skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You make my case for me right here

You were specifically talking about bans and "hard-censorship". Now you've shifted to talking about downvotes.

I'm not going to try to hit a moving target.

You asserted that "If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up."

I dispute this claim. Can you show me evidence supporting the claim?

Once we've covered that idea, then I'd be open to talking about whether a system of downvotes and upvotes suppresses the outgroup.

EDIT: If you're going to keep adding to your comment, you can't reasonably expect me to respond to it...
Ah, thanks, those are the kind of search queries that I'm somewhat apprehensive about. Especially with search engines that think it's a good idea to immediately show you images if they think you're searching for something visual.

Thankfully the article you linked doesn't contain any images.
I will always work smart, rather than working hard.

I don't define myself or my self worth solely via the work I do.

Always. But then again, in my culture it's not as extreme as in other parts of the world.
I remember when Linksys (and others) had wireless devices that worked really well in Linux. I bought 4 of them and got two different versions of the thing with radically different insides.

Someone at Linksys must have noticed that SKU X was selling really well and looked for ways to cut the cost by replacing the innards.

Eventually, online stores were putting the PCB revision number in the sale listings because people had to pick a specific rev.
You left out the ultimate conclusion:

>In light of the biological evidence supporting the theory that SV40-contamination of polio vaccines could contribute to human cancers, the committee recommends continued public health attention in the form of policy analysis, communication, and targeted biological research.

>long since fixed (and unlikely to happen again, as it is now much easier to detect this kind of contamination)

Multiple vaccines have already been recalled due to contamination, after they passed initial qaqc.

How does that make it unlikely that contaminated products don't go undetected?

My point isn't that vaccine's shouldn't be taken.

It's that the same people that constantly complain about pharmaceutical companies taking shortcuts and behaving unethically, suddenly decide the same companies are infallible when it comes to a rushed development of a product, from which they are fully shielded from liability.

>There is literally no reason to bring this up in relation to COVID vaccines

When someone suggests a concern is scifi conspiracy theory nonsense, and that concern has actually historically happened, then it's absolutely relevant.

The scare tactics are bad enough, but don't try to trick people with lies and outright manipulation, and there won't be anything to call out.
Eventually, but given that we have yet to even build a submerged floating tunnel[0] it will be awhile.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Br... (tunnel #2 in this image)
That's true, but still, the trend of embedding spyware in FLOSS is becoming normalized. On top of that, FLOSS spyware vs. proprietary spyware is a distinction that is useful only for software developers - a subset of "tech-savvy people". Until recently, tech-savvy people could just assume that FLOSS software is free from bullshit, and both use it and recommend it to non-tech-savvy people without checking.

FLOSS or not, most software is still products, with a name and an owner. The openness could, in principle, enable a "network of slightly different forks" model of software evolution, but it didn't. There's universally a single canonical repo, with the "real" owners, and occasionally some niche forks. A fork takes over only when it can win the marketing game against the repo it forked from. So, each time an owner of the canonical repo decides to include telemetry in their project, their users who aren't software developers are screwed.
I ascribe traits as "left" or "right" based on opinions that I read and hear and the expressed side of the presenter. I don't now, nor have I ever belonged to one side or the other, my beliefs and opinions don't all line up on one side or the other. I think if anyone's actually do line up 100% then they are simply a fanatic and aren't thinking for themselves.

I think the problem is twofold, political parties are followed as if they are sports teams, and due to shrinking advertising revenues the news media dishes everything with a massive helping of hyperbole. For example, which US political party has a majority of its registered votes in support of gay marriage? The answer is both, but that doesn't get acknowledged in the media.
Hence the musing… when you muse about something you want to keep it loose exploration no?
It did. Thanks.
Wait.... are you being sarcastic?

Or did you really spend $5,000 on a machine for your hobby of making cubes just so you can hold them?

If you are serious, I think we could be friends. Maybe I should make a subreddit for people like us?
The problem is that since the past decade or so you started being able to get tons of investment money from simply "engaging" users (whatever the fuck that means). This works recursively too - you can create a company that provides services to other companies who "engage" users. Best of all, you don't even have to be profitable or have a long-term business plan (being against your users is not a successful strategy unless you're a monopoly), you can just enjoy the VC money and get you and your mates a nice salary for a few years and then rinse & repeat.

This turns the entire thing upside down. It used to be that you made money by making good tools that users paid money for because they solved their problem - thus the incentives are clear and aligned. But now it's the opposite, you simply waste the user's time and annoy them as much as possible and money just magically appears and the users don't even have a choice because they're not the ones paying for it.
There are two other reasons bike lanes don't have the kind of demand induction properties that roads do:

-Bike lanes (and ultimately, bike destinations) have way higher humans-per-square-foot of road / parking lot density than cars lanes. The throttling mechanism on behavior for the car example is ultimately drive time, and new lanes quickly become capacity constrained (first at the interchanges; later at the parking; last in the lanes themselves) in a way that slows ultimate travel back to the indifference equilibrium. The equivalent for bikes tolerates a way higher flow of humans.

