skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance capitalism will implode not because of its exceptionally bad karma but under the weight of its own economic stupidity. In the "Mystery of Capital" de Soto waxes lyrical about "why capitalism triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else": Spoiler alert, it is due to conceiving and protecting private property. Spoiler alert II: that was once upon a time in the west and it is no more. If wealth is built on a system that secures property and if that applies to land, tangible assets, intellectual property etc it sure as hell also applies to digital "land", information flows, data sovereign business models, entrepreneurial agency and all the value that those can in principle support. In fact the panopticon "platform" system, conceived by sociopaths and inflicted on western societies by corrupt politicians is more feudalism than capitalism in outlook (Complete with the modern day serfs plying the rented clouds). To those individuals salivating to be part of this malevolent trillion dollar club: a trillion is sizable "value", I'll grant you that. But its nothing like the value that would be generated if society as a whole was empowered to be part of a digital economy. You can also throw in democracy and humanistic ideals as a bonus.
Parry: You talkin to me?!
Ah, I thought the original comment was talking about this https://www.amazon.ca/Remember-Wholesale-Other-Classic-Stori... but I was not aware there are many more!
What became of the criminal case against Lund?
I thought there were more past related threads but these are all I could find, not counting a couple with a throwaway comment or two:

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2003) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316426 - Oct 2015 (1 comment)

Defending PowerPoint Against Tufte - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119804 - Jan 2014 (21 comments)

PowerPoint is Evil - Lessons from Edward Tufte - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131 - March 2007 (1 comment)

There's also this, which has some overlap:

Why PowerPoint should be banned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9606345 - May 2015 (207 comments)
I loved the movie too. I was really pleased I read the book first because although the movie is a really good rendition, I feel it would be hard to comprehend certain parts of the movie without knowing the book.

The acknowledgements page after the ending of the book is brutally heart breaking: he mentions all the friends he lost to psychosis and death, due to the drugs they all took together.

I also find that the book remains a fantastic read a second or third time - which I only find worthwhile doing with a few books.
The comments typically boil down the article from a bunch of fluff that would take me 20 minutes to read to getting straight to the point. That’s why I go to the comments first. To find out if the article is even worth reading.

It’s the equivalent of scrolling down to the bottom of a recipe page and skipping all of the “my grandma made this during the depression” nonsense.
I do the same thing.

Often, I'll look at what kind of comments are made on HN to decide if the article is even worth reading.

I agree with your position that lots of web site are annoying in the way they load slowly and display lots of nonsense, ads and overlays and awful UIs in addition to the article itself.

Once in a while someone here will take a swipe at the primitive layout of Hacker News. But I love the utilitarian layout of Hacker News. It's simple, clear, uncluttered, fast and intuitive. Saying that it looks like 1992 isn't a meaningful criticism.
In my church/beliefs, if one prepares, receives the proper ordinances from the proper authority (given by God), and is faithful, then family ties will last beyond the grave -- in other words, you will see them and other loved family members again, and be able to be with them eternally (only by choice; never by force).

There is a scripture: "Thou shalt live together in love, insomuch that thou shalt weep for the loss of them that die,....And it shall come to pass that those that die in me shall not taste of death, for it shall be sweet unto them;....", or in Italian: "Vivete insieme con amore, tanto da piangere per la perdita di coloro che muoiono....E avverrà che coloro che muoiono in me non sentiranno la morte, poiché essa sarà loro dolce;...."

There is also hope for those who died without a chance to receive the ordinances (though they always will always individually make the choices, with their own identity, whether in this life or the next).

And thanks for your suggestion: we will be visiting my dear parents soon.

(edit--lengthened the quote above slightly; improved other wording)
"Diet = dental health" is bullshit. My partner was raised sugar-free and has horrible teeth with many cavities. So does their entire family. I was raised on a diet which included many forms of sweets, and I have never had a cavity. Same for my entire family. Genetics or other biological predisposition seems to be a major factor. Diet might help a bit, but don't expect any magical effects.
I never quite understood what Qualia are.
Or jaw surgery. Splints (especially mouthguards) can force you to mouthbreathe and cause sleep apnea.
This will work well in countries that have laws in the books where the ISP account holder is responsible for all activities performed using said account.

Note: I think such laws are rediculous, but what liabilities is Amazon inviting to their users?
To be fair, in real life, I usually see it used as a straight synonym for "understand" or "comprehend", just with extra geekiness. Very rarely is its special meaning actually intended.
Looks nice, good job!
What if Dark Matter is just that? Dark matter. If there were lots and lots of something like planets out there, which for one reason or another don't reflect light, that would be something dark right?

Or what if Dark Matter was lots of Black Holes? We (more or less) know what Black Holes are so why don't we assume there could be lots of them having a gravitational effect but no visibility?

