skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funds in the HSA are to be withdrawn to cover medical expenses.

So, you do leave it in the HSA as long as possible- but ultimately it's all going towards medical expenses eventually, otherwise you lose the tax advantage.
Fear is a big one. Getting you in these emotional states makes it easier to influence your way of thinking.
The Internet has exposed the fact that human brains are like unpatched Windows 98. Hacking in and causing mayhem is very simple, not everyone can do it but the knowledge on how to do so is widely available. Advertisers, Trump, Zuckerberg, etc. are basically script kiddies and unfortunately there is no patch simpler than quality education.
A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference
> For example, in Salem, Massachusetts in 1695, people who said witches did not exist were the ones who were believed to be on the fringe.

Indeed, but those people were highly religious Puritans that emigrated to the New World because they were prosecuted in England.

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/puritanism

When you put those kind of people in isolation and a high stress situation you get those kinds of behaviors.

> So the question we should all be asking ourselves is not, what is wrong with today's flat Earthers, but which of the mainstream beliefs we have today will end up being like the belief in witches in 1695?

Totally agree. For example, climate change denial.
>There was research last year that showed that cynicism is a way for less intelligent people to protect themselves from being taken advantage of. Basically, if you know you're not smart enough to figure out if other people are genuine or out to scam you, defaulting to assuming that all strangers are lying is a winning strategy.

That narrative is ridiculous - what does intelligence have to do with it ?

I guarantee you you are uninformed on so many issues and you could easily be taken advantage of no matter how intelligent you were by someone who spent time preparing/specialising in deception - especially if the negative outcome is less then the cost of investigating the issue. Nobody has the time to investigate every choice so by your logic cynicism should be a default strategy for everything you're not an expert in.
PCEM[1] and 86Box[2] do an admirable job of emulating 80's and 90's computers ...from the IBM PC up to the amdk6-2 and celeron.

I'm not sure, but I believe that both support the 3DFX Voodoo (not sure if just "VooDoo" or "Voodoo3").

[1]https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

[2]http://86box.net/
I think if you look at the brain as a neural network then it's easy to see how this happens. Not everyone is born to educated parents and receives high quality education. If a lot of the information your brain received growing up was bad, then you can easily reach bad conclusions. The collapse of institutions makes it worse because now no one trusts anything. So to many the information on the internet is as valid as the information in the textbooks. Then if you keep feeding the brain bad information it starts generating bad information. Lately I've been thinking of information as a "substance" that has been diluted by the internet. So the whole "organize and make all information easily accessible" motto of big G and the web in general has had the consequence of diluting the concentration of good information.
How are you handling passwords?
None of mine have a PIN as far as I'm aware.
> So the problem is not that individual people can have fringe beliefs. The problem is that an entire society of people, minus a few outliers, can have, and act on, beliefs that are later shown, beyond any reasonable doubt, to be not just wrong, but delusional

Even more interesting, a very similar thing can be observed in the manner in which people evaluate the veracity of "religion", with their not perfectly logical tendency to see only the bad, and overlook the good, all the while holding a strong self-perception of being purely rational and right thinking. Human beings are truly quirky creatures, if only they didn't like fighting so much.
It seems to be a way to record the path of readings you've through the bible. there might be a theological justification for doing this, and thus the reason why the webapp exist
It's interesting how many people seem to overlook this. It, over-proportionally, affects assets with a far pay-off date. A stock could be worth $1 and $10 depending on the interest rate and have the same yield over xx period of time.

I have written about this in more details: https://omarabid.com/zero-rates-world
I documented the process for using a DSLR as a webcam in Linux, and it does look like the A7III _should_ be supported:

https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc...
If you don't like Best Buy's practices or terms, you can sell at another store.

If you don't like Apple's practices or terms, you don't get to sell an iOS app.
Depends where you live. For me, an Uber Pool to the nearest grocery store is about $5. I could do 40 round trips a month for the cost of insurance and a parking spot.
I think fundamentally many of those analyses are flawed, because they always start with a data set per year which is generated by taking the N most popular songs per year (i.e., Billboard's Top 100). This assumes the population count and distribution of songs which you would consider "pop" vs. not "pop" is consistent year to year, which I don't think it is.

What constitutes the top N pop songs each year is becoming more distilled and refined as the industry matures, which means they're all converging onto each other and losing complexity. I also contend if you chart the volume of sales for the whole music industry vs. this tight cluster, the cluster's ratio of single or streaming sales decreases.

