skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, a significant portion of the videos portrayed the life of the homeless, the sick, people under the influence of drugs/alcohol, and other things that you don't usually find on the usual platforms.
For me it was seeing close ups of the Chechnyan war. I couldn’t believe what people were doing to each other. It has made the anarchy of war something to be avoided at all costs. Clearly showing that there are no winners on the ground. Soldiers shooting 3 generations of a family unarmed, soldiers having their heads clumsily chopped off with an axe.

I’ve avoided all of the not safe for life type stuff since, but agree that these are important things to see. With all the wars since and the easy images found on western news at least I know what is happening outside of what they are willing to show.
>it also had an inherent grounding in bare reality, compared to the narratively embellished one of mainstream media

I disagree. It will only show one side of the bare reality, as the actions taken by more organized militaries will prevent their footage from ending up there. An Al Qaeda execution could end up on there, but the video of the execution of someone like Bin Laden rarely would.
> The last truly transformational gaming experience I had

For me it was Subnautica. That game *hooked* me so hard. It had an incredible progression and such an interesting game loop. Recapturing that experience is like lightning in a bottle, which I agree is like when WoW hit peak numbers.
A few K would mean doggie would be worth more than the world economy.
Economic value has almost nothing to do with the human criteria behind choice of careers once a certain level of comfort is achieved, otherwise there wouldn't be a chronic lack of highly paid STEM candidates.

Most people just really don't like doing software no matter how well it pays.
Right, I agree with you entirely - higher home prices over a decade are not an indicator of "record inflation". I was just making that point in a somewhat different way to someone who does not understand the math behind inflation.
At robo target yesterday. No lanes open, no employees around except a 15 year old kid who told me they don't have the keys to "unlock" the 14.99 headphones off the wall. They called it in. I waited 10 mins. Walked back to the headphones and just YOINKED the box and the stupid plastic bit securely holding it got left behind. Then I had to stand in robo line to checkout like a good citizen - I could have walked out!

BIZARRO
Before the Biden administration came into power, America under Trump had the second largest welfare state (after France) in the OECD when private funds are included:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oecd-welfare-idUSKCN1PH0Y...

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/FRANCE-PR...
What's the guy's point? Skimming the article, he's just saying that some people have more than others. And? So what? Is that supposed to be self evidently mentally distressing?
Yes, canvas is faster and I think d3 now supports canvas too, right?

d3 will give you a lot more support for data manipulations, but (if I may say so) creating highly customized visualizations can be easier in Pts.

I think it should be possible to use both d3 and Pts together. If you experiment with this approach, please let me know how it goes!
Seems pretty clear, what don't you get?

Registration via email isn't nearly as popular here as it is in the west. If you are going to choose a registration option to initially support, phone number is the correct choice.
upvotocracy allows these kinds of posts.
How do you find Discord servers for a specific interest?
That exact video changed my life in exactly the same way.

Thank you for putting it so well.

RIP LiveLeak. Its loss is a tragedy that is hard to quantify. Perhaps a catastrophe, that nobody will ever understand the full invisible scale of.
Bitcoin forks but the alternative forks have yet to compete. Bitcoin on the other-hand is limited to 21 million supply.
Why Institutional Investors Should Double Down on VC
We are the products – the consumerist mindset
Reddit all started being shitty when it started being dominated by pump n dump schemes, the GME BS is still going on, now dogecoin, how can anyone with a brain believe dogecoin will go to $100. I swear i think about 80% of those posts where someone got rich are fake, there is a ton of astroturfing going on.
Evidence from Buyout and Venture Capital Funds
Depends. Plenty of companies growth model is through purchasing brands and combining "synergies". CHD is a great example. They acquire a compajy and its IP, but the factories and all and keep useful employees and buy everyone else out. Arm and Hammer, Trojan Condoms, Oxiclean, Toothpastes, toothbrushes, cat litter, everything in the grocery that's not food!
> The whole point of the economy is to enable human health and happiness; not the other way around!

Agreed, however our economy serves to enrich asset owners, and the health and happiness of everyone else are afterthoughts.
In retrospect, having an office was one of the few redeeming perks of academia. They were so far behind the times, they may have been ahead of their time.
In the same way how unprofitable startups are more attractive to investors because they are free of baggage of actually making money and have only future potential, so is doge better than bitcoin because it got rid of all the baggage of being a "currency of the future" or "digital gold" which might tie it to some real-world concepts. Bitcoin's best market cap is equal gold's or USD supply but doge's best market cap is unbounded. There are no anchors and only pure potential!
Very few deny Covid exists. Many More are skeptical of the vaccine. Because of things like this happened before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal

The idea of informed consent, is you get to know the benefits and risks of any medicine.

