skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most comments against the article and in defense of the comics boil down to the argument, that if you own the channel/media/room you can control what is said in/on it. Fair enough! That's private property, another sacred right in the US constitution.

Where does it lead? If one has "dissident" ideas, he can only express it on channels that allow it. In the end, one can always express it in its own home, without public, or in front of a complacent public. That's technically free-speech, but severely constrained.

Look at the situation. First there is no dialog. Second, it is no different to a dictatorship - bear with me a minute -. In a dictatorship, you can always express your own ideas in your own home in front of a complacent public. At that micro-level, the situations are stunningly similar.

Of course the outcome is different if you try to broadcast dissident or uncommon ideas in a dictatorship, or let's say in the US. In the first case, you risk for your life, in the second, you risk being cancelled. The US government, in most cases, will not limit your speech but powerful groups will do.

At the macro level, the situation is different too. In the US, powerful (understand rich) people control the medias and what is broadcast on them: e.g. Facebook (allows violence but no woman breast), the NY Times (can't find the ref: a conservative journalist who joined then left). Ultimately this leads to the formation of blocks. Of course Facebook in itself is made of several blocks of influence, or blocks of common ideas. I believe all major blocks are created around lobbyists with big money, or influence groups already trained to mute dissidents and shout louder than opposing groups. One or the other, any group of importance defends its territory by showing the door to dissidents. This is free-speech according to XKCD.

In a dictatorship there is only one group. In the US there are several of them. Still no dialog, no nuance, no complexity. Complexity is the devil for a group of influence, because complexity will dissolve the group. There a physical parallel here with ferromagnetism. That's the reason why complex problems cannot find a solution in the US (and maybe in the world). Complexity will usually not tried being understood, and will soon be interpreted as borderline or altogether dissident, or will be dismissed as pedantry.

There is free-speech, but most of it is shouting and territorial behavior.
Traditionally in the industry many studios focus on a specific platform and there are agencies whose whole business is to do ports.

GNU/Linux just doesn't provide revenue to make it worthwhile.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Some people dont like to be corrected
OK, I'll call it. I'm going to guess it's these guys with the bot on HN, this bit is only a hunch.

On HN I think it's not GPT-3, seems European, and uses some bite size text from the web to create it's output, I assume GPT-3 doesn't get caught doing this.

It fits this papers description, but I can't see if they have any example output to be sure past a hunch -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24704952
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Do you read? Books (and libraries) used to be something only kings could afford. Then technology (the printing press) made them something for everyone.
Is there any plan of releasing all the videos? Lectures 15-18 do not have videos linked.
Ditto for looking at older posts/discussions. I usually use https://hn.algolia.com/ when searching Hacker News though.
Indeed, domestic uses account only for 11% of the global fresh water usage. Main uses are agricultural and industry (http://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/overview/methodology/water-us...)
Do you have some examples of quality technical comments (conforming to the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) being downvoted to hell? (Not disputing you at all, just curious for some concrete examples.)
One thing I'm considering, at some point, is to start a cooperative-like business. This kind of enterprise is normally associated with manual labor, but I can't think of a reason why you couldn't have a tech coop. I actually think it would go hand in hand with the idea of more craftsmanship in software development (something I'm also in favor of), not to mention that it would greatly improve workers' rights (since the workers would also be the owners of the business).
But there is, as long as you stay within people with 5k to 50k followers, particularly in niche fields, and use mute words often.
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An Introduction to Stoicism
Anderson Silver is a CPA who landed his dream job earning a six-figure salary, complete with high profile notoriety and accolade.

Looking for a guide to life, he turned to philosophy and for the last five years he’s been practicing the philosophy of Stoicism, and it’s changed his life completely.

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[00:11:40] "The more the island of my knowledge grows, the more the shore of my ignorance grows."

[00:17:06] "Let's stop pretending that this fake structure we have actually means something. Which is ironic coming from the Stoics because, you know, some of the most famous Stoics were the richest man in all the lands. "

[00:25:42] "Your intention, your decision for the action is in your control. But as soon as you start trying to do it, it's already out of your control."

[00:32:04] "There's no one right answer to what the purpose of life is. We all have our own unique purpose for life. And but the thing is, we never take the time to identify this, right?"

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

[00:07:26] The difference between stoic and Stoicism

[00:09:40] Socrates, wisdom, and virtue

[00:21:31] The key disciplines of Stoicism

[00:26:28] Premeditation of adversity

[00:56:03] The three reasons Anderson practices Stoicism
Many reasons:

- The typical 'pains' felt in the lopsided power relation between employer and employee were and often still are cushioned by the adequate compensation in a market where the sought after skills were in short supply

- Tech attracts an atypical more autism spectrum biased employee pool. This correlates with meritocratic believes.

