skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's disingenuous. What happened is that economists created models that suggested open trade would be beneficial to everyone even if it caused temporary disruption and politicians implemented their ideas, likely with not insignificant prodding from businesses looking to cut costs.

Whether or not those models are accurate is matter for debate.
>what tools do you use to scientifically analyze the scientific process?

Iterating on existing systems to see if you can get results to converge and also testing new systems to see if they also result in known good values.
Fry always forgets movie product placement, manufactured consent, and manufactured insecurities.
I had 3 semesters of physics in the university and can’t tell whether interstellar is accurate or not. Ok, I’m no genius, but this leads me to an assumption most people wouldn’t get the difference anyway. There’s just no point to be very accurate when making a movie. You have to be only approximately accurate.
A cynical view would be that Google paid large sums to advertise Chrome on prime time TV while sideloading it with Flash and Java installs, which lead to an outsize user base, which lead to outsize influence at W3C on specifications.
If the same was placed on the states, you'd be paying taxes to ship to other countries.
I'd bet that even more dubious science is packaged by large corporate interests. Take Big Tobacco, who had doctors saying smoking is healthy, or the sugar industry, corrupting guidelines and policy on coronary heart disease [1]. And medicine is not immune either, with financial conflicts of interest and pharmaceutical sponsorships correlating with outcomes. [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience#Medicine
By saying "we don't know what to make of it"?
The ad industry has measured, and tracking means more revenue and more clicks. How much more? 2x. Not more. But 2x is 5 years of 15% "normal growth".

They will absolutely not accept going back in time just 5 years in terms of revenue. They will fight to the death over every dollar.
Why? It would be far better for them to capture the vessels and sell them to their own citizens.
> those incredibly expensive fighter planes are useless. Aircraft carriers will be replaced

I'm not fully convinced. The advantage of drones is that they are relatively cheap. That automatically comes with significant range and speed limitations; after all, as someone else mentioned, we already have long-range semi-autonomous drones called missiles. They aren't cheap.

Naval engagements, not to mention aircraft engagements, happen at distances that are just not in the reach of cheap drones. Someone might get a surprise shot at an aircraft carrier in peacetime, but probably not while alert on the open sea. And I'm sure ships will be upgraded with defenses (if they haven't already).

Tanks and infantry, that's a more interesting problem.
Bliss(v2), a library for making audio playlists
I think the point is that the deterrence effect has diminishing marginal gains. Works well for petty crimes with clear intention.
Honestly all sociology I have seen or been exposed to, including in college, seems to be more interested in acting as a platform to push specific ideas, rather than an attempt to find truth.

Beyond that those involved in sociology seem to believe that a study is the same thing as an experiment and like to believe that constitutes proof.

Ultimately we can't really run AB experiments on society at large because we are living in; however humanity has at its disposal all of history as a case study. My point is if you really want to understand how societies interact and form, and react, and live ask a historian, not a sociologist.

I also would apply most of these comments to economics except there seems to be more diversity of viewpoints, and studies are used less than math to try and provide a veneer of respectability.

EDIT:

If someone feels that history is inferior to sociology for understanding how societies act and behave please tell me why. I want to understand where I am wrong. But I see a lot of our arguments that we are having in society nowadays the same as one's had a thousand years ago, the discussions over Social Media are basically the exact same ones people had over the printing press in Europe, I recently read "The Republic" and there were the exact same arguments I see repeated here.

So if you feel contrary please tell me why, I admit I could be wrong, but want to understand where my reasoning is flawed.
Hence the “replication crisis”. Replication of experiment and differences in outcome highlight the “core” result. When the results are just totally different, obviously there was “gaming” or just a bad experiment.
Kraken does apparently offer spot margin (but not to people living in my country), so it's possible for someone to be liquidated in such a situation. The accusations are pretty wild compared to the evidence on hand though.
He was a complicated man. On the one hand, he liked to sleep on the floor without finery, and had to be told to stop because he's the Emperor. On the other hand, he basically waged a war of genocide against the German tribes. He clearly took personal development really seriously, but, like... genocide.

I've read him extensively and multiple translations. Your original post is strongly stoic, although the "tune out to it all and just live a good life" is a bit more Epicurean[0].

Stoicism is not about being a neutral perfectly calm emotionless robot. Stoicism is recognizing that you ultimately can't control the world, you can just control your (re)actions. The entire ethical system stems from that realization. Death or dying isn't "bad", it's just "not preferred", because the only good and bad things centre around things you can control. Everything else is just life. Roll with it.

(Personally, I'm with you though. I've learnt to eschew the labels and just lead a common sense life; but I do pick and choose from the valuable ethical systems over time.)

