skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where all this "only massive suffering builds strength" stuff comes from.

I'm pretty sure this is analogous to the way you build up muscle: you don't try to squat 300 lbs, tear your hip flexors, and destroy your knees on day one. In fact, repeated injury makes you weaker.

Most social groups do have a mechanism to softly introduce low intensity conflict as play (which may help with emotional strength). Practically any group has escalating banter with escalating intimacy, for instance, permitting growth of emotional resilience in a progressive manner.

I was never bullied in school and I'm generally quite socially comfortable in many situations.
Ask HN: Why do you use the Linux distro that you use?
Please don't post flamebait to HN. This can't lead to anything good.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613220.
The first problem is there's not enough lava. Per a few sources there have been about 6 billion tons/tonnes of solid plastic waste since the mid-20th century; assuming the density of PVC, .05 g/cm^3, my napkin math says this is over 100 cubic kilometers of plastic waste, or enough to build a small volcano on its own.

(edit) You said "ignoring the logistics" so I agree with the other commenter, the outgassing of the burning would be environmentally devastating. Lava doesn't instantly vaporize things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXJfg_JIUZA
This should be a really short article:

Because US media is legally allowed to lie on air.

Make lying, or knowingly propagating information you know to be wrong illegal - as it is in civilized countries - and the problem goes away. But you'd rather have guns and lies.
You have to wait until they are extremely soft -- then they'll be very very sweet (and juicy). I tend to only buy and grow non-astringent persimmons because it's a hassle.

People also dry them -- there's a whole process for this (one link among many):

https://www.umami-insider.com/hoshigaki-japanese-dried-persi...
Society used to have a solution to this problem, it was a very rigorous set of manners and customs, protocol for how to address people that occupy different positions in the social hierarchy. After woman's emancipation and abolition of aristocracy such protocols became redundant, because at least ideologically we were all equal, and now this ideology is gone and a new one will probably require a new set of such social protocols ...
For multiple monitor setups
https://www.dualmonitorbackgrounds.com/
https://www.triplemonitorbackgrounds.com
It's certainly ruining all ad-based social media platforms
What if I buy gold with it? Does it mean I have turned electricity into gold?
If only there could be some legal way protections like this would prevent companies from firing people from pure speculation and accusation alone...

The ironic thing is that this social behavior is what drives corporate culture to stronger conservativism.
"Act like X" in this situation is not a well known reference point and not a good way to express the idea. Know how we know that? Because the person who said it offended someone and then got reported. Please, quit trying to justify using racially-charged language in this situation
And what did they say exactly?

That the news lied about the January 6 event and also lied about the black lives matter protests?

In their own words 50,000 people were at the capital so they said it would be statistically likely for people to die. That is ridiculous otherwise large concerts would have deaths associated with it.

But they don't apply their logic to the BLM protests where estimates of 15 to 26 million people protested [1]. They don't think that of those millions it would be a very small group causing trouble.

Also. Breitbart is a "news" outlet which has a "black crime" section. They are objectively a racist publication and it's laughable to use that as a source when calling out bias in NPR and Fox news.

It's a transparent if they say "oh it was the first article I saw when I searched" they don't think that it's indicative of it being untrustworthy reporting but instead some truth the "MSM" don't want to tell.

Likewise the Nypost is very much a outlet that spins facts to suit their narrative. That isn't a secret.

So OP's argument is just that they prefer when people tell them what they want to hear.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-flo...
Fox News has built their business on portraying themselves as the victim.
I won't go into detail but this was related to macros and separated compilations: if you're not careful with macros, the 'same' object can have different size in different .cpp..
It has always been this way, there is nothing new under the sun. Even the Spanish War was fueled by newspapers.

The media business is a business, it has always been about what's profitable. It's not a public service, even hard hitting journalism must sell copies.

The closest thing to news media that serves public interest are worker owned media companies and socialist magazines.
If the company is discriminating against you and like others, why would you still believe in their mission, or at least their ability to carry it out? Why not move to a more sane company that doesn’t have as many mines you might inadvertently step on?
I'm not worried about a matriarchy either; what I am worried about is a permanent state of cold war between identity groups, which is where it seems we're headed.
As an Asian guy I probably would have reported you if you had told me something like this :D

My advice to you: "Think about what you would have told a white man"
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26613220.
To the article's point, I can see how wokeism has brought about "lazy thinking: trust in authority, testimony above hard evidence, etc. At worst they may be taught to hate or despise themselves..." as well.

I really think the article's author is on to a good line of thinking.
I JUST learned this googling around because of this post.

