skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but the argument in the comment I was responding to was “look at all this long-form produced spoken content, clubhouse can tap that”. I don't experience much (any) spontaneous short form spoken content on the internet. The interactive element is interesting if that can somehow become relevant.
Here you go: https://mapping.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/statistics-and-insights...

Pretty much the same as the rest of Dorset and southwest England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfp2O9ADwGk
>"I believe the human needs for growth and play are foundational to a happy society, and in modern society, those needs go massively unmet, and the working class is being squeezed and squeezed like never before (not to mention the workers in the global south who I would argue are exploited to an even greater extent [3])."

I believe the fundamental problem we are facing is one of over-correction with constant meddling. We simply are making more "humans" than we know what to do with or that the market can bear. Simplistically I'd say this devalues the value of our labour way more than we're comfortable occurring, but at the same time we're too uncomfortable to say that maybe we shouldn't be allowing our population to grow unchecked like this.

It's a multi-generational ponzi scheme that we are running in order to make this all work, and we're starting to see the gaps form. What we see makes us uncomfortable, but we can't describe why or form a concrete opinion against it. And goodness we definitely can't tell people that it's not their fundamental right to impose obligations on the rest of us to take care of the poor new souls they bring into this world without thinking it through.
The focus of those seeking to help kids is on completely the wrong things. The solution doesn't really lie in optimising the coaching exam system - sure it can be improved but the leverage of outcome is very low - but rather in the larger economy. We need more businesses, better regulation, sleeker government and policing system. This would do more to ease the pressure on kids and families than any regulation on the coaching industry would.
What keyboard is that? Ps love the susuwatari keys
Great episode and I never thought I'd hear myself say this but the memes in the article are top notch.
It's not exactly like he's gone 2 decades without money. He just relies on other people who have money to give him things.
Nordic countries are kinda special in this regard. Historically, you were very unlikely to survive in northern climate on your own. Being part of community was necessary prerequisite for survival.

I have been on couple trips to northern Norway/Sweden. People there did not even have locks in their houses, it wasn't even necessary. I wonder if it changed now with advent of migrations from eastern Europe and Middle East.
That was the December 2020 question.

In July 2021, supply far exceeds demand
One thing I really like about websites like that (and HN for example) is that zooming just works. If you zoom, you're left with what looks like a modern blog. I have HN on 125% zoom all the time and I often forget about it. The website also perfectly supports bookmarklets to change the CSS. This is empowering the user to make the website how they want. I'd prefer that over what a designer thought would be the best for me.
I mean, it’s not hard to understand. Give everyone a bunch of money and most of them will fix a bunch of problems in their life, feel less stressed, and be more optimistic.

On top of the federal stimulus, this housing bubble has a lot of people thinking “okay I can retire off the sale of my home now,” though I doubt they’re thinking through where they’ll live after that sale, nor how inflation may devalue what seems today like a vast accumulation of wealth on paper.

The current situation makes me (a) more convinced that policies like a negative income tax are a superior safety net to the bureaucratic means tested programs we use today, and (b) more concerned that zero interest rate policy and the incredible distortions in the financial markets are going to end very badly.
I agree it was an odd decision at the time. Grail is very much built on Illumina’s platform and I don’t see them building anything otherwise. If Galleri is successful, Grail will become Illumina’s biggest customer and the two could become completely interdependent.

In the medium term, I think there’s an opportunity for a company to build ctDNA screening on a different sequencing platform. That could present unique advantages against Grail which is very much tied to using Illumina.
Not necessarily. Do we know every single number in the 3.8B is unique? I’ve seen zero proof of that, but maybe I missed it.
I want it, but not bad enough to live with the various inconveniences.
Assuming that I did not misunderstand you, while fight or flee does not exist in plants in the same sense as animals they do react by producing chemicals/sap etc. that works as a defense. So it's more 'fight', but a chemical warfare at that.
> No reasonable person in rudimentary touch with reality can have elevated "anticipated life satisfaction" in this context.

This is a perfect example of the internet cynicism I was referring to. There's a general vibe on sites like Reddit and HN that the average people are wrong and they shouldn't be happy because everything is actually terrible and they just haven't figured it out yet.

Can we stop acting like these people are wrong or stupid and just accept that maybe people really are doing well?
> Supporting the odd philosopher poet is the exact function of society, in my opinion.

Have you considered that society should also be the natural predator of the odd philosopher poet so that their numbers do not become problematic for their environment?
> Would this person have any power if they weren't rich? A lot of times the answer is no.

In my experience, the answer is no like a solid 90-99% of the time. At least in America, the wealthy buy their kids into elite high schools, which feed into elite colleges, which feed into jobs at elite, increasingly monolithic institutions/corporations.

