skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony of calling Theil a "nihilist," for taking stances on issues based on his principles and beliefs whether one agrees with them or not is a bit rich. The most nihilistic thing anyone believes in tech and other establishments is that truth is personal and subjective, or whatever lacks conseqeunces, as in, there is no truth - the sufficient and necessary condition for the definition of nihilism.

I can see why they're projecting it though, people are catching on. A head full of jargon and thought terminating cliches, and an utter lack of durable convictions is what nihilism is. Theil and other billionaires need no defense from me or anyone, but journalistic integrity needs every ally it can find.
This is a weak talking point. There are no direct subsidies to US oil and gas companies. None.

The subsidies people frequently talk about are “externalities.”
The phone is not required to be special. They don't need to design new hardware from scratch. All they have to do is to rebrand existing phones.

The phones are simply Android phones with different app store with different policies.

Users can install from Google if they still want.

If fact they can rebrand another phone and add another appstore.
HN is for communist betacuck soy bois.
I understand the difficulty in explaining the technical stuff. Partly i think it's also on people to learn a little. Not in a few months and not to become tech savvy, but ust the basics about what the heck internet is and what's the difference between that and the web for example. Technically this is a 50 year old invention, if you absolutely understand nothing about the internet you're almost actively trying not to learn or read, with that being said I think we should have more basic technical education specifically designed for non-tech people.

> Even if they have a vague awareness that companies are conspiring against them, they give up because they have been told that "'They' already have all my data so there is nothing I can do."

Yeah like I said, it's a nihilistic attitude. For example saying that more countries should have nuclear weapons just because around 9 have it already is cannot be an argument. 10 countries having them is more dangerous than 9.

And by the same rational, if Google already owns you, it doesn't mean that you it's ok to sign your soul away to TikTok now!
Anecdote != data. And unlike the other folders, if you lose this one you lose the whole system. And it's not just writes we care about, but bit flips for any reason.
Great work! Also nice to see some recent D3.js work that isn't on observerable.
Nice tool. If possible add a collection of random data to generate a random resume so that people can see a real resume before filling out their actual personal data.
> the idea that losing could be fun.

Then I think you will love Darkest Dungeon, FTL, and Into The Breach, and specially Sunless Sea, where you need to die so your next character can inherit something of your choice from the previous character, making each successive run a bit easier.
I might start using it again get over that learning curve so to speak
Sin taxes (those on alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, etc) also hit low income people harder. Yet, we still raise them because the positive effects on society outweigh the consequences.

We want people to find ways to reduce their fuel consumption, just as we want them to stop smoking. It's painful, but necessary, because the consequences of inaction are so high.
It is not, but the FTC is the entity enforcing that. This is corruption, pure and simple.
The gap is large enough that I doubt the shift in work habits was enough to change it. Cars are not the only major source of carbon emissions, and wealthier people have bigger houses:

https://apnews.com/article/science-be099434a414a0cb647640ce4...

I think you are misunderstanding the reasons why carbon taxes don't get passed. One, the ones you mention failing were NOT of the type that I am talking about (revenue neutral ones, where all of the money taken in is given right back to the citizens). If you told citizens they would be getting a check every year, I bet you a lot more would support it.

In fact, I don't have to be hypothetical: They implemented a revenue neutral carbon tax in British Columbia, and after nearly a decade of being in effect, 70% of residents supported it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/how-to-make-a-...

I think you will find that like most policy decisions, it is not the average citizen who is keeping a revenue neutral carbon tax from being implemented, but large carbon polluters who lobby against it and convince citizens not to support it.
I would hate to work for a company that treats me as commodity labor, bidding for my time but none of my values or interests.

That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, no), but how cool a company is IS an important metric in and of itself.
make it up on volume?
> you are "buying" nothing more than a URL in a JSON file (i.e. no legal ownership of anything),

This is wrong. I can see why you think it, but it is wrong.

The URL in the JSON file is free, as is the artwork that it points to. It's very hard to restrict the copying of digital artworks anyway, so why bother trying to?

The person buying the NFT is not "buying a URL". This phrase doesn't even mean anything! What they are buying is control of a record on the blockchain, which (with some slight hand-waving) contains a list of the signatures of the previous owners, including the original creator or their agent. While it is trivial to copy a JPEG, it is not at all trivial to copy the list of signatures from one part of a blockchain to another, unless you happen to have the private keys of all of the previous owners.

As such, the JPEG is abundant but the record is scarce. This mirrors the physical world, in which Picasso prints are abundant but signed originals are rare and hard to copy. What you're paying for is the uniqueness of the signature, not the ability to look at the content of the artwork, which you can probably already do for free on the internet.

