skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The' sexual revolution (i.e. the big one) started in the 60s and pretty much stopped in the early 80s (you can probably guess the reason; it's usually spelled with 3 or 4 letters, depending). That's far enough ago that children born afterwards are old enough to have estranged children of their own. (For an anecdote, which is of course the singular of 'data', I have a close relative born in the late 70s who is already a grandparent).
>So according to the NYTimes

Here's the report that the NYTimes is reporting on.

https://www.conference-board.org/press/mind-the-gap-June2021

>The ultimate irony is -- this is coming from the NYTimes -

>with almost zero diversity at the executive ranks

>the authors hire on no objective measures themselve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
It's a repeat of the gilded age about 100 years ago.

Unions are dead, gig jobs get around the worker protections that took us 80 years to win. The gap between the richest and the rest is as big as it was then.

We need labor to rise up again and antitrust these robber barons
>the GTK filepicker would have to return read access to a file, rather than a filepath which a program than asks to open read-only.

xdg-desktop-portal [1] does something pretty close, and it is how Linux applications shipped as Flatpaks access your files (at least when the Flatpak sandbox is in enforcing mode). Every sandboxed program has its own mount namespace which cannot see your home folder. When you want to open a file in a sandboxed program, you select the file in an out-of-process file chooser, and the portal puts a handle to that file in the program's view of the filesystem.

[1] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/
> but we should also recognize that large social media platforms have become the de facto public square and while it is lawful for them to moderate content, it's detrimental to our society.

Strong disagree. Social media platforms are no different from any other media platform. Should a newspaper or tv station be required to host official communications from a government administration? It is absolutely vital to democracy that they should be free to avoid publishing anything that they don't want to publish for any reason whatsoever including reasons we disagree with. Otherwise, every public sphere would devolve into state-controlled media.

The same restrictions must also hold true for communications from private citizens, especially given the global trend towards oligarchy.
Personal computing won't be truly "personal" until we, the users (not $BIGCO's lead UX designer) get to decide how things look and behave on an individual level
Nope, it still sucks.
They do reveal how many fake accounts they think they have.

From Facebook's 2020 Annual Report (https://investor.fb.com/financials/sec-filings-details/defau... page 4):

> In the fourth quarter of 2020, we estimated that duplicate accounts may have represented approximately 11% of our worldwide MAUs. We believe the percentage of duplicate accounts is meaningfully higher in developing markets such as the Philippines and Vietnam, as compared to more developed markets. In the fourth quarter of 2020, we estimated that false accounts may have represented approximately 5% of our worldwide MAUs. Our estimation of false accounts can vary as a result of episodic spikes in the creation of such accounts, which we have seen originate more frequently in specific countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam. From time to time, we disable certain user accounts, make product changes, or take other actions to reduce the number of duplicate or false accounts among our users, which may also reduce our DAU and MAU estimates in a particular period. We intend to disclose our estimates of the number of duplicate andfalse accounts among our MAUs on an annual basis.
Levin’s papers are wonderful.

I got sucked into morphogenesis last year and wrote an entire simulator.

I was able to simulate a flatworm splitting its head: the greatest day of my year. (Granted, it was a very boring locked-down year...)

The very simplistic implementation behind the simulator is here:
http://cycell2d.com/field.html

Anyway, Levin is very inspiring and interesting.
I keep mentioning this video because it's just so good, but Roger Scruton argued that the world has turned selfish and with it we've lost beauty, which in turns means life has lost its meaning. It's a powerful, profound view and one that I can't shake off my head ever since watching it.

> Our language, our music and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centered, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives.
> One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is “me.”
> My profits, my desires, my pleasures.
> And art has nothing to say in response to this except, “Yeah, go for it!”
> I think we are losing beauty and with it there is the danger that we will lose the meaning of life.

https://vimeo.com/128428182

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/roger-scruton-w...
Yeah it does seem like many of the "no contact" people are themselves childless. I doubt this is a coincidence.
"Protected" vs "unprotected" speech: The distinction itself is an abomination, papering over a more subjective reality.
Toyota’s self-driving unit buys US mapping startup in software push
Maybe someone can correct me, but I don’t recall ever seeing a website fundamentally change itself or evolve and grow whereas I have seen time and time again something entirely new coming out and being the thing people use instead.

If you compared Twitter today to Twitter’s first tweet, it’s the same thing. Nothing’s changed with the site itself; I can see people talk about how they ate a sandwich then and still today.
Wow you change your meaning pretty fast, yes if you trow your laptop away after 1 hour you are pretty safe...well if the laptop is from a secure source...like amazon ;)
"Yeah but you weren't just wrong. You were wrong by a lot!"

