skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we can't trust people not to follow idiots, then we must find the idiots and stop them being publishers.

Point is it's not the social media company's decisions that cause the problem, humans cause the problem.

So in the end it's an absence of government overseeing the health of its people, because it decided to be involved in as little a way as possible.

The internet does the same thing as any previous media, just better, faster, and governments aren't keeping pace, or being global.

Facebook isn't broken, government is.

If you want Facebook to be the new government, that's an interesting question.
I agree. What's clear to me is that these systems are being used to try to make people into robots. People are not robots, and shouldn't be treated as such.
Dad's 85. He was 82 when it became clear he was having significant problems, but mom had been saying he was having lesser problems before that. My aunt has just turned 80. Grandma died at 87. I'm not sure exactly when she became symptomatic, but it was also around 80. I'm 53. I figure I have 20-25 good years left.

The cholesterol connection is of interest because of my family history, but my current thinking is that the so-called Type 3 Diabetes pathway seems very plausible. Whether it affects brain health or not, I'm on the "carbs are bad" bandwagon.
I find the idea of being forced to associate with someone whose speech I find repugnant because you value their speech over my free association rights disconcerting.
Let’s say with data central planning is more tractable. What is the benefit? To make more items people should want? I mean capitalism does a pretty good job making things people do want.

And capitalism is highly distributed decision making. As we all know, top down decision making pretty much sucks no matter how much information they might have.
Previously on HN:

The JSON5 Data Interchange Format (https://spec.json5.org/) - 2 Years ago - 0 Comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113613
Or worse, they do a very good job on the electronics, but forget about basic mechanics. The LPL has lots of examples of that as well.
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Can that be forced?
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Oh I have completely the opposite experience. Cities generally have less quality. Precisely because of the massive nature of cities. There is no local quality foods for example because mega-corps are much more efficient and most people choose price over quality. Most forms of entertainment suck because of overcrowding. Just look at nightclubs with their bouncers.
cat just regurgitates the contents of the file, but the resulting piped fd is non-seekable. Since almost every command that can operate on a file from stdin can also operate on the file by name/path, at best this is just a needless invocation of a process (i.e. `tv foo.csv` should have been used instead of `cat foo.csv | tv`) - if the app in question can't handle paths, then you can have the shell pipe the file into it instead (e.g. `tv < foo.csv`). At worst, the recipient program would need to buffer the entire contents of the input if it needs to perform non-sequential operations on the source data - this is the case with things like `tac` that need to seek to the end of the input (see https://github.com/neosmart/tac for how `cat foo | tac` requires buffering but both `tac foo` and even `tac < foo` don't).
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I think your last point is wrong. Shipping big, complex projects at big tech companies, especially vendors who actually literally ship and can't do live patching to cover up shoddy practices, is actually something _everyone_ in the industry should do because you learn a lot about what it really means to build and release software.

Cloud-delivered CRUD apps are the easy mode of SW development and people who have never done anything else really end up quite stunted IMHO.
I've made a Lotus 1-2-3 inspired CSV viewer for the terminal too. Had big plans for it, but it's just a basic viewer now:

https://github.com/evert/csv123
The big change is second-tier chains like Lightning which is very fast (hence the name) and a fraction of cost overhead for transactions (compared to BTC -- which is a tiny fraction of traditional payment clearing systems). I don't pretend to fully understand lightning but the idea that one would move their BTC holdings to a second tier chain to conduct transaction makes sense. Eventually BTC will be like a central bank and the second-tier chains will be more akin to accounts at your local bank. Heck, if you're sufficiently skilled/intrepid you could BE your own bank and move all of your holdings to a Lightning or Hive node that you run yourself.
> in the context of the U.S., progressivism is small enough and has little enough political power that it can be overlooked

On the other hand, Coca-Cola had training urging workers to be less white [1], the US Army lectured soldiers on white privilege [2], the most allegedly xenophobic US president didn't put a dent in legal immigration numbers [3], academia is not only overwhelmingly liberal, but also openly hostile to conservatives [4], and the University of California required (or still requires?) specific plans to advance diversity from job applicants [5].

