skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came for the beer, but was not left speechless!
I honestly have no idea which “side” you mean. Seems to me that both mainstream political sides are mainly about victimhood now. The whole point of Trumpism is “actually I’m the victim”
Czechia is not "uncolonized", either. The Soviet actions in 1968, the German annexation in the 1930s, an episode which includes the assassination of Reynhard Heydrich [1] leading to the Lidice massacre [2] are recent examples. There are also less remembered things.

I have heard from my few Czech friends about the amount of art that Swedes stole from Czechia. [3] See the section "Sack of Prague". The English page is rather slim. It is better to see an automatically translated version of the Czech page on the stolen art treasures. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648)

[4] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0v%C3%A9dsk%C3%A1_loupe%C...
I was curious what information an isopropyl alcohol chart would contain. This IPA makes more sense.
Id wager if you asked most of your graduating classmates if $200k@25 is impressive, most or all would say no. That’s a new grad’s total compensation and I’m several years in already.

Appreciate the correction on spelling. I’m more a Midwest guy myself.
Is there a way to do this natively on Firefox, Chrome or with ublock.
No discussion whatsoever about people having actual grievances. Just the identification of a personality trait and then making it out to be a problem that actually hurts other people. Hoo boy.
Regardless of what the product is, perhaps California should not be subsidizing water exports.
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I don't know if she was or not, nor if that idea would particularly count as crazy. It's a little silly to misread pg as saying that every such idea must be true. Also, why be so mean? It only makes things worse.
Yes, like your lawyer example there's plenty of evidence where outcomes for people doing basically the same work varies a lot across times and places.

Maximally small government / libertarian people would like to pretend that everything is about individual character because this would justify their preferred public policies, but thinking about it even a little bit it should be obvious that internal and external factors both matter.

I remember in a previous discussion here Walter was objecting even to the use of standard economic terminology around things like what wealth-creation means (dating back to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776), so I'd take his views here with a grain of salt.
> Still waiting for someone to name one singular measurable impact of a crypto project.
It's a solution that's been searching for a problem for over 10 years.

Protection against a devaluing currency, privacy and access.
I generally agree with your gist; however, I would point out that there are niche review sites run by enthusiasts (whether computer parts, cameras, tools, gadgets, clothing, and so on.) and there are the SEO types that are near-worthless. Enthusiast sites have a range of community-only and not ads, some have affiliate links and some have paid reviews and so on. So you have to know how the site operates and take that into account.

The niche ones have mods which allow genuine dissent as well as other recommendations from competing solutions.
Instead of just saying systemic racism exists, why not point out examples? Then people can judge for themselves what effect it may have on them instead of feeling like there's this oppressive "other" which is the cause of anything they don't like about their life and there's no point struggling against it because it'll just crush them anyway.
Sorry about replying to a week old post but your link and post really made me think:

I think the initial HN comment was justified albeit a bit nerdy, the marketing was just poor at the time. Not being able to delete a post is sort of a problem with all written media, the internet is not your group of friends at a bar. Being able to distance yourself from something that you've previously said might be a solution, an "I stand corrected" button might be a solution. Perhaps just being able to add a strikethough to an old post.
For additional paid feature, change the Facebook logo to "Facebook Premium" and bundle music subscription service.
Sorry, I explained myself more under the sibling's reply. The way I understood it seemed such a gross vulnerability that it should have sounded terrible to either gender, but apparently the actual feature is much more tame.
Taxpayer here, and former low-paid wage slave, I agree with alienthrowaway.
At least you're getting something out of it when it isn't ads, though. If it's a game (like Candy Crush, mentioned in another comment), at least you're getting some tiny dopamine hit, no matter how repetitive and empty. For social media, at least you're getting that slight bit of humor or outrage bait.

I don't like these things at all, but they're something. With an ad, you're solely siphoning off a portion of my infinitesimally fleeting existence. It's like getting stuck in traffic, except deliberate and with malice aforethought.
Are either of those things social networks? (I don't know what it's like to be a Ferrari owner or a Centurion. I assume that status / privilege is a big part of it, but not necessarily in the form of rank in a network).
The central thesis

> Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts.

Is later contradicted by a discussion on the quality of criticism

> The lowest form [of criticism] of all is to dismiss an idea because of who proposed it.

So which is it? Judge an idea by who proposes it or not? I think the essay stands without the tangent on ranking criticism, and it could perhaps be discarded entirely.

But that's too easy, and I think the discussion of criticism is a strong (unintentional) counterpoint to the essay. You have gated the hard work of weighing an idea behind the reputation of the person who proposed it. History all too often labels a genius only in retrospect and in their own time were more likely to be considered fringe or even crackpots.