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/
Do you have a source or a specific reason to comparing to Morocco? I was there in 2015. The trains were in pretty rough shape, on one of the trains the toilet was damaged and you could see the train tracks... I don't remember any other specifics, but overall the transportation was a bit rough. That being said, I don't know much about the quality of transportation in America outside of the east coast.
> America's manufacturing capacity has been largely destroyed

Where do people get this myth from?

It's just flat out untruthful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...

> The United States is the world's third largest manufacturer (after China and the EU) with a record high real output in Q1 2018 of $2.00 trillion (i.e., adjusted for inflation in 2009 Dollars) well above the 2007 peak before the Great Recession of $1.95 trillion.

US manufacturing capacity keeps going up and up and up.

Maybe you're thinking of employment in manufacturing? Yes that's going down. It's also reducing as a proportion of GDP, but that's not 'capacity', and it's because other sectors have grown even faster.
Hey, I just downloaded 3.0 and, wow, the performance is really fantastic! It's a really welcome change - I was starting to dread making complex models because I'd have to make them with another program, at which point I would be continually frustrated by the other program's inferior UI.

Anyway, solvespace is the first CAD program where I've actually enjoyed myself while designing things, rather than just viewing it as necessary work for a project. So, thanks for all the great work you guys are doing, it's much appreciated.
People do hold it sadly.

It provides fiat-pegged stability with crypto-level defi liquidity. So people choose to hold it for use in defi products.

It's a blight on the blockchain world.
I remember IE6's so-called blocker failing to block a lot of popups. It wasn't until I discovered Firefox in 2004 that I stopped seeing them.
How would that help you identify all of a particular users interactions (rather than one)? Why would you expect them to log it?
what Wikileaks/Assange has taught us (and what Assange learned sometime between 2014-1016) is that there is no such thing as a truly independent citizen journalist.

if you upset enough people (which a truly independent non affiliated journalist would do) you're likely to get killed.

Bellingcat is a great example of an outfit aligned with the 9 eyes intelligence community, Elliot Higgins will never go against what Nato or the Atlantic Council stands for (at least not in a meaningful way). Wikileaks and Assange have tried to do this but got hunted down and then had no choice but to seek cover and support from the "enemy"

Assange decided to upset the US and for better or worse had no choice but align himself with either Russia or even worse countries.

Americans are the most propagandized people in the world who's media is owned by a bunch of billionaires (as is the case in all English speaking countries), and no matter who speaks the truth the unwashed mob will eventually come after them (and then cry foul if the person switches sides).
I would think they batch together all the IPs and pass it off.

It's in Apple's best interest to keep the bare minimum information they need from their end-user.
I worked in Windows Server on admin tools in the late 90s and 2000s, and watched the whole thing happen. I heard it summed up like that from Ballmer himself. I don't know what your alternative idea is - you think Microsoft was jealous of Linux and spent a hundred million dollars making a new shell just so they could feel proud?
Converting to a different crypto just means that whoever you traded with is now holding the Tether you paid them. In the absence of a practical redemption mechanism, someone will always end up holding the bag.
Now you see the conflict of interest when an ad company develops its own browser?
FYI skip to 2:10 if you don't wanna watch a skit
Unless your collecting food stamps in the rust belt?
Measuring manufacturing output in dollars isn’t a counter argument. A Yacht may be worth 1,000,000 TV’s, but it doesn’t represent anywhere near the same industrial capacity. Especially if the components of said yacht / car / etc where imported.

It’s not even purely a question of economics. In a crisis like COVID you can easily prevent exports to meet local demand. Trying to force imports on the other hand doesn’t work.
Which why P-scores need to be proportional to some nontrivial inverse factor of the number of experiments done in the field. Are there 10000 researchers doing 20000 experiments per year? Take 20000, multiply by the number of years we expect an academic to do hands on work (30?); invert: you need a P-score better than 1:600000.
That's exactly how fractional reserve banking started...
why would anyone pay for that?
Ericsson Mobility Report – average mobile data usage exceeds 10GB per month [pdf]
The risk of vigilante mobs was not cited by the Austin-American Statesman. Rather, they claimed a risk of "perpetuating stereotypes".

Secondarily, claiming that there is a risk of vigilante mob justice is absurd. If you think I'm wrong, please point me to a credible source which reports on an instance of vigilante mob justice in the United States from the last 30 years.
Unintentional leaks are rare in Rust, the main issue is around reference counting loops not being cleaned up automatically. Future versions of Rust might even offer some support for unleakable 'relevant types' (the dual to the existing 'affine types' where leaks are not considered incorrect) for better support of very advanced, type-directed resource/state management.
Who? The NASCAR driver Kyle Larson casually called someone the n-word live on stream at the start of the pandemic, and is back driving full-time again now in 2021. He's by far the highest profile case of a "cancellation" in stock car racing, and he is an example of the "temporary, embarrassed hiatus" claim.
Yes, definitely. I will email you after work today. I have also been evaluated for a pheo with negative results - the sudden panic attacks out of nowhere seem to trigger this diagnostic pathway.

