skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as an American expat, I watch South Park to catch up and learn about what has been blown out of proportion in the US, politically and socially. Because when South Park starts making fun of it, you know things have been taken too far, like next level messed up. Plus, it is a good source of entertainment.

I always am fairly aware of the news, even abroad, but I stay off of social media (except HN). I only read actual news from formal print publications. Honestly, the lack of American foreign correspondents reporting abroad (especially in print) makes the US susceptible to a lot of uncertainty, and plausible deniability (such as with Russian propaganda being propagated on social media). With respect to that, the Financial Times does extremely well, but it is not an American news source. But, it is definitely worth getting a subscription to. They also do a lot of reporting about tech, which is typically spot-on. I have only been disappointed once when reading a tech article on FT.com.
Yeah I read that part. What's stopping the other team from doing the same?
Oh jeez. I'm actually not sure. The oxide definitely screams "ceramic" now that you mention it. I think I took the one thread mentioning "alloy" along with (the admittedly woo-ish) image of the aircraft skin and brain just stuck on "alloy," which implies "admixture of metals." I might also be thinking of Invar, an alloy with super low CTE.

Scandium, aluminum, and tungsten oxides are all refractory ceramics, so I would reason that their mixed oxide is very similar. But tungsten (IV) oxide is conductive. Shrug, I was an organic chemist.

The bonding structure is shown in the data pdf here[0]. It's a heavily networked orthorhombic lattice and (oof, it's been a hot minute since inorgo class) what looks like lots of coordinate bonds. It's definitely more alloy/ceramic than molecule, which is sort of the GP thread topic, but I can't tell if it's considered an alloy, ceramic, both, or neither.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c01007
No, companies don't do this because it gives you good legal standing to sue the shit out of them ianal
I despise baseball.

Having said that, I some news stories back in the day about 2 previous scandals:

1) BALCO steroids - a lot of hot air, but I didn't see a lot of punishment for players. So many new hitting records.

2) Barry Bonds and his bionic arm prosthetics. Watch his swing - looks like it's in a groove, because it literally was.
“It is not known why the pulling cable snapped.”
I wonder if the UK had more of a culture of "home taping". The UK also has commercial-free BBC radio so recording stuff from the radio was more rewarding.
I can’t recall the last time (prior to rules enforcement) I’ve seen a pitcher not grab their hat, glove, or belt before each pitch helped by spin in order to use some form of adhesive. Actual data would be helpful but the impression I get is that literally every team did it and allowed the opponent to do it in exchange.
Crypto ends the discrimination of nation states (2013)
How do you think pitch movement works? I'm no physicist, but everything I have heard states that spin (or a lack thereof) is the primary driver of pitch movement.
I literally mean a toolkit of mental models, like quantum physics vs classical. Believing one or the other doesn't make anyone better – they both have applications.
> America spent more than half its life being "racially essentialist" and most of its policies went irrationally out of their way to specifically make sure that black people and Chinese immigrants had their neighborhoods destroyed.

Doesn’t that seem like a good reason to be rid of racial essentialism?
شركة نقل عفش من جدة الى الاردن شحن من جدة الي عمان
“that’s a feature not a product”

I'm starting to get tired of this axiom. From where I'm standing, lots of successful products were built around a single novel feature. For Instagram it was filters; for Youtube it was the ability to post a video on the internet; for Google Docs it was the ability for multiple people to write in one document simultaneously?

Perhaps some of those features are broader, or harder to replicate, or maybe the founders were able to pivot quickly—but I'd like to have those more nuanced conversations.
now consider this in terms of eschatology, and end-of-the-world cults.
And powershell (if I understand what is being described).
Fair enough what's a better wording. I'm trying to convey the mental models that are more natural in the religious world and lacking in the secular world (outside of philosophy )
> Why is murder evil? Why is stealing evil? Why is anything evil or good for that matter? At least religious people have answers to these questions.

Hard to answer without first defining evil (ideally avoiding Godwin's law).
You still need a $100 a year developer subscription to develop your app though, right?
I'm not sure if Apple are utterly miniscule + they only have to lobby for a very select few.
That's a bit silly, especially given the context.

If I were talking about black crows, in a conversation referring to blue crows, it might be relevant to be specific and say "black crow".

Regardless, why would you dismiss someone's entire opinion based on something so insignificant as that?

"I want to buy a widescreen TV"
"You idiot! 99% of TVs are widescreen, let's stop talking now as I can't take you seriously."

