skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this idea that there are two types of poverty.

1) People who make mostly good decisions, but have had bad luck. They've been hit by medical expenses, for example, or been born in circumstances with no real opportunity.

2) People who make bad decisions chronically. Many of these people have substance abuse problems and mental health issues, or come from backgrounds where they never had the opportunity to learn any self-control like dysfunctional families.

It seems like the best thing you can do for #1 is to give them cash, but cash would be wasted on #2. Also, that poverty in the developing world looks mostly like #1, but in the developed world looks mostly like #2.

Am I way off here? Do other people have these thoughts? Is this callous? I'm really asking for feedback.

(I'm posting anonymously because I'm afraid of having this unpopular opinion attached to my real identity.)
That’s a lot of corporatocracy kool aid you’re drinking.

Corporations (who pay lower taxes than citizens) in charge of education is a specific form of dystopian hell.
can confirm - my apartment came with in-wall dual flush, and has a little leak into the bowl... given the infrequency of use (<1/day per toilet), the leak uses far more water than the extra flush, especially vs 1.6 gpf low flow toilets (which btw, work great, e.g. Toto).
Try using Lockdown for iOS [1] or Blokada for Android [2] to block trackers.

[1] https://lockdownhq.com/

[2] https://blokada.org/
/e/OS redefines the mobile OS paradigm for a more sustainable world
This debate is partly a semantics game of the meanings of "discovered" and "invented"

If an idea describes reality does that make it a discovery instead of an invention? What if you think the idea describes reality but it really doesn't.

For instance, let's use the sense of inventing as pulling something out of thin air, and discovery as growing an understanding of what is in front of you.

Math certainly involves elaboration according to fixed rules which could be seen as discovery. It also involves what-if anxioms that redefine the basis for the mathematical thought (say 4-dimensional space), that could be thought of as invention.

This article seems to think of invented and discovered in terms of whether it is not based on reality or whether it is based on reality. This is trickier, I think it is fair to say that the needs of reality do drive certain branches of mathematics, but certain branches are proudly not based on reality. The funny thing is that periodically we realize that the math we thought was firmly not based on reality ends up describing reality better than the math we based on reality.

So you have math that was spun out of an idle what-if thought that ends up describing with high accuracy an important physical concept. Is that an invention or a discovery?
As far as the actual analytics product, is it provided via servers with specific domains? What would one look for if one wanted to block them?
I added logging so I could discover and fix errors, but then my logs filled up and crashed my service. - A software development parable that happened to 'a friend'.

The more surface area your app has, the more opportunity for problems.

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Edit: another one - I wanted to ensure that I lost no data, so I added a retry function, but it went wild and caused a self denial of service, leading to lost data. (Again, happened to 'a friend')
I've noticed several mailing lists send me "you're not reading our mail, we're going to unsubscribe you" messages because I don't allow my MUA to spy for them.

Fixed; created a cron job to curl relevant tracking pixels once a month.
Rammstein's homepage is a retro desktop with folders and games
If you're on Android, FairEmail is worth a look, as a mail client that thinks about privacy. There's blocking of images by default, as well as an option to safely render basic HTML without having to parse full HTML email (if you don't like that). Also has some detection of common tracking parameters or redirect services for hyperlinks, and lets you remove these automatically before visiting a link. Not as shiny as Hey for sure, and a more technically focused email app, but if you want something privacy oriented, it's good and supports IMAP/SMTP nicely. Open source too, which is always nice.

Not affiliated, just a happy user for a few years.
The growth specifically in Post-baccalaureate Certificate program enrollment while general Certificate programs drop is really surprising to me. I wonder if undergrads just have less faith in certificates or if graduates are more worried about CV gaps.

Anyone have thoughts on why this might be happening?
I don't recommend zerohedge.com
I'm as skeptical as others here but they do define a visit...

