skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll try to make a good-faith response.

> does anyone seriously think that a Chinese global hegemony would be better

False equivalency; no one is arguing that. However, a multi-polar world is appealing. The US is certainly not always a good actor here either: the US has 50+ years of foreign interventions to point to that span the globe, particularly the middle east, latin america, and southeast asia. Less extreme: its ability to unilaterally cause pain for even allies (EU, Canada) through trade tariffs wasn't exactly welcomed.

It would be in Europe (and other regions') interest to be able to defend their own interests on equal footing with the US. Currently, they cannot do that (military and economic dependence). Having China offers leverage. I.e., the US will be incentivized to behave better if other countries can say "well if you push us too far, we'll work with China."

This is just my armchair analysis. I'm not invested enough to back this up with citations or anything so if that's what you're looking for feel free to ignore and argue with someone else who cares more.
Yes, they're definitely a victim of circumstances. Like I wrote, they were literal serfs until 1863 - somewhere between a free man and a plantation slave (for example, the lord could torture or kill them without any consequences).

After serfdom was abolished, these people mostly hard very little capital and no education (illiteracy was the norm). Over generations, they tried to slowly crawl out of their miserable state (incl. millions who emigrated to US around the turn of the XX century). but it was not easy in a country that was, until 1914, partitioned by foreign powers who didn't want to invest in local population and were happy to keep them weak and ignorant. Add two absolutely brutal world wars on top of that, the great recession between them (Poland was one of the hardest hit countries in the world, through the thirties constant hunger was a sad norm across the country), and later Stalinism and less ominous forms of Communism, which, while lifting people out of the depths of misery, planted some very harmful ideas in their heads along the way.

After all that, came 1989 and introduction of radical free-market ideologies straight from Chicago School of Economics (as advised by Washington "consultants"), killing state-run mass agriculture which was the only employer in many rural regions of Poland. The people who worked there mostly never recovered and are those angry, resentful, ignorant alcoholics that could be your neighbors if you move there. Of course it's not their fault, they were just unlucky to be born in a shitty place at a shitty time - like the majority of regular people throught the history of humanity.
This is the one thing technology can’t solve in the discussion - humans are different. I find conferences intensely draining. I love people but I don’t like crowds - I grew up in the remote mountains. But I realize I’m not everyone and I recognize that hybrid events and work places are probably the best way to ensure everyone gets to work and participate in the way they feel most effective. I am glad that the extrovert hegemony has been cracked this year, but I also realize as humans we should figure out how to assemble and collaborate in a way that is most comfortable for everyone, then everyone will get so much more out of the interaction.
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yes they are that terrible

https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375529101931520007
> China is obsessed with territorial unity, not expansionist policies ...

You say as if it makes China better, but I see strong parallels with Nazi Germany's Lebensraum, or Imperial Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". Nationalist sentiments can paint a surprising amount of aggression as "defending what's naturally ours."
Aftermarket rearview cameras are dirt cheap if you really want one. Tons of kits less than $100.
something like 60% of people can’t reach 1 million let alone 2, given their position in the lifetime income distribution. i’d be all for changing policies with the sole focus of giving everyone the opportunity, but not the right, to reach $2 million in wealth by retirement age. that would require some wealth redistribution to start, and radical shifts in how we allocate income. since that disfavors the already wealthy, it’s hard to effectuate without sustained, concerted effort by the 99%.
Hey, thanks for the reply and I have checked out the links briefly.
The programs seem pretty heavyweight to what I’m looking for.
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I’m mostly surprised they haven’t just rebranded to VW. Kentucky Fried Chicken did the same thing years ago.
I don’t feel quite as strongly, but I do agree they have a whiff of “Gen X attempts to appeal to Zoomers” about them
The wealthy enjoy compound interest while the less wealthy suffer compound inflation
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Hopefully they won't be able to revoke rights already given...
The more automation happens, the more desperately cheap labor there is to disincentive further automation. Organizing to raise workplace standards is in fact necessary to ensure the shit jobs are entirely eliminated.
Small Easter egg, but I always get curious on how people find these things. Perhaps anonymous tips? :D
> what exactly is the barrier to taking all the humans previously doing those jobs and leveling them up to do jobs machines can't do as well?

One challenge with this that I rarely hear talked about is that many people aren't inclined to do those jobs. Here on HN, we tacitly assume that everyone loves intellectually challenging, mentally complex work, but that's simply not the case for many people. Lots of people prefer to use their hands, or their bodies, or to do jobs that are primarily social. Many (most?) people don't consider thinking to be a deep source of joy and satisfaction in their lives.