Also your stats are wrong. According to the census, it's more like 8-9% of US citizens self-reporting as homosexual/queer [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...
I'm trying to convince secular people, especially atheists, that they are in every way religious. That most of their beliefs are taken on faith. They have a value system of virtue and vice (usually implied), and they have deities ( forces, persona & phenomena that affect their life in a supernatural way).
ML PhD because it does honestly open more doors to top research groups

Correction: not ML PhD by itself - publications in top conferences open doors. Looking at the acceptance rates, I'm guessing most people with ML PhDs don't have such publications.
"The estimated lethal dose of the drug is 10 grams in one day, which is not terribly different from the maximum daily dose."

This is hyperlinked to a page which doesn't say anything close to that. It says the LD50 is 338 mg/kg in mice and 1944 mg/kg in rats. Even if we make the most wild leap and go with 338 mg/kg, the mean human weight is 62kg and so the mean LD50 is 20.956 grams. Extra strength tylenol is 500mg/pill. I think most people can manage to not accidentally take 42 pills, and most people already know that taking the whole bottle is one way to die. So to me it's not really that dangerous at all. Also, I've taken acetaminophen to get rid of a headache about once a week for at least 20 years and it's success rate is sitting at a cool 100% (no exaggeration) in getting rid of the headache completely, and never taking longer than 15 mins. When I don't take or don't have access to it, it usually develops into a bad migrane that lasts many hours before going away on its own. So yeah, at least it works.
This behavior looks like proselytizing. They want you to show that you accept and endorse their ideology. And if you don’t, then they have a reason to follow up and apply pressure. In a different time these people would have been missionaries and inquisitors.
You might be surprised how fast time can pass when you're in a holding pattern while management dithers over the quarterly priorities.
Pentagon whistle-blower under US govt probe for publishing op-eds
> Secondly, Bitcoin can do payments extremely quickly and cheaply, on the lightning network. If you haven’t tried it, it needs to be seen to be believed.

Okay, lets see it, I search for "bitcoin lightning client" on google, first client shows up at the bottom of the second page for me, it requires me to run a node as well??

I guess there is lists like https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network#applic... but I have zero idea which are safe, which arn't, etc. In addition half the apps are dead projects.

I just want to buy a hotdog.
Oh wow, that's a nice improvement. Thank you.
“The grass is greener where you water it.”
The consoles are niche entertainment devices. They also have many alternatives: multiple stores on PCs, and several newer cloud-based products. For this reason I'm OK with the stores in xbox/playstation/nintendo.

With smartphones it's different. Phones are not niche devices, they are ubiquitous and have killed whole industries like consumer photo/video equipment and portable audio.

From consumer point of view, no reasonable alternatives have left. It's for this reason I'm not OK with Apple and Google abusing their monopoly.
Speaking of anti-trust, surely Apple must be getting close to (or beyond) what Microsoft were? Total control over their users, hidden APIs, apparently biased store, rentseeking etc.

My £0.02 is that if they aren't already over the line the line should be nudged against their favour.
Yeah, I too fail to see the problem. I'm fully vaxxed and am not at all opposed to vaccines. In fact, I believe in vaccines so much, I don't care if anyone else is vaxxed or not - because my vaccine works.

On the other hand, I am opposed to nosy ass businesses and would definitely appreciate knowing which establishments are gonna waste my time with that crap so I can avoid them.
It's almost as if most of the comments are people who didn't read the article: In the museum’s catalogue, Opper writes that “there seems little reason now to take any of this seriously, beyond what it reveals about the authors involved.”

Truly, a comment we could apply here (and I freely admit much if not even all of my own)

Almost all of the writing about significant Romans is written long after they died. I place far more value on the words between ordinary people, the charming curses enshrined on lead, the letters of complaint, the sexually explicit graffiti, than on histories of the emperors.

Imagine all we know of Obama comes from fragments of 4chan, or of Trump from the same source. That's how much diversity of view deep history sometimes gives us.
It is not the first time that certain ideologies were seen having characteristics often associated with religious faith. There this French intellectual named Raymond Aron who wrote a book called "The Opium of the Intellectuals" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opium_of_the_Intellectuals). He also used to be a schoolmate of Sarte.

He goes in very great details (although this is hard to read even for me as a native French speaker) about how his intellectual contemporaries (most of them Marxists) used to believe in the same kind of myths that are usually associated with religion. The proletariat as a messiah, the Left being the road towards Progress and the inevitable fate of Humanity pass to the next stage, that in all societies History is unavoidably leaning towards the same finality, the State has replaced Providence and is seen as a guide that shepherds the people.
This seems counterintuitive to me if we assume a causal relationship. I’d imagine lessening religious faith would lessen ideological intensity.
Then again when it was assumed most people were “religious”, it meant there was some higher thing than ourselves that we shared we could unify on. God however you take him, is at least a symbol of something above us, bigger than individuals, of an immaterial nature.

