skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An issue with #2 might be that 5% is still millions of people , many of who are available to find with a google search. So it becomes harder to figure out who is a courageous contrarian and who is a crank.

Pre-web, individual conspirasists used to be mute. They were either smart enough to keep quiet or afraid to speak up because they thought their views were unique. Now, everyone can let their freak flag fly without much consequence.

There just isn’t enough danger or personal risk anymore to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I can relate to this discontent with certain phrasing, it feels like some form of marketing in it's worst stereotypical form playing out and akin to scratching the nails upon a blackboard. FWIW the word synergy in the 90's would instantly raise red flags for me, today - not at all as less abused. Also speed reading enables you to gloss past all that filler and pull out the salient facts.

But I try not to let it get to me and made me wonder - how would somebody who couldn't see feel about the use of `content` over the word `read`? Text to speech been around long enough, possible somebody hearing this will have some interesting perspectives.
Fewer LoC isn't always better for maintenance. I'd certainly rather have my team maintain 1KLoC of JavaScript than 50LoC of Brainfuck.
I didn't read the paper, but Sabine's summary specifically notes that the drive requires energy and momentum to accelerate. While the mechanism behind providing momentum could be varied, some form of reaction drive would almost certainly be required.
Lol it certainly reads like satire.
Shows me to “assume good faith.”
Amazon and Facebook are already global because they offer universally valuable services.

But you? You're a worthless piece of shit.
"When I wrote "The Four Quadrants of Conformism" I expected a firestorm of rage from the aggressively conventional-minded, but in fact it was quite muted. They sensed that there was something about the essay that they disliked intensely, but they had a hard time finding a specific passage to pin it on."

Or perhaps they just rolled their eyes so hard that they strained their eye muscles and then couldn't see to type.

"[7] You see this especially among political extremists. They think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists. Their opinions may be different from the average person's, but they are often more influenced by their peers' opinions than the average person's are."

So close. Just a little farther. Almost got it.
> I could see it making bad bosses even worse but leaving good bosses unaffected.

That seems extremely reasonable to me.

Bad/Good bosses. And companies with bad/less bad review and promotion systems.
Black Democrats (most Black people are Democrats, something for which there is some social pressure) are generally more conservative, and significantly more religious, than other Democrats. So: no, this isn't responsive to what I said.

(One good source: White & Laird).
I was genuinely stumped by this one:

https://ibb.co/1bjZyxm

Do any of the tiles count? If so, do the tiles that barely have just the edge of a "tire" count? Who knows?
You're getting downvoted because this isn't something that Peter is claiming to be an expert in. He's an attorney, not an economist.
I don’t have a sign up form yet
Send me your email to my email its in my bio so I can add your email to the script that sends top HN stories

I haven’t added the rss option yet
I think you'll find that if you learn what "300bps" means that your relationship advice might be wasted effort. ;)
What would be interesting (PG if you are reading) is a preamble that indicated what in particular inspired you to write a particular essay.
This kind of attitude is one of the stupidest things you encounter in cooking. Parmesan is a type of cheese that was popularized in two-ish provinces of Italy. It’s not a recipe handed down from God on stone tablets. It’s a product of what people had available at the time and would be different had history been different. Worshiping one specific recipe codified in law that tries to say that literally the exact recipe but made in Montana can’t call itself Parmesan is dumb beyond all reason.

Authenticity is a poison on the cooking community and does nothing but make others out of people who should be sharing and experimenting and evolving cuisine taking the lessons from others.
Expect $175,000 to $300,000 compensation.

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...
I am 100% not a lawyer, so understand that.

But having gotten a few TNs at the border, they've never really asked about residency.

With your degree, a letter from the employer highlighting the constraints (role, salary), they ask you some questions and that's it.

If you are young, the border guards might get stuffy that you make 2x their salary, I found that to be the case.

The Mexican border officials I found have no clue about NAFTA/TN, it's literally a trade violation, it's really odd I guess they don't process many Visas but you'd think it would be 'in the book' somewhere.

So if you go to the US/Can border with the right paperwork, my experience (not legal opinion) has indicated you'd be fine.
Okay that’s a nice spicy comment but do you have anything of value to add? I guess I agree, passion alone won’t get you anywhere. But if you DO have the skills, having some amount of passion behind your work can only help, not hurt.
Hi there! Author here.

I created nFreezer initially for my needs, because when doing remote backups (especially on servers on which we never have physical access), it's hard to 100% trust the destination server.

Being curious: how do you usually do remote backups of your important files?

