skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is comparing apples and oranges, considering the diversity of ethnicities in the US. This study [0] is more precise for this type of argument.

"Canada has the most downward mobility while the U.S. has the least, with Sweden in the middle."

Interestingly, upward mobility seems to have a much lower variance.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09275...

> Who has ever claimed it is a utopia?

Everyone who thinks the US is the evil capitalist empire inhabited by armed lunatics, while the EU is a cozy socialist fluffy-zone without drawbacks. The difference in job opportunities, economic dynamics and average income, to those people, is unexplainable. They see no contradiction to think this way while posting on HN, founded by a VC.

They think the only reason one could arrive at certain political and economical opinions is to be an uncaring asshole, while the reality is that the difference stems from another view of how certain beneficial goals are accomplished. The problem is that a lot of the things that work well in practise on nation-level scale are counter-intuitive and thus unpopular, while things that sound good often have disastrous side-effects. I have seen the communist eastern europe after the fall of the iron curtain, it was a horrific sight.
Yes, but the sweet spot for many services is the ability to offer hosting while allowing self-hosting, free dev licenses, and third-party integrations. It's a particularly good no-brainer sales story to contrast with self-hosting dominated by admin/HR, and possibly hardware/data center costs.
"rapid" enough to seriously impact your and my lifestyle. If global temperature did happen to rise 2 degrees over the next 100 years, what massive impacts to our lifestyle will be occurring in your expert opinion?
Painting an opposing view as "utterly ridiculous" is not the best way to start an argument. But moving on.

It's always interesting to see that, when actually probing deeper, almost no-one believes in truly unrestricted free speech, even people who proclaim themselves as free speech champions (such as yourself). For example, can I slander you? If I own a newspaper, can I try to convince my readers that you're a pedophile? Can I tell someone to commit murder for me (after all, it's just speech, it was the other guy who pulled the trigger)? Can I tell a suicidal person that they're worthless, nobody will ever like them, and they should just kill themselves? Can I lie under oath? Can I psychologically abuse my children? If you responded "no" to any of these questions, you also don't believe in absolute free speech, now it's just a matter of arguing where to draw the line.
>"is not exactly something HN can do much about"

They actually can do "much" about it. Just turn the feature off. Downvoting in my opinion is very unhealthy habit.
Off shore safe havens exists because some sovereign authority has designated their domain as a "tax haven" and the usually very strict sovereigns of "big powers" are not sending their military to the said "off shore safe havens" to shut them down.

Opaque segments of the global financial networks enable Black Ops. No need to drag in Weishaupt and his worshipful brethren here, correct? So let's just discuss the "secret services" of the "big powers". Are they using the "tax havens"? I think the answer must be "Surely you jest, old boy!"
If misinformation and hate are why t_D was banned, why are r/latestagecapitalism (openly hateful and violent / ban dissenters),r/blackpeopletwitter (openly racist, spread misinformation), r/socialistrifleassociation (openly fomenting revolution) allowed to exist?

Reddit just bans speech it doesn't like. It has nothing to do with hate -- only who you hate. Hating conservatives, Republicans, Whites? That's all fine on reddit. Hell, it's fine here. How long will this comment last?
This comment by spez seems to show that Reddit never considered him a founder though, the title was given to him by PG https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_th...
This sounds too much like Billions season 5 episode 7. Uncanny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtJNljm1pVs
If the sewer treatment plant is really only lasting 20 years before becoming worthless that’s an issue. Those things should be lasting 50 to 100 years with maintenance and equipment replacement not 20. My comparison was assuming roughly half the interest rate, twice the upfront cost, but twice the lifespan.

In comparison to a septic system for a family of 4 running ~12k, but only lasting 15-40 years.
Is there anything stopping a dev dependency from injecting malicious code into your app?
Which is what /r/LateStageCapitalism, and many other subreddits, do. Only it's allowed because they are not right wing.

The anti-free speech claim is made not by judging the ban of t_D in isolation, but by looking at how their policies are selectively enforced across their platform in order to silence right-wing opinions and perspectives. In particular, support for Trump. A sub like /r/politics, dedicated primarily to anti-Trump content, is fine though, even if their users are wishing him death after getting COVID and are actively promulgating conspiracy theories.
What you say is true, but I think there's often a detail missing from these conversations: culture.

What I mean is that OP's question and your answer both have a context which isn't always explicit in these conversations.

The Linux kernel development, and I would argue most successful remote shops, have had a "remote first" culture from the beginning, or, if remote was something that came up later, have had a change in culture.

My client, for example, has a culture where people would just drop in and ask random questions. Or you would overhear people talking about something and you'd jump in. During lockdown, this wasn't possible anymore. So they would start having meetings among "stakeholders", which, in the above story would be the people initially in the conversation, and reach some sort of decision. The other people wouldn't be able to jump in during the conversation. They could of course argue with the decision, but sometimes they'd find out about it "too late".

