skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally, I think that Facebook does hold a shared, moral responsibility.

I agree 100%

> news publishers do make the same cardinal sin by putting a "comments section" below any and all news articles without proper moderation

Again I agree.

The broad thrust of your argument is correct. I failed to argue the point about responsibility correctly.

If you ever take time to read the "community guidelines" that facebook have, you'll see that they are actually really good. I would quite like to live in an environment where they are applied ubiquitously, equally and quickly.

Which leads me on to your point about responsibility. Facebook has a set of rules, but is not willing to apply them (in the case of celebs and politicians) or unable to in the case of individuals. For individuals I have sympathy, thats a hard problem to crack. For politicians, there is no excuse.
The underlying data here is, of course, a distribution (each with its own distinct shape). In this case, I suspect that the "average" statistic is not the best representative of that distribution.

For instance, "children" is definitely a bimodal distribution. There are many people in life who never have children, and therefore drag down the average for all those who do have children.

I suspect that, in reality, there are many modes for each of these dimensions, at each point in time. I think seeing the modes would be more interesting than the averages.

If you believe in free will, you can probably choose which mode you'll end up closest to. You certainly aren't doomed to be in some statistically-unlikely valley in-between. There's hope you won't die alone, in spite of what the picture painted by the average might say.
I’m most surprised by the time with friends. I expected it to peak later and be higher. I wonder whether it counts roommates.

I know that spending less time with friends has been a particularly difficult aspect of aging for me, and I expect similar for many people.
There needs to be nuance around "outnumbered".

The deplorables are made more visible and made to appear more popular by bot-assisted upvoting/retweeting/sharing efforts.

Non-deplorables are silenced or made to self-censor by mass-downvotes/death threats in DMs/doxxing. And even the ones who just view and don't write get disheartened and leave if their curated frontpage is a cesspool of falsehoods and outrage bait. So yes, bot farms and their manual brethren (wumao dang, IRA, alt-right discords) over time help to purge dissenting voices.
Search engine is definitely a critical factor in why I avoid using Amazon, and it's just as terrible now as it was 10 years ago!
And I thought they were talking about Kiwami Japan who makes knives out of various materials:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg3qsVzHeUt5_cPpcRtoaJQ

I know it's not classical art, but I think it's still rather artistic to re-imagine a knife with new materials.
I agree and disagree. I'm certainly not arguing that industrialization isn't miraculous. Even from a parenting perspective, I think most would rather raise their kids in a stressful nuclear family than watch half of them die from preventable diseases. If you read about the anthropology of childrearing it's filled with endless heartbreaking accounts of parents having to make choices about letting one kid die to focus their resources on more viable children.

But the point I do want to make is that our physiology and psychology is largely fine tuned by evolution for a certain operating environment. When we step outside that environment, it often introduces dysfunction in unpredictable ways.

An extreme example: as land animals we wouldn't survive very long at the bottom of the sea. More prosaic example: it's undeniable an environment with many more and tastier calories creates chronic health problems. Metabolic disease is virtually unknown in hunter-gatherers.

A rough heuristic is that removing purely adversarial elements from the evolutionary environment produces an improvements. Pathogens, predators, physical injuries, birth-related traumas, and famine. Removing or mitigating those elements are the main reason life expectancies have improved relative to hunter-gathers. But once you step outside the totally hostile elements, most environmental changes tend to be neutral at best and harmful at worst. Physiology and psychology rely on delicately tuned equilibria, which are easy to disrupt. The consequences aren't terrible, but do tend to subtly accumulate over time. Hunter-gathers die fast because they get a concussion and bleed out. Westerners die slow from the accumulation of plaque in their arteries.
that isn’t how an IPO works. just because your stock pops doesn’t mean you handed over money to “wall street” if you’ve raised the money you sought at the set IPO price.

the investors who bought the IPO allocation got an immediate 100% return but that is not at the expense of the company.
And if Facebook reduces the friction to those attacks? Isn't it then back to being the problem? I think the friction was part of the design/major benefits of older forms of media
The only way no background check is required is if you buy from an individual, not a dealer.

The threshold to be considered a dealer is fairly low. If it's someone with a table, they're going to be a dealer. It's just that if an individual sells their personal firearm, they're not required to do a background check, and at gun shows you'll see a few people walking around with a rifle slung over their shoulder and a sign saying they're selling it.

But that's semi-auto only (one bullet per trigger pull). Fully automatic weapons have stringent federal requirements.
This sounds ingenious and cool.
There was a lot of scientific information about psychedelics from the 50s and 60s. Illegalization and stigmatization of psychedelics was largely political and antagonistic towards the scientific community that was doing actual research. Also anyone curious enough to try out psychedelics will realize they're very different from narcotics. In the US there was always a subculture that accepted use of psychedelics, information passing through books, writings, unofficial journals etc. So to say the information wasn't accessible just isn't true. It may have been hidden, but if it was it was in plain sight and to anyone curious this world was easily accessible and accepting.
> if you don't like them, start your own institution

This point works against you, and actually supports the free speech advocates.