When we automate away the skilled manual labor jobs, we implicitly say that the only kind of being human that has value is brain work, but that is an absolute aberration in human history. For most of Homo sapiens evolutionary history, it was just as important to have physical and manual skills.
Turkey and Greece are both members of NATO, so if they went to war, would the remaining NATO states have to sit it out? Or would one of the two be designated the aggressor, and the rest of NATO obliged to come to the aid of the other?
NATO has not rules for war between members. When NATO's Article 5 (mutual defense) is invoked, all decisions require consensus so that does not work.

When Greece-Turkey conflicts have happened in the past, NATO members have used strong diplomatic pressure. Turkey might be booted from NATO if war escalates.

France has made its choice clear. They are protecting Greece against Turkey.

(1) France challenges Turkey’s territorial and resource claims.

(2) French have conducted a joint military exercise with Greece and Cyprus as message to Turkey.
how would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly? financial worth has nothing to do with it. if he feels that charge is untrue, he should push back against it.

I would not be nearly as measured in my response. no sir, I am not the one
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Klout. I'm kind of kidding but kind of not. I agree with you that it's a real problem.
Oh, I thought they were talking about the Wikipedia article's title.
Women and men are not equal. We have equal human dignity, but for example our bodies are different. What level of "equality" would you be content with?

Yes, the purpose of marriage is procreation. What else would its purpose be, a tax break? I don't know exactly what you mean about "bear children in the name of the lord", though. Personally, I see having and raising children as a way of bringing me closer to God, because being in the role of the father forces me to sacrifice for the kids. Every tiny sacrifice I make is a reminder of Christ's supreme sacrifice. There are a thousand ways being a father has made me humble. Both going from zero to one kid, and then going from one to more-than-one, showed me that it's possible to love more than one person with all my being / I didn't allocate my love among my spouse and kids, I have 100% for all of them.

The Church doesn't say "Homosexuality is a sin". The misuse of the procreative faculty (by anybody, heterosexual, homosexual, etc etc) is a sin. It's exactly as grave a sin to use contraception, or to have an extra-marital affair, as it is to engage in homosexual acts.

N.B. I'm just some guy with a keyboard. I'm not a canon lawyer nor a Church historian or anything like that. If and where I've gotten things wrong, I want to learn the truth.
That's b/c Prop 22 actually left many drivers worse off. The majority of drivers prefer flexibility.
That's also plausible, and indeed not unlikely. In that case, I applaud the tactics. Bravo! brava! anonymous internet citizen and empathetic soul!
There are over three hundred million people the US. A sizable portion of them dislikes Hollywood.
Semantics... In the US at least anyone who's spent time as a soldier, in combat or not, is generally called a "Vet." The US Veterans Affairs office for example serves all former soldiers regardless of combat experience.
The secret is they don't believe in anything.
Is John Huizinga's Autumn of the Middle Ages, a good source as well?
It is a distraction but also serves as a forcing function: if you can't demo or commit to polishing by September something in June, it probably needs to be cut.
>The median household income in the US in 2019 was $68,000/yr [1]. In the part of the US I am from, and the parts I have lived most of my life, this affords an extremely good quality of life with plenty of room for intelligent financial decisions.

It depends what you define as a good quality of life, but I don't know of anywhere in the US where $68k comes anywhere close to protecting your family from an unexpected medical or legal expense, especially one that causes a disturbance in the income stream. Personally, that disqualifies it as a "good quality of life".

The biggest weakness is once you get into the 50 to 65 year age range. Your odds of health issues or economic conditions decrease your chances of having decent employment, especially with subsidized health insurance. Your insurance premiums also rise to about $22k per year at the silver level, with a $17k per year out of pocket maximum.

And you have no assistance until age 65 when Medicare kicks in. So if you get don't have an employer with deep pockets after age 50, and you get into a healthcare crisis, all of the assets you've saved up are now in play before Medicaid will save you, and now your family is left with not much. This is the reality for many, many Americans at $68k per year, no matter where they are in the US.
You're right, technically there is nothing to prevent that from happening, but I think the idea is that you only get one "Voice", so if you want to align it to something you don't necessarily believe in for the sake of money, then you will have to suffer the consequences of that. Might be a good way to thwart paid attempts at spinning undeserved corporate-positive narratives.
> what exactly happens when the DOW drops 20% in a day and then recovers the next

This almost never happens. Individual stocks do it sometimes, but not the Dow. The circuit breakers also mostly prevent this.

Which isn't to say there aren't issues with the efficient market hypothesis.
Is this the end game of humanity though ? Let's create more bs jobs so that people can continue to afford new shiny gadgets ?

> ALWAYS

Earth is a finite environment, with finite resources, at some point it won't scale anymore, especially with today's ecological concerns. The world isn't going to run on cells phones and TV shows indefinitely, and even if, I think we should strive for more than that

> People just always want better things and will work for them.

