skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, when dealing with populations, enacting laws and propaganda that affects whole populations is the most effective way to change them. As a population, to fix fatness we need to do big things. But as a person, to fix fatness you need to do it yourself. If a doctor says you need to lose weight and you don't, you failed yourself. The system could have helped you, and maybe should have, but ultimately you failed.

To my initial point, Americans are overall uninterested in becoming thin. Public policy may be able to change that. I don't believe that people generally wanted to quit smoking in the 50s but couldn't, but instead that they generally didn't care about quitting. The same is true now for being fat. Only once the public consciousness shifted toward smoking being bad did smoking rates fall. That was a consequence of desires shifting due to (benevolent) propaganda. I'd love if we had similar ads on TV and such for fatness like we did for smoker's lungs.
> Something I don't understand.

We're going through a fascinating phase right now. If one is at all interested in philosophy, politics, religion & history there is a lot of discourse happening on Twitter and Substack, by extremely smart people. Look around, see for yourself who has the best arguments.
From Facebook's POV? Very serious.

Edit: For added context, I worked on this along with several other FB Connectivity projects.
I think the US tradition of leaving next generation better off than the last (whether true or not) is somewhat to blame. There is a societal "failure" to not providing for your kid the same or better than your parents provided for you. Many millennials are the tipping point for; they got the most, and it's down hill for future generations. The great American pyramid scheme is falling apart or so it seems.

I think many people have trouble with that and just tend to throw their hands up as they don't have a solution. I boils down to economics. If these same millenials could afford the lifestyle they want for their kids, they would have kids. Global warming, overpopulation, etc is an altruistic substitute. (Granted things are more expensive, etc, etc. it still holds true.)
All the tech people in this thread arguing how it makes no difference technically where the data resides etc etc. really guys can you not think further than that? It’s simple and obvious the Indian government is exercising total control over its affairs. Naming technical distinctions completely misses the point.

This is not a technical issue and has zero to do with tech. It’s political.
> there’s also the spreading of misinformation and propaganda that can also pose serious threats to democracy. I don’t know why the anti-censorship crowd doesn’t acknowledge this.

You can always find the dumb version of any argument, but arguing against it is useless and masturbatory (insert aphorism about wrestling with a pig). If you define "the anti-censorship crowd" as the strongest possible version of the argument, you'll find plenty anti-censorship folks who acknowledge the harms that unfettered speech can cause, but argue that there's no way to cleanly and consistently define "misinformation and propaganda" in a way that's not heavily prone to abuse.

Looking at the actual psychology of the post-truth part of Trumpism, it's not at all clear to me that hamfisted attempts at speech codes didn't add more fuel to the fire instead of less. There's no good evidence on this either, because you run into the same problem of consistently identifying disallowed speech and the requirement for a "known ground truth" that doesn't exist (lest you think that it's Science with a capital S, the pandemic should've thoroughly disabused you of that misunderstanding of what science actually is).
I think often it takes longer than a few weeks for it to really become automatic.
Fuel isn’t. Jet fuel is basically no more expensive than diesel and sometimes cheaper (no road tax). You can consider batteries basically like jet fuel.
I guess they must have something if Amazon are buying it instead of it just being abandoned by Facebook.
To add meat to these bones, I've played piano on average 20 minutes a day for 22 years. That means ~2700 hours of piano practice. Probably an underestimate but it does match my intuition of thousands of hours.
"talking to strangers is not a thing in my country. Can't say I care for it."

What country is this and how do you ever meet new people?

Are you saying people in your country don't meet strangers at bars, parties, through participation in sports, at dance clubs, or special interest clubs?

Also, while you say you don't care for it, you do realize that you're talking to strangers right now, don't you?
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Thank you very much.

>Rust is high on my list of languages to learn next, but because it's interesting in its own right

Can you elaborate more about that too? Why you find it interesting as a Lisper?
Well I predict we'll collapse in the next few billions of years
This isn't beating anyone up. In any mature development environment, you should almost never have to touch production. When writing new features, you should be running against a test environment without real user data. When investigating and trying to repro bugs, you should be trying against a test environment. If the repro is tricky, the errors returned should have enough information to not need to access prod. And so on and so on.

I work at a competitor to Facebook in a user-facing service and have these kind of restrictions in place (must request access with justification, otherwise I literally don't have ACLs to see the data). It's a non-issue because I run into it at most 1-2 times a month, usually far less.
If you liked that book, Power of Habits is the 10x better version.

It's less of a 20 year olds book of lifehacks and more of a science based approach.