-Induced demand for cars is in part a function of the fact that you can (up to a point) drive at any speed, meaning that if roads are added that support commuting in from 30, 40, 60 miles away, that can be a doable commute. There is no amount of development that will create a 60 mile bicycle commute. Here, the demand induction mechanism with travel lanes and housing is reversed: you need convenient housing to drive the demand for bike lanes.
160 miles with a £6 rtlsdr and an antenna I bodged out of coax. Its painfully easy. Also have a nosy at POCSAG - there's still a little bit left in the UK.
Additionally, I think the obsession over "intelligence" and "natural ability" is vastly overstated, in general. It absolutely helps, and it compounds, to be smart, but a person who "works hard" is infinitely more valuable to their colleagues than a smart person who doesn't, and tries to rely on raw intellect.

That may be true for something like digging a ditch, but IQ is needed to make those necessary logical leaps for more abstract matters. Only hard work is like adding 1+2+3....n. Having a high IQ is knowing the shortcut to sum it instantly.
Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft
I highly recommend not relying on SDR ADS-B reception alone and also checking online data systems for ADS-B that also use multilateration to track aircraft using their transponder when they aren’t ADS-B capable. Otherwise you might be operating under the assumption there are no contacts in your working airspace when there is aircraft present but not announcing their location.

https://flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/
What ?

Those GPUs are being useful for securing a network hosting close to $100B of stablecoins.
https://stablecoinindex.com/marketcap

Not talking about other more volatile crypto as you'd be tempted to assert their values should be 0 in a perfect world.

You can argue all day that's wasting energy, the crypto-ecosystem, chip manufacturers, miners, energy providers, users, developers, traders, bankers and companies driving billion of dollars of revenue (Aka value for human beings who will produce and consume goods in the real World with this revenue ) out of it are proving that you're missing the bigger picture.

I've never understood HN's concerns with crypto.
Following the same logic, people are literally burning petrol in their cars while it could be used for <insert supposedly better use case>

Is it for ecological reasons ?
You're still moving 2 tons of metal everywhere you go, and eating meat.

Cryptos are not less moral or valuable than plenty of things you do or cherish. Let people mine crypto, eat meat at Wendy's driving their F150, because the world is not black and white.
I actually asked the question to police once (or enter by force and just stay there). They did not know.
From what I understand it is very safe and fairly low corruption. English is widespread, especially in cities and costal towns with tourism. It is an absolutely gorgeous country, very Italian in character, but minus the chaos and cheaper as well.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-09/this-is-h...
It's also interesting to note that Hoyle's objection to the Big Bang was basically philosophical, and his steady-state theory had more to do with how he thought the universe "should be" than anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Bi...
Maybe just browse the npm packages that are popular. Find one you like and has open issues in Github.
Land speculators will kill your game's growth
My good friend Lars Doucet published an article today on Game Developer (previously Gamasutra) in which he goes into great detail about how economic theories have consistently and predictably played out in multiplayer games (EVE Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Ultima Online, etc.). It's long, well-researched, and quite insightful about parallels between physical and digital worlds.
This is about a condition called Persistent Median Artery or PMA, and it's a bit of a rabbit hole. Evidently having this condition is associated with increasing your odds or the impact of carpal tunnel syndrome.

PMA can manifest in a few different configurations, like depth to which it extends in the hand, thickness, etc. Here's an interesting read with pictures of dissected forearms showing PMA variants. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327784/
I don't think that's the whole story. Even national brands like McDonalds have subtly changed their packaging to feel less artificial and more "earthy", for lack of a better term, even if the product itself hasn't changed. There's an awareness of a cultural shift.

I would guess that processed/high-sugar foods today are where cigarettes were in the 90s. Everybody knows and accepts how bad they are, many people have changed their habits accordingly, many people haven't.

Digital media on the other hand is more like where cigarettes were in the 70s. Most people know roughly that they're bad for you, but few do anything about it.
AWS Gamelift to be deprecated in favor of containerization
Lowest average rent by state in the US is West Virginia at $628. That means some parts of West Virginia must be much cheaper than that. $400 for food and utilities seems easily doable, but probably not healthcare, so you're likely going to have to be uninsured and pray you don't get sick or injured for 6 months. I'm guessing you'd sage on moving and travel expenses by staying in the US, but maybe not enough compared to some truly cheap countries. I had a good friend in college from Kazakhstan and her family had a 20 bedroom mansion there appraised at the equivalent of about $40,000 USD.
Of course not.