Meanwhile there's artists in an increasingly large tail making what you'd probably call "pop" in style but just without marketing push, which are more experimental and less refined, and these become underrepresented in the study.
Would love to read the business justification for walking from $1B in leases. Would be powerful insight on WFH economics
They alienated a solid 40-50% of their entire user base (within the US) because of their decision. I doubt Cloudflare would miss an investor given their current equity status.
I don't know. Just discovered it because I searched for the link to the video I had in mind.

edit: Hrrmpf. "Zu früh gefreut/rejoiced too early". Scanning the git repository it doesn't look like it would.

But can't/won't install/test it atm. Maybe over the weekend :(
I'm not sure the diversity matter so much as the scale. Once you've got a very large audience, it becomes possible to scale abuse on it.

When each community is small, you have to put in a lot more work to say, spread disinformation so there's natural censorship on it.
Yes, but how is that irrational? It’s not using anything that’s contrary to rationality. It’s something that rationality fails to cover — you can’t find a rationale if you have no information to input into the system of rational thinking.
A "toy" wasting biodegradable plastic (made from maize) seems fairly low impact, compared to many other hobbies.

Just driving 20km round trip for any other hobby you care to name uses a litre of petrol. That's 5-10 medium-large toys, or a hundred trinkets.
Free speech is dead. When you have a mass of people who are hysterical, and not willing to get into a debate, that's what is happening.
== People just tend to behave better when they're dealing with a real human being that they've met instead of a screen name in Slack that they argue with every day.==

I’ve seen this work with unruly customers, too.
Is Twitter Down?
Twitter.com
TDW is the most successful alternative social network at the moment and it got hugely popular very quick despite being blocked.
Great question! You can make useful notes on scripture you're reading (we give you context as well - if you request it)! There's a section to write your testimonies as well and write and track the things that you feel are hindering your faith!
Check it out and you'll see! :)
This seems like the kind of bug that makes mrrobot episodes seem plausible
> stupidity concentrators

Wow, that about sums it up in a succinct and bittersweet way.

Back in 2012-ish I began to honestly worry that the steady accretion of anti-information would eventually crush the internet if something wasn't done. Nothing has been done. Now add to that the effectiveness of SEO and searching Google or DDG, or even boutique sites like Stack Overflow or Epicurious reveals a huge quantity of chaff, crust, and effluvia. Not sure where to put my faith, but I do hope search engines can resolve the philosophical dilemmas.
> The issue is that they both do it.

No, that's not the issue. That's never been the issue. As I said much earlier:

"Everyone is wrong about some facts." "However, this does not imply that everyone is equally wrong about the facts."

There's neither time nor space here to numerically compare mistruths of the 2 major parties. I would just like to see acknowledgment of the general principle that 2 groups of people can be ignorant in some ways while having very different levels of ignorance. For example, compare high school children and elementary school children. Generally speaking, high schoolers have a lot more knowledge than grade schoolers, and yet high schoolers still have quite a bit of ignorance. The 2 groups are not at all equal. This is a very common situation, and "both sides are wrong about things" is not a useful description of that situation.
I think that the people who are downvoting me are definitely not nitwits. They are smart, but they're short term thinkers and they think that they can improve things by censoring these kinds of insights.
It's not uncommon for me to get many downvotes while people replying in the comments are saying that they agree.

The irony is that I don't think that our monetary system is evil. I just think it has been hacked/exploited and needs to be patched/reformed. Probably the central bankers already realize this by now.

If it keeps going, even the elites will start losing purchasing power and quality of life and they won't understand why.
I empathize, and I feel like I watched this happen a few times to new hires at my old job. A glowing Glassdoor profile is as much a reflection of engagement with Glassdoor as it is the quality of company and work environment. An "engaged employer" badge on a company's profile almost certainly means the numbers are juiced upward.

My previous company of 7 years had 4.9 stars on Glassdoor. They cared a lot about maintaining their profile.

My current company of 2 years has 3.5 stars on Glassdoor. They don't care much at all about maintaining their profile.

Even accounting for the jadedness that comes with tenure, my current company is a much better place to work in many ways. Old company was fine, good even, but lol at 4.9/5. I won't be going back anytime soon, despite the standing invitation.
> I don't think this is true. At any rate, if it is true

I'd be more inclined to follow this line of thought if this was about anything else. "The earth is flat" is not a claim that's false upon closer inspection of the available data, it's a claim that's prima facie false, it's in the same category of "the moon is made of cheese" rather than "we didn't land on the moon".
I think it is just a result of more people thinking by themselves. They don't believe authorities anymore, be it government, church or others. They make decisions, some of them can be stupid, it is impossible to be an expert in everything.

