skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because when you are a witness to something with which you disagree, speaking out and acting on it is a matter of making an opinion, and then attaching your identity to that opinion. And thus, you might be a developer who only cares about the superiority of C++ over Scala, but now you’ve got to attach your identity to “I didn’t think it was okay for my boss to take our young female employees home if they got drunk at our office party” (this happens!) or whatever.

Things seem totally benign until something goes wrong. Then all of this “advice” starts to look totally different as you watch everyone who should act and take a stand decide they need to “keep their identity small.”
What lettergram wrote is very beautiful and moving prose in the abstract, but as you note, the reality of life in America if you are poor is incredibly ugly and painful (and not in a "healthy" way that spurs growth, unless you are very very lucky)
What qualifies as “abuse” for a website that simply returns your IP? I don’t get it.

You made a free service, and then lots of people started abusing it by... using the service?
The recent revelations are not at all surprising.

Truman relieved General MacArthur of his command over coalition forces in Korea in large part because he planned and aggressively advocated the use of nuclear weapons against the Chinese.

If you visit the Princeton stacks, you can unearth many Woodrow Wilson School theses advocating the aggressive use of nuclear weapons during Vietnam. Some of the people who authored these papers went on to craft US trade policy from the 1980s through the present. A truly remarkable change of heart.
F-35A Flights – Vermont ANG [video]
Potemkin Villages and the Autocracy of Design
Your point on religious days intrigued me. I wonder if there's a more than casual relationship between "on demand" workers (which is often the case with part-time workers given random schedules week-to-week) and declining religious affiliation. If you don't know if you'll be working on Saturday or Sunday or not, you cannot regularly attend church/synagogue/mosque/etc. It's another barrier to friction, and surprisingly simple things can shift behavior.
Boohoo muh NYPD police can

Tell me, when is property destruction justified, and when is it not? The USA was founded on the basis of property destruction; was that unjustified? When do you go from “freedom fighter” to terrorist?
I find the new UI to be far worse; luckily there are (for now, but it only needs to stick around long enough for a UI replacement add-on to be developed) about:config options you can use to disable the new UI (that is, set the following to false: browser.proton.enabled, browser.proton.modals.enabled, browser.proton.doorhangers.enabled, and browser.proton.contextmenus.enable).

It seems the FF devs are following "cargo cult" development, blindly imitating the Chrome UI without seeming to understand that Google's monopolistic practices that allows them to force Chrome on people rather than because Chrome is fundamentally good or user-friendly. Given Firefox has such small (~3.36%) market share, they should probably focus on avoiding alienating the user base they have.
I know that eating out varies by lifestyle in ways beyond wealth, but are resturant meals really that significant a portion of health? Even with old office commute "eating out heavily" was five meals per workweek.
> how did we as an industry end up in a place where it's this dang hard to keep systems secure?

Shipping is easy. Shipping makes the product better. Shipping gets the customers and the funding and furthers the mission. You do what it takes to ship, to get the thing working, to do what you're burning to do, and the rest is details.

Taking the time to ensure you've thought through your authentication strategy and done your key management well does not directly do any of these. It feels like a waste of time by comparison. What does it matter? You'll fix it later. You don't need bullshit corporate malware endpoint management, you only hire good professionals.

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It's so easy to slip into that mindset. Because you mean well, you want only the best, but you have priorities to balance. I can empathize with everyone involved in a list like this... but speaking as a security professional I ultimately prioritize the safety of the user.
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I honestly don't know, I for sure couldn't foresee that some years later I would have been called from others to work on the same sources. The work environment was really good and I wished the project lasted more, but alas all good things must come to an end. Anyway I had no explicit reason to leave traces other than maybe some odd reasoning after listening to a ("toxic", as some of us realized later) colleague talking about bad experiences in other places and signing his sources in a similar way, but to me it was mainly a "Kilroy was here" thing.
The US Navy could impose a blockade. I don't like that option, but the US does have options other than sanctions. It could also counterinvade Taiwan.
There's a big chapter of Graebers book where he discusses potential sociological causes for the phenomenon of bullshit jobs. He criticizes the labor theory of value (initially pushed by economists like Adam Smith before Marx turned it on its head as a way to radicalized workers) as pushing people to socially value 'work' in the abstract, rather than the result of work, which contributed to the phenomenon of bullshit jobs in the first place.