:)

> my point was that it's a mixed bag. While a lot of support for slavery was nominally Christian, so was a lot of opposition.

Ok, but that's not what you said. You objected, without qualification, to the notion that large mainstream christian denominations supported white supremacy. IIRC, you said such talk was "picking and choosing".

Now, if the new location of your goalposts is their true permanent home, I'm happy to report that we agree with each other!
I think that sentiment is a function of the HN startup/hustle culture, where anything less than becoming a unicorn is seen as abject failure.
It's gonna be OK guys, I'm working on reversing it - paying hundreds of euros/h to lawyers and contractors while paying myself 0
The Dark Side of Logic: The near crash of SmartLynx Estonia flight 9001
I wouldn't be suprised if the military rebelled within a few days.
It is really cool project. Thanks
you sounds like me. I think you're very normal if that helps.
Couldn't agree more - "Fresh, FAST and easy to understand"

wish everyone could this.
> But our financial constructs are so fundamental to daily life, it's hard to imagine what that would look like.

We have politicians asking if we can change the orbit of the moon because changing the system which is creating these problems somehow seems more impossible. I cannot fathom how a system created by humans cannot be changed by humans, but here we are.
“Barter” may not be the best term for it, but until the 18th/19th century (varied a lot by location), most people procured the physical goods they needed through their own family’s effort (subsistence); through in-kind payments and mutual exchange (old contracts used to specify that people would be paid in firewood, or candles…); and through favors. The switch from that model to a model of surplus and specialization, where people were paid in cash which could then be exchanged for any number of products, procured from distant places and from strangers, was indeed one of the most dramatic transformations in human history. I think we still don’t appreciate how much it shook up our old systems, and we blame things like divorce rates or child estrangement on newfangled values or bad morals when in fact they are a natural result of structural changes.
This is pretty much what Tik Tok did.

They spent $1B on influencer marketing through IG / FB.
You’re talking about dark patterns (specifically the path of least resistance pattern), when the post is about bad design.
A Model S interior is not a ~$100k interior should look like. Look at what MB, BMW, Porsche, Audi, and even Lincoln and Hyundai have. The interior feels cheap and utilitarian for the price. You do not have best in class speakers, MB and BMW have some crazy speaker offerings.

The service is baked into the premium price you pay. Yes BMW and MB will come get your car and leave you a loaner.

Nissan is in a death spiral and hasn't really done much to the leaf in 10 years.

A don’t wan a stupid screen in my car to play videos games or watch TV. I already have a TV, iPad, laptop, or phone. It’s dangerous. I want a center screen above my steering wheel, steering controls that do a single function like cruise or music changes, or HUD so I can keep my eyes straight.

Tesla's do not have changing stations everywhere and I wouldn't be able to charge it at my condo in the panhandle of Florida or the way there. I would have to buy a room at 5 or 6 hotels in the area just to use a charger that's better than a standard 120v outlet.

Edit: I see they added one public supercharger that wouldn't be more than 45 minutes out of the way on my vacation route.
I have a specific memory of visiting home in my early 20s and going to get groceries with my mom. In the checkout line was another mother with her grown son, but he had some kind of developmental disability and clearly still relied on her. My mom made some comment about how that would be nice which always cracked me up. She didn't just want me to settle down close to her but wanted some sort of eternal-child she could core for forever. That said she was an ok mom, just had kids in her late teenage years and never developed a strong identity outside of being a parent.
> Self signed certs on an internal network are more secure than CA signed cert on a cloud.

Not if your threat model is someone who already has access to the local network (which has no one managing it) snooping on traffic.
Since this comment got some attention, my source for this was
[0] Ranney, Wayne. “How Rivers Carve Canyons.” Carving Grand Canyon - Evidence, Theories, and Mystery, 2nd ed., Grand Canyon Association, 2012.
I don't know about that. I have the book here in front of me (Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit), and it seems like the whole thing can be summarized as:

Cue - Routine - Reward

With an additional 300 pages of weak, mostly theory-driven anecdotes about how corporations apply this at scale.

I'd be really interested to know how you applied this to your personal life.
The worst part for me is when my fellow lambs chastise me for trying to take a stand, even just personally.
Instagram copying Snapchat's Stories is the canonical example of this working, which makes sense that Twitter tried Stories as well.
Do you think Germany "nationalizing" YouTube is less extreme than this ruling?
I’m not going to bother arguing about it, but suffice to say I don’t share your sunny optimism vis-a-vis nuclear holocaust.
"I" am inbetween the s's, so from my perspective, the distance is at most half a mile to an S.
The norming of bigotry should be recognized and acted against when it occurs. When that norming is done through (shitty) humor, it should be pointed out as such. Did you have a point to make?
Yeah, but it’s still my property and you can’t make me serve a beer I don’t like.
Already did! :) Yeah, way past my 20's, which is all the more reason to make sure I keep in touch. They're both getting up there in age (although admittedly my dad is probably in better shape than me...)

