense you'd be better off just including shipments of reactor fuel every 780 days on regular resupply missions than trying to come up with a way of enriching it on Mars. If you were considering a breeder reactor, Thorium appears to be more advantageous than Uranium on the Moon and Mars. Thorium is more plentiful and should be easier to extract in usable quantities and breeding Thorium-232 to Uranium-233 in a small reactor would seem to be more practical than breeding Uranium-238 to Plutonium-239 in i.e. a sodium cooled fast reactor.
I don't know. I think their CloudFlare's pricing is pretty clear.
Everyone, including headphone manufacturers, are trying to get in on the gold rush that is turning their customers into fonts of personal data that can be sold to the highest bidder.
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The field of Genetic research is still relatively new, and so we can expect more information to come forward over time. One field of interest that’s gained much attention lately, is that of Chimera humans— essentially those who have the DNA of a fraternal twin (absorbed during the early stages of gestation). Geneticists now understand that many people (and other animals) contain not just random DNA from the twin spread throughout the body, but entire organs that are fully functional. From here we can conceptualize that it is possible for the twin’s brain to have been also absorbed... AND, be fully functional! In comes another piece of new scientific information concerning the very real case of the Hogan conjoined twins who are joined at the head in such a unique way— their conjoined thalamus acts as a bridge between their brains that enable them to feel/see... what the other twin feels, and including communicating to one another by thought only, or “talking in our head” as they call it. So the question we need to ask ourselves is — what if chimerism occurs with the brain, whereby the fraternal twin brain was absorbed and fully functioning, and what if one brain is joined to it’s twin via the thalamus that acts as a bridge much in the same way as the Hogan’s? The absorbed twin in this case would be able to influence the thoughts of their host twin... and if thoughts can be influenced so can actions. Without a physical twin body (as with the Hogan’s) who are both able to speak, communicating this “thought sharing” ability poses a problem, one that can be overcome via the absorbed twin influencing it’s host twin’s thoughts and actions in such a way that it can generate “pattern clusters”... and this enables us to pose a serious question: could it be possible that some of what we chalk up as “coincidence” or “synchronicity is in fact generated by this ability of absorbed twin(s)?
That's hilarious. Extremely counter to the prevailing narrative of how hard work and grit get one to the top.
> This is a technology problem

totally agree, but I'd love to see a technology that's even better than real life
like a discussion site where for each post, users could navigate a 'discussion topology/taxonomy' (i don't know the real terms?). There wouldn't be a need for adding comments that are just restating a position, you would just 'vote' for the position. You could add a new position, a new reason for a position, or new evidence for a reason for a position. The meta discussion the topology itself would be interesting.
It would rarely achieve conflict resolution, but it would force us to better define our positions/reasons/evidence/core beliefs, and maybe help us understand others
Here's a non-paywall copy: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2020-zissman.pdf
Why did the IRS stop sending collections notices back in January and stopped all collections actions?

Why would I ask this? Because its the MF IRS that NEVER stops trying to get a cent owed to them.

That 4chan conspiracy explains this when nothing else does.

And besides, that Pizzagate bit you decry as the end of QAnon's veracity hasn't yet reached its conclusion.
Abstract says: "intelligence contributes 48–90 times more than grit to educational success and 13 times more to job-market success. Conscientiousness also contributes to success more than grit but only twice as much..."

Very challenging to evaluate without paying $40 to read the paper. They mention a difference in how they group the subjects (by intelligence). My gut take (often wrong!) is that they're grouping the subjects in some way that pushes part of my understanding of grit into intelligence.
But it is. Why do you think it takes 10 years to join the longshoreman's union? Why do you think they make $140,000-$400,000 a year doing menial lower skill work? Why do you think it takes well over a year to join the plumbers union in some states?

They are making their money at the expense of non-union workers. There is no value-add in banding together to make more money. It's the exact same concept as the non-poaching rules in tech. Cartels advantage the cartel members at the expense of the everyone who isn't in the cartel, and unions are a cartel. They restrict supply of a product (labor) to increase the price at which is it sold. Cartels are bad when OPEC does it, and they're bad when the UAW does it.
Patching a nuclear reactor sounds scary
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How do they determine ‘almost 4k’?
Its keyboard looks super interesting. Were these keys used as shortcuts to enter complete keywords at once?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068#/media/Fil...
Does anybody other than PR/marketing people care about phones being thinner than they are? It's just an excuse to not give better battery life which costs money.
This is my thought - why would an IoT device expose a database publicly? And if so, shouldn't the companies producing those devices not be following such bad practices? Maybe the consumer who bought such a device should go to the manufacturer and complain about being sold an inherently insecure device.
Once people talked about "iron horses". Now we have walking robots. From a current perspective, trains are nothing like horses; does that mean that it's invalid to say designing and making walking robots does require/provide insight into the physiology of legs?