This is such a bummer to me — I’m not going to toss my 6” Onyx but I probably won’t buy one of their other products now.
How can I reach these kiiiiiiiidssss
Personally I would choose the reMarkable rather than any Android one _precisely_ because I find the reMarkable to be the one that is "more open in practice" one (it even lets you know the root password by default), even though Android is technically much more open source. By experience, I know the former category of devices tends to age much better.
It is interesting to tread the culture novels in the order they were written.

Use of Weapons (I think written, but not published first) and Consider Phlebus (sp?) were quite dark and portrayed the Culture in a broader vision than the later novels.

I feel they are much better, and far more courageous than the later novels. He came to like his characters too much and could not let them die. The total cluster fuck at the end of Consider Phlebus and the dark and tragic ending of Use of Weapons would not happen in later novels.
500,000 people? Source?

https://theconversation.com/it-is-difficult-if-not-impossibl...
It's ambiguous because white men don't all act the same way. There are plenty of non confident, hesitant white men.
They added flyaway coverage it seems. It's a little pricey but I can understand why - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/26/22251294/dji-mavic-air-mi...
This is correct - they'll ship you a replacement when you report the loss but you still have to return the casualty.
Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?
Thank you, Medium is ruining my life.
Why Microsoft must always horribly break all pages during every CMS migration? All links to MSDN blogs on this page are broken. For one of the links they even managed to mangle the link itself, so good luck finding it on web archive. Comments are gone too.

And it's not even limited to blogs, clicking some link in Microsoft docs and getting redirected to main page happens frequently too...
You should re-read the second sentence of what was actually typed. Maybe a few times. Your characterization is flagrantly opposite of what this person shared.
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The Culture

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"I'm a freelancer. I polish resumes, I do a little website work and I do some writing."

Polishing resumes and website work don't sound like highly paid jobs, regardless of your ranking on HN. This is probably bigger issue then your gender in your income.
The problem is that you can't go anywhere that's safe from outrage-bait.

You can't watch local news, network news, or cable news. You can't use Twitter, Facebook, or reddit.

All of those things mix objective info with outrage, and you can't seem to get the former without the latter.

I myself have given up all social media and use RSS readers now, but the "recommended" or "trending" stories on news sites still have some of those stories in them.
I think our company also got affected by this, and we are a very small one
Didn't you see the pew research poll of male virginity at like 25%?

Were already there. And it's not gonna get better.
Doomscrolling caused by "engagement" metrics.

When engagement is all that matters, the most engagement comes when people are divisive, mad/angry or even pushed to extremes.

When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and you have to prove someone wrong on the internet, step away. You are taking valuable time from your own projects and quality of life.

People can have different opinions and that is ok, your ideas and opinions are what make you, see that as your unique tool to success. On top of that many "organic opinions" are actually astroturfing and PR designed to promote or get you to "engage".
It’s not double-spending energy. The chunk of energy you generate isn’t spent by you, it’s supplied to Bitcoin users to power their transactions. You only consume the second chunk of energy for yourself.
Thanks, would have never known something so bizarre.
This is simply Harvard protecting it's own revenue stream.

Universities, especially Harvard, routinely trade respectability for cash. Harvard is unusually reliant on private endowments. Taking rich people's money and making them look respectable in return is a core part of their operations.

So why was taking Epstein's money unusual or wrong?

At the time, it wasn't. He was known in certain circles, but not famous, and certainly not infamous. He had money to spend and universities tend not to look too closely at where money comes from if there's enough of it. Quantity has a quality all it's own.

Then Epstein became infamous. Even Harvard's ability to confer respectability is finite. Harvard likely started this investigation shortly after the Epstein story trended, not because they didn't know what had been done, but because they needed to be able to say they had handled the situation once people noticed. If they had simply swept it under the rug and then been found out it would have harmed the Univeristy's reputation and ability to confer respectability. Who would buy respectability from a university that thinks nothing of selling it to people like Jeffrey Epstein?

Nobody noticed, so Harvard was able to let the "investigation" drag on for a couple years to the point where Epstein should have been mostly forgotten, were he not living on as a meme. The longevity of the Epstein meme and his continuing infamy is likely why Nowak is getting more than a slap on the wrist. Justice must be seen to be done, even if Nowak did nothing that isn't still going on every day at Harvard.
It’s really not intended for negotiations, it’s intended to determine if negotiation is possible. Candidate puts in their minimum, recruiter puts in their max, if max > min then negotiation is possible.

If the recruiter was able to make multiple submissions they could find the candidates minimum expectation exactly.
Reading your description though, the only way I can imagine such a machine working would be by analyzing what is said against an objective truth - and that is what the false confidence value is measuring?

