skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to view everthing with a degree of skepticism

The problem is that that can't actually be true. If it were, you wouldn't be able to actually do anything. You'd be too busy being skeptical about whether the sun will actually rise tomorrow or whether all of the people around you are actually simulacra. It's an old and well-discussed problem called Radical Skepticism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism

You can expand "degree" to re-enable your ability to act, but that's exactly what's going on here. They're saying, "No, we're not going to waste more time re-re-re-reevaluating often-refuted observations".

I'll set aside tendentious arguments about what constitutes "fascism", but it's definitely the case that people use insincere arguments for "skepticism" in order to shut down all genuine inquiry. That's not productive, and it's useful to find ways to circumvent that.
If a company has a service or product they want to sell and no one knows about it, no one will purchase it.

The minimum advertisement is essentially: "we sell ____."

I guess that could be called manipulative but without it, I'm not sure the economy could exist.
That was the amazing thing about being a kid in the late 70's and early 80's. Cheap computers existed that had the tools to allow you to pass programs to others like a mix tape.

Now with iDevices, you need permission from a corporation to pass programs to others. I would guess this might be problematic with protest games.
Yeah, my preferences for tech stack are less "I must have X, Y, Z" and more "I refuse to work with X, Y, Z"
A lot of people hold the Rationalists, of whom Robin Hanson is a leading light, in high regard. So, even if a particular post is not very good, it will be received positively because of its authorship.
I think it's harsh to call it a bad faith argument. Say you were having a conversation with jefftk, and he makes the points in the article. Wouldn't you just say they're the start of a conversation, with room to move? Also, do you normally downvote articles that don't have a fresh perspective? There's not that many things new under the sun.

Anyway one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet about ads is that it encourages the unrestrained growth of ad space itself. There are just a billion articles on the internet written for the sole purpose of grabbing your attention and selling it. A lot of these sites have no real value, one of each ("How do I do X") on the internet would be more than enough. A lot of them ought to just be headlines that I can skip ("Man Utd interested in a teenager" would in the old days just say the guy's name).

The real argument against the article is that the calculus of paywall vs ads is not quite as straightforward as proposed. Either mode of operation has reflexive influence on what the internet looks like, and that's maybe where to dig deeper for an argument. How do the different options encourage different interests to behave?
Newsom actually got a lot less coverage on national television, which is hilarious because California's response was objectively better than NY & NYC.

Meanwhile, NY goes up in flames and suddenly Cuomo is on TV every day and his approval rating was skyrocketing.
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I absolutely agree with you that you can get insane mileage from improving the basic UIs of almost everything. It's sad how little attention we give to this stuff. I think that's what Jobs got and his imitators only imitate...a genuine concern for the user.

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Damn, thanks for letting me know... will look into it. Any error message?
Tell that to the Venezuelans that have been able to move money safely in and out of their country, or the many artists that went from struggling to be able to make a few bucks by selling NFTs.
I would happily get rid of my Netflix account, but if people would take away my Bitcoin (good luck trying), it would be devastating to my life. Many don't understand it that at this point Bitcoin is a means of survival for tens or hundreds of millions of people, just like the stock market is a means of survival for billions of people in their pension funds.
A $60B Housing Grab by Wall Street (2020)
It usually does! One thing to consider - during those years you were moving, you also reinforced the market position of not caring too much about long term durability for a large number of properties/landlords/sellers, and your current place you’ve only influenced in the other direction for one property/landlord/seller, correct?

A dollar sitting under the mattress for 20 years affects GDP/the economy a lot less than the dollar that gets spent all the time.

It isn’t as simple of course as ‘who cares, I’ll be out of here in a few years’ - though a surprisingly percent of the time I’ve literally heard people say that and use it as justification for writing off obvious maintenance issues or buying a place that clearly has problems.
Also, unlimited vacations[0] are a trap. People end up taking less than market norms (US - 2 weeks) or informally/tribally decided what is the normal amount of time to take off. It also means people work while traveling.

[0] - if you're an employer and offer unlimited vacations be honest about it: set guidelines about how many days people typically take, if people are expected to be responsive / working while on vacation, etc.
Based on my past experience in contract work, I'm guessing many clients want specific help for their problems and people that can on-ramp quickly. The least risky way to fulfill that is to find someone through your network that can be vouched, instead of doing a long song-and-dance of SoWs and portfolio presentations with randos on the internet. That removes the need to post about these positions publicly.
We internationalized our number field
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This is such an uncharitable read that I think it’s doing you a disservice.

