skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few identifiable elements of toxicity in social memia.

i) The tendency to immaturity. (This is a social problem.)

ii) The tendency to loud stupidity and stubborn ignorance. Not all opinions need be heard and acknowledged. Reason is a habit that must be practised. (This is a cultural problem. At bottom, it is anti-intellectualism.)

iii) The very modern problem of "victimology discourse". Everyone has lived injustice because, frankly, people are exploitative and "the system" finds abuse to be profitable. But we cannot have free speech and productive exchanges if Victim Points overrule discussion.

In the end, the reflective person will disengage from the dungheap. This leaves only the dung.
Hearing a child crying doesn't just make me aware that someone is distracted, it also distracts me and makes it much harder to communicate. I would much rather have one person on the call be distracted while on mute than have the entire call be distracted. Also depending on what video conferencing software you use, background noise like crying continually interrupts the speaker and makes it really hard to hear.

Nothing annoys me more than people having background noise and not muting themselves, no one should be pushing crying babies and barking dogs to my headphones without a reason it completely ruins the call for me. If I really need to know if they are distracted, I can just look at their video.
Why are you so sure of that?
I had a lot of issues with bluetooth headphones as well, but at least Logitech's USB dongle headsets never caused any issues for me. I'm using a H800. The audio device is always available as long as the dongle is plugged in, even if you turn off the headset, so you never have the issue of your audio device not being available and your software switching to a different device. You only need to turn the headset on and it works.

Jabra has a similar USB dongle (Jabra Link), but I haven't used it yet.
My TV can connect, but is happy to live without. Though I've never used the smart features, just terrestrial digital TV, a PC over HDMI, a Pi running Kodi over HDMI, and an old DVD player via SCART. The TV doesn't enforce an interactive menu to pick those sources from, it is a simple selection on the remote, so it doesn't have anywhere to force ads.

If it becomes impossible to buy a TV that doesn't just display what I chose by the time this one is due for replacement, I'll take a device sold as a computer monitor instead. Or a projector. Maybe I'll pay extra, but I'll be fine with that.
Fiat Winter Is Coming? Yep
Do people need to know how to balance a checkbook anymore?
Ah yes, I remember the era of: "I'm gay" "Well, now you have to get out of the house and never see your parents again. Too bad. Get over it. Oh and there's a pandemic on with a high fatality rate for gay people. Who cares?"

The amazing thing about those phrases is how many situations they don't work for. Berlin Wall? Who cares. 9/11? Get over it. Uighur detention? Too bad.
Whack a mole can be a highly successful strategy if there is a cost to having the mole appear somewhere else and the whacker has more resources than the one controlling the mole.
TLDR; Assuming there is no contract (written or verbal) then the fact that you put in roughly the same amount makes it slightly easier to say - Equal Stakes, Equal Share (20% each).

Longer version -

Ouch. The fact that you are posting it here suggests that there is some disagreement between the 5 of you.

Let me guess - you think you should get more as the founder and source of the idea. Person B says "but without me you would not have continued with development, so I should get the same as you". Person C says, "if it wasn't for me then you then you would not have managed to survive or be as profitable (tax expertise)". Person D says something like "well I tuned the algorithms and increased profits by x% so without me there would be no profits".

Personally I can't imagine investing 10k in to something without something in writing (in fact I'm truly trying to imagine the scenario and I just can’t). What was the agreement when they invested their money? Not trying to be snarky but I just can't see a situation where the conversation went "We need more money", Person B (or C or D) just went "cool, here's 10k, enjoy".
As the article points out, Google is doing similar with Android TV. I'm not happy. I bought a Shield TV for a higher-end experience. I don't want ads on my home screen. I know, ToS, etc.. Bah! No excuse!
I find wireless headphones to be amazingly liberating - especially if they have their own mute button. Being able to pace around in the middle of a meeting, or even nip to the loo and not miss the conversation (we've been here 70min and I've been muted for 65 of them) means I actually pay far more attention to what's going on.
In the way it might be casted upon supporters of the President, the distinction between white supremacy and white power is largely semantics.

As far as I understand it, "white supremacy" for those that desire it is the idealized end result of "white power." Much of the rhetoric from President Trump is to rally support for white power. [1]

Given the most common disagreement in the US is between those who advocate for or oppose President Trump, it makes sense that his followers would be deemed "white supremacists"

I believe the broad awakening among many white people in the US currently is the ambient benefits of invisible white power.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6iSgqFahoM
I tried giving lower ratings and I've tried complaining to Uber. Even in cases where the route is clearly 3 sides of a square that involved 3 times the distance (and 3 times the price) they still side with the driver. I've had trips to the airport on Uber be more expensive than a Black Cab.
Another way to look at it is the answer to "Ask HN: I'm looking for a side project or job to make me extra money" is almost certainly not "Write a book!"

