skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this like the studies paid by fast food chains on whether eating fast food is healthy or not? :D
LOL, yeah - I want The New Yorker telling me what media future I want. What a joke.
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Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools
I think psychologists frequently struggle to delineate cultural criticism and science: from its inception those two modes of thinking have been uncomfortably intertwined; no one reads Jung or Feud as a serious scientists anymore (and if you do you'll see it's mostly highly caveated platitudes about human nature based on anecdotal experiences). But there is value in connecting cultural trends to personal behavior, it's just not always scientific.
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The reality is that Common Lisp would not fit onto a Unix workstation from 1986 in a light weight way, like firing off another /bin/sh or /bin/awk job.

Machines had memories measured in single digit megabytes, often closer to zero than to 10.
How about the fact that gaming grew by every metric by orders of magnitude between 80s and now and violent crime dropped by half of more everywhere in the world.

If the effect was even 0.01 with growth by 10000% we would have noticed.
I don't think the issue is with the CPUs. For example TSMC is has always seemed pretty well clear of these issues as well. Forced labor is usually involved in mining for battery components, or mid-low skill tasks like assembly.
A private Firefox tab on desktop has the same problem for me.
> One thing we've seen over the last century of western civilization is that cheaper wins over better. Cheaper toasters that don't last, cheaper fridges that break down after their three-year warranty is up, cheaper laptops that come infected with bloatware and adware. If Apple refused to manufacture in China because of forced labour issues, then they'd lose out on sales to companies who kept benefitting from it, because consumers, as a whole, just don't give a shit.

Apple customers have made it very clear that as a whole, they are not price conscious. Better beats cheaper, or they’d be all using cheapo Android phones.

Apple has very high profit margins compared to their competitors in the same industries. Apple can pay their suppliers more, rather than driving them down to the bone, which of course results in workers being exploited.

Or they could be more transparent that the only thing that matters is the size of their profits, instead of cultivating a good guy corporate image, as the hypocrisy stinks.
A good example of another type being forced labor via debt bondage.
The UK appointed a Minister of Loneliness in 2018.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/minister-lonelines...

The reality is the changing social dynamics of a population spending increasing amount of time on the internet and less inclined to do things in-person, amplified by people choosing to have 'busier' lives, is the direction we are currently heading in.

We need top down (govt) and bottom up (community) efforts to start real change that can gain momentum (network effects for the founder inclined).

Working on experiments to chip away at this from the bottom up .
I disagree, I think the main purpose of reason is to overcome negative irrational behavior. Doesn't mean it's easy or automatic though :)
What's the theory behind this question? If someone is taller, one could assume the sounds from other conversations are traveling further (across heads) to the ears of the tall person?
I wouldn't believe anything that any Western MSMs write about China; they are basically zero credibility given the amount of fake news that they put out. It also doesn't take much critical thinking to realize the narrative that they have been pushing to the general public.
> So to translate your example, HTML specs would be essential complexity and all authored HTML would be accidental complexity to a front-end web programmer.

The HTML specs are not essential complexity, are you joking?

Accounting software that handles tax codes is the essential piece. HTML is just one approach to building an application.

Even though I whip out web dev quite often, I find it scary that more and more people view it as the only option or the default approach. To say it again, the HTML specification is not essential complexity in the context of an accounting app.
That appears to be the most likely scenario, but in that case, wouldn't people on the network where the VPN is get the wrong location (aka, my location)?
w.r.t. long-form writing, two suggestions -- depending on whether you prefer keyboard or handwriting:

- Keyboard: With a phone that supports USB host mode, you can plug your keyboard of choice into the USB port and use that for input. With a small mechanical keyboard like [0], you can have a great mobile typing experience.

- Handwriting: E-ink tablets like the reMarkable 2 [1] are quite cool if you want a paper-like writing experience.

[0]: https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Ducky-One2-Mini-Pure-Whit... (Note -- this is just an example; I'm not familiar with this specific keyboard, but there are a lot like it out there.)

[1]: https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
> a typically American thing

Not only. Eg in Germany there's long been an enormous stigma against violent video games. I haven't talked with German gamedevs for some years so maybe this loosened up since. But basically, if you worked in gamedev you preferred to tell your neighbours and acquaintances that you work "in IT". If they would find out you work on video games they'd pretty much fully cut you out of their lives.