I recommend imagining “what frame of mind or perspective would PG need to have to honestly believe what he’s saying?”
This makes sense and puts it in a slightly new light for me—as a way of salvaging some productivity, when run by the developers, Agile/Scrum would certainly be better than many alternatives. I guess that’s what we did in my earlier reference, about 16 years ago. I wish it hadn’t become so coopted by the usual suspects.
I feel that is just one of the definitions of autism ?

Anyway, I didn't want to suggest that everyone had to have it :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25484160
Would it be possible to alter someone's DNA so it would fool a DNA test?
Either temporarily or permanently. I'm thinking sci Fi murder can't be identified from DNA evidence due to some sort of tinkering with medicine to change his DNA
Except that is explicitly a parody/critique of what Brent Yorgey called the "monad tutorial fallacy": https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...

This is the post that originally coined that phrase.
TypeScript+immutable is like typed clojure without S-expressions but with async io, so that is nice. Haven’t found a way to get eval-expr-at-point for js though. This is my choice for writing back ends today, but I also do Clojure jobs.

I program compilers nowadays, and do so in OCaml, which is blocking IO, mutable data, and no sexpr, but the type system makes changing code easy. For the domain of compilers, there isn’t much IO anyways.
for the average user, they are.
Hey HN!

We're Beehive, a social app that lets you call your friends without needing to schedule. With Beehive, there's no more catching a friend at a bad time, sending texts back-and-forth to coordinate, or wondering if they even want to talk to you. Simply make a post with a topic, set an expiry time of 5-60 mins, and wait for a friend to call you! If you see a post on your feed, it means that friend is willing and able to chat. Our calls last about 10 mins, so it's perfect to pass time during a walk or wait.

A few months ago, we launched Beehive as an audio version of Quora or Stack Overflow [1]. You could post any question and get a call from someone with an answer. That problem ended up being too broad and vague. People just didn't know what to post.

Then, something interesting happened: our users started using Beehive to call their friends. We saw people talk about their day, tell a funny story, or meet up in person. That's when we redesigned Beehive to be the easiest way to call and keep in touch with your friends [2].

We'd love for you to try out the new version of Beehive on iOS and Android with your friends and let us know your thoughts!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624508
[2] https://www.askbeehive.com
That is such an amazing title
Pretty fascinating niche. On one of my trips over there a Czech cousin told me how they had to be careful even dubbing Michael Jackson tapes in the 80s since American media was not allowed at all. These games seem a lot riskier.

Edit: Thanks to the comments on this it seems things weren't so dire in the 80s. My cousin was a kid then--perhaps he was recounting more 70s era stories from his older sister or something! In any case, it's fun hearing about all of your memories since my first visit over there was in 1990. :)
That would be the ideal solution. However, I believes it depends on the font family since some font families are abnormally large such as Noto because of CJK (the Noto family is about 250+ MB). And it depends on the licensing of the font.

Also some sites don't use common fonts which is another thing that need to be download to the device. We have over million of fonts and it is not effective to get them all downloaded to the computer eating up storage space.
For times when you miss hiking so much
> I guess if you have a company that is completely isolated from the EU, you just ignore EU fines.

Ignoring legitimate fines seems like a pretty bad idea. I think most countries have law to the effect that the directors of the company being fined are liable, so if you skip those fines then one of the directors goes on holiday to that country then they could be sent to prison.
Moreover, the contributors regularly discussing topics that touch on native experiences, myself included, generally take every opportunity to highlight the historical realities of those experiences. I can't think of any that deny indigenous genocides and I'd let the mods know if I saw another contributor doing so.
This isn't python or JavaScript. This language is specifically designed to integrate with proof assistants, like ambitious hyper-secure TLS implementations or formally verified microkernels.
My point of the analogy is that film was an entirely new medium for creators a century ago and while the projector and camera manufacturers came up with the idea of a cinema, it was the artists that made something worth showing.
I'm the same - I just launched https://4dayweek.io/ which may be of interest to you :)
The first link is not a credible worry. Ad targeting is not even close to 100% accurate, no ad can out you. You can just brush it off.

Links 2 and 3 are concerning. The FB and Google do have a way to stop that though - you can click an ad and say it doesn't interest you or you don't like it, that signal is insanely strong and the platforms will turn off the spigot.

The rest is not actual harm to people, its people concerned about the idea of targeting being harmful. Cambridge Analytica was a laughable scandal btw, absolutely no one was actually impacted by it.
Except I'm the guy that sucks.
A combination between a street and a road.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-07/defining-...
Really great idea - excited to try this out!
Yes, various other stories about it. I find it amusing that some finance sites like Yahoo Finance and ETrade (those are the only ones I checked) are correctly displaying the price at 431998 or thereabouts, and some are not. Different APIs in use by the different sites? Or are they special casing all stocks with a share price above 400k? (yeah, there's only one)
I just see the home page briefly and then it refreshes and i see just white space. Maybe some javascript / redirect crap?
Where are you getting the data that recidivism rates are close to 100%?
That a degree of geographical determinism exists seems pretty clear.

