skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VCs are just following the money. We're at the tail end of the economic boom brought on by computers. Until we have another paradigm-shifting scientific discovery, computers will be used to more efficiently match up existing assets (AirBnB) while serving ads and content that decays our social bonds/infrastructure (Facebook).

If there was less money in the system a lot of these quasi-innovative companies would die, or not even get off the ground. But there is tons and it is leading to the misallocation of a great amount of time, energy, and intelligence - at the cost of future generation's standard of living.
clang does the same - I tested it back to clang 7.0.

So clang did this for a long time it seems.
> The ads. Aren't. The problem. The stalking is.

But what about the manipulation?
The big switch was maybe about 3 years ago? v0.5 had a few more changes away from the ML style too https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.5-released/
Clothes also unnaturally restrict movement and make one feel constrained. Hence there being a spectrum of comfort from formal/workwear to sweatpants/pajamas, and jokes about working from home with no pants. Children don't react against wearing clothes (as much) because they've become accustomed to wearing them, and nobody says that a child taking their pants off in the middle of the grocery store demonstrates "psychological abuse".

When a child can't emotionally handle wearing a mask, they're likely taking a cue from their parent reacting similarly. And nobody is getting "thrown off airlines" because their child took off a mask as they worked to get it back on - they're likely refusing to keep control of their child, or throwing a tantrum right along with them.

I've seen too many histrionic comments saying masks make it "hard to breathe" to take any of them seriously. Plenty of trades wear masks for hours at a time - eg surgeons, construction, auto body. That narrative ignores the benefits of wearing a mask, while blowing the burden out of proportion. Anything can be made to seem prohibitively burdensome when one shirks personal responsibility.
How would you find participants for a study group that doesn't experience any daily screen time?
People do limit their communications to valuable platforms. People do chose networks with significant populations. I’m not sure why you’d say otherwise but I suspect this isn’t going to be a valuable conversation so let’s end it here.
> but the combination therapy produced a roughly 500-fold reduction in bacterial colony-forming units in just three hours.

Life-saving situation. Those last resort drugs have, in general, side-effects that you won't want in your whole life, except, well, when it's the last resort to not lose your life.
> political movement concerned with American police brutality against African Americans

Because you are lying about what BLM is. It is not about police brutality, rather about neomarxist political power:

http://web-old.archive.org/web/20200901043957/https://blackl...

They have since removed this page because it undercuts the semantic overload of their name.
I still use it fairly often... only complaint is the extremely annoying update reminders that seem to come up way too often. Would prefer if they didn’t just pop up and only showed when I opened the app
Have you considered that people might have different world views?

Some might find

1. all advertising unethical

2. targeted advertising unethical

3. not consider advertising unethical

4. consider the product that is being advertised
There's a real slippery slope issue here too though, for several reasons, that I'd expect would lead to overuse.

It's a fancy new thing that will be branded as helping to avoid mistakes, reduce legal system costs, increase consistency, etc.

So, it will be applied to existing laws more generally than the abstract suggests it should be.

New laws will be made with this in mind, increasing application regardless of whether the new laws are actually literally interpretable.

It will become entrenched and hard to remove as allocated funds to pay people to do the same jobs disappear.
There is a middle ground.

You advertise to me, You don't track every single fucking thing I do online to do it.

If we agree to that then I'll turn my adblocker/pi-hole off - otherwise enjoy the null-hole.
Being a good person isn't about summing the good and bad parts of your life. Good deeds can't erase bad ones, but they also aren't invalidated by them. Be thankful for whatever good someone does and also demand apology, restitution, and the promise to do better for the bad that they do.
You don't need custom style sheets. One font-family declaration can hit them all: https://markdotto.com/2018/02/07/github-system-fonts/#the-st...
I have a Yubikey Nano permanently inserted in my Mac. It's always there, at the press of a finger.
Yes, they were just unlucky that's where some of the rainclouds broke.
For sure! I would never advocate "maximize other people's money" as a philosophy around which anyone should center their life. The idea is to convince everyone to buy into an economy that works, and then live life around that.
If someone from Zoom wants to sell Keybase to a nonprofit to be run as a utility, hit me up.
> he is just hustling his audience

And doing an extremely effective job of it. Getting readers to feel something is the whole game. Paul and Suhail know the default reaction to this idea is “well that’s dumb”. Encouraging and exploiting heated conversation around that is a smart move.
"ads are good" is a red herring. i don't object to ads, but i find google's chokehold on the ad market abhorrent, becuase it becomes excusionary, both for publishers and advertisers. Google is thus able to impose e.g. moral codes on what is allowed to be advertised and what content is allowed to be monetized. The solution is indeed micropayments and they exist, like brave.