- Tech culture is one that has always idolized 'passion', so objecting to bad working conditions and habits was not just seen as rocking the boat, but a character flaw of those that lacked passion.

- Tech workers very often see their employee status as temporary, just putting some bread on the table while they will create their own SaaS business 'real soon now' and be on the other side of the relation

- Tech has a habit of inducing very young workers, and churning through them. This is no just HR strategy but group enforced by incorporating youth (and single/ non-family) oriented spaces symbolically in the workplace (Foosball tables, slides ...)

Note that on the Employer side of the spectrum tech companies have no qualms about joining their collective bargaining and lobbying associations
Two word surnames are unusual in English, and the "Le", "La" etc. could easily be misinterpreted as a middle name, leading to wrong names like "Yann Cun". English surname prefixes like "Mac", "Mc", "Fitz", "O" [1] are generally attached to the name that follows (sometimes with the second part capitalised, sometimes not), so there is an old and widespread convention being followed here. Nowadays it's easier to search for or use as a username too.

Yann LeCun spells his own name like that: http://yann.lecun.com/

[1] These are actually Celtic originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_onomastics#Surnames
US unions are usually per company and forces everyone working in a specific area in that company to join or quit, meaning that anyone performing a specific job function needs to join said union. This leads to the "You can't plug a computer into a socket if you aren't in the electrician union" problem, the reason they say that is they think the company could oust the union by hiring people to do that work without properly labeling them.

EU unions are bigger and more general but aren't allowed to force workers to join, ie EU is a "right to work" area. This avoids most of the problems with US style unions and also gives workers more political power since EU style unions are bigger and can therefore more easily influence national politics.
Here is how facebook can solve this issue.

By default, each user (including news outlets) should have an area of influence analogous to a square kilometer of travel. This means that any post or share is only ever seen by a dozen people or so.

Now, the hard part comes in how you design an algorithm that reinforces community building behavior. Essentially, every troll in the world should start shadow-banned with no way to work their way to a larger audience without years of community building comments (kindness, engagement, supportive, etc.).

This would also mean that FB would have to enforce geotagging of comments, so that operatives in other countries couldn’t be a large part of the hidden political discussion in another country.
You mentioned using transparent mode. It's not real transparency: there's a mic on the back/top whose input is added to the other signal coming from Bluetooth. I personally find this mode annoying af.

Have you attempted noise cancelling mode?

Have you attempted turning off the noise control altogether?
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How to make sense of the Reinforcement Learning agents?
Nitpicks. Prices are good (specially outside of large cities) but I believe that "Coffee is $0.15" is a typo. A coffee will hardly ever cost you less than 0,5€. And $0,7 is for a 200ml beer not a pint.

> most businesses prefer to deal with the foreigners.

Businesses prefer to deal with costumers able to pay more (or quicklier) for the same services/products.

(edited - typo)
former link site "sensibleerection.com" had similar, where votes for category, and votes for value where separate.

As such you could get +20 flamebait, for a popular or welcome flamebait post,

or -10 funny, and so on - the tags where not inherently good or bad.
It's from this comment thread. Upcoming rather than available

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24698927
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Lol Thanks for making my point for me..
I don't think those percentages pertain to the right question. What I think we are looking for is the amount [melted down for reuse] divided by the amount [properly put into a recycling container]. The first link (EPA) is dividing the [tons of glass recycled] (presumably entering the recycling stream) by the [tons of glass generated] (manufactured). The second (ACS) says 33% is recycled (as opposed to put into general trash), but also repeats the claim that "90% of glass put into multistream collections gets recycled" (presumably meaning actually remelted).
Others have pointed out that tech workers are much more unionized elsewhere (other than US).

There are probably multiple factors as to why there are few unions in US (ie. Comp in US is insanely high, tons of competition for workers, etc).

But I'd argued that the main reason is: insane growth of US tech sector in past decades as compared to elsewhere in the world. This enables both higher comparative wages and competition for labour.

Also consider that almost anyone can start a tech business (workers are the capital resources of a tech outfit - not machinery) leading to more dynamic labour market.

