skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free speech web has created the most peaceful least violent society in history. Censors on the other hand are found constantly endlessly and relentlessly at the vanguard of the bloodiest most extremist movements of all time.

What is this cost exactly? Censors have shown an utter and complete lack of evidence that censorship reduces violence whatsoever when you look at the long run and broader picture. They also love destroying the economy as well as art. Censorship at the end of the day always ends up being a particularly evil form of power politics regardless of the noble intentions it sets out with. Outside of a very narrow scope of things that ought to be censored (calls to violence which would include 8ch, defamation, fire in a theater, etc)
Nice to come across this again. Looks like you’re also attempting article creation with rich text editing on mobile. Are you currently using slate or draft?
India is going to be the next manufacturing hub
Another advantage of modern stuff is so many questions the ancient philosophers pondered have now been answered pretty much by science that it can be a bit frustrating to read the old stuff.
Photonic Quantum Advantage?
I'll plug 'When Breath Becomes Air', also for brain surgeon.
I like mature and well-written horror stuff reminiscent of the likes of Clive Barker. Instead of reading them, I decided to start listeing to them on youtube this year.

"The Show Goat" written by Geoff Sturtevant and narrated by Drew Blood [0]. The most hilarious story I heard in all of 2020.

I love Jason Hill performances. His voice acting and accents he does are spectacular (and often hilarious). I link to a few here:

[1] "I Am Not I" written by G.V Anderson

[2] "Alterations" by Micah Edwards

[3] "Snow Devils" by T.W. Grimm

[4] "In The Summer of '79" by T.W Grimm

[5] "Swole" by T.W. Grimm

[6] "Wuurzuum" by T.W Grimm

One of the very first stories that got me hooked on youtube horror reading channels is "How To Survive In Hell" by Ratrotted [7] as read by MrCreeps. Speaking of this subject, another one that was absolutely epic is ''The Harrowing: A Quick Bus Ride into Hell'' written by rebecca_rjwriter and read by Dr. Creepen[8]

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sVmVo70mg0

[1] https://youtu.be/cnDWV3cbxX4?t=3082

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvN4eOjY3xQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrNyy6fzH-Y

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9WrSWYD58

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGyNPvOqqk

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN3aMURTHog

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWM4bCeHE1Y

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tstT_BGy4
I run a paid Chrome extension that I'm still working on: https://www.checkbot.io/

> Checkbot is a Chrome extension that tests 100s of pages at a time to find critical SEO, speed and security problems before your users do. Test unlimited sites as often as you want including local development sites to stop critical issues going live.

Glad I didn't rely on the Chrome Web Store payment system they deprecated a few months ago. :) Felt predictable they were going to throw in the towel with it since it was lacking obvious features and the support forums always had complaints about it breaking.
What are some other companies that also have this structure?
Bad UX does not equal to not using modern techniques. He has a platform and that’s nice, but it is not the most user friendly.
To elaborate on that last point, one concrete model that was on the HN front page lately was the "climate club": https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.15000001
It’s holiday season for tech unicorns
FYI I'm about 5 days away from launching Hystoria, a link aggregator limited to items >5 years old.

Idea is to beat hysteria with history. I contend that an unrelenting focus on "breaking" news and hot-takes is what is behind so much of the craziness in today's discourse. So I hope putting a constraint to block that stuff from discussions from the get-go may result in a kinder, more polite, more thoughtful, and intellectually curious kind of community like HN. Or not. It's an experiment.

More on launch post:
https://100millionbooks.org/blog/news/introducing-hystoria/

There is no seed content yet and there's a broken link on the header. But feel free to sign up and post! I'm only posting this now because this thread seems highly relevant and it's HN so slightly broken/hacky stuff isn't so taboo :)

https://hystoria.100millionbooks.org/
No dog food today: the Linux Foundation annual report
Editing: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg

>>> Max Perkins was the editor of Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, F Scott Fitzgerald, and other famous 20th century writers. Great, great, book.

Bartending: Cosmopolitan by Toby Cecchini

>>> Very well-written memoir of a bartender in New York in the late 1980s. He invented the Cosmo in NYC while working at the Odeon — on a lark, without thinking much of it. The drink took off, but I think he's still a working bartender in NYC.

Cooking: Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain

Painting: Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

Music: Meet me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman

Tech: Chaos Monkeys by AGM

And seconding swyx's recommendations for all things Michael Lewis, who can spin a good yarn about any profession — whether it's baseball managers, junk bond salesmen, or high frequency traders, etc.

