skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the problem is obviously media and social media stoking up tribalism and rage.

No, the problem will not solve itself by simply telling the public to think more critically.

These media and social media companies are incentivized by engagement metrics - which becomes money through ads - to destroy society via enraging their user against one another.

The algorithms that measure engagement and then feed it are the tools of our destruction.

This is not intentional on their behalf but an emergent result of what they've optimize for.

It's something that seems to be happening throughout the west - not just America.

This monster is probably our biggest existential threat today. The question is how do we stop it?
Deep work by Cal Newport is a great book to help you get started. He also does occasional coaching classes to help develop this focus. Another online class that contacts in my circle speak of as having been successful for them is habitstrong.com . Check out https://www.habitstrong.com/learning
Experts see substantial danger to democratic stability around 2020 election
Why do you think you have more rights to decide about what is welcome in HN than him?
Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90
twitter is a terrible tool for this. It's heavily censored and biased. You could have heard it here or from a decent journalist.
Uh... is this a clever meta-comment about the kind of nonsense on social media? Poe's law seems to apply extra hard these days.
Wish this was a joke. Twitter is just an idiotic mess.
But (at least in the US) the leader of one side doesn't - not enough to condemn it.
The double problem is, we are isolated, often after various moves due to our studies and first years of work, otherwise because we diverge politically from other ex- or people in our family who, themselves, got polarized the other way. So deleting social networks would be a good thing, but we depend on them for out last human interactions on weekends and evenings. Even worse during confinement.
I wish that were true. Social media cringe is just the symptom
> This is a stark contrast to Engineering where everything is proven with math.

You've just described the field of formal methods. For software with strict requirements of correctness, correctness is sometimes proven mathematically.

It's not that a rigorous approach to software development is impossible, it's more a question of when it's really worth doing. At present, formal methods are very costly to use. I don't think it's always necessary to go all the way to full formal verification for software development to count as rigorous, though.

Related reading: They Write the Right Stuff, from 1996. [0]

> efficiency is obscure at modern coding levels

Depends on the domain. There are plenty of domains where efficiency doesn't much matter, on modern hardware. Game engines are still tuned for efficiency, and will continue to be.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
No it’s just stupid to use the behavior of criminals to explain why you’re allowed to say farmers should buy and use sheepdogs to protect their sheep. City people seem to think farmers are working for them.
It's more than an idea...

https://www.federalfabrics.com/
Macaw45 is an awesome streamer generally, with an unparalleled knowledge of retro games. Check him out!
There are a lot of ideas here sparking with (at least) border-line racism (against racist, but it's racism nevertheless).

But what you say stands out, because there is an easy solution that's not tainted by racism: These people are threatening other people. They form an organization to promote this. We as a society have a tool against that: Law.
Tracking security incidents. If every piece of software uses the system-wide copy of a vulnerable library, you only need to patch that library and the entire system is safe. For every embedded copy of that library, a separate patch and release must be made. That's a lot of management overhead.
I'm going to flag this as lazy flamebait, but I hope you think hard about why you felt compelled to post this in this comment thread and then not do so in the future.
> no different from treating women or gay as inferior.

Jesus Christ are you serious?

I've never heard of somebody getting beaten (possibly to death), getting mocked at work or fired or publicly shamed because they go to bed late and get up late, disorder or not.

I've never heard of somebody getting paid less, be dismissed or denied the right to vote because of their sleep cycle.

Do yourself a favor, shut the f up.
Agreed. That's exactly what I have done with a number of startups. In one or two weeks, they get a full CI/CD pipeline that allows them to be productive. All of them are very happy with the result.

It's so important to be deploying early on. Get the kinks out of the system and the code aligned for production.

If you hire a full time devops, they will most likely build too much infrastructure to keep themselves busy. And if you don't do any devops, the transition can be quite painful.
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I don't even live in North America and even i've cancelled my long-standing Spotify family subscription over this. I came to Spotify for the music, not right-wing podcasts.

Spotify should have kept to music.
Statically linked means that a vulnerability in one of the libraries means that all statically linked binaries using the library will have to be patched.

In case of shared libraries, only the affected library package has to be patched.
That would fall under "have been banned" category (though I must acknowledge that I know little of the history of that specific part of the world).
Oct 31st in stamps: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, Nevada,Vermeer, Houdini
The Gray Wolves murdered Hrant Dink and are simultaneously a fascist and terrorist organization that both the Turkish military and Erdögan turned a blind eye to. They must not be allowed to operate in France.