Contrast this with a culture where everything is done in public, for everyone to see and with a possibility for everyone to intervene during the discussion, as is the case on the LKML or as I suppose is the case in a remote-first company. There would be discussions say on slack or some other communication tool where even people not directly invited could at least have a look and see what's emerging.

I think that those people "wringing their hands about how there’s no way to do spontaneous, creative, collaborative work remotely" are people used to working in in-person cultures. Not only that, but it's very likely that the companies where they work are very "in-person" companies and that those companies have a hard time adapting to the remote way of doing things. It's not enough that some people would try to make this work. For this to actually work, there has to be a serious change in how the company itself works.
Microsoft, Apple and Amazon aren't really advertisement companies. Most companies are not.
Yeah, LHL or Prayuth-chan Ocha actively subverting elections, hindering the opposition, preventing gatherings, sitting in bed with the military, all signs of a very healthy democracy in either country right?

Singapore can be as bad as Russia - it's just that if they were as bad, nobody would bother to stay along in that tiny island. Thailand is like Russia to Thai folks - recent protests are just evidence of that.

America isn't perfect, but at least you get to have an opposition. Last time the opposition found a reasonable and charismatic leader, we know what the king did in Thailand (it was his sister in the opposition).
So you want law to protect people that say "all X should be killed", then X is not demonstrably super violent/intolerant in the first place?

Let's say someone campaigns that all people that have gay sex should be killed: do you want this "speech" protected?

Well: I dont. That's why I think "intolerance of the intolerant" is good. Most law books in developed democracies agree with me. White supremacists, racists, fascists, extreme wahabists/salafits dont. They want to incite hatred/violence (to non-violent/tolerant people). I'd say shut 'm down and/or dont give platform.
GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/atomic14/diy-alexa

There are detailed README files in the subfolders for the model and firmware parts of the project.

Wake word detection is pretty robust to background noise and random voice, but does struggle with very similar words to "Marvin".
The common term for the language we're talking about here is Spanish (in the English language), which is a distinct language from Catalan. Catalan may originate in Spain (and thus could be called Spanish-the-adjective, though that doesn't seem terribly useful conversationally), but it is most definitely not a dialect of Spanish-the-language.

Castilian Spanish, when used in English, is often used to denote the dialects spoken in Spain, as opposed to the dialects spoken in Latin America. This is not the topic at hand here, so there isn't much point in calling it Castilian (especially since many English speakers would not be familiar with that term) over Spanish.
Nope, nothing happens when I press it. It acts like a fingerprint sensor when you touch it, but I haven't yet figured out what it does when pressed.
Tried going to a doctor ? How many hours do you sleep ?
Your point about child abuse is ridiculous. We prohibit child abuse precisely because it is a physical act. If I said "I will whip my child 50 times", and didn't do it, that would not be child abuse. It becomes child abuse once it is a physical act.

You make the faulty presumption that speech itself can be a form of abuse. This is where free speech absolutists such as myself would disagree. Speech is a protected class of expression precisely for this reason: it cannot be abusive.

To argue that child pornography is a form of speech is rather ridiculous, if we define speech as "the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words". A form of expression, sure, but there are limits on forms of expression. I cannot choose to stab people as a form of free expression, nor torch a building.
I'd rather be paid money to write code/do technical work instead of getting into bikeshedding fights with opinionated members of other teams.

There's plenty of tickets I put off doing because I know it will be hard to feel like I'm making progress, or frustrating to navigate the social component of.

Sure, maybe if I approached my work totally dead inside and with no expectation of enjoying it or caring about anyone else I worked with, I could probably just mechanically go down the list of tasks, but I suspect that would also cause me a lot of other mental problems on the way.
We all need to move to cities, and leave more land for nature.
I hope we get a good alternative to Reddit. Their governance issues aside, their disdain for web and open systems have made me not use the platform anymore. It has been sad to see the platform become worse.
I’m Australian and my personal income tax rate is not 24%, but 40%. What tax rate are you referring to —- corporate, gross personal, effective personal?

In terms of model healthcare, Australia is not the system you want. Our health system grossly underfunded and ineffective with lots of waste from years of private sector health insurance.
The article was an interview with a headline chosen by someone else.

The points were about appreciating biodiversity and neurogenesis and it was very interesting. The headline was hyperbole and successful.
Aren't governments getting in the way of those uses?
It's not just a saying, the pen is truly mightier than the sword.

Hitler never physically dragged a jew into a gas chamber. After 1933 he never shot someone or so much as brawled with anyone. Yet it was only words, his words, his speech, or ink on a paper, that compelled millions of people to commit some of the greatest atrocities in modern history.

