skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for assuming someone who fearmongers and parrots right-wing talking points to be right-wing. Ye olde 'enlightened centrist both sides are bad' position is problematic due to false equivalence- by saying both sides are equally bad and misguided, in actuality you align yourself closer toward the side that is objectively worse (and if I have to explain to you which is objectively worse and why, well then I'm not sure there really is any point at all to continuing this conversation).
Anyone have a link to the actual video in question?
But is the calculation correct? For example according to these guys, the CEO of Aberocrombie & Fitch made $12 MM while the median worker made $1820, resulting in a ratio of 6565:1 [1]

[1] https://aflcio.org/executive-paywatch/company-pay-ratios
Unfortunately Obsidian cannot replace apps like Agenda or noteplan for me, because it doesn't sync with external calendars. I still use it for most stuff though.
If "smiles" is the longest, how do you explain "similes"?
Only for one person though which isn't a great thing for TVs which generally have more than one person watching. Also the tracking is a bit of an issue, you'd have to wear a little headset to accurately track your head when they were released. Now you could maybe get away with using a camera for tracking but now you've got the privacy worries of that happening.
Maybe this is more accurate.

"Hard times create weak men, weak men create hard times"

I've never believed that adversity creates strength, at least that has not been my experience in life.
Fast enough, sure, but nobody’s pushing the envelope. Casey Muratori recently did a proof of concept on this problem: https://mobile.twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1411437902802808...
I agree, he barely talked about his startup at all.

The focus was on the habit that has nothing to do with the fact that he did well.
That doesn't really work when the app you're presenting with is actually MS Teams, as for whatever reason, during a call when you're screen sharing, Teams still shows notification pop-ups.
Microsoft threatens to resurrect Clippy as an Office emoji
OP's comment is a vast simplification of what's happening underneath, but nonetheless still tremendously valid as a useful heuristic.

Valuable work, like many things in the real world, is not normally distributed, but skewed or following alternate distributions, such as power-law. This is likely what occurs within "torrents" of work: work that is has significantly more leverage than other work.

Nonetheless, the implicit bedrock of the just-showing-up heuristic is that the valuable work cannot get done without the consistency of simply showing up; indeed, expert performance is often a function of deliberate practice plus persistence (time); one without the other rarely nets positive results.
Ask HN: Is there an unofficial list of topics that YouTube will de-monetize?
I think there is a limit to how much this type of microblogging can grow. Some people are just not into broadcasting every thought. Also, the immediate fallout of many tweet missteps as well as cancel culture is sure to hold many back.
Capitol Police to use Army surveillance gear to monitor Americans
But you can remove your contact email and (randomly) change your password.
Not really, imagine a troubled plane bombing a city with huge and explosive battery packs.
The idea that the service is a neutral 3rd party who hosts any video is a political idea, in other words it is a choice made by platforms that both influences and is influenced by politics. Note, because people get confused on here, this doesn't mean that it's a bad idea.

Other publishing media do not have this standard. For example, the radio waves are another medium where the FCC (which regulates them) could say that only certain things are allowed, or they could say you can broadcast whatever you want. (In fact I think they regulate content, re: obscenity, but I don't want to look it up right now.)

So again, the idea of being only a neutral 3rd party who hosts videos for all-comers is a choice, which has political implications.
So, if I understand correctly, this is not an actual measurement of urban heat, but rather is the prediction of a model which takes as input different types of land cover in the cities?

It sort of seems like they should just measure the temperatures directly.
Can’t one frame either side of any controversy using these sorts of histrionics? This makes us all stupider.
That's survivor bias. If you throw a million 8 year olds into the ocean, you'll create hundreds of swimmers.

The "good times create weak men" I have less of a story for, but it's perhaps something like this:

If you throw a million 8 year olds into the ocean while wearing life-preservers, you will end up depriving some of them the chance to learn to swim, and wrongly teach many of them that there's nothing dangerous about the ocean.
It was pedantic but that doesn't make it a bad comment, I definitely appreciated the information
Do it. All the anxieties "Should I call?", "Am I a nuissance", "Am I a burden?" matter not.

I am genuinely curious why "memento mori" never seems to stick. Maybe thats part of it's power.
Oh nice that i am not the only one, downloaded a image 4 days ago, and it say'd "valid for 2 days", but Win11 images where still not available ;)
Europeans have been anti-Persian since before Socrates was a hoplite.

It would be better if fifteen hundred years of Islamophobia was disinfected from Europe. It's a double standard where nobody sees a problem with England even though there's a state religion and the religious head and government head are the same person...and unlike Iran, those roles are hereditary.

Iran today looks like what throwing off the yoke of foreign influence looks like. So far it has only been going on half as long as the Guerra de los Ochenta Años took to free the Netherlands from Spanish Influence.