Junior gets to fail again and again until they succeed, and then the return on capital further institutionalizes their family's power.

It's just aristocracy, but with more steps.
Many crowdfunding sites also have similar language, as most claims of accredited investor status do not actually require you to prove that status. If Joe Sixpack buys in, and made a false claim, that would be on him/her.

Some of the previous requirements around accreditor investor status have changed though

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/09/18/sec-expands-defin...

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-191
I'm Greek and the same thing you descrie happens in Greece also. People dig to lay the foundations of their new house and find ancient ruins or artifacts. They whistle innocently and pay the engineer to cover them up and say nothing because they know that if they call the authorities it will take a decade before building work can proceed because this kind of thing is nobody's priority and the red tape is like the infinite tapes of a UTM. The total value of archaeological treasures buried under the foundations of summer houses and condos must dwarf everything displayed in museums around the world.

As to Istanbul - the City has stood there for two and a half thousand years. If you dig under the Byzantine ruins, you'll find even more ancient ruins, thousands of years of layers of ancient ruins, one on top of the other like a mille-feuille. Who's going to excavate all that? Especially when there's, you know, people living on top.

And the same goes for all the large cities that have been inhabited since antiquity all around the world. Think Cairo, Alexandria, Rome, Naples, Plovdiv, Vukovar, Belgrade, Valencia, Damascus, Baghdad, Beijing, Nanjing, Kashgar, Delhi... phew. Here's more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_in...

So it's got nothing to do with "Osmanic heritage" or nationalism. It's just not a problem that can easily be solved.
See my reply to sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27949879
Or cancer! Oh oops
And your point is??? AGILE is meant to change the way companies work
Someone with the bio "Promoting an Ethereum-based world" probably shouldn't be tossing around too much criticism of "potential consequences" and "perverse incentives"?
I got the impression from the article that they would have to go through a social worker and explicitly apply for housing but that it's granted more or less unconditionally. I didn't look into details (actual website is down) but it doesn't seem like it's forced on people in a way that they would have to "refuse" it.
I’m not seeing much connection to North Korea here.

They have awful diplomacy, no real coalitions (besides China which is more of a complete one sided economic dependency and a constant source of trouble), a poor military track record besides perfecting sabre rattling and a single small US ship from the 1950s as their most prominent war prize, no one is trying to imitate them, they rely heavily on raw numbers over ability in a defensive posture built up over generations, etc.

I’m trying to think of where the analogies begin…
They're also impractical for larger planes — you'll only use stairs on an A320 or B737.

I've disembarked from a B777 via stairs following an emergency landing. The stairs were narrower than the ones for a smaller aircraft, and much more wobbly. We were limited to 3 people at a time on them, so it was very slow.

The 777's door is also considerably higher up, about 5m vs. about 2.5m.

Size comparison: https://imgur.com/gallery/bxyI0Er
My source is https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-men-often-die-earlie...

What is yours?
I disagree. Banning tuition is a very stupid move. All they did was to deprive poorer kids from accessing these facilities. The families of kids with resources are going to find a way to subvert the ban anyway.
Nobody is going to go on an Internet forum to proclaim how great their life is.
I can certainly agree that some of those descriptions don't fully encompass what you're getting. Some of your points are more picking at the authors choice of simplifying language, rather than the effort to simplify the names themselves.

Some of the names are completely uninformative though -- cognito for example doesn't convey anything about oauth. Neptune doesn't make me think graph database. Kinesis doesn't make me think distributed log. Redshift doesn't make me think analytics database.

I think my personal issue with aws naming is that they've run out of three letter acronyms. So I have to remember is EKS the kubernetes service, or the hosted kafka service?
Does it mean that tomatoes feel pain?

Electrical signals in response to an attack that trigger a defensive response look a lot like pain.
Also, the tech industry isn't being smashed. Alibaba still reported strong revenue growth in their first quarterly report this year: https://alibabagroup.com/en/ir/presentations/pre210513.pdf Having to pay an anti-monopoly fine put them into the red for that one quarter, but aggregated over four quarters they still had 2% YoY profit growth.

The "tech crackdown" is actually a combination of crackdowns against various business practices that just happen to be common in the tech industry, but aren't necessary for it to function. (E.g. marketplaces don't need to require sellers to exclusively sell on their platform, it just seemed like a good way to hamper the competition until it turned out that this kind of anti-competitive strategy might be punished with a fine.)
I think you're incorrect/dated about what you consider to be the modern medium for engagement with "long-form high-word-count content."

