skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is virtually no real diversity in experimentation on social decision making processes. (Governments, Economies, Science) So debates devolve into some form of e.g. capitalism vs. socialism, but both system are governed by similar variations of a sovereign nation state, which are adapted from monarchies. Compare this to the space of all possible government descriptions and we're only looking at a weird narrow slice.

Because evolutionary pressures on governments produce stability and power instead of 'goodness of people', I suspect any random system that sounds remotely sensible would probably be superior to anything we have now. If we actually designed something that took into account new knowledge and technology, we could do much better.

Expectation of future profits is equivalent to belief that markets are inefficient. (Which of course they often are.) Open source economic planning could yield massive economic gains and doesn't require centralized power or use of force. (Pacifist governance is one of those unexplored spaces) An open public ledger would allow for resource allocation and incentivizing work without needing a monetization strategy.

If we track and account for externalities doing a good thing funds itself. You don't need a way to take money from the people you're helping. This also disincentivizes negative externalities.

As an example of how bad things are: We still debate on natural language forums instead of using structured arguments that link to common datasets and simulations. These comments get 'points' instead of bayesian probabilities, and there's no way to filter or rescore anything based on it's epistemological support or new data.
From Wikipedia/MIMO:

”To correctly form a beam, the transmitter needs to understand the characteristics of the channel. This process is called channel sounding or channel estimation. A known signal is sent to the mobile device that enables it to build a picture of the channel environment. The mobile device sends back the channel characteristics to the transmitter. The transmitter can then apply the correct phase and amplitude adjustments to form a beam directed at the mobile device. This is called a closed-loop MIMO system.”
It's not even that I think it's realistic to expect version 2.0, although I would really like that. It's more that it's impossible to get many people to even admit that the current system is flawed in a way that is technically controllable.

It is insane to me that we all have to shrug and admit that "well, we can't fix X problem because the money's not there" over and over again, when we have all of the labor hours and intellectual capital to do whatever we want as a collective species organism. With the right coordination, we could make every city look like a Miyazaki lake town. Or Disneyland. Or an exact copy of ancient Rome. We could scan every person alive every year and see whether or not they've got cancer. We could clean every river and every lake. We could send everyone a Nintendo Switch. That whole "bullshit jobs" memo gets circulated on HN all the time; how much of us could do actually cool shit if we didn't have to worry about paying for other people to help maintain society for us? I don't know, but it sure is frustrating watching Hertz sell off their fleet because their board is more worried about its share price than it is about whether or not Hertz, a car rental company, can rent out cars. (And I'm not blaming them for it- they're deadlocked in the same standoff everyone else is.)
I know quite a few casual runners (5K to 10K) and been running for over 15 years myself. Other than a $120 pair of running shoes every year or two, what is the expense? Maybe the water backpack things if you are into extreme running?

It is not even a separate expense for me, as I just use my running shoes as my regular shoes. Also, maybe it is my gait or my lack of weight, but I estimate my shoes last 1k miles.
I'd recommend anyone looking to take better control of their habits in this regard to install the DF Youtube extension. Turn it off when you want to tumble down rabbitholes and keep it on at all other times. Really makes a difference in how youtube usage works over time.

On a related note it would be interesting if someone has made some "rabbithole resolving" software - I've noticed that these things terminate in extremely similar ways for most people, and have had a number of conversations laughing with others about how we've gone down the exact same content route. Write some code to find the bottom for us and save all the headache (fun)!
> They're pushing so hard lately its making me want to convert everything to crypto

These days climate change and pollution is in everyone's minds. Can't blame us for lashing out at wasteful practices.

I think cryptocurrencies get more hate here that electron apps here, and that's saying something.
So what? It's unmanned. Worst case it sinks and the shipment is lost. By default it surfaces and waits for someone to come fix it.
I mean, context really is important. "Ivermectin won a Nobel prize" is an objectively true fact, but depending on who you are that either means basically nothing or go eat horse de-wormer
This is probably how both I and many of my friends who share interests managed to fall down the same city planning YouTube rabbit hole this summer.
But we want prison reform. We should demand it rather than letting politicians hide behind status quo in-action. Right?

Investing software quality is a goos example because we all know the trade-off between perfect software and launching with bugs. The conversation with vaccines in the epidemic has been too much looking for perfection.
Re big projects: I'm (sort of) using Seed on web-based scheduling and training software used by 7 operational fighter squadrons.

