skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income inequality isn't the same as social mobility.

I think it's a much bigger problem but many people disagree with me on that.
Isn't this severely biased by the fact that autopsies are only carried on people who are dead, most likely due to COVID?

In other words, it seems possible that the brain damage happens mostly in people who end up dying from the disease, but that brain damage never or rarely happens in people who are not hospitalized.
Google is a top 10 contributor to the Linux kernel. By your definition, Linux is not "entirely free of Google" either.

e/OS removes any Google dependencies or contact with Google services. The objective being to eliminate any Google knowledge of, contact with or control over the operation of the device.

This is about as "Google free" as it gets.

This post was made using a Moto G4 Play running e/OS.
BeNeLUx and Germany is not a part of the Nordics.
But the initial point was normative, not factual. Beyond narrowly defined limits, the government ought not to be able to police speech, and being democratically elected is not a sufficient check, as John Stuart Mill pointed out long ago.
Or US and North America?
Unfortunately, that article entirely glosses over the uncomfortable truth that the Democrat left is also rife with their own breed authoritarians.

I wholeheartedly agree that authoritarianism is a threat to democracy, though.
Isn’t that the case in a lot of countries, though? Even if you can make more somewhere else, you’re still likely to spend your life in the same way — ie, working “halfway on the road to serfdom”.
"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do."

Elbert Hubbard
It's very interesting to contrast how different regions handle extreme (to that region) weather. I was raised in the UK where 10cm of snow pretty much means the country is shut down for a week (interestingly the same happens in 'extreme heat' of 30c).

Where I live now there was 30cm of snow in the last couple of days and everyone is happy and playing outside, and tomorrow will be work as usual (well for covid). Most major roads have been swept, and those that aren't you just drive a little more careful. I guess there is a different level of preparedness (here you are required by law to have winter tires on your car), but still it seems like some places treat it as an end-of-the-world scenario as if it's impossible for humans to live like that.
What to Focus on in Image Compression: Fidelity or Appeal
Facebook has an entire department devoted to Telegram analysis
"I hear Facebook has an entire department devoted to figuring out why Telegram is so popular. Imagine dozens of employees working on just that full-time.

I am happy to save Facebook tens of millions of dollars and give away our secret for free: respect your users.

Millions of people are outraged by the latest change in WhatsApp Terms, which now say users must feed all their private data to Facebook’s ad engine. It’s no surprise that the flight of users from WhatsApp to Telegram, already ongoing for a few years, has accelerated."
A bit too harsh? Surely they could be granted a second chance by sending them to be educated again.
Look at what the fear of another 9/11 was able to accomplish. I still have to take off my shoes at the airport!

And look at what “masks protect other people” accomplished. 40% of the American population gleefully advertising that they don’t care about other people.

You don’t have to change people’s minds if you can change their actions.
I've browsed here before but only just registered to participate in discussions on this topic. I've seen far more nuanced discussions and sincere consideration of both sides on HN than most other platforms.

I still find it alarming that so many people perceive these actions as sincere attempts at harm-reduction. Regardless, it is a pleasant to see both sides being represented in the discussion.
Past related discussions for those curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22915460 (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22909984 (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20828356 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16877603 (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273096 (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049 (2017)

And other smaller ones over the years...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Since imprisoning people requires a trial by jury, and guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, it isn’t something that random people on the internet can take into their own hands. This certainly seems like much less of a problem.
But a lot of imagery, which gives the impression of "fact". There is a lesson to be learned here.
> deny us rights to peacefully gather and protest.

The protest wasn't the issue. Storming the capitol is the problem.

> If you Americans go down this path any further, you'll too find yourself living under the tyrannical dictatorship no better than ours.

In this case, we are trying to prevent a tyrannical dictator.

I do agree though that we are possibly entering a damned if we do, damned if we don't territory.
If there is an acceptance screen anyway, is there a reason not to tie this to actually reading the terms? Please consider the following idea:

The installer presents the end-user license agreement (EULA). Immediately following it, it presents a multiple-choice quiz that asks questions about core parts of the EULA, such as permissible use, cancellation, refunds, jurisdiction/arbitration.

The installer then contains all the files to be installed. They are encrypted with a key that is composed of a hash value of the correct answers to the above quiz.

In this way, you could tie together whether someone reads the EULA with the possibility of performing the installation at all. This, in turn, causes successful installation to act as implicit proof of having read the terms. The order of the values must be randomized to prevent transmission of correct answers by index number only.
As a former photographer, I agree.

I found this article on fidelity vs appeal handy, especially to illuminate the problems with AVIF's algorithm when you are showing off photos.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/what_to_focus_on_in_image_compre...