There have been incidents in the US as well, like multiple cases of arson on Armenian churches in San Francisco.
Since when is Russia a democracy? But yes, foreign propaganda has existed for a long time.
Yet the responder slates the original posters valid take by being reductive. Why not point out the cause of this reduction was started in this instance by the badly written press release? Surely not all night owl folk or all "DPSD" folk have something they, if society wasn't making expectations, works benefit from terming a "disorder"? To dive in with rhetoric that misses the whole category mistake (between not just the two overlapping but apparently unfortunately conflated terms, but those who see worth in holding their situation to be a disorder and those who don't) borders on disingenuous. Also, can one not imagine how the lives of people who naturally sleep like way(s) have been crushed with employment opportunities curtailed by major and minor parts of society thus far? To call that lack of imagination "ablist" does not admit that those who sleep differently all have a disorder.
And the other side attacked actual Jews with rocks and bottles recently. What, that's not "your side"? Neither are those guys "their side".
There's no problem with shipping a static binary, except that it means that the binary must be updated specifically every time a security issue or major bug is fixed in a dependency. For a normal major Debian package, a fix to openssl or libc or libgtk-something automatically fixes that bug in the major package as well. For a static binary, Debian has to notice the change, rebuild the static binary, and ship it out.

The benefit of a distro is shared, trustable work. Increasing the workload on the distro maintainers is not great, and Debian is an all-volunteer organization, especially sensitive to that workload.
This is just an escalation of the "groupthink" pervasive throughout the more progressive circles. Every 100 years or so it seems to explode into a full civil unrest/conflict or war.

IMHO it indicates that we, as a species, are built/evolved to exist in small tribes and cannot cope with large societies or crowds.
"My friend has cancer and he want's an Iphone"
I watched a documentary about how covid was caused by a khazakstani journalist finding out about the clintons eating bill gates’ child’s adrenal gland. that was more credible than whatever conspiracy you’re reading about.
The core protocol was designed to be much simpler and more representative of modern graphics hardware (basically just a way for applications to get a buffer they can throw their pixels onto, which is then composited onto the screen, and passing of keyboard and mouse events to the application only when it's actually focused). Partly the issue has been getting good support for this in drivers and applications, and partly the issue is the base protocol doesn't allow for a bunch of features by default (a lot of which in X were essentially massive security holes, since any X client can take screenshots, intercept keyboard/mouse events globally, etc). These features are being added, but it seems as custom extensions in each compositor without widespread support.
> Vegans describing other people as murderers.

Well, this is literally true if you consider non-human lives. The danger I see is then not listening to and interacting with these non-vegans to develop a more nuanced perspective of the people on "the other side" who may not be very different after all. Stating a legitimate political or moral view alone is not (itself) what induces polarization, as I see it.
Computer games with voice chat have helped me weather COVID cabin fever as an alternative to social media. Particularly in PvE MMOs, players are just there to collaborate and have fun, with no room for politics to intrude.
Quick tip from someone else who was working on similar stuff last week: there’s a wonderful paper by Bowring from 1976 that has a one-step “iterative” version of the conversion. To verify that it worked right, I compared the output with the LLA output from my receiver and it matched to as many sigfigs as the receiver output.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp...
1000eyes seeing each other even in Covid times
My spouse has something similar, do you mind sharing what the underlying problem was?
The OP was specifically arguing the Russians are innocent, which I think has been been shown they are not. If you want to expand the conversation into generally how world governments use disinformation to their advantage, go for it.
Marvellous, thank you very much :-)
That's exactly how I have been thinking. What I was thinking was to make it a Steam game, but entirely open ended, maybe with a bit of resource scarcity so that people have to scramble to get what they want. I said to someone else yesterday maybe things like cities with user built transportation systems for rent, resource wars with medieval siege engines all designed in an arms race between users could evolve organically. In a way that combines the two things you mentioned: the shared aspect and the incentive to learn programming. When I was a kid I knew all the pokemon and their stats, why? Because it was required to advance in a game. Now suppose you have a castle and someone figured out a way to outsmart your defenses. Either use programming ideas to update your cannons or lose the castle... I could add a basic "building block" of damage to avatars like being hit with anything moving faster than x, then anything you can design that throws things could be a weapon, figure a way to store balls "under pressure" triggered by a step plate and you have a bomb/booby trap.

edit: (sorry I keep having ideas and editing the post) At some point the game itself might be open kinda like the internet, the reality of the game what things exist where, who has what can be agreed upon with some sort of blockchain system, then several "browsers" can be written to "plugin to the matrix" if you know what I mean.
Did they still make you pay for the $200 for the screen?

