skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for writing this epos. Your points are valid and even thou many chinese would disagree (I think), the parallels you draw between western and chinese phenomena are striking.

From afar (I have never been to china), I have to admit with a cold shiver, that the chinese control over the media might be working as intended. Usually, wealth and security encourage laicistic world views but like you said, nationalistic tendencies are on the rise everywhere and very useful for totalitarian regimes.

Maybe, the CCP even manages, with stronger measures, to rule away the demographic crisis, they are heading for and western governments will be even more jelly. It’s very concerning.
Was a bit annoying to see that Nir’s main counter examples were “Do you want Netflix to make less engaging shows? Do you want to make less engaging podcasts?”. I don’t know if anyone says they’re addicted to podcasts, but either way those clearly aren’t the most addictive things out there… and on top of that, services like Netflix could easily add in simple screens like “hey, youve watched 5 episodes in a row, would you like to take a break”.

The thing this podcast didn’t seem to address is the fact that moder social media is A/B tested for maximum engagement. Similarly, modern videogames are way better designed and more compelling than those 20 years ago. This makes a huge difference to how hard it is to stop engaging with this stuff!
Random ballot is different from sortition.
BTW, listing Hong Kong as a country seems to be a bad news to Chinese guys.
The answer is actually because we spent several years with the entire country dedicated tona total war effort in the face of an enemy that was devoted to our total and absolute extinction and subjugation.

Following that rather than returning to a peacetime country and disbanding the associated military structure it was instead repurposed for a cold war in the face of another enemy that had sworn themselves to our complete and absolute destruction and which had the capability to do so. In the face of such constant risk of extinction almost any measure was seen acceptable to counteract the threat.

However after about 60 years the threat disappeared but the massive institutions built up to combat the threat then needed to continue to justify it's existence as careers and lives had been built upon counteracting the Red menance. Unfortunately these institutions did not cease to exist and continued the same tactics that it was profecient in despite the threat to the existence of the nation.

That's basically it in a nutshell.
“Every additional person increases the rate of innovation across the entire species.”

This is a wild claim. Not everyone is a net positive contributor to the species. The world’s resource are already consumed beyond their replenishment rates, and hundreds of millions of people suffer from abject poverty and constant food insecurity. Total fertility rate decline curves are objectively positive for humans as a species and resource contention.
M2 port would have been awesome!
I believe the comment stating Jetsons were expensive was made in comparison with the RPI4, which also lacks an m2 slot. I really do find Jetons much more affordable when performance is taken into account, again, Tensor aside.

They can also boot from USB3 as of recently, which boosts storage access speed tremendously.
If you write a blog post saying this and submit it as a usual HN story, or submit an existing webpage as a story, a lot more people might see it. I think many people never look in AskHN, where I found this (like everything submitted without URL), and it doesn't really fit. Good luck!
Maybe I don't actually think that and just refered to their special kind of buerocrats?

I sort of hate buerocracy in all its shapes, but given the choice between a western style buerocrat and a marxist buerocrat, I choose the former.
I recently replaced a builder-grade dishwasher with a new one. My first criteria was that it be quiet, so that I didn't have to turn up the TV volume in the next room. I found a GE that operates at 45 dB and I can barely notice it.

Bosch have traditionally been very quiet - so much so that they have a light that shines on the floor to let you know when the cycle is complete. Some of the new Whirlpool ones are slightly quieter than the Bosch for a lot less money. Note that many models use the same internals, so you don't have to pay for a prestige brand.
There are also hundreds of millions of people who drink socially and never become alcoholics. Are the hundred million alcoholics "people with zero responsibility or control", or is it more likely that some bodies react differently to certain addictive substances than other bodies?

If you allow for different reactions to alcohol, why could the same not be true for sugar and fat?
The cost-optimized mundane everyday machines that we expect to move are endowed with 150x that energy output -- and with the ability to sustain it rather than burst it. 1kW is large for a human but small for moving a big chunk of metal. Since the sort of resonant motion would be thoroughly damped if, say, you built a full scale ISS in your backyard, I tend to agree with them that it's notable.
The decision to implement an entirely new frontend is interesting, although regardless of that our experience with D is that having access to the GCC backend/s is very good for the language.
“Actual addictions” are caused by actually addictive substances or patterns of behaviour. Genetic predisposition is also a significant and often misunderstood factor. Yes there can be links to underlying mental health issues, but addictions are primarily cause by things that are actually addictive. Nicotine, for example, causes immediate withdrawals and cravings in the short term, and basically rewires your brain chemistry with sustained long term use. Addiction to nicotine is not caused by depression, it is caused by nicotine.
Let me rephrase that a bit - I am a citizen of an EU member state (Finland) - and there was very little discussion of any sort except theoretical pondering on what this means from political theory point of view. Very little worry or outrage. Kidnapping citizens of EU fellow member states is obviously not considered very important.
The joke is that some pedals can be really complex with menu systems and all kinds of tricky jazz.
>as this data is priceless

Personally, I'd never trust the only copy of something important to a service provider--especially one that isn't a "big name." (Though even in the case of big names there can be issues with account access, etc.)