In other words why do we need to assume that Dark Matter is made of some kind of exotic unknown matter?
I think about this fairly often. When getting a root canal (it doesn’t hurt!) it’s sort of odd to see in this day and age the tools they use.
A lot of very good tips.

I would say: don't let work define you who you are.

You can be a programmer without putting all your time in work, try replacing that with other projects where you can put your passion and being in.

In addition: working so much only pays off if you have an equity stake.
Some past threads:

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17349026 - June 2018 (50 comments)

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801011 - Dec 2014 (22 comments)

Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909741 - Aug 2011 (25 comments)
I remember when this episode aired. I brought it up with my dentist on my next visit and for some reason she wasn't amused.
We just installed reCAPTCHA and blocked Tor IPs. Nothing that special.
Soft mouth guards as are used for contact sports?

You dip them in hot water and then bite to form them, so they aren’t near your gag reflex.
To be fair, that actually isn't valid UTF-8 - the leading byte has no zero bit. The largest valid UTF-8 encoding is FE BF BF BF BF BF BF, with value U+F'FFFF'FFFF. (In fact, the original specification only listed up to FD BF BF BF BF BF (U+7FFF'FFFF).)

Furthermore, even if you assume a implied zero bit at position -1, that would only be FF BF BF BF BF BF BF BF, with value U+3FF'FFFF'FFFF.

Also 7FFF'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF is only 63 bits - fer chrissakes son, learn to count.
The author is (very) active on Twitter if you want to interact with him.

https://twitter.com/causalinf
I was afraid that one would sound too arrogant. But, I figured, society frequently implies that management or the CEO are "above" the workers, and everyone seems OK with it. Personally, I want a different mindset, although it's hard to maintain.
I've always wondered how come there wasn't more effort put into something like this. It's a huge business opportunity. Everyone hates going to the dentist.
Laws of in fundamental physics might be causal. Humean causation has the problem that everything is contingent. It just so happens that energy always equals mass times the speed of light squared. But there’s no reason for it. This seems to run counter to the goal of physics and cosmology, where some fundamental explanation is sought.
It seems obvious they probably don't exist and it's hardly possible to prove they do. But if they did (proving they don't exist seems equally impossible to me), I could only imagine they would communicate the way I describe.

Nevertheless it indeed seems a curious exercise to invent a framework for meaningful communication to be logically possible over a channel of such a nature keeping its fuzziness in mind.
Interesting, thanks! What is an "affiliate ID injector" in this context?
Are there any Ph tablets that are effective at neutralizing the acid that isn’t toothpaste?

I’ve only recently learned you aren’t supposed to rinse your mouth after brushing!
Jeffshrager / Elizagen
You Shouldn’t Buy Bitcoin When You’re Hungry
Repair is not rebuilding. “Repair” toothpaste chemically strengthens existing enamel.
> They coincided with a long period of much more effective broad-based growth and less concentration of wealth at the top

And the latter was a side effect of the former; the attempts of the rich to concentrate wealth couldn't keep up with the broad-based growth. But it wasn't high marginal tax rates that allowed everyone else to reap the benefits of that broad-based growth; it was the fact that the growth was outstripping the concentration of wealth. Most of the revenue that went to the government from those high taxes didn't get redistributed to the people at the bottom; it got spent on things like the Korean and Vietnam War (and more generally the Cold War military-industrial complex), subsidies to large corporations, etc. Even Social Security and Medicare, the two poster child programs for the government redistributing wealth from the rich, don't actually do that, because your benefits are based on how much you pay into the system. (Not to mention that the government has raided the trust fund that was supposed to fund those programs for decades, so the fund now has government IOUs in it instead of cash, and those IOUs have to be paid when they come due from current revenues, not from earnings from prior payments in. It isn't the rich that are going to have to pay those IOUs.)

> that wouldn't in and of itself be more than very weak evidence that we couldn't do better through government.

Governments have existed for millennia. There is a lot more evidence about how badly governments do things than just the US in the few decades following WW II.
Ask HN: Are there plans to port VSCode off Electron?
For a while I've been searching for faster editor.

I've following problems with vscode, all related to performance..

- Autocomplete breaks the rhythm, it takes like 3 seconds of pause sometimes to even see any suggestions.

- Syntax highlighting takes a full second or two, and a constant reminder that it's a web browser / electron.

- Starting IDE itself takes too long.

- Sometimes I feel there is input latency as well.

- snippets dont expand sometimes

In start I don't mind it but it starts to wear you down over time.

I was waiting for sublime text newer version, and it's fast just as I expected. But it's missing many small features, that's kinda deal breaker.

I REALLY wish VSCODE had a native version.

Here is the case for why?