Beyond engaging with blog posts, or podcasts, or Twitch-style livestreams, the real #1 way people are consuming long-form content these days, is serialized — i.e. as "tweetstorms" or their AV equivalent in Instagram/TikTok. Pre-prepared, granularized "bites" of a long-form piece, that are pushed out one-at-a-time — and engaged with one-at-a-time between other things, as time permits, if you're consuming them "live" — but which also permit/encourage all-at-once consumption if you find them after-the-fact.

There is a reason people use Twitter for blogging, rather than "just having a blog." And that reason is that readers are able to concurrently engage with several ongoing text threads at once, if presented serialized in this manner, in a way that they would find harder to, if presented long-form, or impossible, if presented in a higher-engagement medium like voice or video.

And when readers are able to concurrently engage with several ongoing threads at once, they become willing to consume threads that, in a "consume all-at-once" medium, would never be able to "win" their full attention. Authors can settle for being the thing everyone is scheduling into their #2 or #3 or #5 attention-slot, rather than their #1 attention-slot, and still get engagement based on that.
About critics taking a piss about the model city:

> The second problem is that so often the criticisms are purely aesthetic and have little underlying understanding of what’s going on beneath the surface.

To contrast to Charles’ views on why existing cities are bad:

> Birmingham’s post-industrial building boom had left the city a “monstrous concrete maze”, Charles once declared, while the city’s new Brutalist library - since demolished - looked “like a place where books are incinerated, not kept”.

Both sides seem pretty similarly superficial and vacuous to me.
I don't get it - the Eastern Tailed blue butterfly looks like the "dead" butterfly but it's not dead. This invalidates the authors argument completely.
And… immediately downvoted for sharing direct evidence that contradicts the narrative here.

The reason field guides show butterflies this way is because that’s how you usually see them. Butterflies hold their wings up most of the time, not flat as the author suggests.

So when illustrated in 2D you see the wings looking “dead”.

Or you know… all the scientists and naturalists are just wrong and this artist is right.

Edit: The reason this article is troublesome is because it’s another case of spreading misinformation.

If I were going to post a long article about butterfly physiology (which is basically what this purports to be) I would first do research. I’d take the hypotheses “butterflies are illustrated wrong” and see where the current data stands. If I found the data wanting, I’d at least couch the argument along the lines of “the current data is u unconvincing, so here’s my theory”

Instead the author cherry picked images that support her narrative, and failed to do any research on the subject, going so far as to say “In field guides and other butterfly reference materials, one frequently sees images of such pinned butterflies because, I presume, it is easy to photograph a dead butterfly” when actually the images have been drawn from live butterflies.

She then states this whole thing as fact rather than what it is, her conjecture (which when put to scrutiny can be shown false)

Now this is a simple article about butterflies, so isn’t really a big deal. The problem lies when this same behavior and thinking deals with subjects that are especially important like climate change, vaccines, etc. This is where misinformation starts. In this case Facebook, Twitter, etc could amplify “butterflies are illustrated wrong” just like they amplify “vaccines are bad” and “climate change isn’t real”.
I once went to talk to a group of homeless guys. That's exactly what they told me as the reason.

They were offered proper apartments, but they refused it because it came with a condition: no alcohol allowed.
Same in Northern Canada. When buying a house there usually at the end of the financial part of the transfer of a house you get the keys. The previous owners rather sheepishly admitted they didn't have them. Lawyer pipes up 'then we'll have to change the locks'. Owners say that's going to be a lot of work because the doors never had any locks in the first place. We kept it like that.
Do you not think the Eastern Tailed blue butterfly looks like the "dead" ones?
You can both acknowledge economic bubbles and have life satisfaction. It's as simple as not tying your own happiness onto gargantuan systems well outside your individual control.

I bristle when others captured by internet outrage loops suggest that I too must share their outrage or I'm unreasonable, out of touch, etc. Did you recognize that you have become a recruiter for social media algorithms?
If I remember right, the thing that stopped people in their tracks was patents, not necessarily technology.
There was a series of documentaries made about a tomato strain that developed more active measures against attacks [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoe...
What the hell. You need to have assets exceeding 1M to invest $1000?

I don’t need that to buy any other stock, why would I need it here?

Hell, how does it even apply to people not living in the US in the first place.
Significant cognitive deficit for people who had Covid
5-year survival rates have improved — for some cancers — in adolescents and young adults
https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/5-year-survival-rates-have-impr...
Zepp smartwatch with blood pressure measurement based on RISC-V AI processor
The only morally sound answer to that question is "anything or nothing" because any other choice implies that you have to justify why one organism is more worthy of life than another. Am I wrong or just not fun at parties? :D
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, obviously you are right.