It seems to me you're making a very general statement that there is no progress in understanding because people used to vastly overestimate their understanding. People did not know stuff, and therefore they will never know stuff, and therefore they do not know stuff.
I see this as only another example of how markets with too little, or the wrong kind of regulation so easily creates anti consumer, or anti environment, etc behavior.

... Which makes total sense from a market efficiency point of view, at least as long consumers doesn't have perfect information and the time to stay informed about almost everything. Which isn't true, and people won't be, especially since the most basic decision theory that we can derive from our behavior would go almost entirely counter this.

... Which isn't strange at all as the number of new or changing facts that could affect our living situation probably didn't change as much from 150000 years ago, as changed last week alone.

Sometimes I think one of, or maybe the most damaging lie of our century is that we are generally capable of individual, rational thought for everyday decisions. We really are not, not to any significant fraction.

Almost all our decision are derived from observation of very few instances, judging based on survival instincts, and social cost/benefits.

In contrast much of rules regarding eg advertising and much of economic theory seems predicates that everyone has the time and energy to figure out which toothpaste company also are not totally exploiting some workers in some country five shell companies and thousands of miles away. But I digress.
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Sony has the worst app I’ve ever seen[1], to the point where I legitimately don’t know how it passed the app store vetting process. Paragraphs of text have wrapping disabled so that the text goes off screen (important text, like the TOS!). Text which does have wrapping enabled wraps on character boundaries instead of word boundaries. Bullet-point lists don’t line up. I have no idea how they made it so bad, it feels like it must’ve taken effort to disable things which just work by default?

[1] Circa 2018, I switched to Bose after that...
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I'm not in the business of doing charity with every product I buy. Cartels are bad when OPEC does them, and they're bad when labour unions do them.
But wouldn't have helped much here unless you're watching your email like a hawk
The Threat of Privacy (2017) [pdf]
So, no difference other than the company now has to explain that their database was insecure. Got it.
I don’t particularly agree with Facebook it’s ethical ideologies but one great thing they do (or used to do?) is 2G fridays where the devs could only test the app on a simulated 2G connection with throttled bandwidth and simulated delays / packet loss.

I’m pretty sure in general smartphone apps are tested for a decent variety of performance targets, perhaps it should happen more for desktop software.

Now that I think of it, the push for more and more Electron apps may be because all devs are living comfortably on 16GB and 32GB devices, where the voracious RAM appetite of Electron does not matter.
It may feel good to say it, because you get to offload the responsibility onto consumers rather than the entity committing questionable (but legal) acts, but in reality "just don't do X" is never going to affect any sort of change. It's simply shifting blame onto people with no power to do anything.

More to the point, you're essentially recommending that everyone pony up $1000+ for an iPhone. None of those lesser known options (or modern dumb phones) are known to the average smartphone user, average people don't know anything about these hardened Android forks, etc. Boycotts are really not very reliable, because most of it is exactly this: just telling people to do a boycott and then stopping there. I know it's not reasonable to expect everyone floating ideas to have a plan for implementation, but when it comes to these kind of boycott suggestions, nobody has a plan. That's why shifting the responsibility onto the consume isn't going to work. You're not going to mobilize near enough people.

You know what does work, though? Strong privacy regulations with harsh penalties.
Why would you want to? Everyone knows Trump's going to win. You won't get good odds.
iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because they are so plentiful. Plenty of apps on iOS have been caught activating the camera or snooping on the clipboard on iPhones.
I don’t think anyone has a good way to fix all the governments at the same time. The climate summits seem like a joke.

If you’re in the US, vote this fall, and hope the Democrats make good on their campaign promises.

It’s better than nothing.
TLDR; grit helps, but only when in the same range of intelligence as your peers.

This isn’t particularly shocking. There aren’t a lot of high paying jobs for dumb people and nepotism doesn’t scale enough to make up for that.
China's goal is to build a cohesive economic powerhouse that functions as a unified whole. Unification at the cost of less individual freedoms. Given the current pandemic no doubt China is handling it better than the US as a result of their centralized control.