Sorry for your loss. I'm at the age where I've lost a few of my good friends now, and it never feels like you had enough time.
What I did on my M1 was:

1. Grab a pre-release of Nix 2.4 from the `binaryTarball.aarch64-darwin` job on Hydra: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nix/master#tabs-jobs

2. Run the installer with: ./install --daemon --no-channel-add

3. Edit `/etc/nix/nix.conf` to include the line: experimental-features = nix-command flakes ca-references

4. Restart the daemon with: sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.nix-daemon

5. Done!

At this point you have a Nix installation, without any legacy channels, which uses aarch64-darwin by default. If you have Rosetta2 installed, Nix will automatically detect it and set `extra-platforms = x86_64-darwin` so you can seamlessly use / build software for other architectures. If you want to specifically get an Intel version of something in nixpkgs, you have to explicitly state it like: `nixpkgs#legacyPackages.x86_64-darwin.foo`

I found Alexander Bantyev's blog post, "Practical Nix Flakes" (https://serokell.io/blog/practical-nix-flakes) especially helpful in figuring out how things are intended to work, followed by the unstable branch of the Nix documentation at https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/new-cli/ni..., which covers the new CLI commands.
> Or, percentiles of the sum of two Normals do not correspond to the sum of the percentiles etc.

I once had to spend a day convincing a CFO that consecutive months of ~X% increases of MRR wasn't the same as

((($MONTHS * X) +1) * MRR)

eg. two months of 10% = +20% increase, 5 months = +50%, etc.

... which is how his spreadsheet was calculating revenue projections.

How does a CFO not understand compound interest?
The real question here is the ratio of energy delivered over the life of a fresh anode as it is fully converted to aluminum oxide, to the amount of energy required to turn that same aluminum oxide back into a pure aluminum anode.
It would be difficult to pick just one. For the most part, creators need a presence on multiple platforms, which depends on the content they make, and only a few will ever be able to make a living or fortune from their content.
That's very encouraging. We should make this a law on the EU-level.
Is it theirs to force them to host content Google wishes to delete?
HN isn't really a social platform, IMHO. I'm not connecting with my friends here, I'm talking with all sorts of random people. I absolutely notice it's moderated, and I wouldn't be here if it wasn't.
I wonder once birthrates stabalise globally whether we will be back into a Malthusian economic cycle since we invest in sales and growth.
Instead of rendering it as hidden or even as an edit history, render it with an "inline diff" (using the kind of algorithm you see Wikipedia do, or GitHub within a line) as a cross-out of the old content and the next content next to it... changing a lot of text like that would be extremely noisy and obvious--to the point where it wouldn't accomplish any evil goal and would also just be generally discouraged by its nature--and yet would fully solve the vast majority of cases that we want to satisfy.
Or current events.
I recommend looking into decentralized cloud storage solutions, which are really the next generation of AWS S3-like services.

Check out storj.io
Those information requests also likely include law enforcement investigations for a wide range of activities. Plenty of crooks get caught just because they blabbed about it on social media.
One of Apple's core values is delegating very few choices to the end user. But the choices that are present are generally good.

There is such a thing as too many choices.
It's not disallowed, you can post a text submission. 'Ask HN: Ever had an interesting conversation with a stranger? Recommend it?' or something.

(The body can contain URLs, so you could still link 'this made me think about it, but for x reason didn't think it was a food submission itself'. I think the reason it doesn't really happen is probably that the only value for x that really makes sense is 'the article is broader than that and I want to discuss a more focussed point within it'?)
That's sort of my point: people make histrionic statements about freedom and chaos. Then you point out what those actually mean...
I was more thinking of applying Walmart/Amazon's mindless obsession with optimization to production to price out everyone else.

This had more to do with fish, but one of the documentaries I watched had these small scale fishers fishing with dynamite. I want to get to the point where fish farms are so efficient that the fisher can't get back his gas money.
There is no glibc for OS X, so there is no way to use Guix on macos without virtualization.
> I'm saying that there's no legal means to stop a despot from doing this

So then you agree completely with what the other person was originally saying, got it. You have no disagreement with them.

So you should not have said "No". Instead, you should have said "Yes I agree with you".