"A visit is defined simply as a successful page view that has an HTTP referer that doesn’t match the hostname of the request. This tells you how many times people came to your website and clicked around before navigating away, but doesn’t require tracking individuals."
I was curious about your viewpoint as I've never heard of this guy, though what you described sounds like a familiar story in tech, so I googled him and found this: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Michael-O-Church-targeted-by-S...

I found a few others too... It's interesting that in every thread there is at least one (usually only one) individual defending him in martyr-like way and questioning the motives of anyone who might criticise him.

(Now including this one, having refreshed the page!)

Well, if the shoe fits ...
Unfortunately for them, one doesn't really get to choose how other people interpret the symbols one uses, as anyone who's ever tried to do something weird in a protocol and then hope a code comment will stop developers of the future from screwing up the code around the weirdness can attest.
Cars get you to the nearest parking lot to where you want to go. Depending on the city, that could be further away than the nearest metro or rail station to your destination.
All normative opinions aside, this cannot become a new normal. People will not tolerate it. The majority of the population will not continue to remain cloistered in a small area due to the vulnerability of a minority. It's also economically untenable. So no, I don't think it will. We may, however, see significantly more deaths from those at risk, or they may be stuck entirely holed-up as a result.
SMS already saved my ass a few times this year when I ran out of data or am in an area with almost no signal.
there are numerous sites out there with long term tests on this subject and it comes down to, you have to go out of your way to harm the TV. As in, keep specific channels on 24x7 across a long period of time. Also, unplugging when not in use is not allowed.
Turn off their onboard ethernet/wifi devices (delete your WPA key info etc...). My Samsung TV's are dumb as hell now <3
Paywalled, but the part I was able to read wasn't suggesting "math is racist".

Sorry I asked.
I've got a Samsung TV in a network with PiHole and the strictest blacklist rules. And I watch YouTube over Kodi. I've never seen a single ad on my smart TV.
The alarming thing about the justification of these measures is that it seems it can never be invalidated.

Covid is endemic (it is not a pandemic). When exactly will we experience no mass covid deaths? (we experience mass flu deaths).

Simply, never. Is it really that in 3yr time we will be "happy" with a 0.2% rate? (ie., 50% of current rate). Will "half the number of grandparents" dying be a tolerable amount?

The justification behind everything here is alarmingly short-termism, I can only imagine govs are waiting for some kind of "vaccine" or "health theatre" that will allow people to resume normal behaviour. (cf. airport security theatre exists to encourage people to fly; it is demanded by airlines so people feel flying is safe. One assumes they hope vaccines will play the same role.)

However gov.s are at their financial breaking points re Lockdown as a strategy, and it'll be this that goes first. Hard to say what the political ramifications of that are, many middle-class shut-ins simply refuse to believe gov. is a limited actor.
All I use FB for these days is to look in on specific friends, by name. I never view the feed.

Yes, that makes me a 'lurker', which is fine with me, though I do use Facebook messenger to chat with some people as well, which is nice.
Sketch:

Consider a large r-bit random number. The expectation of the number of zeros at the end of the number is \Sum_i=1^n[2^-i]=1-2^-r. If the number is even, the expectation is 2-2^-r, so, the size will be reduced by that number of bits. If it is odd, the number of bits will be increased in expectation by ~ln2(3), and the result is guaranteed to be even. So, in the random case with r>2, the result is an expected loss of bits.

Now let's try to make the randomized problem into something that more closely resembles the original problem. Replace 3n+1 with 3n+m, where m is a random number. The condition for the randomized recurrence to collapse is that m has less than p=1+(2-ln2(3)-2^-r)*r-1 bits, and the last bit is always 1. Note that this m only guarantees 2-2^-p ending zeros in expectation for even numbers, and the remainder comes from the original selection.

Partition any r-bit number into an r-p-bit and a p-bit number, where r-p>ln2(3)+p, and with random m, the cases become, even, reduce by 2-2^-p bits, odd, add some amount less than that of random bits. Decrease bits in expectation each recursion, and the randomness guarantees that this will happen (central limit etc).

