skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The questions about fundamentals - cooking, reading. I would of course agree that these are useful to the individual. Now coding - again the skill is neutral. But what you code might not be. Why do you code what you code? Should you code in a bank, a facebook algorithm, etc? Are you actually undertaking your life in a positive way, or are you making gains at another's expense?

Do you think training is a neutral act? Is it possible that training can be subversive to the trainee?

Perhaps you will see my position as a political, anti-statist one. I see it as an individualistic perspective. If an individual is trained in academic philosophy, in order to provide 'production of well argued original works of academic philosophy' why is that valuable? To me, there is no value there at all. As an individual, I want to uncover the innate understanding we all already have.

Have you ever heard about people who go through half their life, having trained to be doctors, or solicitors, only to then realise that they didn't want to do that? I would say that these are the lucky ones - they have wasted only half their lives, and though they have much to undo, they at least they are honest enough to change their position and try to find something authentic and innate to them. Most people do not do that. That is the power of training and education, IMO. In it for the money, sell your granny.

In my view, this is what training at a higher level is to train people NOT to look inside themselves for answers, but to refer to an external authority. This applies to academic philosophy as much as any other area. Love of wisdom, becoming oneself, makes way for the production of 'original works of academic philosophy'. Beyond the basics, education seems to me about disempowering the individual, for the benefit of some imagined 'collective'. In fact, that collective is so individual who has their hands on the levers of governance, but let's not think too closely about that.
Chat bots with emotion and personality, like the movie Her, acting as companions. I bet Xiaoice isn't as sophisticated as GPT-3 but in a short time it will be.

> The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418366
Logs of vote adjudication are missing for the 2020 election only. Not previous elections that these machines were used for.

On page 21, "Notably 42 minutes earlier on Nov 21 2020 ... a user attempted to zero out election results"
Wouldn't be the worst thing to happen though, would be great to have a reddit alternative that isn't full of expelled extremists.
Old houses tend to pull moisture into and out of the insulation between summer and winter, which can become a problem above and beyond the high heat bills that they create. Matt Risinger had a great video where they were rebuilding a 1930s house and you could see where all the moisture had built up and wept back out of the insulation, staining the wood behind the plaster.

My understanding is the problem with making old buildings airtight is the lack of proper vapor barriers under the house, especially if it was built on a slab. For homes built on crawlspaces, you can "encapsulate" them, which reduces energy losses and improves air quality. Typically encapsulated crawlspaces are ventilated and/or dehumidified, which is supposed to stop moisture ingress into the living space.
When my team started moving everything over to shared drives I made it a point that the top folder on every share would be the year. So the top of the hierarchy is just folders named '2019', '2020', etc.

This means that every year we get to recategorize the stuff underneath it and we learn as we go. Most of the sub-folders have stayed the same year to year, but some are different. It lets people see what works and what doesn't, and it prevents the cruft of ages to accumulate. Sometimes work bleeds from one year into the next, but if you're starting something new, create it in this year's folder.

Having been the victim of lots of shared folder catastrophes in the past, this simple rule has really worked out well for my team so far.
I'd rather the BBC responsibly report that there was "nothing to suggest" it caused worse disease or that vaccines would no longer work, to any alternative.

Facts will get out. You say "the media" as if each outlet is the same, but that's not the case - both responsible sources and conspiracy theorists (among other types of reporters) are represented among "the media". If you want people to have a better understanding of this, it's better that responsible sources get ahead of misinformation.
I understand its not hard to get on the platform. Id just judge it on the content and presentation over the platform banner.
The thing is though, that GDP is correlated with all those good things he mentions. It is wealthy countries with high GDP that have higher quality education, time and interest for poetry, less corruption, improved child mortality, improved air quality, and more equal, stable marriages, than countries with low GDP. Countries with high GDP are also the ones that care about the environment. Getting from low GDP to high GDP can be messy, but once a country has high GDP, it starts caring more about the environment. A good example of this is China, who is much more concerned now about air quality and pollution, than it was a decade ago.
In some regions with strict insulation building codes, balanced ventilation with a heat exchanger for recovery is mandatory. Well, almost mandatory, it can get complicated.
> Should have been something like: [link_location]

Markdown has a similar syntax using angle brackets, i.e., <link_location>. See https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink.
OP:

> I built this in about 12 hours as a weekend project, so there might be some lurking issues.

> Yup, exact matching using quotes is on the horizon. Should be available in a few weeks.

> Looks like I’m filtering a little too aggressively which is affecting the results, I’ll take a closer look it in a few hours.
I will say that usually it is easy to move teams, but if the expertise of the team veers strongly from your background (web dev wants to work on C++) they might ask if you want to do 20% first to get a taste. Also can help convince a team to take a more junior hire, e.g.

