skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now most programs are merely portals for "services".

More like three legs on that stool. The sale price, the services upsell, and then they leverate insights gained from capturing telemetry about you.

Eg Windows is all three.
> There is just more disagreement and dissension than you would know unless you took the time to reach out to people and speak to them in a more relaxed way.

That's been my biggest problem with most conversation I have. Nuance has been lost.

> fake consensus that can become very misleading

It's PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION / Social desirebility bias: Preference falsification is the act of misrepresenting one’s wants under perceived social pressures. It shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities. Preference falsification is the act of communicating a preference that differs from one's true preference. The public frequently convey, especially to researchers or pollsters, preferences that differ from what they truly want, often because they believe the conveyed preference is more acceptable socially. It include the unexpected fall of communism, the paucity, until recently, of open opposition to affirmative action in the United States, and the durability of the beliefs that have sustained India’s caste system:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674707580

Why would anyone admit to being a [Insert anything against the establishment/mainstream media narrative]? You just get vilified and attacked.

I know several people and many qualified people (doctors) who got banned from YouTube, FB, IG, Twitter, Reddit and got "Disinformation" label slapped on their posts. Even on HN itself, there was a strange stink in the responses to a few of my comments simply stating that we shouldn't simply ignore this theory. Most people were responding with links to places like Snopes, Politifact, NYTimes, WaPo, MSNBC etc - places which have shown their biases several times in history but people kept trusting them as "authoritative" sources. The "fact checkers" were doing nothing more than narrative control but it was enough to chastise people. Some were really mean comments. I would expect such responses from Reddit but I wasn't expecting it on HN. The biggest irony was that we were being accused of being in a cult.

Does anyone think these platforms will now go back and "uncensor" those accounts? Will apologies be issued? I doubt it.
I’m pretty sure there is something approaching universal truth out there, and it involves power relationships between people and groups of people. After all, a single person alone on a desert island can’t do much that really qualifies as good or evil, unless someone else is there to be affected by it. Morality exists between people and in the way they relate to each other.

My personal view is that decisions that affect the individual should be left to the individual, decisions that affect groups should be made by those groups (in a democratic fashion). Of course the devil is in the details.
Best thing we can do is to ban it completely.
15K is decent motorcycle, very low end car territory already. That's exorbitant.
> Don't crash

That's good advice in any vehicle :)

I think you are missing my point. I only say just because something is available doesn't meant you should use it. Life is not always about minimizing risk, or effort or maximizing productive output.

You can (should) do offsite backups, and even if you don't life doesn't end if you lose some of your work. Not everyone needs to rebuild their setup in milliseconds. If my house burned down my custom configuration would be the last of my worries don't know about you.

But, well. To each their own.
> why wouldn't an advanced civilization simply use their super strength nanoparticles for everything? Why go out of your way to use worse materials?

For the same reason we've spent decades making our cars structurally weaker?
I'll bet he's getting a bit sick of that. Hasn't he worked out what's causing it yet?
Right. The people who can actually afford $500 shoes aren't the ones buying Balenciaga sneakers that look like clown shoes. Actual wealthy people are generally not easily influenced suckers.
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Any ad hominem cannot inform you about the quality of an argument. It _can_ inform you that you should look at an argument critically but, even in the "valid" form, it doesn't address the argument.
> Human capital is the underlying factor

Yeah, I think this is what the article was trying to get at, verbose and roundabout as it may have been. My main criticism would be against the idea that there is some consciously coordinated "elite" coming together to sabotage the country. Personally, I tend to think of it more as a tragedy of the commons, where multiple uncoordinated entities simultaneously arrive at the conclusion that exploitation of less privileged/leveraged/savvy entities is an acceptable way to achieve selfish/capitalist goals. One could definitely argue that the Brazilian culture of hustling certainly doesn't help there.
Thumbs up guys! Very slick experience...
I've been using obsidian + my own code to publish notes.
Mainly because I want to make sure I own the data (all the .md files).
Will I be able to download my data?
The West could have ended the local epidemic in about 1/2 year with the help of mRNA vaccines.

While medical system is patting themselves on the shoulder, they completely missed the opportunity.

The missed actions were

a) human challenge studies to tremendously speed up the validation of efficacy and
b) war time like effort to invest into vaccine production facilities.

Human challenge studies were rejected by ethical committees - like the risk of health of few tens of thousands were greater than the life of millions.

I am not sure what prevented the proper scale up of the production.
That's a good point.

I quit years before the pandemic, but if I was still smoking when lockdown started I would've probably gone from being a pack-a-day smoker to a two-pack-a-day smoker.

