skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they are exercising this control on their platforms. However, considering how the new generation's source of information is the internet and that google's search engine market share is 92% [1] and YouTube market share is 90% [2]. Isn't it alarming when one entity (google) decides what information 90%+ of the public have access to?

And yes, Sky News still have their website, for now, but do you also expect them to build their own Internet when their ISP bans them, their DNS records get purged, and their hosting provider shuts down their servers?

I'm sorry but it is not utter nonsense to expect an entity that 90% of the public rely on every day to not have such control over the public's access to information.

[1] https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/search-engine-market-share
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266201/us-market-share-o...
His success at gaming the system has plenty of applicability to modern issues with coordinated cheating, purchasing papers, plagarism and so forth. Sports stars who somehow go through school without learning anything academic is a serious issue in the modern day as well. That higher view of the issue like a more interesting topic than the sensational extent to which he fit the bill by falling short of even literacy.

As for him, he was apparently resourceful and charismatic, good at sports, had adequate innate math skills and was dedicated to gaming the system.

"So I was going to be a teacher's pet and do everything necessary to pass that system. I wanted to be an athlete - I had athletic skills, and I had maths skills"

"I ran around with college kids, I dated the valedictorian - the student with the highest grades who gives a speech at the graduation ceremony, I was the homecoming king"
Would it really?

Things like this are revealed all the time, half the public doesn't care and the other half already know we are living in a surveilance dystopia and are not surprised about it.
By "properly" - I mean not messing up your own or others work in unpredictable ways.

My dev team uses git properly. They are not some masters in a way that they know each command by heart. They often use visual tools or what is built into IDE. We just have general guidelines and everyone knows how to do basic moves like "get code from remote", "merge others work into your local changes".

We had people who always have problems like "GIT ate my homework", well they don't work with us anymore so maybe it is a selection bias.

But I don't think my team members were NOT studying git for months to get to that level, it just came as they go along. Visual tools help a lot really.

In the end I expect someone with any abstract thinking capabilities to be able to use GIT "properly" after a week of working within the team. Like pull new changes every day, create new branch, create a pull request, merge new changes into your working branch.
Having written a doctoral thesis on particle physics, yes writing is hard. Sometimes extremely hard. (sleepless nights and depression inducing hard while you question your sanity and ability into you discover to trust your own judgement more than your peers, whilst taking on board their constructive input)

From experience its usually better to ask people currently struggling to write what their problem is. It's usually so personal and unique that a blanket "you can do it" isn't as helpful as it might sound. If very nicely intended and being supportive.

Aside, I don't feel the need to add the letters after my name for some reason, might be because I'm still engaged in research and find this off putting...
I really appreciated how this captures the varied perspectives on remote vs. in-office work in a nuanced way.

I also think you hit the nail on the head in explaining the incentives and default behavior we’ve seen from executives. Before the pandemic, I heard the same explanation for open office plans, despite intense dislike from many: “well, around 50% don’t like this, but we can’t please everyone.”

The only solution I can think of is not mandating a single solution. Allowing individuals/teams to choose what works best for them is more complicated and risky, but also offers the greatest potential. I’m not sure there’s a way to make execs feel more comfortable with this approach though. It is risky, and it requires a lot of trust.

I’m hopeful as more companies take the leap to flexible remote policies, the results will speak for themselves. If the fears among the more conservative/risk-averse execs aren’t realized, opinions may soften. At the same time, I’m expecting there will be enough anecdotes to serve as “evidence” for any staunchly-held perspective.
Research demonology: have computers casting summons over fractal fragments looking for any whose phone numbers we don't already know. cf the works of Charlie Stross

Perhaps that pokemon game had more in it than we thought...
I thought they resembled hockey playbooks.
Predictability, revenue per employee, and predictability of revenue per employee ;)
> by the public

More precisely, preselected by a committee, who then had elementary schools choose the winner.

