skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree the network effects expose everyone to the power law distribution of outcomes, and awareness of that is and will continue to be jarring, you can mitigate those effects with privacy and distance. The problem isn't that people are rich or poor, it's that we have addictive technologies that prevent you from avoiding them.

His premise requires this network cohesion and continuity stays the same or increases, where I think we're at the threshold of social re-balkanization, where the weak links in networks (social media, class, etc) simply collapse on their own weight into traditional strong sub-networks based on family, region, ideology, religion, ethnicity, etc. Whether you see that as reactionary against inevitable progress of history, or hope for survival, it's the counter-bet to what he's predicting. I disagree that a new equillibrium he predicts will be a cohesive cultural homogenization mediated by network technologies. Like some globalized China or Singapore.

I think the social polarization we're seeing now is an example of weak-link network collapse in very fast motion, and an example is social-credit/vaccine passports, where you are going to see the resurgence of subcultures to the point of internecine civil conflict over them and measures like them. I would make a bigger bet on all-against-all conflict than what he in-effect describes as an efficient, China style, dominating, technologically empowered planned elite.

As someone who has spent a lifetime travelling in various subcultures, there will always been an underground, they will always be the future, they always prevail because that is where all non-linear growth comes from. The political middle and the comfortable have desire and symbolic comforts, but they do not have necessity and that's what makes me willing to always bet big against beliefs in a managed future.

The whole thing is predicated on ideas like, "Don't worry, everything will be provided for you, except dignity, but soon everyone will have forgotten what that was anyway. It was the only thing standing in the way." When I hear sentiments that map to that, the only meaningful question to me is how to get short.
I agree with GP here, it's much better to simply commit to transparent and candid communication, without forcing people into some preset paradigm that may not fit at all with their communication style. If a pre-requisite for NVC communication is trust and the application of hanlon's razor in any case, I don't see how adding it to the equation improves upon just letting people hash it out in the way that jives best with their personalities.

Even calling it "non-violent communication" implies that more direct styles of communication are "violent", and veers towards manipulative exclusion of your peers.

The reason NVC is "a hard skill to cultivate" is because it's an unnatural method designed to suppress candor and transparency in favor of feel-good vibes, the interpersonal equivalent of corporate "synergy".
That wouldn't work because n-th digit differing from 1st digit of n-th number doesn't guarantee that the new number isn't accounted for already.
You really nailed it here. We need the freedom to disagree.

Federal power leaves no room for disagreement. At a state level, people have the freedom to move to another state.
You're referring to the armies of lobbyists and SUPER PACs owned by the wealthy, those militant organizations suppressing candidates who dare to challenge the status quo?
Git, while better now, it still allows people who are just familiar to shoot themselves in the foot.
> He told the CEO that he had a solution for issues like that, which resulted in several meetings with executives who gave him verbal assurances that they were going to acquire his app.

Another great example of the lawyer's mantra: get it in handwriting!
I'm still disappointed that Flattr never took off
The OSS dev literally wants to avail themselves of public infrastructure and money, while paying nothing back in. That's all this is.

All you did there was state the basic tenet of capitalist wage labour, except no taxes.
Absolute anarchism is the base state of governance. All regulating and deregulating evolves out of anarchy. Why should crypto break that cycle?
> Anyone posing as a janitor could just plug into a switch.

That's a bit of a red herring argument, because if you don't have adequate physical security, you're pretty much sunk in terms of network security anyway. If someone can pretend to be a janitor and have access to a switch that will accept any device plugged into it, you have much larger issues.
True, but in this particular context the IPs would be unique, as Facebook has been IPv6-native for many years.
That's the heart of GP's critique. People are masking abusive and manipulative statements with the language of NVC. Here's a mild example: "Altcongnito, when I see you leave work and there are still tickets in the queue, I feel disappointed, because I need us to work as a team. Would you be willing to work late until we get through them?" What people rightly feel is a disconnect between the language of NVC and the spirit of NVC in these situations.
This is just apologism for blatant and inexcusable censorship.

"Misinformation" is the new code word for wrong-think. It's none of their business what "incorrect" information people may or may not choose to consume. It's the people that decide.

Saying that the Earth is not flat, or that the Earth revolves around the Sun used to considered "misinformation" too.

Nothing just snaps into existence with full consensus of everyone. They start as "misinformation" by people who are ahead of the curve, and slowly gain mainstream attention and acceptance (e.g. "Lab leak theory" used to be "misinformation and disinformation" and people got suspended for mentioning it ... now the loudspeakers talk about it too).
Latency always goes up with technology.