I've also picked up lots of good recommendations from this thread https://ask.metafilter.com/243036/Recommend-a-nonfiction-aut... (I, too, like "insidery" type business books. I'm currently reading "The Emperor of Scent" about the world of perfume and it's pretty good! Also looking forward to reading "Ninety Percent of Everything" about the shipping industry.)
The apartment tower is likely in a high density area already built for those types of services. It's a perfectly sensible idea to penalize those who would waste those services on a vacant lot.
I agree with you, because it would be too time consuming to read all original sources. To get the context (how ideas evolved over time) you need to learn a bit about the history of philosophy.

On the other hand reading original sources gives you more than a summary. The way of thinking leading to the idea or the way the idea is presented is often more interesting than the idea itself.

Take Platon for example. The way he teaches his ideas in dialogue form is very pedagogical. It is even used in psychology [0].

An other example is Freud. He uses a very genius style of logical reasoning. Reading a summary of his ideas doesn't help you because you'll probably not understand it (and think it's nonsense) and sometimes he is just wrong (e.g. homosexuality is mental illness).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning#Psycholog...
Be specific, I don’t know what you mean.
How the pandemic is transforming tech spending
For Windows I use space sniffer because the visualisations and
UX are pretty much perfect.
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
I think the solution here is likely to pass extra-onerous taxes on imports, and then tell the host countries "If you don't like it, apply the tax yourselves, and then we'll remove ours once we deem yours satisfactory".
The idea of land-value tax strongly reminds me of the often cited, and much maligned, so-called fiduciary duty to shareholders which CEOs and/or board members reportedly have. This duty creates, it is said, an incentive towards naked short-term greed, which is often described as a bad thing. Now, even though this duty is also usually derided as fictional, the argument, if this duty did exist, is reasonable. But does not a LVT create the same incentives in landowners – in essence forcing landowners to always use the land in a way which extracts the maximum amount of money from it? Why then is a LVT a good thing while the duty thing would be bad?
High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python WebSockets
Why now? It is a famous tourism spot in Brazil for decades and decades
> Reddit banned them anyway, clearly politically motivated.

It doesn't matter where "they" moved. What matters is what was published in that subreddit. They could just as easily have deleted the abhorrent racist posts and comments before they left. They didn't do that, so the subreddit continued to violate site policies.

Try this: create a subreddit, post child porn, and then never post again. What you'll find is that as soon as your post is reported/noticed, it will be deleted along with your account and your subreddit. It won't matter that you've moved on and now post your child porn elsewhere.

Racism and death threats have no place on Reddit as per the site policies that the mods agreed to so when the mods refused to comply, their sub was deleted. Nothing to do with politics.
Not only contrast, but also the gamut. If display is capable of 255 levels of color and you remap 255 to e.g. 128 to leave the rest for HDR you have only half of the possible colors available for SDR. Or how is this supposed to work?
Yes. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-pa... : census for 2019 and men’s fertility
From surviving to thriving as a hardware startup
Well it's a degree.

Some people write write-only code in perl or in K.

Others using category theory and Monads.

Not sure if abstract colors are any worse.

In practice I doubt there is a significant difference. It's all incomprehensible for the normal coder.

At least in theory you could imagine using new parts of your brain with colorful programming. Kind of analogous to Richard Feynman picturing physical concepts using textures.

There is color forth as an practical attempt to program with the help of colors.
Could be a good time $$ wise for C programmers versed in how to get around the issues.
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote

Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com

I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux (both userland and the kernel) and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.

My rate is 20 USD/hour, and I don't expect to be paid until I have something to deliver. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.

[1] https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

[2] https://github.com/linux-apfs
Report me then.
Your final comment does make me wonder about two things: first, how the book would be different if set in America and written by an American author, and second, how much of this we would have seen if the book was targeted at adults instead of (pre)teens.

Either way I'm looking forward to the gritty JoeAltmaier reboot :)
On Reddit I would recommend r/ModeratePolitics or r/Centrist or r/NeutralPolitics or r/NeutralNews for more balanced, nuanced, and civil (non-hostile) discussions.
I totally agree, although I would expand the LVT to tax on all non-commodity property (e.g. intellectual property, like patents, copyrights, domain names, etc.). I think LVT is the biggest and most important of these types of taxes, but taxing all non-commodity property in the style recommended by Glen Weyl is even better.
> Do you really believe 'be yourself' is a suggestion to be a jerk if you are a jerk?

It is advice. There is a real risk that advice is going to be taken litearlly

If "be yourself" is a metaphor of some sort that means "assess if your personality needs change and then change it if you are a jerk" then that needs to be what people say in the first place. And realistically even then 'jerk' is too abstract. This is advice that requires psychic powers to interpret and as such is bad advice.
“When Genius Failed” is really good. Lot of parallels to tech where folks are visionaries right up until the day that they’re not and how things that we don’t truly understand can go haywire
Thanks! No it's a Svelte editor component based on Prosemirror. The editor is still a bit hairy around the edges, but working on getting it right. :)
In my experience there's a reddit culture that's quite pervasive. As soon as a subreddit becomes even mildly successful it starts being taken over by low effort content and "downvote to disagree" mindset. Very strict moderation helps but that's a lot of work and few subreddits manage to pull it off.