There also was wide plans to have elementary school kids go watch the Olympics, it seemed a really big effort went into drilling the event into them.
I think it really depends. I for one prefer going back to the office, with a small twist that I wish it was just me who is in the office. Being alone in the whole floor gives me focus and productivity, plus the office has an almost unlimited supply of soft drink and bubbled water :D

I'm actually wondering if there is a way to rent a sealed medium size office space (think something around 10-15 m2) with high-speed internet, table, chair and a refrigrator with a moderate fee. I absolutely hate open spaces. For God's sake if it's open why not I go to a Starbuck? It's just a few bucks a day!
Speaking of FOX, they have gotten so bad that in what surely is a sign of the apocalypse Steve Bannon and Mike Lindell now recommend that their followers watch MSNBC instead.

According to Bannon, "Watch Chris Hayes or Rachel Maddow. They get better coverage every day". He adds, "They're blowing us off and they hate you in the audience, but they're still doing real coverage".

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-steve-bannon-urge-supp...

https://news.yahoo.com/pillow-ceo-mike-lindell-steve-2000468...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/19/steve_ban...
> I wish the gov't can intervene - like for cinemas, mandate that you either produce, or distribute, but not both. This will remove exclusivity, and let the platforms compete on platform level features.

The only thing government needs to do is reduce years of copyright. Everything else will sort itself out.
Less mysterious: “Immunity to change”, Kegan & Lahey (HBR, 2009)
You should have recommended Emacs Magit just to see the looks on everyone's faces.
Recommended contemporary occultists(demonic/dark magic practitioners) and their works:

EA Koetting (founder of BALG, 9 demonic gatekeepers)

Konstantinos (Nocturnal Witchcraft)

Somnus Dreadwood (Maergzjiran Cabal founder)

Kurtis Joseph (Black Magick of Ahriman)

Mark Alan Smith (Primal Craft books)

S. Connolly (The Complete Book of Demonolatry)

Asenath Mason (deals with Qliphotic magic)

NAA 218 (unknown author, created 'Liber Falxifer' and 'Book of Sitra Ahra')

Dragon Rouge (esoteric group that produces very detailed books)

Baron and Baronessa Araignee (magic dealing with the dead)

Frank White (knowledgeable YT channel - Grail of the Serpent)

S. Ben Qayin (Djinn Magick, The Book of Smokeless Fire)

International Guild of Occult Sciences - IGOS (group, produced a lot of books that are well respected)

VK Jehannum (https://vkjehannum.wordpress.com)

Temple of the Black Light (Liber Azerate)
You're not disagreeing with me, as far as I can tell. I am objecting to the claim that we can never understand the human mind in terms of neuro- and that psych- has some ability to explain things that neuro- can never explain.

People are so short-sighted. Not you, but the author, and those who write that AI can never to X or similar things.

Do we really believe that if humans or their descendants are still around 10k years from now, able to use tools and exercise creativity, that they won't have figured a lot of this stuff out?

We've only been seriously at this for 400 years, and casually for say 5k years. Why would we make any "never" claims?
Visiting the farm, meeting the people, understanding what they do, and buying from them directly.

Consider this: eating an animal is a sacred act, like marriage. This animal has been raised and cared for—think of all that goes into raising a child—in order to be slaughtered and consumed in a ritual "meal." That animal came into this world, opened its eyes for the first time, took its first steps, learned to eat, play and love its family. Farmers have taken on this sacred task of ushering the animal through its life and delivering it to you. They have held onto a dark secret: that the meaning of this animal's life has been to nourish and sustain you. Nevertheless, they've done their best to support a dignified life for the animal, treating it with respect and ending its life with grace. All for your benefit.

How would you like to treat people who raise and then kill living beings for you? And how would you like to treat things that live their entire lives in order to die for you?

