skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re not thinking long enough. Give the state enough time and it will use it as a cudgel to get people to do things the way they want.
I've become obsessed with networked thought
My "social cooling" hasn't come from big corporations harvesting my data (as far as I can tell, they're doing close to nothing with it that affects me directly).

My social cooling has come much more from the (I believe) well-founded fear of consequences from individuals using my social expressions against me.

15+ years ago when I started my career, I would talk about anything and everything with my colleagues. Politics, sex, dating, etc. I would argue on big email lists about fairly hot button topics. I wasn't afraid of any of these things having any consequences for me. My colleagues knew who I was hooking up with and I knew who they were hooking up with. I knew my colleagues' life stories. I knew who owned guns. Who was gay. Who fucked the hotel receptionist.

Things weren't great for some. A woman on the team would leave the room and the guys would talk about how they would have sex with her. A director of the company had a junior person vacate his hotel room since he was in that hotel and needed a room to enjoy two identical twin prostitutes he had found in that hotel's bar.

But now I've definitely been "socially cooled." I don't talk with my colleagues about anything other than the blandest topics. I go to work and only talk to them about work and the weather. I don't know whether this is better or worse, you'd have to also take into account the woman who isn't having her teammates discussing her oral sex skills the minute she leaves the room. But this is the new world.
> You can now leave yourself unmuted!

Never in in any group call, no matter what your microphone configuration is.
The TL;DR has as point 1: don't work in a place where babies crying or dish-washing or police sirens are an issue, and then as part of point 4: therefore, don't mute.

If you have a baby crying or police sirens, then yes, for the sake of everybody's sanity, mute yourself. For sure.
I want a gaming computer than won't limit my future ML learning. Are there any suggestions for that use case?
Google to enforce 30% take from in-app purchases next year
> That sentiment (though I didn't think of it in quite this fashion) is why I set up a bi-weekly project management meeting at my last office, and tried to set up something similar for technical people.

At my last office, I set up something very similar for our org with similar success. Your PM procedural problem case is a perfect example down to the complaining about having to attend a meeting they weren't required to attend.

Enter new management. After 8 weeks of ice-breaking meetings in triplicate and taking cues from all the wrong people, the first concrete thing they did that touched me was cancel that meeting. I found new employment shortly thereafter.

It's now an essential part of my repertoire. For technical people? Well that's mostly my team. We have a Trello board where anyone on team can drop RFC cards. Members of my team meet every couple weeks to review and discuss. It's visible to the whole org if anyone else is interested. (Generally, they aren't.)
> Which is a good thing. It's how it always was. You surrounded yourself with lots of different people with varying opinions. It's how you learned things. It was called being an adult.

This is a very rosy-colored view of a past that wasn't enjoyed by many people except for certain small subsets of relatively-well-off folks whose disagreements were around less directly consequential things (like tax policy) than "some of you don't deserve any rights."

And even then, even in my grandfather's old social circles... still a LOT of sorting going on.

Read "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind" for a good discussion from the inside of how American religion has been dominated by sensitivity for decades.
Nixos/guix might be a good fit for rootfs on ipfs? Comes with a local cache, and you could overlay local changes (eg: /etc/passwd)?
Thank you. I'm not a native speaker. And english is weird :)
I know what you're saying but you shouldn't just dismiss all of his thoughts. Yes, certain academics have abused, used, or selectively cherry picked pieces of this philosophy, in part, for turning academics into activism, but he'd probably turn in his grave regarding a lot of these developments. I mean he's against any sort of meta-narrative, for example.

I mean in many ways people using post-modernism as a foundation for their "Theory" sort of make his point about discipline and punishment. I think his ideas there are pretty straight on and prophetic of what this article is talking about. Cancel-culture, call outs, etc. are creating a cold culture of obedience and conformity and of course we are seeing these things seep into social institutions like schools and younger and younger ages.

I'd agree that a lot of what he thinks about "knowledge" and "power" and are pretty wrong and dangerous. His ideas on "Bio-power" and other criticisms of science and liberalism in general are trash. The idea that everything is about "power" and "power relations" is garbage. People have taken these bad ideas too far IMO.
I'm turning 39 this year.

In the 1990s my immediate family would travel from MA to MI via Amtrak to visit grandparents. Travel time in each direction was measured in days. Later on we "upgraded" to planes which reduced travel time to hours within one day.

I miss the trains.

Nostalgia aside, diner car and all, I crave the rumble-tumble and the scenery and the idea of "cross country".

Tunnels.

Every day I commute into and out of work, I witness a random toddler jumping up and down or waving or waddle-running along the train because train.

I have an anniversary coming up in a few months. I and my partner are interested in celebrating by train.
I think they were referring to this,

https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
The answer probably depends on if it's a big or small meeting.