If I’m confident of something that is wrong, my false confidence number would be very high - especially if I believed it, right?
I suspect (most) individuals are behaving rationally (in the own best interest), but in aggregate it leads to the group collectively behaving incredibly irrationally.
It's not as simple, though. The stock Qt application which contains the entire GUI is completely closed-source meaning that if you want to do even something as simple as adding a simple menu to launch your custom application you have to binary-monkey-patch the main GUI exec. This is as terrible as it sounds.
> an adult must adapt to a very different culture. With lots of cultural clashes…

Very true, but human beings can adapt. For example, all the Europeans that came to America 400-500 years ago are doing quite well today. The culture thing is just a red herring. All you are trying to do is maintain the status quo (nothing wrong with it).
Sadly, the current direction in the industry is: “let’s cover our ass”. Which eventually ends up with: less mentoring for women, less promotion, etc.

The problem is that our system and society will not reward companies which do right things (hire, promote, etc.) but it will punish companies for slight irregularities.
It always amazes me that in the US there is such a weak identification system, relying on a single number.

Then it is apparently to the owner of said number to worry if it leaked.
Most advice to give has already been thought about. And if not, you can simply say "Let me get back to you with feedback on ___"
This is cargo-cult thinking.

Let's say you never employ any women in your org: this means you never have to deal with pregnancies and lengthy maternity leave, hospital visits, etc. Straight away you have an advantage over your competition simply due to the extra man-hours (heh!). In software dev I've never encountered a situation where having women devs would make a blind bit of difference to the outcome.

Of course this is deeply unfair on women, and we all want to live in a fairer society, I just don't think the woke ideology is the solution.
Mostly they were not born!
I really like https://nik.bot.nu/
For someone who has never coded before, I would still recommend Codecademy: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/introduction-to-javascript

It certainly depends on what their goal is afterwards, is it to go into frontend webdev like React or just learning JS as an intro to computer science in general? There's going to be a jump from coding in Codecademy tutorials to building a project from scratch, but I think their interactive interface is very friendly for beginners.
It took me like 15 years to try Iain Banks non sci-fi books but oh boy.. I would recommend 'Canal Dreams' as a starter, its not as .. raw as some of the others, and somewhat topical this week.

If you want to see how raw he could make it, The Wasp Factory' goes all the way to 11.
My own pet theory is that each age has a Great Insanity, almost like it's some kind of cosmic human constant. The particular insanity varies from generation to generation, but it still exists.

It might be witches in one generation, flying saucers, communists in another, Jews in another, or blacks; the possibilities are inexhaustible. We don't know what the next Insanity will be, only that there will be one.

I have a hunch that, roll on a hundred years, everything will turn full circle and we'll be back to segregation of the sexes. "Of course the whole thing was a folly," future generation will claim, "what absurd notion led them to the idea that men and women were the same anyway?"

Each generation has the conceit that it is more enlightened than the last, little realising that they are no smarter than the one before.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how strongly you feel about a topic. Nothing good can come of this—just internet hellfire, which leads to scorched earth, which is all the same, which is uninteresting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Hibernation is being forgotten here. Many mammals are capable of it, so it should be within a more probable reach than making humans actively live 500 years, to say nothing of superluminal travel.
The way I understand it, flagging by users also penalizes rank; hence, users disliking the article can bury it.
A generous interpretation would be that a white man typically mentions their accomplishments without reservation. I.e. they are comfortable speaking up in almost any circumstance. (They most often are in secure in their employment and role.)
Did you have fun?
When I read the Culture books my impression was that humanity was basically treated as treasured pets of the nearly omnipotent AIs they created. Most of the time the humans are asked to do something it's because the AIs want a fleshy face to present to some alien species so as to not freak them out.

If the Culture was forced to abandon humanity they would be sad, but would be none the worse off.

As a result, I was annoyed at how the novels were centered around the humans. They were way less interesting than the AIs. It was like watching the Wizard of Oz from the point of view of Toto.
The competitive advantage is hard to quantify though, whereas the disadvantage can be felt directly and immediately if you aren't careful. If someone gets burned, it's hard to see how a vague notion of some intangible advantage would push them to risk a repeat.

