skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"It will always baffle me that people object to something as innocuous as that. "

This is just basic framing. Every movement wants to cast itself with broad and unobjectionable ideals. The devil is in the details with how you go about making things 'better for everyone' and that's where the real disagreement is.
It is always good to have backup plans, even if they aren't practical now, they might do in a pinch. (Or in extreme environments). It is amazing that food and fuel are as cheap as they are right now. All sorts of things can go wrong on a global scale, it has happened more than once before. The best way to have a backup is one that has already been tested, even if its on a small scale.

Thanks for posting this. I'm done with having my examples picked apart, so I'm not going to do it with him. The fact is that it's less crazy than it used to be, which is a good trend.

I subscribe to many channels like this on youtube, and sometimes interesting things show up years later. I expect at some point I'll need to weld 2 incompatible things together, but by then the folks at "Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State" will have figured out how to do it, for example.
Yup! And really, the highly, highly automated processes in car manufacturing are in the stamping, body construction and painting phases. Almost no humans involved in those three major phases. Final Assembly is the most labor intensive, because it involves lots of fiddly little parts going into hard to reach places. Even then, it's usually robot-assisted tasks, so one person is installing a seat, where it would usually take two, or something like that.
There has been great progress in scaling on just about every other cryptocurrency, including many flavours of bitcoin. BTC is the only coin who finds scaling too difficult.
I feel like I hear this statement a lot, but is there any real evidence of this?

First, I doubt there is any historical evidence of such a phenomenon.

Second, ADHD isn't nearly as prevalent enough in the general population to suggest that it's society.
> The aim of propaganda is to change minds via the use of emotion, misinformation, disinformation, truths, half-truths, and cleverly selected facts; not to enlighten (although one can technically propagandize true information, using emotion to sell truth, this generally isn’t what we are talking about when we use the term “propaganda”).

My understanding is that experts consider the aim of propaganda to be confusing and paralyzing the enemy, preventing effective communication, debate and decision-making.

For example, after 2016, the widespread, hyper-inflammatory trolling and attacks prevented the discussion of politics. Many forums I know, including HN to an extent, simply banned it. To this day, many issues are very difficult to discuss (e.g., Trump, racism, etc.); you can't share information, discuss things, because the discussions seem to blow up (and even mentioning that those issues exist might provoke something here - please don't). That's effective propaganda.

It's not clear to me that the author has real knowledge of propaganda beyond their own observations and theories. There is a lot of better research and knowledge out there.
Almost all credit cards I've seen only provide secondary insurance, which means that if you already have normal car insurance, the credit card insurance only kicks in after that is exhausted.

One of the few cards that provides primary rental car insurance is the Chase United Explorer card. If you rent cars regularly it can be worth the annual fee for that feature alone.

(Assuming you have car insurance to begin with -- if you don't, then there is no difference between primary and secondary coverage)
> How does one distinguish between propoganda and universally accepted truth?

One tell is when they quote anonymous sources => propaganda. Another is using unconfirmed reports. Another is when the only source has a heavy incentive to misrepresent. Another is when the statistics make no sense, or do not support the thrust of the story.

It goes on and on.
I mean from their perspective, of course, they would want there to be 100x the amount of talent, that way they can just pay less. But the fact that they still have thousands of new hires every week and the fact that they are still turning down highly qualified candidates tells you that they are doing just fine.

I've interviewed many candidates and even the ones that were really good got rejected which is kind of sad to see.
I would say the alternate reality that the Republican Party is living in is the gold standard for propaganda.

That's not to say that Democrats don't use propaganda, but Democratic Party propaganda at least shares a reality with the rest of the country and world and isn't in the process of manufacturing an entirely different reality.
Yeah, I don't care to see the people, my wife is enough for me, but I want a change and new experiences. Not even to travel, but to take some time and recover. Eat some food I don't usually eat, experience some things I haven't felt good about for the last year and a bit.
If anything, adding an intrusive means test (like a "financial report") is likely to exclude a lot of deserving renters, especially ones who are unbanked/underbanked.
Is there a way to compile this so it can also run on Intel-based Macs, via the MacOS App Store?