I wish I could get a phone with plain Linux but I don't think that my carrier (Comcast Mobile) supports any of them. I once used an unsupported phone, and the 4G would work for only a few minutes after a reboot (so it probably is an artificial problem).
Demo showing technology to reduce video streaming costs by up-to 90%
> Dijkstra attacked the paper that inspired Haskell..

While Dijkstra's criticism probably does deserve to be called an "attack", the resulting exchange between him and Backus was highly thought-provoking and entertaining.

https://github.com/jiahao/backus-dijkstra-letters-1979/

https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your...

> He should be a footnote in history.

Please read the posted article, and educate yourself on his historical significance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Pioneering_...
Awesome! I struggled a lot with Barrier/Synergy because I use wayland. Thanks for posting this!
i'm not sure what precisely you're trying to say.

If P(t) is the global population at time t and P' is dP/dt, then you're saying

1. P(2020) is huge, and
2. P'(2020) is low P' -> 0 as t increases beyond 2020

#2 is indeed true, but it means that P will be at least as huge going forward.
It's time for a fact check: https://finepeople.org/

The short video at the bottom of the page is particularly interesting.
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https://areomagazine.com/2020/10/27/why-fourteen-critics-of-...

IMHO, we need a return to "boring" centrist politics.
"never heard of somebody getting paid less, be dismissed"

You really actually cannot imagine (let alone you have not actually heard of) this? Maybe you just deep in a self selecting cohort.
Any time I present my views here in good faith as a racially conscious White man, I am soon flagged and banned. I agree it would be nice, but there are very few places where it is possible nowadays to not enthusiastically support the destruction of White nations. HN included.
Research in that area is unfortunately very politically loaded. I don't think simply claiming "there is a lot of research" in such a politically disputed subject is sufficient.

As for b), if a Chinese investor buys some house from a Canadian, why is the money parked?

Trickle down or not, it seems in general if you can sell something (in this case houses to Chinese people), it is good.

If you build houses to sell to Chinese people, you also employ people from the building industry, for example. I'm not convinced that "trickle down theory" is the correct theory to apply there.

Special issues presumably arises with land and housing as a good - you shouldn't simply sell all your land to some foreign powers, presumably. Still, in general it holds.

If you worry about land area, you could build a huge skyscraper in a corner of the town that doesn't disturb too many people, and sell the flats to Chinese investors. Very little land use, huge margins.
> You build your static "hello world" binary, you place them in the destination folder, you fill in the metadata to specify dependencies and stuff like your name and email address, and you proceed to zip up the package.

this small "fill in the metadata" part is already half-an-afternoon of reading and understanding all the concepts and mandatory files in there: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html ... and that's only one small part of the manual.

Arch packages in comparison can be a single 15-20 lines PKGBUILD shell script.
While it is true there are "Russian trolls" on the internet, (and it is true the every nation with a national intelligence operation does the same)

The problem occurs when EVERY opposition statement from "the other side" is dismissed as "your just a Russian troll as no real American would ...."

"Russian Troll" and "Russian Bot" have been become a modern day no true Scotsman fallacy used by people to dismiss anyone that dares disagree with them on public policy, or the role of government as being Russian disinformation
“Deplorable.”
De Bruijn sequences are useful in neuroimaging, too. My former lab: https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/wiki/public:de_bruijn
No. Without the Electoral College, one vote cast in a coastal city would be equal to one cast in rural Wyoming. Instead, because Wyoming has more Electoral ballots per person than larger states like California and Florida, a vote cast in Wyoming is "worth" about three times as much as one cast in those larger states.

A concern about removing the Electoral College is candidates won't spend time campaigning in more remote, less populous states. A) We have broadcast media and the Internet, you don't need to spend a lot of time in those states. B) Getting rid of the Electoral College doesn't mean getting rid of the state caucus and primary systems, there would still be plenty of in-state campaigning to win those (though typically not by an incumbent president).
> My 3 year old Pixel 2

is no longer guaranteed to receive security updates.
This isn't an issue for the core demographic which buy Apple products (which is wealthy Americans).

IDK, Apple is able to command such respect and prices not because of consumer confidence (in my opinion) but because they are the company who made the iPhone, which was a huge leap forward in terms of device innovation.

Regular people don't think about or care how their phones get fixed. They don't care about app stores and all the kinds of things we on HN talk about. They care about user-friendliness and bang for their buck. Because Apple used to be so technologically innovative, even at high prices it felt like a bang for your buck.