I'm waiting for JPEG-XL. And then color management after that.
Instead of worrying about a non issue I would rather fix fundamental flaws in our economic systems. It's not just ruining the lives of young people. It's also ruining the lives of anyone who loses their career in old age but does not receive enough of a pension to retire. Optimizing an entire economy for a minority of savers and wealthy is misguided.

A lot of political anger is rooted in very simple economics. The economy is doing increasingly worse for the majority and that fuels extremism. Of course the extremism makes it harder to do the right thing because people believe in unrealistic promises that are never going to work out but they appeal to their own biases.

For example. Labor in China is very cheap. If Americans want to compete with China they have to reduce their incomes to match Chinese incomes. One idea is to introduce tariffs to raise the costs of products until they are high enough to pay for American labor. You can do this in theory but why on earth would you do it if China can do it cheaper? If you buy products from China you could still use the saved money to employ American labor. So the actual loss is not that great.

The only reason why the tariffs work out is that the labor market is not flexible enough. Low income workers need jobs and the jobs that are there are high skill. Training has to be paid by the workers themselves and the training is not guaranteed to grant a job. Even after acquiring a good college degree there is still a "pseudo training phase" during your first 3 years on the job. Converting low skill workers to high skill workers is too unreliable and expensive so it doesn't happen and it gets worse the older the worker is.

If you could figure out a way to do training effectively and inexpensively your country would be significantly better off by buying Chinese products.

So what politicians will advocate is tariffs instead of better training. It's short term vs long term thinking.
It's very hard to avoid turing completeness, and it's normally not particularly valuable to avoid it unless you have some extremely strong requirement for formal reasoning about your code. I've not found that difficulty of understanding correlates well with turing completeness in practice (see regular expressions for an example of a non-turing complete system which are famously difficult to understand).

And in the case of a build system specifically, generally if you don't give some generally programmable interface to it then another wrapper layer will appear over it which does. Decisions in build systems are often enough complex enough to warrant a configuration language capable of expressing many different things. (This doesn't necessarily need to be an integral part of the build system: for example rust's package manager/build system, cargo, has a fairly simple non-turing complete configuration file but can run a build.rs program which can through a simple protocol of printing out values adjust many of the decisions cargo makes).

In fact, I'd say that CMake suffers most from not embracing that from the start. It's scripting language has clearly grown organically in a messy fashion from a configuration language, instead of being designed from the start with scripting in mind (at which point it may have just been a better idea to use an existing language, like lua, tcl, or python).
Nice idea, especially when it's really about learning something.

Was it thought that these questions were intentionally without answers?
Really looking forward to it. It's like it's still autumn around here.
Show HN: From Criticism to Constructiveness
During the current Covid-19 situation, most people I talk to tend to criticize a wide variety of things.

I think it is helpful for us personally as well as for the whole human race if we transform criticism into constructive actions.

This morning I wrote a short text and setup a simple form in order to collect these possible transformations. If only every person reading this adds one entry we can come up with a simple and straight forward manual to make the world a better place (in tiny steps :)
> This is an umbrellas make it rain reverse causation.

I don't see how.

> If you look outside the US the education level does correlate with the political spectrum.

I didn't mention anything about the US, it's a global phenomenon.
Personality is a largely biological construct, and it's also highly correlated with political leaning.

Looking at the big 5 model, left leaning people tend to be high in neuroticism(emotional stability) and openness, and low in conscientiousness.
Right leaning people tend to be the opposite.

These same traits influence peoples decision to work in academia, openness is a beneficial trait for learning new ideas.

Meanwhile people high in conscientiousness, low in neuroticism are highly sought after in industry.
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I don't think it is very likely I'll be able to build my own mobile phone to replace Apple, who have banned Parler. Network effects and natural monopolies are real things.
> white Americans who encounter the police are more likely to die, according to the FBI statistics.

I'm not an expert, but that sounds unlikely. Do you have a good source for that? Hopefully not that meme bar chart that came up when I tried to find a source.
In that case I would do a temporary ban for a limited time and not a permanent one.
The story does not give that background, I'm assuming he is an outsider because of his choice of words in the beginning and the fact that he seems to treat his apparently former buddies suddenly as cogs in a machine. Maybe that's just another way for him to fortify his own mind about doing callous things to other people. Regardless, the second day on a job you are not ready to make decisions like this until you have had a lot of conversations with different people in the organization. Any CEO that tasks a just-promoted former team lead, project manager or other non-manager to first time CTO and MT member and that then expects that person to take the axe to the team in a way that will not destroy the company is out to lunch.