I’m not sure if it’s ever been an explicit requirement and if you have strong performance reviews it’s usually pretty well-oiled.

Real 20% time though I don’t think I’ve ever encountered.

Maybe if you work on a team without a high-traffic product (internal tooling?).
I mean, there's no good way to advertise on a site like Facebook or Twitter without user based personalization. Everything is a feed so there's not really discrete pages for various topics. And a large percentage of advertising is on those platforms nowadays.
er,London is not cold.
Do you think there is room for various kinds philosophical thought within Computer Science itself? Honest question.

As an undergrad studying Comp Sci and also taking philosophy/literature classes it struck me just how rich the Computer Science metaphors are, and how much creativity seemed to go into coming up with a lot of the fundamental ideas of Computer Science.

But of course it's also possible that I was applying my own bias; I know most of the Comp Sci folks from the 50s/60s/70s were pretty heavy math folks.

But pursuing a graduate Comp Sci degree is something I've considered on and off. Alan Kay has always been especially inspiring.

TBH I've also felt like there's some unexplored areas where Computer Science and Poetics, or Literary Theory, could make a really interesting combination. Again it's a question of rich metaphors and investing meaning into use-of-language in a very comprehensive and granular way (grammar, one verb or adjective versus another, theories of narrative, etc.
Anybody got a mirror? Asking for a friend
Living in cold home isn't particularly hard.

Doing precision work with your hands (such as writing or typing) is decidedly harder in colder homes. You can wear certain kinds of gloves, but it just isn't as pleasant.
Why not both?

First, insulation works both way, so if you have hot summers and use A/C insulation will help you here.

Second, I spent some time in mostly unheated house, indoors tempeature around 5C. And yes, with proper clothing, that's fine, but getting to the shower is not particularly comfortable...

For sleeping, I had a heated blanket which I put between the sheets and a regular blanket. Probably not recommended for safety but it worked amazingly well for the ~50W it used... until it is time to wake up.

So yes, good clothing is great at keeping you warm, that should be obvious. But a well heated home is an important element of comfort.
Sibling comments are packed with great recommendations.

tl;dr; long sleeve undershirts and under jeans all day, every day. A sweater. Down jacket. Wind-proof jacket.
> You do not go after a woman and start a family

Almost all male friends of mine who had admitted watching porn, are either in a relationship or married. I don’t know if they “went after women”, though; it doesn’t sound like the right way to pursue love.

Some admitted to watching porn even after marriage.
Third-party foundations finding legitimate instances of sexual abuse of children is going to be incredibly rare because how would you ever tell 18 and 17-year-olds apart? Facebook has much more information available to them and they are aggressively checking their platform for it, that's why they find so many instances.
The left majority supports the 1st amendment as long as the speech agrees with their views. Otherwise the speaker is considered wrong and it gets into cancel culture territory.

The left majority also thinks the 2nd amendment applies only to guns in existence when the Constitution was created.
XVideos must be happy hearing about this
Step 8: someone new comes along, with their own steps 2-4

Step 9: people abandon you for the new site

Step 10: you appear on lists, next to sites like Digg and Myspace
Was Hunter Biden's pornhub account still up? If not, when was it taken down? I'm sure there more to this than just his account, but I don't doubt that played some role in this.
Good point. And I just want to throw on to that (not saying folks are disagreeing w/this) that IMHO some amount of technical expertise is necessary but not sufficient for the kind of socially responsible decision-making we are talking about.

JFK (or whomever) didn't need to be a physicist, but he did need to understand a little physics. And math, etc.
This might not be so bad for mindgeek. They just cut their storage costs in half, probably mostly cutting out the long tail end of videos that they don't really need. They just made a strong argument for increased regulation that will hurt any newcomers and hurt social media competitors more than them. They just got a whole lot of free press.
> Sure CP is very, very bad

Production? Sometimes. (There's plenty of self-made stuff by 17 year olds)

Non-local distribution? Very few people consume CP and it's extremely unlikely for a consumer to actually encounter the victim in real life, so from a utilitarian perspective the obvious question is: Why is it "very, very bad"?
I’ve long thought something along similar lines: in a world with instant search, advertising becomes irrelevant if the search actually helps you to find products.

It is in this way that google has actually failed. If you look for a product you get a whole load of dross back. It’s impossible to filter by spec, you can add keywords but this rarely gives you more sensible results these days. The products get lost in the noise.

Most of the time what would be better would be a structured directory of product information enabling you to zero in on the product you want without the crap. This directory would be independent of any specific vendor. All new products would be released into the directory so you can track all new products in certain categories to stay informed. Gaming of the directory would be policed ensuring equal standing of all products.