In short, I think the essay is boiled down to "find the right people to trust/engage/pursue, and especially don't discard their implausible ideas". The tack on of trying to localize to a "smart domain expert" in whatever you're interested in seems.... uninspired. The tack on of being more open to implausible ideas is more interesting. But the fundamental work is unchanged from basically all of human history- "find (or become) the people who are going to be successful/transformative"
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Justify it however you want, its not (IMHO) adding value to society and has created perverse incentives on the internet. Donating to "efficient" charities does not excuse what you do for a living. That was thrown out there first to virtue signal, but something tells me if that is your first argument you know that what you are doing isnt good for society. I honestly would feel better about the guy if he just said 'I work on ads. They pay me a shit ton of money. I know its a dirty business, but right now I want to get paid'.
If someone submits a comment and impersonates you, can they be sued for one of slander/libel/defamation?

Can they also be sued for identify theft?

If someone can be sued for making a false statement about you, why not when they willfully and knowingly steal your identify to make others believe you did something that you didn’t?
Thing is though it’s not being used in those cases even though it’s available because of fundamental limitations. Concretely over the last few years a full 66% of all transactions in Venezuela are now conducted in USD. The USD is simply a far superior currency along every metric. Stable, fungible, cheap, internationally accepted.
There isn't any major political stance that doesn't use social media and PR groups to astroturf. Anyone pretending they aren't astroturfing are lying and you should be wary of them.
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The conflation tends to come from an angle that is either anti-semitic or Zionist and hyper-nationalist. Or was informed by one of those camps and picked it up by osmosis. I would guess this falls closer to the Zionist/hyper-nationalist camp.
Which can be very difficult, on the road where you have low bandwidth especially.
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Computer crimes are over punished in our justice system. Remember when a guy who hacked a Facebook page to obtain evidence of rapists received a longer sentence than the rapists?

https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/09/hacker-faces-more-jail-tim...
I agree that it's good for elected politicians in a democracy to meet with and hear the concerns of their constituents.

That is literally their job, and the reason they were elected. If they're not doing that..... then we have no use for them and should eliminate their position entirely, because it obviously doesn't serve a purpose.

The problem I have is when this "meeting" involves giving those elected officials money, because then you can just buy whatever laws you want. The more money you have, the more you have laws that agree with what you're trying to do and squash everyone else. [1]

[1] I mean, you just have to buy 8.5 million votes in this case - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/biggest-isps-pai...
I think American culture has potentially gone down an ever-worsening path that comes from assuming blacks and whites are inherently identical. That leads to the belief that the persistent differences in life outcomes must be caused by oppression. That means there's an oppressor who is evil and deserves punishment. What if the fundamental assumption isn't true? How long do you keep punishing the oppressor for?

Not to get all Godwinny but that's also how 1930's Germans saw Jews. They were the greedy bankers taking that reparations money and oppressing the native Germans. so they deserved punishment.
If you want power at night, what do you do? If it's cloudier one day than another, what do you do? You need baseline production to flatten the peaks and valleys.

If you want to run on solar, you need to provision far more supply of energy than demand (and use a ton of material/land to do so), and then melt rocks or something when there's too much supply. Or build a continental power distribution grid that wastes all the energy you've made to get a trickle of power from over-provisioned areas to under-provisioned ones. Or, you can store it all in batteries. OK? What are losses? How many batteries do we need to build for grid-wide ~12h of storage? The answer is, a lot. What are the costs of mining, building, installing, replacing all those batteries?

The key thing I'm driving at is efficiency. Losses. The efficiency in batteries is not good. The efficiency in moving energy 1000's of miles is not good. Those are required for a majority solar grid.

The conversation here is not about whether it's possible, but whether it is efficient. It is possible after all to power the whole grid with coal.
> Everyone understands the deal with Apple hardware.

The linked article and this thread argues otherwise. But regardless, even if everyone understands "the deal" that doesn't constitute a reply to an argument that this is a bad deal.
Correct, this is merely a fight between corporations on who controls the flow of information. As we have seen edge providers are also information monopolies who can censor and limit who use their platforms based on subjective whims.
Chromebooks maybe?
The choices are deliberately wide. The idea is that people are unable to make even broad estimates of the state of the world correctly.

This classic TED talk [0] by Hans Rosling presents the same idea. I recommend watching all his other talks as well [e.g., 1-2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUxnnlKZSc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzT7AhzpBc
This makes no sense at all. If you have been or are being victimized, recognizing it is the first step to taking an action to counter it.