Never mind the bloody legacy of Calvinism though. The traditional head of the European church launched the crusades and backed the long slog in the Iberian Peninsula.

So long as the first reaction is to frame Iran in religious terms, the Mullahs are logically correct in their claims about the enemy without.
No. I'm saying that there's no legal means to stop a despot from doing this, no amendment to help you, and you have no rights. If you want to do that we're going to need another amendment or monopolies will need to be broken up.

In the eyes of the law, Twitter has done nothing wrong by moderating their content.
Yeah, I can't speak for him. We definitely outlaw things that are simply very risky (e.g., drunk driving) whether or not anyone is actually injured. I don't have a problem with prohibiting unnecessary social gatherings, but this feels like it should be a $200 USD fine--certainly not 5 times the max drunk driving sentence.
correct article title: "Adaptive immunity induces mutualism between commensal eukaryotes"
Why some vaccine skeptics changed their minds and got Covid shots
> and also a subset of Americans

I think you're underestimating just how many American men are circumcised. The WHO puts it at between 76 and 92%.
Yea no. What politicians make on paper is a moot point. There's a reason they all listen to the special interests and lobbyists and not their constituents.

Then there's the regulatory capture of being a politician then going to work for the companies that lobbied them.

They start rich, they get richer.
The really neat part is that they get paid even when they aren't making the company successful. (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1310067/000119312517...)
This requires nix-direnv installed with Nix.
Replace Cortana with Clippy better.
I'm not being pedantic. You have no idea what kind of spread any given strain of covid (or any virus) is going to have. You're trying to over simplify an extremely complex interaction. It could stop at 1 or it could stop at 1,000,000,000.

Back to your original post:

> They aren't even in the same realm of concern for public health.

They are depending how much a virus spreads. You're relying on an implied "exponential = huge and scary" to give your argument weight. Can you say how pervasive the spread of the delta variant will be?
Not doors, but there are many anti-patterns are intentional - they are there by design!

Eg, "Accept All" cookies - always there. "Reject All"? No. Click preferences, scroll to the bottom, past all the minimised options that hopefully are not selected, then choose the ambiguously named "Confirm my choices" (when I haven't made any choices). This stuff is on purpose! Its there to make you lose the will to live, and just accept whatever crap they have to offer. Like phoning your broadband or energy supplier. Or being able to swap out your phone battery. Or have a machine auto-call or text you to harass you, if you are 1 day late on a payment.

The point is that there is a cash value to many of these 'problems' even if they can be easily engineered away. Its the weaponisation of irritation and hassle, and its ubiquitous in modern living.

Where this ends up, is that we are forced to accept, accept, accept. Its not a great mental state to be in - its the mentality of the prisoner. One cannot help be far less proactive in a modern society - you cannot take things in hand - to get anything done needs to escalated up the ladder.

We are being trained to be timid acceptance lambs. :)
Why did Twitter kill Vine?

This is why pretty much why TikTok exists and filled that space very quickly.
(Go ahead and downvote, but I think the tone in this answer is appropriate.)

Yes, let's sprinkle magic fairy dust on threads to fix human foibles. Let's make sure there are no more meta-discussions, like people not being able to read the article for any reason. Let's also avoid any posts like "Hey, if you like the author you should check out X". Or, conversely, "Hey, this person is a known crank[1][2][3], don't bother reading." Or anything where a one-paragraph tl;dr could've easily replaced the entire article, and answering based on the tl;dr is completely reasonable. Or any of a host of other types of comments which I couldn't think of off the top of my head.

Let's instead make sure everyone who wants to post needs to remember things from the article which are completely irrelevant to the actual content, and that they spend a few minutes trying to guess what the question means and which exact characters will appease the algorithm.

Let's not.
Oh nice. Mine (Hindi) definitely doesn't have that, it's also shorter than a lot of other older/more mature ones I think. (I've dabbled in the French one.) I'll certainly do it if it becomes available, but for now I've done all that is.
tiktok and youtube are not synonymous in functionality...

It is extremely hard to have a 2nd youtube, reddit or facebook... because of the network effects
> All that where created by an individualistic approach.

How so? TFA attributes this modern alienation to changes in the American family structure that took place in the last half of the 20th century. All three of the threats the person you’re responding to listed, nuclear war, (modern) biological warfare, and climate change, were developed or essentially locked in in our society prior to the last half of the 20th century – largely by people born before or right around the end of the 19th century, who were presumably much more attuned to this “dutiful family obligation” mindset, since those are the very people TFA is contrasting these post-1950 changes against.

The plain history of these developments would seem to argue that post-1950 societal changes had nothing whatsoever to do with these threats, unless you’re arguing that the effect preceded the cause.
After reading "The Fremen Mirage Collection" [0], I can't read that adage/meme without feeling snarky.

