skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very first line of the introduction has most blatant heavy handed QUALITATIVE assessment of ZeroHedge as an example of a conspiratorial site which is as antithetical to true science as you can get. In fact, the term conspiracy theory was itself developed by the CIA to discredit any leaks about various clandestine activities they intended to keep this way. This is a bad faith argument and sets the stage for everything to come, culminating in the true intention which is to continue the marxist left on free thought and speech.

Every single one of those "fact checker" sites is a known left leaning and supported entity with plenty of examples of mistruth.

It's ironic how both the left and right are at least pretending to want to reign in big tech, but for the exact opposite reasons...
Josef Pieper's "Muße und Kult" comes to mind as well:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/10/leisure-the-basis-o...
i feel like Mozilla is truly a place to care about their employees
Dawn still does:

https://www.pg.com/productsafety/ingredients/household_care/...
Say what? That’s crazy talk. Underground would be many times more expensive, and has much worse failure modes. What happens if the train loses power?
Are you asserting the space and electric ventures were not funded by taxpayers?
Atalanta 1-2 PSG – UEFA Champions League – FootballGH
I'm sure than in almost all of these cases, the woman had already led the man know that she objected to his attacks (and groping a woman without permission is an attack), either verbally, nonverbally, or both, and the idiot persisted. I'm all for the "hatpin girls".
I’m being kinda cynical here, but one isn’t allowed to grow to be one of the largest online storage providers without the capability to hand over the keys to the government so we might not ever get to see a widely adopted service that uses encryption in the manner you want.
> I do support them financially via donations

As someone else mentioned, apparently this goes to the Foundation which funds other social causes instead of the Corporation that develops Firefox. Donations won't actually help Firefox much at all. To support the Corporation directly, you'd need to pay for one of their paid products like Pocket or their new VPN.

> This doesn't follow. Mozilla has a history of introducing and subsequently shuttering many services, so therefore I don't care about "privacy and security?"

It follows like this: here's a great privacy & security product you claim is "ideal" for you, made by a company you "trust 100x more than the competition". But it's somehow not worth it to you as someone who cares about privacy & security?

The speculative risk of a couple of hours every year (but in practice, more like 20 mins to switch to Mullvad, which even if you didn't know about before, you know now) is more valuable than what appears to be - by your own words - one of the best privacy & security products to come along in a generation?

Empty praise. Deep concerns for privacy & security that are conveniently not reflected in product choices. Honestly, it's a mystery why Mozilla devs even try to cater to this crowd. They talk up a storm about caring about privacy & security yet when a great product comes around, there's always another reason not to use it. Always another reason why it doesn't measure up. With friends like these, who needs enemies.
You seem to think I am in favor of those laws. I'd encourage you to re-read my comments, where I am arguing the opposite.
Heavily testified as a norm in early 20th century film, though of course that doesn't mean it was in reality.
A lot of what makes single family homes desirable, and thus increase demand for them, have discriminatory roots.

For example, absurdly high minimum lot sizes and low coverage ordinances were designed to keep cheaper and denser units from being built as a roundabout way to keep POC from desirable neighborhoods. These ordinances remain on the books today, and much of the Bay Area and its insane housing policies is connected to this.
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (2015)
Robotic Manipulation
I would read your review anyway, even if it is a difficult process. I never book an Airbnb without reading every review first.

So, at least in my view it's good that you posted that review.
>I'm lucky enough to be a "creative" person

This is the kind of insanity Russel's original essay alludes to. If we weren't taught to fill every hour with "productive" work, then anyone could foster their creativity with idle pursuits that aren't limited by their ability to produce value.

People feel like they're not creative because they feel the constant need to produce something of value and are afraid to experiment with anything else. Creativity requires that type of experimentation.

The fact that we claim some people are creative and some are not is a complete facade. It's similar to saying "oh I can't draw" or "I'm bad at math" — well no, you've likely just spent less time practicing it... maybe you're too afraid to fail to even try.
No fact is theory neutral. What usually happens is that in majority of cases both parties agree to the same theory. When there is a dispute about facts, it is a dispute about how to describe a phenomenon; in other words, it is a dispute between competing theories(competing ways of describing).
Been following this from the start, like where it's heading and hope to see more things like this in the future.
Salary, bonus, healthcare, dental, 401K, office space, taxes, equipment, ... employees are not cheap. That figure would be competitive in the Bay Area for quality dev work.
How much does that cost you these days?