This article is proof positive of that, it misses a whole slew of important considerations and will likely result in a mass exodus of the people that keep the company running within the next couple of months.

I've had to lay off people before, this is not how it is done.
I put myself in those shoes and wondered what doubts I'd have about the contributions I could do. The OP was a great illustration of the chaos it can be. I wasn't saying that leadership has no impact, that's crazy.
You need to keep motivation going to achieve decent success. I haven't found motivational books to be good. The best strategy for motivation that has worked for me having ambitious goals and building habits to keep reminding them to myself. Both goal setting and building habits could be common sense.
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But without characterizing what exactly "brand new" is, you could implement this prohibition without having the correct effect of maintaining veracity and consistency.

And would you treat different events differently? Would you have to wait, for instance, for classified documents to be released so that you could say you have the bigger picture?

I question if prohibition is really the right way to go. Wikipedia proved to be effective long term. Let them keep doing what is working. Maybe just warn the reader the subject or event is recent or currently developing and let the reader decide for himself whether to use that information or not.
Here is the dictionary definition of terrorism: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims."

How many civilians were targeted with violence/intimidation in the pursuit of political aims?

How do other politically motivated protests/riots align with this definition? Are there other protest movements where civilians have been exposed to violence?

Stepping away from actual physical violence that has happened, how many examples of aggressive/violent speech amongst a protest group are required for us to label the entire cadre of people protesting as 'terrorists'?
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It should be fairly easy to do this with something like Hotjar. Although I'm not sure if it is legally feasible to do it without the user's consent, especially in Europe.
Not joking. I like the dream big, what can I say :)

More specifically, imagine ships sailing around the Arctic circle just before the water freezes in winter, dropping sawdust (or newspaper for "super Pykrete") in their wake.

Since sawdust comes from trees, it's sequestered carbon. Once you put it in the water, it's not going to burn down and release its carbon like a tree in Australia or California might.

Since it floats, it should stay near the top of the water until the water freezes. Pack ice with sawdust frozen in it will last longer and reflect the sun's light back for a longer period of the year. There's a risk of the albedo being affected negatively--perhaps using light-colored wood for the sawdust would help with this.

Hopefully, even after the Pykrete melted, the sawdust would stay in the ocean near the surface, and re-freeze next year so you get Pykrete every year. (A potential downside here is that the sawdust could be difficult to remove if we ever realized this plan was backfiring somehow. Maybe we'd prefer some sort of sawdust which eventually sinks for that reason.)

Another idea is to bioengineer some kind of organism which reproduces in the Arctic ocean and changes the consistency of the water so that when it freezes it behaves more like Pykrete. Perhaps some kind of algal bloom (apparently you can trigger algal blooms by seeding water with iron?) To be safe, before releasing this organism into the environment, we could bioengineer some other organism which feeds on this and nothing else, so we have a way to reverse the experiment if it goes wrong.

Hey, I don't think it is much more harebrained than other geoengineering ideas I have seen floated :)
It depends where you start with Nietzsche. If your first encounter with his work is Thus Spake Zarathustra or perhaps Ecce Homo, you're going to be confused. In contrast, On the Genealogy of Morality, The Antichrist, Beyond Good and Evil are clear, lucid, and beautifully written (whether you agree with them is another matter).

(He probably wasn't schizophrenic, but he did suffer from terrible migraines and mental illness. Traditionally his mental health problems were attributed to tertiary syphillis, but that has beeen challenged in recent years with speculative diagnoses ranging from bipolar disorder to brain tumours to early-onset dementia).

If I were to nominate a philosopher for the title of most unreadable, it would probably be Hegel.
I would rather not download any executables to test this out.

Is this a web app packaged into an app?

Then why not simply allow me to open it in my browser?
I am not sure why I can’t read the article. Even if I request the desktop site, it still wants me to read it using an app...
This is the most extreme hot take I’ve ever read on hacker news. You made me verbally laugh. No one should ever be “deplatformed for life”. What utter garbage.
I have a different take on this, I suspect the problem is not necessarily self-serving ad clicks and revenue. I think there's pressure within the scientific community to come up with concrete and tangible threats linked to global warming.

Otherwise all you have is stuff like "global temperatures are going to rise by n degrees over the course of the century" with n being a relatively low number for us humans used to local weather having much greater temperature swings. Sure, if we're educated we can understand why this is a huge problem, but for people who don't want to hear this (and may benefit in the short term from not hearing it) "the weather is going to be 5 degrees hotter in a century" doesn't sound all that bad.