The most complicated pages are in React/TS (eg the actual scheduling board), and the Seed pages are/were mostly simpler ones, like tracking qualifications, personalized schedules etc. I'm actively rewriting the smaller pages from Seed/Rust and TS/React to HTML/CSS/JS for performance and simplicity reasons.
You can self-host ZeroTier controllers. Also gives you unlimited devices that way.
US and many Europe countries reached a point where the number of vaccines ordered and delivered is higher than the number of people that wants to take the vaccine. My country donated a few million doses that were in danger to expire.
Click your mouse three times and say 'progressive web app' and you'll be taken to a bloated website in two seconds.
> Instead, I have to explicitly go into "Subscriptions"

This is how I've always used YouTube, and it wasn't that long ago that I learned most people don't do it that way. My usual pattern is to go to the subscriptions tab and scroll down to where the last video I viewed was, then start watching from there up towards the top of the list.

It would be really handy if the YouTube app had some way of making that easier.
Tailscale adds a layer of NAT traversal logic on top of regular WireGuard, so in most cases you end up with p2p WireGuard tunnels between your devices, as if the NAT wasn't there. https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ has the gory details, it's less easy than I just made it sound :)
Really?

I have consistently heard the opposite.

Actions has more polish but is not as feature rich is what I have heard.
Just trying to echo Mr. Hacker
The recommendations are better if you browse logged-out. More diverse, recommending things to satisfy curiosity about related topics rather than the same monotonous stuff you already know about.

We hypothesized this might be because you're less likely to be hooked yet, so it wants you to really get the good stuff and hope that you then want to subscribe to or comment on something? And once you're signed up, you might stay on the site longer if you need to keep looking for stuff you like and generate more ad impressions.

I should really do a comparison logged-out vs. logged-in because I could swear those ads are different amounts and durations. Also it's percentage-wise about as much as the free legacy TV channels, except of course YT doesn't need to pay the production company -- ShadyVPN already takes care of that.
It may not be for you but if you are going to take the piss, please at least give an example that does not generate a syntax error:

ls | grep

grep needs input and something to tell it what to do with the input.

I think Cult is a little harsh but it is handy to simply chain stuff together to quickly get something done. Along with the nominal concept of it's all files you can get an awful lot done in a shell with minimal effort.

Anything non trivial should get the full awk and sed treatment. The sort of system that has the GNU etc toolset available normally has python and perl available out of the box and probably php and a few more too - tools for the job. I also have something called pwsh that I dabble with - handy for fettling with VMware via Power CLI.
A company I am familiar with that build electronic equipment went with just-in-time inventory for it. When they had some unexpected sales, they ran out of resistors, and had to quote months of delay to the customer. Naturally, this cost them a lot of sales as customers went elsewhere.

It got so bad that one of the engineers on his own dime stocked his desk with resistors and other small parts.

Madness.
If humans never invented agriculture we might still be living as hunter-gatherers. So our problems would mainly be getting food, shelter, preventing injury, and infection - problems most people don’t face today. Jobs, boredom, pollution, rare diseases - hunter-gatherers don’t deal with these.

So you’re right, nearly all misery is caused by agriculture.

Except, not everything. We still deal with inferiority, finding mates, unwanted sexual advances. Pride is an issue today and it has been an issue before we were even humans.
And effectively anyone can. AFAIK no one is requiring proof of why you're claiming to be immunocompromised.
9 mothers can't birth a baby in 1 month.

More money only allows us to conduct more parallel research to answer questions in parallel. It doesn't mean that we iterate any faster in the "question -> answer -> think of new question" bottleneck.

We've got research on Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, Novavax (and other vaccines) coming in. We got research on corticosteroids (dexamethasone, Prednisone, Methylprednisolone ), IVM, hydroxychloroquine, etc. etc. (even if we have no reason to believe that Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine will work, we'll conduct the research anyway so that some loud people out there can finally shut up about it). There's monoclonal antibodies (REGN10933 and REGN10987), with probably more in the works. Etc. etc.

There is research on Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Blood type, etc. etc. So much research, and many of that research is getting replicated over-and-over again, to ensure accuracy.

And of course: there's research about _how long does the vaccine last_, which is fundamental to this entire FDA question. There's a myriad of measurements going on, and it seems like the scientists aren't agreeing upon the research yet.

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That's fine. CDC has one set of research. FDA has another. White House will make a decision. When agencies disagree, we take it up to the higher-levels of discussion to make a decision through other means.
If you're looking for ethnic explanations, the evidence deosnt match the claim that Borderers drive the American homicide rate to any real degree. While the White American murder rate is higher than Britain's, it's less than half that of the overall American murder rate, which is largely driven by the homicide rate amongst African Americans, which is 7x that of whites.

Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-amer...

Britain at 1.2, white Americans at 2.2, African Americans at 15.5
No, it was just a quite innocent paraphrasing of a sentence that Jordan Peterson tells to young men in their twenties who struggle to find meaning. “Pick someone’s load.” Take on responsibilities.

Which you’ve done. With a family.

Thanks for your service, sir.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Japanese_invasion_o...