I will try to reduce dietary tyrannies - that is a good idea.
NextDNS is encrypted DNS. DNS is like using your neighbor across the street for all your directions, except you have to shout.

"YO, WHERE'S THE GROCERY STORE AGAIN? ALSO AFTER THAT I'M VISITING THE STRIP CLUB, AGAIN."

NextDNS turns that shout into a signal/telegram message, to a different neighbor. There's still a neighbor involved, but at least the neighborhood doesn't get to hear anymore.

If they include DNS in the onion routing scheme, it turns into a game of telephone, where the neighbor doesn't know you anymore.

Your traffic, and directions become more private.
By real dollars I mean dollars in an FDIC or SIPC-insured account, unless I'm mistaken this just appears to be an IOU from FTX.
https://www.sncf.com/en/sncf-around-the-world/triumph-for-mo...
I hesitate to even bring him up, but Trump's overt rejection of the neo-liberal trade policy consensus that's been embraced by the leaders of both parties since Reagan, is a highly underrated component of his appeal.

(for the record, no, I don't like the guy, but I think his campaigns and his platform, such as it was, are fascinating and that over-simplifying the story of how he got elected & why people voted for him is a dangerous trap)
Wordpress is still a useful tool for a no coding workflow.
You don't have to click it every time. Just once.

The choice can be perfectly well saved in a cookie because it's a cookie necessary for site operations. They don't even need approval. Only unnecessary ones do.
I’ve been working on getting a Macintosh II to boot A/UX a sys v Unix. My eventual goal is to use it for doing the K and R C exercises, and just generally see what Unix was like.
How do you reasonably do that, though?

The average person doesn't have the time or expertise to track the supply chain of ~anything they buy. At point-of-sale you're presented with, at best, a price and a brand name. And in many cases nowadays, like on Amazon, the brand name is just throwaway semi-English gibberish that rotates out every 4-8 weeks and has 5000+ fake reviews and is just some generic garbage that's being resold off Alibaba.

I think it's really fair to say this is something that needs to be done by government regulation, not individual people.

Even businesses will struggle with this unless they're in the top % of companies (both $-wise and market capture wise) and can afford to force their supply chain to capitulate to their audits/compliance demands.
Got it - that makes sense... they would certainly be hurt by this and likely have to liquidate crypto holdings to recover.
> In a sense we do have this: engineering and finance. Engineering turns good hard science into new tools, machines and weapons, and Finance turns good (predictive) soft science into new ways to make money.

I think this is a common critique, but I also think it is missing the point. What if the question of interest isn't so easily verifiable like in Engineering? Do we just throw up our hands and give up on those questions? [The alternative to good social science is not no social science, it’s bad social science](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/03/12/the-social...).

Finance is also a bit tautological in this regard. It seems that often prediction models are impossible to disprove (e.g., our arbitrage method doesn't work anymore, the market updated). Yes good for putting skin in the game, but doesn't seem like it does much to advance our long-term understanding of humans.
The reasons you cite should have applied equally well back before the propaganda outlets took over.

I think this is the main reason the US population is so poorly informed and polarized:

- For the last 40 years, the Republican Party has systematically defunded education and consolidated the news media.

The Democrats haven’t done enough to push back, and many of the left wing media outlets copied Fox’s playbook, but that’s not the same as spearheading these changes.
Eh. After yesterdays annoucement on CDFI by US treasury, which indicates that it includes venture capital funds, I can see why some might get a little miffed on missing out on grabbing goverment largesse..
Well, you can hardly blame Assange for that. I see a lot of shooting the messenger going on with this case.
That is an interesting proposal. I do have one autoimmune disease, that from reading the entire body of research literature is not known to cause a large majority of my symptoms. But I do hear that autoimmune diseases travel in herds… will look into it. Thank you!
History of the Web: Part 1
GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more
Windows has had a similar problem with UWP (which is based on a rudimentary capability system and implements the file dialog powerbox pattern outlined in mikewarot's post)
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Please tell me this comment is satire... honestly can't tell these days.
Handling Flaky Unit Tests in Java
It's not like Gladwell doesn't criticize LeMay. He even accuses the entire US strategic command of waving away the responsibility of considering the morality of such a brutal firebombing campaign.