Skepticism is valuable too. If anything, human history is littered with dead bodies of those that blindly went along and listened to those in authority.
You can do that with CSS alone.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Lists_a...
Sites like that made me more careful about driving, especially on wearing seatbelts good lord.
You could be right, maybe there's a hormetic valley somewhere in the risk curve. I think it still has to be linear close to the background radiation level, and grow faster than linear as one approaches the lethal level, though.

Isn't it true that the proportionality coefficient for LNT was calculated using cancer rates for atomic bomb survivors? The dose for them would be very rapid, and there would be little time for enzymes to be produced. This would explain why such a valley didn't show up in that particular set of data.
> Inflation has probably been double digits for a while now.

Inflation that high does not make mathematical sense:

> But if we take away the outlier 2020 data points, the average real annual GDP growth from 2010-2019 was 2.3%. The inflation rate in that time averaged roughly 1.8% per year.

> If you’re one of the conspiracy people who believe inflation has actually been running at 5-6% per year, that would assume the economy has been contracting by 1-3% per year over the past 10 years.

> And if you’re a full tinfoil hat person who assumes inflation is actually 10-12% per year[2], that’s like saying we’ve been in a full-blown depression and the economy has lost 80% of its value.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/01/inflation-truthers/

The numbers for Canada would be similar: if economic growth was "only" ~2-3%, then any inflation higher than that would be that we've been experiencing contraction. And if inflation was "double digits" as you claim, with 'low' (<5%) GDP growth, where's the Depression?
A Hack of That $69M Beeple Revealed the True NFT Vulnerability
Probably a minority here - but I could not stomach the horrible comments on LiveLeak, especially because it almost seemed like they were all written by a bunch of really young audience.
The idea is that if something js 5z as durable but is 2x the price, its more economical.

Secondly - there are areas like SF and London where house prices are like 5x the national average because of land. Surely they can afford better materials?
D3 has had a strange life. I think it's still a great casual Diablo game, but it totally lacks the depth that other titles in the genre (Path of Exile, Last Epoch, even Grim Dawn) offer, and has some very degenerate systems like paragon points and legendary effect scaling that make the game unbelievably boring for more serious/committed players. You basically get all of your endgame gear within 8 hours of starting a new season, and then there's nothing to do but push slight stat increases on the same items or with paragon points or gems. The game totally plays itself.

There was a time around the Reaper of Souls prepatch where the game could have been reworked into something actually quite good, and that just never came. Coupled with a multi-year content drought up against massive PoE leagues every 3 months, it's just a tough sell.
Telling someone how to "empathize" is probably the most condescending thing that "progressives" tell others to do.

Somehow it only comes out when the person preaching it feels extreme pity for the person in need of "empathy" and most importantly the preacher is the only one who really understands how to give that empathy, no one else is able to reach their level of enlightenment. Of course this creates a problem when two such preachers are in the same room...

Additionally, most of the time the pitied person doesn't want your pity or empathy they just want to live their life and are usually pretty happy until you come along and start telling them they need empathy and how bad their life really is.
Typically from the subreddit
some news stories about various content moderator positions paint a picture that isnt great for the people working the job.

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/04/facebook-...

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737498507/for-facebook-conten...
Ask HN: Why Is Everything in Chinese?
Recently, I've been receiving a lot of communications in Chinese. Some examples:

* Electronic service agreement updates from Microsoft Azure via email (MS account default language English)

* Web ads from PG&E

* Certain websites render in Chinese

* Some Facebook ads render in Chinese

* Spam junk snail mail from State Farm

For context, I moved to China at the beginning of 2020 before returning to the US toward the end of last year, accessing the Western web through VPN in the meantime. I don't have an ethnic Chinese name. I've always had English set as my default language for my Google and Facebook accounts. All my devices are configured to use English as the default language. My web browser does request "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,zh-CN;q=0.8,zh;q=0.7", which could maybe explain some of it, though it's obnoxious that the en-US would be overridden. I've never updated any address with any service with my Chinese one, though I guess I did use that one to sign up for Alibaba Cloud.

So, what's a good theory? I don't mind seeing stuff in Chinese, per se; it's just surprising, particularly the the snail mail from State Farm, though I guess in principle it's no weirder than the email. My running theory is that I've been tagged in some obscure but widely used database as having Mandarin as my preferred language. Does this seem like a plausible reason? If so, any idea which one it is and which company owns it? My first guesses would be Google or Facebook, but by all appearances they both know I prefer English.
I created historical Canada global rank viz for data for following metrics from Our World in Data:

Total doses per 100 people
Daily doses per 100 people
People vaccinated per 100 people

Includes filters by OECD, G20 and >5m, > 15m and > 30m

They all nicely show the effect of Jan/Feb vaccine supply constraints.

https://sitrucp.github.io/covid_global_vaccinations/
> If about half of young adults suffer from a disorder

This is a misreading of the (admittedly confusing) statistic

> the proportion of adults with MDD aged 18–34 years increased from 34.6 to 47.5

This is not saying that 47.5% of 18-34 year-olds have MDD, but rather that of adults with MDD, 47.5% are in the 18-34 age range.
3 days in the office and 2 days "where ever they want".