Words can obviously be a more powerful thing than actions. In another example, if someone is depressed or suicidal, and they are close to you, you can probably make them kill themselves with words alone, if you choose them correctly.
I used it in Actionscript 3. I liked it.
I got a thinkpad when I was 10 years old, found my first use for it when world of warcraft was released a few weeks later.

Recovering from World of Warcraft addiction at age 12 (having spent the time fully immersed all day every day) caused me to read B.F. Skinner's research.

I was quite shocked reading about the Skinner boxes and felt empathy for the mice after having been trapped in one myself.

By coincidence I went with a friend to a lecture at the local university at this time... some guy called Richard Stallman was speaking about computers.

I came home and installed Linux, I have been learning what I need to participate in this fight ever since.

Originally I just wanted to be free from manipulation, so I put in the hours to protect myself.. but now I want everyone to be free from manipulations so I try to find out which kind of software I should contribute and maintain to move us closer to that dream.
> Can you look at the last decade of US military actions and say this has increased European security?

Here is a video [0] of the borders of European countries over the last 1500 years. There is potentially a correlation behind their stability since 1945 (11:16 in the video) and the US having a number of troops stationed in Germany comparable to the German army.

It is debatable whether it was all to do with the US; but the circumstantial evidence is substantial. The border redrawings may resume one day.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI
Oh I enjoy bad movies! "Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl" Is a favorite. But its not really badly made - just bad.

Badly made movies have a huge hurdle - hard to watch, hard to understand, hard to even see what's going on. Hard to want to keep watching. Like all those Monty Python jokes about somebody boring - they didn't amuse me, they were just boring.
maybe the author can verify, from what I could see it generates assembler files that one should save to a .S file and then can be run with gcc's `cc -o executable file.S`.
>> I feel a lot more switched on and focused in my work.

Quarantine alone can do that for some people. Shutting out the world is a requirement to focus on deep work. Same reason Joel Spolsky says software engineers need offices with doors.

Not saying you're wrong, just that you cant separate out this obvious factor in your experiment.
> I know that a number of objectively hateful subreddits were not banned because they were hateful of people "in the majority" (whatever that means).

Don't be vague, give concrete examples if you're going to make broad statements like that.

> The question here veers into the territory of whether Reddit is a "publisher" or "platform".

Well are subreddits "publishers" or "platforms" then? Because a lot of the hateful subs that have been shut down over the years (t_D, uncensorednews, European, etc.) banned users who disagreed with their moderators.
Good evidence that big doses work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988112091995...
The goal of scientific research is not to score points for your side in a political debate. It is to uncover truth.

Regardless, I think you have misinterpreted this article anyway and it is saying the opposite.
Strongtowns always starts with their answer and works backward to find questions. Your approach is similar... ie “it must be corruption”.

The answer is always the same for local governments. ~70% of expenditure is for operations, and 60% of that is for cops and fire.
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I am more against this because I believe it is emblematic of a broader societal sway towards the concept that speech can be violence, which is what I disagree with.

Reddit is simply one of many high-profile cases of this ideology finding root and with real effect.
The parent commenter gave an explanation that, yes, was simple and concise, and also good enough for you to believe it (or you already thought that way). But it's also wrong. That just reinforces my point.

(The true difference is explained in sibling comments to yours, by sergeykish and tannhaeuser, if you're interested.)
Related Podcast Episode on NPR Hidden Brain. Sep2018.

BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642706138/bs-jobs-how-meaning...
One of the most fantastically positive things that happened to me on a journey for better mental health was to encounter a seasoned psychiatrist who did two amazing things:

(1) He didn't try to always resort to whatever is brand new but actually gave choices and explanations that include treatments considered "old" and misunderstood to be ineffective (for example in my case, going with MAOI/RIMA for depression instead of the ever-so-new fancy SSRI of the day - and that alone was a life-changer already).

(2) He actually had an open ear for my personal experiences with a (very) wide range of things in a "non-medical" environment, and used the input in a non-judgmental way to calibrate his understanding of my subjective reports and to find better treatment strategies - also including me in the process, therefore making me the main actor of my own healing process.

On the other hand, I've stepped into rooms with a psychologist and shared about experiences with a wide range of drugs (mainly focusing on empathogen-entactogen and psychedelics for the heavy experiences, but I've covered a wide range) and gotten the regressive "this is all shit/poison" rhetoric, thus solidly ensuring that I would mentally check out when they turn around and try to offer tools to address cognitive biases and practice mindfulness, both of which they can't even apply to their own selves.
I'm saying it is Unix like and not very good.
>>it's the advertisers that decide what is allowed to be published there

1. How much would/should advertisers care about their "brand image"? Cancel Culture has taken the long history of corporate boycotts and connected it to a hair-trigger, with massively amplified effects compared to the per capita aggrieved consumers. The leverage that advertisers exert on publishers is a rational risk-avoidance policy in these times of massive outrage-induced revenue losses.