ADDED: Curious why people find this a controversial statement. I understand if you have AWS set up with various redundancies but even a service like Backblaze I consider a belt and suspenders-type backup. This is in no way a commentary on the OP but simply an acknowledgement that stuff happens.
I didn't remark on that but I'll entertain your comment: I think it's about having the facilities to educate people about the effects, and help them in rehabilitation if they prefer to.
I just am baffled how someone can think there is a lot of "vendor lock in" with GraphQL. I am a huge fan of GraphQL, I have used it on large, production systems for years, and I have never even paid any money to any GraphQL tool vendors. Basically all of the good tools are completely free and open source.
My apartment's washing machine is in the bathroom, which is normal in Denmark. I can close the bathroom door when it's running, and it's not a problem during calls.

The fridge is not noticeable except at night, with all the windows closed.

The extractor hood's fan is somewhere else (top of the building?) so it's only at night that I can hear it running.

The building ventilation is also quiet. I noticed the absence when there was a power cut, but otherwise don't hear it, even at night.

The windows are excellent too.

Most of this seems to be typical in above-average newer apartments in Denmark.
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> When your modest house costs $800k USD, a car costs 30k, auto insurance is $1600 a year, groceries are 10k a year (looking at you, Toronto)

How did you get these costs? You can get a French Chateau with that much money. https://www.prestigeproperty.co.uk/french-chateau-for-sale-2...
There is this now, someone trying to explain it after looking at it in RenderDoc:

http://www.elopezr.com/a-macro-view-of-nanite/

There's a little bit to be learned from the official documentation, too:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/RenderingFeatures/Na...
Has GraphQL cracked role based data fetching patterns? I would love to learn those patterns..
FB effectively gave data away to app developers (e.g. Cambridge analytica).

They got something in return - as they do with all their partners - but this is not generally considered a sale, and often not even a trade.
> These are often located in the kitchen

Also, traditionally, in an 'airing cupboard': a space where washed clothes 'air' before being put in drawers. There is a lot of variation.
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that's part of the deal.

Media buy the rights to broadcast the event and "rent" the image of the players to show it in related products (commentary, highlights, etc. etc.)

that is the most precious content for advertisers, since they can't cut the action to show ads.
"What exactly is that CEO doing for that money"

What is CEO of Twitter doing that CEO of Wikipedia isn't? Why dont we have a discussion of their salaries?

Both are working a job. Enployees are not donating, donors are
Descriptions because studying for me is a natural thing, every day we are given assignments if one day is not finished it will be an additional task the next day, it really irritates me sometimes every night while looking at the sky I want to scream as loud as I can so make my heart calm as soon as I fall asleep and tomorrow back to learn everything is just like it feels like I want to die but maybe I will change into valuable
I use IntelliJ, in our setup it gives complete checking and autocomplete. YMMV

It sounds to me like you could benefit from some kind of codegen [1] to generate native language code out of graphql and checking the queries at compile/build-time instead of runtime.

GraphQL playground [2] might be a lower-investment tool to help you.

[1] In JS/TS GraphQL code generator is the standard: https://www.graphql-code-generator.com/ Other languages have similar tools.

[2] https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground
> There is a big BUG in marketing economics that we do not have a price for external Junk/Waste.

This is called a negative externality, and it's been understood by economists for about a century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative

One of the reasons negative externalities persist is that they're hard to put a price on. How would you calculate the economic cost of the marginal piece of space junk?

In practice governments will have to do their best to impose reasonable frictions, by taxing launches or otherwise regulating them. But I think it's more correct to call this a genuinely hard problem in economics, as opposed to a bug.
I haven't seen those surveys, (and I'm not much of a Wikipedia editor) but anecdotally, the visual editor seems to me like an obvious and long overdue direction forward.
> - GraphQL makes tasks more complex
> because GraphQL APIs generally have much higher quality than REST-like HTTP APIs.

How on earth do you say, with a straight face, that the reason a task becomes more complex is because the API is "higher quality"? Higher quality in my mind coincides with ease of use, which is exactly where GQL falls down big.
I haven't accepted the whatsapp update and am waiting to be kicked out
I always thought Rust and other PLs generate LLVM IR and leave the optimizations to LLVM while GCC has something more complex to deal with, doesnt it make things much complicated ?
There's no clear, one-size-fits-all answer to this.