For a 1-on-1, you absolutely want to know if the other person on the call is going to be distracted, or you're wasting your time.

For a 40 person all hands, the meeting could probably never proceed if it waited for everyone to be completely distraction free.
I think it's wise to acknowledge as part of #2 that it's not just because some people are stupid or impulsive or short-sighted. Substance abuse, mental health, past trauma, bad influences, poor family dynamics, etc. all certainly play a part.

There probably is a subset of people who, as you say, make bad decisions chronically. But even among those people, you will find that many are either open to or longing for help in making wiser decisions.

So the thought process behind just giving them money directly is that they know best what their needs are.

But I think an important part of this is also offering them services that would help them make better decisions with that money, such as financial counseling.
American Airlines has a Premium Economy class: https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/experience/seats/premium...
Apple has been in business for over 40 years.

- in the early 80s, Apple //e’s were more expensive than the competition.

- in the mid 80s - 2000, the Macs were and continue to be more expensive than the equivalent PCs

- in the early 2000s, iPods were more expensive than the equivalent media players.

- the iPhones are more expensive than equivalent Android phones.

Apple hasn’t “found a reason” to reduce prices in 4 decades. Did it have a “monopoly” on computers, music players, tablets, watches, monitors, etc all that time?

> Pretty sure many would switch if the highest end android phones were free.

“high end” Android phones are cheaper than iPhones. Yet and still Apple dominates the high end. Maybe every one doesn’t buy solely on price.

Well actually, there is no Android phone that performs as well as the $399 iPhone SE, but that’s another debate....
> don't work in a place where babies crying or dish-washing or police sirens are an issue

I.e. don't work in the middle of a global pandemic.

A headset mic will pick up your loud typing, sniffling, clearing your throat, and whatever. Even if you are working out of a sound-proofed office, and in a group call, mute your mic when not speaking.
> White supremacy is a minority view in the US and seems to have gained huge amounts of traction

Well obviously, the definition expanded:

https://i.imgur.com/gW9sQoM.jpg

As far as I can tell the number of people who are part of the KKK hasn't gone up any appreciable amount.

In fact, calling perfectly normal and valuable things "white supremacy" and then deplaforming "white supremacists" is an excellent example of this social cooling.
They're not hard to find. Just search for "signage display". They sell on Amazon, Newegg, B&H, CDW. There's a lot of niche manufacturers, but LG and Samsung are probably the two biggest producers. One other warning, these are frequently built with sturdy casing and can be heavy and they typically sell without any mounting hardware although they can accept any VESA stand.
I feel Google is a lot like me. I start side projects for the sake of learning, but I rarely finish them because, for me, finishing isn't the goal.
This is a false argument. Muslims were majority in Kashmir before the exodus of Hindus. Your wiki link states that 300,000 to 600,000 Hindus left Kashmir due to the targeted violence. Muslims were in majority even if you include a Hindu majority Jammu. (https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/share-of-muslims...)

The reason of the violence against Hindus is the Indian government's desire to fully integrate Kashmir into India and deny the special provisions Kashmir was given as precondition to merge into the Union of India.
There's a fairly substantial body of research that shows that substance abuse is reduced when individuals are given the opportunity to do things that they find interesting and stimulating.

Maybe your grandpa was depressed and was self medicating? One anecdote doesn't really prove that full blown many year research studies are wrong.
From the article:

"that I get 25% of publisher revenue from ebooks, online access, and licensing, 10% of revenue from print sales..."
Cloudflare is a threat to privacy and security with their "Flexible" SSL/TLS option. With the click of a button, Cloudflare will happily strip the TLS connection off your visitors requests and proxy it over plain-text back across the internet to your origin.

When I reached out to Cloudflare on this 3 and a half years ago, asking if they could at least inject a header like X-CF-SSL: Flexible or something to indicate to the end-user that their connection was in fact not secure. Extension developers could then use this header to inform the user that this was happening. I was told that they would "pass it along", but of course nothing has changed.

CloudFlare will give you a privately signed, 15 year certificate to use to secure communication between Cloudflare and your origin in the event you can't get a publicly signed certificate, so there's really no excuse to continue to allow this terrible feature.
I give up with these people.
Hackers Hijacking HighProfile YouTube Channels to Promote Bitcoin Giveaway Scams
I think a huge part of the difference is people's perspective on which is worse: false positives or false negatives.