Then there's the more general problem that Reddit clearly wants to encourage the "facebookization" of the website to drive adoption and ad revenue, and that's how you end up with an almost unusable web interface on mobile if you don't know that i.reddit.com is a thing. The desktop interface at least attempts to show you the posts, but it's still a buggy and laggy mess and you're much better off using old.reddit.com if you know about it.

I just can't be bothered to deal with all of that nonsense.
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs

https://www.amazon.com/Gig-Americans-Talk-About-Their/dp/060...

It's basically a series of interviews with people across various industries talking about their jobs. Not exactly "memoir"-style but more of an anthology.

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...

A personal favorite that I read alongside the first recommendation. Just puts a lot of things in perspective with respect to finding meaningful work.
You are right. I totally missed the SDR/HDR distinction because it is a single character difference.

My apologies!
This is very pretty. Great job on the frontend.
> Then why would you bring up the Revenue Act? That is literally a "specific policy".

You were being pedantic about how the New Deal raised revenue. Literally the only reason I linked it.

> Do you want me to show dozens of examples of FTTs failing? Do you simply need more?

If you have examples in the United States or the United Kingdom, sure I'll take a look at them. Otherwise, I don't really see the point, when no other country has had global financial controls comparable to the US/UK in the last 100 years. Further, I've already said that FTT is only one approach, and not one which I have specifically advocated for at any point in this thread. You are arguing against yourself on that one.

We already tax wealth, so it's not clear at all why you think it's so catastrophic. It sure doesn't seem like you've done real research if you haven't been able to come around on the existence (and non-apocalyptic nature of) property and estate taxes.
The Asian flu epidemic of 1957 was a turning point for antibiotics (2007)
I think the problem with land-value taxes is that objective valuation of raw land value is actually difficult and even arbitrary. If you say a parcel of land is valuable because there's a building on it, you wind-up with just a real estate tax. If you value all land the same, people will just abandon ownership of large parcels, probably with paradoxical results.

Almost automatically, the assessment of just land has to be harder than the assessment of land plus the property that's there. And assessing land for taxes tends to be politically hard. For example, the overall process of real estate taxation in California was politicized into a disastrous mess years ago with proposition 13. Just undo prop 13 would be a simpler matter and even that likely isn't going to happen.

Further consider, the objective land value of a parcel in Mountain View is probably less than the assessed value a lot of homeowners pay their taxes based on. I'd be in favor of measures that force more intensives use of that land but taking on home-owners with vast political influence is going to be a challenge.
What passes for AI ethics research is akin to a "Hiroshima ethics research" that focuses on the carbon footprint of the Enola Gay and the lack of BIPOC representation on the team that assembled the Little Boy bomb.

I don't care if the corporations building a dystopian panopticon are intersectional.
Ironically I am a big fan of r/wallstreetbets, whose culture is... not quite the same as HN. (PSA: do not go to wallstreetbets.)
Can't Walmart already do this? Property assessors already estimate the value of your property and the value of the land plays a part.
And with CEC you can control the TV, I particularly like my scripts to turn off the TV's when I leave.
I too have a philosophy degree from a good department. Your comments are basically dead on, but I would add a slight caveat regarding pre-contemporary philosophy.

I do think there is some pedagogical value in reading some canonical works of modern philosophy, just for context about what Frege and later analytical philosophers are reacting to. I wouldn't completely write off Kant and Hume, for instance. Hegel, yes, but that doesn't mean it's completely not worth reading.
The Unsustainable Sustainability of Electric Motorsport
I'd hazard a guess that alcohol is a lot less addictive than heroin, although full-blown alcoholism and withdrawal is no joke.

I think we also have a lot of customs around alcohol to mitigate the level and constancy of drinking required to get addicted. Lots of jokes about "it's 5pm somewhere" or "the sun is over the yard arm", "no drinking on a school night", etc. I think there are generally enough taboos around day drinking or being constantly drunk that most people are nudged away from veering into physical addiction.
Do you mean emerge et al? I've been running Gentoo on my main machine for >1 year now, and I'm still having to check the manpage for flags constantly... I guess I wish that it was more explicitly "subcommandy."
Lots of finance people, rightly or wrongly justify their work as giving a valuable service to humanity: From "providing liquidity" to "absorbing risk" and "helping your pension grow" the list of supposed goods provided by finance is very long.
Revolution eats her children. Damore was right.
At some point you should get to the original sources if you want to be an academic, yes.