--> With usual solutions, even if you use SSH/SFTP and an encrypted partition on destination, there will be a short time during which the data will be unencrypted on the remote server, just before being written to disk and before arriving to the encrypted filesystem layer.

Thus this software nFreezer: the data is never decrypted on the remote server.

How do you work with this?
Card creation from stuff you read is one of the problems I'm trying to solve with Traverse.link. It has interlinked notes which can be turned into flashcards (adding active recall questions etc.). You can currently paste a link on a note to convert a web article into cards. We're also working on PDF and EPUB import
> Japan intended to expend tens of millions of its own people's lives in operation Ketsugō.

Intended to expend tens of millions of its people's lives if the United States tried to take and occupy Japan.

Most wars don't end with the other country being occupied or its government being overthrown.
I love reading cert prep and taking exams. It tokenizes the effort and provides gratification. I build my badges and feel good about them. I'll take a good cert prep book on vacation with my family because it relaxes and energizes me (my current actual work is 90% managerial and problems are far tougher and less certain/rewarding than technical ones... To me at least; so this both unwind and keeps me somewhat current). Basically I'm an addict - I have certs in things I'm unlikely ever to use.

But... I fully realize I'm doing this for fun. I wouldn't claim to anybody it actually makes me good at doing any of the things I'm "certified" in. So while I'm confident the author's approach is efficient and effective if your sole goal is "pass exam, obtain cert" - if there's any practical goal after that (e.g. "get employed and be good at doing this stuff"), I doubt this is a good approach. Maybe a good starter, maybe even not.

I'd be curious what's HN perspective?
There absolutely is a general issue about suppressing "true research results", as with government scientists who have been forbidden from speaking when that research opposes the interests of politicians (for one example, "Government Scientist Blocked from Talking About Climate and Wildfires" at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/government-scient... ).

However, this doesn't appear to be true search result.

If it is indeed an erroneous conclusion published in a newsletter by JH students, and people implied ("Johns Hopkins published a study") that it was actual research result published by JH staff, then is there anything JH can do to suppress falsehoods that wouldn't be interpreted by the uninformed as heavy handed censorship?
The Windows on Arm devices and Arm Macs are not locked down.

(and neither are the Arm Chromebooks by the way too)
But doesn't that seem like a strategy for indulging in confirmation bias?
"It matters a lot who you surround yourself with. If you're surrounded by conventional-minded people, it will constrain which ideas you can express, and that in turn will constrain which ideas you have. But if you surround yourself with independent-minded people, you'll have the opposite experience: hearing other people say surprising things will encourage you to, and to think of more."

This is the exact opposite of my experience. My independent-mindedness happens the most as a reaction to being surrounded by too much groupthink. On the other hand, when I'm surrounded by people who are already having plenty of crazy ideas, they begin to feel a bit tiresome to me, and I don't feel the need to have any of my own.
Of course one atrocity doesn't justify another. I'm attacking your wavering statements about the moral standing of the two sides in WWII. There is simply no fathomable comparison.
Curation is the process of selecting items from a data stream. When you browse youtube, clicking on one link over another is a form of curation. You may watch the video for 1 min or the whole thing. Or you may watch for 10s and save it for later. That is another form of curation.

Then suppose you download the video via youtube-dl and store it in a folder. That is also an act of curation. And finally, if you watch the video every day, post it on a blog, use portions of it and edit it, that is also a form of curation.
He has done original thinking that helped the world big in non-business ways:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

That said, the way the article dehumanizes a group of people feels like listening to the radio in Rwanda in 1994.
Look at what the cops did to protestors throughout the past year. What makes you think they wouldn’t do the same in the context of labor unrest?
Ask HN: Why do people criticize social media, not phone makers?
Question is around the issue of social media addiction/optimizing for engagement — It seems to me that social media is not addictive in itself, but can become addictive when supercharged by notifications (OS, push) and badges — features provided by iPhone, Android, etc.

Curious what HN thinks about the typical anti-social media narrative that blames social media companies for building addictive products. Why is anger not directed at phone manufacturers instead, which enable this addiction with a few specific OS behaviors? If OS makers disabled notifs and badges, this would largely neuter the addictive quality of social apps.
Your spouse can't work in H4 visa
Is your bottleneck latency or throughput?
This is exactly what you can do with Traverse.link (well you'd currently have to put your markdown files into a single JSON but I'm working on that). Your markdown notes then become flashcards, but the twist is every note has a "Remember" switch, which you can simply turn off to remove it from your spaced repetition schedule (without losing the note)
Also the frequency with which they appear, and the number of iterations required to pass appears to have a strong inverse correlation with whether you're signed into Google with Chrome or not (we use a wide range of browsers for testing, all of which get reset to baseline).