It hasn't always been the case and it won't be forever, capitalism is fairly new, I hope we'll reconcile with our humanity at some point, there is more to life than working 50%+ of our awake time to watch netflix and buy iphones
These articles are all exceptionally light on details.

A good example: Zuckerberg is considered "self-made," right? Except he had a wealthy father (dentist) with wealthy social connections who funded his company. It is at best misleading to claim Zuckerberg is "self-made", in that it completely elides substantial luck and money he did not, in fact, earn, to get where he is.
No thanks I'm good
he is certainly and outlier, and probably a bad example, but i read his biography and if i remember correctly he started investing money he made on is paper route in stocks early on.

It's true your probably not going to make 188M, but even a lot less than that is still rich.
I don't know their motivations.

Unions have innate interests in having more union members.
I never felt like critical thinking was part of the curriculum in the United States. I've always been kind of amazed how poorly it's taught if it's taught at all.

Since we're just comparing anecdata at this point (or at least I am), if you have any data/studies or anything like that it would be appreciated.
There was. But the Internet makes it so much easier to deliver it with bad faith in industrial quantities, using manipulative sources who are not who they pretend to be.

The impersonation can be more damaging than the content, because it's a variety of toxic mental pollution - a form of betrayal - that lowers the SNR of the entire Internet.
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Wow, does that ever sound inspired by the Kapo system in Nazi camps.

(edit: It was wrong of me to evoke Nazism due to its emotional connotations. I was reminded of the psychological systems of coercion that have been used all through history to efficiently keep oppressed people in line--which Amazon's actions reek of--but could have more effectively expressed my thoughts by saying "that sounds like a psychologically abusive system", or something of the sort.
Less waste because there would be no need for a vial. And one less step for the nurse to load the syringe. This could be automated at the factory.

But you are probably right. I am naive. We need to consider the whole supply chain.
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Other manufacturers were exposing monkeys to diesel emissions? Gassing primates is a pretty bad look for any company, especially VW.
They certainly act as if they care. They should automate as these shit jobs shouldn't exist, and if workplace is organizing ensures the automation becomes economical, that's a good thing.
I would have said splurge for a Ubiquiti Dream Machine, but it's not quite the automatic recommend it was before they started taking a "go fast break things" attitude toward their software. Still better than any consumer-level gear though.
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So after 20 years trying to make legs work, they switched to wheels, like everyone's been telling them all along... Thats gotta sting!
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I believe Mazda was the last without phone home functionality but I that's over as of 2020.
>I don’t think Swiss is any different.

I literally posted a quote saying 20% of conscripts are rejected as unfit... But this is all way outside the original point I was making anyway.
Effective Altruism is very confusing to me as it seems to only address the symptoms of poverty and not the root causes.

In a very abbreviated version, that root cause being that our society requires that some labor in terrible conditions for little pay because it is necessary to maintain profits. And, those people having little power to oppose this state of affairs compared to those who perpetuate the status quo, nothing changes.

Individual acts of charity like these are inspiring, but you will never get enough people/money on board with your program through the kindness of their hearts. It’s like trying to change the direction of the wind by blowing and trying to convince your friends to blow as well, except it’s even worse because those who have tons of money (as a class) will actively act to keep the system going.
The point I am making? One cannot say someone is not self-made simply because they're getting alimony or child support without acknowledging the contributions during marriage.
> How about no hegemony? Are we allowed that as an option.

You can have two or more somewhat balanced powers jockeying for supremacy by way of cold or real wars, but this seems strictly worse for nearly everyone than a single imperfect, democratic superpower. I don't think there's a world in which nations don't compete for influence, at least not in the next century.

> USA seems only to be fighting China, so it can replace/keep itself in place as bully of the World meddling and causing untold harm for very perverse ends.

I don't see how anyone can look on 20th century history and conclude that a US hegemony is as bad as it gets.

> We need actual democracy, if we can make it work, proportional representation seems a bare minimum to work towards if we want to seek greater global cooperation (which we must to combat global climate change).

I don't see a global democracy coming to fruition in the next 100 years. It's an interesting idea, however.
I know the the numbers and I agree.
Does no one suspect any longer that Amazon is behind this? The Twitter Amazon partnership makes no sense if not for this purpose. The Parler situation suddenly has a new light, I guarantee if you dig hard enough you will find amazon had a nefarious part to play in in.
These are all extremely good points and I've completely changed my mind, except for the last one. I highly recommend an in person trip to Mountain View if you haven't experienced the joy of visiting a place where even the student drivers are in Teslas.
An old friend of mine has a saying: "If you know why you're not supposed to stick a fork into a toaster to get a piece of stuck toast out, you're allowed to stick a fork into a toaster to get a piece of stuck toast out."
I used to say I would never buy a phone without a physical keyboard. My last phone with a physical keyboard was the original Moto Droid, which I lost in 2012.
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handy thing yeah - I used this like 6 years ago to write some quick bash scripts that would grab dynamic IP changes and send them to cloudflare to update a DNS record and create our own dynamic DNS service!
You seem to have some fundamental misunderstanding about what costs memory. As the documentation says, the following works fine:

for _, v := range values {
v := v // create a new 'v'.
go func() {
fmt.Println(v)
done <- true
}()
}