If you don't like facebook, and want to have a more censored platform, then leave and go make your own social media company.

But this whole thread is not about that. People do not want facebook to be allowed to support as much free speech as it is currently doing.

Why can't these pro censorship people just take their own advice? If they don't like free speech then feel free to make your own social media company.
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The western nuclear family is exactly what you get in agrarian societies of the past. It wasn't just some random thing the people of the 1950s made up on the spot.

When 4/6 of your sons grow to adulthood you can't live in the same household as all of them. You live with one of them (probably the most or least functional one). 2 of the others have their own farms (one probably gets yours, maybe you split your farm between them if it's big enough) so you probably pick one of them. The 4th you never see because he runs a business making cart wheels or something in the next village over. The 5th left town to get a job in the port by the sea when he was 15 and you haven't seen him since. And of your daughters that survived childhood will all move in with their husbands. If you run the numbers for them it's the same thing.

Multi generational households don't work at scale simply because of the numbers involved. Anyone pretending that that's how most people lived prior to the industrial revolution doesn't understand how many kids people had back then. At best you might get 10-25% of households having a grandparent around depending on the infant mortality rate at any given time. The birth rates and life expectancy just don't support more. 10-25% certainly isn't abnormal, but implying it is the default is Olympic level mental gymnastics.
There's a joke in Greenlandic, closely related to Inuktitut, about polysemy. The joke stems from Greenlandic having very little polysemy when it comes to hunting, nature, practicalities and activities, while European languages is quite a bit more polysemic in nature.

I don't know how well this joke translates into English but it works very well in Danish. Here it goes:

> A Danish police officer gets called on the radio by a Greenlandic hunter who has been in an accident. The hunter tells that his partner have fallen into the water and have been pulled up again but might have died from the freezing water. The officer tells the hunter to "make sure he is dead". Over the radio the officer hears a riffle shot and the hunter replies: "There, he's dead now for sure".

The design of Inuktitut and Greenlandic is very in tune with nature but I agree that it doesn't mean you can absorb it's qualities into other languages. That said, doesn't mean you can't learn anything from them, as the author fo the article claims.
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I imagine cancellations skyrocketed and bookings halted for a few weeks in the spring, but by summer they started to publicly reveal trends were working in their behavior. The number of bookings was a bit depressed, but the number of nights booked had actually increased. In covid times, people seem to prefer staying in a private home for 1-2 weeks over sharing hallways with other guests at hotels for a few nights. With WFH, you can even relocate to an airbnb for a month or more.
$50 on by hand being quicker than with ML
Thank you for building this. Love it. And thank you again for making it one off purchase.
Thanks for sharing, sometimes the best answers aren’t exactly what was asked
> How often do you hear people talk about being murdered in uber? I still hear it. How often do you hear it for Airbnb? I haven't heard someone express that worry yet.

Only in the US: They've solved one of the hardest problems, not being murdered while using their service....
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Might be bigger than you think. Apparently people who use Realiser A16 have experienced the very same effect: once you fool the brains that speakers are stationary, you get a much more convincing effect about actually being in a studio.

But that device also has other tricks in its sleeve.
I guess it would be more like renting someone's fancy car for a weekend.
Wow!! I pay for both Notion (it's good, thanks!) and Cypress, and have literally described Cypress this way: "Cypress is to Selenium as Notion is to Confluence"... :-O

So, I am very surprised (but interested) to hear your tale. It is literally the first time I have ever heard of somebody going back (I assume it is back?) to Selenium from Cypress.

When we used Selenium (until mid-2018) our tests were hard to write and hard to parallelize, so they took like an hour on a beefy machine. Now they take 5 minutes (across 16 medium-ish VMs, admittedly, but parallelized "for money, not for free" by the Cypress dash board service.

I'm curious to hear more about your experience moving off Cypress — did your test suites take longer to run? (Or did you perhaps move off of it before they introduced auto-parallelization?)
My grandma sold her house and we used some of the money to convert our garage into an apartment for her so that she could live with our family. Certainly not everyone can do this but living with your parents/grandparents as they get older does seem like a reasonable “fix” to me.
He has even written not one, but two books about very bad games, that you have probably never heard off.
I'm not sure what you mean. Having a computable version of BB(n) for all n does solve the halting problem, which is why it's impossible to compute with any existing computer.