While I believe that, in an individual scale, harsh times can help develop toughness and resilience, most times it seems to lead to resentment, anger and frustration.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
Lowkey (YC S18) is hiring a senior front-end engineer who likes games
I grew up as a very lonely child so I struggle a lot with talking to strangers, usually the idea way more than the practice. Knowing that I’ll have to call a stranger on the phone or go to a social event full of unknown people stresses me out to the point of often thinking of many ways of how I’d like to get out of them. In social situations I struggle to let go and have to put enormous amounts of energy to act
‘normal’, yet most people don’t even pick up on it. I guess I’m good at pretending. Despite that I don’t hate people and I quite enjoy listening to them when a topic that even mildly interests me comes up, I’ve done a lot of work to broaden my horizons so thankfully that list of topics is quite long. I often wonder if other people are even remotely like me or if all this comes easily and naturally to them at all times.

It does have the advantage that there’s no real difficulty increase between a very difficult social event or conversation or just am average one. Or I can drink quite a lot and still seem normal. I grew up thinking that I’m defective and need to keep to myself and I had to self reflect a lot to overcome that.

Despite this, I quite understand and appreciate the need for socializing, crazy amounts more than I did as a child. I wish I could teach young me that because social situations resolve conflict and create opportunities and those create a healthier all around environment and often a better future for all those involved.
Children were mostly seen as a blessing because they were indentured servants that worked for very little.

Childhood as it is seen today is a very recent creation.
I find HN has a better SNR than any other user discussion I've read on the internet. Arguing against points addressed in the article seems like a good thing to me (maybe I misunderstand though and you mean people are missing objective facts). My biggest criticism of the discussions is that there usually isnt much diversity of opinion for controversial topics and most outside a narrow range get downvoted. I think diversity would get worse if there were more barriers to commenting.
It distinguishes between something and a publisher, in that it says whatever-you-want-to-call-that-something can't be treated as the publisher (it uses that word) of information it's distributing.
Pro-onion faction triumphs in Spain’s great omelette debate
One way to tell if a Machine Learning model is any good is to see how it does on unseen/new patients.

Of course, we don't wait to try it on real patients, so typically you'd partition the data you have already into (a) what you show to the machine learner (training data), and (b) what you hide from the learner (test data). The latter is only used to evaluate, i.e. you get the answer from the ML model and compare it to the real answer you have already. If information about the test data some how makes it to the training data, its referred to as a mining leak [1].

In this paper, they treat each month of a patient as an independent observation. However, GPS driver behaviour will be very similar from one month to the next for the same person. Genetic information is exactly the same. So for every month that the model is tested (test data), the learner has already seen very similar data in the training set - for some of the other months (for the same person) that happen to be in the training set. The split is typically done randomly. So it will do well.

The test results are therefore optimistic and do not support the conclusions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leakage_(machine_learning)
These articles are quite good. Thanks for posting them.

I like the encyclopedic process of picking a topic, and digging in as deep as one can go. I had no idea there was so much going on with Python's import system until now.

Having said that, I think you might have missed a swell feature: import xx as y.

I think most people use it just to simplify function names, but it's especially important for people who create their own private libraries, which inevitably result in function name clashes down the line. I guess also if you tend to use a lot of similar libraries, like what often happens with networking or math.

Anyway, I'm just learning Python, so you gained at least one new reader here.
Black Death and Mongol Invasions were probably worse on a per-person basis for those affected than even a realistic nuclear war would be.
I feel the same way about Cuba. My Uncle worked there as a banker and almost my entire family visited him there at one time or another.

I asked him once when it opened up again why he hadn't gone back. He said the trips are forced tours and that he wouldn't be free to get a car and revisit the haunts of his youth.

I made up my mind that I wouldn't visit Cuba until the communists were gone. I was pretty confident after Castro the government would fall. Now I am not so sure.
Think about it this way, you build something that looks like a pub, provides the services of a pub and say you are open for business. Would it be really that surprising that the state enforces laws that apply to pubs on your business or would you tell the health inspector to fuck off and open his own pub if he has problems with it?
I don't think just doing an activity is enough - there has to be conscious effort at improvement.

A person doing a drunken Saturday 18 isn't going to improve. A person going to the range and focusing on technique 20 minutes a day will improve, with far less net time spent.

I think of it in terms of the "10,000 hours to mastery" - how many masters of driving do you see on the road? Most people are just barely not crashing from place to place, not focusing on skill.
> You're running linux (with nix installed) on the bare metal of a mac, and then a VM on top of that running macos (with VFIO passthrough so it's not dog-slow?), is that right?

You got it.

> Performance is pretty reasonable? APFS works fine in this setup?