If it were people instead of animals, would you prefer to remain uninvolved, or would you want to somehow participate in the ritual?
Ah cool, was looking for something to do with the kids next weekend.
Pretty sure GGP in your usage here was also me. I was so referring, but had been unaware that ECMA-262 actually defines "standard library" in a way with which my intuitive usage happened to correspond.
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Objectively, a lot of the consumption of modern Western life is unnecessary. We don't have to drive out to dinner, there's edible food at home. We could skip those bucket-list vacation trips, purchasing new items instead of making-do with old, we could live in more modest housing for our income levels.

It's kind of trippy to imagine what the large-scale effects would be. If everyone cut their consumption by 1/3, our economy would contract a lot, but long-term it'd be healthier, right? Less waste, more efficiency, less environmental degradation overall, though I'll admit we need new technology to replace old dirty technology in energy. Overall, it's a very interesting subset of Westerners, the FIRE group.
This attitude mystifies me. The whole point of computers is to solve problems well enough that most people don't have to understand the machinery.

It is literally impossible for us to understand how everything we use works. We expect a compiler to just compile things and work; nobody is ranting about how modern developers are lazy because they can't hand-verify the compiler is outputting the right opcodes. Nobody is ranting about how web developers are lazy because they can't debug a browser runtime and its interface to the OS's rendering primitives. Can some people do those things? Sure. Do we imply character flaws for the 98% of developers who have focused on other things? No.

If this old-man-yells-at-clouds, good-enough-for-grandpa-so-its-good-enough-for-me style were the dominant approach in our industry, we'd still be working with punch cards and fanfold printer output. Thank goodness it isn't. Instead of having a million developers adapt to git, git should adapt to the million developers and free up their time for doing something that actually matters to a user.
A couple of decades ago I did tech support for HP, and one of the stand out features of the HP cartridges was the print head that would be replaced every time you swapped it.

I’m curious if they refurbish the head or just replace it on a recycled cartridge.
I use restore quite a lot but it kind of terrifies me that it can erase any amount of uncommitted work if I type something wrong. "git restore ." is basically "delete everything that I don't have a backup of".
"Gansch het raderwerk staat stil, als uw machtige arm het wil"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Raderwer...

Translated: "All the gearworks grind to a halt if your powerful arm commands it so".
You’re excusing 17 years of fraud bu saying we’re all human. It’s pretty gross that you’re willing to excuse this because he was ashamed. Loads of people live with shame, loads of people don’t commit 17 years of fraud and get applause for it.

This whole thread wreaks of white privilege. I for once am actually enjoying the downvotes because each one is a little tear from a racist I’m enjoying. Mmmm. Nothing like making all white bros on HN feel a modicum of anything besides comfort.
The problem is that git leaks the underlying data model all over the place, even where it's unnecessary to actually controlling versions. It's a nice data model, but the user view shouldn't expose it. The data model is an implementation detail, but git treats it like a show & tell.
When it comes to work from home vs. go back to the office, the question for leadership is, "Is it working now?"

For some, you have to work at a specific location. This is what it is.

If work from home works, you have an opportunity to hire some great people that less flexible employers are going to shed. You also can start reducing the costs - offices are very expensive compared to a reasonable work from home allowance.

If it's not working, then it's time to go back to the office and hope you can out compete your competitors. Your competition will be hiring away anyone not happy with the office environment, who wants to move or hates their commute. Your competitors will have lower costs because as they eliminate a huge chunk of office costs, you'll be making rent and utility payments. This is a Pareto level advantage.
I'm sorry, I don't get it. I want to accomplish tasks. "Internal resistance" is the label we're putting on the mental phenomenon preventing me from doing so. It is something I want to fight. When I do accomplish my tasks, it's because my internal resistance is not there to fight back. But if I had a way to fight it when it's there (e.g. medication with manageable side effects) then I would use it. I'd wield that weapon.
Copy rights are different from trademarks or patent rights. Related rights to copy rights are e.g. moral rights in France. CC0 and other public domain deeds (e.g. Unlicense) are about copy rights alone.