Social media, specially Facebook and Reddit, promote group think and writing posts that are liked, not that provoke discussion. If you go to a subreddit and you disagree with people there you get downvoted, that you avoid.

We need a social media that makes you think. We need information that we disagree with. Without it we will be fools. We need to promote effort, not likeability. Reading only thinks we agree with is a mental masturbation.
Love the write-up. How it relentlessly widens the hypothesis space and avoids a premature* conclusion.

Don't love any of the comments which says "I was thinking and the answer is probably [a completely random opinion]".

* https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rmAbiEKQDpDnZzcRf/positiv...
I have seen this in the past year with two videos in particular.
The most recent one I watched beginning to the end - it stayed on a video hosting site for weeks.. then one day I found the page saying 'taken down for hate speech' - I don't recall any kind of calls to hate - if there were, I would think they could of edited part of the vid and still left up the main gist of info.. like they do with song copyright complaints in techno mixes...

Anyhow - some people likely believe that some videos / news stories / files are important enough for people to have access to that they would likely chip in some coins to keep them accessible I'm sure - I would even say there is and will continue to be more of need for further distributed / multiple backups (some available in some countries and not others for example) and people will certainly be willing to pay and others will to host - to get around bans in certain countries for example.

I hope there will be a filecoin option or other options for the world to push multiple copies to multiple countries so when access is denied in one place and file removal is demanded in another - that there would be the possibility that people could access from a third place via a 4th place that kept access available.

No idea how all that would come to fruition, perhaps it's already been figured out with torrents or peertubes or similar things, I have not researched that aspect.

But I have been seeing more and more censorship in more and more places the past few years - and it appears gov's and other interested groups are ramping up for more, not less - so the need will be increasing more and more in most parts of the world I am guessing.

I also imagine there is a desire in some neighborhoods to be able to share videos and other files with the community that would be censored by news portals and national hosts - if a secure scuttlebut meets filecoin crosses with some sort of non-accessible via internet - and only shared via bluetooth / wifi / and limits on bandwidth taken kind of thing is out there I think we'll see more use and need of such a thing as well.
Police care about protecting you just as long as your interests align with the interests of the state, is what I said.

For most people, these two things align.

Most. Not all. That is my point. I live in a community that the police absolutely have no interest in protecting. We are a problem to be dealt with, not a community to protect.

Not everyone has that experience, I understand that. But police are, by virtue of who pulls the purse strings, an extension of the power of government.

I never said all police don't care about protecting you. I said they absolutely care about protecting you, as long as your wants align with the needs of the state.
Reviews for entertainment are of very little value, and always have been. The only time this isn't true is if you get to know the reviewer and understand that your tastes and theirs line up. I suppose if something is universally panned that could be useful information, but that isn't very common.
Cap was a motivation to a certain extent for sure. Both myself and Evan Phoenix (the first two core members of the team) come from heavy Ruby backgrounds and we yearned for the days of cap.
All of those statements are statements of value.

Maybe, in the past stupid was mainly reserved for people who knew very few facts. Knowing or having access to facts was much less common before the internet. So people used to argue about facts. But since those arguments were about facts, they always died down (someone was right and someone wrong) and you did not have a feeling of "expanding stupidity".

Since access to facts is pretty much universal now, people have started arguing about values. If someone states they have different values than you, you call them stupid. Since no one is right an no one wrong, the arguments don't die down and you perceive expanding stupidity.
While I definitely agree with this, I am baffled by the amount of sheer stupidity that does appear to be getting wider traction. I mean, QAnon basically started as a 4chan joke that I feel like even the originators thought was outlandish, and now you have successful Congressional candidates talking about it seriously.
Rdrand is not generally considered trustable, and the algorithm it uses is not known.

The main use for rdrand is to mix it with other entropy sources to produce a seed for another rng.
On cynicism: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014616721878319...

On conspiracy beliefs: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550611434786
In my eyes it is just the visibility of stubidity that is expanding. Ironically at the same time more and more people learn more — the question of our time is, whether the seeming knowledge they get is actual knowledge or some made up thing that just fit the hole in their soul perfectly in that time of their life.

Today more people than ever are yearning for knowledge. Knowledge gives security. You then know what you place in this world is if you know how the world looks like. The problem starts when different actors start to abuse that needs, while those who believe them are incapable of differentiating between what is real and what feels good.
What protocol were you using before that? Had you looked at using webrtc?
But for what benefit? Will the office be full sized (forfeiting the cost savings to the business), or will teams have to negotiate which days they’re supposed to come in (forfeiting a large amount of the team building benefits).