Works well enough for my use cases. It's certainly less slow and fragile than running Linux in a VM via macOS.

APFS works fine in the VM, but I use HFS+ just because there are more mature tools to poke at HFS+ images than APFS, right now. The APFS FUSE drivers work well and support reading and writing[1]. There's a closed source driver that supports writing and encryption, though[2].

> No gotchas with drive encryption? ... actually, if your machine does use drive encryption, which is doing it, linux or mac? I don't know enough about mac hardware to know if there is some mac boot environment that handles encryption and then hands off to the OS (be it macos or linux).

I don't use T2 disk encryption, I just let Linux handle partition encryption. Apparently there's support here[3] for it, though.

[1] https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse

[2] https://www.paragon-software.com/us/business/apfs-linux/

[3] https://wiki.t2linux.org/
Obsidian with plugins can be a quite efficiant outliner too, it even has tree collpasing/unfolding command built in
For regular users, the answer to any question "Are you sure..." is always yes.
None of those things would result in the complete extinction of human beings.

The Black Death was pretty horrible and yet European society still exists.
Ah yes, only the socialists hate CEOs, obviously these are the special people who deserve their ivory towers right?

JFC the mental gymnastics never cease to amaze.
You're probably right. I assumed that there is a clause in the AGB permitting Youtube to in general not host a video if they don't want to. Or that there is something creating a Hausrecht in there, given them the right to chose a customer. Doesn't seem to be the case.
You should let a local hacklab borrow it, might as well get people experimenting with it instead of collecting dust :)
I'm trying and failing to imagine how one would strike up a deep conversation with a stranger at a grocery store or at a diner, except maybe one of those diners that has counter seating which resembles a bar. As for the rural part, I have no idea why it would matter.
That's a little bit intellectually dishonest. Class mobility does exist, albeit more rarely than it should, and unlike places with enforced social systems, you can't tell someone's social class by their name or clothes.

Class is also a generalization:
I'm a gainfully employed SWE, and I (by choice) live in a neighborhood where I hear gunshots nightly. I don't own any new clothing, my nicest pair of shoes are my work boots, and my friends are almost entirely blue-collar people. I could easily afford to live like an upper-middle-class yuppie, but I border on lower class at first glance.

Is class entirely economic, or is there a social aspect?
>wrote this in one of their rulings:

Which ruling? Have a link (in German is fine)?
You must be American
That's always an issue with new media tech. The same chicken and egg thing existed when 720 and later 1080+ TVs were released, there was practically nothing to watch on them at first. I think 3D has more issues to deal with than 3D but if there's TVs out there in large numbers the media will probably follow.
I don't agree with this kind of reasoning at all.

Staying neutral, or alternatively, trying to appear neutral will most likely in itself enrage.
I mean sure, but I don't see how that concept maps to YouTube.

It would be interesting to have a social platform where you can only see mutual connections. I imagine it'd have a hard time competing with email and group texts and all the other ways people who already know each other can stay in touch.
You can actually use these apps together with obsidian, to edit the same files which I do, I use IA writer when I feel like to.
Tesla is moving into heavy battery manufacturing. If there isn’t car demand they can put those batteries into power walls and utility power packs or Semis. GM is just focused on cars.

Tesla is targeting 200GWh+ of batteries in 2022 just from suppliers + their own 4680 production. But not all will go into cars.
Facebook is also censoring as misinformation this article about the effects of face masks on children published by the American Medical Association. Now the findings might be right or they might be wrong; we won't know until the experiment is reproduced. But it's bizarre and inappropriate for Facebook to "fact check" legitimate scientific research when the actual facts aren't even known yet.

Walach H, Weikl R, Prentice J, et al. Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. Published online June 30, 2021.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
You can gain the acquaintance of quite a few strangers by joining groups.

My town has a general discussion Facebook page. I don't know that any of the people would recognize me on the street, but there are quite a few names I recognize now. This has been really handy since I didn't grow up here, and in small town America that often means people just won't get to know you because you "don't belong".

Also my wife is involved in several interest based groups. Mainly related to sewing and thrifting and such.

I don't know that it makes the world a better place, but it certainly can expose you to people you wouldn't otherwise ever have interacted with.
It's not theirs to take.

And anyhow, the GDR dissolved over 30 years ago, I should think their economic policies died with them.
Yup, I'm currently experimenting with using an AWS bucket alongside [CloudMounter](https://cloudmounter.net) to create an Archive disk for things I don't really need day-to-day, but would like to hang onto.

I'm currently not backing that data up, though. It's not critical, and the chances of AWS losing it are low enough that I'm not too worried. The biggest risk would be myself accidentally deleting it.

One thing I have decided for sure, though, is that archiving lots of small files is awful. Much better to wrap them up in a tarfile, uncompressed.