> single-purpose accounts are not allowed on HN and certainly not for political/national flamewar.
> Depending on the level of english in the country you go to (I assume you are an English only speaker) you might end up not having a meaningful conversation in the flesh for weeks.

One should absolutely, 100% make a good faith effort to learn the language of any country you intend to long-term reside in.

It's for your own health. For my two cents, it'll massively improve your standing in the community because you won't seem like some fly-by-night foreigner (common reputation of americans, which is fine when being somewhere as a tourist but not long term) and will allow you to have serious conversations with people or at least give you a reason to try and have conversations with people (who are generally nice about foreigners attempting to pick up the local language).
ITT we blame a software company for the sham practices and requirements of intelligence agencies.

Yes in any responsible system, there would be mandatory access controls and default access limits, but I can 100% guarantee you that the reason these systems don't have those (and the ones described by Snowden don't either) is because the intelligence agencies don't want them. They want it to be easy for their employees and contractors to break the pretend security that pretends to protect our privacy.

Knowing this, it's infuriating they would point the finger at anyone else. Will someone please remind me why we even need intelligence agencies?
I have heard very nice things about Lviv from friends and family, small but very pretty and extremely cheap.
US Servicemen Among Those Killed in Attack at Kabul Airport
Why do you provide for your sister to live in Ibiza instead of somewhere cheaper? If she has no income then she doesn’t need to be there.
This was the era I was referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Urn

I was wrong about the dates. It was late 1700s not late 1800s.

This paper is the one I read. It is a book review:
https://academia.edu/resource/work/40611694

The book being reviewed is titled, Forging the Golden Urn: the Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. Max Oidtmann
> there isn't actually convincing evidence, especially not against Israel

There seems to be a very obvious bias in your comments. This is a fact accepted by the Israeli government that I have already pointed out to you, but you keep ignoring it.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-01-28/israel-admits-injecti...
Mexico is a great option. It’s extremely cheap, has great food, the language isn’t too hard to learn, and it’s a lot safer than people think, as long as you stay in specific areas.
They meant the water used in fabs, not agriculture.
> so you should adapt to that truth.

And they should adapt to the truth that as long as there are COVID outbreaks, there are going to be epidemic adaptations. And that as long as they are the cause of those adaptations, public sentiment will increasingly shift towards making those adaptations targeted against anti-vaxxers.

One of those adaptations should be getting COVID patients out of hospitals, where they are infecting other people, disrupting ER services and scheduled surgeries, and into field hospitals. Every bed that is currently going to deal with a trivially preventable disease is multiple life-saving surgeries that aren't getting done. It would be nice if we could end this year with a working medical system.

If people want to free-load, that's fine, but we shouldn't be throwing scheduled passengers off the plane to make room for them.
"... find small niche ideas that require very little marketing (SEO driven) and take 3 weeks to build, ship and launch. It doesn't seem so hard."

Seems pretty hard to me. It's generally easy to come up with an idea. It's much harder to actually make money with one (in my experience).
The silicone bands are pretty popular in the “outdoors” community too (hiking, rock climbing, etc.)
The thing is, neither of these devices is a usable daily driver yet for people outside of fanatics (and I don't say this with negativity - fanaticism is probably what builds these products, or sub your term here, e.g devoted).

If you're looking to dabble and write apps to contribute to the ecosystem, the PinePhone is arguably a steal. I grabbed one over the Librem 5 mostly due to price and availability.
People who have been become accustomed to abundant free street parking will not be happy about paying for it. They will vote accordingly. You can complain that this isn't fair but that's the reality of living in a democracy.
The definition of over engineered and under engineered is so poor that the comparison cannot make any sense.

If code has lot of abstractions that are poorly designed, is that over engineered or under engineered? It seems like it should be over engineered but if we analyze it, it means an inexperienced engineer designed the system, or not enough time was provided, which suggests that it was under engineered.

Over engineered would be something being way better than the required specs, but all the better parts are unneeded and unused.
> you might end up not having a meaningful conversation in the flesh for weeks

So pretty similar to the last 18 months.
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Good framing! I'll look for what's better not what's missing:
- I love that the laptop is user upgradable for RAM and drives.
- I love that I'm supporting a positive open hardware/software future

edit: just realized I can play Steam games natively! And also have a built in SD card slot.
And it's next to impossible to move to the rent controlled side of Berlin. The reality of rent control is it's a handout for the people who already live there at the expense of those that wish to move there.
Clean energy isn't fungible. Energy created in Iceland can't easily be used in India.

If you can create energy in Iceland, which is already nearly 100% renewable for electricity generation, then using it for carbon capture is carbon-negative.