"No legal ownership of anything" is not really true. You do legally own the blockchain record! You can decide whether to sell it or keep it, and you can generally dispose of it as you would with any other property. You don't legally own the copyright of the artwork, but as we've already established, that copyright probably isn't worth very much.

Your other statements may be perfectly accurate - I can't imagine 20M artists on OpenSea all turning a profit, and I imagine that a lot of the investors are likely to lose some money too. I just don't think that this has anything to do with faulty assumptions about how NFTs work.
None of the issues noted on caniuse matters as far as "using a better browser" on iOS. All iOS browsers have to be built on the current version of webkit installed on iOS. So all the rendering engines are just skinned to different browsers with different sync/bookmark options included.
Why have an arms race with something other
> We have to trust that other people will do their jobs, and that they don't bear us an ill will.

To an extent, yes. But we can also keep track of who actually has a track record of trustworthy behavior and who doesn't.

I do agree that open and free sharing of information is essential for that keeping track to scale, and that institutions in our society have undermined that and have sharply decreased the trust level in US society as a consequence. The appropriate response from us as citizens is to penalize all those people by voting them out of office--even if they are of your favored political party. Whether that will actually happen enough to make a difference is another question.
BitClout already does this although there's a lot of speculation that BitClout will fail where as Twitter has lasted for a decent amount of time.
The tax was implemented in an extremely unfair way. The bright side is that it has made it clear that the ecology transition should work hand in hand with an effort to reduce inequalities.

Here's a different implementation https://clcouncil.org/our-plan/

Regarding people living in isolated areas and forced to drive, Canada throws an additional 10% on top of the tax cut you get.

(Nitpick: Hollande and the Ayrault government implemented the tax. The yellow vests happened because Macron tried to raise that toothless tax)
yea, if you're building a distributed system that will need to scale to handle millions of TPS, then networking, IO, filesystem etc.. improvements can be significant.
I can second this - my main driver is a Dactyl-Manuform (ortholinear), and I have zero problems on any of the other four non-ortho keyboards that I use.

I also use Dvorak as my main layout and have no problems when going back to a QWERTY one.
So I just assumed the lease on a Chevy Bolt so I could cheaply try an electric out for a year. So far so good. The biggest issue, and not a big one since I can charge at home, is that 80% of the chargers around are Tesla Superchargers.

If Tesla wants to help the environment and boost EV adoption overall, they'll make their supercharger network available to other brands. I hear it is coming, but as far as I know I can't do it yet, even with an adapter.

I totally understand Tesla prioritizing its customers with a better/faster charging experience, but building a private charging network makes me think they really don't give a shit about anything but Tesla.
There is a new kinesis freestyle gaming, with LEDs (meh), but also mechanical switches (cherry). I'm very happy with mine.
Personally appreciate the grouping (roughly) by time opened, especially since the tabs are movable to other bunches.
With the power available and in sunlight that would be impossible. I'd put a mini mirror behind a mini old-style b&w LCD screen and use the LCD to modulate reflections on the mirror, making it purely passive except for driving the LCD, which however would draw 3 orders of magnitude less power than a LED.
> can capture CO2 from the air with 36$, which is like 20-30 times lower than what current best tech can offer

36$ is their cost after reselling the fuel. The 20-30x is the cost to capture and then sequester a ton, with no revenue for this.
The Hyte Revolt 3 might fit the bill for a small case with a handle.

If you weren't keen on a handle, I'd recommend the SSUPD Meshlicious instead though.
I'm kinda confused which part of this is news? That Google extracts purchase information from mails? That's a feature that's been even exposed in UI for ages! Or that Google uses incoming mail to enrich user profiles? I would have thought that to be obvious? If you put 1+1 together, then it seems pretty unsurprising that they have purchase histories of users.

Maybe I'm just too jaded at this point
Nice dress cowboy boots make better and more comfortable dress shoes than dress shoes.

You might not like the stylistic statement, but they're actually shoes you can spend 18 hours on your feet.
The first 20-odd years of the web were mostly this way... somehow we managed.
There's an old rule in graphic design that "it has to work in B&W first."
This website gave safari a heart attack
Visa is "inefficient" because they supply many many more services than simply transacting. Dispute resolution, fraud detection, customer service, card issuing, and on and on. You know, all of this stuff we'll have to build from scratch for Bitcoin to become even remotely viable as a currency. There's no reason to believe that Bitcoin can make these services any more efficient.
Having a work iPhone, this is what i most miss from Android: you can compile cute projects like these even if they aren't on the store.
I first tried DF a few weeks ago. I tend to avoid wikis for games (Factorio, RuneScape, Minecraft, Valheim) since it can "ruin the fun".