The only thing this doesn’t handle well is new product categories. But sure there’s ways to handle it.
I wish that were the case, but unfortunately some credit card processors still send some credit card processing payloads over http in some circumstances.
So you don't understand that words have meaning and that's why "or" was in there. Got it.
> I feel like homes and offices do not breath. My anecdotal napkin math would say like 10% of buildings are designed with proper ventilation, blending of outdoor/indoor air, etc... and the rest are just boxes that are slowly killing us.

First off, you do not want buildings to "breathe" through air leakage. It is desirable for a 'seal tight and vent right':

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcrXut_EFA

There are standards for the amount buildings should exchange the air, e.g., ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_changes_per_hour

Also, air temperature is only one component of feeling comfortable in a room. How warm/cool the walls are, and having good double- (or triple-) pane windows also contributes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_radiant_temperature

While you no doubt have insulation in your external wall cavities, the wooden stud has a very low value (R-1/inch) and so introduces thermal bridging:

* https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/what-is-thermal...

Modern building codes in colder climate zones mandate a layer of exterior insulation to deal with this bridging.

> I try to keep my CO2 ppm below 800 foor good measure. For a while I was feeling like dogshit in here and I assume it is due to being literally directly above a gas furnace in an older single family home - in hindsight I wish I had a monitor that detected more gases.

You may wish to look into an HRV (or ERV) and get some filtered fresh air:

* https://www.venmar.ca/22-detail-advice-hrv-and-erv-why-choos...
Covid isn't particularly lethal as viruses go. It's still on its way to killing a couple of million people and doing significant and lasting economic damage.

Something with the lethality of smallpox or Spanish Flu would have been far harder to deal with. It's not at all obvious that - say - supermarket food delivery would have survived without a complete breakdown.

It actually did break down briefly in the UK for a couple of weeks in March. Luckily supermarket logistics are mostly managed by rational adults and services recovered over the next few weeks.

But I have a Covid souvenir online shopping screen grab from March which says:

Number of users in queue ahead of you: 229343
Estimated wait time: at least an hour
Now we'll get to pay real entry fees per event.
Exactly. Human ingenuity at scale can figure out wild things. I'm reminded of back when I played MMOs. No matter how hard the company tried to 'balance' the characters, it would only take a couple of days before players figured out optimal solutions that the company often didn't take into account.
"going after women" just means being motivated to go out and form relationships.

pavel_lishin I didnt say they didnt. I was addressing the phrase.
How I learnt to use Go Interfaces
What are you talking about? Got any links?
Sibling comments say it all ;)
You're equating real, personal affection with a machine going trough the motions. I can't believe you're both serious and respecting these poor souls.
The tech is solid, there is no doubt. However, Despite following Dat since about 6 years ago, the general organization has always been lacking. I took a break from following it and all “tech” for all of 2020 as I needed a breather and focused on other offline interests. The new Beaker Browser v1 was finally released which was a big milestone and this news hit my radar. It inspired me to delve back in to this particular technology and went down the hyper rabbit hole. I read about the change from Dat to Hyper and spent the last week or so trying to grok all the reorg and docs. It’s dizzying. I’m both very interested in using this tech again and sadly also frustrated with the org issues which seem not so much better than previous but just different.

On a high level, there are improvements from rebrand to abstraction and generalization of components to allow for a better path forward. I can def see a developer who never followed Dat having a lot of problems grasping Hyper Protocol without investing a lot of upfront time... since it’s been difficult for me who has used Dat pretty extensively and followed all things Dat prior to 2020.

I think they are going about this the right way, though, and it will just take time for it all to get calibrated and be more cohesive. I’m sure they will take all the help they can get so hopefully more people will get involved because the tech has def improved a lot and IMO is a big deal in p2p.
Why would 14 days be enough to stop an exponential curve from overwhelming all medical facilities?

> Who the put Gates in charge?

He isn’t, what you wrote sounds like his option. My option would be ~9 months from now, but it’s still just an opinion, and I’ve been wrong about COVID before.
This is equivalent to me saying I blame security researchers because they don't develop software which forces all software paradigms to follow rules that implement perfectly secure software
Why do you consider it a hit piece? The main allegation that illegal content was on PornHub is based on facts, right?
Step up to iRacing rally racing, if your wheel and pedals are USB/PC compat.
The power of validation in helping people stay positive
The BBC has an obligation to reach everyone, including people who aren't strong readers. It's a public service broadcaster.
More evidence that Reddit hate their users.

Make something people don't want and force them to use it by building an evil moat?
However you feel about this, one thing is clear: MasterCard and Visa have too much power.
The only legislation on ads we need is right to block ads.
To say this is a hit piece against PornHub is to oversimplify the issue.