If you mean to also disclaim trademarks or patent rights, you will need additional waivers for each of those, as they're different aspects of rights and law.
Given that most people are idiots, you can expect to find plenty of idiot anti-vaxxers. I've met quite a few who are far from being idiots though.

For example the infamous Marin county anti-vaxxers were defecting in a prisoner's dilemma type game. They got all the benefits of vaccination since herd immunity existed in the school system and none of the risks that pharmaceutical intervention carries. So as a selfish risk minimization and benefit maximization strategy that anti-vaxxing behavior was entirely rational and indeed locally optimal.

Other anti-vaxxers are capable of distinguishing between a therapy that's been used widely in the general public for decades, and thus has decades of data supporting that the intervention carries less risk than the disease, and a therapy for a disease that was rushed out in under a year and still hasn't been approved by the FDA for a disease that's known to carry minimal risk to those under the age of 40 without comorbidities. Now you can smugly say well I know the risks better and these people are religious fanatics, but really, you don't. Nobody knows the long term risks and benefits of the mRNA interventions because they have never been used in the long term. Vaccine development has historically taken about 10-15 years, so it's far from irrational to have doubts when it was done in under a year.

Edit: If any of the above is logically fallacious or based on misinformation please reply. I am willing to have my mind changed by dialectic.
Productivity improved. With engines like Unity or Unreal, a single person can make a game in a few years.
You don't need to work from home we can find/create spaces near your with like minded people in your community.
Productivity is not the main reason big tech want people back to cubicles. They need to justify the spaceship shaped offices they built and also they need keep our consumption high. As describe in this post that's also trending on HN [0], the best way to do this is to remove spare time on our lives (ex: long commutes). https://www.raptitude.com/2010/07/your-lifestyle-has-already...
Like an inverted "Serenity" movie.
I don’t know if it’s the article or me being a curmudgeon but I’m not convinced to switch. I grokk the checkout context aware semantics. I’m not switching.
I'm afraid the problems with ML are less like "whoops. we don't have seatbelts" and more "surely internal combustion engines optimized for power and mass production couldn't cause problems. It's not like there are going to be millions of them crammed together in lines 3 or 4 across crawling around at 10mph every day. Plus, fossil fuels are cheap, plentiful, and really have no downside we know of. Way better than coal at least - much less awful black smoke!"
Why is this on hackernews again? I thought it was a blog on Kubernetes or React!
Why would learning stuff require a deal with the devil? Two of the listed demons are described pretty much as what a scientist is.

If you find a proof of P != NP or the Riemann hypothesis, why would that be as bad as using the Death Note book?
Submitting a patch would start with filing an issue right? And I assume in that venue the maintainers would clarify their intent. If help were indeed needed then I’m sure the maintainers would be relieved to get some help fixing the documentation but.

In any case, the suggestion of submitting a patch when you notice a problem doesn’t deserve downvotes. That’s not throwing shade, at all.
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As a 30-something tech worker, time is definitely the scarcest and most valuable thing I possess. Even more so now that my wife and I have a dog.

This statement gets orders of magnitude truer once you factor in the scarce overlapping time I have with my friends, all of whom are like me: 30-somethings with tech careers and young families.

Whether the shortage of time is by corporate design or no, I'm in a phase of my life where the shortage is very apparent. And it's hard for me to deal with. I feel a bit like I've been robbed of the space to have meaningful personal experiences outside of the corporate space or my immediate famy.
Every time this is broken, am I right in saying all encrypted media needs to be re-encrypted with the updated version of widevine?
I have an Epson inkjet with refillable ink. Cheap and easy to add ink, lovely photos (which I actually print a lot of - for elderly relatives). Only complaint is that I need to connect it over 2.4Ghz
Amazon SES and Postfix's no shared cipher warning
Any evidence that "[i]t holds a lot of knowledge about what we secretly believe we might be able to do", or that my "brain [is] so afraid of the costs of [me] doing the thing"? Any evidendence that it's on my side? How does internal resistance get operationalized anyway? Because it sounds suspiciously like "can't-do-it'-itis to me.
Notes for those planning to sell your soul online: eBay specifically prohibits such transactions. [1] Compared to some online bans, the reasoning is pleasingly coherent.