My partner is from Victoria and we’ve eyed places out there on a whim but even up island doesn’t seem to be big savings. Maybe a bit more bang for the buck than out here in Ontario.
This is like Apple charging half the phone to fix a cracked screen.
It definitionally is elitist bullshit though -- Mattheij's entire post implies that he knows better. Sure the term might trigger you, but that doesn't make it any less true. To wit, I personally would've been much more scathing: I mean, has he even heard of John Stewart Mill? There's been a lot of trial and error here, and the blog post conveniently ignores it all.
As a bonus, when the next pandemic hits and everyone is panicking for a roll of toilet paper, you can rest easy knowing you have enough for a year or more.

Thank you Costco.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation[pdf]
> Did you know that LIGO designers had to add earthen berms to protect their vacuum pipes from bullets?

No, that's hilarious, where can I read more?
To be fair, python isn't the only language whose package management system is all but incoherent to folks who don't use python every day (and sometimes even to them!). npm is pretty rough to get setup too, and you run into a lot of issues similar to this.
> We don't craft programs out of machine code any more. We use high-level languages.

A.k.a. we chop down existing trees instead of growing our own.

> This is going to end badly.

While I don't disagree, the alternative is more often than not for nothing to ever get shipped because the development team is busy reinventing the universe, especially when a "don't use libraries" mentality gets taken to its logical conclusions ("we need perfect custom hardware to run our perfect custom operating system written to run our perfect custom programming language/runtime to run our perfect application" - just because Google has those sorts of resources doesn't mean a lone developer trying to get a side project done has those sorts of resources).

There is, however, a reasonable middle ground: start with those dependencies, and then as you encounter their limitations start working to replace them. The vast majority of development teams don't have the resources to make "do everything in-house" the default, but they might have the resources to selectively fork or replace a critical library once they've built an initial implementation of their project on top of said library. To your point about junior devs and learning opportunities, this is a perfect way to learn: "alright, so you built this app with this library, great, now write a replacement for that library that does A, B, and C instead of X, Y, and Z".
It's clean and tasty -- but it isn't cold. I can convince my family to drink water when it's cold. So I have a chiller that I refill from tap water, and everyone drinks water, and all is good.
Painting the house is a stand-in for having control over the building. You might not want to, but you might want to run ethernet or plant different plants or install a better dishwasher or any number of other options, which may or may not be possible depending on arrangement.
I agree, but it's difficult to find a part-time technical job. Which is why some folks opt for the work-like-mad until they've saved up enough to retire early approach.

What I do instead is work for a year or two and then take six month or so off between the gigs.
The taxi industry has existed for a long time with a lot of the regulations that people are trying to force onto Uber. But drivers flocked from taxis to Ubers as soon as that option became available. That suggests that at least for those who've opted into Uber, Uber is preferable. Reducing the availability of that option (which is what these rules will cause) is going to hurt them, because the fact that they're doing Uber means that it was their best available choice.
The mental gymnastics you are doing are extreme. STABBING someone in response to this is absolutely not ok. There is no consistent social norm reasoning that could make it so.

What if I have a blood clotting disorder? You stab me in my arm and I die. This is ok as an immediate reaction? What if I only accidentally bumped you because the subway jerked?

It’s just crazy.

I agree if you really are in a position of self-defense, reaching for any countermeasures you can makes sense, stabbing with a random object included.

That’s not what this is describing, not remotely.
An average human only has one testicle.

Not sure where I heard that.
If the location is a low-income, racially segregated neighborhood, it's functionally the same thing (at least when it comes to not being able to get a cab). This was an issue before Uber even existed, since you'd need to get a cab dispatched to you if you lived in one of those places.
Correct. As it happens, my wife's side of the family is prone to kidney stones, and also has an incredibly high pain threshold.
And, of course, output doesn't have to be number of bars of soap.

All of the automation I'm familiar with is making the design and manufacturing processes more fluid, giving faster iterations at reduced cost. This allows the tech/process/whatever to progress faster. You'll finish your product sooner, but that means you can start the next sooner.

This whole concept of having more time assumes there's nothing else to do. There will always be something to do if you're not making something static, like soap.
In some regions of the world, multi-family homes are actually preferred compared with single family homes. In Korea, modern apartment highrises offer many benefits that make them a more popular choice, including: better energy efficiency, wired for high speed internet, spacious outdoor recreational areas (playgrounds and parks, often gyms (indoor and outdoor)), attached small businesses (e.g. 7-11 and restaurants on the 1st floor), security guard in the complex (and sometimes in the building), a view if on a high floor, high tech amenities such as keyless entry / video intercom / subfloor heating systems, and more modern design & aestetics. I see a similar trend starting in China as well. Single family homes are either the homes of the ultra-rich or the poor, or traditional country-side homes.
We agree that Apple is just selling music, not making it. We disagree on how analogy that applies to Uber.

