skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest that in lieu of individual seller brands on Amazon we do have one seller brand: Amazon

We all know that Amazon has counterfeit goods and only cares the minimum.

We all know that Amazon has fake reviews and only cares the minimum.

We all know that Amazon "marketplace" is over-priced imports from AliExpress (if we're lucky!) or perhaps is refurbished goods, fake goods, or just scams.

The brand that sucks is Amazon. The seller that is ripping us off is Amazon.

This can't go on forever. They really are killing their brand. 10 years ago, Amazon had the reputation of a king. They were revolutionizing delivery and could do no wrong.

Today... you ask a group of people their opinion on Amazon and we're already up to half negative on average, at least where I am.

They are literally killing their own brand by doing this.
That is debatable. QM is deterministic at the quantum level, and deterministic at the classic level, randomness only (seems to) appear at the cross between them. There are even interpretation such as MWI that don't involve any randomness at a fundamental level.
We should be teaching our kids how to code. Or should we?
I don't think the author is suggesting that business Chinese businessmen are uniquely successful. He is really just trying to pinpoint what makes the successful ones successful.

You could remove the word "Chinese" from the whole thing, and it would still make sense.
No.

Correct theories are suppressed all the time by oligarchs. See the electric car.

This assumption that the best is chosen is part of the problem of the scientific institution - the assumption that corruption doesn’t play a major role in what is allowed through the gate keepers.
The author knew that adding a strong and clickbaity title is code for "addiction" still used it and published it in various places for getting the engagement. The companies and their managers are driven by same sort of metrics as the author.
Before Snowden revealing NSA's shadowy campaigns, any claims of such effort was met with strong skepticism, just like yours. Which may have been justified at the time. But that was eight years ago. This is 2021. You are absolutely right to raise your skepticism, but dismissing it outright because proofs haven't been presented is naive.

Many many classified information didn't see the light decades after they happened. I don't see why this isn't such a case.
Check out React Ink, it's pretty slow and probably not as polished/feature packed, but it does the job.

That being said, working in the CLI with a GUI does not work very well.

Having the option to search for strings logged in some pages ago is really handy.
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> I have no idea how you got the idea that cycloptic was being disingenuous, evangelising or trying to save you "for my denial of The One True UNIX Way".

I have no other way to explain the sequence of events that occurred. I expressed doubt that anyone could think the Linux file hierarchy organization was "nice", they responded that it isn't "required" and that AppImage exists. What are they trying to convince me of? What "help" did my post suggest that I needed?

I'm sorry, I'm trying to be reasonable here, but no one has yet explained to me how else I could possibly have interpreted that post.
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It's not much of a code though is it? I mean, it's as subtle as "executioner".
I can't believe how we got into this situation - don't people feel shame if "their side" is smearing their opponents? Its this some lack of standards? Don't people sometimes wonder, "what if its us who are the baddies"? Am i missing something here?
Thank you for your consideration, I usually get down voted for saying this on here.
Sadly Alan Ford was never translated for UK and US. Maybe Secchi thought it could have been perceived as offensive, or that they didn't stand a chance against the anglo powerhouses (bigger Italian comic publishers tried and failed to crack those markets over the years). Considering Secchi's personality towards fandom (he was grumpy at 50, I can only imagine how he is at 82), I don't think there will be any real push to expand publications anytime soon. Their web presence is a basic shopify store. It seems silly in the age of the web, but this business in Italy is very "artisanal".
Resorting to voting in legislation to force your neighbours and, on a broader scale, the rest of the municipality to conform to some arbitrary rules should be considered a failure. It means that whoever the concerned group of people are were unable or unwilling to negotiate a reasonable compromise that suits all parties and have fallen back to using force to get their own way, so to speak. I think this is at the heart of the exodus from California, there is no common good will towards resolving disputes equitably. Everything is decided at the ballot box and so everything becomes a divisive issue with close to half the population being on the losing end no matter what the result. It's not surprising that people would up stakes to get away from this.
There are also several with much worse numbers.
It would be quite nice if his true name were not further publicized.

[edit]

I had not realized he had gone fully public with his name, to include blogging under his true name currently.
A dog can't starve itself to death in the presence of food.

Mild hunger, sure, abstain in pursuit of preference. The instinct applies to the pursuit of the preference, and while it's stronger than the instinct to eat, can be overridden. But if the hunger gets bad enough, the dog will eat the food. There's no question about "if," only "when."