If you run a program with n states for BB(n) + 1 steps it will either already have halted, or it will never halt. This is by definition.
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Please consider allowing scanning tarball/zip distributions of source directly as well. It is a SCM-agnostic method that is also well-supported by GitHub, Gitiles, hgweb, and many old but still-in-use projects that pre-date Git.
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> It's highly unlikely they would have been able find subscribers for the 51,551,723 shares of the offering at the post-IPO price, before the IPO.

I don't believe that. They opened at $140 but couldn't have found subscribers for anything more than $68? I don't think they're that bad at modeling the markets.
It responds to landscape/portrait reorientation, nice!
Basically using built in tools in the classic "unix" way to do stuff rather than write code in a "lower" level language http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
I would prefer folks like yourself choose no device.
It just feels like stubbornness to me at this point. I don't think there would be enough overlap that adding touch to the mac would reduce tablet sales... totally different experiences in a lot of ways.

I've had touch on my last 2 Thinkpads and find that I utilize it quite a bit. I haven't noticed a ton of fingerprints, but I also take care of my equipment (probably a little more fastidiously than most...). Having the ability to do a little pen work in certain apps has been clutch, and if I wanted to utilize the pen or touch more... I would get a more dedicated device(e.g. Thinkpad Yoga or Surface Pro). Feel like this would be similar workflow in the Apple world... Macbook with some helpful touch... iPad when you need to focus on touch...
Also you need the rest of the integrated system-on-a-chip, which no one else has designed and poses fundamental challenges to the PC hardware industry. Also you need to secure 5nm chip fabrication capabilities, which is awkward since Apple just bought all of the world's capacity.

Then you get to start working on making the software work.
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Ebay sometimes has them

Otherwise if you live in the Midwest...uw oshkosh use to have one for free. The stipulation was that you had to remove it from the campus. And it weighed 3 tons
To be fair... you can stay at an airbnb and still be completely distanced from the owner of said airbnb. Yeah, you have to travel, but for many this is also possible without any close contact.
... and to hear different music than what is playing (cueing the next track, or effects).
The practical upshot is: On PC, I can take a single disk with a single GRUB version and boot it on an arbitrary machine. If ARM machines can do that with their own UEFI/ACPI/ServerReady setup, then great. But if I need to alter that disk for each machine I want to use it on (inject board.dtb, add a custom u-boot, whatever), then that's not okay. I would happily accept u-boot and whatever else being on an onboard flash chip that I could update but didn't need to care about otherwise - that would get us back to "your PC boots via a UEFI system that's a whole OS unto itself, but it chainloads GRUB via standard interface so who cares".
Leading economists disagree with you: https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1337400042668306435

> the investors who bought the IPO allocation got an immediate 100% return but that is not at the expense of the company.

Could they not have allocated at higher?
It is a poor substitution. Online groups nowadays are inherently exclusive and degenerative: they very rarely grow to include new individuals who were not in from the start and often will shrink over time as people feel slighted by something or another and disengage. There is no opportunity for growth. Social groups get crystallized and social growth stunted.
I really like Bing these days. Google has sanitized it's results so much that anything interesting is gone. Things off the top of my head: finding technical docs via searhing pds, "Index Of" listings, adult content (not even meaning porn, per se) - NSFW forums to come to mind (just look at how many subreddits are set to nsfw now), forums, etc etc
Show HN: Delight, a free hosted cross-platform Spark UI and Spark History Server
But what singles out a compass and straightedge as a "the" construction system? There are infinity other ways to construct numbers, each one with a potentially different set of constructable numbers.
I'd bet that Apple will stop servicing them after a few years though, as they do with all their products.

And regular AirPods are definitely a throw-away product, since the 'battery service' is really just a full replacement. You'd have to physically destroy them to remove the battery.
There's also Google pools/proxies. https://searx.me/ works pretty well and has public instances.
Hello HN community,

I’m JY, co-founder of Data Mechanics (YC S19, https://www.datamechanics.co). But this post is NOT about startup core product (a managed Spark platform, deployed on a k8s cluster in our customers cloud account, see our HN Launch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142831).

This post is about a free and partly open-source monitoring tool for Apache Spark that we just released.

It works by installing an open-source Spark agent (https://github.com/datamechanics/delight) on your Spark infrastructure — whatever it is: commercial or open-source, on Kubernetes or on YARN, in the cloud or on-premise.

This agent streams event metrics from Spark (metadata about your Spark applications) to our backend, which then serves a dashboard listing the Spark applications, and giving you access to the Spark UI (Spark History Server) for each of them. The blog post has a lot more details about the architecture and security of it.

