skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since no one else has said it, I will:

* There is no real political "left" in the US. Bernie Sanders and AOC would be considered rather milquetoast social democrats by European standards, according to their stated positions.

* Regardless of the previous point, there is no real Democrat majority in the US. (I'm assuming by "left" you actually meant "Democrat.")

* You vastly mischaracterize most Democrats' views on both free speech and gun control.

This is all I'm going to say, because political debate does not work well on HN.
Strange exoplanet discovery makes a case for the elusive 'Planet Nine'
I'm sure there would still be plenty of advertising based search engines for them to advertise their content in. See also the high street vs library analogy - if you had great public libraries you wouldn't be putting shopkeepers out of business.
Speak Friend and Enter
The production craze you deride is what lets people living in brutal poverty elevate their standard of living.

Planned obsolescence is not a general property of a market-driven economy.

See cars for example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/zbxa6/resurrection_198...

'Capitalism produces planned obsolesence' is another talking point referenced by activists who haven't studied economics and therefore have a simplistic/cynical understanding of it.

>Please refer to a single established scientist that agrees with that cocksure statement.

Any economic textbook lays out the advantages of the free market, or market freedom, as I've described.

That it is generally Pareto Efficient is widely accepted in Economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency#Use_in_publi...

>There is nothing conspiratorial to question the theories of the current hegemony who have a vested interests to uphold it.

This very sentence puts forward a theoretical conspiracy.
Sure, it's a conspiracy of taxpayers to avoid the massive investment that would be required to bring all that technology back into working order - across public infrastructure everywhere throughout the country.

What percentage of BART cameras do you think work? Based on the number of high-profile incidents without footage, I'd guess <25%. I would not be surprised to learn the answer is 0%.

Consider yourself held responsible and allocate yourself the consequences you see fit.
I think its reasonable to conclude that paper ballots should be mandated until open-sourced peer-reviewed code can be produced.

If even 10% of the claims here are valid then it calls all the results into question where these machines were used.
Of the thousands of hours I spent playing single player videogames in my youth, a surprisingly small amount was spent having fun or doing anything interesting or challenging. It was mostly just tedious grinding on my overpowered Pokemon (and other rpg equivalents) against helpless enemies so that I could be even more overpowered against them.

I luckily grew out of it, but being absorbed by the pursuit of easy, digital approximations of real accomplishments, to the point where it impedes more difficult pursuits of the real thing in the real world, is a serious issue for many millennial men I know.
Some people "flagged" it.

To flag a comment your account needs a minimum score, I'm not sure, but I think it is 50 (or 100 or something).

To flag something you click on the timestamp on top of the comment (typically something like: <x> hours ago). This opens a view of only that comment and replies to it. If you have enough reputation/points/karma, you can now see a flag link on top of the comment. If you click flag it ends up in a moderation queue. If multiple users click flag it might bypass the moderation queue and become flagged immediately without further intervention from mods.
There is one reason this doesn't work for everyone: humidity. Lived like this for a few months until we discovered mold from damp air ruined some of our clothes and papers. We immediately started using our HVAC.
What GOG is attempting with Galaxy 2.0 [0] is interesting in this department. Galaxy 2.0 has plugins to import what it can of games/achievements/play time from as many other vendors as it can and tries to show something of a view of every game across all your major services/accounts. Many of those plugins are open source, written in Python, though of course Galaxy 2.0 itself is not itself open source and it is still the primary installer/launcher for GOG's own service, if you are concerned about vendor control. There's a third party export script in Python as well [1], though it is reading JSON and SQLite files directly and not using an official API.

[0] https://www.gog.com/galaxy

[1] https://github.com/AB1908/GOG-Galaxy-Export-Script
> Because vasoconstriction only occurs when the core body temperature falls, it won't happen if you're dressed warmly enough. While insulating your neck and feet will greatly improve your thermal comfort, there is no need to wear gloves or caps indoors. In fact, it doesn't matter very much which parts of your body you choose to insulate - the important thing is to limit total heat loss so that the body core temperature remains stable

This may be true for many people, but I haven't found it true for me.

My wife and I reverse the stereotype of married couples and thermostats: she was raised in an area of the world that never got below 10C in Winter, and thus no buildings ever had heat. In the Winter you just put on more clothing. I was raised near the Canadian border; so our houses were always reasonably warm. She'd prefer the thermostat at 15C. We had sort of negotiated to keep it at 19C.

When I started working from home due to the lockdown, however, I had no choice but to turn up the temperature in the room I was working in: At 19C, sitting still all day, even wearing long underwear, woolen socks, and a very warm top, my feet got cold enough to get numb, in spite of my torso being almost hot enough to sweat.