Just because some humans have weaker wills than others, or would find it harder to override their instincts than those who have practiced, doesn't mean it isn't a uniquely human trait.
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For a long time, my off-site backup was at my grandmother's house because it was the furthest geographic location I could give someone a box who would leave it plugged into their Internet. ;)
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> If you need to do a lot of inserts (or updates, etc), the slowest possible way to do them is to do them outside of a transaction. The fastest way to do them is to wrap them all into a single transaction.

This doesn't seem to contradict the comment you're replying to. They're suggesting wrapping operations into transactions in batches e.g. (just making some numbers up) if you have 100,000 inserts maybe you'd do 100 transactions of 1000 inserts each. I wouldn't call that "the opposite" of your one mega-transaction suggestion. In fact I'd expect it to still have most or all of the speed benefit of using one single transaction, or potentially even be slightly faster.
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I mostly switched to eBay or the manufacturer directly. I've recently had to buy another pair of Apple Earphones and the Amazon reviews flat out stated "This is a fake, it is not the original product". It is still being sold on Amazon today and I ended up just buying it directly from Apple for a buck of two more and free shipping.
Anything that provides a 'hit' stands a chance of being addictive. Including cheeseburgers and fun video games.

>Most alarming is the “internet points”. On Reddit, this is called Karma. On Twitter, it’s likes and retweets. Ostensibly, this simple numeric score displays the community’s overall attitude toward a given piece of content. On its face, this appears to be a radically democratic concept; Everyone can vote! The reality is very different. Reddit, for example, has always obfuscated the true Karma score (“to prevent vote brigading”), and the position of a piece of content within the feed can be purposely decided by the Reddit home office, not by the community. This is incredibly, deeply sinister.

Why is it 'deeply sinister' -- he just seems to assert it, reddit home office isn't putting other content there that isn't sponsored -- astro turfing exists and explains a lot of that but I don't think it's the reddit admins. The voting mechanism is pretty good at determining interesting content from uniteresting content.

This whole article reads like a conspiracy theorist rant like some luddite against tech. There are negative behviors associated with modern technology but this article just asserts that without really elaborating exactly why. It just blankly gestures "you know -- bad tech, feedback loops, doom srolling" all the keywords!
To be fair, I think the author recognises this. He calls it a trope throughout and makes frequent reference to the less successful and unsuccessful ones. The main thrust of the article seems to be about what we can learn (if anything) from the trope. I found it all a mildly interesting read.

EDIT: The "paradox," I believe, has nothing to do with being Chinese or not. Rather, it is that he finds the most successful ones to be rational, but superstitious; and intelligent, but uneducated.
Weird, undoubtedly. Think they are smarter than they are? Mostly, yes. "Aligned with race realists and monarchists (?)" Definitely not.
Am an ethnically Chinese Singaporean. That is not really true. Chinese businessmen have a way of doing business that is pretty unique and not startup-like.

Some examples:

1. Real estate purchases (with bank loans) are a superior alternative to renting because paying mortgage beats making a landlord richer. Also, east-asian culture believes that very few things beat the appreciating value of land.

2. We love profit. I for one, started a company since I graduated moving from one product to another. And I do not tolerate making losses unless there is significant expectation of profit in the short-term. (I think this applies to older generation "chinese businessmen" because we never had such a thing as venture capital.
I've read it. Almost the first thing I saw was:

"Slate Star Codex was a window into the Silicon Valley psyche."

This is just so obviously, insanely wrong that it's impossible to take anything else in the article seriously.
I'd add that algorithmic feeds are another part of the triad (quartet?), and probably the worst offender. Personalized addictive content is on the rise (tiktok, YouTube, even Facebook and Twitter curate your newsfeed "for you" ), and these ml-determined feeds drive engagement to the highest possible levels, leading to an incredible waste of time, a distorted world view (mostly the posts with the highest engagement will be those that call for outrage, which leads to radicalization [1]), and just in general a society where our information consumption is determined by black boxes with opaque goals that do not optimize for the common good.

I attribute a significant part of the political rift and radicalization that has occurred in the western world in the past few years to specifically this feature, the algorithmically determined, engagement maximizing, feed.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00550-7
The best sysadmins have always been programming/automating (and are lazy in an enlightened way).

But the stereotype exists for a reason; many admin roles and admin staff were/are “zero scripting expected” help desk type roles.
That is a deep and wise point :-)
Yeah aparently we have to constantly relearn that software hotfixes are not an acceptible substitute for hardware interlocks and good overal design practices when lives are at stake.
Exactly - especially in more technical areas Sysadmins quite often doubled as systems programmers as well.