If someone steals from your car, nobody plays philosophical games about whether you were victimized and understanding that you were is the very first step to even understanding the situation and then adopting habits of not leaving expensive stuff in your car, investing in locks, taking a focus to the causes of crime, etc...
This is poor logic influenced by the politics of the LA aqueduct and water project.

Nuts are calorie dense, and most foods require as much if not more water per calorie. Food simply requires a lot of water. For example, A 5 oz glass of wine takes 34 gallons. A head of iceberg lettuce takes 16 gallons of water.

You will note that the motherJones article compares almond water things like home use, not other food sources.
Cool, will do. Thanks for an actual answer
They're in a delusional silicon valley bubble.
> words that were multiples of six bits

Why was six bits chosen? The modern use of eight bits seems more natural to me, being a power of 2.
I actually do something similar on the pinephone right now but with xmpp and jmp.chat instead.
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SMS 2FA is incredibly insecure. It has a huge attack surface: a stolen SIM card, a MITM attack (SMS is not encrypted, and devices like the Stingray that pretend to be cell towers to gather data are already in widespread use), or good old social engineering to convince a cell provider service rep to port out your number or issue a new SIM card.
That’s not how I remember it at all. The first time I heard of Dropbox it was in 2010-ish (1 year before I got an iPhone and several years before iPhones had a usable file system) when folks in my dorm were using it to share music libraries. I was a CS major and had never even heard the word “samba” (yeah, I know) and it seemed super useful for all kinds of things.

I mean, that’s just me, but my understanding was that it didn’t take off on mobile until after it had established a secure foothold on the desktop.
As someone whose main project surrounds passwords, I could appreciate a future without passwords, because I consider most existing solutions to be quite poor.

However, this feels more like having your sheep be herded by a fox...

Many here have already mentioned great points retorting this, so I won't beat a dead horse.

I will take the selfish opportunity to mention what my solution is that I'm working on: https://app.SrsPass.com

There's some rudimentary docs with a spec outline for those interested. But to sum it up, I share the same fears as others here of one device being some ultimate honey pot, or even worse, losing everything I have due to corruption or losing a/all devices where your pass vaults are when it comes to traditional managers. (Mind you, this coming from someone that runs RAID-Z3 NAS in multiple offsites).

Basically to keep it simple, I required the following aspects

- Available-source or Open-source (duh)

- Accessible on just about any device with a cpu, arm/x86 etc

- Vaultless & as stateless as possible

- No cloud, works completely offline

- Uses modern cryptography with sufficiently strong parameters

- Requires only one password to memorize

- Has uncrackable generated passwords (aka not feasible to crack in a long time period such as with 128 bits of entropy).

I believe SrsPass to meet all those aspects already. That is not to say that there aren't more features being worked on (the workboard is essentially public), however, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a more secure (when you build & run yourself) and accessible password manager than it.
Net Neutrality has nothing to do with individuals and more to do with "entities"..entities like corporations and other very wealthy edge providers. corpos who are more worried about limiting their competition and using government to ensure they aren't impeded.
>>IMO one of the big civil rights achievements was to get rid of that divide.

>This never happened.

Speaking as an American raised in the 1990s, the cultural programming of my childhood at least made progress in that direction. I was raised on popular TV shows like Sesame Street, Captain Planet, and Power Rangers, which showed people of all races coexisting in settings where race did not divide them. When the issue of racial prejudice did surface, it was clearly marked as a backwards and wrong-headed way of thinking.

These TV shows (and movies, books, etc.) were fiction, and did not change the reality of racial prejudice or de-facto segregated communities on the ground. However, they did set my and many childrens' expectations for how the world should be, and how people of different races should treat each other (i.e. as equals and as they would want to be treated). I see the then-mainstream prevalence of such messages, and absence of countervailing messages, as a tangible victory of the Civil Rights Movement.

I worry that today's mainstream cultural programming will have an opposite effect. Teaching children to focus on racial differences, and constantly drawing attention to race more generally, only teaches them to divide each other along racial lines. I believe a happy medium exists where concrete examples of racial prejudice get called out, but race is not otherwise constantly in focus.
They start heavily corrupting data if left unpowered for around a year or two though, in case this gives anyone false confidence in a use case they aren't designed for.
I'm not a scientist, so not the most scholarly first lookup, but tried searching for penis data[0]. The first link sent me to a site that requires signup to use [1]. No fun. Won't use again.

[0] - https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/search?query=penis...
[1] - https://data.world/jemus42/world-penis-data
I wonder when we will get the right to repair software.
Weird I never see chrome preinstalled. It's always a generic "internet" app
I'm personally turned off by the live nature of it. In the same way that I don't particularly like voice messages.