The parent company MindGeek (Revenue: 460 million USD) formerly known as ManWin has been receiving such criticisms for years now.

This is not a hit-piece against a small streaming start-up. It's a wake-up call to monitor a tech giant.

https://nymag.com/news/features/70985/ 2011

https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/porn-corporations-sto... 2012

https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-... 2014

etc.
>You do not go after women and start a family.

I think the people in my local area would consider this a good thing. Even just pursuing platonic friendships with women upsets people so I've stopped talking to women altogether and quit all social media despite having little interest in porn
Which Typescript projects have you seen been over architected? In my experience most typescript tends to be sane. Interfaces are only used to describe shapes of objects, class interfaces are a rare and only used when the consumer needs that abstraction.
I don't think reddit is a good use of a programmer's time these days if you are seeking community. There are a few exceptional subreddits, but /r/programming, /r/learnprogramming, /r/webdev, and /r/compsci all have a low signal:noise ratio because all of them are majority undergrads or professionals who have under a year in the field. As other people have noted in this thread, dev.to has the same problem.

I haven't found a great answer for the question of community these days, outside of checking in on the blogs and newsletters of various developers. I'll have to check Code Project out though.
https://www.thefoli.com for data/AI devs
I wonder how many such programs never get revealed at all even after completion. I also wonder how many of those would be spectacular in one way or another.
I've stopped using heating altogether since I moved out of my hometown (it was -20c or less in winter). When I'm cold I just add an extra layer of cloth or do a few squats or push/pull ups, heating XXX cubic meters of air is a pure waste of energy if you're healthy

That being said your flat/home insulation plays a huge role. I'm living in Germany for a few years now, when it's 0c outside it's still 18c+ indoor even without any heating in my flat. When I was in California if it was 13 outside it would be 14 indoor, you could feel the air going through the doors'/windows' joints.

edit: to all the people saying I can thanks my neighbours, I pay my share of the heating since it's averaged. I only have one shared wall so I doubt it changes much
Since we have known the virus has been acquiring mutations since basically the beginning [0]. What makes this variant significant enough for the Health Secretary to bring up in Parliament?

[0] https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
And, outside of Asia and Australia and New Zealand where there is actual containment, causing the rest of us to die because of it.
I’ve never felt that time spent in a static simulator translates to real world car control at all. So much of driving at speed or at edge of vehicles performance is understanding the balance of the car as it shifts in bends or slides etc, something you simply can’t feel in a static chair no matter how impressive a force feedback steering wheel you purchase.

I’ve unfortunately been in several cars where driver has lost control and avoided an accident - most drivers in my experience can counter the scenario you describe intuitively - steer opposite way of slide, lift off gas to correct etc, just feels natural if you have driven a car even a small period of time.

Other’s mileage may vary of course!
No need to move along, but likely no need to spend time exploring exotic and highly unlikely root cause scenarios.
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Why are you so sure that the psychology of sex and violence are identical, especially in such a specific context? They're totally different things. It seems ridiculous to point to the studies on one and say, "surely the studies on the other shall have the same result". Personally, I have no idea, but your premise doesn't make sense.
RIP amateur enthusiasts I guess
Sounds like somebody was running around with domain admin accounts improperly at SolarWinds.
iRacing has rally, so not technically "as good as it gets", but definitely know what you mean.
There's no way to set the codec on the Mac unless the individual software has an option for it. Considering that no other devices have this issue and it was improved with a firmware update, I'm going to say it wasn't an issue with the Mac at all.
Two political side-jabs (cross promotion) in an SEO article? No thanks.
What's missing from this article is that this has to be a single prong of a multi-prong approach. You're right that this sort of language is going to flop with a technical audience, and, in fact, we've all seen these sort of vague claims from other companies before, to the point that we instinctively distrust them. What makes this work for Apple is not simply the accessible language, but the fact that they can back it up, and that an army of tech journalists did just that with benchmarks.
I know plenty of couples who watch porn together, married and otherwise.
The claim "I have nothing to hide so I don't care," is actually the claim that privacy is not intrinsically valuable.

I think you can absolutely use an intensive action to show that lesser ones are objectionable.

"If privacy is not important in itself, why are you covering your body with underwear and pants? Why don't you put cameras throughout your house, including your bedroom?"

Clearly our actions reveal that we DO think privacy is important in itself. What "I have nothing to hide" really means is "I have not yet been personally affected, so I don't care." It's apathy, not a value statement.
Why would you even want to search all the sites that are trying to sell you something when you're simply looking for some information? Putting it in pre-internet terms, it'd be like walking down the high street looking at shop windows to try to answer a question rather than going into a library to look it up in a book. Wikipedia isn't trying to sell you something - with the high street vs library analogy its more like a book than a shop.