(With the most obvious exception being if you're a public figure of some sort.)
Consider knowledge as a strict tradeoff against things like interesting vacations and buying a house N years earlier, and it's genuinely tricky. Would you trade buying a house at 30 with less knowledge of liberal arts for buying a house at 40 and knowing a BS worth of liberal arts?

Luckily (unluckily) the decision is easier because to buy a house at 30, you likely need the degree too, so the question is flipped.
The thing about state dependence that I don’t like is that that means the state has power over you. Follow our rules or you lose benefits. What, you’re against X? Sorry, come correct or lose your privilege to those benefits.

We don’t want to have what they had in the old “second world” where the state could bend the will of the people because it held all the cards.

That’s not to deny that we can serve people better. Create access to capital, lessen predatory practices on innumerate consumers, incentivize women to enter more productive areas of the economy, etc.
Maybe I'm not always as diplomatic as I could be all the time, but what if I like it that way? I don't have this problem with offending people IRL or even in other online communities. And I'm not interested at all in cutting people out of my life - I like my social circle. So, in my mind, the platform is indeed the problem.
The whole "things must scale" made sense 20 or 10 years ago. But today there is so much competition and free capital. New business is lucky if it carves out small niche and turns profitable.

The same with hardware. We had tiny machines comparable to Raspberry Pi 4 hooked in cluster. Today you can rent single server with 24TB DDR RAM and countless SSDs.
Go for it! Get a motherboard with reinforced PCIe slots for both GPUs though, the cheaper mobos only have one armoured slot. Also, you really should use the 3080 Founders Edition I guess for a dual setup as they blow out part of their heat in the back. Otherwise you need good air control and as thin 3080 cards as you can find (so there's some space between them in the case). Still waiting for good thermal benchmarks on this kind of setup...

Of course if money is an issue, you are well off with only a single 3080 :)

There is no point in buying the 20xx series anymore. The 30xx are twice as good for the same money (if you can get one).
Well yes, in theory if all the developers read JS's formal specification JS would be better. But in practice developers just wing it without reading anything, and only go to read things when getting an unexpected result. And so we get the follow outcome - python behaves as expected in more cases than JS behaves as expected.

"Theory is great in theory, but in practice, practice is better"
Inflation-indexing might help for a bit but there are longer term issues on the horizon.

Namely, as fuel efficiency increases and some drivers switch to alternative fuels, people will need less gas for the same amount of driving.
Has anybody seen any work where CRDTs get insight into conflict resolution using the underlying grammar of whatever text is being written (aka English, Javascript, regex, etc.)? Seems like the conflict resolution could do a better job if it knew the EBNF of the text that was being edited.

Also, any prior art on CRDTs over relational data? I suppose each single field would potentially be an "editable space", but on a long document (say a Javascript code block), updating the whole thing in the db by overwriting it with each edit would not be very efficient. Seems like there could be a datatype that was a little smarter than "text", that could handle more granular updates, that implemented a CRDT index under the hood? I'm working on a VCS for relational data [1] which is more on the not-so-realtime-collaborative-editing end of the spectrum, but would really like to figure out how to handle real-time collaborative editing in this space.

Maybe over WebRTC? I found a little bit of prior art w.r.t. CRDT over WebRTC. [2]

[1]: https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta/tree/master/src/pg-...
[2]: https://github.com/mattkrick/rich
Just having a book that you've written on any topic listed somewhere on your resume is nearly always a positive. It is kind of like having a college degree in that it shows you can start something and finish it.
The Fed disagrees.
Some of these seem fairly reasonable. Is it not fair to pay a premium if you tend to return a lot of items. It costs the store more money? If you have friends with "bad" backgrounds there's clearly direct correlation between that and loan risk. Is this any different from how loan officers operated for all of history? Yes these create biases but are these biases justified?

With that said there's definitely a problem with how some of this data is used (ex: deliberately designing apps to be addictive). I'm just not a fan of blanket statements for / against data collection. There's a balance to be had.
I guess I don't read HN enough that I don't recall ever seeing it here, but a quick Google search confirms your impression: this quote has been super prolific on the site. I hope I at least reached a few readers who hadn't seen it before.
If everyone is a monopoly then no one is.
There are multiple issues. Self censorship is a problem, but conspiracy thinking is also a problem. Dr. Steven Novella recently said something to the effect of “the problem is that social media has automated conspiracy theory”. What he was talking about was how algorithms have had the effect of breadcrumbing people deeper and deeper into conspiracy theories and surrounding them with false confirmation.
Thank you for doing that.
A government can make it harder, increase the risk, or lower the profitability.

For example, if you register heroin addicts and supply them with clean heroin on a regular basis, you destroy the market for heroin.