(Note, to my anecdotal experience this is a purely German thing. I don't know other European countries where the same stigma exists)
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“Hi. I find the opinion you're expressing here abhorrent. People can't take care of themselves, learn, grow or adapt. We need government to protect them from the wolves in our society. I will be downvoting you now. Thank you.”
But it's not really something they can do (and the Trump administration knows this), so this is probably just routine Apple bashing while everyone else also uses China and probably cares a lot less about their supply chain as long as they get their product after ample QC.
Or this one :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno
If the goal of attending gatherings of new people is to expand your social circle then you'll inevitably run into a lot of people that you don't like. A product that enables people to host and attend these events would have to account for such faux pas and gaucherie, maybe having a way to pass anonymous feedback to others at the event (moderated by the hosts first of course) so you could politely inform people that their staring is making people uncomfortable. My thoughts on the initial concept were along the lines of a way of automating not just introductions but also learning how to interact well with others, providing structure to those interactions that people usually fumble through and hopefully avoiding or lessening situations like the one you mentioned.
I really miss the discussions of manufacturing improvements and design revisions that Ian Mc-whatever has in his older videos. Even if he's uploading elsewhere he's tailoring he newer stuff to the YT rules so he's not discussing manufacturing as much. Which is stupid when you consider that so much of the stuff he deals with is historical curiosities from over a century ago and incremental manufacturing innovations of the industrial revolution was what spurred the creation of a lot of the stuff he deals with.
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That's the point that I'm trying to get across. Don't assume that your experience applies across the board and everyone can spare double digits of their salary. Depending on where you live and how much you make, 100% of your software salary might be just getting you to having an okay-ish standard of living with not much to spare. So giving up 20% of it doesn't sound appealing.

And that's on top of the question about life-sitation and priorities.

> Maybe if you have 2 kids and a mortgage but that's not me

Not you but many people are in that situation. And you're sending their companies emails about how they should reduce their pay by 20%.
It’s a bullshit religion with no historic weight or momentum so it would never work.
The wisdom of the crowd quickly gets overwhelmed by the idiocy of the mob.
Okay, well add me to the list of people who believe all drugs should be legal though.
That's not what your source says at all. One person who works for a anti-communist organization thinks that it meets the UN definition of genocide. This sort of malicious misinterpretation of China is why people think it's 100x more evil and absurd than it actually is. Another example is China's banning a few Winnie the Pooh memes got warped into China banning Winnie the Pooh altogether. Anyone who stepped foot into China would know that's ridiculous.
Exactly right. We think this is the time of AI, but it can and should be the time of collaborative intelligence (CI). The internet is exactly the tool that could, but does not currently enable this. You disagree? Well you certainly can follow someone on Twitter, but where can you start a discussion among equals? Blogs, you can comment on someone's blogs, you can like things but can you participate? As an equal.

But grad school? Our education system is built on learning to think like someone else. It is the Twitter of Education where you can follow and repeat back what you hear. But for Original Thinkers and Collaborative Intelligence it is a mistake I believe.
My VPN is in GA,US and I'm in Florida or at least 600 miles
Dude by setting the default to $0 they are definitely punishing workers, so the question is whether or not to reward Grubhub with drivers if they are going to be so greedy.
> One of the reasons Jobs cited as being an important factor for locating in China is the availability of skilled labor

Highly skilled forced labor?

Let's not kid ourselves - it's all about cost cutting. They're trying to diversify and move to another low wage country, India.

Not - I'm not saying that China or India lacks skilled labor, or highly paid experts. But that's not why companies like Apple are there. They're there for cheap labor, and close to non-existent labor protections. But China is starting to change, so Apple is looking for new places.

> Yes, Apple should do something about this issue, and yes it's horrible to imagine them profiting off this with their "nice guy" image, but keep in mind that if they did this and increased the cost of the iPhone, other companies wouldn't, and it would put Apple at a huge disadvantage.

It's like saying that Google and Facebook should continue to disregard privacy, because their huge margins relay on that?
Mostly, each state decides what to do with vaccines though, so it's not as uniform.
Ah, the New Yorker. Spot-on commentary on the important things in life.
The subsidy for HFCS is mostly just an import tariff on cane sugar. The subsidies increase the cost of sugar (HFCS, cane, beet, etc.). We are subsidizing farmers by increasing the cost to consumers.

If we let the market decide the price, it would only lower the cost of sugar.

