skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> something as simple as a "green bubble" or a "blue bubble" just like bullying for having a more affordable brand of shoes

This meme that it's "just about the color of the bubble" has got to die.

Messaging over SMS is way worse in every way. Group messaging breaks inconsistently in ten different ways, you have issues with attachments, you miss a bunch of other features, etc.

When you text in groups as much as teens do, these things matter. Not being able to use half the features you regularly use because one person in the group chat is Android is going to be legitimately frustrating.

What's interesting, however, is why the US population has settled on iMessage for premium messaging features, instead of WhatsApp like so many other countries.
Snakes look more like gut than tail :)
Do we understand how the magnetic fields in stars work?
> my favorite application of that tech - Roton

Rotary Rocket ("Roton") is vise versa opposite design concept to Rocket Helicopter.
There are cultural differences here. Japanese houses are seen as depreciating assets, as nobody wants to live in an old house. See https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/w...

As a result, the phenomenon of hoarding real estate for profit simply doesn’t exist. And the regular tear down of old houses allows density to increase rapidly, at the expense of building waste.
I feel a little betrayed by Logitech. The MX Revolution was the nicest mouse I've ever owned. It had great feel and the right amount of heft. The placement and feel of the wheels and buttons were perfect and the right amount. Mine died after years of use. When I went to replace it, the replacements available lacked heft and felt really cheap compared to what they had gotten me used to. I assumed it was for gaming reasons. I ended up buying a used MX Revolution. I occasionally check in on what they offer, and am not very excited about it, nor do I trust them to continue a good thing if I find it. Now I just stick with gaming mice which is fine--there are some good ones. But I really just want the MX Revolution back.
The short answer is that it takes large panels to generate any significant amount of power, larger than would fit on a most consumer devices.
India was not defeated by Alexander, only some border states. He never really entered today's India.

Nandas would have obliterated Alexander had he dared to face them.
It's nice to see some Asian history for a change. In the west, it seems as we only have an interest in the historical narratives of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Europe. Dense civilizations existed in South and East Asian stretching back thousands of years and our history classes and popular culture barely touch on them.

I'd love to see more pop culture(games, movies, etc) explore the history of what is now India, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.
I have two questions for this:

What is the basis for your belief that smaller groups of people will intrinsically care more about the environment than larger groups?

In an anarchic society, what mechanism would be limiting these cooperatives to 10,000 employees? How would this be enforced, and what would the consequences be for exceeding 10,000?
There is no option to leave society and not pay those taxes, while that option is present in anarchism. You are forced to be a part of the state or you face strict punishment.
....any travellers. And the point is they were outside communities. Right now we take for granted that we can travel from point a to point b without worrying about such threats.
> And it seems to be a one way trip. You can never suggest that we have gone too far. Apparently there can never be too many police, too much military spending, or too many people in prison. They only right answer is more of that, please.

Personally, I think it's not taken far enough. Leveraging force to eliminate ignorance would, I believe, benefit society. If we allow those who would push untruths for either personal gain or simply out of ignorance, what does society have to lose by ridding itself of them?
I’ve refurbished old Thinkpads and Macs and handed them out to friends over the years. Ive also noticed a characteristic around handling equipment. Some people will inadvertently (subconsciously?) destroy what they use while others attempt to preserve it with religious diligence.

I was particularly impressed when one acquaintance with a disturbed mind and bouts of homelessness returned a gift laptop to me after 5 years, thanking me for it and telling me he had bought his own. It was in utterly pristine condition, With not even a worn key. He had treated it better than himself.
The parent comment actually encompasses this - there was no 'unified' India before Alexander visited, but there was the semblance of one once he left since Chanakya 'envisioned' a common thread running across the region and made arrangements to unite it under a single flag.
They're saying that there is nothing even resembling criminal intent in this sort of patent problem, so your statement is true but not related to the problem at hand.
Timex Datalink
Better if both would face repercussions, since if only the boss has skin in the game passive introverted engineers will silently follow orders, knowing that they're not personally risking much if they comply but risk losing their jobs if they don't.
Brilliant answers, much like the Terry Southern interview with The Paris Review. The fact that Everett kept a crow named Jim is radiant.
Could you help me understand how India, with 4x the population of the USA and almost no mask wearing, has 1/3 the cases of the USA?

Is it possible that your risk assessment of the virus is too heavily influenced by the confounding variable of your own personal fear?
> This theory leads to any possible existence existing, [...]

This statement maybe superficially correct, but I interpret it differently. Every possible existence may exist, but not every imaginable existence. For something to exist in this manner, it has to be possible to generate it in a logically consistent manner from some initial conditions and simple rules, and while that allows for a "terrifying expanse of existences" we can't say which imagninable existences can actually be thus generated, any more than you can look at a random jumble of dots and say whether those could have been generated by one of Wolfram's one-dimensional automata without generating all possible patterns from those automata and seeing if one matches.