Warning: opinions follow

To reduce scope to something like welfare for illustrative purposes, there's actually pretty broad agreement from both sides that some people just need help through no fault of their own and that at some level, there should be some kind of program to provide that help. And there's similar agreement that people who don't have such a need should be prevented from intentionally gaming/milking a system (getting benefits without a legitimate need). The interesting parts come in two other scenarios: 1) someone who legitimately needs help and doesn't get it, and 2) someone who doesn't need help but does get it. Those are both wasteful and unjust and we'd all like to reduce those cases to as close to zero as possible. But the left and the right disagree about which case is more unjust. The right would like to focus on efficiency and self-sufficiency, so the greater injustice is fostering an environment where you can get assistance without deserving it (which perpetuates and/or deepens the dependence), and you're willing to concede that this means some people who need help won't get it. The left, on the other hand, would like to focus on covering everyone who needs help, and anyone slipping through the cracks is an injustice, but this means that you have to accept the inefficiency of allowing some people who don't need/deserve assistance to get it, and you just shrug and say that's the cost of providing a good safety net.
This article would be much better if it gave some specific examples.
The MyPillow / Snuggie / "As Seen On TV" people would probably disagree.
Do you know how many years do doctors in Germany have to study before they become fully-fledged doctors?

In the US, it's 4 years of undergraduate college + 4 years of medical school + 3 years (minimum) of medical residency training.

In my native country in SE Asia, it's 5 years of medical school + 2 years of medical residency training + 1 year of remote posting (go to a remote area to work in order to get medical license). And the medical school is publicly funded, so it's pretty much free (you have to buy books yourself, of course, and pay a small amount for lab fees etc. for chemistry, anatomy labs).

To me, the system in the US is unnecessarily complicated/long and it not only burdens wanna-be doctors with debt (not to mention that because of the high cost, mostly the affluent/well-off kids--mostly the kids of doctors/lawyers/well-paid professionals--can now afford go to to medical school), but it helps them justify the $250K+/year salaries (part of the reason why the healthcare is expensive in the US) that they earn right after their residency programs.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for relating your personal experience. I had an almost identical conversation with my boss, with similar results.
Personal experience, I suppose. Much like our own qualifications to talk about stuff on HN/Quora.

I think that your summary was incredibly harsh against a named individual, and I regard that kind of talking as incredibly unfair (especially for someone who's banned here).

Like, I talk a bunch about Directors and VP's even though I've never been one, and I'm sure you talk about stuff you don't have personal experience with too.

And the use of the phrase "notorious troll" is flamebait and not conducive to intellectual discussion.
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/117000966338502656...

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/131096945905453875...
Is that better or worse than saying that your own ideology has a monopoly on truth and it is impermissible to let others talk about opposing ideas?
> at the top of the hour it will fairly quickly "sweep" to the correct position.

THATS why the clocks at school did that when I was a kid. I always thought they did it to mess with us (why is the minute hand taaaaaaaking so long??). Regardless of the veracity of my statement- good info, thanks.
Well, whose interpretation of the law should get more credence - yours or the judges?
Long Term Stock Exchange (YC S17) is hiring a senior full-stack engineer
before they had to train people because most people couldn’t afford to go to college.

but when govt started handing out loans like candy, then of course the employer would rather the university train the person for them.

it moves the cost of training from the employer to the employee paying for their own training with debt
> > If you want respect don't admit to supporting bigotry

> But I support free speech and free expression whether it comes from left or from the right.

Free speech doesn't mean I have to respect you. It means that when you start raving about the earth being flat or whatever, I can't shut you up. I can walk away, I can say "You're an idiot", and I can say "Guys, this dude is a flat Earther. Let's make fun of the moron", and then we can all say, "Hahaha! You're a moron! Neener neener" and so on and so forth. And you can do that to me.

I can even say "This guy is a flat Earther, don't buy his bread" and others can repeat it. That's freedom.

And if I do that I will, in practice, chill your speech because maybe you care about selling your bread more than you do about peddling flat Earthism. But that's what positive rights sometimes do.

And as someone with a strong view of individual freedom, I'd rather that chilling effect than any restriction on who I can speak out against.
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How Do I Hide All Firefox Browser Welcome Pages?
Worse how? What metric are we measuring? Is this opinion?
There have been threads here where with people saying that one or the other was terrible.
I love focus follows mouse and that the window isn't raised when you click. It's such an important feature and effectively multiplies your screen real-estate.

Like you said, it's great to have a small editor or terminal window floating over a web browser, really makes a lot of things easier.
We need a companion word to bromides for cheap cynicism or "feel-bad bromides"
I don't want to diminish the good things Cloudflare has done for privacy on the web, and I welcome alternatives to Google Analytics, but Cloudflare's mission is to get the entire web behind them and give them complete control over all their TLS certificates, traffic, and now analytics. They may be okay right now, but there is absolutely nothing stopping the next CEO, or some future board or big investor group from changing that privacy focus and abusing it.

If you give this large a chunk of web traffic to a company, then let them also decrypt everyone's TLS traffic, I can't see that ending well.