First, all that pandemic anxiety would've made me smoke way more just as a matter of course. Second, being at home all day means I'd have no reason not to smoke. Back when I smoked, if I wanted to smoke at work, I'd have to stop what I'm doing and go outside (which royally sucked when it was either swelteringly-hot out or raining), but in lockdown? I could just smoke in my house all day while working.

I'm so glad I quit before that.
I'm not arguing for the importance of writing except in the sense that similar arguments used to be made for the importance of design.

If you actually have a dedicated writer on staff (as opposed to outsourcing it to a marketing agency), paying them less than an intern is as mind-bogglingly stupid as paying a full time designer less than an intern.

BTW, nurses may get paid less than engineers, but they don't get paid less than medical residents, which is a more appropriate parallel to an engineering intern.
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Why isn't Lord of the Rings "science fiction" but Star Wars is? They both have technology unknown to us.
Maybe I am dumb, but what's wrong with so called "Positive Eugenics"? I.e encouraging people with good genetic qualities and here, good resources for children's upbringing, to have more children?
"diminished neuroticism" - you've reminded me of the link between smoking and schizophrenia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_tobacco_sm...
OK. I know you are a crypto proponent. Just earn your money and make less clamorous nonsense.

Everyone knows that crypto is for gamblers. Just don't pretend that it is a virtuous invention.
One of my favorite browser was the station app (which currently pivoted to become browser extension). It helped me to organize my work by a large percentage. I guess their pivot is due to not good enough traction and becoming a chrome extension can help them increase their market size. I felt sad when everyone treats these amazing product as free product. They deserve a hug.
>how is calling the NAACP an appropriate reaction to that fear

It's not clear which NAACP. The NAACP LDF (Legal Defense Foundation) certainly sounds to me like a good choice to call.
> According to a poll released in 2019, some 54 percent of Americans between the ages of thirteen and thirty-eight would, if given the chance, become a social-media influencer. A whopping 23 percent believed that this term already fit them.

EDIT: Jesus, this article is the gift that keeps giving:

> Later, when I ask Chase [about the veracity of the video he] explains that the video must be legit because “it’s gotten deleted multiple times off the internet, which is insane.” Epistemologically, this is where we are as a country: when content gets expurgated because of blatant misinformation, it is taken as a sure sign of that source’s truthfulness.

also the whole post apocalyptic vibe is lit:

> It is raining ash while we play basketball.
But it will only be a few of them that view it as an identity.

For them it'll be a chance to talk with people from different walks of life such as bankers, lawyers, doctors, artists, entrepreneurs, business owners, or COs. Since so many have wide breadths of opportunity they'll be able to talk to people who have had novel experiences from themselves.

I mean the default experience seems to be a sheltered(maybe insular is a better word?[1]) one, but I can't say I'm not similar in my own social circle. I haven't purposefully gone out of my way to mingle with people in other groups outside of my normal social circle except at work/hobbies/sports and really only talk to those I already know at Friday drinks.

[1] Really I'm kind of looking for a word to express diverse sameness. Something you'd use to express "European countries are all the same except of course each is a unique culture". Maybe talking about untraveled Americans(US) except a word to contrast one who only lived in their rural town vs one who worked and lived from New Orleans, to Detroit, to New York, to Nebraska, to Hawaii and Alaska while not having left the US.
I don't think it's either of those things.

The products are better because of steady improvement in precision manufacturing. Sensors and lenses have both come a long way, the latter is mostly a benefit of cheaper precision steppers.

The prices are higher because phones have taken the whole entry tier of the market out, pretty much. There's not a lot of point in a good digital camera with one noninterchangeable zoom lens, when pictures from a phone camera are almost as high quality, and action cameras like the GoPro also chipped away at that product.

Cameras are a specialty product now, with APS-C and 3/4 as the entry level. People who want that kind of control and quality are willing to pay for it, and there aren't as many of us as there used to be.
Do you have an example? I have never heard about that before.
It's space fantasy or space western, not science fantasy.
When people say docker helps in making dev look like prod, I assume they are running everything on docker in production, but that is very rarely the case with dbs, queues and cloud specific services.

Interesting I'll check this script, but I have doubts doing a rebuild is going to be quick enough even with good cache layering in the Dockerfile.
Use case is that I have frontend and backend code in one repo, and make changes across them that need to be reflected in the ui.
For what's it's worth, I experienced the same. I felt nothing but the burn of the smoke whenever I tried. Thank you for writing for us.
Text editors ... are such a personal thing

Sooner or later, you get imprinted with one. It may not be the first one you use, or maybe not the last one you tried.

I got imprinted with WordStar in the mid 1980s. I still use WordStar itself when I program in CP/M. And I use jstar (one of the 'joe' alter egos that pretends it's WordStar) when I program in C on Linux.
That sounds rather defeatist. Is it impossible to make work, life, or social structure more fair? I doubt you think that.
> An unnecessarily strong castle takes you more time and resources to build.