I once got hired as developer on billing systems for BT as I had SYSAD experience on the relevant hardware (PR1ME) and could run the systems as well as program them.
I agree with all of this. I also think Medium is a social media site (as is HN), guilty of the same things the author calls out.
I still haven't fully grasped that we reached this point of perversiveness online. We have brilliant minds and a ridiculous amount of money working on making Alabama's soccer moms click more ads, and we have reached the point of making people addicted to websites to reach that goal.

Obviously this is nothing new, and the cigarette industry has been profitting off addiction for decades, but I never expected the same thing (except the very immediate threat of lung cancer) to happen to tools that could have been optimized for so much good instead.

And the worst part is that some of it is just so incompetent. I've been trying to break away from Facebook for a while, and recently (the past year or so) I started realizing that my Facebook feed always shows me the exact same posts in the exact same order for days, to the point where I know exactly what post will be first when I open the website. Where is all the Facebook money going? What are these people working on? What are they doing?
*to ME...ugh, all these typos lately /facepalm...
GPT-3 access appear to be hard to get from OpenAI, which has probably limited experimentation. This is possibly why we are not seeing good products yet.
> what if its us who are the baddies

What makes this sketch funny is that, no matter how outrageously bad they are, real people never ask this question about themselves.
This is no fairer than saying any given Catholic must be a paedophile priest, any given Muslim must be a Salafi, or any given hippy must take LSD and sleep with strangers.
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What the headline says: Electric vehicles may not be the climate answer after all.
What the story actually says: Hydrogen, for example, could outperform batteries for efficiency when it comes to heavy goods vehicles and long-haul buses. Synthetic fuels may well continue to provide the drama, noise and excitement that make sports cars so special.
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thanks for posting the followup. I'm very glad you took the time to write it. it's magical HN exists and such discourse is possible. it's a shame this gem will not get the eyeballs it deserves. I urge you to bookmark it as a reminder to use it on a fresh post one day when the topic comes up and it doesn't get lost.
It's not necessary for a Venetian to go to Alaska, for the trade beads to end of there. It's only necessary for neighbors to trade with neighbors, and they can diffuse around the globe. Like an ancient game of Telephone.

Long-range traders can give the process a jump start, but the end result can be indistinguishable from diffusion.
The Google SRE approach isn't that different. You can ship systems that don't follow the SRE playbook, SRE just aren't going to take on-call for it.

If you want a different team to be on-call for your application though, there are baseline standards that you have to comply to, and if you breach those standards down the line they're going to hand the pager back to you until you're up to scratch.
I don't know, people, especially kids on YouTube, seem to be proud of the label these days.
>Don't people sometimes wonder, "what if its us who are the baddies"? Am i missing something here?

Never, it requires maturity.
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Got a good chuckle out of me.
That's how small to mid size business used to be run. Successful ones always worried about margins before growth.

We get this trope in other regions too, like Jews in the west and Marwaris in India.

What made them succesful was generational knowledge. As there were no business schools.
Including Google. Who have now hit a point where that's no longer sustainable, and developed a set of best practices to ensure reliability beyond what you can expect from a NUC in the basement.
Then they aren't true AIs. They are algorithms.

If you create a true intelligence, it will necessarily be different from us.

To create a true intelligence, and make it your tool is unethical, at least to humans. Its slavery.
Can't remember who this quote came from but it went something like this: "The only two things that call their clients 'users' is drugs and software."
As you say, that breaks down the second anyone decides to use fakes.
I think he is writing under his true name now. That’s why it comes up in google but probably wasnt at a time NYT wanted to reveal it
It's kinda funny that in his rush to explain why the NYT article is a hit piece, the author has brought his own ideological froth to the forefront. I found a lot of Scott's articles about medicine and psychology to be great, and some of his philosophical musings to be interesting as well. (something that the NYY piece mentions in the first paragraph) But all of the rationalists I have met in life were personally odious, somehow taking that ideology to the logical conclusion that libertarianism was not only the correct way to structure society, but also that disagreeing with it was a moral or intellectual failing. Which, sure, is something that a lot of ideologues would say... but the fact that they confidently claimed to have derived that ideology from first principles made any kind of discussion impossible. :(

(I actually agree with Scott's request to remain anonymous though. I guess politics are complex.)
>The reason that the information about hardware was vauge is probably because it was (is) most likely classified.

This is irelevant to the article though. The article was clearly written by someone who didn't even know what an Ethernet cable looks like and someone who provided fake photos for the article. It makes no difference if it could have happened to the clearly fakenews article. There's a discussion to be had about the implecications of something like this happening but baseing it on a fluff piece is not the way to get anything useful.
Just be glad no-one thought of running Internet Explorer as the desktop background....oh wait....
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Applejinx has been known to comment on Hacker News, an online forum where FAANGs are often defended and even celebrated, in spite of their destruction of privacy and democracy.
I work in a small company that helps news sites with engagement. Our aim is for our clients to be a place where the community can find as much info as possible for their daily life. Trying to offer readers all the info in the most easily digestible way.