With the annihilation of God in the public discourse, we have to find something else bigger than ourselves that we can unify around on, and the ideological intensity maybe stems from arguing what that higher thing is. Is it science, love, security, pleasure, freedom? Different people will take on an ideology of some sort, and the intensity will because one groups higher thing they think is higher than another’s. God was the trump card for highest before, but now, I’m not sure.
Does shelf height play that big of a roll in sales?
> It’s a difficult topic to discuss on HN because few of us like to admit that WFH is, on average, a struggle for companies.

These are all very contradictory hypotheses from presumed earlier assertions. I strongly suspect we're not analyzing the dynamics and variables at a sufficiently granular level to synthesize any useful hypotheses. I'm trying to reconcile a set of earlier assertions out of global corporate postures from these recent pronouncements that Covid-WFH (as opposed to true-WFH) leads to productivity declines.

If WFH is an intractable hit to productivity due to lack of butts in seats, then what is the salient difference from outsourcing / offshoring? If the productivity loss of the latter is simply more acceptable due to a cost differential, then we have thus established a clearing price for that productivity loss. Or are the positions not sufficiently similar to draw that parallel?

If so much fortuitous collaboration happens when on-prem that it becomes a compelling cited factor to go on-prem, then are we making the parallel assertion all the effort for planning is not capturing even a significant fraction of this fortuitous dynamic, much of our planning is compellingly guided by Organizational Physical Brownian Motion?

I don't have a strong preference either way. Pay me enough, I'll show up and do the work. But I cut my teeth in a consulting / professional services context where the WFH discussion was very different: pay a premium (weekly round-trip flights) to put butts in on-prem seats, or less for WFH-delivered skills.

From well over a hundred client engagements by now, my personal opinion is there is no one-size-fits-all unless leadership explicitly builds the organization for it. There are definitely different workers who thrive under the different models, and those who under-deliver and abuse their working conditions. It's an incredibly tough leadership decision. I think much of that decision hinges upon how well the organization is led and coordinated. I have observed from my set of clients that WFH done well requires disciplined teams who produce more communications artifacts internally and externally with other teams, and this longer-term tends to encourage more organizational flexibility (because the published information decouples from people and disseminates deeper and faster). For various reasons, on-prem tends to lead to an over-reliance upon verbal, tribal communication modalities in most organizations.
I also think that religiosity is a neurological phenomenon and is as much a part of being a human as language, music, money or tool use. Nobody, including myself, can escape it.

I see a lot of talk in this thread about making the definition of "religion" meaningless by broadening it too much, but I think the definition that gets narrowed in is "the phenomenon of humans engaging in dogmatic belief." A good example of this is transhumanism, specifically, the idea that you can upload your mind to a computer. It is all but given based on our current scientific understanding that the mind is inseparable from the body, yet somehow particularly atheist people behave as if they are separate things. This is a dogmatic belief.

Other closely related behaviors are ideological movements. I believe that religion is largely social in nature and driven more by social pressure and community/family and less by actual rational analysis or any other method of coming to conclusions about the world. I think it shows in the decline of traditional religion and also in the rise of what are often being termed "religions" these days by detractors (correctly in many cases, for example the Gaia worship end of times cult). When that is taken into account, the irrational behavior of swathes of people who hold as a core identity characteristic their perceived strict adherence to rationality makes a lot of sense.

I know I have a religion, I don't know what it is exactly, but I'm a human so I have one. But I try to be open to any idea I hold being challenged, I'd like my belief system to be as close to the truth as I can get it, and that means ignoring social proof and being prepared to find out that anything and everything I believe is wrong. Of course, until I find out I'm wrong, I think I'm right.
Nit: there was a time when Windows Explorer an IE were integrated enough that you could open http URLs in Windows Explorer.
Im still a bit confused about the "without the cloud" aspect. It seems that you still need NAT traversal, which means an external STUN server, and a relay for NATs that cannot be traversed - as well as a coordination/signalling broker. Surely those require some services "in the cloud"?
This seems counterintuitive to me if we assume a causal relationship. I’d imagine lessening religious faith would lessen ideological intensity.
Then again when it was assumed most people were “religious”, it meant there was some higher thing than ourselves that we shared we could unify on. God however you take him, is at least a symbol of something above us, bigger than individuals, of an immaterial nature.

With the annihilation of God in the public discourse, we have to find something else bigger than ourselves that we can unify around on, and the ideological intensity maybe stems from arguing what that higher thing is. Is it science, love, security, pleasure, freedom? Different people will take on an ideology of some sort, and the intensity will because one groups higher thing they think is higher than another’s. God was the trump card for highest before, but now, I’m not sure what is for most people.
If you are interested in this topic, I really cannot recommend reading A Secular Age by the philosopher Charles Taylor enough.