On its 10K, Uber identifies "gross bookings" as its primary revenue stream. Not "net bookings" or "commissions" or "marketplace fees." Gross bookings. Meaning that it treats all of the income from a ride as its own income, meaning that it's primary business activity is providing transportation services. The same is true for Lyft.

If they want to claim to be technology companies that only make their money from marketplace fees/commissions, they're free to do so but they'll need to change their financial and legal filings to match (and possibly their fare structures as well, since there's a mismatch between what riders pay and what drivers actually get). The reason they haven't done so is because that amount would be a lot smaller than the gross bookings number, but they can't have it both ways.
yes agree, AND one paper is not big-S science
Zero Trust Architecture
San Jose is the third most populous city in CA. 94% of the land in San Jose is restricted to single family homes. Is this because of popular opinion, or because people have no other choice?
No, I'm pretty good at expressing myself through text. My common phrases that I use in sentences and words that I use often are burned into my muscle memory, so I usually have a pretty good flow. I never considered how much time I might be wasting during those slower periods, but I'll probably think about it in the future.
Bingo. Decisions are made by those that show up.

I'd encourage anyone who cares about these issues to vote, to contact local politicians, to attend local debates or city council meetings.
Beyond debate by whom? Are you a driver? It is highly debatable whether the conditions are poor or that drivers do not want this kind of job vs. say, working at McDonald's.
This is not based on any classified information and sonar signal processing is not something i know much about, but cyclostationarity (and other higher-order statistical signal processing) does tend to be useful when processing signals that are generated by processes where there's multiple periodicities at work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclostationary_process#Angle-...
Hey really like your site. If I could add any suggestions, it would be -
1) use of an address picker/dropdown, though honestly I haven't run into issues, it just seems cleaner.

2) link to the companies listed? I see some odd names when I searched my old address that I couldn't even find in Google.

Anyhow, thanks again!
I think he's right, but there's a subtlety here that's often missed. Zuckerberg talks about it directly [0] and I think his approach is probably the most reasonable.

Social Media platforms do have some responsibility to moderate (and they have the legal Good Samaritan protection to do so in the US thanks to section 230). They have a particular responsibility since their 'engagement' algorithms have often historically led to making things worse by elevating controversial content. When they're using algorithms to elevate certain types of content they are employing some level of editorial control and have some responsibility as publishers in how they rank that content (what they choose to show more widely, what they choose to allow to fall into obscurity).

FB for their part has put a lot of effort into determining this kind of moderation standard and what they allow from users [1]. The recent political stuff is interesting in part because Zuckerberg is arguing that democratically elected politicians should be an exception to these rules, basically that citizens have a right to see the speech of their elected leaders (and lies should be corrected by a free press). While FB is legally able to moderate the speech of an elected politician on their platform, Zuckerberg argues it's wrong for FB to decide what political speech is okay to block because they shouldn't be in the position to make that call. I think he's right to be concerned about that precedent. This doesn't apply to the speech of regular users or even to the political speech of non-democratically 'elected' politicians.

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/16/mark-zuckerberg-and-f...

[1]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/men-are-scum-inside-...

[Edit]: Also this:

> "One thing that interests me and that I have so far not been able to find out is how it starts. How does a ‘normal’ person step into this cult world where up is down and not think to themselves: “Hm, this does not seem like it is believable”."

I think people do think this at first, but I think we are all more vulnerable to being infected by bullshit then we like to believe. People are wildly inconsistent, even in their own views most of the time (yes even you, and me). We think poorly, many people believe crazy things, we argue via motivated reasoning, don't extend views globally, don't consider things the same when they're out of sight etc.

When exposed to lots of wrong information repeatedly I think most people get corrupted, even those that are pretty analytical. I think it takes continuous vigilance to not believe crazy things (and I think people get worse as they get older at being able to do this well).

I don't think these are outliers, I think this is the norm. Most people just don't wonder about things at all so avoid being radicalized into harmful action based on their own crazy beliefs. I also suspect in-person interaction has a lot of built in de-escalation mechanisms that bias towards unity and friendliness most of the time, so things get worse when you lose that natural control.
Seems entirely reasonable to me. Uber and Lyft pulled out of Austin for more than a year until Texas overturned the regulations Austin put in place.

Business have the right to decide if playing a market is worth it or not.
Assuming I did bring in an 80mb js library into a web app wouldn't there be something in the build process that removes unreachable code? I mostly have backend and mobile experience with only a little frontend experience. But I agree many modern pages are way larger then they really need to be.
I can certainly understand the impulse to react with overwhelming force. Even as a man, many potential assailants are larger and stronger than me.