Think of streaming or video on demand services where its now up to five seconds to change.
I am living in Groningen center now for 10 years ( grew up in Haren ), your source is from 2015 and as far as I know, is not an incident as part of a broader problem of drug pushers to school going children.

What should I google to find the 'far more' ?

If I google 'drugs school groningen', I come up empty.

If I google 'dealer school groningen', I come up with one article from 2017, minor incident, and best of all : that was my school.

So were can I find far more?
The story in the article about not knowing how to conclude a conversation reminds me of a tip my brother-in-law gave me. He is a teacher, though a bit introverted, and he said he had problems wrapping up conversations during parent-teacher meetings. Some people just couldn't take a hint.
Then he found that by saying, "Ok!" , while simultaneously slapping his palms on his lap (as if about to get up) would jolt everyone into wrap-up mode. I've tried this, and it mostly works. People respond to nonverbal communication (which is apparently more effective than verbal) quite well.
I used to read dystopian cyberpunk and think "lol that's stupid, no way will it get that far" and it's increasingly more often that I see stuff from dystipian fiction creep it's way into our lives lol
Windows remote desktop works fine on a VPN, unless network speed is low or the VPN itself is flaky. Of course it might be possible to avoid it entirely, with few internal servers accessed from the VPN through SSH and other reasonable protocols and few cloud services accessed through specific outbound firewall exceptions. Ideally, users on the VPN should access what users on the actual office LAN can access, in the same way.
To fill in some details:

Two real numbers are different if in the same place they have different digits. [1] So the idea is to take your infinite, hypothetical list of all real numbers A[] and make a new real number X, where for all i, there's some digit where A[i] and X differ. Easiest way is to make X differ from A[i] at digit i.

[1] There's a subtlety here about repeating nines at the end of a number, but it is inessential.
There's an option to create own company.

There's an option to work as freelancer.

Intermediate option is to work in a smaller company where the distance between the entry level employee and the CEO is much smaller, so the changes of being heard are much higher.

There is an option to work in non-commercial organization, which does not have a goal to make profits, so there are more reasons to listen to the employees.

But you can't have your cake and eat it. I. e. pick a company which pays the best because it works efficiently and uses the employees to their best abilities and at the same time works inefficiently because it listens to incompetent employees.
That's future funding for the Starship program, no? It's also being contested by the losers, but I doubt that SpaceX will lose the contract.
> I think it makes people feel good to be cracking down on something versus accepting peoples' inherent freedom to do what they want with their own bodies

The problem of course is that society foots the bill for people's drug choices in the form of welfare, healthcare, policing, rehabilitation, or etc, and beyond that there's the opportunity cost--many drug users could be otherwise productive members of society, both economically and "morally" e.g., they could participate in community service, local politics, etc. And with respect to the subset of drugs that are addictive, it's also not an individual's choice.

So the moral framing of "bad people just trying to oppress the harmless free choices of others" is not very accurate. But yes, I think we agree that there must be a way to minimize the problem beyond what we've achieved with stricter drug control policies.
Depends on the country. A blockade for some countries would be basically death due to food imports being absolutely necessary. So they would probably start with lobbing nukes at the blockade which would likely escalate to nukes getting dropped on cities. If China for instance couldn't beat the US Navy and the Navy started blockading, a nuclear response on a carrier group starts looking attractive.

A country like US that can (for now) basically feed itself might have different lose conditions, though an effective blockade on a country like the US seems like it would require most of the world refusing to trade in any case.

There is also the egos of the various leaders at play. All it takes for example is a US president that decides he wont be the one who lost WW3 and decides that the other side will blink and let him/her get away with a first strike. For countries with unstable leadership this might even work! If you can take out for example Putin right off the bat, would whoever is next in charge want to get revenge for him if the Americans/Chinese/whoever reach out to the successor and offer them a sweetheart deal? after all accepting the deal means the world wont end....
It would be interesting to know the geographic distribution of those millennials. Living paycheck to paycheck when earning $105k in Oklahoma seems irresponsible. In SF, depending on your situation, that may not be so unreasonable.

Moreover, how does that compare to other people (i.e. non-millennials) who make over $100k? The average (not median) savings rate in the US is pathetic - something like 10%. And that's obviously skewed by high-earners and FI/RE types. So 40% of millennials living below their means might actually be quite good in comparison.
How on earth did FB survive before everyone had a tracking device in their pocket?