But, I'm not sure this will continue to be true after backlash we are seeing against USA tech sector. Maybe that's why the conversation around unions is starting now.
If you are an experienced programmer, how long does it take you to learn the handful or so algs/concepts you need for these kinds of problems? It'd probably 20-30 hours of learning, which is a reasonable expectation to ace interviews. - And it is not like you have to necessarily come up with a solution all by yourself, communicating your issues well, and the interviewer will probably help you, if you have an otherwise impressive résume it shouldn't pose a problem at all.
Arguably this is a much more useful description for people who don't know what eBPF is, since "packet filter" makes it sound like it's exclusively for firewalling and/or routing.
It's likewise missing every Norwegian name containing æ, ø and å – of which there are a lot (some are included if you accept the aa representation of å, but the rest are still missing).
It's reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order. You are arguing that we have no problem, and we don't need to do any of the three! No wonder it's an unpopular opinion. Reducing consumption means reducing production. It doesn't matter how effective litter prevention and recycling programs are, it doesn't matter how seemingly bullet-proof landfills are, some percentage of produced plastic ends up as waste in the environment (estimates range from 5 to 11%). Production goes up, litter goes up. Simple equation.

We need to massively reduce single-use plastics.

Even in advanced landfill-having countries, single-use plastics end up as litter in the environment, but the millions of tons per year. I've personally picked up 500 bags of garbage on 4 different continents. Landfills or not, it's everywhere.

We need to massively reduce single-use plastics.

We need to massively reduce single-use plastics.
Can you quantify how much damage the virus will do to young people, including the incidence rate of serious side effects in young people?
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Code snippets in a blog-post should use special formatting and syntax highlighting, so as to distinguish it from the rest of the text
I'm currently on AWS for my site and in the process of researching alternatives. I share your concern of something going wrong and being stuck with a huge bill. Someone pointed out that 1TB of outgoing traffic from Amazon EC2 would cost $90. I'm fortunate enough that that won't obliterate me, but I won't be happy if that happens. I'd rather my blog get hugged to death. Going viral isn't worth $90 to me.

But I don't think DO really solves this problem either. They say they have spending caps in some of their marketing materials, but the finer print says that overage billing is $0.01/GB. Now that's a whole lot better than Amazon's $0.09/GB, but it's not a cap.

DO can say they have "predictable pricing" because in the vast majority of the cases the "free allotment" that comes with your droplet is enough, so you never see a bandwidth charge, you pay the cost of your droplet and you're done. So yes, it's more predictable because Amazon would charge you $5.23 one month, $4.87 another month, and DO charges you $5 every month.

But I'm not worried about the 99% case, I'm worried about the extreme scenario where I somehow go viral or get DOSed. And both options leave me exposed.

That's not to say DO isn't a better deal for the hobbyist than AWS. The equivalent of DO's $5 droplet will run you much more on AWS, especially if you actually use the bandwidth they're allotting you. And the big 3 do a lot of nickel-and-diming, which is a nuisance compared to the simpler pricing model of the smaller providers.
Yann Le Cun modified the spelling of his name to Yan LeCun in English by himself.

[No, Your Name can't possibly be pronounced that way] http://yann.lecun.com/ex/fun/index.html#gellman
Hey! How do you do that? It is my dream to be able to make something as great as Worakis, Rone, N'to do. What tools do you use to recreate tracks?
And Dutch first names: Gert-Jan etc.
If you're replacing your paper with paper from trees, you have to do all that anyway (transport, processing, storage, chemicals), and on top of that you have all the energy of getting the raw materials in the first place.

I'm not too sure on the details of how that is done, but I imagine it involves driving huge trucks into forests, cutting trees with machines, stripping and cutting the trees, and transporting wood to industrial areas.

It has to be more CO2 efficient to recycle.
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If American democracy can survive this election with FB, it can survive anything.

China could not survive 10 years with a platform with open dialogue, that is why their corrupt leadership fears these systems.
Yes this is helpful in that way, but call me cynical - without removing the market from the hands of criminals, what it does is ensures that the consumer will be a paying client a little bit longer. But if a dealer messes up and mixes the Fentanyl unevenly, the clean needle won't help much.
I would be very surprised if the same didn't apply to tech jobs in general, regardless of gender.

In my experience, the half life of a STEM career is about 10 years. After 10 years, half the graduates are no longer doing STEM. Another 10 years and the numbers are cut in half again.