This release is just a first milestone for us, in our next release in January we will add new screens to gradually replace the Spark UI with a new monitoring view, you can see a glimpse of it at the GIF at the bottom of this page (https://www.datamechanics.co/delight)

We’d love your feedback about it — is it easy to install and use? What would you like to see in following releases?
Thanks so much!
JY
That's not really because Apple hates allowing you to install Windows, but rather because you can't actually acquire a Windows for ARM license. Once again, Apple has stated that Bootcamp for Apple Silicon is "up to Microsoft". And ARM Macs are still just a minority of the computers that Apple sells. The rest have Bootcamp, which allows you to just turn your Mac into a Windows machine.

Saying that "Apple will never allow you to replace macOS" is just plain wrong when they've been allowing you to do that for the past 14 years.

You might as well argue how Bootcamp doesn't run on iPads.
https://www.techradar.com/news/you-can-now-run-linux-and-win...
I strongly recommend you use the packages maintained in Linux distributions as a means for discovery. They're well-organized and maintained and easily accessible programmatically - you can even parse the package dependencies programmatically, as well as have full access to the original source code.
I'm not sure if this is relevant, but bash and the readline lib are both maintained by a single unpaid volunteer. (I don't know if he's from Nebraska though.)
Proof required, from my personal experience moderating a political forum, and from that of other mods, the issue is the flooding of our information networks with Information prions and virii targeting our limbic systems. Social media is currently heavily polluted.
They were in a sense designed by an impersonal process--but I agree "design" isn't the best word since it implies intention.

I would agree that we are no longer adapted to our environment, and this seems to be the cause of many "modern" forms of suffering that are unrelated to scarcity, like mental illness and diseases of over-consumption. To me this implies that we have done a bad job in creating an environment for ourselves. We replaced suffering caused by scarcity (something we historically had little control over) with suffering caused by deliberate choices.

The point isn't that aligning our choices with biological and psychological needs will end all suffering. It's that not doing so pretty much guarantees a lot of unnecessary suffering.
There are plenty of horror stories, even if not directly murder. Rending out a nice, luxurious/novel holiday home is the story they sell, but that's far from the bulk. They enable a secondary, dodgy market in a lot of towns around the world.
I can't guarantee, but my bet is the majority of people vacationing in Airbnbs aren't being distant. The marginal impact on deaths now is probably lower than it was in March, but only barely.
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Whatever, keep inside your happy bubble if it makes you happy.

Personal attacks are a sign of lack of proper arguments.
> All the social model aims to do is think about a separation of the impairment itself and the ways in which society may make it worse.

The aim is merely a change in thinking? I'm pretty sure one aim is to get more resources to support disabled (or impaired) people. And that's fine. We live in a society.

What's not fine is the rhetorical trickery (motivated redefinitions of words) deployed as part of the SM.
> Is this a pain point at the moment for Rust devs?

No, in rust as long as you don't use a feature you don't need to know about it.

> Or is there actually a really large variety of styles?

There are official(-ish?) style guidelines. So while there are a variety of styles most code uses mostly the same style.

> I'm personally of the opinion that less is more.

Sure, but you normally want to have a "complete well rounded language".

For this in rust you need GAT, but you don't need HKT, Functors, Monades or similar.

I hope there will never be a Monade trait in std, it would add a lot of mostly hardly useful complexity we really don't need and would mostly be used for IMHO mostly useless over abstraction.

But GAT are really needed. E.g. to properly work with certain async use cases (through for this you only need GAT for lifetimes, not arbitrary type. In my experience GAT limited to lifetimes cover 80+% of the cases where you really really need GAT).
I'll forgive them when the loudly embrace the decriminalization of all drugs. Their cowardly baby steps continue to cause suffering every single day.
But that all requires an informed populace. The problem with Facebook (and others, of course) is that it warps all financial incentives for the publishers, while sapping revenue away from them.

Now if you want any revenue at all, which is required for surviving, you need to have clickbaity headlines so you can get traffic to your page. And even that assumes that certain news can find an audience; local news especially tends to fail in that regard because it by definition appeals to a smaller group of people.

https://blog.nillium.com/news-was-never-meant-for-social-pla...
> How often do you hear it for Airbnb? I haven't heard someone express that worry yet.

I think the "not getting murdered" but is more to do with the demographic of people who are "hosts" with the service that they offer (which are mostly whole-homes). It is just at a higher price point that doesn't match the stereotype of "murderous Uber driver". If someone did "something" it's a lot riskier to kill someone in a property that you own vs a moving vehicle. I'm not saying that stereotype is valid in any way, Uber<->Airbnb isn't really a valid comparison there.

That being said, I have 100% heard both stories and concerns about people's privacy being violated in Airbnb's. Hidden cameras, nosey "hosts", etc. That's not even including the trust issues around "I showed up and the host won't let me in and Airbnb is not being helpful, what am I supposed to do now?". Those trust issues definitely still exist.