The fact that you can imagine a hell beyond all horrors is not proof that any world-generating automaton would ever generate it... even in an infinite Universe it may not actually be a "possible existence".

Infinity != Everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge#Skeleton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinoderm#Skin_and_skeleton
How do you define ignorance?

That’s a rhetorical question by the way.
I think we'll have to do this on our own and not rely on Hollywood or studios from the west. Bahubali was probably a good start. But more needs to be done. I'm starting to wonder whether it's a question of talent or question of capital. I seriously hope it's the latter.
> The two-dimensional variant of the theorem (also known as the pancake theorem) can be proved by an argument which appears in the fair cake-cutting literature

This is the first time that reading about math has made me hungry.
I strongly agree that precision matters, but in no way does naming a concept after a person help with precision. Almost entirely orthogonal. What does help with precision is typed languages. You cannot use a term until you've precisely defined it in terms previously defined, which can be back-traced automatically by a computer to ones and zeroes. It must be a language both parseable by a human and a machine. At that point you have precision. That doesn't preclude using names as identifiers, but makes that largely irrelevant.

I strongly disagree that accessibility doesn't really matter. It always matters. Maybe not during draft time, but in the long run. There are strong economic incentives to make things less accessible for non-experts, but in no way does that help advance the field, or force experts to reduce elements to their most basics, it is just rent seeking.
Yes, like decades ago, when the Senior VP of PETA thought all animal testing was wrong, unless of course it was to help her, because who else would fight to stop animal testing?

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https://www.consumerfreedom.com/2004/08/2628-hyperbolic-hypo...

PETA Senior Vice President MaryBeth Sweetland on her use of insulin, which was tested on animals:

“I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically manufactured insulin that still contains some animal products — and I have no qualms about it … I’m not going to take the chance of killing myself by not taking insulin. I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.”

—Glamour, January 1990

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Such people, generally people on the extreme side of any debate, are often not rational. Not always of course, but.. often.
I just finished a great book called "All the Shah's Men" about the history of the Iranian revolution. To have everything that happened in Iran boiled down to "countries invaded by, bombed by or had coups instigated by the USA, since the end of the Korean War" is really a stretch lacking basically all context.

As a casual reader of history I always thought US interference in Iran was a pretty clear cut example of wrong doing but now I'm not so sure.

I can't speak on the other examples in that image but knowing more now about Iran it makes me question the narrative of the nefarious motivations behind US interference.
Debian Stable is the last great linux distro. I keep trying to go back to Fedora or Ubuntu but they are so damn buggy.

And as someone living with OCD (the real thing) the whole Snap thing just makes me so anxious. And like you experienced, it is soooo slow. I cannot even go back to windows because for some reason the wifi on my laptop does not work well with it.

I do not care about bleeding edge anymore, but I am a casual user mostly doing genetic research, so Debian Buster with Cinnamon is, to me, the best distro on Linux today.
This transformation of customers to “users” (an otherwise appropriate and even innocuous term when used in context) parallels the commonplace use of “consumer” for “person” (a usage I even see on HN).

We all have many roles, in which it may be appropriate to consider us as “user”, “customer”, “consumer”, “driver”, “parent”, “friend”...* preferring the term “person” might remind us that at the end of the day that the user’s interest is not necessarily aligned with ours (usually joystick in face) and that we need them more than they need us.

* I had a colleague who refers to parents of teens as “protectors of terrorists”. Yes, he had four teens himself. While the term was unwieldy and the joke rapidly wore thin, it reminded me of the various roles played by parents...and kids, and made me more tolerant of the foibles of teens. When we bundle a person into “user” it’s easy to lose perspective on the actual objective.
I think that "being offended" isn't a serious matter, or an actual political stance. That's the crux of my distaste of SJW, intersectionality, and victimhood culture. One of my "offensive opinions", if you wish.

That doesn't mean that I think that sexism, racism, homophobia, etc aren't serious matters. On the contrary.
No, but it does multiply the cost. It means instead of breaking one key per conversation, there would be many. That could be the difference required.
Haha :) I don't agree with you, worms look more like gut.
> It also made me think of sorting algorithms, which all have wonderfully snappy and descriptive names.@@

Well, bubble, shell, insertion and merge, sure. Quick less so. And then there is Tim...
There are 55 cochrane reviews if you search for pencillin on their site https://www.cochranelibrary.com/advanced-search. Infectious Disease is one of the most academic oriented and evidence rigorous disciplines in all of medicine. As the requirements for levels of evidence are ratcheted up many treatments that are old and established are reviewed and undergo additional study to establish them under the new expectations.
You're forgetting the real kingpins: the (ex?) military members who have the willpower, training and actual hardware to project the ultimate force - actual violence.