Another drawback of the ad-supported model is that it has created a very pervasive culture of unaccountability. Google has terrible user support because they truly don't care about users - they 'll keep making money regardless of what their users think and there's no way for users to vote with their feet (practically -- after all google gatekeeps all their address bars).
I asked that exact question, they did not answer.
It is common for people to only have one option for a fast ISP. I would be scared about a world in which monopoly ISPs had that kind of power.
There are always a limited number of possible discussions that can happen at a time.

Those with "outlandish" views, namely those who believe some people's lives are fundamentally worth less than others often turn this into a strategy. As long as Holocaust deniers are tolerated and especially counter-argued by everyone, Holocaust denial will be all that is being talked about because they take the stage.

Even if they lose the discussion, they win the topic of the day. And that topic gets gradually normalized into an acceptable position, pushing away others silently.
BLM as an organization (as opposed to the more nebulous BLM popular movement as a general desire to end police violence) has been vocal about trans rights, for instance. People in other countries who oppose trans rights might therefore see BLM as an ideological opponent. I can’t speak about Japan, but BLM is certainly discussed as a bearer of inimical ideas among some Europeans.
Show HN: An open source program for writing hardware build instructions
> Second, I simply don’t believe you that it takes a full three seconds to open gnome calculator on your new machine. Or your old one, really. (It makes me want to ask the annoying question: is Linux that bad? My Mac or Windows machine has opened the calculator instantly regardless of the era).

I believe it. It takes 10 seconds or so for the Windows 10 calculator to cold-start on my laptop.
The article said not using the phone before bed helps:

> avoiding smartphone use before bed can improve your sleep.

Night Shift enabling makes me hate using my devices because the screen becomes dim and red and annoying to use. So I stop using them earlier. Win!
I lost a decent amount of respect for pg due to how he keeps portraying Mighty like it's gonna change how we use the Internet and computers in general. Like, really?

I don't mind Mighty as a product, I don't mind their team, their pricing or their slick marketing website. But please, call it what it is: A nice and slick Remote Browsing product, one of multiple ones. Cloudflare recently launched an RBI product with much more humble and honest marketing about where it will be useful.
Really interesting to see these numbers knowing they just closed a round that valued them at $4 billion. a16z had to have seen this trend coming. I wonder what they’re seeing that we aren’t.
Waiving IP
It is valuable, and I appreciate your response.

It may not surprise you to know that I fundamentally disagree with downvoting in general- I feel like there a difference between signaling "this is low quality content" and "I disagree with your point".

In HN there's no way to make that distinction, so if you want to express a viewpoint that's unpopular (which we should encourage in debate) you have to be willing to pay a karma penalty.
But no one uses that architecture anymore. To the extent that you have a terminal on a remote server, you use it to configure the server, from your own thick client.
I think what HN community is missing is that tech jobs can allow you to pay for all these services if possible, but most of the world especially the developing world, is not capable of paying for the content.
If everything was behind paywalls, internet would be for the rich guys who can afford paying for these services. To make it free and equal for all, ads are the necessarily evil, according to me.
20 days is standard in the UK but most companies will give you 25. Some also give you the option to buy more.
There is also a more positive side. Angkor is a symbol of pride for a (demographically) young, growing, and optimistic nation.
Thank you for linking to the article showing that they improved the headline (possibly as a result of people pointing it out) to the significantly-better "A state trooper shot and killed.."

Are you suggesting that they shouldn't have changed it, because the kid was at fault?

"A trooper-involved fatal shooting in Leonardtown that ended in the death of a 16-year-old" could mean anything. It could mean that someone shot at a trooper, missed, and hit the kid. It could mean that a trooper shot at a dog in self-defense, and a kid was accidentally killed by the ricocheted bullet. It could even mean that someone shot at a trooper and the kid died of a heart attack from the noise.

"A state trooper shot and killed.." describes what happened. It's factual. It doesn't assign fault. If you think it creates too much of a gut-reaction that a trooper killing a 16-year-old is a problem, well, maybe that's a good thing because it suggests we should have more options to prevent that from happening. And if you think it's a good thing that the trooper shot him, well, the headline satisfies that as well.
I mean that's provably not the case as many creatures including humans are more collaborative than strictly selfish in nature, and there's a wealth of knowledge you can find about that by going to google scholar
I dont think this is a downside at all.
If you build on a existing blockchain you ofc need funding rather than "printing" you own funding. It may be harder but also less of a legal risk.