Power of Habit book changed my life, quit all drugs and video games. Now I just read nonfiction books.
I am, in fact, diagnosed with ADHD, and my previous therapist says I'm a fairly extreme case. I do have alternative strategies for organization, but have not heard anything about problems with cultivating habits (indeed, many people have recommend cultivating habits as a coping mechanism).
This ^. I am fine with the art. as long as either he asks permision saying that's tge same thing apple is dooing or if not blurring the faces of people when he goes to exbit them later.
What a relief it is to see a snappy, lightweight native app.
Created a throwaway just to reply to you.

I'm halfway through your essay and it resonates strongly.

My parents constantly fought when I was a child. They eventually went for a divorce. My father tried to get my mother institutionalized through bribes and connections, but ultimately failed. Eventually, he kidnapped me to his home country. My mother didn't pursue me. My teenage years were spent getting berated for everything and being told I will be a weirdo failure. I was ignored for years as my father pursued women. I found refuge in online forums, video games, and a bunch of friends who had bad homes. We helped out each other. I survived this time, counting down the years until I was 18.

Today, I am married to one of those friends and we have created a happy life together. I too wanted to be comfortable and loved.

My father tells me that he did all of this because he loved me. He saved me from growing up a junkie in the spoiled west. My mother tells me how hard it was for her to lose her child, how hard she cried. There is no point at which they ever asked me how I felt or what I experienced. I am merely a background actor in the grand drama of their lives.

I realize that a lot of parents fumble bringing up their kids. Everyone makes mistakes. But what I and others experience growing is not a fumbling. This is HN - imagine you an engineer responsible for a system that produces incidents every day. Management tells you to never fix anything. Actually, they berate you for even suggesting that, saying that you're just complaining and this is normal.

This is what it feels like.

throwaway284534, my thoughts go out to you. You're not alone. There are a lot of people like us. Many don't make it and fall apart in different ways. The lucky ones build a happy life.
99.4 percent conviction rate? That sounds very suspicious to me.

Btw, strange that Japan is called as 'Western' - perhaps the better term is OECD? Same goes for NZ, I guess.
AI beefs up veggie burgers as market booms
It doesn't sound like his are company-related.
I guess you'd be happier if the last sentence was "YMMV."

Of course people will disagree. Some have. Good for them.
Nice read! I ported DOOM to TempleOS about a week ago.

https://git.checksum.fail/alec/chocolate-doom
2 Questions:

1. I see you're on v.0.21 - how stable is this? I know the point of the article is that you don't set deadlines, but I'm anxious to implement something that may have breaking changes.

2. How can I pay you? I'm implementing search now, considering Algolia or PG_Search. I want to give you a shot, but I also want to pay you.
Here's the actual correct math:

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Area of sphere: 4πr^2

Airplane cruising height: ~10km

Satellite orbit height: ~550km

Radius of earth: 6371km

thus, relative increase: (6371+550)/(6371+10) = 1.084 = 8.4% increase

Squared (because of first formula) that corresponds with a 1.084^2 = 1.175 = 17.5% increase in area.

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Still, a few caveats:

1. Earth is huge. 510.1 million km² is a lot of space (+20% at 550km altitude). We could have a million sats with each having more than 1km^2 to themselves.

2. Satellites orbit at different heights. Amazon's and SpaceX's satellites will not be on the same orbit.

3. Starlink satellites are at a sufficiently low altitude that Kessler Syndrom is not a problem; even if they all simultaneously turned into millions of pieces of dead debris at the same time, the atmospheric drag would make them lower their orbits and burn up in just a few months.
Wouldn't landing be the hardest part?
Forcing the data to reside in India. Forces companies to build data centers (jobs) in India. Forces the deployments to be in India. And drives benefits to the local players over international bodies.
The bond "market" is dominated by Fed purchases (with money created out of fresh air), to keep borrowing costs low (aka QE).
They are following the BoJ, which now owns around 70% of all government bonds. This charade can continue for a while longer, but what happens when governments own 100% of their own debt and all mortgage debt (MBS in the US)?
What is specific in this UI design system pertaining to 'travel projects'?
As the saying goes: The average human has 1 testicle.
Interesting. Good direction in thought with counting the whole cell as a unit. In that case shouldn't the diameter be 3 instead of 2? See the grid in [1]. The center tile counts as distance 1, the left adjacent tile counts as 1, and the right adjacent tile counts as 1, so the total diameter d is 3. Circumference c = 6. c/d = 6/3 = 2. Pi = 2.

Then the next ring has 12 tiles. c = 12. d = 5. c/d = 12/5 = 2.4. So Pi = 2.4 for the next ring!

[1] https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gam...
I read my contract and ensure you know what you are signing. If possible make them add a line about side projects off work hours.

Much harder to win in court when they knowingly added a line that lets you work on your own projects.
I imagine at Facebook's scale that nobody has direct access to individual database or application instances; and that if someone actually needed to run queries of any kind in production, it'd be as stringent as deploying a code change.
The parent comment was complaining about unequal tax treatment, not about interest rates.