The antidepressant effects of ketamine seem to be more short-lived (though not in everyone... for some there is a long-lasting effect).

Psilocybin therapy seems to have a more long-lasting effect, and some people only need one to three treatments to never need it again, vs ketamine for which many people need many (perhaps indefinite) treatments.

Then there are legal issues to consider. In the US, at least, ketamine can be used legally as off-label treatment for depression. As far as I know that's not the case for psilocybin yet, though you could get legal psilocybin therapy if you're part of a research study.

It's also possible to get psychedelic therapy from an underground therapist.. or maybe you're in a country where it's legal.

I'd suggest finding out as much as you can about both ketamine and psilocybin use in treating depression. There have been a lot of studies done on both, and a lot of good information about this.
WARNING! Be aware that this is an Electron app. I tried it, and using the interface was like swimming in glue. I presumed this meant "Electron app" and a quick check confirmed it.
Took some time to read the transcript before jumping to conclusions, but the whole episode never gets passed the sticking point that “addiction” has a clinical meaning, and many people are using the word in the popular more common and less strict meaning of the word, simply compulsive behavior.

The problem here is that the non-clinical “addiction” is a valid definition. It appears in the dictionary (see #2 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/addiction). People actually understand what it means accurately as well, nobody is getting confused and hearing the clinical definition. I’d agree that researchers into social media problems should avoid it, but the misuse is not by and large confusing or misleading most people.

Instead of discussing the validity of the popular meaning, it’s framed and titled as “not addiction”, which just plays on the confusion of the term rather than clarifying or offering alternatives!

“Caffeine addiction” is routinely thrown around, and everyone knows what it means. People who know the clinical term say that there is “caffeine dependence”, not addiction. This episode didn’t offer any alternative words for what social media is doing, it just stayed stuck on “not addiction”. They could have suggested talking about dependence or habit forming or compulsions or a weakness for social media. The author could have guided the discussion towards establishing the right terminology for what social media does, but instead chooses to re-emphasize the idea that “addiction” is the wrong word over and over again.

> The hallmark of addiction is that it interferes with social or family or occupational life. But when you use social media or the internet, you are generally participating in your social or family or occupational life.

This is an unfortunately dismissive and pretty misleading framing IMO. We all know that the harmful sides of social media are exactly the parts that don’t involve family and occupation life, and that those parts of the internet are enormous. The article discussed Netflix, which doesn’t involve social interaction. YouTube is mostly not friends talking to friends. Qanon didn’t happen because people were talking with their family and co-workers.
Is this some kind of translation? The verbiage uses gender in unusual ways.
Certainly practical programming languages are not a one-to-one implementation of a theoretical model, but these models do create families of related languages that keep a close relationship and are separated from languages based on a different model.

Each time a new theoretical model is created to represent a particular programming problem, entirely new languages are created to ease the practical approaches of building systems for the underlying problem.

And it is worth keeping track of which models are good for which problems. So no, theoretical models are not good just for doing math with them, also for guiding practical usage.
In contrast to the current sibling replies, I think this is a very fitting categorization of documentation. Off the top of my head, I can think of several examples where one type of documentation is excellent but others are very lacking, for example:

* Rust Library Documentation: Most libraries have complete and up-to-date reference documentation, but are lacking even basic introductions (tutorials/guides) on how to use the library. This is totally just my personal experience so maybe I've been looking at the wrong crates, but with most of the crates I spend several minutes looking trough all the modules in order to find that all the juicy functions are hidden in the Connection struct, or something similar.

* Linux Kernel Documentation: The Linux kernel has excellent in-depth explanations on several high-level concepts, but on the other hand a little more systematic reference documentation on the supporting library code would help a lot.

* While I can't think of a good example right now, a lot of projects have a few basic getting-started tutorials but don't explain advanced concepts or high-level design at all, leaving you to wade through the sources yourself in order to understand how to actually use them.
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The spawn of the paddlefish look a lot like commas.
I think the same treatment is necessary for these sorts of foods. It's hard to regulate both in terms of classification (what're the thresholds?) and regulation (how to get politicians to take action?). It's going to take time, but I'm hopeful.

Happy to hear you managed to cut out the junk for a long time, I hope you haven't rebounded in full!
Blenders are probably the loudest kitchen appliance. The glass is loud but seen as required for visual effects and cleanliness. In theory there should be a way to blend that is not that loud, or at least is insulated.