Oh right. They didn't even have an ad platform before 2008. Just bucketloads of VC money.
I got that, but I think either the state-provided coke is so easy to get that you might as well just call it "OTC", or else it is so difficult to get that you will have an illegal market anyway. Unless I'm misunderstanding something.

edit: Specifically, I'm not sure if combining the sale of drugs and the drug cessation treatment is the way to go. We don't do that with alcohol for example. Don't you think that most of what you want to achieve can be done by separating the two, where indeed drug cessation treatment is provided as part of the normal medical care system (but sale isn't)? Except (sorry if I put words in your mouth, consider it a general observation) you will have to let go of the idea that you must at all costs make those people who are wilfully and with informed consent using drugs stop using drugs.
There were Harkonnen before them, based on the slavery oppression excerciesd, they are more relevant for this discussion...
I’ve seen applications go down hundreds of times from pulling entire tables locally to compute on them. I’ve seen maybe once where an application grew so successful that scaling the database became an extremely challenging topic.

And even in that case, I/O and contention were inevitably the problems. Not CPU.

I’ve similarly heard myths that you should be judicious when writing indexes because they can affect insertion performance. I’ve again seen hundreds of cases where under-indexing killed performance and zero where over-indexing caused problems.

99.9% of the time, you’re not the crazy special case. And if somehow you are, the solutions required are going to be nuanced and involve a ton of specific measurement. It’s widely unlikely you’ll accidentally avoid these problems through something like this.
Im not OP. I’m building a searchable library of DNA similar to genbank. I do need to store text and images but not in a blog way
No expert, and yes I agree it might be a sharp practice if they substantially lead him to believe they would deal with him, but is this not the purpose patents serve?

The app as described in this article at least is incredibly generic - I'd imagine the Delta board members could independently arrive at the conclusion such software features would help and also determine that there may be other options to select that fit their operational requirements better. "Role based text messaging" sounds a lot like a workplace chat app...
I recently founded an early stage startup. The only reason I can proffer is imposter syndrome.

There’s a certain nagging feeling that we’ll never be a “real startup” until we have offices in the Bay Area. And sometimes that views externalized by others. You run into a scenario where you’re talking to someone who’s excited about your tech and vision. Then you mention you’re located in suburban Florida and their enthusiasm just drops out of the floor.
Ask HN: Crowdsourcing a Map in Rural Africa
Hi HN!

I am asking for your guidance again.

The problem:
In Subsaharan Africa, maps are unreliable and/or unavailable.
Excluding city centers, there are no addresses, street names or the likes.

The context:
I was shocked by the smartphone penetration. Everyone has at least one smartphone with GPS/Camera and Whatsapp/email (Thanks India & China). The 4g/LTE service is reliable & cheap.

The idea:
With a relatively young population and a low cost of living, I can afford to pay people to crowdsource streets, homes, shops, etc...
Thus I am building an android app for that.
Taking a picture of every door you see
Mapping roads with the user GPS
Adding elements such as road condition/infrastructure

The question:
How would you advise me to build such a service?
Should I ask the user to open the app while he is moving, and taking pictures of every door he sees? Then add it to a map?
How can I generate an accurate map from hundreds of user travel histories and geo-tagged pictures?
I'm gladly receiving every piece of advice

My knowledge:
I owned mobility as a service Saas B2G company in rural Canada called Proxybus. I have worked with OSM (OpenStreetMaps), and I'm a fairly skilled full-stack developer.
The vaccine manufacturers are also some of the biggest advertisers in media. Does anyone really believe the media companies are going to report anything that paints Pfizer in a negative light?
NASA is the largest single customer of SpaceX but does not make up the lion's share of SpaceX launches.
The truth behind the Amazon mystery seeds
Localization could be important too, for broader adoption - not just for currency display but (most importantly) the kinds of investments available and tax rates vary a lot. A minor thing is that the 'default' values for % return and inflation are also different in different places
Exactly. All those other sites voluntarily send your data to Facebook.

Edit: although they do track your physical location in real time through the app. That's more direct spying.
Amazing soundtrack, thanks a lot!
This is fantastic work. I had picked up The Body Electric over a decade ago, and maintain a strong interest in these ideas, though I currently work in a different field (synthetic biology). I hope to contribute in the future.
> maybe hire talent

Are most of the bay area developers bay area natives? I was under the impression they were mostly immigrants under H1B contracts that could live anywhere in the US.
256 = 16 * 16

255 = 256 - 1 = 16 * 16 - 1 = 15 * 17
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I used to really overthink making a phone call. To the point that I'd avoid it if there was any way I could. Professionally though, I couldn't avoid making them, and so I moved into a very strange cycle of rehearsing everything I'd say. Not the points I wanted to make, literally running through permutations of actual conversation that might happen. This would consume huge amounts of time and effort.