> A slightly too weak castle means you die, your family dies, and you lose all wealth and power.

You're really glossing over a lot of important concerns here. There are many, many ways to lose all your wealth and power, and lots of them might have been avoided if you'd had a few more spare resources.
> cheap DSLR paired with a cheap 35mm f/1.8 in absolute terms.

I think this depends on the shot. The Pixel 4 easily beats “cheap DSLR” in several settings, particularly low light. I know folks who have an iPhone as a phone and a Pixel as a camera :).

It’s true that it’s also much better at “photo production” (capture => minor edit => post), but I think you can find examples where the photo itself is strictly better.
You can sanction the countries in a variety of ways until they stop. You could deploy counter measures to prevent some things: a targeted strike against a chemical depot, or deploy anti-drone technology. This is not unlike the Student approach to slowing Iranian nuclear weapons development.

You can also go after the people behind the orders to do these things and bring them up on war crimes. I find the former option much more ethically reliable, as the later frequently suffers from the fact that war crimes tribunals are generally not convened against the actions of whoever wins, while the winner is all to eager to punish their enemies even beyond defeat.

But none of these options are perfect. We live in a world where bad people can do awful things and never suffer the consequences. Justice isn't dead, but it has never been equally applied.
That article also says that unregistered / illegal firearms are common in Finland, many hidden since World War II.

This is the case in many other parts of Europe, too.
It's a question of degree, I don't inherently mind being advertised too or getting targeted advertisements. I do mind having my entire location history known by many parties.

I can get the former largely without the latter. I am concerned when a random app has access to the latter because they feel entitled to collect it by virtue of installation.
In the Netherlands SSNs are not unique, they handed out some duplicate ones back in the day. So not great as a primary key. Besides, I think using them as primary keys is illegal anyway.
I don't see the need to label your hatred as irrational. Just about everyone hates them (including leaf blower owners!), and seems quite rational to me.
>Your OS was safe because of the backups, and the write protect tab. Your data disk was all you risked, and you had copies of that as well. Your side effects were well known and contained.

What about an attacker reading secrets off your system? How does the OS protect that especially with Spectre around.
I don't understand how you could question American ability to resupply Hawaii but not Japan's, given the fact that the core point is that the IJN could not afford the losses which they were suffering throughout Pacific War while the US could. The supply lines that the IJN would need to reach out so far would have given American forces the overwhelming home field advantage while greatly diminishing the capabilities of the IJN. Conversely it was no accident that the US still endured terrible losses in spite of it's overwhelming numeric advantages. The amount of manpower and material required for such long distant campaigns is enormous, and it's no accident that Super Powers are defined by their ability to wage war far away from home.
One of the few named brands in the story is a fried chicken place. You don’t have to be rich to afford fried chicken. But fried chicken is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

And it’s an industry that is deeply dependent on advertising to maintain brand awareness and segment the market. All fried chicken tastes basically the same, so customers choose stores based on brand attributes.

Are you a Popeyes, KFC, or Chick-fil-A kind of person? Influencer marketing helps you figure it out and remember which place is the most desirable for you.

This sort of thing works on many people, but teenagers are especially susceptible to it.
Need chat? IRC, at your service.

Just.. no. Please stop pushing IRC. It's had decades to evolve and still today lacks really basic QoL things like a good mobile story (always-on connections won't fly, bouncers are limited hacks), permissions, or user registration that doesn't look like an 80s xterm.

Matrix is carrying that torch now. IRC is an evolutionary dead-end that will only ever be used by techies.
From my understanding, stars get to cheat to get a lot of pressure by just being really big, whereas we have to do it with lots of fancy techniques
>The idea itself is perfectly serviceable, extendable, and usable.

very well said. couldn't agree more .
Harpers typical. Someone must like it.
Yes they are, but they can afford to buy everything nice, not just a few ridiculous things.

Also, poor people aren't buying Lambos and crashing them.
Oh God, those are even worse. My LinkedIn feed is garbage largely because of people like this.
It's not about temperature, it's about pressure. The only way to achieve the pressure needed for fusion on earth is to heat up the plasma much hotter than the sun.
Accessible alternatives with agorism, second realms and proxy merchants
You have to factor in the additional people making YouTube content buying camera equipment.
There are a million children in the USA whose parents are millionaires.
Alcohol has enormous benefits over smoking and has pretty much been in hand for the entirety of civilization.

If people drink like a normal smoker smokes its considered a problem. If your having a couple morning drinks and taking shot breaks at work people would view that as extreme, yet that was/is a norm for smokers.