Everytime we get a new customer we have to discuss to explain to them that the real value is in providing the info people need as fast and simple as possible. Unfortunately we have to fight against some major forces, such as google ranking sites with longer content just because of that and not metrics related to value.
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I just assumed that this was some deep "app nap", where its effectively swapping the entire state of an inactive app to disk. That would likely explain why the usage is scaling with available RAM, rather than storage space.

I get that its a much higher wear than we would traditionally expect, but given I have 8GB of RAM that seems near inexhaustible., maybe it just a different approach to memory management, permitted by the blazingly fast storage we now have access to? I simply couldn't run all this stuff on my 16GB 2015 machine.

I cant run figma though - that thing eats 4GB for a smallish project, so it almost always complains about my available memory when im using figma.
Reddit also has purchased up/downvotes (through click-farms/bots), opaque moderation, and the real-time public display of these promote mobs and groupthink even if it were actually organic. I don't think for a second their algorithms do a good enough job of mitigating these clickfarms.
It seems the patent has been discontinued: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6853964B1/en
Bitcoin still isn’t worth $1 trillion, which is the value of one large tech company. I think bitcoin is useful and important enough to be worth several large tech companies. Therefore, not selling! Onward to 100k.
I got quite upset when three years of browser history were wiped out by an update. A Firefox update, of all things! I still can't find the setting to restore the old behaviour.
They talk a little in the article about how the Inferno was more based in earthly things than the the later two books, and that makes it easier to approach.

I think the reason why the Inferno is solely taught is becaue it's just so long a text, and the characters Dante interacts with in his descent are more familiar to an early student of the classics than the later volumes.

I would absolutely recommend reading Purgatorio and Paradiso if you have a chance. Though it's long, it's quick reading, and sublime is an understatement.
That "the DoD believes this threat" is not the same as it actually happened. The threat is real, the article is very likely fluff.
>"Aligned with race realists and monarchists (?)" Definitely not.

Definitely yes. Ever heard of Moldbug? The dude who claimed the rule of Leopold II (yes, that Leopold II) would be better than our current government?

I am not claiming that they are the same movement, but the Dark Enlightenment is closely related to the Rationalist movement. There is a great deal of cross-pollination.

The New York Times article is a great jumping-off point to read about this connection! It has several relevant links, including this one that explicitly discusses the monarchists:

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
I love that Steam shows an average of recent reviews. I think it’s very telling that Amazon does not.
I tried (am trying at current company) and still don't like it. I completely see the appeal for getting an idea up and running quickly, it absolutely delivers on that.

However, I joined a rails company about a year ago and the codebase is just a mess at this scale. I find it annoying that in order to know where dependencies are coming from, I can't just go to the top of the file and see what's imported. I have to know how rails injects it and then track it down from there.

Don't get me wrong, there are issues with django, Go, etc.. but for the most part I can jump in and track down what's happening much easier.

Now, Ruby itself isn't bad at all.
It was interesting to me too. I'm autistic, so I'm used to communicating with people focused almost entirely on their faces, not giving or receiving many cues from the rest of their and my body language.

But it turns out most people depend on being able to read and send those nonverbal signals subconsciously with the rest of their bodies to get their points across, and not being able to do so is exhausting for them. It's easier to communicate by phone, where that limitation is expected.

I'm not sure how it can or will, but I'd love to see this Zoom fatigue motivate people who are used to having a wider array of communication methods available to them figure out how to capture that in remote comms.
Nope.

Webpacker is here to stay and takes about 5 minutes to understand. Might as well take advantage of it so you can quickly add complex front end components via React or whatever flavor of FE you prefer.
Thanks, I had also looked for a definition. Instances of Method fulfill both of the cited criteria -- example in this thread, above. Also: Method != Proc, but the article's comments help.

I, aha, notice this:

$ irb
2.3.3 :001 > Kernel.method(:puts).object_id
=> 47165335040720
2.3.3 :002 > Kernel.method(:puts).object_id
=> 47165334993360 # not the same!
2.3.3 :003 >

That is: #method doesn't return the Kernel.puts method, it returns a new Kernel.puts Method instance on each invocation. So the returned object from Kernel#method isn't the "real" (first-class) method object.

I feel like I'm a lot closer but I'd still like a better definition :)