I don't think there is any evidence that HFCS is appreciably worse than sucrose. The problem is added sugar of any type.
Maybe to a slight degree. There are some of those people with the abilities who are willing to stand up for others. Of course, the no tolerance (punish everyone) policies can promote bystanders to remain only bystanders.
How would I be using them to make money?
Right, but the numbers are artificially low. I don't see how that exaggerates the problems of low COL areas, as I wrote in my initial comment. How does any of this apply to my actual question?
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I don't share my location in Firefox/Desktop (but I do use the same VPN on my phone).
- The paranoia was not uniquely American; as a minor, I could walk into a store in the US and buy e.g. Duke Nukem 3D, while my friend in Germany could not do so.

- I'm not making the claim that video games lead to violence, I'm just saying that we should apply the same level of analysis to studies supporting views we already have that we do to supporting views we do not already have. If this study was well done, great! If it was poorly done, then it is appropriate to call it out. If the study truly wasn't able to find any correlation (positive, per my hypothesis, negative per yours), then either there really isn't any correlation (meaning all of the potential forces that would cause a correlation happen to be perfectly balanced (which would be surprising to me), or there is something wrong with the study.

- To be clear, I don't think there is a causal relationship between violent video games and violent behaviors.

- There are likely correlations between video-games and ADHD, as well as single-player video games (actually any solitary activity) and depression. There are links between both of those and violent behavior, particularly self-harm.
> However, those registers are also part of the stack!

This is a confusion of two kinds of stacks. There is the call stack, and the operand stack. The call stack stores frames for executing procedures (functions) and the operand stack (if any) is used for local data flow. The operand stack, again, if any, may be nested inside of the storage of the call stack (eliminating one of two stack pointers), but need not necessarily be.
> Is Substack the Media Future We Want?

If you're the New Yorker, no. Duh.
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That's what webmention.io is for. It'll receive webmentions on your behalf and then expose an API to pull em down. You hit that API during your static site build or do it dynamically with some client side JS. Either way it allows you to avoid hosting any services yourself.
This is a productive line of thinking.
So Firefox on Desktop would share with Google which wireless network I'm connected to?
Over 11 years, bitcoin's full blockchain has grown to 1/25th of a $150 hard drive.

When people say that you can't have more than a few kilobytes per second of throughput because VISA does 150M transactions per day, it doesn't make them sound like they have thought this through, it makes them sound like they are grasping at straws to try to rationalize nonsense that they want for reasons they won't say.

There are lots of cryptocurrencies now, no chain is going to suddenly have 150 million transactions per day while all the others die off. Even then, it would cost a single person far less in disk space than the electricity to run their refrigerator and again, few people even sync with the chain.

These are the same nonsense recycled bizarre statements that get made over and over. Why do the people in charge of bitcoin push propaganda that has no connection to reality? That's the real question.
This shows the location of the VPN
The future was then it just wasn't evenly distributed.
I think it's not possible to have an opinion on "the media". It's an industry not an entity. The MSM has mostly done an outstanding job, newspapers in particular. There's a lot of terrible media too.
The JVM used an operand stack for local data flow, while the CLR uses registers.
Of course I want a firewall. We all do. That much was obvious even when I was on dial-up, installing Shorewall or whatever it was back in 2000.

My point is that if you have a firewall you're in the exact same position as if you have a firewall+NAT in that you need to be able to punch holes in it.

IPv6 on its own does nothing to help with this.
In much the same way that the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel is not actually a tunnel made of burritos.
I used to do a lot of programming and the multiples are really high, especially since bad programmers can have negative productivity (kind of like Hammerstein-Equord’s stupid and industrious quadrant).

I remember a McKinsey study from the 80s or 90s that talked about 10x productivity but I can’t find it so maybe I’m misremembering. I don’t think people who actually try to measure this succeed well. I run away from anyone trying to precisely measure programmer productivity because it usually means some point haired boss will try to optimize on lines of code or something stupid.

So for me, it’s a bit of a hunch but a strong hunch. I’ve worked in shops of 100 devs where a single dev wrote the entire authentication stack that teams couldn’t handle. And I have lots more stories like this.

Nowadays I do “strategy” and I’d say the multiple is more than 10x in that there’s usually some magic mix to a good strategy that can’t be accomplished with giant committees and tons of hours. When it comes to creative tasks, I think the productivity leap from “ok” to “good” and from “good” to “super” is really high. Not every job is like this, but I think these are the most fun and so try to go towards them and away from commodity work.

I have limited experience in academia but have seen authors quickly crank out really useful papers where teams have been working for months. I suspect that’s more about just having good alignment of capability and need instead of some magic or intrinsic productivity power.