If you legalize and regulate cocaine like tobacco, you can destroy billions of dollars worth of criminal activity.
I wonder how things might change if 1% of highway funding were diverted to rail funding. And if 1% of USPS funding went into funding mailcars on Amtrak trains. And if 1% of federal unemployment stimulus went into hiring new employees for rail.

Maybe current funding dwarfs all those accumulated 1%s. I don't know. But maybe a dozen 1%s could help out a dozen other challenges and give a huge boost to passenger rail in the U.S.
At the risk of explaining the joke: I'm guessing you mean that option is the reply button? :).
Probably a lot? I can't speak to that question specifically, since there aren't many Baptists in my area, but the Catholic Church leadership has a similarly anti-gay message to the SBC and lots of gay people are friends with Catholics.
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>you've been fairly hostile in this entire conversation

Fair. But I take offence at being told my ideas/thoughts are violating "consistently applied" (universal or wholly agreed upon) principles[0]. It's condescending and smug.

It's especially annoying when you can't seem to clearly articulate what that principle is, or why it trumps the principle that "we should do what is best for society and the economy" that I am putting forth.

[0] Technically, you're right. You didn't say "first principle" so I apologize for that. However, you did say "consistently applied principles" and the gist is pretty much the same (as in "it's a universally agreed upon truth").
Didn't they try to prosecute some watchers?
So, you saw creating a 'safe space' inside of a college campus, and you decided that means the whole campus is a 'safe space'.

That makes sense. Whenever I walk into a building with a bathroom, I assume I can pee anywhere in the building.
Show HN: Ascender.ai – AI-driven visualization of 3M news articles
It should default to showing whatever input is currently marked as "TV/Cable". Out of the box, that is the OTA tuner. If you want it to default to an HDMI port, you will need to use the connection manager to tell the TV that there is a cable box connected to an HDMI port and to use that as the TV input.
Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu Linux
They pay that much. https://www.levels.fyi/ I'm only going to be joining FAANG or similar if they pay that much as I have no incentive to otherwise.

My personal situation doesn't seem relevant to the question. Depending on how you look at it - I am. It's just that over half of it isn't liquid right now - but will likely be next year or the year after.
It's probably going to come down to whether such a system could be made light and efficient enough to not offset the drag savings with extra mass.
Wokeness = the new Puritan era.
What's Your Goal?
Yes, I understand.
Education is free in Germany. I hold a PhD. I completed my degrees with “distinction” in high paying fields, worked in investment banking, top management consulting and tech.

But honestly: if it wasn’t for like 80+h weeks straight for the past 10 years and “an increadibly lucky chance” even for me university and working in the most prestigious companies would have been a crap choice. Even without the PhD (which I was able to get done in 3 years at the top university in Germany).

I literally do not recommend university to anybody “unless they are willing to take a pay cut and understand the need to be in the top 5 percent for the next 15 years to get a shot at being as well paid as that dude doing an apprenticeship in the quality department working 35h weeks”. And again: university is free here. Not worth it really from a financial perspective for most people. Yet, the “public and political agenda is to push more people into it”
Per watt, it's not even close. That's because RPis are a lot behind on manufacturing processes, with newer designs being more efficient too. (RPi4 is on 28nm)
VAT isn't included in the 30% fee so you have to pay that as well. Apple just handles the transaction and the paperwork, they still get their full 30% cut.
I'm afraid I don't know the definition of state you're operating under, so I don't think I can evaluate claims such as "white supremacy is endorsed by the state in the US."
VMware to Acquire SaltStack for VRealize Suite
Thanks for the kind words! Glad to know this exchange was interesting for both of us.
Show HN: SMS Air Quality Alerts
You can't stop murder either.

Perfect enforcement of rules is rarely a goal of policy. It just sets expectations for behavior, and when violation of policy becomes known remedial and/or punitive measures can be taken.
I can't give the rating if I'm the one being hit. Uber drivers will consistently pull out when they don't have right of way because they don't want to wait. When how you're paid is dependent on you driving from A to B as fast as possible it's going to encourage bad driving.
You are both assuming I haven't gone through it and that I don't believe chemo is literal poison that destroys your body. This conversation is about lacking energy because of age and somehow you think I'm some sort of cancer denier.
Ask HN: Why is Google Meet so much worse than Zoom?
As an engineer, I do not understand this. Google has unlimited software talent, compute and money. Any ideas why they haven't been able to catchup to Zoom?
That’s true in most countries, but pharmacists are trained to understand the side defects of medication better, able to detect mistakes made by doctors (dosage etc) and provide alternatives.
So they instantly lost the main rotor? Same thing happens in mast bumping.