Graeber feels we should be concentrating less on purely economic theories of value than theories of values which involve more social interests, which seems like the more 'primary' value. In particular, he questions whether the CGI artist's job was creating value for society as a whole. The artist himself didn't seem to think he was, hence why the CGI artist felt his job was bullshit. Maybe the artist's internal system of social value included some aspect of labour value, but it's hard to say since our own perspectives on social value are so murky.
People brave deserts to come here because life is a little bit more tolerable in the imperial core [1] than in the regions that the core extracts natural resources and cheap human labor from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries
Hm, it looks like you can see comment points only up through 7 years ago. 6 years ago they stop being shown. Was that a policy change at some point?
One can have a tit-for-tat policies on a geopolitical scale but also excercise forgiveness in most situations in life. I think Tit-for-tat is a terrible strategy on the whole and agree with your philosophical stance - I hope you didn't mean it on the personal level.
I have a lot of friends and acquaintances in Europe. From the ones who tried to start a business I have been told the issue is taxes and regulation. It is nearly impossible for someone with limited initial income to maintain the appropriate legal entities. The overhead you pay just for existing in Europe makes small European businesses noncompetitive. There are other valid issues highlighted here, but first and foremost this is what I have seen.
You could have the opinion without being a zealot about it to the extent that you're making up a guy to get mad at.

If I saw my supervisor taking home a young female employee, I'd go right to HR about it, done, next question.
Airplane Stopped Selling Licenses
breaking news programmer figures out answer to societal dilemma humans have been grappling with since society came into existence
Generally, what he's saying here is a really good idea and it's a good practice to the extent it's possible -- but, at the risk of beating this particular metaphorical dead horse, this is why the concept of "privilege" as we know it today came to be.

It takes a certain level of privilege to be free from "identity" constraints; put differently, the advice in this bit is FAR easier said than done for many.
How do you know who Anonymous is?
Stimulus check is not enough to live on.
29 hours a week is about 130 hours a month. Assuming a wage of $15 an hour, that's $1950. Spending $300 of that, about 15% of your pre-tax income, on health insurance is a decision few people would be happy about.
What's the difference with MSE loss?
The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions
Anecdatum: slow days at the warehouse were brutal. The busier we were, the faster time flew. Nothing was as dreadful as sitting around waiting for an order to pick, staring at the clock waiting for lunch or the shift to be over.
Since labour shortages are economy-wide, not just at the lower end... I think it's almost certainly macro related.

In any case, this is a good thing. When unemployment rates are high, the least employable people tend to be unemployed. When unemployment is low, the least attractive jobs are unfilled.
A shortage of workers is driving up wages: are we entering a new economic era?
Oh didn't notice they mentioned backups, my mistake then.
If you don't exist you don't have rights to defend. Did you mean the right to life, as in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
First your source is heavily biased, dig into the numbers they use and they skip for example workers commuting emissions as nobody lives within walking distance of a reactor. Making their comparison absolutely meaningless.

More importantly nuclear very specifically gets more expensive as you ramp up the percentage of grid energy your supplying. For a simple fact check look at the capacity factor of French nuclear reactors, for example:

France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chooz_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Capacity factor 70.6% and around 700 full-time workers

USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaway_Nuclear_Generating_St...

Capacity Factor: 87.70% (lifetime)

Lower capacity factors directly translate into higher costs as you still need to pay for the building and security guards etc, you just don’t generate as much energy from identical infrastructure.

PS: If you don’t want to do the leg work just compare national averages around 2000-2005 and then realize France needed to import and export a lot of electricity because they simply couldn’t afford to operate in isolation at 70+% nuclear generation.
A bit unfair. This is not a public agency allocation to a publicly executed project.

This is a private, for-profit enterprise with a public (_as in owned by the State_) customer.

Vastly different incentives when the customer and the one executing are not the same.
Industrial robots work repetitive tasks for high efficiency but have high capital costs. Fast food beat out automat style resturants for several reasons but one of them was the versatility of human labor. It seems to be a case of "we know how to do it but not do it cheap enough to be worth it".
Fry's electronics used to schedule their workers like this.

- Either Saturday or Sunday off

- No consecutive days are off

- two openings (start around 7 or 8 am, end by 3 or 4 pm)

- two closings (start around 2 pm, end by 10 pm or so)

- one normal day (start around 9:30 am)

This was how they used to 'enslave' their workers: by ruining their sleep patterns (two opening vs two closing); by not doing any productive work on their own (by not giving two successive days off); by preventing people from going to school (through different start times).
The Right to Be Forgotten leads to some interesting thought experiments.
To the QuestDB founders - thanks for the blog post & benchmarks!

I had a question about this part:

> We found out that this model does not fit all data acquisition use cases, such as out-of-order data

I know the whole blog post is about how you're now able to handle out-of-order data, but I'm curious - what use cases is QuestDB best for? Can you provide some concrete examples of where customers have ordered data and need QuestDB?
My favorite illustration of small identity is the feud between Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat http://www.erclosetphysics.com/2017/08/what-is-fermats-last-...