The thing is that its not so much explicitly smoking, but cigarettes that are the major problem. Cigarettes have so many additives and distort the natural tobacco to enhance the addiction that they themselves create the bulk of the smoking related issues. Using a natural tobacco product at the same frequency as normal / social drinking wouldn't have nearly the terrible health impacts as what happens to typical cigarette smokers and would likely be seen in a similar vein were it not for the negative attention brought on by cigarettes.
We are in total agreement with regards to the principles involved. So... in what way were her rights not protected? Cops can do surveillance, right? They got a warrant, after all. There is plenty of loaded language and implied wrongdoing, but what was done that was actually wrong?
Exactly it's a giant joke and when homes were affordable 30 years ago. So it's ridiculous when people act like wages are too high while ignoring inflation without the ability to afford a home unless the wages match what's needed.
This is true in the US as well, at least where I live. Judges specifically inform the jury that they cannot treat a police officer’s testimony with any more weight or as any more correct than any other witness.

Whether juries actually pay attention to this or not I cannot say.
American history education focuses very heavily on domestic affairs, and is further segmented by local priorities (e.g. “American Civil War” vs. “War of Northern Aggression”)

At least growing up in NYC, domestic history is really focused on domestic affairs. We barely touched the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War was kind of a footnote. The World Wars are discussed in that they set up the US as a superpower but the actual implications of that are more or less glossed over (nothing about South American activities, barely anything about the Korean War; I think we talked for one hour in high school about Mossadegh and that was “world history.”) And that’s probably one of the more progressive curriculums in the country; in the past there has been uproar over textbooks in other states saying that slavery was a consensual migration for economic reasons.
epo nuts still has crush on that girl i banged 17 years ago and banns me when i try to join i got to use alt account lol
I have a similar story; undergrad at a public state school and grad at a private Ivy. My experience at the Ivy was eye-openi. The loudest [1] Ivy undergrads came from private elementary/high schools and had a very dismissive view of the students who matriculated from public elementary/high schools. Academic breaks were used for luxury travel.

[1] "loudest" in the sense that they made sure that other students knew where they came from.
Maybe worth noting it's from 2018. Although not sure how much has fundamentally changed.

I hope that in the future, money will be looked at as a technology, and become a high technology. Economics should be reinvented in light of current technological progress and understanding of the brutal dynamics of primate behavior (such as humans). But hopefully with the consideration for an actual civilized paradigm, given the smallness of the world now with communication and transportation capabilities.
Would it have been possible for the Japanese to parlay the attack into a full scale invasion of Hawaii?
> For context, even in Tokyo, you would be surprised at the number of apartment buildings that come with shared 100Mbit lines for 30+ units, with no way of installing faster direct lines (in large part due to owner/agency refusal).

This is almost always the owner/agency actually. The above discussion is in context of being the owner.
I almost got hooked. Like you, I had tried cigarettes a few times and they did nothing.

Then, 10 years ago, I watched "The King's Speach," where King George constantly smokes, and after the movie I bought a pack of hand rolling tobacco. Gosh, rolling those little buggers was FUN. They gave me a buzz, it was an excuse to go outside, and the buzz wore off very quickly.

About a week in, I started waking up with the idea that I should immediately smoke a cigarette... Then on my bike ride home I'd get the idea that I should smoke a cigarette. I stopped at that point, realizing that if I gave in, I'd get addicted.

The thing is, before the addiction sets in, cigarettes are fun. They're an excuse to go outside, have a conversation with someone, occupy your hands... The nicotine buzz is similar to marijuana, but much shorter and not intoxicating.
The best description I have read—I don’t recall where—described the desire for a cigarette coupled with the fulfillment of that desire, repeated twenty or forty or whatever times each day. It is hard to explain, but that reflects my experience. That tightly-coupled loop of desire and satisfaction is, in a perverse way, somehow preferable to not having the desire in the first place.
What is so difficult with removing an SD card and popping it into your PC? If you’re a prosumer, you probably review and edit photos, which is better done on a bigger monitor anyway.
I'm not really sure how Slack saving documents to disk would really make sense. IRC was around before SaaS took off and webapps replaced desktop apps, but I can't think of a client that implemented "IRC documents" saved to disk.

Sure, most clients let you automatically save logs, but they were just text files you opened in any text editor. They weren't in a special IRC format, and you didn't open them with your IRC client. Hell, you couldn't open them with your IRC client. There's no reason you can't just ctrl-C a bunch of stuff out of a Slack chat and ctrl-V it into your text editor. Only difference between that and IRC logging is that you have to do it manually.
The question is... what is a sane amount of alcohol? It’s surprisingly carcinogenic. It’s just the alcohol industry, much like the tobacco industry of yesteryear, has successfully suppressed this info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer
I think that’s probably more aptly described as serfdom than as a welfare state