skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have no proof of a 'media blackout' maybe you should shut your populist pie-hole until you do!

Look at this garbage:

But in a sane world, Stundin’s revelations about a key Assange witness – that Thordarson lied in exchange for immunity from prosecution – would have been headline news everywhere, with extensive media coverage on BBC News at Six and Ten, ITV News, Channel 4 News, front-page stories in the Times, Telegraph, the Guardian and more. The silence is quite extraordinary; and disturbing.

Jesus.
google "IBM phoenix payroll canada" for a fine example of what has gone wrong.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ibm+pho...
I have decided to eat less meat because I can't afford to consistently purchase cuts from pastured animals, and I don't have the capacity currently to hunt or raise animals myself.

I just can't afford to eat chicken that is pastured in the same way that I would eat the tasteless breasts and thighs that are 1.99 a pound. I haven't eat beef more than a few times since COVID. We eat less pork now, more for supply issues than cost issues. Fish is a delicacy.

Most people will not make these decisions. I still don't eat eggs from pastured hens, again because of logistical issues more than anything else. None of the cheese I eat comes from responsibly managed cows (maybe it is, but how would I know?).

The solution to these things is pragmatic regulations that are not ideological in nature. The level of care and respect we show for animals reflects a level of care and respect we have for ourselves.

But it's facetious to talk about this in the current US context. Because of the commerce clause, and the continually eroding protections at the national level, not only are we lowering the standards (for animal welfare, product quality, and safety) in the US, we are also exporting our already low standards to other countries.
Those two usually go hand in hand. Most of those billionaires built their fortunes on corporate tax avoidance, so when I say go after their billionaires, I don't talk only about individuals. I'm also talking about the Starbucks, the Amazons, etc. Even the Trump empire was built on smart tax credits, avoidance and political lobbying, and most of it happened before it became a global institution.

A global minimum tax rate won't actually fix those institutions tax avoidance, it just makes life harder for everyone else. There are so many more topics to address than just raising an arbitrary tax number. But having that global tax rate, makes it look like they at least tried. Either they don't know what they're doing, or they're intentionally deflecting from the problem. Either way it's not good.
Would need to commercial licence for this to work though
I felt misled as well . 2 quitting out of 2000 is hardly a revolt.
IBM portfolio isn't targeted to consumers like Apple's or other companies, even at peak IBM it was an office name, not a household name. The only consumer facing product they had for the longest time were cash registers, and those aren't particularly hip as to live in consumer imagination

Edit: in today episode, hacker news forget they're a niche cohort.
Our own officials, agencies, etc are involved in this stuff & media cooperated with them. The CIA has been using both foreign and domestic “journalism” as a weapon for pretty much as long as it’s existed. If anything, our own practices got worse because of our reaction to Soviet infiltration not as a direct result of the thing itself.
Oh 100%.

What I'm doing is not for the feint of heart. For me it's as much for the joy of the project, though I do really like the power and customizability of the stack I've put together. I'm also a privacy wonk and I like having full control over my data, not to mention the content I'm consuming.

But yeah, I won't claim this is for everyone. But for those interested in a DIY project it's working great for me!
I am a meat consumer/lover and still thought this was an interesting read. I agree with the author's pov that Mance's arguments are a bit naive and unaccurate.
It's true that our bodies are all different, but this is a very common point made by carnists (folks who use animal products, basically the opposite of vegans), yet I've never been able to find any research on anything that comes from animal products that prevents health issues. I'm genuinely curious if someone could point me in the direction of some material which talks about what it is in animal products that prevents these ailments from occurring.

I wonder if it's almost always the case of folks making a dietary switch and not making sure they know how to get everything they need in a balanced diet from non-animal sources, which is actually not hard.

EDIT: I may have misread your comment and interpreted your misery as being due to the diet itself, not the psychological toll of the veganism, so apologies if that's the case! Still interested in any research for what I asked about though, if anyone has it handy!
"KPIs" (Keypoint Indicators)" --> I believe KPI stands for Key Performance Indicator. Source: https://www.klipfolio.com/resources/articles/what-is-a-key-p...

"Another problem with these corporate-type guys is that they do a lot of "management by numbers"" --> What is the alternative to this? Management by intuition? Coordinating a company with ~350,000 employees around the world is definitely going to require some structure and metrics to measure how things are going. There are certainly ways that this can be abused, but I don't think the answer is to have no measures of how the business is performing.
I've guessed at that summary from the screenshots. I would've much appreciated it if you told me somewhere in the first three pages of low information density graphics I scrolled through.

This misses how your audience works - pretty much every engineer would like to have the meat of the answer served first, and then you add the screenshots for corporate sales.