In other words, it's much easier to just use Chrome and stay signed into Google.
A scientist leading the project of constructing a massive weapon does not compare to a scientist working as part of a cog in the wheel on a service that is used both by the government and other companies that is not related to weapon construction any more than a screw driver is related to weapon construction.
Of course it does. British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorders than the general population. And everyone knows why is that.

https://www.muslimcouncilofamerica.org/cousin-marriage-among...
I believe it’s gibberish too†:

https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php

what language does jónsi sing in?
on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in 'hopelandic'. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the 'invented language' in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it's of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it's rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they've decided on the melody but haven't written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von). tracks 7-9 on takk are in hopelandic.

--

† which doesn’t bother me as I can’t understand the words to most songs anyway:)
The article is about "Tiny Homes ALONE Won't fix the Housing Crisis".

Of course, trivialized solutions don't fix any realworld problems, so this article doesn't provide much light...
I wish for the world to relearn the principle of charity.
What are your use cases for this?
Who/What will consume it?

I did not used Google Sheet as Database and I dont see it as a good option for connecting to it via a programming language when taking into consideration any RDBMS or NoSQL if that is needed.

I recommend either PostgreSQL or MongoDB or Cassandra.
It's the NYT. These guys told us there was WMD evidence in Iraq. Complete bullshittery.
Seems a bit incongruous to suggest that people willing and able to accuse Coinbase of racism in the NYTimes are not willing or able to exfiltrate evidence of those accusations.
Capitalism certainly isn't garage but HN is just that, i.e. start small, dream big.
> Bought a house in 2009 when everyone said it was stupid

I don't know who your "everyone" is, but to do this is extremely conventional financial advice...
> I can think of contexts

Yes that's what was asked; which ones?

> especially when n=15(if this was a statistical study on insulin response to artificial sweeteners, people would be saying the sample size is too small to draw conclusions)

And those people would be wrong. It's incorrect to dismiss a study based on sample size without a discussion of significance and effect size in the context of the data.

Moreover I reject the premise that you should be assessing this story quantitatively rather than qualitatively. But if you insist: what are your priors on whether or not a given company engaged in discrimination, and how do these change if you're told 75% of employees of a particular demographic stated there was discrimination?
I'm a Canadian hired on a TN Visa for a California start up, I start in mid-December and plan to fly into California to obtain my Visa at that time and then fly back to work remotely from Canada. Is there anything about the TN that prevents me from working outside of the States?
If I remember correctly, Adele Goldberg once remarked that "in Smalltalk everything happens somewhere else". Although there has been ongoing work to collapse the many layers of indirection you find in message-passing systems, I am not convinced that throwing more tools at the problem will address the deeper underlying issues. At some level, you need more concise descriptions of your system and operators to shape its structure and organization; perhaps even compute different organizations. This is very difficult to accomplish in purely object-oriented systems/languages that have no direct and convenient "algebraic" correspondence for composing complex communication structures and specifying relationships such as inheritance. For example, I was very taken by the idea of class definitions as expressions, having seen it in Racket first many years ago.

On the other hand, I believe that when it comes to low-level "machine" work, objects are a good abstraction to model components such as activation records such that they can be uniformly explored and modified (on the fly). But this is perhaps a moot point.

Over the years, I have studied many object/component-oriented systems and come up with a sizable catalogue of message-exchange patterns, plumbing and machinery. My hope is that at some point, this can be crystallized into a language or calculus for specifying systems; and Scheme/Racket is certainly a good language to think about these issues from another perspective (which is worthwhile to preserve).

So I guess, I understand your point. Thanks for raising it, much appreciated.
While I agree (and would describe the issue as a kind of insularity), I find that PG's essays still have a fair amount of value – if I had to put some kind of measure on it, I'd say that for his older ones I found value in 80-90% of a given essay, while the more recent ones like this, it's closer to 40-50%. Using this one as an example, I disagree with many of the assertions in the first section, some in the second, and find the third to be quite solid.

In particular, his take on the nature/nurture aspect of thinking for yourself is something I disagree with. He specifically notes that he got a fair amount of fastidiousness about the truth from his father and cites high school as a bad place for independent-minded people due to social mechanics – both things that I feel point in the other direction.