This is the second app I've tried to download MacOs App Store that requires an M1.
Intel restructures and creates new business units and leadership roles
Does this blog entry hang Brave on Android for anyone else? Happens on two phones for me.
No. The panic is not created by the media. I don't want my kids to be taught how White people are racists, or "people of color" are oppressed. Even I am not a White.
Yep, just happened for me. Hangs and can't scroll.
Your entire premise is based on nonsense. People use lightning all the time and it works great.
Yeah - I haven't been sick since this whole thing started. I was honestly hoping that my recent second Pfizer shot would make me feel ill enough that I could feel good about taking a day, but no luck.
Therapy/coaching, and don't give up on trying to adjust the medication. Finding the right dosage, and specific med that works for you, is tricky (I haven't found it yet, but am closer), but can be life-changing. There are a ton of new types of medications for ADHD now; far more than there used to be, when we basically knew stimulants helped but didn't know why.

Still, for about 20% of people, medication simply doesn't help. For them, coaching and therapy (and education about ADHD) is far more useful.

Check out https://chadd.org/ for lots of fantastic resources
It's a topic that's never been so relevant, IMO, because of the unprecedented scale at which the propaganda industries (AKA PR/"Think Tanks"/"Dark Money"/Outreach programs/"Strategic Communications", etc.) now operate.

For insight into how it works, I prefer the more systematic approach of "Propaganda Principles"[1] to the linked site, however.

https://propagandaprinciples.wordpress.com/propaganda-techni...
Thanks for the reply! I'm glad you're able to click the link and read the same table, which does not clarify what majors are categorized in these groups. Another user posted a category 11 link, for example, where CIS includes "word processing" degrees, while excluding CE & EE (but still, the table does not claim that their statistics under that grouping are category 11).

Do you work with a lot of software developers with word processing degrees?
lol, Look at what most Americans complain about when it comes to Quality of life... Most of it is related to how much they can consume.
This isn't really much of a revelation or hot take. That's literally what an economist means when they say there is a labor shortage. The graph for labor shows the intersection between the quantity supplied and the price it is supplied at. It would be meaningless to talk about one without the other.
It's probably worth distinguishing between conceptually simple and mechanically simple. A many body problem is easy to understand (relatively), you're just extending existing rules onto more things at once. Now, actually calculating a position at a time given some initial vectors? That's complicated.
Hey Ash, decided to give the app a try and thought it's pretty slick! It sorta reminds me of Trello, but a bit more offline-oriented, which is nice for those of us who wants a bit more privacy/security.

I'm not sure if it's part of the roadmap, but if you can implement team collaboration, then that'd be really cool.

Otherwise, it's a great product with a very solid foundation :)
DDG just uses Bing results. This solution is completely independent.

You may ask why that's needed, just recently DDG was censoring the "tank man" photo on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square because Bing was censoring it.

This new indexer is very much welcome and I hope it stays free of censorship from the CCP, marxists, and others.
I agree with you that propaganda is weaponized rhetoric designed to obfuscate the truth while promoting specific beliefs and behaviors.

My point (in response to the parent comment stating that 90% of all "mainstream media" is propaganda) is that the assertion "90% of mainstream media is propaganda" seems to be stretching the definition of propaganda from the reasonable one which you have brought up to something more like "propaganda is rhetoric to promote beliefs".

To me, that original comment seems to be more similar to weaponized rhetoric (in this case, designed to promote the belief that "mainstream" media is untrustworthy) than to earnest communication or expression of opinion.
I left Google in 2015, and I started to notice the flip from liberalism to illiberalism around 2012-2013. I still remember how weird it was the first time I heard someone on Memegen say that due process (ie, trying to understand whether a complaint occurred) was a legal constraint that Google didn't need to adhere to when adjudicating intra-employee complaints (eg harassing comments).

IMO it's pretty straightforward, in Google's case at least. They scaled wildly in terms of headcount (I think they have a bit under 10x the headcount they had when I joined), right when competition for the best tech employees exploded. They obviously had to lower their bar[1] significantly to keep growing, and they ended up scooping up masses of coastal urban[2] midwits, precisely the population that was most susceptible to and hit hardest by the religious awakening that occurred in the early 2010s. A bit more speculatively, there's some evidence that higher cognitive ability is correlated with support for free speech[3] and other tenets of liberalism, so any company going from a highly-selected-for-intelligence employee base to a dumber one has a built-in backlash against liberalism/pluralism/open-mindedness/etc.

[1] I'm not suggesting that a binary switch was flipped, and that I personally made it in right before they started dumbing down their hiring. I wouldn't be surprised if the bar was higher a few years before I joined, and I can't say whether I would've met that bar. It's an iterative process that sped up over time and the company started to suffer the cumulative effect in the quality of their employee body.

[2] This isn't implying that being coastal and urban makes you stupid. I myself am very much coastal and urban and have been my entire life. These are just the areas that were hit hardest by these ideologies, and "midwits" (to borrow a term from Taleb) are fertile ground for new mass movements.