So, thanks for explaining it here, and maybe consider adding it to the main page :)
Yes, this bothers me as well. If 40% of all graduates in a particular field (like engineering) are women, and a company wants to have 50% female employees, that would mean they are overrepresented, since the employment pool isn't the general population. Same thing for all kinds of groups, like disability, race, ethnicity, etc. Everyone should feel comfortable and welcome, but we shouldn't aim for certain gender or racial ratios as the measurement to optimize.
You are proposing decisions of individual consumers as a solution to a global prisoner's dilemma.

No, it won't work. For every tonne of fuel that you save, someone less scrupulous will burn it for their own benefit.
I was a Vegan for 12 years between the ages of 18 and 30. I was literally the worst advert for a Vegan diet imaginable primarily because I was so angry all the time.

I'm much less angry now I'm a Vegetarian.
Why do you cherrypick 1969 and not 1955 where the equivalent number would be $5 an hour today?
I'm not attempting to explain the under-representation of minorities. I'm explaining why minorities in teams will naturally perform better than average.
Right.

Almost nobody employed should have to go through yearly hoops to file taxes. Heck, we probably could eliminate filing and refunds all together were the tax reporting system advanced.

That'd free the IRS to spend their time getting taxes from the people most likely to be dishonest about their taxes.
Malfunctioning pattern-matching is a hallmark of mental illness, so it makes sense than any but a nearly-perfect "AI" system would often produce work that's creepy or off-putting, for that reason.
What a fantastic post.

> Is ‘folk wisdom from internet forums’ worth exploring as a genre of blog post?

I’d add another yes here, if they’re all as thorough as this post.

I’ll add something that I didn’t see directly addressed in here: input methods strongly affect the medium.

Last year I struggled intensely with RSI. I got to the point where I couldn’t type for months. I tried some voice coding tools (caster and talon). Some aspects of this were actually better than keyboard coding. Unfortunately speech recognition is still at a point where it drove me insane with inaccuracies.

It also made me realize that with a keyboard, text code is incredibly natural. With keyboard+mouse, some new modes open up. With voice alone, I wanted to code a very different way.

I won’t go into detail, because this is already a long comment, but I believe that when we get speech recognition as reliable as typing, we’ll see an explosion of new programming paradigms.
This reminds me of an issue that came up when I was working with a intelligence agency, training machine translation.

If you think about language in general, individual words aren't very sensitive. The word for bomb in any language is public knowledge. But when you start getting to jargony phrases, some might be unique to an organization. And if you're training your MT on translated documents surreptitiously intercepted from West Nordistan's nuclear program, and make your MT model public, the West Nordistanis might notice - "hey, this accurately translates our non-public documents that contain rather novel phrases ... I think someone's been listening to us!"
I agree, but this does raise one question for me. If we are to eat mindfully, should we not have pets at all? This seems to be a population, resource, and global warming constraint.
Microsoft was not like IBM after Bill Gates. Not remotely close.

Microsoft was still overwhelmingly a product company in the decade after Gates. It did not abandon its product-centric focus and switch to a service-centric business model ala IBM. IBM hasn't been a product heavy company in several decades at this point. Microsoft never stopped being product heavy.

IBM liquidated its core product businesses, one after another. Microsoft never did that.

Microsoft's sales increased dramatically during the Ballmer years, going from $23b in 2000 to $77b in 2013. IBM's sales haven't increased like that in decades (quite the opposite in fact, they've had a stagnant or contracting business for a long time).

The cloud boom that Microsoft is currently enjoying, was planted during the Ballmer era, and it's being very successfully harvested during the Nadella era.

Nadella is a superior CEO to Ballmer, and far superior at product. However Ballmer did not wreck the ship nor switch Microsoft to being primarily service focused in the model of IBM. IBM by contrast is a wrecked ship.
Very few people opt out of sharing race with their employer. It's not generally an issue.
I always thought it was because of The Simpsons, but going as far back as the Tracy Ullman show, so that could have been an influence as far back as 1987.
>friends at a large dinner.

You might as well jump straight to a conspiracy charge.
You said you'd use the cash to buy an investment because you don't want to hold cash, but you already had an investment —the bond— which you sold for cash. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it?
> There are certainly PoC immigrants, "autists", and people without formal education. Why aren't more of them in our "meritocratic" industry?

There are, they’re called “Nigerians”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Americans

> In 2018, Nigerian-Americans had a median household income of $68,658 - higher than $61,937 for all overall U.S. households.

https://www.ft.com/content/ca39b445-442a-4845-a07c-0f5dae5f3...

> Similar Nigerian success is reflected in the UK, where many in a highly-educated diaspora work in financial services, IT, and the legal and medical professions.