Transparency disclaimer: I briefly worked for them and was very uncomfortable with the work they were doing the whole time.
A comparison should also be made between obesity rates in Europe vs the US, with the US at a strong disadvantage (because obesity has a strong correlation with higher Covid deaths).

The same thing can be said about diabetes, I suspect the US had a higher percentage of persons affected by diabetes compared to Europe. IMHO diabetes is also a strong differentiator between South America and Africa in terms of deaths, I think that higher diabetes incidence in South America was partly to blame for a higher rate of Covid deaths when comparing it to Africa.
Indeed. All the latency (well most of it) adds up. If you're running wifi on the same spectrum as audio, that adds latency and jitter too.

In an ideal world, voice would be over (real) PTSN which has tremendously low latency compared to anything modern. Cost and convenience make that unlikely though.

Not everyone has a stable desk they can run wired ethernet to, but if you can it makes things better.
Is there any world where a series hybrid jet engine makes sense the way that series hybrid diesel engines used for trains does?

It seems like weight and displacement could be more of a concern. And turbines run at higher temperatures than diesel engines...
I'm curious about what you mean by "crying about all the luxuries we can't afford anymore". Who is doing that (crying)? What exactly are they saying? Is this just some sentiment that you picked up on social media or is there substantial evidence?
Super cool. We've 'upgraded' from GA to GA360 because we wanted to get additional features. I wonder SaaS products you'd recommend on top (campaign management, customer lifecycle analytics, etc) on top GWA. Any suggestions?
What kind of schools do that? I'm not familiar with this at all, man I'd feel weird being in a classroom with a huge mirror.
You can. Reality is different.

All of this stuff sounds great from an academic perspective, but life is not simple. There are people who given a couple of thousand dollars a month, will throw a bag of potato chips and beef jerky at their kids and buy some booze and a Mustang on a 7 year, 18% APR payment plan.

You cannot make an alcoholic stop drinking. They need to make that decisions.

You cannot give people money and assume they will get out of poverty.

Money is a tool to solve problems, but it doesn't solve them, many people in poverty who end up on the dole need social and other supports.
In most developed countries, this sort of route would be covered by high-speed rail.
Sorry, my bad! Two groups also had performance score without background music.
There are easily measures that will cause the closure of your small business if used against you personally that would not stop A drug dealer let alone all drug dealing.
The problem with these experiments is the same for any that provides middle-class-to-poor people with a benefit: they know it's only a short term thing so they will use it up while they have it. I doubt we're going to get any real results with this.

My favorite example is the Rand study that's been used to give Americans high-deductible hell. https://www.rand.org/health-care/projects/hie.html

It's been a while since I dug into it, but essentially the study was filled with logical flaws. In summary, people were enrolled in health insurance plans and studied to see how they would react. If given 'free' health care would they use it more and if given high-deductible, would they use it less.

Two giant flaws I remember. First, no crap if you gave a broken country a short-term solution people will use it up (which supports the conclusion that we should make health care expensive). Second flaw was that if a person was enrolled in high-deductible and had high expenses they could quit! and go back to their normal plan. So of course the data would support that high-deductible folks spent less. Which is why we're all stuck with high-deductible garbage.
Was this straightforwardly disclosed to people before they bought these TVs? If not, a regulatory punishment and/or class action suit is in order.
Gmail just proxies the image which protects your IP address. Marketers can still see whether you opened the email unless you have images disabled.
BBC Good Food is usually my go to, they have categories like quick recipes (https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/quick-recipes) and you can search for by ingredients. Could definitely be improved but is decent.
Except it also has bitwise operators which is definitely weird.
Oh interesting.

Is there a benchmark chart or something like that where I can review the performance of something like YOLOv3 across cards?
Zoom is an entity built almost exclusively on this product. Their culture is geared for this piece of software.

Google may have many clever engineers but lack focus in many products which feels half-baked.

E.g. their podcast app, music app, weather app, fit app. All feel kind of half compared to many of the dedicated alternatives.
It is enough in the present, but I'm not sure that will be enough in the future. People have always been distrustful of faraway strangers hiding their faces in hoodies and sunglasses. Similarly for a good credit score you need a history of taking and paying off loans.

You may need a good life on display rather than just an absence of bad things.
That's fine, then XML wouldn't be the proper tool for you and you shouldn't be using it, but I was responding to someone saying that they didn't want a specific thing (non-text inside certain tags) which XML supports.
> You send an email to a prospect, that person quickly follows up saying they are not interested, but 3 months later, they reopen that same email, you get a live read notification, you instantly take your phone and follow up. You win.

This is awful and precisely the reason I set my mail clients to not open remote content by default since I started using email decades ago.

If this exact situation occurred to me as a prospect, I would likely never deal with that company again.
Acceptance of the confederate flag has definitely decreased a lot the last half century.

So if that's your measure, white supremacy is not doing well at all.