Now if you believe that the proof of the randomized problem is valid when r is reduced to where p=1, and of course we can show this for all such numbers, then we're done.

If you don't, then we need to deconstruct m. We know that it works for m=1 for some bound on r, and we know that it works for random m<2^p for unbounded r. Somehow we have to get to m=1 for unbounded r. So split the problem as before, and take the number of odd numbers encountered in the bounded case to be greater than r/ln2(3), as this is otherwise trivial because bits will never increase beyond r. Then this resulting value must also be one of these cases, and so on, and so on, which implies a cycle in the bits beneath the bound.

Back to m. It's probably trivial to show that the problem favors bit reduction as the random bits in m decrease. 1 is just zero random bits. There's an induction somewhere in there...

Okay, I have a few more ideas, but I'm sure none of this is new, and I know nothing about this problem aside from the introduction to this article, so that's about all the mental mastication I have time for today. Thanks HN for humoring me.
Subsequent decisions by circuit courts have used the lack of an explicit policy change to find against the plaintiff. This case is at the outer boundaries of antitrust law and lower courts have effectively taken the perspective of the dissent to limit its applicability.
With LPD, we could have two PCs upload to each other, it would be even beneficial to ISPs if everyone didn't have to download updates at a similar time from the furthest-away server. Especially in developing countries.
I wrote a book back in 2000 and it's one of those glad-I-did-it-but-never-again experiences.

I think the author nailed it with, "I strongly recommend that you estimate the value of your future royalties to be close to zero."

Do it as a way to give back / contribute to a topic you are passionate about, do it for the amazing learning experience, do it for the challenge. And then if you also make some money off it, that's just icing on the cake.
Your first link literally says “FactCheck.org Rating:
Experts Disagree”
How do you know they aren't tracking that either? Your TV has a computer inside that has the capability of watching whatever is being displayed on your screen.
Technical books in print are generally better formatted than their e-book cousins (O'Reilly's digital library, Kindle) unless they're PDFs. This has a major impact on readability if there are significant amounts of diagrams or code samples or tables in the text.
I've literally wondered this for years.

We have a least one leaking system like this in our house - and it's in a nice tiled wall so doing maintenance is like keyhole surgery. From what I've seen so far I'm pretty sure both buttons on our toilets do the same thing (mind you they are the same size).
The ideals -- "liberal arts" -- were agreements about what enabled people to live a "free" life.

We've lost those as ideals. Instead, we interpret all the liberal arts through racialist-socialist lens, and find they required us to adopt norms outside ourselves.

The ideal we do hold together is hating authority and norms outside ourselves -- whether that's racial, religious, political, sexual, biological, musical, literary, fashion, filmmaking, etc. Just Do It. Have It Your Way. Think different.

So, the jobs part is the part we hold in common. The ideals dispute is leading to violent protests in the streets.
What does the rise of nationalism have to do with the war? Do you expect some of these parties to try invading their neighbours?
Not accurate.

Security clearances can be denied for financial irresponsibility, having “significant debt” isn’t necessarily financial irresponsibility.
PS5 is hardly the only console on the market though, both Microsoft and Nintendo offerings are quite compelling.
The cost of universities has also ballooned in both raw costs and risk adjusted terms in the last few decades, likely driving out most people who historically would have viewed their "opportunity cost" as worth it.

In the 1970s one could earn ~$2.75/hr as an entry level employee at a union job in a factory (~$20/hr today). UVA instate tuition and fees were only $484/yr, meaning that over a summer a student could earn ~2 years worth of tuition and fees.

At the time, spending the opportunity cost also opened doors just from having done it - substantially lowering the risk.
You can take limos/taxis for multi-hour drives but I expect that's relatively rare.

I'm about 200 miles from NY and actually backtrack to take the train. But I'm still guessing that an Uber (if I could get one) would be a a good 2x the train and a private car even more.