The interest rates aren't particularly important in this concept. Just that you have enough collateral so that you can life off the loan while the collateral appreciates in value, so that you're not forced to sell it.
I'm surprised to see this reaction from a sales person, isn't this a major part of your job?
In the best case a cookie banner gives me an opportunity to trust a site owner (not necessarily a company) that they won‘t use cookies to do invasive tracking I didn’t agree to. Oftentimes sites just straight up require consent to „necessary“ cookies in order to use the site at all. In these cases the EU imposed Cookie Banners don’t even give me the option to disable cookie based tracking. In other cases it takes minutes of my time to navigate the cookie banner to get the desired results.
Why should I choose such an ineffective solution if there are superior technical solutions to the same problem such as privacy aware browsers or extensions that don’t require user trust in site owners compliance but stop cookie based tracking on a technical level ?
The Cookie banner legislation actually did nothing at all for privacy, quite the opposite it made browsing the web in incognito mode much more annoying as you’re constantly forced to close cookie banners before beeing able to consume the actual on-site content. (Googles (coincidental?) Decision to disallow chrome extensions in incognito mode renders relevant anti-cookie-banner extensions useless)
Inside Facebook's Data Wars
This looks really cool, and I'd totally buy this if it had a windows version. I don't a mac, nor do I really want one.
Vital Questions to Ask Before Developing an App
> The problem is that bad actors can abuse these platforms from multiple sides. In this case the issue is censorship, but there’s also the spreading of misinformation and propaganda that can also pose serious threats to democracy. I don’t know why the anti-censorship crowd doesn’t acknowledge this.

Because nobody trusts you or anyone else to classify "misinformation".

> In the US, Trump used social media to spread lies about the results of the elections.

> He tried to pull all the stops to stay in power.

He gave a lot of speeches and told his supporters to make their voices heard. Peacefully.

If you assume that he genuinely believes the election was marred with fraud, then none of what he said are lies.

> This is the same President who attacked journalism,

The same "journalists" that spent years spreading fake news that he was a Russian spy?

The same "journalists" that spent years falsely claiming he was referring to neo-Nazis as "fine people" when in fact he was saying the complete opposite? https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/26/joe-biden-...

The same "journalists" that claimed that Trump instructed Georgia Secretary of State to "find the fraud" but then completely retracted that he ever said that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/16/washingto...

> rescinded access to White House press events for news sources that were critical of Jim,

The only one I'm aware of that was revoked was Jim Acosta who refused to follow the rules of the press room and hand over the mic to the moderator: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/07/cnn-jim-acos...

That's not being a "brave reporter". It's just being a showboating dick to everyone else that's following the rules of the press room.

> and used the Justice department to seize records of journalists.

The only instance of this I could find was this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/trump-administration-p...

Though that does not go into too much specifics as to what or why.

> Trump was a bigger threat to journalism while he was in office than any content moderation rules Twitter could ever enforce.

Trump was the most open and accessible President that we've ever had. He would literally spend hours standing in front of hostile reporters answering any questions that they have.

If you want to see the reverse of that, check out how Biden only calls on a preselected list of reporters that ask prescreened questions. They even include a wallet sized photo in case he can't read the reporters name: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/photos-biden-cheat-sheets-f...

Or how about snapping at reporters that ask questions about current events like the pull out from Afghanistan instead of "happy things" on July 4th? https://nypost.com/2021/07/02/joe-biden-cuts-off-questions-a...

That's what content moderation looks like.
I realize that the current naming is confusing, so while writing a tutorial I opened https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126949 that hopefully gets us to a naming scheme that's more consistent with the triplets in cross compilation world.

As for the binaries, you need to compile them once and then you can use http://cachix.org/ for free to cache them.
I've written two books over the past decade as well as learning some other skills and hobbies and this is absolutely the most vital lesson I've learned. There is an incredible power in simply pouring a little time into something every day over a long period of time. It feels like a superpower when you see it start compounding.