As a white male from a poor southern family (not very tolerant) I've had to learn a few hard lessons on similar fronts. I know I don't have a good gauge for what is and isn't ok, even now. Given that in many occasions even mirroring words or behaviors can be a no-no, the only way I've learned that is 100% effective at not causing problems is shutting up, which I'm generally pretty bad at. Luckily I've had mostly understanding and light hearted coworkers, so I haven't been outright ruined yet, but I can think of more than one occasion that likely would have turned my life upside down if the audience was less sensitive to my intent.
The best one I found was https://Unsplash.com

It has 1000s of high quality absolutely free images. You can even use them for commercial purposes for free legally.
That's not what the clause says - or at least point to specific phrase. It says if you buy it for 2 BTC they will refund you 2 BTC (assuming they refund BTC).
Or sodomizing a minor like roman polanski...
I even made a throwaway account before I binned mine!
It's gotten to the point that my first and ongoing assessment of someone is how "cool" they are. Sort of the identity politics version of whether you're the type of person who yells at a waiter. In my experience about 75% of people are cool.

If you're cool, I'm candid around you. If you're not cool, I'm treating you like you're radioactive. Everything I say is carefully considered. Controversy of any kind is studiously avoided. Most likely I avoid dealing with you at all when I can, and certainly avoid being alone with you with no witnesses. If that's sexist or racist I really don't give a damn.
There are quite a few throwaways in this thread.

First they came...
> I think there should be a government agency that counters mis-information in the media

This would in effect have that Gov overseeing itself. I would offer that the powerful are exactly who should not oversee news orgs.
Remember how Mike Pence basically avoids being alone with a woman unless his wife is present? As ridiculous as it sounds, that self-preservation strategy got him to VP.
"Think about what you would have told a white man"

Well that leads to something like "Toughen Up, It's Part of the Job".

I don't think it helps to activly missunderstand people, when they are trying to be helpful EVEN if their trying is in the wrong. Try to think about the intention and maybe ask what they really meant by that.
By that definition of something being problematic "someone you said it to got offended" the OP has resolved the issue. Now people he talks to no longer are offended by what he says. I suspect however that you don't like his solution to the problem even though it resolves the very definition of it being an issue you bring up.
Whole sections of the Culture has broken away without conflict. That to me is the strongest indicator of freedom in the Culture, and also the strongest indicator that it is reasonable to describe as a near utopia: A society where people can (and do) break away, yet most choose not to, seems to be striking a decent balance.

The biggest issue I have with the Culture is that they are in a sense luddites: They stubbornly insist on dying and stubbornly refuse to sublime. They hold on to a very limited and restrictive sense of existence. But they do so by choice, and make the most of it within those limits.
Ask HN: How do I get hired as a team?
My coworkers and I have been building projects together for the last 5 years and have become good friends. Our skillsets complement each other and we are able to work efficiently as a team. We are all looking to leave our current employer around the same time, but would like to continue working together. We have thought about applying individually to companies, but wasn't sure how that would turn out. How can we get hired as a team?
That part doesn’t really need ML of any kind; ultimately unless a watermark is based on a rigorous and proven cryptographic scheme, it can be faked.

They are apparently not doing anything like that, it’s just “hey, these photo sites are all a bit different”.

Well, that’s what they’re saying publicly anyway, could be complete bs and every sensor has a government sanctioned backdoor in it.
This isn’t true. Media orgs get sued all the time for defamation and libel.
As others say Player of Games is probably easiest to get into.

If you like a bit of medieval stuff in your SF you might consider reading Matter.

I also very much like Surface Detail.
This exists in the USA as well. The hunters know the trash pickup schedule, and a lot hunt on weekends as well.

It's unwritten knowledge in my neighborhood that you separate and leave metal waste on the curb where the pickers can get it easily. You see the pickup trucks slowly combing the areas in the afternoons and evenings.

I've also seen more resourceful ones refurbish what they can and sell items at flea markets and in parking lots. BBQ grills and bicycles are always in the flow, although the bike supply has dried up with COVID.
I do.

I used to work in a diversity company where white males were usually not promoted nor valued, or those who were promoted were absolutely excellent. I specifically remember having trouble explaining a bug to a boss, then I noticed she didn’t know what an HTTP header was. It happens, when you’re promoted so fast that you don’t spend time as a dev.

Anyway, exited, created my company, but seriously, I’m extremely bitter about diversity, it’s just a way to enslave us and let us run the rat’s race while collecting taxes and job creation on us. They ain’t gonna win anything if they push white males so much out that they are bitter by the time they create their company. Racism is just a reaction to being treated badly.
So you are saying there are "poor people" who are harming themselves (going without food, shelter, medical treatment) because they spent money on minting NFTs?

If that's true, I will be more than happy to retract my statement. But I think I have little to worry about.
I am not ‘TLightful’, but I’m guessing it’s because you used the term “The Elect”, which only certain groups use. It’s one of the shibboleths of these modern times.
I like the way you think! Saving the global economy through nuclear propulsion of kiloton scale commercial shipping. It could finally get us to Mars?