Now, the political problem reflects us as people. If people wanted the problem solved, politicians would find a way to solve it for the sake of their own interest.

The way I understand it is that most people are really selfish in that they only care about themselves and maybe family and friends.

And it doesn't get any better because people are more and more focusing on themselves and getting cut off from community.
Seems normal. I remember signing up for some crowdfunding site about 10 years back, and just checking a box to confirm my accredited status. (I didn't qualify as accredited back then.)
Look: a “social Darwinist”! I should get a spotter's guide.

If society preys on philosopher poets, we don't get philosophy or poetry, our ethics never develops, and the fundamental principles of society don't improve, limiting how much technological progress can raise the standard of living. I personally call that a bad outcome.
I'm curious how they deal with things like images you want to download, edit, put into documents, upload/download to the web, etc. Perhaps it's all based on the notion you'll use a web browser for all of that.
Here's a nice video with a little more detail on the difference between intensional/extensional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNG53SA4n48
Cancer is many things rather than one, and some of those things have been solved.
I’m going to make a prediction/wild guess as to what the future will look like. Edit: I do want to emphasize the “wild guess” aspect of this!

Since capitalism is now international, nation states are losing the ability to regulate it. This would lead to collapse though, eventually, and the international capitalist class is recognizing that. Recently the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development proposed a minimum corporate tax of 15%. I foresee that most law and regulations governing the business and financial world will be decided by international NGOs and banking organizations, not nation states.

However those organizations have no real interest in the well being of the working class, so I would predict that inequality will continue to increase and capitalism will become more and more authoritarian and the capitalist class will become more and more isolated from the workers, to the point that they will become unaware of the suffering of the mass of the people. Small businesses of any kind will be gone; only large institutions will survive and diverse competition will be replaced by a series of necrotic monopolies.

At some point in the future this will either become unbearable and a global revolution will occur, leading to some unified government, maybe democratic, maybe not, or the corporate class will have good enough tools of control that a grinding dismal stability will be achieved.
"If Joe Sixpack buys in, and made a false claim, that would be on him/her."

You would think that would be the way that it is, but is most assuredly is not.
> Is there an argument for not having Amazon as an employer in these towns?

> Why aren't they providing this alternative?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...

Why are you opposed to this critique? You can offer critique without needing to provide alternatives. From your questions it sounds like you yourself are falling victim to the 'just world fallacy'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

If you have/had kids, would you be excited to hear the following story from them about their day? Probably not, yet this is exactly what's happened in marginalized communities.

From the article:

""A dozen students sat clustered at work tables inside an air-conditioned classroom, which was designed to emulate the inside of an Amazon facility. On one wall, Amazon’s giant logo grinned across a yellow and green banner. The words “CUSTOMER OBSESSION” and “DELIVER RESULTS” were painted against a corporate-style yellow backdrop. On a whiteboard, a teacher had written the words “Logistics Final Project,” and the lesson of the day was on Amazon’s “14 Leadership Principles.” Each teenager wore a company golf shirt emblazoned with the Amazon logo.

Students and staff members expressed pride in being associated with the company. Amazon partnered with the school as part of its five-year anniversary in the Inland Empire, donating $50,000 to start the pilot program, the giant sweepstakes-style Amazon check displayed prominently at the classroom entrance. The students had already taken field trips to tour the nearby Amazon warehouse."

A public high-school classroom designed to resemble an Amazon facility, with students wearing Amazon logos on their clothing as they memorize Amazon’s leadership principles (which, it is worth noting, also include “Ownership” and “Think Big,” injunctions that hold merit for readers of this magazine when imagining how we might solve the problems exemplified by Amazon). Such a relationship between the company and public goods like a high school is part of what it means to consider Amazon as “the major working-class space of suburban and exurban socialization.”

The behemoth is here, producing not only profit but people, too. That entails corporate indoctrination, social estrangement, and profound alienation from one’s labor, which is particularly meaningless as one breaks one’s body to get so many goods to people’s doors."
Yeah - the author and the responses here seem to want to rewrite facts. I mean.. we've all seen butterflies haven't we? We know they look like the artists depiction of them.
"There's no coercion other than a hungry stomach."

This sounds like the classic punishment of being sent to your room without dinner, right? Removing the basic necessity of food is about as coercive as it gets. Even in civilized society we feed prisoners, give food to the hungry, etc.
I’m particularly fond of iOS’s new “selected photos only” setting, but apps really don’t support it well in general (so I chose not to use them anymore). Instagram used to support it decently well, but in a recent update they removed the “select more” button and my usage of Instagram has dropped dropped dramatically since.