Admittedly I couldn’t find information about their representation specifically in the US tech industry, so if you do, that would be a strong indicator that the tech industry is racist (which would go against my priors and therefore change my mind), but they’re overrepresented e.g. in medicine, so ... well... for the time being, I’ll keep my prior.
That guide is all very well but it is very complicated to follow and setup, and I have been using Linux for a reasonable amount of time (10+ years).

I was surprised that there wasn't an open source script, a bit like you would run with apt-get, that would simply ask you some questions and do all the bits for you.

Postfix is obviously really powerful but for a noob to it, I found it overwhelming without consulting lots of docs.

I did find https://www.iredmail.org/ but that has a feature limit for the free version. The bits you actually really want costs up to $500/year. Not much if it is for your main business, but a lot when you only want it for a part of your larger system.
>Putin's tactics are postmodern, a philosophy that at it's core (despite right wing propaganda around the terms) is intrinsically anti Marxist.

That's not true. Postmodernism and Frankfurt School of Marxism are synonymous in todays culture. However I agree that late stage postmodernism is almost indistinguishable from Real Politik. End result is the same if your worldview reduces everything to power plays between collectives.
What if I'm calculating sales tax? Can't use an integer anymore.
I would love to have more options in this space but email is to foundational to leave to a beta service that doesn't have 24/7 support, may have black-hole delivery issues and doesnt' have a calendar solution. Charge more and address these drawbacks, or get out of the business. You're offerring 1/2 the required features instead of focusing on the core requirements.
I'm not sure your animal's will simply existing is a reasonable argument for allowing their will to be enacted, which sounds like what you're implying. And even if you're implicitly restricting this to food choice, your dog would not put animals in poor farming conditions of his own volition.

But this is only a critique of your statement. I feed my animals farmed pet food.
Thinking about it more: there's a very small subset of problems that I think this is actually great for. And I do run into this somewhat often: relatively new libraries or frameworks that don't really care about thorough documentation so they only show you a few happy path snippets and nothing about how to do something more interesting, so you have to bridge the gap between "this one line in the doc obviously doesn't work with me, but I'd like to figure it out without reading all their source code from scratch..." - getting more example snippets barfed up onto my screen from other people who've figured it out before could be a sort of replacement for the library writers having provided documentation in the first place. But ... this is a somewhat insane way to work around a problem of shitty code documentation, and is still insufficient in a couple ways:

* some poor bastard is going to have to be the first person to figure out how to do something, so that copilot itself can know

* any non-code nuances around "oh, if you do that, your memory usage is going to explode" or "oh, by the way, if you do that, make sure you don't do your own threading" will still fail to be communicated.
The complexity of the tax code is bound up in efforts to include "rebates" for different activities to offset regressive taxation events.

When someone says "simplify" the tax code - well firstly, this has never happened. A simplification is an amendment, and the tax code gets larger - they've never actually managed to shrink the size of the law there.

But then you get to decide: which exemptions and deductibles are you getting rid of? For who? Because if you want to simplify it, that's what's actually got to happen.
Yellow is obviously much closer to lighter skin color than darker skin colors.
Ammonite Ecosystem
> even at peak IBM it was an office name, not a household name

IBM was synonymous with PC for quite some time.
They are coming out with a Postgres product
It's a choice but not a well-informed choice. The fact that too many students have to support themselves while at college isn't even a choice.
Milleu! thank you.
I'm very against the type of social media censorship we've see recently. However, in the specific case of linkedin, it's a job networking site. It's not an information platform like Twitter or Facebook, its for career related posts. I think this has less to do with "misinformation" or whatever the subtext is, and more with posting off topic content. If anything, I'd like to see a heavier hand when it comes to LinkedIn removing content that doesn't fit.
All big tech has a consulting arm. It's how you get people to use your software.
Then wait for them to realize how brittle the code is when nobody is considering the context into which this code is being foisted. They'll TRIPLE our salaries! :D
So you’re saying unless there’s evidence that someone is explicitly telling them not to talk about it, it doesn’t matter? They pushed the narrative that he was guilty in the first place! They have a responsibility to make a correction and instead they say nothing.
It's in the Stundin article they link to.
I don't go to HR and ask them what I'm allowed to do.
Analysis of Guilty Gear Strive Network Traffic at Game Startup
Full Throttle
What can an "industry association" do to pressure amazon?
> When the votes take money or resources, that's not democratic.

It is by definition democratic.

> It's still representative democracy

Sure, I wasn’t claiming it isn’t democratic just that it is less democratic.

> If they do stuff you don't like, you vote them out.

Not always, for example the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee is not elected.

> I don't respect your ownership.

Good for you however I don’t actually care whether or not you respect it. For example with concert ticket NFTs the only person that needs to respect it are the organisers, not you.

> When your keys leak - and they will -, you don't own it anymore.

That is intended.

> None of the major cryptocurrencies do despite claiming they would for years.

What do you count as major? Nano is in top 100 by market cap.