Maybe if I found the right clothing, my legs would keep my feet warm again. But the "torso warm therefore extremities warm" is definitely not true for me.

EDIT: Just to be clear, my goal was to contradict the specific claim that I quoted, not to contradict the general idea of wearing more clothes. I've tried a couple of different solutions with the equipment at hand (like hot water bottles and thick socks) and not found them effective. The heat is already controlled on a per-room basis, so an additional electric heater would probably be a lot more wasteful than just turning up the temperature by one degree. I've been looking at woolen "boot slippers" online and looser-fitting garments. I'm sure I'll find a solution -- but all of these additional measures prove that "just keep your torso warm" is not always enough.
A friend had an idea about using some kind if strong mechanism of identity for combating spam, seo, information warfare, etc.

All of those rely on the low cost of pretending to be unique and something else than the actuality combined with massive automation.

However, ultimately (at least for now) everything is done by one of us 7.8 billion and each of us has a limited capacity for original content.

Assume that content could be linked to identities and there were sufficiently strong guarantees that fake identities are not being mass manufactured by bot nets etc.

Then something akin to a web of trust or credibility rankings could be established.

Of course, the theory and the implementation of the identity mechanism would have to be strong, decentraliced and ridiculously easy to use and verify.

Otherwise it would be abused in all possible ways simply due to being a high value target (or it wouldn’t gain momentum).

Options for pseudonyms and anonymous publishing could be necessary to gain momentum and wide acceptance. Also recovering from identity theft would have to be possible.
Why DoyinSoft Technologies?
What's the best way to prevent accidental github leaks? I once accidentally leaked an API key (albeit for a relatively unimportant service, and I realized soon afterwards).
Sophistication isn't necessarily mean technical wizardry. IMHO, it's pretty sophisticated to thoroughly look for easily-exploitable goofs, and extract maximum value from them. The big advantage nation states have is probably mainly staffing and funding, and why use a zero-day when a leaked password will do?
Github is a single point of failure for the open source community
How out of touch do you have to be to compare violence in Brazil to violence in the bay area. Self centered much jesus
Apple don't have any editorial control of iOS Safari, and I doubt they'd ever reject an app because of a website trying to force you to use it.
I’ll address your last point. I think when you talk about scale, the fact will arise that a lot of the internet are just kids. Take a look at TikTok, at scale, you’re just going to get a lot of more kids using the thing. It’s probably one of the reasons we all gravitate to HN, because for better or worse, people here are working adults or on the cusp of it (college). I really cannot deal with a bunch of k-12/college kids discussing something. I have no clue how Reddit can solve this as they want growth (you need the kids).
That is very much a false dichotomy - and obviously so, because it simply means you have no idea of what Capitalism can cost you, and even less idea of what it has cost you already.

For example your axe and gun won't help you when your health insurance company decides that your pre-existing condition is too expensive to insure and your medical costs are now 100% your own responsibility - which is something that causes the bankruptcy of around 500,000 Americans every year.

Or when there's a major financial crash and a bank decides that it needs to steal your home from under you, whether or not you're underwater on your mortgage.

These are not hypotheticals. These are all things that have happened, are happening, and are likely to continue happening.

GDP is not the issue, but a political and economic system which increases personal selfishness at the expense of others is. You can argue that collectivist solutions have the same problem, and to an extent you'll be right. But it's a long way from there to pretending that this is the best of all possible worlds, because there are economies which prove that isn't true.
>>one thing is clear: he’s an opportunist more than a US economic nationalist. He will not be the saviour of American industry.

Reading this as a non-American. Isn't 'opportunity' the whole reason behind immigration?

If your country relies on continuous supply of heroes and not sound systems and policies, no one single person can save you.
And that usually creates a vacuum for smaller niche sites to pop up and fill the gap.
I never understood this type of calculation as it implies that time is directly converted into money. However, I struggle to come up with an example for this. Even the most trivial labor cases like producing paperclips don't seem to be directly converting time into profit: even you will make 10k units instead of 100k this hour, you don't sell them immediately. They bring revenue to the firm via a long chain of convoluted contracts (both legal and "transactional") which are very loosely coupled to the immediate output.

Nothing is operating at minute margins unless it's explicitly priced on a minutely basis, like a cloud service. Even if a worked on a conveyor belt can't produce paperclips without looking at Google Docs sheet all the time, this will be absorbed by the buffers down the line. And only if the worker will fail to meet her monthly target due to this, loss of revenue might occur. But in this case the service has to be down for weeks.

In case of more complex conversions of time into money, like in the most of intellectual work, this is even less obvious that short downtimes will cause any measurable harm.
Yeah, I find that people spend the least amount of money on insulation/heat that they can. I’m from Edmonton, and the coldest I’ve ever been was the winter when I lived in London, UK, as their insulation sucks and their heating sucks. In Edmonton, that’s not possible, because you have a few days of -40C weather annually, so your pipes will freeze without proper insulation (and you’ll die).