> If you want to do that we're going to need another amendment

Actually, we could simply make a law. Such as by changing our existing, and uncontroversial, common carrier laws.

> In the eyes of the law

Literally you are agreeing with the other person. You are agreeing that a despot could cause huge amounts of harm to society, by just doing everything through private companies.

Yes. Thats the problem. You have correctly identified that someone could engage in mass censorship, that is as bad as other forms of censorship, by just doing it through private companies, although this can be fixed by changing the law.

> you have no rights.

Got it. So you agree completely with the other person, that mass censorship, and lots of very bad things could be done to society, and currently it is difficult to stop all of these extremely bad things from happening. (Which could be fixed by changing the law)

I am not sure why you keep stating things, in the way that you do, when in reality, you are agreeing completely with everyone else as to what the problem is, and you are agreeing that all of these very bad things could be done to lots of people, right now.
Julia users most likely to defect to Python for data science
Many scholars have posited that a global thermonuclear war with Cold War-era stockpiles, or even with the current smaller stockpiles, may lead to human extinction. This position was bolstered when nuclear winter was first conceptualized and modelled in 1983. However, models from the past decade consider total extinction very unlikely, and suggest parts of the world would remain habitable.[25] Technically the risk may not be zero, as the climatic effects of nuclear war are uncertain and could theoretically be larger than current models suggest, just as they could theoretically be smaller than current models suggest. There could also be indirect risks, such as a societal collapse following nuclear war that can make humanity much more vulnerable to other existential threats

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust
If you start going on about "election fraud", as that poster did, I'll usually flag the post.

In this case, with my reply, I preferred to point out the obvious mischaracterization and leave addressing the mendacious falsehoods to others, but it looks like others decided to do something about it.
Oh my, that cartoon is just terrible, and fails completely to send the right message by linking the right to repair to a conspiracy theory that, no matter if true or not, diminishes its strength by an order of magnitude.
Why not talk about the incredibly linear and simple relation between closed software/hardware that eases planned obsolescence that in turn increases pollution from discarded devices, for example?
You cannot talk about evil corps taking control of the world through closed software/hardware and hope to be taken seriously without starting first with a simpler concept everyone and his cat can easily understand and sympathize with.
It's not always clear whether a particular video violates the law. If a video is in the legal gray area of, let's say, advocating violence against a particular person then should it be left online until a court specifically orders removal?
Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?
Hello HN,

There's a popular post up today - "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064

Some commenters have point out that this very well could be just an example of survivorship bias.

Did you put in 15+ hours a week for several years on a project that never went anywhere? Please add a comment about it - we'd love to hear about your experience.
* usb 2

* alarm clocks with just a big snooze button. Actually even the iphone alarm confused me every time (how do I stop it?)

* restaurants or bars that don’t have a clear indication that you have to either wait or seat yourself

* lights that have a wheel thing as the switch. You never know in which direction to turn.

* microwaves that don’t have a start button

* elevators with letter floors and a floor numbered 1 (is it the ground floor?)

* washing machines and dish washers that don’t really have a good way to tell you that you did start it and you don’t have to press the button again

* coffee machines that don’t give you a good way to know if the pod you have in there has been used already or not.
They use a single standard display with advanced optics to send light from columns of pixels in different horizontal directions. You can see here

https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/keyconcepts/quilts

the format it uses to display still images. The 8K version is 5 by 9 for 45 separate angles, giving a 3D resolution of 864x864x45(horizontal). As somebody else said, it's not really a voxel because the 3d effect is technically a trick and doesn't work on other axes.

If you think 864p seems low for a 32" display, that's because it is - I've seen these in person and they have terrible pixel density. They're still very cool, though. 3D without glasses or a headset is impressive.
It didn't though. It took up 1/8th of the screen and it wasn't sticky. If you scroll down it's off the screen. Is it really that big of a deal that you can't see an extra tweet when you are all caught up?
The law you linked just in plain language doesn't apply to websites. Not only does it not apply to websites but laws like CDA Section 230 explicitly disclaim any such regulation by explicitly providing for and protecting their right to moderate their users content.

It's disingenuous to suppose that existing laws already cover the situation when one law has nothing to say about the matter and at least one contrary law would need to be repealed. We must then look at WHY common carrier laws exist.

It is often impractical to have parallel communication infrastructure in the same way as it is impractical to have a parallel system of roads and bridges so it is important that it serve all comers in order to provide for the needs of society.

Social media is the exact opposite. They are a dime a dozen and no barrier exists to making another one. If it comes to pass you don't have much of an audience on your alternative network that is a personal problem not an issue for society to solve for you by enforcing your presence where you aren't wanted.