[3] https://www.psypost.org/2020/05/higher-levels-of-cognitive-a...
I have an ADHD diagnosis (honestly I think my case is rather severe, even) and I agree.

Procrastinating is something everyone does.

Being completely unable to sit still for more than a few minutes is an experience neurotypicals don't share.

ADHD is really one of those disorders that's both under and over diagnosed
Building secure low-code web applications
There's a crazy downside to make_shared that I learned recently because of this: if you have a weak pointer to a shared thing, and the refcount for the shared thing drops to zero, the weak pointers will keep the allocation for the object "alive", because they still need access to the remnant and the remnant was created in the same allocation as the object so they can't be freed separately. So now I only use make_shared if I know for sure there won't be a weak_ptr pointing at it (or if the base object has a relatively small memory footprint after it's been destructed).
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Hacking Reaction Therapy: 100 Days of Moon Shots /is it just my Anxiety talking?
I am dealing with Anxiety. After decades of crippling Anxiety (and Depression) I am now Depression free and no longer "crippled" by Anxiety.

The residues left is what I call "Failure to Lunch":

- I make too many lists, and accomplish none of those

- I plan too much, and execute too little

- "Research"

- When I start, I "Pivot" too early, pivot too much and never follow-through

- I start so many things and finish none. An example is the exorbitant number of domain names...

- I know so much an I do so little (lack of actions)

I have no grit/perseverance, I shy away from confrontations and from public, I have so many alter-ego handles (HN, Reddit, blogs) that I then delete after a year or so.

It has been a while (a while = years) that I have been thinking about Rejection Therapy / 100 days of rejection and while I see its usefulness, I can't help but thinking that a variant of it would be more beneficial and more useful:

100 MoonShots.

100 projects where the ration of effort to impact is a lot higher than asking for a free donuts. Could be as low as investing a few hours to craft a resume and cover letter for an amazing job for which we are not directly qualified but would be a lateral move (for us).

Or launch a MVP/Prototype and try to either sell it or raise Angel funding, Six Months of Tiny Projects's style.

I know that my Anxiety is behind me writing this post, instead of pulling the Nike it and JUST DO IT.

But, anyone wants to chime in on this? It could be as simple as "get off your butt and do it" or....
Proof of stake lacks the security properties of proof of work, e.g. via grinding attacks.
> Try to teach someone mathematics where every time they get the wrong answer, they get shocked. Not a good learning environment.

The problem with the analogy is that the underlying assumption is that the people learning math want to know the truth and are acting in good faith even when they get the wrong answer.

On the other hand, there are people, powerful people, who push ideas that don't care about the truth. Here is a specific example. As the Republican nominee in 2016, Donald Trump tweeted that 81% of white murder victims were killed by black people. This is *wildly* wrong. When he was corrected, he didn't send out a correction, he didn't even remove the old tweet. The point is he was sending a message to his target audience that made them feel a certain way, and that was his goal ... not communicating the truth.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/23/donald-tru...
It's one thing to not enjoy his humor, it's another to make it such that nobody can enjoy it.
Yeah, I could see that. Once I had an explanation, I wanted to read all of the things about it (heh, ironic)

I did find value in reading both, but mostly because it gave me a sense of history, and how much our understanding of what ADHD is had progressed from the past, and how my (incorrect) assumptions about what it was came to be.

YMMV :)
Ask HN: Video conferencing solution for 1x1 guitar lessons?
Thanks to working from home during the pandemic I recovered some extra time from my daily commute, and I've been taking guitar lessons online.

So far I've tried Skype and Zoom but the latency and audio quality are really quite terrible.

Skype's audio quality isn't particularly great and the video quality seems to adjust automatically during the call. With Zoom (web client) it does all kinds of weird zooming (!) of the camera (web client) and the audio quality was horrific (web and desktop client). For now we've reverted back to Skype.

Is there any solution anyone can recommend that focuses on *minimizing latency and maximizing audio quality above all the other features* (e.g., I don't need any team features; the ability to record a session would be nice but not required)? I'm even willing to look at self-hosted solutions at this point.

Thanks!
> At NASA, we're on a mission of equity...

You did pick the more innocuous part. The opening is the above.

Equity is a word being used to mean equality of outcome. This is viewed as something deeply wrong from a libertarian perspective. The classic example is weighing down a strong person such that his natural strength isn't a true advantage.

It's cutting down the tall poppies, and it's asian student's needing better scores on entrance exams to get into Harvard.

Either way, it's a _very_ left word, and NASA is virtue signaling with this campaign.