What's far less clear is that it was a simple as agriculture rose first on the Hilly Flanks. Game over.

Why the West Rules for Now is IMO correct when it basically says "Of course, the various factors Diamond discussed played a role but they're not the whole story. The book then goes on to show (based on a lot of data) how the Western Core and the Eastern Core actually switched leadership positions back and forth over time. I think it's fair to characterize his position as it was always going to be one of those two, but the West achieve its position solely because it was first.
This is a bad take and arbitrarily discriminatory, and I don't like this sort of reactionary anti-virtue signalling I've been seeing a lot on HN recently. You did not establish that the "new challenges" are especially difficult to overcome, nor that they're not worth undertaking. There can be a lot to learn through this process, and that by itself is valuable. YOU seem to believe that there is only marginal practical benefit, but I can't quite understand why you believe that merely increasing the pool of applicants is a bad idea [and the European Space Agency seems to disagree with you as well]. I'm curious on the specifics of your interpretation.

It might be a "ridiculously selective process," but the specific restrictions within that process are, to some degree, arbitrary. They're certainly worth reconsidering and expanding from time-to-time as technology/safety improves, especially since we're getting closer to an age of commercial space flight where people with disabilities will have more access to space flight regardless of what any specific space agency will do.
It's EU regulation and Norway is part of EEA which adapted these GDPR regulations. Feels like some risk and compliance officer at Disqus has been sleeping
Then maybe the problem is the human. Perhaps an algorithm should take in the test information and determine the most logical path forward (do nothing, increased future testing, surgery).

From a Bayesian/logical POV, more information should still allow for a better decision.
I wonder why Chrome's "Reading Mode" is not activated in Paul Graham's website. I really get used to read articles in Reader Mode, with the same style, background color, font size and without any other distracting elements of the page. His website font size is 13px, which is pretty small. So I copy+paste to Obsidian and read there.
Interesting. To a layman like me the pictures are pretty convincing, but I know nothing about geology and very little about fungi.

It would be really neat if we had humans on Mars that could just walk over, pick something up and put it under a microscope and in a test tube. The paper itself cites several other authors that provide abiotic explanations. I wish we could just test it instead of speculating.
And do you think the people making those irrational speculative investments will just stop if one of their investment targets is removed? I suppose a few might, but are those few worth it?
I wish this was the top comment. 1000%
The most critical issue was probably the reactor design's positive void coefficient. The RBMK design was created to use less enriched fuel than other designs, so it had to have performance characteristics that would permit a stable reaction when that fuel was used. To get that "feature", the design had a positive void coefficient.

This meant that it to work in such a way that reactivity would increase if coolant boiled away or other voids (spaces without nuclear moderating materials) formed in the fuel assembly. To keep reactions under control, it was necessary to ensure that there was always some material present to moderate the reaction.

Almost every other reactor design will essentially shut itself off if coolant is lost (negative void coefficient). This is a safety factor in case situations unexpected by the designers occur. In the event something really strange happens, the reactor turns off.

With a positive void coefficient, if something unforeseen by the designers happens, the reactor ramps up to higher output. Combine that with human mistakes in a certain sequence and safety systems that don't operate 100% correctly when the reactor is overheating and running away and you can get an out of control excursion as happened at Chernobyl.
To be blunt: you need to talk to users/understand your users if your first instinct is to post here for this.
I didn't notice anything about Yugoslavia in the article...? I thought the comment referred to Czechoslovakia.
Likewise, one of the best, most valuable, things that Albert Einstein did was to attack quantum mechanics in every way he could.
I also prefer non-Win environments but generally my higher concern is whether the hardware specs and configurations are sufficient for the loads that are placed on them.
I can think of some other problems with Finland from my years of experience with the country. One is nepotism: Finland has a reputation as a low-corruption country, but that is simply because it is swept under the rug that often jobs and state funding go to the people with the right connections.

Another downside is a society that is rather hostile to those who want to work only seasonally. In Eastern Europe populations are comparatively poorer, but it isn’t at all unusual for a young person to work his/her ass off for a while, then backpack the world or live off savings. In Finland, I found this challenging because rental contracts on flats are very long as a rule, and because the high cost of living makes it difficult to live off savings.
This is what happens when you decide you're too special and important to make good games instead of easy money and then you hire a bunch of SJW PR assholes to deflect from your crappy user-hostile attitude.
Never seen it! But not surprised to see that it existed. Was familiarizing myself with matter.js (phys library) and made this as a first test.
Is this different than what was reported more than 3 years ago [0]?