At least with text (even in chat rooms), you can edit and condense. Also I dont have anything particularly interesting to say and I don't want to listen to blowhards who think they do.
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Yes, I believe you have been subjected to that abuse.

But... the point of my metaphor is: cake does exist. It's real. You can make your own! The recipes are available! They do work! The fact that people have convinced you that cake doesn't exist is a reflection on them, not on me.

You are trying to convince me - a person who is eating a cake right now - that cake is a lie. And for some reason you seem really angry with me about it.
> Tip Jar is an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation on Twitter.

The conversation is mostly snarkiness and trolling. I really hope we don't start rewarding that with cash.
That too - but that's present in any state. Japan just had the weirdest combination of resting all authority in the emperor, while having a strong tradition of the emperor never exercising any practical authority. So you get stuff like the creation of a puppet state in Manchuria essentially against the will of the Japanese prime minister.

I think the basic structure of a leader that theoretically has absolute power, but practically speaking is a kind of empty suit, is actually pretty generalizable and common. Japan is an extreme example, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Iraq war was the result of a similar combination of institutional momentum and leadership vacuum[0].
> Am I the only person who loathes this form of 2FA?

Apparently not, but it's always worked for me. Two things, though: 1) sites should support multiple methods of 2FA. I don't understand why many only let you have one. If I drop my phone in the toilet, I want to have a FIDO token enrolled as backup. 2) some of these implementations, like Google's, are proprietary. I want something universal and standards-based so we're not dependent on a different app for every service we use.

> But how have we increased safety when my Team/Outlook phone app requests that I click "approve" on a different app? I'm basically alt-tab'ing and clicking a different button, not really an improvement. It should be on a separate device, or something out of Microsoft's control so they can't screw it up.

You're correct, and knowing only what you've told me, I would argue this solution was implemented incorrectly.
The pricing for water in California is highly asymmetric, with urban users paying significantly more (one to two orders of magnitude more) for water than agricultural users. If agricultural users are charged a higher rate (or equivalently the state cuts back on their subsidies ) and "free' rights to water are regulated and distributed more evenly across the population then wasteful use of water will immediately become uneconomical. That is the right long term solution to aligning resource usage with available supply.
Credit card settlements happen next business day, not after weeks. Venmo and PayPal transactions settle instantly. You can spend the money immediately. PayPal also supports instant bank transfers, so you can transfer it out and withdraw it from an ATM as cash a minute later if you'd like.
It's tough to know where to begin with something so obviously false and trivializing.

What amount of violence would you need to experience before you would acknowledge victimization? There's plenty that goes around that you apparently don't know about.

Let's say you are poor, went to a protest, and got arrested. You can't make bail (you're poor) and are fired from your job because you are in in jail. You easily win your case and see no prison time, but your life has been massively impacted in the negative by others unjustly.

This person was a victim of policing and likely the system in general that creates these trade-offs and punishes a lack of material wealth. You cannot begin to even understand the situation without acknowledging the fault and the injustice.
Yep, this is my exact feeling. Really felt like Ben Horowitz fell in love and maybe coaxed/cut-in his rapper friends to help push this real quick.

Maybe one of his buddies kept saying “yo Ben, when can I make an investment just like Ashton Kutcher or Bieber?!”

Heavy lies the crown
Whatever Might is or becomes, I am sure it will have an app store.
It's important even when it's an iPhone or Android device. As the FTC report details, many households lack internet access outside of their mobile phones, so having to send off your only way to get online to the original manufacturer can mean days or weeks of not being able to access government services or apply for jobs or whatever.
Adobe could spend a billion dollars on R&D to optimize their web apps and still not get it. It's not an engineering problem, it's a corporate structure problem.

The only way to solve web app performance is to put 5-7 engineers in a room and say "we want it fast. As fast as possible. Get to work."

But no, they have the front end team, who has to run everything by the compliance committee, and the architecture committee, and the API committee, and the back-end team, that has to run everything by all the committees and the front-end team, and they also have to wait on the infrastructure team before they can test any of their stuff, and before you know it 12 weeks have gone by before an engineer has written an actual line of code.

And none of this corporate structure can be fixed because the CEO doesn't understand it, and all the management he hires to fix it are financially incentivized to continue holding their little fiefdoms.
Whoever is at the bottom of iFixit's repairability scale?
See BLEUnlock[1] for a simple Bluetooth proximity lock solution for macOS or BusKill[2] for a cross-platform wired solution.

[1] https://github.com/ts1/BLEUnlock

[2] https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-k...