This is meaningless. Either WFH completely or not, this in between thing doesn't work. Employees don't have the freedom to live where they want. All those dreams about Silicon Valley dispersing all over the country are just dashed. People still live close to work and they just get to stay home a couple days a week. That's all.
Apollo.
Backblaze stats for SSD vs. spinning rust
you also have a warped understanding of SR and climbing. >50% winrate doesn't guarantee climbing, because SR change is not constant and depends in your chance to win in every particular match. The better you play the lower SR reward (because your chance to win is higher). That's exactly why elo hell exists and that's exactly why purchasing a new account allows you to climb instantly. And the last fact is the reason why nobody will change this flawed system.
All the time?

Is water wet? Is the grass green? If you're hungry, will eating food relieve hunger?

Are you better off falling off a motorbike wearing a jacket or nothing?

Ok, how about a blow-up cervical collar?
Mainstream news/propaganda organizations want it that way so they can sell you the next war in Iraq, the next genocide in Syria, the next assassination in Libya, etc.
Word of mouth, on Reddit (sidebars or sticky posts), and ocassionally just googling "X Discord". Some very niche things, like character mains in video games, usually will only have a discord to my frustration.
D3 is a good game marred by a sub-par launch.
"Programming game" really undersold this. It's a game engine.
it's just sick entertainment covered by explanation "I need to see how horrible the world is", and being the audience you create demand for future shock content at expense of human lives. There're better ways to educate yourself and make the world a better place.
The video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iazTQVi1CEE

Skip to 1:45.

Warning, it’s disturbing. Perhaps in a good way.
IIRC this is usually some condition of applying for federal contracts, and federal spending is no drop in the bucket.
Everyone's mentioning the many tragic and gory videos they've seen on LiveLeak.

But how were they making money? Also, is it moral to make money out of people's anguish and human tragedy?

I also don't see any mention of why they are shutting down.

Additionally, shouldn't these things be in the realm of journalism? Or is this the new journalism? Shouldn't there be some kind of fact-checking against this?

In today's world where anybody can post videos which elicit responses (and the more responses the better), shouldn't there be some ombudsman?
Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS
How is this better than something like MARP?
I just don’t understand what they’re doing. I played every Blizzard game since Warcraft 1 but after them killing HotS and me growing bored of Hearthstone and WoW years/decade ago there hasn’t been anything for me to buy from them in years.
I don't agree with the idea that we should ignore people who have ideas we disagree with. I think you should either ignore people (almost all of the time since nobody has the time to engage in every political argument they come across) or listen respectfully and point out your disagreements or alternate views. You will convince very few people this way, but you'll convince the occasional or borderline person, and if more and more people behave this way then we'll have a virtuous cycle of improving politics. You teach and learn from others who teach and learn from you and so on.

I think people have largely failed to do that and especially so with Trump. The message I hear from mainstream media and mainstream folks on Twitter is that Trump is an evil Russian puppet and dumb liar Nazi racist destroying the country. Maybe that's true, but I think endlessly chanting insults will actually be counterproductive. Even if you win, you'll erode faith in the system and make your opponents hate you.

This blog seems to do something similar arguing that Trump should just categorically ignored. That reading his thoughts is falling into his "trap" - as if it is some rhetorical trick to get you to read what someone else thinks. As I wrote above, if you're just not engaging in politics or specific political questions, then ignoring is the right choice. However, ignoring is not the right choice for actually dealing with Trump and his supporters. We should understand and discuss with them and try to find better, mutually beneficial solutions.

On Trump's website, I think it's pretty bad, though obviously an early version. The big thing they're missing is comments. Most of the fun of Trump tweets is seeing the crazy responses and consequences. Trump's website loses that.

Trump has a fading opportunity to create some kind of social media platform similar to how thedonald.win created a reddit knock-off. It needs to have a community though, not just Trump's observations.
Sitting on the sidelines is a good way to lose money:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

The (US) market goes up around 70% of the time, so by being in cash you're missing a rising tide. Every day/week/month/quarter you're not in the market is a time period that you'll have to Buy High/er (instead of Buy Low/er) eventually compared to jumping in and staying in earlier.