BTW Coil.com pays content creators based on user interaction. Its however not self printed money its form actual user who want to support content creator rather than ad-companies.
Ofc coil itself runs on funding money like any other startup nothing wrong with that.

Also a project can ask the team behind the DLT they want to use and possibly get some of their reserves. Its in their interest that the DLT is used for something. Actual devs who build something are worth way more than the thousands of people who just buy something because Elon Musk tweets about it.

And btw at the same time a dev can still bet on price gains or the token they use. I see no moral problem with that. If your product actually creates demand that moves the price up and you bet on that you own it.
Don't you think browser chrome might add to that feeling?
And then, when they finally got around to actually applying some science to the question, the message became, "Surgical and (decent) cloth masks will protect others from yourself, and may also protect you."

I can't track down papers atm, but, on a more anecdotal level, there have been quite a few case studies of superspreader events where the people who were wearing masks were much less likely to contract the illness than people who weren't. Given the specific details at play, it's hard to explain how that could happen if cloth or surgical masks don't protect oneself as well.

The big problem here was that, early on, nobody knew exactly how the virus spread. So, in the interest of caution, they picked the worst case scenario, aerosol transmission, and speculated based on that assumption. And a cloth or surgical mask probably won't protect the wearer very well in that case. But it turns out that droplet transmission seems to be the better model.
Yeah I find myself asking why is this person indescribably angry about someone working in ads and then donating hundreds of thousands to charity when there are tens (hundreds? across the world?) of thousands of folks out there working in ads donating zilch. It's an emotional response not a logical one to get mad at the OP like that.
My Instagram ads seem to be laser-focused on my insecurities. I don’t buy the shit they’re selling by they definitely make me feel bad about myself, so mission half accomplished!
This is great news but your phone is still required for two-factor which is an easy attack vector with some social engineering with mobile carriers.
How does the advertiser know they're not getting ripped off?
Can confirm, not a professor :) Nine papers on Computational Chemistry during my 3 year PhD. Been writing about semiconductors for 10+ years now. Also doing video on the youtubes. https://www.youtube.com/techtechpotato
> There's been 80 years of continuous demonstration that holocaust denial is ahistorical garbage. Yet people continue to believe it because it allows them to justify their hatred.

You are suggesting that our liberal approach to free speech has failed so we might as well go full authoritarian and shut down the crazy… all to prevent another tide of nazi authoritarianism?

That is hilariously contradictory.
The problem is that ads are not free. It's paid. And it's paid by you.

When you say "I'm using Google for free because it's supported by ads", what it means is:

- some companies are buying (expensive) ads on Google

- they are therefore increasing their marketing budget

- which mechanically increases the price of their services and products

- which you ultimately have to pay

so no, the "free ads" are not free for the consumers, you pay them as a "marketing tax" on each product and service that you pay for
Am I understanding right that this shutdown happened overnight with no warning? I didn't have any investment in LiveLeak one way or another, but this gushing about how much the community meant to the team rings a little hollow when I imagine there are users angry they didn't have any time to prepare for it.
You can just skip all this: create a landing page with a “Coming Soon” mock-up and sign up form.

Buy some ads, tweet and then wait to see if it’s worth working on.
Imagine growing up in Germany and having your history be whitewashed so you barely know the atrocities your society committed... oh wait! I’m from California! We had our own genocide of the Natives that was sanctioned by the gold rush government. Anyone remember panning for gold in elementary school? Yeah... those were bad times if you weren’t white. Also, the California Genocide was closer in time to the Holocaust than the Holocaust is to today.

Do have to hand it to Eichmann though. Totally different level of scale of atrocity...

Still should probably get a new name for the 49ers football team...
I would never want my laptop to be my authentication device for my personal life. I am away from home when I need to log in to things. Even if I'm at home, I am not sitting at my desk when I need to log in.
Can't you buy a decent desktop and have them chromote into it? A desktop should be more than enough to run the apps of many people.

Edit: Although, I'm not sure it supports multiple separate logins.
I hate that you're right. I wish experience wasn't such an expensive teacher.
It’s definitely nice to have the imperative constructs but spending a lot of time with pure languages has changed my perspective on mutability. I think Rust mostly fits it, data is immutable by default in Rust.
I love how this manages to touch on class, race, and a whole bunch of issues, while also managing to derail the conversation to some sort of camp kid discussion.

> Doesn't change the fact that most comportments and interests are mainly ruled by social environment and upbringing, and biology only have this little impact (and it is still probably less that my brain will attribute, but at least i'm self-aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error).

Twin studies disprove this. Separated twins, in different parts of the country, end up doing the same sort of jobs and marrying the same kind of people.