Your tech execs with all their modern technology can't do anything against a well trained, well organized group of people who will imprison or kill you if you don't do what they say. Or they can work together for an even worse dystopia.

That's anarchy. A few people will work out any issues with diplomacy, while most will band under some leaders and take what they want by force.

It's the same right now, except groups who have an oligopoly on violence (i.e. governments) are few and really big - everyone does what they say and in turn live in relative peace and decent conditions.
my favorite part of arch is using the AUR and customizing PKGBUILDS to suit my needs. I recently was messing around trying to get the emacs native-comp development branch built on my machine. I was running into some issues, then tried in an ubuntu container. Eventually I just fired up my Arch VM, found an AUR package for it, tweaked the PKGBUILD options and dependencies for my needs, and then had it compile on the first try. The build worked great, and once I'd native-compiled everything in my emacs configs, it was super fast to start up even in the VM.

Arch will give you small issues every now and then, but it gives you the tolls to fix them and makes it easy to do things that are much more difficult on other distros.
That's an argument for having more humane prisons, not for abolishing prisons in the sense of "place where you are confined from interaction with the non-sociopaths until you can be less sociopathic".
Amazon takes down a five-star fraud in the UK
Rotary Rocket (2001)
a wikipedia page? that page has like 2 quotes from actual fascists. wow so much wisdom.

I've read at least 4 books on fascism, 2 of which are from 1st party sources on the topic. I've done the same for communism and anarchism (more my style).

Most confusion stems from the off-limits, taboo nature of the topic and gatekeeping urging you to view "approved" sources, which are usually from critics of the topic. It's like reading Henry Ford's definition of communism... biased.

It's really not that nuanced if you read what they believed from first hand sources.
SMS was huge in the UK and Ireland from the early part of the century, and the operators absolutely gouged kids with their topup pricing.
Very few young children present any meaningful symptoms meaning testing of them suffers from substantial adverse selection bias. 662 is probably rounding to zero.
Yep, I second this. Don Norman really and truly understood the user in the deepest way. It’s hard to find people like him who put their entire consciousness in the shoes of the user, simulate what the user goes through when interacting with the world and provide insights about how, we the designers, on the opposite aisle think about design as not some aesthetic shit but as a tool to solve problems.

Design and designers, vast majority of them are chasing aesthetics and trends. Just go on Behance to see it for yourself.
What would be better than patient questionnaire?
:D
In case you don't realize, I'm joking above. And I have no idea how Magic cards work.
Oil Industry Is Fading Away in Land of the World’s Richest Reserves
I'm firmly in the camp that believes that the situation in SF is obscene.

But if CA wants to work on fixing its social ills, they could start by implementing the basics, like a functioning property tax system, and reducing the tremendous amount of spending on things like pension abuse, before moving on to more exotic and invasive solutions like wealth taxes.

So many of their issues stem from the ridiculous housing and other property development situation. It's not the fault of the ultrawealthy so much as the moderately wealthy NIMBY homeowner. But it's less popular to blame them, because for many of us, they are ourselves.
What I hate most about snaps is that they show up when I use "df -hl" ... but I don't use Ubuntu anymore so I don't have that problem.
This seems to misrepresent why people bother naming things. It's not like mathematicians are spending their time randomly naming every object/property/structure/... they encounter just for the sake of it.

A "Kähler manifold" exists, as a name, because there is no way to fully describe what it is (and bring forward in the reader all the corresponding context) in two or three words. Using a long sentence (full of things that could themselves be artificial labels, recursively) instead would be a waste of everyone's time.

If one can use a short descriptive name for something, then it's not a name, it's just the thing, and everyone refer to it directly. And when you can't, or when you want to indicate its importance, or you want to neatly package all the relevant context about it, all the mathematical baggage that should come with it in something short, then the pretty obvious thing to do it to abstract it away and stick a label on top.

It doesn't really matter whether they use mathematicians, flower names or characters from The Lord of The Rings, as long as it's unique enough, in context, then it's fine. The names become part of the vocabulary of the field, just as much as supposed "descriptive" names. All those "descriptive" names have to be precisely defined too anyway, because they carry natural-language connotations, assumptions, and so on, that just don't apply.
I'm not sure where you live, but you've described something that I think has solved several such issues. Here are a few things that are illegal in my country to market in commercials: gambling, politics, medicaments, toys for children. Would that apply to what you are thinking?
Is it common for Athletes to have to sit out the year because they caught the flu? Flu is so pervasive.
FWIW you can address all of your criticisms by expanding the problem from VCs to non-founder investors generally. All of your examples are publicly-traded companies.