I'd go so far as to say that most education systems beat the curiosity out of children with great effectiveness and encourage conformism, and given the lack of classes like philosophy and critical thinking, thinking for yourself has become something mostly passed from parents to children because the parents that have it find it important that their children learn it. I don't think there's anything stopping a great portion of the population learning to evaluate information they receive critically, or qualify the quality of their own knowledge – in fact I'd say it's not only possible but becoming essential, as these seeming once-a-generation satanic panics are beginning to tire me out.
Is this the case if you have Thunderbird set to view message body as plain text?
So... why not just use your password manager to record the account's actual password, so you don't need to use security questions?
I made no such claim, you are responding to someone else.
Not after receiving your green card. After applying for 485.
I'm not sure most NA houses are so different. For instance, cheap floor treatments, drywall + stickbuilt, multipane windows that leak after a decade or two.
From what I see online, it appears that the social zeitgeist has swung toward factionalism - I perceive this, and this pressure - and I think what pg is doing in the essay, is largely pointing out that there's value in and a need for independent thinking.
>I can think of contexts, especially when n=15(if this was a statistical study on insulin response to artificial sweeteners, people would be saying the sample size is too small to draw conclusions), but I don't know if developing hypothetical scenarios is useful.

N = 15 while p ≈ 20. It has been a while since I have taken a stats class, but that sample seems plenty large enough to me.

>Learning the true context is most important. This could be done by corroborating allegations for example.

Corroborating is exactly what journalists do. From the article:

>five people with knowledge of the situation said.

>But according to 23 current and former Coinbase employees, five of whom spoke on the record, as well as internal documents and recordings of conversations

>according to a recording of the session shared with The New York Times

>In a company email he sent later, which was also shared with The Times

>wrote in a Slack message that was viewed by The Times.

>three people briefed on the situation said

>according to a recording of the event

>according to a copy of the message seen by The Times

>according to a copy reviewed by The Times.

>two people with knowledge of the situation said

The NYT talked to dozens of people, watched/listened to multiple recordings, and viewed numerous emails and Slack messages. This story is corroborated.
Cool research (●ˇ∀ˇ●)
Elaborate on the use case? Why Google Sheets specifically, not some online simple DB with a rest API?

It reminded me this - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988. Sheets are not databases. Be prepared to hit one the issues like this.
Looks quite good. I see you're using the new dark mode from Tailwind 2.

I'm happy to see basic HTML so that reader view works nicely.

Here's a quick look at a basic article: https://scribbble.io/iruoy/hello-world/
yeah, but I was wondering whether they managed to built a high-tech ecosystem around the ETH. I know that at least google has offices there, but I don't know what it's like in zurich and how much cutting edge high-tech is actually done at these offices.
That is how journalism traditionally worked. The names were always part of it.
I'm also very curious about the opinions of other physicists.

Dr. Hossenfelder seems to have a lengthy, strong background in physics. On the other hand, every time I read one of her transcripts, I see something along the lines of the "superluminal travel doesn't necessarily result in the possibility of causality violations" claim in this one. Every modern text I've read about physics has indicated that superluminal travel (or signaling) inexorably means that causality can be violated, unless Einstein was missing something.

In the last one I read, there were claims about Hawking radiation and virtual particles that also seemed to contradict everything I've read. Now, it may be the case that those texts really are simplified down and one learns what's really going on in some advanced physics course, but twice in as many transcripts is a red flag for me.
It's not at the Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais level yet, but usually people who consistently claim that all of the experts are wrong are themselves wrong, and so I'd like to see some non-self-referential confirmation.
Customer Service is often regarded in companies like insurance is regarded by most people—you gotta have it, in a perfect world you’d never need it, and very few people brag about how much they pay for it.

That’s why Customer Service isn’t treated like the Rock Stars that Sales or Engineering is treated like in a company.

It also tends to have the most natural turnover, and tends to be the lesser skilled positions in a software company (not often requiring specializations, like developers).
The 1620 Project: a tribute to those who planted the seeds of American liberty
> Even today, when there is lots of amazing materials on the web, the real deep stuff is in books.

Years ago my then 7yo was given an assignment: Find out how long woodchucks live in captivity. It was in late January in the USA so the idea is there would be many possible sources of info due to "Groundhog Day": newspapers, books, the Internet, TV... All the kids heard "blah, blah, the Internet, blah" (this was before smart phones and kids that age typically didn't use the Internet so it was exciting).

Much to his annoyance I forced my kid to come with me to the library where the librarian happily showed him how to find the answer. We made some photocopies and wrote the answer at the top. He actually brought home a book full of animal pictures.

I was in school there next day and discovered every other kid had brought a printout of the web (Wikipedia, an article about Groundhog Day, etc) but none actually had the answer to the question. Our photocopies did.

Whether my intransigence had any long term value to the kid is unclear to me.
For illustration, I've turned the linked article into flashcards here https://traverse.link/home/How%20To%20Memorize%20Faster%20Wi...