The US on the other hand values more individual freedoms at the cost of less cohesion and greater division. No doubt this is what's causing the current influx of Karen's refusing to wear masks. The hatred you see towards these people on YouTube is literally enforced in china. You don't wear a mask in china, you're fucked, nobody dares do such a thing.

Rather then fighting some patriotic flamewar I'd prefer HN viewers to have a more logical nonbiased view point and call it apples and oranges, but alas this is not the case. America has to be the best, especially when compared to China.
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My understanding is that reforestation, while being wonderful and helpful, simply doesn’t address the scale of the problem.

All forests today contain ~200 gigatons of carbon. Humans release ~25 gigatons of carbon per year. So DOUBLING the size of forests on Earth would just absorb 8 years of greenhouse gas emissions.

This made no intuitive sense to me until I began to think of the fossil fuels we’ve got underground as representing millions of years of forests “compressed” into oil / gas.
How might that be affected with the recent quarantine orders? Do you know if it’s possible to audit a “zoom class”?
A country claiming its law is enforceable everywhere does not make it so.
What's wrong with offline maps on a phone?
Don't jinx us! haha
Exactly, it will be a cold day in hell before I buy a pair of headphones that I have to charge on order to make them work or have any "smart" features.
They "had seen the trends heading toward wireless headphones" or they wanted to create the trend and sell their own headphones? The second explanation seems much better.
English wasn’t the default due to a head start with the internet.

It was dominant due to a British Empire that stretched across the world for CENTURIES. English is still the predominant language for all international shipping, aviation, and financial transactions.

This same type of talk occurred in the 80’s when folks were encouraged to learn Japanese as it would soon be the new lingua Franca.

In the grand scheme of things, it obvious and not fairly deniable that pictographic languages are incompatible with a computer-based culture. While the spoken Chinese language will survive, the written form will be an unused relic in a century or two.
Because I didn't vote for it, not even indirectly.
The last time I attempted to get a quote on how much a medical visit would require under a PPO, I couldn't. The price was literally unknown, and seeking medical attention meant unknown, unlimited liability.

The FTC article you cite is actually in favor of the type of transparency lamented by the comment you are responding to.

> The staff comment explained the risk that the latter type of transparency might harm competition by enabling competing providers to coordinate or collude on price

Where "latter type" referred to "plan structures and contracted fee schedules between health plans, hospitals, and physician service entities." (The "former type" was "actual or predicted out-of-pocket expenses, co-pays, and quality and performance comparisons of plans or providers" which is what would effect parent's experiences; the FTC "encouraged" that type of legislature.)

I don't necessarily agree with the FTC here, but their comment isn't covering the lack of information that causes consumers have no idea what the bill is until they've already incurred the bill.
I don’t believe you could do this in the US. You could likely get by without a bank account but not with your other restrictions.

You could probably start an affiliate site and use a check cashing service, but even they would require docs.

Crypto payments maybe?

Why all the constraints?
I appreciate you sharing that, thanks! On here I set up the restrictions using user accounts and groups, iptables, cgroups and some monitoring of CPU and memory, with cpulimit and pkill for excessive use. Sort of like a lightweight "container" for each browser process.

In other words, each chrome process runs in its own user-space (a no-login user which exists only for the duration of the session), which has cpu and memory limits thanks to cgroups, bandwidth limits and restrictions thanks to iptables, and disk and browser cache limits thanks to chrome command-line flags.
Please don’t use Y Combinator for political or ideological demagoguery.
> Yeah, I don't care if a big chain restaurant is closed down for having too poor hygiene. But I would feel bad if someone's small restaurant had to shut down because the cook doesn't bother to wash his hands at work.

If you are holding other people's data for them, you have a responsibility to do your best to keep the data safe. If you don't know how to do that and don't have time to learn, you can hire someone who is more knowledgeable.
It also has two buttons. I really don't see the need for an app. Besides that I don't have a phone capable of running an app so that saves me from getting irritated at Sony. Again.
I'm not a lawyer, but generally a software license can set limits on redistribution. Redistribution outside the terms of the license is likely copyright infringement.

Some sources define piracy as redistribution outside the terms of the license. That implies that you can pirate free software, if you violate the license.

Without getting bogged down on definitions, I believe MS could issue takedown requests to anyone hosting their free trials, when the license forbids it.
I was going to offer up in detail but I probably would have triggered others here, so I'll be oblique: QAnon is considered by many to be a prophet.