But the reality is that 99% of the original source material is not relevant, will not be particularly rewarding, and may require a grad-level background to even understand many of the sentences. You want to read Hobbes Leviathan? Guess what, the only parts that matter today are a handful of pages. Same with Kant's Groundwork, Aristotle's Politics, etc.

The famous philosophers are (mostly) famous for their essential ideas, not the full lengths of their books.

For example: the majority of Hobbes' Leviathan is coming up with an entire theory of natural law, dealing with religion, etc. But none of that stuff was particularly noteworthy. The part that's relevant today was his original thoughts on the social contract, which is a very short part.

It's far more important to read textbooks, surveys, etc. to understand the ideas and be able to put each philosopher in context of who they were responding to and who responded to them.

Then if you're an academic or going to write a paper or something, sure go to the actual sources.

I say this having read tons of Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Kant, Locke, Rawls, etc. I've needed to for my work, but I would never recommend reading them to someone just casually interested in philosophy. That's like telling someone who wants to learn how to program that they should be reading the C compiler source code.
Ask HN: Why are M1-based Apple laptops so much faster at changing monitors?
There are reports across the web of M1 laptops switching displays or resolution instantaneously (e.g. [1] or [2]). It can't be explained by just lower memory latency or faster CPU, because neither are x30+ faster, with a speedup like that needed to explain it getting down to under 100ms from several seconds (that's the current norm across platforms and GPU vendors). So most likely they do something differently there, skipping work instead of doing the same thing, but faster. What is that? Is that somehow dependent on their hardware, or is it something like what Intel did to MKL on AMD?
+1 for Stanford Encyclopedia. Such a uniquely and consistently excellent resource. Can't think of many things like it for other subjects.

https://qz.com/480741/this-free-online-encyclopedia-has-achi...
I know you probably mean this tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps task management (Asana/Trello/etc.) and customer helpdesk (Zendesk/Freshdesk/etc.)?

Having all those tools integrated with the rest of another suite like Microsoft 365 would be enticing to corporate users. It would definitely starve out competition, but isn't new in Microsoft playbook.
They just demanded that she retract it. No opportunity to adjust it to include the additional information (there would be ample time to do this between review and the camera-ready).
This sounds like good advice in theory, but if someone isn't even at the stage of knowing what they want to read, I don't think picking a significant book at face value is going to work out well. In fact, I bet it would probably end with a large majority of people reading the first 10 pages of Plato/Socrates/etc., getting confused by the utter lack of context, and giving up. That's what I did the first couple times I "tried to get into philosophy." It took me getting to undergrad philosophy classes to really "get it."

At the very least, if you're going to go for primary sources, find a guide or lecture to lead you through it. Of course primary sources are important to read in philosophy, but in my personal opinion, I would recommend going for an introductory text first and picking primary sources to read from there.
So far it looks like "Don't Hire Who Drinks Your Kool-Aid".

Kool-Aid is good for some of your group.

The opposite is also good for your group.
My point is why do you defend the religion. IMNHO well educated people defending ISLAM are the actual source of problem rather that the extremist. Extremists are honest and open about their view and can be barred from entering non islamic countries. OTOH moderate muslims can not be banned at the same time they silently support the ISLAM.
I have been to the location where this cashew tree is. If you are just passing by on the street you can barely notice it is "the cashew tree", for it is so huge it takes up what could be an entire lot. From walking around it, you could think it is several individual trees, because it's branches bend downward, touch the soil, grow new smaller roots there, and then go up again.

Also, I was there around 10 years ago, so it may have changed, but back then tourists didn't really go "under/inside" the tree, they were mostly outside the lot, maybe to preserve the tree and avoid possible damage/diseases.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. That's the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> In 2012, Apple launched the MacBook Pro a with "retina" display. It took _years_ for non-Apple alternatives to materialize. In fact, the only comparable laptop display in existence today would probably be the Dell XPS 17" UHD+ (which I own, and it's excellent).

Uhh, both Sony and Dell had 1080p, 1200 vertical and then QHD laptops in form factors down to 13" before Apple. I owned both before I moved to Apple myself.

You can read people here talking about how their laptops have had high res displays when Apple announced "Retina" back in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099789
This parent does not get that benefit though, each child does usually when you say somebody is selfish, they're actually doing stuff that gains benefits for themselves.
I do in my work, every day.
Training - complete, objective information is sorely missing in this space.
I want both --help/-h and man pages!
Attack? I said that I agree.
I would agree that reading the primary sources is important, but it must be accompanied by some form of commentary, especially when beginning (whether this is in the form of a teacher/professor, books or another form I think is less relevant). A lot of philosophical texts are incredibly dense and challenging to understand. In many cases, without context about what is being discussed or responded to, the points won't necessarily be understood.