I didn't come away from the audiobook thinking LeMay had "won" even the battle, let alone the war (meaning ultimately precision bombing has won the argument in modern times). Granted, I already knew plenty about this before, but my impression in the end from Gladwell was that both Hansel and LeMay were wrong in different ways, just that LeMay's aggressive firebombing looked like it was "doing something" to the higher ups. The technology of the time simply did not allow the precision bombing approach to "look" like it was even "doing something" (and it was certainly failing by its own primary metric, hitting the target). Indiscriminate bombing is easy, so you can point at photos and say you succeeded in doing it.

Gladwell of course simplifies it a lot and wraps it up in a bow, because his strength is telling a story, not conducting a detailed analysis. At the very least, perhaps a lot of people will become aware of these events and be made to think about them.

Fact is, no one really knows if the firebombing hastened Japanese surrender or convinced the Japanese population that they really had lost. Maybe it did, and maybe it was important. Or maybe not. And it was certainly horrifying. Gladwell doesn't dwell enough on the uncertainty, but he doesn't forget to mention the moral issues.
Show HN: Audio Search for Podcasts
Better yet, a standard browser interface.
Tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan will officially lead the FTC
These defi lending platforms generally require you to overcollaterlize your loan because they can't sue you or send you to collections or whatever. You could deposit a bunch of USDC, withdraw a bunch of USDT, send that to coinbase or whatever and sell it for real dollars, but you'll have slightly fewer dollars than you started with.
I don't think you need a full object-capability security implementation to get the specific file dialog/powerbox pattern you outlined. Windows (in UWP), MacOS and I think Linux all support it, albeit with a more ad hoc implementation.
Which is backed by a governments, laws, and regulators…

If my deposit account gives up the ghost, I know the FDIC or the Fed will make me whole (or SPIC for my brokerage account). Who will do the same for Tether and other stablecoins?

Not good!
There is a ton of current and past scholarship on the sociology, history, and philosophy of science, and peer-review and publication is actually a pretty hot topic in those fields. Although yes, perhaps it would be nice if that work was better funded, or if practicing scientists paid more attention to it rather than just repeating old myths about how science works.

For example, here’s a scholarly article on the exact question you mention - how and where peer review came to be seen as a guarantor of scientific quality: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700070 (tldr: it wasn’t the 17th century Royal Society; it’s much more recent.)
How can this article claim to analyze the benefits of the law without addressing the strategic importance of maintaining domestic industry?

We're talking the USA's final few manufacturers in essential industry, here. If we give them up, and then get in a war, that means we would almost automatically lose the war. War is still a real thing that happens on Planet Earth.

Even if the equipment our protected domestic manufacturers make is expensive and low quality, there is a world of difference between expensive and shoddy vs 'nothing at all'
surely if you want to go to the library in the US, you have to park there?

Also, lack of atheism is not a sign of lack of education or presence of ignorance.
> Remember we're talking about a civilization that can cross the galaxy here.

That would be earth at the current point in time. Given 100k years I’m sure we could fabricate a huge colony ship, and accelerate it to 10km/s. What we won’t be able to do is throw up habitats all over the solar system.

By that point all your tech is thousands of years old. It seems unlikely it’d be capable of doing more than drop you off on whatever planet you were aiming for (or keep floating around, if it’s a lifeless husk).
If everyone holding tether attempted to redeem their tether coins for USD in rapid succession it would implode. Of course, if tether were telling the truth it would be an operational headache but otherwise a non-issue.

There’s also a certain point where they can no longer “print” coins that are believably backed. If tether is to be believed (and, for the record, I’m of the opinion they shouldn’t be) then they’re already responsible for an absurd portion of the commercial paper market.
I got a sense of enjoyment from diecast model cars because I could open up the doors and pretend they transformed into airplanes. I also hated them because any steering or suspension components were generally plastic and flimsy by toy standards. I didn’t see the appeal to these things you couldn’t really play with.

People like different things for different reasons. Guitar Hero is not the same as playing a guitar, and comparing the two with the expectation that they will offer the same rewards will lead to disappointment. But, some people like both.
This is how you end up with $500 toilet seats, though.

If something can't be profitably made in the US then the only production for it will be explicitly for the government. And it will be a de facto monopoly and priced accordingly.

Maybe that's a tradeoff you're willing to make to make sure that there is always someone in the US who can make toilet seats. I would rather it be a more nuanced decision than a blanket mandate.
Always and everywhere banking has faced precisely this problem, which is the original reason for bank regulation and deposit insurance-type backup.

If you encounter an unregulated or irregular market participant doing anything that looks like banking, buyer beware-- on average, over time, you're not getting your money back.