So in order to cut through some scientists look for more dramatic events that could come as a consequence of this. The problem of course is that the climate is wild and hard to predict over large timescales and sometimes they're wrong, and then the climate change deniers use that as evidence that they're lying.
Can somebody explain what the difference between this and IPFS is? I see block chain mentioned so I assume you pay for storage but that page just allows you to upload anything right away without payment. Is this actually an alternative to FileCoin?

https://ipfs.io

https://filecoin.io
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Funny. Big corporations also value your privacy at a value measured by their stock price.
100% this. Weather has gone the way of news: sensationalized for clicks. The volume of 'severe weather' risks that turn out as nothing-burgers in the past 5 years is staggering (Southern Ontario, both winter and summer).
Do you have a source that lays out why this decade versus 2000 or 2010 will “be wild”?
Ok. My wording was a bit off. My source of rules are national level exams, so I assumed most exams are similar.

Even what you described, is ultimately aimed at preventing the student from accessing heir phone during the exam.
I agree. The polar vortex is no joke.
The professor can simply give the final grade as a percentage of the 95 points rather than 100. Just like if they made a mistake with a bad question.
An alternate reading ...

If a teacher takes no real measures to prevent some students from cheating, that breaks trust with the honest students. This story - true or not - is of a teacher trying to create trust with the honest students by ensuring that at least some of those who cheat don't get away with it.
Our professor performed a much simpler trick. An assistant was watching over us and halfway through the test the professor silently entered the room and several students flinched and looked up while the rest of us were heads down working on the exam. He then asked those students to step outside and bring all their materials. This was before smartphones, so most cheaters had crib notes.
One other form of cheating I noticed during exams was students having ear peaces to get instructions from someone outside.
Such refusal is a sign of maturity in an MT member. Taking a stand to protect your department from unrealistic requests is part and parcel of being a responsible person to begin with, at the management level it starts to make the difference between a company that will continue to function and one that will be dysfunctional soon - if it isn't already.

The complete lack of empathy on display here is proof positive for me that this person does not have what it takes to be a successful manager.

I've just taken my company through a 50% drop in revenues and we've survived, stronger than ever, not a single person got laid off and all our bills are paid. That didn't happen because I treat my co-workers, partners and employees as replaceable cogs and if I would give my second in command the order to get rid of 50% of our workforce I would expect some serious pushback on that. Not that I would ever do that.
I would be really interested in a similar book/workshop but for graphical text editors.
Nobody wants to leak their personal data with Facebook So we are going to stop using Whatsapp
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I'm one of them, and I love it. Desktop clients are lagging in support compared to Conversations[^1] on Android, but even Pidgin can be flogged into an acceptable state[^2] - no video or audio though, I couldn't get that working, unlike with Prosody and Conversations[^3].

The thing with XMPP vs Matrix is weight: and XMPP server is featherweight compared to Matrix due to their different nature, so I honestly believe that XMPP still has a future.

(And maybe one day, Pidgin 3 will see the light[^4])

[^1]: https://conversations.im/

[^2]: https://github.com/petermolnar/awesome-pidgin-plugins

[^3]: https://gist.github.com/petermolnar/10d815eae0b7cbda2b1e5948...

[^4]: https://pidgin.im/development/building/3.0.0/
>If they are miserably paid they will "raise the wage" by doing less for that money

Which is what I'm doing right now. If the company wants us to be motivated they should incentivize us by sharing equity or let us leave early if we complete our work faster but since my pay will stay the same if I work harder and I'm mandated to stay the full 40h/week at my desk even though I can finish my work sooner, why would I bother working harder?
I ignored my slowly worsening mental health, and got hit hard by OCD (a caution)
Nearly 20% of people have some form of mental illness, and some of the issues might not seem like a big deal until they hit hard.

As a tale of caution, I have some advice, which I will follow religiously in future. This is relatively obvious and simple, but let my example be a bit of a motivation to take it more seriously.
As always, there is a twist. The question asked was:

"Supporters of President Trump have stormed the US Capitol to protest lawmakers certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. Based on what you have read or heard about this, do you support or oppose these actions?"

That is not the same as supporting armed rioters breaking into the Capitol Building to try and kill democratic politicians (which isn't what happened, but leftists pretend they think it was).

But obviously "liberals" will simply downvote and flag and ban.
This article read like a self-parody. The obsession with what words to use. The instant reach for Nazism as the point of reference (Ezra Klein invoking the "Nuremberg defence"?) The conspiracy theories about The Narrative and The Media, all so strangely similar to the nutcases on the other side. The rage at the Establishment. The foaming-at-the-mouth tone. Dave Spart lives!
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