I've been politically engaged for decades and this is the first time I've been terrified about the outcome of an election.
With low interest rates, and an ever increasing complexity of the state of the art, won't this balance tip to the other side soon?

There is more money than can be invested, and since economies don't grow fast enough, even more will be printed. On the other hand, founders don't grow on trees. So if you have a good idea and a good team, why should it be difficult to rise money?
Don't you know that serfs living in digital fiefdoms don't have rights? They're living on the lord's property and the lord's property rights must be respected above all else.
Ok..but.. what about kaboom?
The substrate has some capacitance to hold the voltage steady. The diode blocks the 0V so the substrate only "sees" the -5V.(It acts as a peak detector, not a low pass filter.)
I have a very similar story to yours, and haven’t been able to get excited again about a role.

I also was the first engineer of a startup, grew to technical leadership and jack of all trades (infrastructure, developer, manager, architecture, hiring, technical sale, technical support, product, public speaking at conferences, ...), and moved on after 7 years.

The next two companies have been a disaster, I took a role as IC and then as manager, but was miserable in both positions. Too structured. And my experience was too wide. I like to tinker with everything, I don’t have the desire to study the minutiae required to perfectly code a complicated C++ template, and to iterate over a code review until it’s the most esthetically pleasing piece of code. I like to think about the entire system and the business impact.

I’m thinking about trying a PM role, or also a customer facing technical role as sales engineer, since I have played all those in my past.

Like you, I don’t want to work at another startup because I basically burned out, startup life is hard at 70+ hours a week.

I was lucky that my equity turned out to be slightly valuable (slightly more than $1M USD before taxes, so nothing too crazy but better than a punch in the face) so that affords me some freedom since I already had a high savings rate and frugal lifestyle. It’s been much easier to have enough savings to be able to leave when you are unhappy.
Comparing two ill-defined high-level cognitive traits to determine which will more greatly effect success in a unmeritocratic society and extrapolating the results to general humanity: what could possibly go wrong?

>The measure
of intelligence was taken from the 1999 wave, the measure
of grit was taken from the 2013 wave, and the measures of suc-
cess from the 2015 wave. Thus, intelligence was measured
when the participants were aged 15–19, grit was measured
when the participants were aged 29–34, and success was mea-
sured when they were aged 31–36.

Jesus.
Calories are metric as well: 1 kcal is the amount of energy required to heat 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius.
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This already happens:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-16/qatar-pr...

https://theunionjournal.com/qatar-prince-awarded-usc-masters...

It's a shame how easily the reputation of the US higher education is being ruined. If an entity that already has billions of dollars in endowments can be corrupted, what chance does society have?
This seems to be the full paper for those noting the paywall:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2020-zissman.pdf
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In effect, this is what happened to the collapse of Easter Island. Each subsequent generation forgets what was "normal" for the old generation. See Jared Diamond's fascinating account (PDF): http://employees.oneonta.edu/allenth/Class-Readings-Password...
Yeah like all countries china is fallible and imperfect.

I'm talking about the general handling of the epidemic. When china got serious, they killed it. When America tried to get serious they got people protesting that covid is a hoax.

There's some really stupid shit that china did like you brought up above, but overall in the big picture scheme of things... China did a really good job and the United States is bungling the whole situation.
Customers don't need to be "allowed" to protect their data.

I promise you that several major companies have already been quietly breached and credentials stolen.

> credit cards, change passwords

Are already stolen, Garmin hack or not.

1. Your credit card number is public. Deal with fraudulent activity in the usual way.

2. Passwords should be unique. Non unique passwords are already stolen, and unique ones probably are. 2FA and suspicious login detection is what protects you.
Precious? The primary elements "wasted" in space exploration are aluminum, silicon, hydrogen, and oxygen. All of those things Earth is just lousy with. Even launching a rocket a day wouldn't put any sort of dent in the availability of any of those elements. A rocket a day also wouldn't meaningfully add to levels of harmful pollution. The Earth is really big. It has lots of pretty much everything.

Doing stuff in space is expensive in an economic sense but it's not really all that resource intensive. Most of the cost is paying people to design, test, fabricate, and operate the hardware.
American society is many things but it is not a low merit society. If you are significantly better then someone else at something you will, in general, reap the rewards.
12k complaints over 35 years and 7-8M population, not sure if low or high