> When it's a network that many of us think is pointless, we're simply scratching our heads at this.

I think that retail stock market trading is pointless however I respect its ability to consume energy as part of the free market.

> More crypto junk and not a cure for cancer.

Sounds like you are very prejudiced and have made no effort to research these technologies before calling them junk and wastes of energy.

> It doesn't need changing!

I’m sure nobody thought banking needed changing in the 1900s before it became digitally available. Researching new technology can almost never be bad.

> We're increasingly building tools to serve the underbanked, and we need the government to continue with AML, KYC, etc. They serve a very valuable purpose of stopping terrorism, preventing bribery, etc.

Yes and we still can, and are doing the same with cryptocurrencies.

> If Satoshi's keys, or the Winklevoss keys, or Coinbase keys leak, it's game over forever.

It’s only possible to crack someone’s private key using quantum computing if they have spent from that wallet before (as this is the only time at which an accounts public key becomes public). Most of those accounts you have listed have never spent any of their coins so it would not be possible to crack their accounts.
Thank goodness governments have always had a reputation for just behaviors.

If you cut to the chase and give them unlimited powers all sorts of moral improvements will take place.
MSM is by definition targeting the mainstream audience. Watch mainstream primetime television… It’s the same audience.
Freelancing just sounds awful for this reason. Yeah some ppl can make a lot but still seems like an awful way to make money if you are an american. Consulting is somewhat different
Forums are not anachronistic - they are the future again. The only way to guard against the censorship of the current social media platforms is to not rely on them.

What always baffled me is why forums didn't embrace technologies we had in the BBS days. Offline readers were the greatest thing since sliced bread - you could use whatever interface to a message board you liked, whatever editor you liked, etc. It was a lot easier to quickly scan through literally thousands of messages with a native, local client that relying on the constant ping pong between your client and a remote server.

Decentralized aggregation is what we really need. A combination of RSS and DNS. Ways to foster creation and discovery of hand curated lists like the original Yahoo - but thousands of them. No reliance on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's a nice dream anyway...
According to the excellent book "Putin's people" by Catherine Belton the people who are running the show now were more aligned with the KGB rather than the party.
When I talk to former IBMers (including a VP), it seems much of the outward “success” there is financial engineering, yet the business is crumbling in reality. Jim leaving amidst a chaotic, failed email migration that is impacting sales is not surprising
Is this Simpson's Paradox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
You have virtually 0% chance of ever knowing what the recipients of your money spend it on. Anyone could be giving it to extreme political groups, abuse groups, extreme religions. On the other hand, a religious person might not have any interest in supporting extremism.

The money also goes to silent partners, investors etc. so where do you stop?

We should judge people on their integrity and business model imho, religion is a straw man.
I had something worse(?) happen with one of my accounts for a hotel chain. I entered name+hotel@majoremail.com and they just stripped out the + leaving me with an account that I couldn't use unless I made another account at the email provider.
Simplistically... The right wing believes in keeping the old traditions and the left believes in modifying those to 'fit the day's or to achieve 'progress'.

In this framework the difference you notice makes absolute sense.

America is a country founded on enlightenment ideas, which were part of the leftist school of thought in the old borderline ecclesiocratic aristocracy that would have formed the 'right wing' of Europe.

Thus the american right wingers look back to what you'd consider leftist thought as their model of keeping society as it should be, whereas a European right winger may look back to the older days of European monarchs, national identity and religion.

In america, the right wing, looking back towards our american enlightenment ideals, wouldn't really believe in any of those things in the same way.

There are some bits of overlap, especially in the social issues since those are recent changes. But overall an american right winger is going to be a European classical liberal which is typically considered leftist.
At least they haven't turned into Subway yet: all Amazon delivery partners must purchase Amazon gasoline.
The argument is generally not that people should not be paid.

Instead the argument is that the terms of the debt are not just or that people did not enter into the debt fully voluntarily (e.g. medical debt isn't much of a choice when the alternative is death/disability, student loan debt isn't much of a choice when low skilled positions don't pay a living wage).

The proposed solution generally takes the form of canceling existing debt, reforming future debt, and reforming society so that the debt is less necessary.
I think many already realize how bad humanity's usage of oil has been for t0+100 humanity. And let's not even talk about t0+200 humanity. The ascendance of oil has been a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, and it's pretty safe to say that even with some of the brighter minds of humankind guiding its usage, we still managed to f things up pretty badly. The bigger picture seems to be that humanity isn't so good at managing itself. Perhaps a major advance in AI is the only potential salvation for this timeline.
We've got plenty of examples of ordinary humans in documented history being mistaken for gods or supernatural beings. People report seeing ghosts, monsters, aliens and such all the time even now. There are low budget documentary TV shows about these sightings on the schedule constantly.