If you want, you can perhaps hold 20% bonds to (a) reduce volatility and (b) have something you can liquidate generate cash to Buy Low on the dip.
FWIW, I went from building single board computer and learning COBOL in high school, to lots of personal / freelance projects, to lots of menial jobs, to the Navy, to C/C++ programming in 2000-2007, to tier 2 tech support until about two years ago, and I'm now working for a DoD contractor supporting a legacy Java app and learning C# as the language of the rewrite.

53 now. It's been a weird ride, my own faults contributed a lot to not progressing anywhere near as fast as others that I feel I could code as well as... but I'm having fun with this and if life turns out that way this job will be a good solid stepping stone to any other Sr Engineer position.
Kids typically leave home at 18 or 19 years old, and there tends to be a 2-5 year gap between children. Someone who left the workforce 20 years ago could have a 19 year old in their first year of college, a 16-year old in high school, and a 12-year old in middle school.

Teenagers need parental attention just as much as younger children—more, in some ways, because while they don't need constant attention like young children do, when they do need help, it tends to be more serious.
Does anyone think Biden even knows what's going on? He looks like he isn't even there anymore.
Open queue is plagued with stacks of people queueing as tank/support to get easy wins. So one side rolls over the other in the majority of games.
Assuming any certificate pinning can be defeated, it is easy to manipulate URLs with a loopback-bound forward proxy. Would be great if someone provided example of one of these TikTok URLs so we could investigate.
Let me assure you, Chinese power is BAD. And I personally hate using that word, but here it is warranted.

At least in the U.S., we have the intent of moral fiber permeating through our founding document, and probably at least half the population still fervently believes in these principles or tries to behave as though they matter.

China doesn't give a fuck. Their government is a communist dictatorship, and their sole concern is the expansion of their power through force.
I personally believe gore videos involving children need to be banned, just like child pornography is.

I also feel gore videos that involve non-consenting adults should be judged as "revenge porn."

I understand there should be some leeway for journalists reporting the news and shedding light on atrocites. I'm just not sure where that line should be.
Not really. Blizzard's balance team is shockingly bad. Metas usually exist for huge periods of time (GOATS lasted over a year, as did moth, as did dive). It is repetitive to play the same maps, with the same heroes, for a year.
Because life as a hunter gatherer just a few days away from starvation at any point was less stressful? Generations upon generations of farming was less repetitive?
I get that, but I played maybe 200-300 hours of OW as dva and for some reason couldn't get out of silver. Nothing I did worked.

Ended up creating a new account, ended up in high plat and quickly became diamond, never to drop lower again.

Why/how did this happen? I'm not sure, but ELO hell was real for me.

(Dva main)
I was hoping to find that out here in the comments but no luck. You would think they would offer up an archive or something at least temporarily.
You do not understand the concept:

I decide I want to try a bit of "something new", and I pay someone to induce a Capgras delusion in me. At which point, my wife seems like an imposter. I wish to have sex with this new person, and I am also sure my real wife has given me permission to, prior to this. You can tell me as much as you like that it's "really" my wife, but, in my delusion, I am quite sure it's just someone who looks like her, and delightfully and consentfully have sex with the imposter new person -- who is giving their consent the whole time -- with all the thrill that entails. Afterwards, the delusion wears off, and I realise it was just sex with my wife. Everyone has consented at every point to this.
I agree with this. Unfortunately, I got covid right out of the gate and should have been in the hospital.

Then I lost some people, one of whom was worth a lot, and despite that still spent 40 some days on a ventilator, basically in hell, only to die pretty terribly.

While all this was going on, I am surrounded by people who think it is all fake, nobody is dying, etc...

I would tell about what I saw, felt and they would just ignore me, or ask me why more of that is not on the TV.
Are you at all interested in reading recommendations?
Even the demoscene created at least two demos in Excel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO4DvM9KUyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6Q224UPkc
My guess is, you're either too young to remember what happened when automobile airbags first began to appear, or you just weren't paying attention.

Hint: the current recommendation to place children in the rear seats came about as the result of more than a few children being injured or killed by airbags. It transpires that when you use explosives to solve a problem, the unintended consequences can take a while to work out.
Compass Group Acquires Eat Club
Same here, I learned Chinese largely by studying a pre made deck of sentences with audio over the course of a few years. I had lots of conversation practice too but the SRS studying bootstrapped my knowledge to the point where I could even attempt conversations. I used to believe that using a pre made deck is a waste of time just because I heard a few people say so, now I know it’s not always true.
The thing is that people living in these places that are unprecedentedly peaceful, in the way that HN likes to trot out whenever someone points out the ugliness of the world, may end up voting apathetically for leaders that have their war machine making the world far less peaceful in places that are out of sight and out of mind.

Sites like Liveleak may remind you that war isn't the choreography that your governments want you to think it is.