> The real root cause of "user hostility" is that companies are run by humans and humans are self-serving and want to make more money. E.g. Look at COVID causing some colleges/universities cancelling in-person classes and refuse to refund tuition fees claiming that "video instruction" is same quality of education. The money came from students and not VCs. You can't blame VCs for that.

I'm not sure this one fits, because the universities are between a rock and a hard place. They've switched to "video instruction" but none of their expenses have gone away because they're still maintaining a campus and about the same level of staffing since they expect to switch back to it in the not too distant future. But if their costs haven't gone down, it's pretty hard for them to charge less without going under.
Is it possible to transition to anarchy in a geopolitical environment of competing nation-states? How would an anarchizing state in the process of gradual self-dismantlement outcompete more centralized states in economic and military terms?
The Europeans tended to lock themselves into Blackberry Messenger for the same reason Americans initially locked themselves into iMessage.

At the time, the alternative was to either pay a per message fee or pay monthly for an unlimited text messaging plan.
See https://ewh.ieee.org/r4/se_michigan/cs/20131019/A%20Comparat...
In the US ignorance and overuse of force go hand-in-hand, so I don't think this is going to work out too well.
Flat earthers? Anti-vaxxers?
Just a hunch, but he probably means disk partitioning, allocating a partition for swap and other such stuff you can customize most easily during installation.
It's nice to have excellent options for that, but I seriously don't have that as a deep need right now personally.
Holy whataboutism!

With no laws, no police, no jails, no courts, and no justice system, everyone on of those incredibly evil people mention in the prior comment goes 100% free to continue their reign of terror.

Yet, of course, that's exactly the same as some people who slip through the cracks of a justice system that catches many such people a year. Prosecutes them with attempts to be fair. Puts them in jail so they can't hurt others.

Yup. Because someone might slip through the cracks, well.. that's precisely the same as what the prior poster said!

What a false equivalency.
While this may be true, you seem to be ignoring the prisoner's dilemma part of this... yes, society (and the individuals in it) will be better off if everyone cooperates, but as an individual, it is still always better to defect.

Imagine, for example, there are two companies that make widget foo. They are identical, except Company A charges less than Company B, but Company A pollutes a bunch.

As a society, we want everyone to buy from company B. We would all be better off.

However, that isn't my choice as a consumer. I either buy from B and pay more, and company A still pollutes (one person out of thousands doesn't change the amount of pollution).

Or, I get the cheaper thing from company A, and everything else stays the same.

Why wouldn't I shop at company A? My one purchase wont make or break the company, and it won't change the amount of pollution by any noticeable amount... but I will notice the cheaper price.

This is what a collective action problem is.
I did a little research. I guess gorillas don't have a tail :)
Spider, bee?
I've moved into the "void" political and social party.

This article was submitted to HN a month ago. Got 9 upvotes. Too true and too real.

The Cancel Culture Checklist:
Six signs that show you're not just being criticized; you're being canceled.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-cancel-culture-checkl...
Fair point, I can't imagine it would be possible to implement it in a way that wouldn't immediately become corrupted.
> The problematic part of this equation is that “your work” isn’t a fixed quantity.

Deal with the discrepancy by rewarding high output.
Also JavaScript, and is responsible for it technically being ECMAScript
I always wanted to propose my own "Reuben's Law" (named for me) -- no more laws shall be named after dead children.
Covid shield helps Santa Barbara man keep a well rounded distance
People's names can be confused too. A few weeks ago I referred to the Legendre symbol as "Lagrange symbol" by mistake when talking to a colleague. Such things are inevitable however you name things; some words happen to have small Levenshulme-distances...
The sentence is mangled and syntactically incorrect anyway - there's no other reason before the "and". Maybe it originally said "and kills off bacteria" before a "because" was added during the editing process.
And with all the options you'll almost never have to rely on snaps.
The property is adjacent to a residential area, so sort of to all of them, but not plug and go. Even if it was on the property, 600 acres is big enough that it might not be in the right place.

I think it's just shy of 1.5hrs from a major airport.
Bill Gates claims Tesla Semi won’t work
If anything, naming them after people (especially people with uncommon names) makes them easier to google.
Yes in a sense but ultimately evolutionary equilibriums are the reason why. When everybody is a dove, being a hawk is very good, be it psychopaths, sociopaths or random opportunistic anti-social behavour.
Hard Forking Reality (Part 3): Apocalypse, Evil, and Intelligence
Did you mean to say employee-focused the second time ?
But then what about capitalism and muh free market? obviously /s
I am assuming for games at least, the market in say India is not big enough that it can cover the cost of making something high budget. Once the market becomes bigger in terms of ability to spend, there might be more content. For example Japan, China have big enough markets and both have dedicated games in Total War series on parts of their history.