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
How do you draw the difference between an ad and not an ad?

Is a doctor telling you to brush 2x a day an ad for toothpaste? What about their suggestion that you floss more? Those are aligned with your well being, but will increase your consumption.

> change their behavior in a way that's going to be detrimental to them.

This seems obviously wrong. The implication here is that anything advertised must be bad for the target. From an econ perspective this means that you reject the idea of comparative advantage.
I can totally agree with the general ideas about reducing risk and failure modes.

But with or without a payment switch, this is an electronically controlled airbag. It’s designed to have a way for software to keep it from inflating at all times, just like your car’s airbag has. It has a heuristic algorithm that tries to anticipate a crash based on sensor inputs, and the fundamental operation of the thing is that software is going to decide whether to inflate. Like your car, its default mode of operation is don’t inflate. The software switch is nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary, and you’re already relying on software switches daily.

There’s no evidence or reason to believe the payment system adds any additional risk beyond the fact that all airbags are already electronically controlled. It is possible for the payment system to be isolated so that it won’t affect inflation during a ride, and they explicitly stated their intent to do exactly that. So there’s no reason to think that non-payment can lead to failure during a ride, and there is evidence to suggest otherwise.

All the pure speculation in this thread about payment affecting safety was stirred up by the Vice article suggesting it, despite the product specs.
RIP mutable noalias (again)
Again, look to Oscar Pistorius for a concrete example. The man has the same ability to move around as someone with legs, they're just made of carbon fiber. Many prosthetics have sophisticated articulation. We're a long way past the days of peg legs.

I fully expect an organization capable of creating the ISS to be capable of figuring out a way for prosthetics to be usable onboard. Put a bit of velcro on one of these, perhaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2z8CE2vomY
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Well, I knew there was a reorg, asked for the conversion and they made the offer. After talking to a fair number of people, I realized that they want 20-50% more time in trade for less money but they say you can only get fired twice a year.... Welp, I told them that the hours were insane and with my clinical depression; I'm going to hate my life if I work that much. So they were pretty understanding after that.
Ah that sucks. I just downloaded Firefox for mac and it loads ok, must be a Debian issue, will need to try and get a Debian boot to fix, damn
Do you understand what the word expound means?
Read again for comprehension.
The writeup, which I find more interesting, is found here:

https://qntm.org/hatetris
just use an android? Super easy to install.apk
This doesn't actually happen though. When FB is hacked its the same banal hacks anyone else has, phone numbers, etc.
I agree with the three issues they identify driving up costs. But I fear “Medicare for All” won't fix all the issues, which go much deeper. For example, the US has extremely high standards restricting who can practice medicine compared to the rest of world, limiting the supply of doctors and artificially driving up their demand. There is a need for standards, but perhaps the AMA has too much political influence. Likewise, manufacturers of medical supplies operate as monopolies because the moat to reach approval is really high. I fear the US medical system is becoming so insane the only fix will be to replace it entirely (It's not just about tearing down, but replacing institutions)
TLDR Arm SVE is a bit of a pain to hand write assembly for because there is more to look up?

Can anyone recommend a good introduction to SVE2?
Full authoritarian? No. It is a subreddit.

At what point would you stop allowing somebody clearly engaging in bad faith from wasting your time? Never?
What a strange and cynical view to hold. Maybe people talk about safety out of a genuine care of others? Or maybe they are into doing things safely and like to share that.
You can make a small website.
Even airdrop some html file with js included if you want it interactive and don't want to host it.
Trump never regretted what I quoted. He was asked to apologize and refused.

Biden saying something positive about poor minority children being equal to whites is a bizarre comparison.
This is one of the major problems with PG's essays---he frequently assigns the worst possible motives to the people he disagrees with.
> A statement like this just signals that the author has not been around many scientists in their life.

Public health experts aren't always pure scientists (e.g. Public Policy and Administration). Even when they are scientists, they're often a mixture of scientist and politician once they ascend to a high enough level (e.g. Fauci).
There is no rationale here to be found, You are comparing an insane bubble (Doge, etc.) to a regular bubble (Avalanche, etc.).

People have completely lost the value of money, do you realize how much money is $4.5 billion?

In 2007 Apple had a market cap of 80 billion and a P/E ratio of 26, it had revolutionary products on the market that were clearly going to change an entire industry while at the same time bringing in steady revenue, can you imagine how much it would be worth today in this bubble?
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