Here's the best explanation I know of: https://youtu.be/jDg1G2y8ZX4?t=293

(As far as I can tell no-one has made an animation of what happens.)
Most video games probably aren't going to make the most of all of the extra CUDA cores on the 3090. I'm assuming that helps alot with machine learning, can someone who knows for sure confirm?
Key pinning and Expect-CT will prevent that.
Most users here wouldn't, but plenty of enterprise users do. And also have active content allowed if not explicitly denied by a GPO.
My family grew up behind the iron curtain. At a family event once I heard someone tell a story that I think has been the most accurate prediction of the last few years (if anyone knows the actual interview event, please tell me more so I can get the exact wording, this is all paraphrasing from childhood memories).

A western reporter travelled to the other side of the iron curtain once and was doing what he thought would be an easy west-is-great gotcha-style interview. He asked someone over there, "How do you even know what's going on in your country if your media is so tightly controlled?" Think Chernobyl-levels of tight-lipped ministry-of-information-approved newspapers.

The easterner replied, "Oh, we're better informed than you guys. You see, the difference is we know what we're reading is all propaganda, so we try to piece together the truth from all the sources and from what isn't said. You in the west don't realize you're reading propaganda."

I've been thinking about this more and more the last few years seeing how media bubbles have polarized, fragmented, and destabilized everyone and everything. God help us when cheap ubiquitous deepfakes industrialize the dissemination of perfectly-tailored engineered narratives.
Cloudflare supports TLS 1.3 and ESNI. A lot of web sites will inherit ESNI support from that.
This strongly suggests social cooling is a positive effect.
h/t https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627305 for the Salt community's announcement
According to leaked benchmarks AMD's upcoming Zen 3 CPU takes the gaming crown
"Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars."

But then there were LeBron Nikes made in China with cheap labor and sold for $225. Those were the kind of shoes poor people bought using their credit cards.
A lot of headphones have long cords, which can give you 10+ feet of movement options. Bluetooth may give you freedom, but you sacrifice latency and reliability.
> would you prefer navigating a dozen programs to handle food, phones, heating, internet, baby clothes etc. or

i would rather just take the money. but are we really suggesting that all social programs should be cut and replaced with cash handouts? what happens when somebody does take that cash, spends it non-essentials, and then can't feed or house themselves or their children? do we just let them starve or freeze to death, because we've already given them cash?

i'm not against a basic income, but i think it needs to be secondary to universal basic housing, universal basic nutrition, and universal basic healthcare.
I don't if that's true for most air travel, but it's definitely true for my business travel. Corporate policy is the ticket has to be within a reasonable range of price (average price +/- some amount, not sure exactly). This means I can usually select between 2-3 airlines, 2 airports, and plenty of times, but I am always limited to basic economy without prior approval (which has been granted for international travel and if I need to be on a specific flight for some reason).
Are there even viable alternatives right now? The Euro? RMB? Bitcoin? Because if there aren’t any, then the whole world is forced to play along.
Yeah I suppose to detect a situation like this you'd need to do some sort of meta analysis on changes in how historical narratives are framed versus government policy. Like, maybe some country goes from ally to non ally and then historical narratives around that country shift to a slightly more negative tone. I dunno.
I mean if you agree with the math of creating $80m in value it would be hard to argue that he doesn't deserve $500K of that.
I've heard the same thought expressed about reading books - i.e. people want to have read classics, but they hate actually reading them - and so unread classical literature accrues on the shelves, creating an illusion that the owner is well-read.
Thanks for good paper! As far as I can tell, the paper says about compare two groups: first was listening music with lyrics and second was listening music without lyrics?
[sarcasm noted]

I bet there are people on Law News somewhere who are silently reading HN shaking their heads about how the geeks don’t understand the nuances of the law....
If you do any kind of consultancy, writing and publishing a big is part or the normal careere path.
It's so we can charge people exactly what they're willing to pay instead of creating an average that is a discount for the people willing to spend more and locking out people not able to pay it.

It's also a really good filter for bad customers. Partly because "if you have to ask you can't afford it" and partly because SaaS is sold to execs, not users within the organization. Most people coming to ask about price first are the users that just want something for themselves or a small team, which is not an ideal customer.

Basically if you move on from the site because you can't find the price, that's by design.
Under what principles and criteria do you standardize the review? What's the checklist?

If you are able to provide. Thanks.
a college freshman (or high school senior) may factually understand that their chosen major is very risky, but I don't think most of them are in a position to really understand the choice they are making. I knew a lot of people in highschool who bravely said they were willing to starve for their art (or other low expected income passion). it's an easy thing to say when you haven't yet had to grapple with the day-to-day experience of actually supporting yourself. several of these folks realized they were making a mistake halfway through college and pivoted. of the ones that finished the original degree, most of them had to find some unrelated work to make ends meet. I can't imagine the sense of regret that must come from paying off debt for a degree you don't even use.