It’s a huge book but the basic takeaway is this: the modern secular world is a thing that was created over the course of many centuries and cultural developments. It is not merely the subtraction of so-called primitive beliefs. The “subtraction thesis” is the predominant model of how most people (and until recently, religious scholars) interpreted the secularizarion process.

This means that the same basic historical and psychological forces are at play, but they’ve just been morphed and combined in different ways. What is truly new about the modern secular world is its immanence, which basically just means it is not concerned with a “world beyond” this one, and its “cross pressures”, or the state of being aware of other viable alternatives to one’s belief system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Secular_Age
Especially the worst of it. With Qanon franchises and pro-Trump - yes, even now - factions popping up all over the place. Disgusting.
It's not a recent phenomena - it's been happening since WWII.

The weirdest part is - the stronger someone is influenced by American political culture, the more they'll tell you about how awful America is.
> your boss could call your new future boss and you could lose the job

and say what?

"hey yeah that guy who worked for us until leaving of his own accord is total garbage, you don't want to hire him"?

they'd sound like an idiot doing that.
Didn't know this. Thanks for the tip.
I was thinking about using bash, but couldn't come up with a solution to use tabcompletion when I'm in a different directory than the CSV file I want the data from, so I don'need to change directory.
Is that then a sense of meditation?
It seems to fit. It's a relaxing, distraction, with the benefit of often being educational, at the same time. Relieving stress, allowing return to other things which need attention.
The key is "lack thereof". See for example knuckle ball.
It's challenging to scale when your product is FoMO.
Yeah, some Americans organized BLM protests in Japan too.

They think the whole world is an extension of America, while also denouncing American imperialism and the American idea of looking down on the world, while also screaming at anyone who questioned the idea of dragging American problems into a country that didn’t exist.

People here, more than anything, were pissed that they had a gathering in the middle of a pandemic and called them irresponsible. Which they were.
This. And when they burn you out and you have no support network or family and programming jobs in the area are all full of programmers who got fired from X, because you moved there.

Lucasfilm tried to recruit me once-- which would have been my dream job-- but couldn't match what I was being paid in Orange County. The recruiter actually tried to convince me my housing costs would be less in the bay area. I had family in the bay area and they all confirmed that Lucas was a notorious abusive employer.

I had a similar thing with Dreamworks-- they best offer they could make was 25k less than I was making at the time.
Apple is, I think, the biggest company in the world. But they’re still minuscule compared to the market as a whole.
Are you saying you wouldn't like to know if your father were a rapist-murderer? I don't get it, really. And I'm pretty sure it can help those people learn better about themselves and their past. This is why they accepted.
The visiting team is not gonna get access to the stadium to do that. It favors the home team.
> My reading of your reply is that conquest is an excusable activity?

No, I believe you have misread my response. I said: "in an ideal world there would have been a supranational law enforced on all human groups that forbids violent displacement of one group of humans by another (i.e. conquest), which I guess most people would agree would be a good thing."

> Do you excuse murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery in your current life as just being something people and chimpanzees do?

No. Your prediction is correct.

> I do not want to be celebrating an organisation which is responsible for those crimes.

That's reasonable.

> Finally, indigenous people's violence (and remembering there are 1000s of nations across the world which is kind of ridiculous to be saying them all at once) does not culturally define them

I agree.

> Violence, oppression and misery was the modus operandi of the British Empire.

Agreed. It was the modus operandi of the British and every empire before them, and most organized groups of people with power before them. Which is the reason why "violence, oppression and misery" does not define the British empire culturally, as it does not define any of the indigenous peoples' culture.

The main difference in the modus operandi of the British empire is they replaced other groups exerting this violence globally because they were the only ones with the technological advantage that allowed them to do so at the time. Does not excuse the acts, but does not make the British empire any different than most organized groups of humans that have ever lived either (as far as willingness to perpetrate violence and oppression goes).
Not worth it. It's just trolls
They can also be worshipped / loved.

There could be rational worship & love e.g. loving your parents because they care for you and they have direct impact over your wellbeing.

Irrational worship/ love is loving and icon or demagogue : extreme example being Kim Jong Il – when he is hurt or sad, everyone is heart broken.

Even in the free world we worship these demagogues. When trump is president many panic, some are elated. When the next president comes, the roles reverse some are relieved and some are sad.
With the amount of capital these companies have if they couldn't manage without then something is deadly wrong (especially with the kind of people they hire - although that being said the most productive person I know has no formal qualifications). You could literally bring up an entire programming language and GUI framework from scratch with the resources some of these companies have.
Home Secretary Priti Patel speech on immigration
He said it in 2012.