But I'd surely go to prison if I followed through and stabbed some stranger for putting their arm on my shoulders. One of the first things you learn in any kind of self-defense training is that you should not - and legally must not - wield a weapon except to protect yourself from an immediate risk of serious injury.
> She could've first asked him to stop.

Maybe the masher could have just asked her to stop stabbing him instead?
There's nothing inevitable about freedom of speech. China is 4000 years old, and they still don't have it. It WAS hard fought for. Speaking and thinking are the same thing. A society that cannot speak without fear of censorship is one that cannot think. It cannot ask difficult questions. It cannot speak truth to power. It is as much a cultural value as a legal one. It should be promoted and celebrated.
I really like the boat/panda; how did you create that SVG? Source code says it was generated by Sketchapp, which I am not too familiar with.

Overall great job, its super slick.
Most duplexes & triplexes allow #2 & 3. The owner occupies one unit and has full rights & responsibilities over the property: they can paint it, landscape it, put in solar panels, etc. Then they rent out the other unit(s) as a normal landlord/tenant relationship. It's extra income for them, and it's a normal apartment for the tenant (except often a bit nicer because many duplexes have yards and the owner has a stronger incentive to fix things quickly).

Townhomes/condos with an HOA are a different beast. That's a function of the ownership structure (SFH vs. condo vs. TIC vs. apartment) rather than the physical dwelling, though. At least in the Bay Area, it's not uncommon to find SFHs that have been converted into multi-family properties with the addition of an in-law unit or ADU. The vast majority of these use a traditional landlord/tenant relationship.
Manufacturing volume
So we have great tools to facilitate communication between people, and yeah there is downside to having people communicate, does it mean communication is bad? I don't think so.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132282
Have you ever had them both eventually show up?
I've always been uncomfortable with these kinds of ideas. The odds that the idea will be correctly applied is heavily tied to intelligence, culture, and situation. Instead of reducing the space of options you must consider, all it says is that you should "do it this way when you should and do it the other when you shouldn't." I suppose perhaps it is useful to highlight that the decision exists, but I would be surprised if anyone working in the space is unaware of the existence of the decision.

The scientific method has a similar problem. A scientist should form their hypothesis before gathering data to evaluate the hypothesis. If a scientist fails to do this, and starts engaging in p-hacking or data dredging, the quality of their research greatly declines. But proving that a hypothesis was obtained before data was collected is not usually provable when just looking at the publication itself. And further, there are ways that data dredging can unintentionally sneak into the scientific process, especially around the phase before hypothesis- observation.

This kind of idea has large technical impact, but doesn't have a solid technical reason. It's proof is closer to aesthetics than reason. And much like other aesthetic beliefs, a population believes it based on no deeper reasoning. Only exclusion or indoctrination can ensure the population's view, and only illogical rhetoric will change it.
That is a quote from Russell from 1932 written before desegregation, white flight, and the explosion of the suburbs so the differences between urban and rural life was far more stark than it is today. The big networks like NBC and CBS were born just a few years before and it took them until WWII IIRC to really penetrate into all the rural areas of the US (in the 1930 census only 40% of households owned a radio, mostly as a sign of middle class wealth in urban areas). Sports teams could only be supported by relatively high densities of people because television wasn't yet a major source of revenue.

Today's equivalent would be smartphones, which are definitely harder to use the further out you are from civilization (I've got no reception 40 minutes from DT San Diego!)
you can argue the same way to apps by Fb, Google, and etc. I guess you would also call Fb app a malware and recommend avoid it too?
I dont mean to justify what TikTok did, but I'm curious what apps are not malware?
> It was true, as social worker Jane Addams lamented, that “never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon city streets and to work under alien roofs.”

Wow.
I completely agree. One reason I like prettier is that it only has about 6 options you can change. It removes the bike-shedding. Just let it do it's thing and worry about more important things.

It also remove all debate in PRs about style and formatting.

(note: before prettier, I was fairly particular about how I formatted my code, and I disagreed with prettier in some cases, but now, I love having one less thing to think about)
Also, Costco isn't always automatically the best price per unit anyway. Especially for staple items, I find that Fred Meyer (Kroger) is frequently less expensive on a per-unit basis for really common household items. It's deeply ingrained that buying in bulk must be cheaper, but pricing in grocery stores isn't always that intuitive.
If I were to work there it wouldn’t be so much to be an open source contributor but to be at the core of modern web.

I don’t have kids so I don’t know what that part is like, though.
Why not the masher NOT be a dick in the first place?

If this was an isolated incident, then what you say is reasonable. When it happens often, the deterrent clearly needs to be greater.

And when you factor in average strength, generally restrictive clothing of the day, social norms, lack of rights.

Bugger it, you may as well take a mile as an inch, you'll be prosecuted the same either way.