2. How much of the risk-aversion in advertising is related to demographic shifts in the personnel making up the advertising and public relations departments?
While that may be true the HN moderation team does a great job of being balanced and removing all politically charged content and flamebait irrespective of the political views of the poster. They don't have an axe to grind.

It's a very different situation to Reddit where left-leaning political extremism (/r/LateStageCapitalism) is tolerated, but subreddits like t_D are banned.
This isn’t NYC. We outsourced to places like this before Mexico and China were options.
From the the time USA took over Western Europe it has been at its most peaceful.
A clear, strong, and thermally insulated wood for energy efficient windows
Well I'll tell you, I bought 500m of hemp rope because I was told it could use used to replace copper cabling for green electricity, ye knar?. It didn't work like, but I have now got the most environmentally friendly footstool in all of Middlesbrough.
When I hady consulting group we did this only a handful of times. In almost every case we had the approval of the client. For those cases where we didn't it was a risk/reward ratio and the fact we felt the client missed seeing bigger picture we saw.

Only had one client get pissy over it and they threatened and sent a nasty letter but once they talked to an attorney who told them there was no non-compete and nothing they could do except try and prove we used the service code (we didn't of course) it went away. Just because someone is richer doesn't mean they want to waste $100k+ chasing a maybe win.

Also in at least a couple of cases clients came to us to buy our version. It is business and they weren't in the software business but into selling shit. So all they cared about was better tools to make them more profitable. And if we learned some stuff solving a problem for them that led to a better product later they were happy. I think this was somewhat unique to e-commerce though as I doubt a SaaS client would've felt that way. So make sure you consider that.

Make sure your contract has you in the clear and then go for it. Get a lawyers ok if you feel you should just remember they are in the no risk game generally and Entrepreneurship is all about calculated risk, so not many lawyers strong suit. I have ignored lawyers advice as much as followed it, just having it though gave me the risk profile I needed so it was worth the conversation.
Cocalc: Collaborative Calculation and Data Science
Build something worthy of your ideals. Join a group that's pushing in a direction you can agree with and contribute in any way you can.

Legacies exist to be destroyed because popularity and money create change from both inside and out, and it takes a very rare human will to resist selling out one's ideals in the face of amounts of money one has only ever dreamed about.

The ideals aren't dead, the old places built upon them are dying under weight of mainstream popularity. Find or make a new underground.
>A Clear, Strong, and Thermally Insulated Transparent Wood for Energy Efficient Windows

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201907511

>Transparent Wood Could Be the Window of the Future [U.S. Department of Agriculture]

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/01/transparent-wood-...
A lot of this rings true to me. I'm a rather bad case of type 1 (classic manic depression) and high functioning. I wrote up a blog post about how I managed to spend my entire life hiding continuous psychosis.

https://kayode.co/blog/4106/living-with-psychosis/

Hiding is what I've always done. It's exhausting having to appear normal all the time.

I'm fortunate to have understanding friends. Instead of me constantly bitching, we have code words for how I'm feeling. If I'm good, that makes I'm stable and relatively happy. If I'm okay, I'm probably depressed. It goes on from there. I'm able to talk about how I feel without getting into the details no one want to hear every day.

At work, I'm extremely fortunate to have a boss whose wife is bipolar. I've been able to get ADA accommodations that give me the flexibility and restrictions I need to go to work every week. This is the first job I've ever had this luxury.

And it really is a luxury. This is my first job where I've had any kind of accommodation. I've worked at places where I've pretended to have the flu just to take a day off for mental health.

Even now everyone, except my boss and friends, treats taking time off for mental health like vacations, because that's the experience for them. I've used so much PTO, I never get a vacation. Instead, I'm always at home on days off, dealing with a hell that my coworkers have never come close to experiencing.

I could go on a lot longer because there is no limit to how many things I have to deal with. But no one really wants to read that and I don't want to write it again.
Apple currently supports windows installs, though. They write drivers and make sure the hardware works.
Reddit was founded in June 2005.
Aaron founded Infogami, Infogami merged with Reddit in November 2005.
When Conde Nast bought Reddit in 2006 they each got one third of the money.
The other founders then fired Aaron in 2007.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html
3090 is not a titan as per Nvidia. They are promoting it as the 8k gaming solution.
You are supposed to have Apple approve all these games/apps before launch. But of course that kind of restriction does not apply to an app that basically is a requirement for a phone in a desired market like China.