Electron is great for prototyping, but now VScode has stabilized and a native version can be made. Native version can be updated once a year and electron version can be updated monthly, as is the case right now.

Also isn't it is written in typescript. Why can't there be Typescript to C++ conversion then implement Electron API interface with OpenGL or something.
Can removing highways fix America's cities?
Can a Cell Remember?
Past thread related via title (but not article):

Let's Abolish High School - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756407 - Aug 2009 (113 comments)
Ironic that those counties are right next to one of the very few Idaho counties that votes Democratic.
This seems mainly for Alexa devices? I'm assuming a Kindle will not become a hot spot.
One of the flash cards is "Define opsec". I wish I could add an annotation "not uploading your flashcards to a publicly accessible site".
There are crooked dentists. I've moved around a lot and been to a lot of dentists. There's a few that I trust, but also slightly more than a few who have tried to rip me off.

I've had dental offices that try to sell/bill me for extra cavities (7 at one place!), preventative crowns, sneaking in fluoride treatments and other add-ons to a cleaning, and periodontal cleanings.

In all of these occasions I'd get other opinions, often more than one, and would be told by other dentists that I didn't need these treatments.. I've found that dentists are more variable than car mechanics, meaning that if you go to three dentists you might end up with three different treatment recommendations.

I've also had two hygienists tell me they would never go to a corporate/franchise/national dental chain, after having worked at these places and seeing first hand how they've taken advantage of people, going as far as recommending implants that weren't needed. Based on my experiences I would concur.
It feels like a flaw of the voting system for articles to end up on the front-page, yet we still need to check comments to see if it is worth reading.

Who are all these people upvoting an article that isn’t really worth reading? Why are they doing this? Is it too easy to upvote?
> (it doesn’t hurt!)

It doesn't hurt for you. Some people, including myself, have had root canals that have almost caused worse pain than when I was in the ICU.
> To this day I don't eat any sweets and I have no cavities or tooth problems.

Me neither. I ate candy and chocolate when I was a kid. I still do now 50 years later. Never had a problem with my teeth.
I don’t have any Amazon network devices at the moment and would probably never turn on, in my home, an Amazon device that contained a microphone.

However, I view this as a fantastic development and will probably buy at least one Amazon network device (IF I can find one without a microphone) because it enables some really useful functionality that I would love to see catch on.

It’s easy to bash it. But I hope it achieves critical mass for supporting IoT in most populous areas. If anyone has a hope of pulling this off, it would be Amazon.
It's not DDOSing, it's credential stuffing[0]. Hackers find leaked databases which contain username/password pairs. They then try username@protonmail with the password from that database (or they just try the top 1000 most common password). If they get in, they suddenly have control over someone's email. From there they can password reset any of the user's other accounts, some of which might allow them to buy real world items.

The best mitigation as a user is to never reuse a password, however protonmail cannot enforce this. From their side the best option is to slow down the hackers as much as possible so it's less likely their more vulnerable users get compromised.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential_stuffing
Socialist and Communist theories are all rooted in materialism and revolve around material conditions, right? So when the material conditions of capitalism are identical to those conditions promised by Socialism and Communism, then is it really right to still call it capitalism?
>Patent pending.

I don't think there's much of a market for a new closed-source, patent-encumbered hypervisor for Linux...

And, perhaps obviously, I personally would never use such a thing.
I've been working on something similar as a side project. A serverless Discord Bot solution that runs a custom made SDK. We take a very similar approach to Cloudflare Workers where we run user's applications in v8 isolates.

I'm the only person working on this, and mostly in my spare time, but check it out: https://pylon.bot/

Here's the SDK docs so you can see the breadth of what's possible:

- https://pylon.bot/docs/intro
- https://pylon.bot/docs/reference/index.html

We're still in beta, but a lot of people are using the bot today. One thing that's great is that you can rapidly iterate on your code without "restarting" the bot because of how the infrastructure is set up. Deploy of your script takes less than a second. And, we support more than just what appears to be registering a single slash command :P
Kind of sad/understandable/alarming.

Clearly every lesson is hard won from many years experience.

This is where development employment ends up I think after gaining significant experience.

You start by caring, making mistakes, throwing yourself into it, becoming disappointed, mad, excited, frustrated, overjoyed, deeply engaged, loving the company, less loving the company - believing in the mission.

Over time, you think about and wonder about situations that do not play out well, you formulate strategies to do better on them.

In the end, the passion for the company and its mission gives way to a cooler, calmer, more professional and reliable approach. At this point you're probably a much better and more valuable employee, but inside you no longer really care about what you are doing. You're easier to get along with, more predictable, and likely a very much better developer than when you started.