Can you comment on the experience of reading the wiki and still having fun? Does the wiki have spoilers? Is the game just too complex to spoil with any amount of reading about it?
If your startup has funding...
In this case the Govt tries to avoid Lehman moment by preemptively starving liquidity to Evergrande.
Definitely curious about the negative reaction to NoScript - I did some digging and there appears to have been (or still is?) some controversy around the NoScript author displaying 'dubious' ads? Not sure I've even seen a NoScript-injected ad, but I'd definitely be interested in why HN doesn't like recommend it anymore. One commenter on an older HN thread said that all script blockers eventually 'give in' to some form of monetary gain in exchange for ads - I wasn't aware that NoScript was in that category.
For example, data on which videos on YouTube I watch are used to personalise my recommendations. My feed becomes subjectively more interesting to me. The ads aren’t personalised because I don’t see any ads. So my data is being used, just for my benefit. Does that make sense?
If you want to make money on display advertising, you will grasp for whatever pennies you can get

Google Adsense is not always the highest-paying option for a given impression

There are entire companies that do nothing but figure out quietly, without the publisher's having to do anything, what will pay most at a given moment
Which lean? Most of the "anti-cancel-culture" people I follow (myself included) are left of center, and traditionally free speech values were a liberal issue. The insinuation that "free speech" is exclusively a right wing value is nothing more than a figment of authoritarian rhetoric.
I'm glad that this is the way customs are headed. I love my Think6.5 V2. Gasket mounting has been game changing for me.
The person delivering to me has no power to set prices. That is decided by the management at the delivering company.
The author makes many mentions of color in the original charts he cites and how it was used to improve the designs which already work well in B&W.
The quote the article is based around is discussing a new web API in the context of deciding what Mozilla thinks about it. If Mozilla isn't going to have any opinions on new web APIs, then what is even the point of Firefox? (Disclaimer, I work on Firefox but I know anything about specs.)

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/453
I know forum comments are throwaways and mean nothing mean here -- but if you're job hunting with a resumé you might be judged by spelling and you have a mangling pattern to your spelling of "friendliness" that, if replicated elsewhere, could be making you look bad.
Glad to see this. If nothing else, it's worth it if you want to hedge against a certain kind of situation that we see articles about here every week.

At this point in the culture war, I'd probably rather work for a small Christian company than some of the BigTech corps, all other things being equal. And I'm an atheist. Never thought I'd say something like that, but here we are.
I agree, but isn't that because they release so often? With RHEL releases every 4-5 years, getting the latest docker or kubernetes running would mean waiting years, or creating a frankentein RHEL with updated dependencies. Or just use Ubuntu to test it out, and maybe deploy to prod with that (or wait a much smaller amount of time for Ubuntu LTS).
I.e., the compiler converts the recursive code you wrote into the iterative form you could have written, and runs that instead because it's faster.
Engineering Explained youtube channel tackled this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2IKCdnzl5k

The verdict appears to be that the answer to this question is a bit more complicated then a blanket "Its better to buy a new car for the environment" but its highly dependent on gas milage and time of ownership, as well as new gas car vs new hybrid car vs new electric car. He does take into account carbon needed to build the cars too. It seems that in most cases a new EV will be better for the environment then your 10 year old honda in roughly 4 years. Skip to 6 minutes in the video for when he starts showing compiled data of when its better to buy a new car vs keep old.
I used to do this before with two wireless Logitech K400rs, to ease my wrist pain.

I really like their compactness, built in touchpad and volume controls etc), but was not happy with the fact that i could not keep them too close to each other, and that fn-key combinations would not work across the two keyboards (on k400 the fn keys are key (pun intended) to getting to the function keys)
1) Cancel culture has always existed, it's just been branded in the last decade as a political wedge.

2) People (especially political pundits and libertarian minded tech people) have been crying for more free market principles to exist. Don't like Facebook is sharing your pictures? Good, stop using the service then. Is that the free market at work or is it cancel culture?

3) Whether an organization deems employees actions political or not doesn't matter - the only thing that matters is what the audience deems political. If an employee gets "canceled" and you refuse to fire the person resulting in an impact to your financials, you better have a good reason to tell your board why you suffered economic loss.

I have first hand experience with cancel culture in the workplace. At a former company, we had an employee (one of ~60) who tweeted something critical about Trump during his presidency that was drug out into the spotlight (it got Fox News coverage) by Trump Jr. Our management team received scathing emails from clients and potential clients that said "fire this person or never work in this industry again" (mind you some of these came from billionaires and CxO's of Private Equity funds).