Another example is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpJDnyZqfLw

CIA adverts promoting left values have been popping up recently. Many view this as a way the CIA wraps themselves in a cloak of protection that is the left siding with them.

The left should be the most critical of secret government operating bodies that do terrible things at home and abroad, but if the CIA can just align itself with them on trivial matters like DEI, then nobody bats an eye when regime changey things happen in Belarus.
I know several people on the autism spectrum. They say Damore was an asshole. It frustrates them so many neurotypical people casually equate those things.
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Yes, that’s true. But, it’s not out of context. It’s explicitly about being “divided.”

> Divisions in the Church

10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 11 For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.” 13 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. 16 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Do you follow the LGBT church? Or the anti-LGBT church? Or do you follow X? Or do you follow Y?
> they could probably launch an aircraft which is going to land somewhere else

They couldn't launch anything that wasn't a helicopter or a VTOL aircraft. Carriers need upwards of 30 knots of wind over the deck, in the right direction (blowing from the front) to launch ordinary planes. You won't get that transiting a canal. Carriers do it by going to full speed in the open sea.
Which point specifically?

You claim centralized manipulation of bitcoin and fraudulent people while the protocol hasn't changed. Do you have legal evidence?

Also you claim price speculation as the only use case while I've listed several apps with real users.

You mention storage abuse and I argue that miner fees prevent that.
It's going to be even worse now. I can tell already.

I live in a low wage area. Most of you would be embarrassed to know what I'm paid (glass door says bottom 10%). Now that remote work has open up my job market to the entire country, recruiters are reaching out to me and when I ask for double my salary, they say okay without hesitation.

There's 0% chance of me getting a 100% raise at my current role. My last one was 2%.
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> You can't use burned computer cycles as a door stop

Is your understanding that people value gold because they can use it to fashion a door stop?
To someone without ADHD it doesn't make sense at times.

If you have certain types of ADHD and you aren't excited about something, you just have a huge resistance to doing it and you likely won't do it. Many don't even do the work with a deadline.

On the flip side, when you're intensely interested, you often times are completely absorbed into it, at the expense of other human needs.
This is one of my favourite essays because it completely changed the way I thought about my own skills. Namely, it taught me that a good way to evaluate my own skills is to examine the gap that exists between my skillfulness in some given field and the skillfulness of people who are not in that field or are novices within it.

My takeaway from the essay was not that athletes are vapid or unaware of how much more skilled they are than laymen or amateurs.

My takeaway is that when you're really good at something, to where you can say you're better than a lot of people at it, you're often not aware of exactly how good you are at it and may even see it as banal. Where other people might look at some skill you have and be blown away and wonder what it's like to be so good at something, you just recognize it as your default and unremarkable state.

An analogy I can think of is literacy. Many years ago, I taught myself literacy in a non-Latin script for a language that I had grown up speaking but had never actually learned how to write. Reading in a new script was incredibly slow at first, as I would literally have to sound out every individual letter in my head, and then manually put them together in my head to understand the word. A sentence would take me minutes to read. Over time, I would see words that I had read many times and I wouldn't need to sound out the letters in my head anymore, I would simply "recognize" the word: my brain would recognize the collection of letters as an image associated with a concept.

I realized that I had always done this with English and had never been aware of it. When I read English, I'm not really reading each word as a collection of individual letters; I'm reading each word as an image for lack of a better term that I can immediately associate with meaning in my head, and I think this is how most people read English.

How this is relevant to this essay is that if you were asked about your ability to do this, you would think it something completely banal and regular. You might not even have any particular comment to make, as you'd simply see your literacy as your personal status quo. You've spent most of your life actively training your skill of literacy and have attained mastery, but to you its...just reading. Suppose you talked to someone barely literate, or someone learning literacy in English, about this ability -- to them this ability would be much more impressive because the gap between their skill and your skill is much wider.

I think realizing this about yourself has all sorts of applications: confidence in your ability lets you experiment more or take action when you have less info or security on the outcome of your action. Realizing what comprises a given skill gap would help you teach others how to get to where you are in a way where you teach them at their level, not yours.
There's no evidence in the parent, just the opinions of a few political actors.

> radicals have already successfully overtaken Western universities

Ironically, this uses techniques from the OP. It's an emotional appeal - calling people radicals, catastrophizing, etc. - but there's no evidence and really no information. Hyperbole eliminates information; it's like screaming 'we're all going to die!'.
If you know that the pointer is going to be shared, it's more efficient to use `make_shared` as it will use a single allocation for both the object and the control block.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27587446