The Grand Canyon was created by little drops of water bouncing off rocks for millenia. Consistent effort over time is one of the greatest forces in the world. Persistence beats focus, inspiration, and genius 90% of the time.
Let this loose on some 80s BBS textfiles.
The worst volume control is no volume control. I'm looking at you Zoom.
I would love to send my kids to school to get a philosophy/english lit/history degree and then let them get a masters in something job relevant, but this is not how kids from the working class get to spend their early/mid 20s. Our kids feel the pressure to make money early and so it is crucial that kids from this economic class get a degree that has job and earning potential. If we were able to support our kids to 30, you bet I would encourage them to start with a liberal arts degree.
Does Indian controlled AJK and Ladakh qualify as "inside India"?
But we can ground airplanes in a matter of hours. It doesn't really feel comparable.
I would assume that there’s Microsoft folks involved to make sure it works out satisfactory given their investment in Blazor, but yes, it’s always a possibility that an API is bad. I don’t know what their level of interest is in embedding wasm inside C# is.
Afaik the book isn't THAT known among regular software devs (otherwise we'd have far less shitty UI's). The doors in the book is mostly an obvious tool used in the book to get people into the right mindset to then learn about the other issues the book presents.
This was a pretty eye-opening lesson for me at the time. I will never buy a Kindle.
I don't think this is what is going on in the article and in these cases of estrangement though. In my experience with myself and my friends estrangement isn't the result of someone who is 35 looking back and misremembering a slight in their childhood, its the result of a long and ongoing issue with a family member that degrades the relationship over time and that impacts them in the current moment today. I am estranged from my father and I want to have a relationship with him BUT I know that if I reopen ties with him, he will emotionally abuse me in the present day.
Code something they would have zero interest in (or would even actively avoid being associated with.)
This is Fred Chow's PhD thesis; it was used as the basis for the MIPSPro compilers that was later open sourced as Open64[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open64
The world is a big place my friend. Here's the British Society for Immunology saying it: [1]

"These vaccines are perfectly safe and are extremely effective at preventing serious illness from these infectious diseases"

Pennsylvanian officials: [2]

"PA (WBNG) -- Despite natural concern and curiosity over the coronavirus vaccine, Pennsylvania officials held a scientific panel Thursday to explain the vaccines are perfectly safe, even for children."

A professor advising the UK government via the primary COVID vaccination committee: [3]

"There is the concern that what’s happening in Europe might make people in the UK less confident in the AstraZeneca vaccine, unnecessarily so, because it’s perfectly safe"

Maybe you don't consider an academic to be a medical professional, so here's a doctor in San Diego saying the same thing: [4]

"“There’s no reason to think that a 16-year-old or 17-year-old is going to have a reaction that an 18-year-old is going to have. I think it’s perfectly safe,” Sawyer told ABC 10News."

Re: mortality. Go to https://www.usmortality.com/ and click the 25-44 and 45-64 age check boxes, the graphs will then appear.

[1] https://www.immunology.org/celebrate-vaccines/public-engagem...

[2] https://wbng.com/2021/06/17/pa-officials-insist-vaccine-is-s...

[3] https://inews.co.uk/news/health/oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-s...

[4] https://www.10news.com/news/coronavirus/san-diego-doctor-say...
OK, I was able to find it through a Google site: search. Is there a more direct (on-site) way?
I have similar issues, that continue to develop as I get older, and it's been a significant journey to mitigate!

- I used that Microsoft ergonomic keyboard that was ubiquitous, the name of which I can't remember, for years, but eventually the floaty keys bugged me. I have a recently-acquired ZSA Moonlander mk I [1] now, which I'm finally mounting the learning curve of. This helps //a lot//, along with:

- Proper desk/surface height. I chronically let either my forearms rest on the edge of the desk, or my wrists sit on the keyboard/laptop, and this has a measurable effect on my wrist and hand strain. It's been difficult to adopt the muscle tone for letting my hands 'float' over the keyboard after so many years, but not having that strain on my muscles/nerves from the constant pressure on my forearms makes a huge difference; likewise, not having my wrists resting on the desk/wrist pad lets my fingers travel more naturally.

- I do a lot of stretching and exercising to help strengthen my wrists and I check, a lot, that their natural position is one of alignment with between my hands and forearms. Minimizing left-and-right pivoting especially has helped a lot; most of my strain from laptop keyboards tends to be when I carelessly let pinkies dictate how my hand moves when I need to hit Return, or whatever. I still need to zero in on the best desk hit to facilitate this, but being conscious of it is a start.

- A coworker recommended an RPM Power Powerball[2]; I haven't used it extensively, but it is //immediately// a pretty clear and major wrist workout, so I can very much see how it would have a positive impact. Anecdotally, he said all of his forearm and wrist issues subside when he's good about using it for ten or fifteen minutes a day.

1. https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
2. https://rpmpower.com/product/nsd-powerball-autostart-pro-fus...
I recommend checking out Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. He runs the Stanford Behavior Design Lab (previously known as persuasive tech lab). One takeaway from that book that might be relevant to you is that we tend to repeat actions that are rewarding in some way, so if you can think of ways to engineer reward into whatever activities you want to repeat, you have a higher likelihood of doing them.
At any given moment the distribution is similar, and we track and regulate the orbits, leaving swathes of space open. Everything about the satellites is engineered, including their orbits. Other countries have less stringent standards, resulting in more or less random de-orbits that can drop space junk anywhere in their path, but the US has a lot of forethought put into orbital standards.

Space junk is an issue, but it's not anywhere near crisis level yet.