I'd say the employees who have learned all these lessons are the most valuable, but they're not going to be wildly enthusiastic perhaps. Unless of course the situation demands overt enthusiasm, in which case these employees might show the required enthusiasm, but it's ticking off an internal box "enthusiasm required in this situation".

I personally got to the point that I don't believe in any company mission except my own mission to make my own software - I'll build stuff for some other company, and I won't say out loud what I think about the mission/the product/the management/the strategy, but inside I won't believe.
Someone very close to me was dealing with pretty severe depression during their medical residency in a very intense program. They were having trouble finding the time to talk to someone about it let alone to go see a proper psychiatrist.

Finally they spoke to one of their preceptors. The advice? Double up your shifts for a week and grind yourself down until you absolutely are sleep deprived (they are all generally sleep deprived in this program, but have stretches of 3 or 4 days off). It seemed almost sadist to me, but they did it.

We were all surprised when it more or less worked. I would say it bought them a month here, a month there when needed. It seems like a terrible strategy over the long term but something was definitely going on. They called it a "big reset" and also insisted that they had an overall sense of euphoria for a week or so following each "dosing".

They don't do it anymore, after trying a few different medications a particular SSRI really seemed to click and it's been 20 years now without a major recurrence.
> Consider doing personal projects early, before work. Give my best self to myself, to my own projects.

This is excellent advice. In the past, I've often tried to do my personal projects after a long 9 hour work day, and it was just so difficult to pull myself together to put the effort, even into projects that I loved and had a passion for. The few times I have tried working in the morning however, have been amazing. I'm full of energy, and able to put my best into the project. I 100% need to remember this advice always.
I think it's worthwhile to keep a few foundational books around, especially those that set a language or were otherwise milestones in technology and cultural progress.

We should not be hoarders. There is a balance to be struck.

I recommend considering folks can be multifaceted and aren't solely bound to one's opposing opinion as they read down a comment chain.

Good day.
NASA Stirling Thermoacoustic Power Converter and Magnetostrictive Alternator
meh, if FBI is truly trying to track you down, they have an easier time accessing your ISP and mobile carrier logs to see what IPs you've been talking to.
I'm a big PKD fan, having read pretty much every one of his scifi book (of which there are many), but even I wouldn't recommend The Exegesis to any but the most die-hard fan.. and even then I doubt most of them could make it through much of that book before shelving it and reading something else.

It's basically a really, really, reaaaaaaly looong, barely coherent book of random ramblings. It's fine to dip in to now and then to see what PKD was thinking about on any random day, but really hard to stomach reading very much of, as unlike a fiction work it has no structure, no characters, no plot, and was not intended for anything but a private sounding-ground for the author to spitball ideas, many of them having to do with one event that PKD probably dearly wanted to be a mystical experience and that he just couldn't seem to drop and move past.

To truly die-hard PKD fans this might be endlessly fascinating, but to me it's only worth peeking in for maybe a few pages every few years or so. I can't imagine reading the whole thing, even if it was the only book I had on a desert island.
That belongs to a category of subrules or heuristics which are too numerous to list. If we tried to make the guidelines comprehensive that way, they would just get so long (or worse, so bureaucratic) that people wouldn't read them.

There's a limit to how much information one can get across that way, so we err on the side of explaining the spirit of the site and leave the 'case law' to specific moderation comments. One of these years I want to compile those into an extended FAQ or something, which could provide a home for the kind of documentation you're talking about.

If anyone is so weird as to want to read an entire 'essay' about this, I wrote one a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307680. The relevant subthread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303886.
That's gratitude for ya.
https://share.synthesia.io/d8860a05-2870-4315-9316-b03cbc76a...

Animations are pretty good. Pronunciation could use some work. There also does not seem to be a way to influence the inflection, which is an absolutely crucial component for sales pitches. It's not so much what you say, but how you say it. Also, the right people have to sell the right things. Words coming from Elon's mouth in regards to cryptocurrency have a far greater effect on market behavior than the exact same words coming from this AI person's mouth.
Or 36 if you allow a leading byte of FE, but that's still not 32.
I used to work with a few orthopedic surgeons over a couple years and discovered a lot of the tools used during surgery for bones or hard materials in the body really aren't all that different than what you'd find at a hardware store.

Usually tools are a bit more precise, materials are a bit more stringently regulated, and everything is typically well sterilized but when it comes to the physical mechanics, they're about the same. Drills, saws, hammers, all that good stuff.

The main difference is you're usually not watching it for a variety of reasons unlike many dental procedures. And the tools are in the hands of a literal surgeon.
Ironic this is on a site that loads up the browser history so you have to press the back button 2 or 3 times to get off the inc.com page. Pot, kettle.
I remember reading something recently about (short term?) benefits of sleep deprivation for various mental illnesses. (Note, not medical advice!)
Here's the howto from Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-run-linux-gui-apps-on-...