You might want to consider some counterfactuals where the US kept more to itself.
It does not affect free cash flow or strain the resources of already available to the company.

Stock holders existing and new participate in the success of failure of the company, different from say vendor who needs to be paid no matter what.

it is far worse to be spending 100m in cash to get say 50m in new revenue (if the customers don't stay long enough) as this requires new cash to be infused to keep growing.
Ask HN: How does one search in search results?
I've lost interest in the Internet. I don't search for anything, and the two-three sites I visit are on their way out too.

I used to be able to find stuff. Type in some words from the page you imagine exists, and watch it come up.

That does not seem to work any more. Search engines of today act like I'm talking to them, asking them questions and such. I vaguely remember a similar MS Clippy thing, very helpful, yes. Not.

I don't want to talk to a computer. Why would I want that? That tech is crap still.

Neither DDG nor Gøogle return the full results for a given query. But they present it so as if they actually have it.

How can I ask a search engine to search over it's own search result set? Or alternatively, how do I get past the Self-inserted Smartypants Interpreter to give it some literal chunks of text I want to be found on the page?

Someone working for the SE companies reading this, do you know anything about that?
Can we consider a few other possibilities?

As in, taking the point of view of cosmology about 100 years ago, before the redshift was attributed to the Doppler effect. And before the notion of a big bang was the default basis of reasoning.

- What if H is just a measure of redshift? Literally just redshift. Not expansion. Not an age. Just photons losing energy. At a rate of H.

- What if H actually is constant? Like G and like h and like k (Coulomb's constant).

- What if the universe doesn't have an age?

^ not rhetorical questions. Actually asking.
India still hasn't reached the industrial revolution in brick-making.[1] Bricks are still be made by slaves and children.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-25556965
The (public) court documents, if anyone wants to read through them: https://www.gwern.net/docs/design/2014-650139-tobiasfrerejon...

There's some pretty spicy and entertaining comments in the various briefs and discussions. My own overall impression is that it looks extremely bad for Hoefler, and he probably settled because his best defense, after all of the emails and documents produced, was "I totally did defraud Frere-Jones, but the statute of limitations protects me", which is... a bad look and a bad reason to win.
> Choosing these particular attributes was a brilliant calculation, banking on the prejudices of mostly white Silicon Valley. Venture capitalists had seen many young white men peddling fantastic ideas, but Holmes created new excitement: her woman-ness just different enough, her whiteness just re-assuring enough to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-t...

Most investors seem to be outside SV. Same with the board.
> I need the intimacy that is only present within a romantic relationship.

Why do you think that?
I completely agree. I replied to another comment with more anecdotal evidence but people are absolutely missing how dangerous YouTube is because of all the focus on FB. Content is getting worse as creators focus on spammy click bait and DO NOT let your kids anywhere near youtube... even the YouTube for kids. They will end up getting sucked into that dopamine reward system you mention, consuming the most banal content.
You quoted my comment that people replaced beaters they had with the rentals they bought, I figure you read it as the rentals are also beaters? That was not my meaning, if I thought it's an ambiguous statement I'd try to phrase it differently.
It’s sad that people seem to downvote lots of good comments by chance of opinion, rather than the quality of the conversation. It makes an interesting discussion harder to follow.
Interactive Virtual Concert
> Rust evangelism is pretty organic

I'm sure it was. But it's six years on, and companies have gotten involved. They now have a financial stake. It would be naive to think that evangelism is still genuine grass roots, in the same way that it's naive to think the stuff on your FB feed reflects what your friends find interesting and worth sharing.
This talking point is about a month out of date.
I loathe videos on trending with the exception of some science content. I say “not interested” all the time but the third recommendation is always some bs I have zero interest in.
Even the kilogram is defined via physical constants these days (https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9...., pages 21 and 205 in the PDF).
> It sucks you in to a cycle of refreshing, finding videos you're interested in, clicking, rinse, repeat.

Well then I guess that I'm lucky that the recommendation system almost entirely fails to find videos that I'm interested in!
Freelancing 101 / a.k.a. “How to Freelance”
I got in the same situation with videos on otters (popular in South Korea, it seems) by watching accidentally one in the feed, but the music recommendations are either missing or missing my preferences, so the system does not really work for me.
To push against this point I prefer KPIs, or something objective that I can be measured against, now that doesn't mean I like bad KPIs but the fact of the matter is there are always going to be KPIs the only question is how explicit or implicit they are.