The scope of the variable has no effect on how many values may or may not be allocated.
Surely this is it. I know that the wold today can be a bit stupid, but this is too much.
> it's almost impossible to effectively regulate externalities in a global economy.

It really is not. Take the EU, for instance. They have the biggest internal market in the world. They can effectively dictate many things unilaterally that companies have to comply with under pain of being locked out of a multi-trillion dollar market (and indeed they do, with things such as health and safety standards, etc.). There's nothing stopping then from properly pricing externalities of pollution for instance, or of mandating that clothes companies pass a workplace standards audit irrespective of where their factories are located. This isn't done because of lack of will.
I think we can get some idea of what Russia would risk from how the acted with the Ukraine.

Shadow warfare, proxy warfare, territory annexation.

It would be a serious escalation in strategy and risk to invade and annex a Baltic state. It seems unlikely to me, for what it's worth.

Turkey is expanding their influence on their neighborhood, but they won't seek out conflict with the EU, that's suicide.

Turkey and Russia could be a problematic situation though. They're similarly sized economies, although Russia has a serious military advantage.
A fact of life of job-training programs, is that you can't force someone to upskill. (see: coal miners). I think there's generally a strong culture of continuous personal improvement among millenials, and probably late gen-X-ers as well.

But here I am, later in my career, and I don't honestly see the reward of upskilling. For the time, money, and effort it would take. There's not a lot of things I'd rather be doing than what I'm doing now. And some of those things are maybe 5-10 years of training down the road. And then I'd be starting out at a Junior-level in pay, which is completely un-doable in my situation.

Of course, I'm not obsolete in what I'm doing yet. So I don't have THAT choice to make.
Yeah that's what I was aiming at. "Early employee stock options" or equivalent. I assume that kind of thing didn't exist in the periods this "wisdom" comes from, but I could be totally wrong.
I really like how the press release talks about multiple value props instead of the robotics tech. As a techie business owner who spends most of my time in sales this is something I need to constantly remind myself about. People want the "why" not the "how".
I think the first example should have been done with direnv rather than having a manual step, but I supposed to each their own. The other examples are all pretty neat.

I recently set up fasd, which I recommend, but I tied it together with fzf, which makes it really nice.

fasd: https://github.com/clvv/fasd

tie it with fzf: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/dotfiles/blob/master/files/.co...
and what about the ones at literally every other company that produces diesels?
I guess that's because they didn't change the name in Germany as well. "Volkswagen" is really easy to pronounce in German, but "Voltswagen" is just weird.
If you cash out for a million dollars I'm positive you could find somewhere to rent in the city you currently live in. Maybe not a kilometer away but certainly fewer than hundreds.
You are aware that the old Toyota has higher emissions of greenhouse gases than VW which cheated on emission tests?
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Though the article reasonably paints the "conservative" (in the small-c/non-political usage) position as driven by "science" or at least fear of being "anti-science", there is in fact nothing scientific about it. It's just a plain appeal to authority.

In fact the "hick" position is the scientific one. If someone eats unrefrigerated pizza ten times without any Adverse Events, then in fact that's an experiment providing (admittedly crude) scientific data that, in fact, the chance of an Adverse Event is no worse than ~10%. (Pedant note: quick, dirty, wrong calculation because the exact value doesn't matter here.)

Science, the process, really does work. Even if many of those who practice it don't look like TV or press release scientists. And even if many "Real Scientists" aren't really anything of the sort.
My hope is that it all seems like a joke to the youngsters, and they don't take any of it seriously. In other words, they know its a lie but share it anyway because it's funny to do so and a lie has a group momentum that can crush you if you stand in its way, so why bother? Look at gay marriage - the lie that it's akin to beastiality, or the lie that it will ruin straight marriate, these are lies that are actually quite funny as satire. But to treat them as sincere beliefs, and argue with them, is not worth the inevitable trouble and negativity.

Young minds know how to deal with the polluted informational space and learn to get value out of it one way or another.

The informational gems that we need to hold up with high regard are examples of sincere discussion and debate between those who disagree with each other and yet have a genuine goal to hear and be heard by the counter-party, a deep reluctance to deploy rhetorical tricks, and a willingness to support controversial views if they are supported by uncontroversial fact.