It just seems like a lot more work and hassle than being fully colocated or fully remote.
You could make this argument about any totalitarian regime vs a free society, so no.
Alexa, Deploy Application.

"Ordering Applebee's"
It is over capacity https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/. I tried to tweet and got an error message "over capacity"
My wife and I used to use Yelp at our go-to, day to day review platform. After some of my wife's customers directly experienced some serious WTF behaviour on Yelp's part, our trust in it was, as you said, completely broken.

I'm not at all surprised that Glassdoor is playing similar games.

The following isn't necessarily meant to disagree with you.

A common thread is that Yelp and Glassdoor directly make money based on their reviews. That's their core product. Other comments about how trust should be a core product are relevant, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening.

My wife and I started using Google reviews. To be clear: we are by no means starry-eyed Google fans. We're quite aware of many their problems and WTFisms.

In this case, though, unless I'm mistaken, Google reviews are at most very indirectly a product for them.

This is important, because in my mind, that makes it far less likely for them to meaningfully/substantively fuck around with the results.

It would be easy (and perhaps fun!) for me and anyone else reading this to inject doubt into this assertion.

I'm happily open to additional illumination here, particularly as far as a practical daily use review system.
Yes, good point. It was implied that the dollar is up compared to other currencies.

I'm not sure gold, bitcoin, and real estate are great comparisons because they are too volatile to use as a real currency benchmark. Real-estate and gold have intrinsic value, I'm not sure how to divorce that for an apples-to-apples comparison to fiat currency.

>The inflation that is happening is not happening in daily commodities - it's happening in the capital markets instead.

I'm curious on your perspective with this. I was under the (maybe wrong) assumption that central banks are more concerned with controlling inflation for commodities...i.e., those things in the CPI rather than stocks. Do you think it should matter to them if capital markets are inflated? Real instability happens when people can't buy bread not when they can't buy $AAPL
The funny thing is that cellphones have gotten slim to the point that adding replaceable batteries and upgradable RAM wouldn't make them ridiculously thick or heavy.
I don’t want my company to treat me like a college student.
A red flag to get out.
But if all other things are equal , we should be seeing more frequent intelligent debates too, which is not the case. In fact if you challenge someone at best you d get a downvote
It's not. I've had a Vanguard account since 2007. My 10 year returns are right in that range.
actually, my friend, the median iq is still 100 - any way you slice it :/
Fun read. I have an item which I didn't see directly stated on here.

According to Mirriam-Webster [1], definitions of "stupid" include:

-slow of mind

-given to unintelligent decisions or acts

-dulled in feeling or sensation

-marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting

So, from this, we would the population to make slow, unintelligent decisions. However, the Flynn effect indicates that average intelligence of the world's population is increasing [2]. To me, stating stupidity is increasing while intelligence is increasing is a contradiction, so I feel something else is at play, particularly with decision making.

Historically, the information a person could access was quite limited. Information was largely passed down orally, especially if you lived in a poor society. This information was hard-won and passed down over generations. Then technology allowed information to disseminate though alternative mediums (paper, radio, television, Internet, etc.). The primary benefit of these new mediums was their accessibility, and that feature--like it or not--is a double-edged sword.

To explore this, let's consider three scenarios:

1) A person only receives information that is true 10% of the time: this person will likely not survive into adulthood. If they do, they will likely cause harm to others.

2) A person only receives information that is true 50% of the time: would this person be able to make snap decisions? Likely not, as they would need to analyze every aspect of a situation. On a long-enough timescale, they might be able to figure out specific situations, but it's unlikely they will do a good job.

3) A person only receives information that is true 90% of the time: this person should do reasonably well. Their fast decision-making processes are well-tuned and reinforced by feeding in information known to be of very high quality.

To draw the (inevitable) connection to machine learning: would you train a reinforcement learning model with training data where 50% of the labels are wrong? Of course not!

My theory is that today, much of the information people receive by default is low quality; it doesn't generalize well. Novel situations are difficult to assess because people didn't develop good heuristics for analyzing it. For example, sometimes the best decision is to just say "no" and move on (for example, cutting out negative people from your life). But if a person is perpetually in a zone of undecidability, decisions becomes far harder to make. As a result, more situations pile up, creating additional decisions, creating additional problems, ad infinitum.

Just my two cents here. And please do not overlook the irony inherent in this post. :)

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stupid

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
> The President was asked about Q: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNI553Np__k

But he was never asked who "Q" was.