Some areas make it easier to get around other than in an auto than others. Of course, I'm often going somewhere out in the suburbs of a city anyway.
If there's anything that gives me hope that we can avoid a dystopian future driven by social media, it's that Deep-learning / AI is being used to cheaply create realistic forgeries of just about everything: profile pictures, text, profiles, voice recordings, etc.

Within the next 10 years, and maybe much sooner, the vast majority of content on FB/Twitter/Reddit/LinkedIn will be completely fake. The "people" on those networks will be fake as well. Sure there are bots today, but they're not nearly as good as what I'm talking about, and they don't exist at the same scale. Once that happens, the value of those networks will rapidly deteriorate as people will seek out more authentic experiences with real people.

IMO, there's a multibillion dollar company waiting to be founded to provide authenticity verification services for humans online.
I think university should exist for “learning for the sake of learning” and that “everyone should go to college.” I don’t think it’s incompatible. I think someone becoming more educated has a lot of positive externalities. I think the list of positive externalities is so great that we should provide free tuition, room, board, and even a stipend to anyone willing and able to attend college. This should be funded from tax dollars, and seen as an investment in people. All of the money _will_ be returned by increased tax revenue from a more educated populous but this is just a side effect. The real benefit comes from having a more educated community capable of a high level of critical thinking.
" the market will be primed for another OS competitor to take that share."

No.

There are massive barriers to entry for some markets, particularly platforms, and it's naive to indicate that 'some competitor will come along'.

Many markets are 'locked down' to the point wherein there is very little competition among them, and high tech gives us many examples of that.
It heavily depends on why the thread is getting long.

If people are talking past each other on trivial matters, sure a call should be faster.
Or if the core issue is to take a simple decision or iron internal politics.

If it’s a complex issue that needs input from a number of people, with resources and/or documentation to consult, and a need for well thought input vs. random babbling, participants should actively fight the urge to move to a call IMO.
I definitely like that you threw "collectivism" in there. I keep saying every day that we're all too divided. A little unity could go a very long way.
I just go for the bazooka approach and block every single image in my Gmail and only load them on a case-by-case basis. I've been paranoid about email tracking ever since I first saw my father insert a read-receipt via Outlook into a work email sometime in the late 90s or early aughts.
There has been many wars in Europe since WW2, from Cyprus to Yugoslavia and Georgia. You don't need to be 80 years old to have experienced war. Or maybe you need to explain what a "real war" is.
Here's an Indian source for the fact that Modi was a RSS member. I'm not aware that is seriously disputed anyway?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/indianexpress.com/article/trend...
Actually, I'm a cyclist who has participated in "rails to trails" advocacy. That was actually a statement of self-awareness and I know precisely WTF I'm talking about because I've talked to perhaps hundreds of other cyclists about this issue.

It's easy to blame conservatives. But a huge portion of democrats take the same money and vote for the same bills, only they dig in their heels a little to score green points with trifling shit like rails to trails.
Yes, but it's hard to imagine that 30 years of technological progress has not changed the underlying cost structures of these businesses. After all, it's changed the cost structure of almost every other business that has some connection to computing and data delivery by orders of magnitude. Yet, strangely the 30% cut has not changed a bit.
> But Google can do any thing right? They could push an update that plays Matchbox Twenty on full blast every night at 2am.

Sure, but they are not incentivized to do that. Forcing out competitors is something they're directly incentivized to do because it makes them more money. You can't trust a company not to do what a company exists to do.

The problem is that Google (and Apple) are way too big and powerful, and their pursuit for higher profits is stifling competition, innovation, and hurting the economy.

> doesn't you argument apply to every software publisher?