The problem in the USA is not a lack of graduates; it is the retention of graduates --- attrition, by choice or otherwise. I would like to see a survey on the percentage of citizen employees over the age of 40 in tech jobs versus other fields.
I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)
How is the food particularly sweet? The only sweet stuff I can think of are cakes and desserts and those are supposed to be sweet.
Latest Vulkan version is 1.2, if you want to target Android since version 7, then good luck.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards#Vulkan

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listdevices.php?platform=android
What is the incidence rate and magnitude of COVID effects in young people? One should naturally expect such a follow up question when quantifying death and risk in public policy.
as a hindi speaker, looks like learning japanese (apart from kanji) won't be hard
Yes, most things are free in practice. Just so happens that something critical for day to day general health and well-being (dental health) is not.

It's not by accident that Portugal has oral health on par with the poorest Eastern European countries.
We won't.

And flying a few execs from New York to London in 3-4 hours with renewable fuels isn't going to quite achieve that.
Obviously the goal of the problem is to get the car. Pretending that the argument I have given is like making up something about a toy car just does not do anything.

The fact is that the argument I have presented demonstrates that the problem as given is flawed and does not have a unique answer. Most people don't understand this and substitute the correct version of the problem in their mind, and then proceed to solve that by arguing about the probabilities. Of course the probabilities are what the problem is "supposed" to be about.
How did you find the business and know it was for sale? Curious about that process.
I see snap is used over apt to install bpftrace and friends. Any reason to not use apt here?

I’d think for something kernel-related you want to use tools provided by the same package-tree as the kernel itself.
Thanks a lot for this, it will be very useful.
sounds like just the case for government regulation allowing the free market to get out of a local optimum.
Is it true that Japanese sword makers were forced to do their famous process (bend and work the metal again and again) because of some other deficiency in their process (either source material or knowledge), and Europeans swords were just as good, but much faster to make because of superior starting materials/knowledge? So in a sense, the superiority of Katana swords is a myth?
>I am curious why can't you make single use plastic manufacturers an illegal business

For a bunch of the same reasons you can't "just" make alcohol illegal or outlaw internal combustion engines.
That is only in Germany and not typical for EU.
What percentage of committers now work at EDB?
Forums like this, reddit, etc. become worse over time partly because people demand (superficially) high-quality comments. People who's time is valuable are less likely to comment.

When a very talented & experienced person says, "that's a bad approach" with no explanation, you should pay close attention, but that type of comment gets downvoted into oblivion and on HN is explicitly against the rules. It's very artificial, that doesn't happen in real life. People who's reputation precedes them don't have to justify themselves. Guido Van Rossum is not going spend time laboriously correcting the things he disagrees with on open forums like this - he probably isn't browsing the forum in the first place. You have to adapt to that.

That becomes a cycle, and gradually the average quality declines as each successive tier of experience gets sick of it (and of being ignored when they try to articulate the problem) and leave.

Hacker News is not as vulnerable to this as other communities, and I'm not sure why, but it's still a problem.

The core issue is that external reputation is both hard to decipher on Reddit-style forums, and not rewarded when it exists. Every post is judged on its local merits, who posted it is usually irrelevant. Sounds good, but it just leads to people BSing. So HN is full of overwritten pedantry and BS, interspersed by the odd person with actual, hardcore experience getting sick of it and writing a lone, high-effort rebuttal. Which will tend to do well, but... It's not the typical post. Most posts are high-effort bullshit and resultant arguments.
No they're still very common here. There are at least three within a 50m radius of my front door (inner city). Someone made a map of cigarette vending machines tagged in OSM in Dresden: http://ubahnverleih.de/osm/zigaretten/
I'm very well aware of what you have to do as I immigrated to two countries myself.

My point was not that it's not understandable that you were not aware of that, but that this change in law has nothing todo with being unaware of the law.

Your underpayment happened in violation of the previous law and with the new regulation you might not have gotten the job to begin with.
anecdotal, but me too. purchased bose qc35s 3 months ago and started having tinnitus most nights for about a month now. never suffered from tinnitus before.
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The biggest and most important step is to reduce how much you buy in the first place. Not just plastics, everything.

Secondly you should reuse what you already have for as long as possible. Reuse those food containers, repair clothes with holes in them and so on. Use that cloth shopping bag for as long as possible instead of buying new ones. One of my canvas shopping bags is over 30 years old and still hasn't needed any repairs.

Recycling should only be the choice when you cannot reduce, reuse or repair any longer.

And all of this is of course just individual action, the real results will only come from heavily regulating or completely shutting down the fossil fuel industry.
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This comic does not lambast free speech.

It simply shows it's disdain for the selfish idiots who use it as an excuse to showcase their personal ideas and refuse to allow you your own human rights.