At the time Descartes was a prominent mathematician of his time with significant following, heavily invested into his reputation and status.

After a certain dispute, where Fermat shed doubt on a work by Descartes, the prominent mathematician grew annoyed and tried to discredit Fermat. The only problem was Fermat's disinterest in his status - how exactly does one destroy a reputation of a provincial clerk and father of eight, who does math as a hobby?
The essay has nothing to "keeping a low profile". Not as an abuser, victim, or anything else.
>The labor force participation rate will keep falling as America transitions to a post-scarcity economy

What's the evidence that this is happening, or is going to happen? The top 3 categories in the CPI are housing, food, and transport. I can't imagine any of these transitioning to "post scarcity" any time soon. The only thing that can plausibly head toward post scarcity are education and recreation, which can be delivered digitally, but those only make up 3.0% and 5.8% of the CPI respectively.
Your reward for an entire year of miserable work is maybe being able to afford car maintenance and xmas gifts or a brief and cheap local holiday! Relax on holiday for a few days and then it's back to the grindstone for another 360 days.
> If China invades Taiwan they'll be able to hold the rest of the world hostage because of TSMC. It's still a lose-lose situation.

No, this is not true. China depends on foreign technology much, much more than anyone depends on TSMC. Just look at the Huawei and ZTE sanctions.

Not to mention if China had that much leverage in the game they could easily sanction Taiwan and cut off probably a majority of its business dealings before resorting to invasion by force.

Did you know that Taiwan and China (pre-covid) could freely travel between the countries more or less, and even setup business like Foxconn that profit off Chinese labor? There's literally more cooperation between Taiwan and China than US and Cuba.
"The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), established in 1958, is an agency within the Department of Defense (DOD) responsible for catalyzing the development of technologies that maintain and advance the capabilities and technical superiority of the U.S. military." [1]

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R45088.pdf
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: Overview and Issues for Congress
This is an excellent list. I can think of so many experiences where I’d have fared better knowing/following this advice instead of my wrong instincts at the time.
In a ha-ha-only-serious way, I think this is a big part of the answer. DARPA is the only US funder that’s willing to pay for experienced staff. If your proposal needs a half-dozen seasoned scientists or engineers, they’ll pay for it.

In contrast, the NIH and NSF are very trainee-focused: a typical project consists of one professor loosely overseeing 1-3 “trainees”. We obviously need future scientists, but this model has a ton of drawbacks in terms of speed, quality, and even the nature of the project (which needs to let three people be somewhat-separately “evaluated”). It has also no room in it for any ICs more than four or five years post-PhD, which is bonkers given what the same organizations just paid to train them!
Are there any examples of breakthrough technologies recently developed by the CCP that have benefited other than themselves?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breakthrough
I’m south of you in Oregon, and I’ve seen a single crow chase away a red tailed Hawk. It’s definitely a strange sight.
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That's precisely my point. Food, water, shelter, air, and good health, are all required before one can begin to pursue the right to free speech.
It was even worse before the ACA.

At least with Obamacare, you (likely) won’t go bankrupt if you break a leg.

You also get preventative care fully covered (or ~$30 copay) even with plans that have $6,000 deductibles.

That includes both low & high cost items, like annual physicals and colonoscopies.

No, Obamacare shouldn’t die (as you said in an earlier comment) but it should be replaced with something that improves on what it’s already done.

Personally, I favor Medicare for all.
I have admired Major for a long time, however I'm disappointed to see further defacto consolidation of widely used Internet infrastructure (regardless of if it should be getting used this way).
The pandemic might have killed off some flu strains for good
This doesn’t entirely disambiguate OP’s sentence - he’s tying the lack of incision to no longer having untreated wastewater. Is that to say that treated wastewater would somehow cause incision, or just that the untreated wastewater increases volume and thus erosion?
Shot and killed. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=covid+mask+security+guard+sho...
This sounds like my hours at a restaraunt while doing my BSc. I have no idea how I made it... but it was worth it, becase I was making $7/hr...
I agree, we aren’t seeing as much implementation of dnssec, and a lot of other checks that when check the DNP Scores of domains.

I recently ran the DNP Scores of all domains of companies in the Fortune 500 and only about 8 percent had high scores, and we check for dnssec as part of the algorithm.

So less than 8 percent of the Fortune 500 have dnssec implemented.

(For transparency, I wrote the algo behind DNP Score.)
For me the money given by governments for the pandemic allowing people to stay home has sort of become a proxy for UBI. Has allowed for the decrease in exploitation of workers. As workers are under the barrel when negotiating for pay either they except what they can get or they and their children go hungry. This allows them to negotiate a better pay.
Or, you know, go the other way and make your identity as big as possible. Identify with all humanity, all life, the whole universe. I mean it's probably closer to the truth than any other story we might tell ourselves?
>Workers should choose to walk away from the current bad deals.