When your revenue is on the line you don't have a choice in this matter. So, to the parent's point, pretending to take this stance isn't not be apolitical.
what kind of future do you think Thiel is pushing the world towards?

a lot of his writing involving Girard and other political philosophers reads as studying mimetic desire as a means of avoiding absolute total war in society and maintaining the hegemony of what he believes to be "enlightenment values" — destruction and unnecessary suffering is generally the antithesis of those beliefs

again, I don't even personally have to agree with all his ideas and writings to want to have a discussion about it
I would say a careful read of the actual text suggests that most of the examples are intentional chartjunk, with great commentary on why they should be thought of that way.

In total, this book is very much like Tufte with as many bad examples as good -- on purpose.
Presumably the parent was rebutting this claim:

> This seems to be pretty obviously courting people with a particular political lean
Honestly, the main argument is "I don't care about following your priorities for 'legitimate' energy usage and you can't stop me."
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> You do legally own the blockchain record!

No you don't. In fact, I don't think NFT ownership has been litigated in any court of law (yet). The deed/title analogy is pretty good. But what makes a deed a deed is that it has the force of the law behind it. NFTs do not.
I meant that it's odd from the perspective of how unlikely this conversation, about ivermectin (or any of the things you listed), would've been even just two years ago.

EDIT: But, also somewhat odd how apparently disproportionately widespread the conversation about specifically ivermectin has become.
Step 1. Send a $50 check to everyone who earned less than 30k last year or who is unemployed now at the beginning of every month

Step 2. Raise gas/burger/cigarette taxes
> Where does this logic end?

When there is an actual cost to Zuckerberg's behavior. So far, Silicon Valley is fine working for Facebook and Wall Street fine financing it. Users aren't rebelling. Advertisers are docile.

Where is a politician aspiring to take Zuckerberg on supposed to find berth? (Genuine question.) The only fecund ground, to my sense, is the far right accusing Facebook of censoring its Nazism and far left upset that Zuckerberg is rich. Neither makes for a sustainably extensible base.
> You can’t bribe a government

Well, maybe we can’t, but Zucc sure can!
Well, it is Montana, it includes medical and dental insurance at 100% employee and 75% for dependents. The total comp is probably more comparable to other $22-25/hr jobs with minimal benefits for someone with a family.
I'm on the same page.

When my fancy dress shoes need repair or replacing, even I can tell what work it needs, though I can't perform that work myself. It needs a new sole, or new stitching, or wtv.

With sneakers, I'm utterly trained to think "well now it's trash" rather than "could this be repaired". And, thanks to this article, I'm gonna try to have the "how do I repair it" thought first, instead of the "how do I replace it" thought.

Which is weird, because this is absolutely already how I think about laptops and cellphones.
I agree with this policy entirely, singapore has similar high taxes on cars. It is possible to build cities, and countries, in such a way that cars are mostly unnecessary. In a pedestrian first design, with bikes and public transportation, you do not need a car. Cars are dangerous (to pedestrians, and drivers and other drivers), environmentally harmful, wasteful, noisy things. Outside of some rural areas, and businesses, cars are not necessary, and should not be necessary day to day for 95%+ of people. Even with Buses a bus moves many more people more efficiently than a car. Autonomous trolleys, trains, buses are an easier problem than cars since you can have set routes. Electtric buses exist. Its really unfortunate so many societies are set up around the rich and cars.
I've totally cut out Reddit and other sites that have gotten increasingly low quality over the years. That said I do still regularly 'waste' time on HN, although I think it offers enough utility that it's not a bad place to relax for a while now and then.

One thing I've realized over the past few years is that it's almost impossible to get away from 'wasting' a fair few hours each day. It's a good idea to let yourself disengage and move into a more diffuse mode of thought instead of trying to hold your nose to the grindstone unnecessarily. It may be that the effective people you know are that way because of their willingness to take a extended breaks rather than in spite of.
Who says they have to design a new phone from scratch?

All they have to do is to rebrand one or more existing phones and change the app store policy. Only the app store software needs to be changed.

What is so difficult about that?
> The FTC also said in court that Facebook’s fine would have been closer to $106 million, but the company agreed to the $5 billion penalty to avoid having Zuckerberg or Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg deposed and any liability for the CEO, the suit alleged.

This is bizarre. I get throwing in a little extra to shield executives, but $5 billion?
Acrobat OCR'd it when I opened the PDF. I'm sure several websites could do the same.
Great initiative... but if you really want Biden and his administration to listen to you, you probably shouldn't make fun of him on your twitter account with 60 million+ followers. [0]

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2021/09/20/elon-mus...
Man, what an unbelievably irresponsible headline. No, Covid-19 in its current form won't just "cause a cold", it's just unlikely to mutate to be _more_ deadly than it already is, and will likely mutate to be less deadly and equally virulent, causing cold-like symptoms in the future.[1]

[1]: RTFA