Not every publisher is immune to market forces the way Google and Apple are. If Spotify started blasting Matchbox Twenty on full blast every night at 2am, they'd go out of business overnight. If Google did it, people would just put their phones in another room when they go to bed.
"We are not rich enough to buy cheap stuff." - I'll promote this too, whenever I can, as long as I'll have expensive stuff to sell. As for friends and family, it's just "lean to quality" (not necessarily the expensive type).
Hah. Reminds me of Gattaca.
Maybe some more buy in could be achieved without the global warming fear mongering. Social media is directly impacting people's lives and there are real solutions individuals can employ to better themselves and their lives. It's time we stopped confusing pie in the sky boogie men with lack of personal responsibility and self awareness.
Without going into details, for various reasons, my relationship with my employer essentially made it critical that I delete my account several years ago. I resented it at the time, because while I considered facebook fundamentally unhealthy, I justified it as a way to keep in touch with friends, and, very cynically, use it as a propaganda tool for career advancement.

In hindsight, though. I couldn't be more glad for the push. For at least a few years, I had actively unfollowed a good majority of friends from my feed because watching their gyrations (posing, fighting, echoing, ...) was making me lose respect for a lot of people. I don't need their mental hygiene and low-effort politics rubbed in my face and I'm happier not seeing it.

Looking back, one thing I did conclude was that the death of email was one of the few things that made Facebook valuable. I had email contact for pretty much every person I was "friends" with on FB, but many of those addresses have expired, or they are so flooded with spam that when you message someone, they don't see it at all or not for +a week or so. I'm like that myself - I only look at my personal email once a week, on Friday night.

Also, "social cooling" is an absolutely terrible name for the situation described in the linked site. They should have called it "Socially Mandated Fronting' or something instead of trying to make an awkward and not very meaningful global climate change analogy.
Sounds like to problem the British had in ww2 until they copied the German "Jerry" can - The original UK ones where called flimsies.

The US sensibly learning from the UK just produced an improved version.
Good thing to point out and the Remote app is worlds better than the hardware remote, but...not everyone that buys an AppleTV owns an iPhone. When I watch TV, I want to leave my phone on the desk. But most of all, Apple can make the fucking remote UI work properly rather than rely on me having a $400 device lying around. Especially if Apple is going to make me use that crap piece of hardware they call a "remote".
>Scale and market power are what makes a monopolist, by definition. It doesn't matter if the terms have changed; what has changed since 2008 is the scale and power of Apple.

Anti-trust laws have specific conditions to meet such as predatory pricing, product tying, exclusive dealing, etc. It's not just a matter of market share and market power, they have to have obtained or maintained that market position unfairly. This sets a pretty high bar in a market with 2.5 major app platforms (Apple, Google and Amazon).
Trains can also be used to mandate development patterns. If you build roads through an area, then people can build houses (or slash-and-burn forest) anywhere and they know they'll have transport. But with rail, significant development will only occur near stations. This is a big problem in the Amazon; imagine if Brazil built trains instead of roads.
I wish the world would adopt tcpcrypt. SSL provides two services, encryption, and authentication.

tcpcrypt just does the encryption part. Once the connection is established, userspace on both sides can invoke an ioctl that provides a session nonce. If the nonce matches on both sides, the connection is not man-in-the-middled. It’s easy to confirm the nonce matches: Both sides sign it and send it to the other party.

This has two big advantages:

(1) operating systems can opportunistically encrypt traffic for unmodified legacy applications and network protocols, allowing the endpoints to detect mass surveillance without requiring any certificates.

(2) Like newer versions of SSL, it encrypts the information currently sent in cleartext in the SNI, preventing the type of censorship in the article.
ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with Trackpoint, part number 4Y40U90598 to be precise.

And Debian :-)
I don’t buy it. The comparison should be done between other similar aerial coronaviruses, like the 1919 pandemic flu one. The fact that in that case it vanished by itself it’s a big tell about our herd and personal immunities.
Since this kind of distracting articles is very common, I wonder if there is behind those a willingness to scare people...
Personal opinions
Why all the down-votes?
Isn’t it just samba?