Right, but they should also face the consequences (ie. not getting paid). Imagine a world where a SaaS vendor rejects an offer from a customer because they think the price is too low, but the government steps in and pays the SaaS vendor anyways.
Yes? Why wouldn’t they?
You need to think about the future.

You have no idea how someone might misinterpret something you said, or believe in.

It could be a future employer, client, divorce lawyer, Lawyer collecting a judgment, business partner, investor, future friend, nosey neighbor wondering in you have a permit, disgruntled former lover, etc.

If you are a rich guy like PG, it really doesn't matter what you put out there, but for guys like myself; I stay anonymous.

I think what PG is saying will be more important in the future.
I have to wonder sometimes, what if the West finally has enough and shuts China off from all its trade? Sure, prices will rise, but that's the cost of staying alive anyway—I'm convinced we'll have to scale consumption back at some point unless we want to all die among barren wasteland and landfills (or at least if we don't want to live among wasteland with some hydroponics and farms).

So, let's say the West relocates production to India, dozen other neighboring countries and Africa, and gives China the finger. Will China go on fine and dandy with just Middle-East customers and whatnot? Will it turn to blocking and pillaging traffic on the seas from those other countries? Will it turn to terrorism, something like torturing Uyghurs until the US gives in and turns off the sanctions? Will it go to war with all the neighbors, beginning with Taiwan? Will it fire the nukes, and/or have NK fire the nukes?

I've heard that Western politics, including international politics, are a product of popular demand, even if people won't say they like what the government does. Well, either people are fine with China's hijinks while all the tsatskes are cheap, or there's some complications to the idea that the West might want to do something.
Wow, the photos on

https://krcproject.groups.et.byu.net/browse.php

are amazing: for many of these I don't think I would have considered them frightening at all from their appearance. Most of them look tiny, but these are all places where people were drowned by the current.
If she is the manager and has a staff why is she working the front counter?

I've never seen a manager hand off a difficult customer to a lower employee. As a customer I would ask to speak to the manager if I wasn't getting service never does the manager ask the co-op student to handle this difficult customer they can't.

Something about your story doesn't add up. You say she is the nicest person but is she good at customer service because those are two different skills.
For folks who want to try the kind of forecasting being discussed here, Metaculus is a pretty great community: https://www.metaculus.com/

Their FAQ has a great explanation of how they 'score' user forecasts --- including a summary of Brier scores for binary yes/no questions, and the log score used for both binary and continuous questions: https://www.metaculus.com/help/faq/#howscore
From 1989[0], about Amnesty International

> O'Sullivan's First Law: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I cite as supporting evidence the ACLU, the Ford Foundation, and the Episcopal Church.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100715191034/http:/old.nationa...
> post-scarcity

I wanna know who the clown was that came up with this term, because there's a ton of stuff in the world that is scarce, you know, like homes.
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Yeah, doesn't that select for the ones who don't get hospitalized? How about overall hospitalizations or is it not used/studied in a prophylaxis capacity?
This dam, near where I grew up, caused 9 dam-related drownings since 1980. It was finally removed in 2018.

https://dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/pages/fishpassage/bloede....
> and then attaching your identity to that opinion.

This step is optional. The argument is that it is in your interest to do the former without the latter.
May the great bird of the galaxy roost upon your home planet, Major.
I noticed that to. PG contradicts himself within a couple paragraphs
Ha, this is the bane of design. You don't need any particular expertise, you just have to like or dislike something. Product managers, you know who you are.
You can make an opinion without attaching your identity to it. I don't even know where to begin with that. Are you seriously incapable of holding an opinion without it entirely subsuming your identity?

I think maybe you are viewing this from the perspective of your identity being how other people perceive you, rather than how you perceive yourself?

Like if you pull a drowning child out of a river, do you now become "guy who pulls drowning children out of rivers" and you have to quit your job and patrol the rivers looking for drowning children, because this is your whole identity now?
1) Neither: Nano

2) Neither: VMS

3) Neither: Dr. Who

4) Neither: Family Circle

5) That is correct
The sentence that strikes me as the essence of the essay:

"More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants."

Is that true? I really don't think it is. I could definitely have a fruitful (as precise as that can be) conversation with a Christian about religion or a "proud Black man" about race in America. Or even learn a thing or two about programming from a lisp evangelist...

I liked this essay at first, but when I read it more critically it doesn't hold up. It at first seemed to preach non-attachment. Now I feel like it's just an excuse for me to tune you out whenever I decide your identity has been engaged by the topic.
The manager gets a stern talking to. Really.