Now, it’s not comfortable living through -40C weather, but it’s as cold inside as -5C in the UK (outside it’s way, way worse, of course).
The west does have anime waifu body pillows, fleshlights, hololive, and a porn addiction.
On old versions of Android, the search bar was a simple home screen widget, which you could add and remove like any other home screen widget. On newer versions of Android, however, the search bar is part of the default launcher, so the only way to remove it is to switch to another launcher.
> but this post should've been more focused on education from the get-go

Meanwhile many schools are rolling out Chromebooks and are happy about it.
I'm not so sure about cutting the storage costs at this point. They likely soft deleted the content in order to preserve it for potential law enforcement needs or whatever else. Moving forward they will absolutely see a decrease in storage needs since uploads are so much more restricted
That's impressive. Do you think it will get better mentally at one point?

I guess what drives it all is that the work is meaningful, am I correct?
I'm not so sure. Some biohackers have found that changing the colors in the light changes the photosynthetic reactions and thus the flavors. For instance, some colors makes the lettuce more bitter.

https://lumigrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/research-opt...
How is it not

This is why I hate you and your product. You come in here and lie through your teeth repeatedly.

You sell yoyr ISAs which are already predatory. This means you dont give a flying fuck if students graduate because you get paid regardless, as opposed to the bullshit you spout about incentives being aligned.

More softball bullshut or speak answers.

Lambda needs to be sued into the groundlike ITT Tech and Hallmark. I for one can't wait.
I am from Siberia. I no longer live there, but I cannot tolerate the temperature at home lower than 23 degrees C. For the same exact reason.
With the reservation that I only skimmed the article, it seems like what they produced was visual stimuli resulting in patterns of neural activation/non-activation at a rather limited number of sample points in a higher order visual area (macaque V4).

Not to take away from their results, such as they are, but it is very expected that visual inputs should have specific and fairly predictable effects on V4, and one could probably have designed such patterns manually from known perceptual psychology in a few iterations, with feedback from the recording electrodes for the details.

It is not at all obvious to me, and indeed not even plausible, that they'd be able to control arbitrarily chosen neurons this way.
A classic dilemma. Collegial vs commercial ecosystems. Amateur sports face this. You can't really make a living running ultra marathons, which makes it somewhat exclusive, but if there was a lot of money to be made the whole experience would change and not always for the better.
"You do not go after women and start a family."

One of the many benefits I have received from porn and sex positivity in general. Imagine thinking you're supposed to "go after" a woman because of some requirement to start a family? Absolutely dystopian.
I dont know anything about Lambda's failures to serve students other than most students are upset at paying for less than steller experiences (most of the other prestigious bootcamps share this), but my gut tells me I dont think they grew to fast, its just the calibur of student went down, i feel like the hot new bootcamp of the day is able to get really bright and/or qualified students. More average learners require more time and resources and the nonspecial sauce will NOT get them a dream job in less than a year which is the opposite of what all of the marketing leads u to beleive for all the bootcamps.

Lambda seems to have been trying to branch out to more normal learners.

Students that dont share those bright/already qualified credentials, do benifit a little bit of a "rub" effect by being associated with those bright/qualified students, and get to study/work with them during the course of the bootcamp so everyone wins in the short term. For average learners without significant backround IT knowledge or a prestigious degree, realistically they are going to need more than 3-6 months or a year to get a cushy programming job in the US (which seems to be what all of the bootcamps advertise they can offer students).

I consider myself an average/below average speed learner, took a bootcamp, i was surprised to learn the guy i was pair programming with had a CS degree from MIT lol. Some devs already had work programming experience, but most of us normies benifited by pairing with them and talking to them about problems/code/computers/study habits.
They updated the article. Originally they said it was significant because of its potential to spread faster.

> “We have identified a new variant of coronavirus, which may be associated with the faster spread in the southeast of England,” Hancock said in a statement to parliament.
Someone on HN called it before this broke. Governments are quick to blame "state-sponsored actors" to cover up for their own flawed security practices.
I would be interested in having those numbers * view count. Facebook will probably still come out on top, but I expect the difference to narrow. I‘m not sure if that makes it much more harmful but important for the comparison.
I think the protagonist/antagonist of Anon said it best when she told the detective hunting her. "It's not that I have anything to hide. I have nothing I want you to see".
You seem to admit that the accusations are valid, but are also claiming that this type of reporting is a hit piece. How do you square those two?