Even if it wouldn't be a "serious" startup project, it would be a good brain exercise for startup people to think of a way to engineer a disruptive quiet blender.

Not to completely ruin the exercise, but think of marketing a blender that's so quiet it could blend homemade baby food while the baby sleeps. Or imagine selling quiet blenders to sports bars you can see the video commercial already of the old fashioned loud blender noise drowning out the "big play". Or a blender so quiet you can keep talking while having a margarita party. Or a blender so quiet you can mix a drink while watching a movie at home without hitting "pause".
I've been trying to give this part of the world an open-minded go over the past couple weeks. I do think it's true that many of us got excited about Bitcoin, which is definitely a dead end, and when we realized that we closed our minds to the entire "industry". But the DeFi world is definitely different and if it's also a dead end, it isn't for the same reasons that Bitcoin was.

Having said all that, I still can't figure out what the hell to do in the DeFi world. It seems like all I can do is lend my assets to people who also have nothing to do besides speculate or themselves lend their assets to other speculators. I can't figure out anything to do that pushes out of the speculative bubble in any way. Maybe you can help me?
I still don't get why wikipedia doesn't do a very simple thing with some of its funds: pay editors full-time.

I realise the potential for conflicts of interest, but simply either (i) disburse grants to already prolific editors, to support their efforts, or (ii) pay recognized experts to improve articles which are lacking (e.g. pay historians, philosophers, biologists, etc).
Tangentially but our local small-town hospital ran its TV system through a C64 system for decades. It was there until the hospital was bulldozed and replaced around 5 years ago. I don't know exactly how it worked but my dad was the engineer at the hospital and explained it was used to provide TV services to paying (private insurance) patients.

All I recall is that whenever a TV was switched on you'd see the C64 load "*" prompt for a few seconds before the picture kicked in. This got me wondering about the guy who set that up, and a bit impressed with how it kept running without issue for so long, since as far as dad could recall they didn't need to do any maintenance on it.

I'm just imagining a dusty C64 forgotten in a crawlspace somewhere with a big "Do not turn off" label on it. I wonder what happened with it, I wouldn't mind seeing the code and setup. (edit - I've sent him an email to see if he recalls any details as he was there from the late 80s onward...)
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also `podman unshare` is really helpful
This has largely been true for Rust, however, there are some optimizations that the compiler does before generating LLVM IR.

* Compiler docs: https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/mir/optimizations.html

* Working Group: https://rust-lang.github.io/compiler-team/working-groups/mir...

* Example of one such optimization, "constant propagation" https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2019/12/02/const-prop...
Also we had electronic simulators for various instruments for ages now.

Things like Clavinova keyboards Piano or Line 6 Pods simulating Guitar/Bass amps & effects have been out their for decades now.

And while they have been quite popular due to the sheer number of sonorities and the convenience they bring (possibility to play with an headset, extremely useful to play at night or in apartments), traditional analog setups remain strong.

Playing on an analog setup still is more pleasant and more expressive IMHO, in particular "simulators" tend to mask the attack when hitting a note, and hides a lot the tension/crispation in the hands/fingers when playing, leading to potential bad habits, specially for people learning to play an instrument. Analog to digital and digital to analog conversion definitely lead to loses in expressiveness.
I have a young family, so I can tell you that I do know a bit how things go and how many things don't work so well - to which I do in fact blame the various regulations.

Because you know, what worked best for us? All the things that are not regulated, like grandparents watching over the childs or teenage babysitter.
The very well regulated state kindergarten?

It was a nightmare so far, even though we have a quite good kindergarden compared to the various stories I heard so far of what is possible, as well. And sure, Corona was not helping with that either, but I know quite some people in social jobs and I listen to their stories since way before corona.
I think what you're trying to define by example may just be Normalization of Deviance [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
Since January, there has been a 10-storey office building under construction directly outside my apartment window.

It has been a lesson in the debilitating effect of loud noise. Even in with the windows closed it is impossible to ignore.

I've also realised that different types of noise cause me to react differently. Intermittent noises (stop start drilling, bolting together parts, hammering) are the most annoying and cause me to feel anger. Constant noises (a table saw, cutting equipment) are more fatiguing. After a few hours you think you are just ignoring them but you instantly feel better the moment they are switched off.

People's voices are particularly hard to ignore. I fairly regularly hear screams of "Ouch" and there's a certain emotional tinge to the discomfort that causes.
It kind of did? The Russians clearly had many more "firsts", but the Americans had the first man on the moon, so I'd say even though the Russians clearly had won by the numbers, the Americans didn't too bad either. Maybe not quite enough for a tie, but pretty close.