When KPIs are explicit everyone knows what they are and can modify their behavior to optimize for their KPIs when all measurement goes away the new KPI is the arbitrary one held in the decision makers head, and now instead of it being an explicit bar that can be objectively used to make decisions the entire system falls apart into politics and emphasizing appearances over work because the only thing that matters with implicit KPIs are what everyone else thinks of you, which is much easier to manipulate than the amount of cash you brought in.
“Gear” is slang for steroids so I assume this is the joke, right? :p
I was expecting a Star Trek article and am very disappointed.
Very few people are cut out to be "book-smart." The education system must find and nurture those with the aptitude and the inclination, but should not try to force it on the rest.
Computer security cannot be solved as long as the users don't understand the decisions they are making, so that will never happen. Walled gardens exist to remove those decisions, so that users can't hurt themselves.
If you leave off the "to light years" conversion, you'll see that the units don't match up. A light year is a measure of distance (m). The result of this equation is 3.86×10^99 s^4/(kg^2 * m^3). How or why Wolfram decided to convert that into 13.82 billion light years is anybody's guess, but it's definitely wrong and nonsensical. You can't convert a s^4/(kg^2 * m^3) unit into just an m without more.
I like to see the world through a similar lens, one that turned me from an atheist into a theist:

I believe this universe is a quantized simulation. The evidence for various forms of Planck quanta make this abundantly clear.

Simulation implies a simulator.

Therefore, God exists, in some form or another.
Haha, thank you. Going to read that.
Beating Back the New Gilded Age
I use the family plan for multiple accounts. Might not fit if you actually use it as a family plan, but it's working out for me so far.
As others have noted, just self-host a Zerotier controller. It's what I do.
I'm looking forward to the time when JS bridging isn't required. Once that happens, it should be possible to use Rust as more of a conceptual "drop-in" to the JS DOM-manipulation API - framework or not.
I doubt the most abusive shippers will switch to autonomous shipping anytime soon. Rather, reductions in labor will attract the more responsible, better paying shippers that some global communities (e.g. in the Philippines) heavily rely upon for income. Because being responsible is expensive; automation replaces employees, not slaves.
- Tor has done more harm than good for human rights

- Alcohol does not make people more aggressive to a large extent. In the vast majority of clubs/festivals almost everybody is inebriated but violence is fairly rare (in my experience). (I'm a non-drinker btw so I have no horse in this race).

- David Bowie's music is unremarkable.

- We should keep Linux unpopular because the more users it gets, the more malware/spyware/advertising/telemetry it will attract. It is fine where it is now in terms of its userbase.
Are we just ignoring the fact that Russ Mitchell is an infamous Elon hater and that the DMCA has nothing to do with the content of the video? The video was re-uploaded by a 3rd party and the original video owner makes a living off YouTube videos so rightfully asked YouTube to take it down.

Onto the ostensible issue of the car "almost hitting a pedestrian" ... This is a beta software that is equivalent to cruise control from a liability perspective. Its an advanced driving assistance feature. The driver must be ready to take over control at any moment as was the case here.
Software developers are not as smart as they think. The most disastrous technical decisions I have seen have all come from developers, not from clueless non-technical managers. Things like "lets rewrite everything in foo-language, this will solve all our problems."
Agreed! If you can guarantee that you're going to get the same total compensation, compensation-as-salary is always better than compensation-as-RSUs.

Of course there's upside to exposing yourself to your company's stock performance, but there's also downside risk, which people looking at equity compensation tend to downplay.

Turns out its worked out well for big tech employees, as big tech has gone up 10x over not very many years.

But that's not a reliable state of affairs into the indefinite future for big tech, and it was never reliable for smaller companies.

Nitpick: "If these behaved like other forms of equity" I don't know what "behaved like" means in this context. You start out without equity. Then your company pays you equity. That's always going to be taxed as income, because it's transparently just income, just paid in a different liquid market.
To illustrate this, imagine at offer time, you're given $150k + $80k worth of stock over 4 years. That works out to $170k per year. Nice, but not even doctor money. The stock is currently $100/share, so that's 800 shares. Now imagine the stock 4xes (not unusual in tech). By year 4, you're making $230k, without having had to beg for a raise or anything. This is how people end up with ludicrous total comp in tech.
Worst case it surfaces without power and another vessel runs into it. Hitting a lost shipping container is bad enough. Hitting a submarine is likely to be worse since they're structurally much stronger.

Getting a tow line onto that thing is going to be hazardous in any kind of rough weather. As often happens in the Irish Sea.
That's not true in all cities. I'm from Tamil Nadu and even in Chennai which is the most liberal city in Tamil Nadu don't have the dating app culture like you mentioned. I heard Bangalore is ahead on this dating culture.

I most certainly know that cast system will not die out within our lifetime since I have friends who still cling on to caste and they are not from villages or small towns. It will take more than one generation to see any meaningful progress sadly.
Probably true. But agriculture is what made possible the explosion of population growth. One result of which is you and me. So if agriculture brought about misery, our existence is part of it. In other words: Without agriculture, we wouldn’t be less miserable. We just would not be, period.