Personally my productivity is pretty sucky so I’m in a situation where I don’t meet my criteria but am lucky enough to get to work on cool stuff.
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An obligatory mention of the /r/csbooks subreddit, where we share titles like these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/
> Tesla is being priced as if it will be a near monopoly on both car sales and the self driving market, which is pretty clearly not true.

It's unlikely that Tesla will be a car sales or self driving monopoly... but their charging network is by far the best, and they allow other manufacturers to use them. I think this, in addition to the car sales, self driving, and massive speculation is what is causing the stock price to be where it is.
I remember once reading there are two kinds of people who live the longest: the ones who never ever drink alcohol, and the ones who have a drink every day.

The ones like me, who don't drink every day, but then get wasted one weekend, are the most negatively affected by alcohol.
Hi Anna Wiener or internet person?

> Typical negative sentiment backed by biased arguments

Yet ironically, most of your work at The NewYorker has been writing articles shitting on SF and a silly belief that technology will continue to destroy all those CA things.

If you hate tech so much maybe you should stop covering Silicon Valley and "innovation" or you know... leave SF? Or idk, write another book about it? Obviously startups didnt exactly work out for you?

You know you've done something right when you trigger a journalist who can't defend or argue their work with a real argument ;) ~ To be frank, you're almost as endearing as the Lambda School guy who replies to every single comment in HN threads critical of lambda school.
Most meteors miss. A dinosaur looking up at the sky, worried about a meteor and saying, nah, this one's probably harmless was right a hundred thousand times out of a hundred thousand and one. And even the dinosaurs knew they'd become extinct one day, they didn't know how it would happen and when.
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I use up and downvoting to improve the reading experience for others. I try hard to vote according to the hn guidelines e.g. “Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.”. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Personally, I silently downvote because good community members will self-reflect upon their comment (for even a single downvote), and I believe the process of questioning one’s writing is good; while bad community members are often not worth responding to (edit: I sometimes engage as i am an idealist and I think someone can be influenced for the better, however I really don’t feel I have much luck against the tide!)

I don’t think I am infallible, and usually others will upvote if a mistake is made. That said, I am usually careful to only downvote for what I think are very good reasons. I sometimes upvote something downvoted incorrectly IMHO. I have showdead switched on, but I can’t say I have felt the urgent need to vouch for anything yet.

IMHO this thread contains a lot of noise and thoughtless blather, which is a shame, because the topic is really important.

Edit: the hn guidelines say “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.” True. But sometimes I think it is worthwhile, and it is obviously polite to answer an honest question like yours which is so far down-thread in a low signal environment that I think that my transgression is otherwise harmless.
So that means it should be safer to rely on GCP (or in general on services where Google is not dominant) than something like Maps where it is dominant.
Or break up large companies and monopolies to promote more competition in the employment marketplace. In addition, bring in more regulations to protect unionisation so employees can demand fairer wages.

Also, companies should be taxed on revenue rather than profit like individuals. I think this would solve most cases of corporate tax evasion as it is much harder to hide revenue.
So uhhh, does anyone else think Coke and Pepsi will face tobacco-style lawsuits?

Once tobacco advertising was suppressed/banned, the media didn’t defend them anymore...
How about Opera, a company who's main product is a browser, who had expertise in building fast, featureful, innovative and compliant browser engines since before Internet Explorer 1.0 came out, opted to abandon the project and adopt Blink stating the maintenance complexity as their reasoning.

Not as big a company as MS/Apple, but certainly more established than Ekioh sofar.

I really hope Ekioh can succeed here long-term where others haven't.
Yes, that's my point. There's clearly competition in compute. That Mapbox raised prices after Google did points to maps not being terribly cut throat (I think Mapbox got lots of low value load when Google upped prices, load that they then subsequently decided to shed by upping prices). Other map data providers were already more expensive than Google.
bookmarklets are great, specially for a first version. I actually would usually prefer a bookmarklet if it wasn't for a lack of keyboard shortcut.

I use raindrop.io and notion, and before seeing the shortcuts, I didn't use them much. It was also kind of the reason why all my previous tentatives to use a cloud bookmark service didn't go well.

The second reason is how accessible it is to click on a bookmark. On the browser you have the bookmarks bar, so at least for your top bookmarks, there's no way to beat it. But for everything else, as long as I can setup the page as my new tab page - or the extension having a shortcut to open the full page - it's also great
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I observed this phenomenon in a few other subjects too, like articles about benefits of certain supplements or substances, that praise some parenting styles, etc.