Two things came of that: firstly, the conversations almost never went as I'd planned. All my effort was for nought. Secondly, it dawned on me one day that when someone called me, even when it was an unknown number, I'd take the call within a few rings and it would generally go perfectly well. I obviously didn't get several hours of sweating over permutations before I picked it up, I just picked it up.

I slowly pushed myself over to the point that I would plan the outcomes I wanted from a call but leave the detail alone. Each call became a sort of game where I raised my points and tried to get my outcomes. I got quite good at that to the point that I didn't need to pre-plan my outcomes - I obviously already knew them (since I was writing them down) and so I went on to rely on just having a normal conversation.

The final lesson I picked up on this journey, primarily from talking to other (usually more senior) people was that if the person I was talking to opened up in a friendly way and put me at ease the conversation was easier. And so I started trying that. Instead of my assuming that I was unimportant, or a distraction from someone's day and trying to be really terse out of what I considered respect for their time, I just eased back. Asked how their day was going. Asked about something I knew that was going on with them. Asked about something we shared organisationally, etc. When I took the time to be more human with them, and less mechanical and efficient, the calls always went well. Even when it wasn't something we shared an outcome over.

And so I got to the point where (during the pandemic) I talk to people all day on Zoom calls and don't give a second thought to it.

I suppose my point is that from a similar starting point I was able to break the negative thinking cycles that were causing my anxiety around calls, so hopefully others can too.
Its simple. Monorepos allows(does not force, nor guarantee) you to make bigger atomic changes to many projects at once.

You can update a library and all the downstream projects in a single commit. There's no race condition or caching problem of pulling an update without pulling/seeing the dependency update. You don't need to wait for dependency artifacts to build and propogate.

You can create a turn key build script that will build the world from source. You can skip any local artifact storage like Artifactory. You don't need to pull multiple repos in a serial fashion, no dependent pulls. You can structure your codebase such that if you pull one commit it can have no other dependencies.

The draw back is Git happens to not make it easy to pull just one folder. Other things like Perforce make it trivial.
I’m sorry but if you get the same door wrong more than once, it’s your fault
It's interesting that economic power is not perceived as hierarchical by the author. Or rather it seems like an ideological view.

Also:

> The rich get really rich, and the poor get poorer by comparison. Unfortunately, this has always been true. It is not an artifact of modern economics.

This is not true as far as I know. There have been times in recent history between the early ~1900 and ~1970 where the income gap decreased and worker protection increased. It was a time of stronger worker movements, unions, emancipation and policy aimed at the larger demographics of the public. The 70's mark a shift towards neo-liberal ideology in the western world.

The article is riddled with dystopian suggestions. There are some things I can agree with. For example I very much agree with the importance of workplace transparency. And there is also an underlying tone of empathy with the unfortunate, but it comes off as patronizing.

I think the biggest fallacy is to think that our societies are becoming more meritocratic almost by default (as assessed in the article). Ignoring whether that is a good thing or not, I doubt this is true at all or if it even can be measured objectively.
Time and effort?
Many, if not most stations switched broadcast frequency during the transition from analog to digital.
That doesn't address the nature vs. nurture question.

Assume for a minute we all agree that there are observable iq differences and observable differences in likelyhood one ventures into computer science.

Then what? You've claimed that this is due to biolgical factors not social ones. Prove it.
Used to have fun circuit bending with a couple of these back in the mid-90s. A friend of mine had a college radio show and they were on a fundraising drive and I came on and threatened to continue to "torture" the poor machine on air until people donated. I don't recall how much $$ we made.
I'm not trying to be flippant, although it may come off that way: why does any of this matter?
Smalltalk first appeared in 1972, and was a stable commercial product by 1980.

Java didn't hit the market until over a decade and a half later.

If you can't build adoption with a 15+ year head start, then it's not the next generation's fault. It just wasn't going to happen.
You're basically describing Apple's latest privacy ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4qPUSG17Y
You shouldn't rank negativity as more degrading than funding war and genocide
For what it's worth, Isaac Asimov's Foundation series was written this way with the Foundation or the concept of it being an "organization" spanning hundreds of years. It might provide some useful ways to handle this though in general I think his solution was "jump forward 20yrs and introduce a new character while brining up the former's legacy".