We're willing to assume different dog breeds -- all the same species -- have different temperaments, why wouldn't this apply to people. Even Dobermans can be trained to be nice dogs, but that means the training is overcoming the urge to bite.
> The majority of ads make us feel inadequate to get us to buy something

I know it's hard to disprove but I don't think adverts have that effect on me, partially it's because I don't see many adverts and partly because that kind of blatant manipulation is so hilariously blatant.

I acknowledge that someone might be running a really effective advertising campaign on me but since I basically don't buy anything I don't actually need I can't imagine what that would be.
The dystopian novel practically writes itself.

Imagine being locked out of your house and bank accounts because your Google account got suspended. Maybe Google could introduced an account protection service for people worried about this happening - for a small annual fee of course - and unofficially turn it into racketeering.
Bitcoin gave a shuttered coal plant a second life
Mikhail Gorbachev for one

https://slate.com/technology/2013/01/chernobyl-and-the-fall-...

Edit: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy also makes a claim that the accident let to political instability in the Ukraine which certainly didn't help with the integrity of the SU.
> The rewards for working on new ideas are weighted by the value of the outcome. So it's worth working on something that only has a 10% chance of succeeding if it would make things more than 10x better

This is the primary point here - the "crazy idea" may (and likely does) have a low probability of being correct and succeeding, but with an outsized reward it may still be worth pursuing. This is, almost by definition, the correct way of looking at it.

Also note that he's talking about crazy ideas from "reasonable domain experts", not your run of the mill crazy.

This is not just a response to Mighty - he's been talking about this for years.
This is related to programmers tribes.

Casey and Jon and from the engineering tribe.
The cool stuff tribe is what I call the business oriented tribe.

But I think you're missing the point.

The technical merits of Mighty is a secondary problem.
The essay seems to be about startups. It could use more examples to illustrate the point.
Debating the genocide of indigenous Americans is explicitly against the rules of AskHistorians.
"Without passwords" ... by importing your passwords to google! haha
Well, Mikhail Gorbachev has actually written about specifically this. You'd think he'd be a reliable source.
He said he plans on being King, so he can simply dictate that people use ‘The King’s English’.
This statement does not address the parent's comment.
The title is misleading. I went into it thinking I will find some new crazy ideas, but there were none.
The problem with YouTube Premium is unnecessary and anticompetitive bundling.

They ask €11.99/month for Premium (no ads) + YouTube Music.
Or €9.99/month just for YouTube Music.
Given that I already pay for another service, I don't want either of these plans.

It's not possible to get only YouTube Premium (avoid ads), even if the marginal cost of ad-free YouTube experience is only €2/month, according to Google. I think €24/year is a very reasonable price to pay for YouTube, €144 is not.
> See Daniel Shaver, who was recorded on camera being executed, unarmed in his underwear, begging for his life, by a psycho cop.

Literally the only substantial voice that stood up and went to bat for Daniel Shaver was BLM. You're right, police violence is far from isolated to Black people. Most BLM activists would agree that stopping police violence has multi-racial benefits!
Because it's just a vehicle. It uses hyperbole to try to sell a pre-existing social and economic agenda.
This is an unfortunately common phenomenon. People vote for headlines not for articles. Not new though.
Sure. But that would require women over 65 to date 20-year-old men. Idunno...
I would like that. Or even a scheme where they can collect data, but it's stored on my local computer so I can edit it and delete it (granted I know there's a ton of issues with that, but there is w/ the current scheme also)
If you strongly believe there are some unexplored avenues for impactful donations to individuals you should make the case to Givewell. It's what they're all about, and that seems to be what Jeff is mainly giving to (all those Against Malaria donations I assume were the top Givewell recommendation of their year). I think Jeff is doing the smart thing by outsourcing the analysis to Givewell who specialize in it.
*inherent to the GNU/whatever userland.

Linux-the-kernel has not only a stable API, but also a stable ABI, and you can run 20 years old software compiled against that ABI just fine.

The problem is that the userland doesn't give a fuck and breaks itself every other day just for the lulz, starting with the glibc, which doesn't even allow fully static compilation.

So you'll have to use 20 years old versions of everything (but the kernel), which makes running one piece of old software nonviable… but that's hardly the kernel's fault.
Another good example would be a project like Uniswap on Ethereum that existed for a long time without a token. To your point precisely, Uniswap v1 was similar to the Bancor project but explicitly removed the token/tokenomics. The simplified launch made the protocol better for both them and their users.
You can't meaningfully compare just the monetary amounts, since the jobs require you to get up and go to work every day, and the unemployment benefits don't.