eBay does not allow the auctioning of human souls for the
following reasons: If the soul does not exist, eBay could
not allow the auctioning of the soul because there would be nothing
to sell. However, if the soul does exist then, in accordance with
eBay's policy on human parts and remains, we would not allow the
auctioning of human souls.

This is unfortunate. eBay seems perfect as souls are by definition somewhat used.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/soul-listing-policy-ebay-201...
The extreme of "Those who can't do, teach"???
I think generally no: FIRE adherents are planning to retire early (the “RE” in FIRE) and expect to spend less over their lifetime than a standard American working that same level of job/income for 40 years instead of 10 or 15.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
Well, that's one way to look at it, but as for me, I'm looking for a less sacramental approach to the morning bacon.
I thought selling your soul was done by signing on to work at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I only searched for 'th' in the beginning of the word. We can add these to the previous result:

triathlon, smoothie, maybe also apartheid

Also the dictionary finds huithapeli, häthätää, rustholli, but I don't think these have 'th' as a phoneme.

https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi/#/*th*?searchMode=onl...
It's worth a read, but the ending is what brings it home, since (in my opinion) "selling your soul" has always been a metaphor, like many other religious ideas:

>That being said, while you can’t sell your soul to the devil in a real transaction, you can do so at metaphorical level. This happens every time someone is willing to overlook their humanity and decency in exchange for external temptations: power, money, fame etc. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be external pleasures. Ignoring basic human principles in order to obtain revenge, satisfy pride or envy can lead down the same path.
Hasty reader seems to have skipped the parts about circles to constrain the summoned demon in their haste to get through their grimoires. Well. Good luck with that.
I personally believe that executives get an ego boost from physically seeing people in an office working. Given the productive year tech has been being full remote, and the active threat by a large chunk of the work force to quit if the execs try and make us return, one can only conclude that the execs are motivated by something else other than business need.
Anxiety will do it too. So will hypervigilance, which presents with ADHD like symptoms but arises from trauma.
And a window where you can see hummingbirds and crows and toddlers. And get some fresh air.
I study medical and nutritional research for fun. Papers like these are always interesting to me.

Oxalates are a mixed bag, and are considered an "anti-nutrient", by binding nutrients and preventing absorption during digestion. Ex: Spinach has loads of calcium, but raw, is a poor source of calcium due to oxalate content. However, cooking foods with oxalates in them breaks down the oxalates and frees up the nutrients and partially prevents the anti-nutrient effect.

Excessively high Vitamin C diets (don't supplement to ridiculous amounts, some people do), possibly in combination with low calcium diets (calcium in the body is used to flush oxalates out), can lead to increased risk of kidney stones in diets with high oxalate content. Having a genetic mutation that leads to increased risk of kidney stones can add to this. Please note, there is a lot of ifs in that statement I just said, each one of them independently increases risk, but generally do not reach problematic levels unless you do (or have) more than one.

You shouldn't really worry about oxalates, just don't consume oxalate containing foods in absurd amounts, unless you already are at risk of forming the kind of kidney stones effected by oxalates, then you probably should switch to a low oxalate diet. As usual, talk to your doctor if you think you might be at risk.
“Every to-do list is a midlife crisis of unfulfilled promise.”

While reading, “Wow, a thoughtful piece on to do list software,” after finishing and noticing the byline, “Oh! Clive Thompson! That dude always makes sense.”
So when ~50% of women working in tech have experienced harassment is that enough of a pattern to generalize? Or does it need to be 100% before we can talk about it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/40percent-of-women-in-tech-s...

Beyond that, harassment is not the only problem I talked about.