Now I don't think people think that's what you get with Apple anymore. They play it safe, they don't release innovative technology anymore. They just do what other people do. Apple TV+. Wireless earbuds. Slightly better components in each phone.

I don't see them releasing anything that captures people's imagination the way the iPhone did anytime soon. And if they don't, they'll be just another phone/computer company to a lot of people.

That's my humble opinion. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong and why.
What kind of stretching helped?
> The planet can support 100 Billion people, with current technology and keeping current ecosystems including repairing them.

That is far from obvious to me.
It’s possible to (mostly) avoid political stuff on those websites if one wants to, instead of refusing to use the sites completely. Just as an example, I rarely visit r/all, but I do visit specific subreddits that I’m subscribed to like r/privacy, r/pihole, and r/thinkpad. On Facebook, I never browse my newsfeed, but I am a member of a group for my apartment complex in the Stockholm area which lists local events and people selling stuff or giving away stuff in the community.

My point is that is that it’s possible to filter out a lot of the political garbage on those sites if one wishes, but it does appear to be getting more difficult since political stuff is appearing more and more often in places that I personally wouldn’t expect.
RIP (the best James Bond.. a fantastic actor!!)
No one "needs" much of anything. Do you "need" HN?
It sounds in this hypothetical that you want the ability to have a job that can't pay its workers enough for basic necessities. I believe these jobs shouldn't exist.
“own the libs” is satire, it’s not literally the political platform
> the Waymo car is not at fault for being rear-ended

That's right, but not the point. They are optimizing for not being at fault, instead of optimizing for not getting into an accident.
What’s the best consumer level FPGA that I can buy to experiment with? One that has the highest speed of final product and most memory etc? What’s the best of the best?
I find the lack of a common API for audio across OSes a tragedy. The waves are so deadly simple to work with that you could even use them as exercises to start learning programming. You would also need to be aware of the buffer you send the audio samples to; yes, you need to be aware that latency exists, there's no way around that. But in practice it's much more annoying: you have to deal with the APIs on each OS, which treat audio devices differently. Even getting info about the devices might be poorly documented and rather cumbersome, and then each device might or might not support the sample format you need/want, and might or might not support the buffer sizes you need/want. And if you try to work with a language that's not C/C++, then you have to resort to C wrappers to connect to the APIs (which in many languages is not trivial). 99% of the things we want to do could be so easy (give me a format that's 100% supported everywhere, a minimum buffer size supported everywhere, and support for 2 channels everywhere)... but nope.
>>> gave up and just shipped a whole virtualenv.

That is incidentally the most reasonable way to ship a python applications. :D
Requiring compression to be isentropic is just requiring "compression" to be a well-defined term with a specific quantitative result. Otherwise, it's a vague term that offers no quantitative prediction for how much heating it produces for a given change in density. That's not science.
What's there is valuable for sure. It pushes agile though. A lot. Another approach may be to provide a way for a team to choose a methodology that's appropriate for what's being built (1). It describes effective teams, but doesn't provide guidance on identifying dysfunctional teams/team members, and transforming those to productive teams/team members.

(1) https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Choosing.aspx
These trolls really exist on Russian social networks, trying to refute any news from the opposition media. And some people (Russian enthusiasts) count and list these bots. But your article does not prove it to me, because some Russians are afraid of vaccinations and there are crazy paranoids in Russian social networks that convince not to get vaccinated, including vaccines that are done by Russian medicine - what do you think this proves? That Russian bots are trying to weaken their own nation? For me, these are not bots, but religious fanatics, religions often reject medicine. You may have noticed that many religions have denied the existence of COVID this year.
Arch doesn’t have to support multiple architectures and releases.

Also, Arch usually puts all files into a single binary package while Debian splits arch-dependent and arch-independent files into separate packages. Also, Debian separates packages into runtime and development libraries, another thing Arch doesn’t do either.
It's hard, but you'll start seeing it in more people than just your wife. And once you become the person who sometimes knows to just listen instead of immediately trying to fix, people will like you more.
Its not complicated. There are dose response curves for everything once you start studying them -

https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/chemicals-and-toxic...

https://www.epa.gov/fera/dose-response-assessment-assessing-...

How did we build these tables?

Same process will apply to how much dopamine (and whatever else) you can keep giving a kid or a group of people over time without serious consequences

Whether that takes 2 years or 20 years more to tabulate, lots of people will take a hit thanks to their internal reward mechanisms being gamed.
As if 2020 wasn’t worse enough, i was hoping he’d live till the last daniel craig film
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