If you're claiming it isn't carbon negative because someone somewhere in the world is burning carbon, then the word is meaningless, because you may as well claim that every activity on Earth is generating the exact same amount of carbon -- the average of all the activities.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Commer....
Do you by any chance know how it breaks down across different types of housing? Studio vs 1-bedroom vs 2-bedroom, townhouse vs single-family, etc? Any websites to find this kind of data that you'd recommend?
Look how quickly the comments section turned on you because "as a conservative", where as you say, the brunt of all censorship is focused. Really goes to show how effective it is that even in a threat discussing the topic, the prevailing "othering" affect is demonstrated.
But why couldn't the renter use the deposit to buy a house instead?
pypi?
Generous friend at $3K!
It should be noted, although Kyiv is doable for $1k, that would be mainly dependent upon securing cheap rent (somewhat difficult for someone new to the city). I would place Kyiv in the 4k per month bracket to live "incredibly well". Yes, this is a subjective measure).

From your link: "Rent Prices in Lviv are 39.98% lower than in Kiev (Kyiv)" (in reality, in many scenarios the difference is greater than that).

Info: securing a three year resident visa in Ukraine is very easy.
Isn't Argentina currently under a strict lockdown?
Remidns me of the 'cheat code' of reading a chapter ahead
The "Social Dilemma" is pure propaganda and manipulation, there's very little facts or stats stated in that film that aren't heavily misleading.
I really don't think you can look at something like rent control in isolation and say "rent control good" or "rent control bad", because how well it works really depends on what other regulatory decisions you make.

Something worth mentioning for example (which the article doesn't), is that between 2007 and 2014, around 26,000 rented apartments (hyresrätter) in Stockholm were sold by the municipality and turned into owned apartments (bostadsrätter). The percentage of owned apartments in Stockholm went from being 44% in 2006 to 55% in 2013 [1].

If you self-sabotage the existing rent control regulations by reducing the supply of rented apartments, then of course the waiting times will increase, which you can then use as an argument to try to abolish rent control.

[1] https://www.svd.se/ett-paradigmskifte-pa-stockholms-bostadsm...
well. hrm. my hunch is still that it comes from the next (default colors, high visibility colors on b/w and color, etc), but maybe not... has anyone actually considered just reaching out to tim berners-lee and just asking?
The most recent example of a "soft recall" would be Gigabyte's exploding PSUs. It makes you wonder how much retail outlets knew, because it is clear that Gigabyte was fully aware of the issue - and silently fixed their design.
Apple had a library that did that for 80-bit floating point, for both the 6502 (!) and 68000: SANE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Apple_Numerics_Enviro...)

And yes, performance wasn’t good, especially compared to the x87 that IBM PCs used. It did claim to round the last bit correctly, though, where early x87s could have large errors (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...)
that's a great plot for a comedy sketch
Bad code is not related to over engineering though.

Over engineered means that is better than the specifications, however such things being over specifications happen to be useless or unused. Then time and money was wasted, but the product is not worse by any mean.
Large animal veterinarians, condom manufacturers, sex shops.
Induced demand has never made sense. Does building a hospital create more sick people?
Imagine how much a really big cube of tungsten would weigh. Installing it at MOMA would itself be the art.
China has actually been relatively disinterested investing into Afghanistan [1], even when the US had been footing the security umbrella. Now that any investments might need to also contend with a civil war re-erupting from before the US entered, the numbers to pencil out are even further out of grasp.

Any investment into Afghanistan as a raw materials resource and/or 棲息地, Chinese Lebensraum, would have an ROI of quite a few decades. I don't see why they would economically rationally do that when the Belt and Road Initiative already will net them far more than "just" Afghanistan.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-myth-of-Chinese-investme...
what if you work hard and derive meaning from your work
Depends on what you count as major cities; the second biggest city in any EE country will be much cheaper than the capital. But in Eastern Europe you also get health insurance much cheaper than in the US.
Electric bikes really change the "too far to bike" equation. Depending on your fitness level and the route, you could easily ride 10 miles (or more) and arrive with minimal sweat.
Sadly my goto Crucial started doing it too, but they paired it with a huge price drop. Was the P2 NVME IIRC. ~70€ for 1TB.
So, so little of most people’s work is deep abstract thought like that. I used to have this research assistant - she was from an entirely unrelated arts major, and was a bit… well, let’s say not terribly book-smart (which she was very upfront about). We ended up with her due to some last minute issues with other candidates. But holy smokes could she ever focus. She could sit down for hours and hours and process way more material (reviewing data, publications, participant communications) than anybody else because she didn’t get sidetracked. What she didn’t know she knew to ask and get clarification on. She would work circles around many “smarter” RAs because of her amazing work ethic. And this isn’t digging ditches, this is honest-to-goodness academic research.