Also Reddit has been on the receiving end of this reporting before. That has often resulted in incremental improvements as the worst offending subreddits are banned (there used to be an /r/jailbait for example), but their model often doesn't kill that content or the demand for it and can result in that same content being dispersed among smaller and more niche communities that are able to glide under the radar. Reddit has still thrived throughout all that controversy so I don't think it is as big an existential threat as you claim.
Network monitoring is their biggest product. Compared to other solutions they do have just about the best product if you need a web GUI to point to and say this is whats going on right now.

I'm sure 100% of small ISPs use them as well as anyone that runs a decent size Network ex. Schools, Universities.
Pretty good for a 12 hours hacking!
Great prose but obvious misattribution, JFK died in 1963 and the Whitman shooting was in 1966.
Show HN: I built a quick way to send links from desktop to mobile
I recommend "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Balzac, if you'd like to see some of these ideas developed further by a master.
The hypnotic meditation rooms Google plans to add to every office
Launch HN: Balance (YC S20) – The first B2B checkout platform
Jet fuel isn't tax exempt - there are both federal and state taxes to be paid on it
In search, the journey is not the reward
It's because you're sitting all day. Get a small foot heater.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/ is a great subreddit for more stories like this.
But probably kill them as visitors will drop and new sites will popup.
Who decides what is neutral? What if you are trained by masters or schools with conflicting thoughts? What if you read all sides of an argument? Is this information not valuable to the informed choices of an individual?

How can you be certain that individuals have the tools to "look inside themselves" without any training?

Also I would appreciate a deeper response to the question of reading and language. The very language(s) that you use to "try to find something authentic and innate" were not the result of an individual choice, but of training to an agreed societal standard during your youth.

Do you think that you would be better able to understand your true individual self if you had been raised without any training in a language or the other aspects of your culture?

Evidence says you would not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_cases_o...
I wasn't calling out the BBC per-se. My points are true of all news media sites.

As a literate person with an higher than average reading comprehension, who do I talk to in the BBC to get news articles on their website that contain proper in-depth content and words beyond Key Stage 2? As a licence fee paying UK citizen, I'd really like to know.
I think Reddit would be better if they removed the karma counters completely. They can still use votes as a signal for sorting, but having numbers attached to posts and comments seem to affect people's opinions on that content too much.
Pretending that the only options are two extreme ends of a solution scale isn't operating in good faith.

Clearly, capitalism isn't the only possible cause of ecological ruin. In this case, however, it appears to be allowing _everyone involved_ to shirk the responsibility to pay for the damage they cause.
U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise
Good time run to https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks on your projects
Whenever I'm browsing something that I want to send to my mobile, I send it via WhatsApp web or some hard way.

I wanted a way to quickly send links to my mobile. Since we can scan QR code to open URLs, I create a page that takes a URL input and generates a QR code. And then I created a JavaScript snippet that I could add to bookmarks, so I can click that when I'm on a web page and let the bookmarklet create a QR code.

This is a super simple app and can be built with a couple of lines of code.

But I thought this might be useful for people who do not have the time to build it for themselves.
If a country's GDP falls consistently over time it invariably leads to a very bad time. I don't have a a problem with using government levers to internalize externalities, but if that were to actually cause GDP decline, the whole system breaks apart and mass death follows.
I had to stop playing Dirt because I kept unconsciously reaching for the e-brake on tight turns to set up a nice Scandinavian flick.

When I was driving IRL.
We really need a way to flat out block whole domains from search results. Ad-blockers kinda do that, but only after search engine serves them up...
Ah yes! Good point about using replaceState. I’ll update it.
What is a matter of fact?

I'll save you some time, it is that we can verify personally. If I can verify it, I can say 'its true' and that 'I know it'.

But the problem is that most individuals verify very little - its beyond ridiculous how little we verify. If we see something on TV, we think we have verified it! Did we verify the film Independence Day?!

All day long, individuals will say 'I know' or 'its true'. Even though they haven't verified their assumptions, if they even know what their assumptions are. Most people's lives are based on massive, unverified assumptions. They are so big, that they cannot consider questioning them - they have to be true or they may have a mental breakdown!

Say most people 'know' that we are on a globe. How? Have they experienced the globe? How was it proven to them that this wasn't a flat plane? Do they really 'know' it, like they know the chair they are sitting on? They do not. So, when they say 'they know' what do they mean? Its a hypothesis, or a belief, or faith. They believe they know.

So, if we were honest to ourselves, and accounting for our assumptions, we should say, 'I believe' such-and-such. But we say 'I know'. What is it to do that?

If you ask me, this is a lie. We lie to ourselves and to those around us. We live in a world of lies, of false, unverified information - and yet we call it knowledge. Its actually quite amazing.
So if I'm going 80 on the highway and someone jumps over the median and into my lane, it's my fault if I hit them?