You are correct that if you measure progressivism by e.g. worker's rights, universal healthcare, or stopping the military-industrial complex, it has been an utter failure. And if your imagined conservative is someone that is opposed to these things, they will appear very powerful. But if you pick a different test by which you measure, you get very different results.

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-u...

[2] https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-...

[3] https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/tab...

[4] https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/study_liberalto...

[5] https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...
What about the faked results in the US? In the early XX century there was quite a significant amount of election fraud at the local-level elections in the USA, so what prevents it from happening again?
> quiet is an underappreciated luxury good (and an underappreciated aspect of public libraries); seriously, poverty is so loud.

this is one of the most compassionate things i've read today. thank you
I agree that this seems farfetched. At the same time, I don't think we need to understand how the brain works in order to mimic or copy it, right? At a somewhat absurd level, we give birth to humans with brains without understanding brains.

The goal here seems to be to start by copying it without understanding in order to gain understanding. AFAIK we already simulate brains of silk worms or some such thing?
I don't see how I am missing the point. Everything you've said would be mostly within the guidelines. Where you would get into trouble is if you did start saying "Nixon really won" or otherwise trying to say the election was fraudulent, because that would be false. You may want to re-read the guidelines to double check this.

But you may want to be careful with statements like "We now know the 1960 Nixon vs. Kennedy election is suspect". The election is not suspect and the end results (Kennedy won) are not going to change. It was settled decades ago. Specific events like you mention might have been suspect, but the election itself was not, it was settled legally according to the way the system worked at the time.

>the election process is vulnerable to fraud and needs reform or oversight

But that's the thing though, just this saying this on social media in the context of any election is not meaningful and can cause harm, and is causing harm. Every election has statistical oddities, errors, disputes, recounts, and other issues. All of these mentioned election processes already do have oversight and formal reform procedures in place. That's all a normal and expected part of the process. It's a constant ongoing process to improve them. We can never make a perfect system so each election year we just do our best and then resolve the resulting legal disputes in the traditional manner. That's the way the system works.
A reversible function can do all the work of any given irreversible function.

Specifically, supposed your reversible function is G(x).
a reversible function for this is then (X, Y) => (X, G(X) ^ Y)
Agreed. Leave a kid with a locked device, and with enough poking around, it will be unlocked. They will exhaust every possible route, and seek the most optimal solution to any restrictions.
Not sure.

"A fifth of all EU border checks are now happening in Northern Ireland, the government has said."

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/unsustainable...

There is a distinct possibility that the EU is being vindictive
Oh, sorry, my bad. Currently, you can do one recording in high quality stereo without having to subscribe or commit to anything. To do that, tap the "Try Stereo HD" button. It should then say "Trying Stereo HD" and the resulting recording should be in stereo.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I hope I could clarify :)
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Don't apologise, I've wondered the same thing many times! One way of categorising meditation is single pointed (basically, one object of attention) and many pointed (many objects, usually contemplative and attempted after skill in single pointed techniques, though not always - vipassana as an example), though one can become the other. I'm not sure that something with many things to concentrate on will help foster levels of concentration (jhana) better. <y feeling is they probably just help keep it interesting, which is an underrated ingredient - even things we like and enjoy can feel like work if we feel we should do it, or have to do it, or we get no variety. Music provides variety, energy and spoteneity in abundance.

It's also very distracting too. You can't have it all :) Personally, I've found learning scales or some particular run of notes to be similar to single pointed meditation but I notice changes in mental state more with a traditional technique, my goals are slightly different.
The annoying thing was, my position on first lockdown was:

1. Covid doesn't generally disable young and healthy people, so there will be no supply shortage.

2. It will be nice to have a reason to go out if I'm cooped up inside all day, and buying groceries is a good one.

Then of course, I ended up using napkins as toilet paper for a week, because everybody else thought different.
Or Alice is more familiar with that section of the code and would move more quickly in there and Bob would be doing more learning along the way.

Quick discussion of the differences is useful, but 15 minutes is ridiculous. Just take the higher value and move on. Eventually you’ll baseline at slightly more points per sprint on average, but they are imaginary numbers anyway and not really comparable across teams.
I believe the trend toward a peaceful society has led to an imbalance of power based on age. When life was violent, it stabilized wealth concentration issues by periodically resetting the power of entrenched interests.

Today, the old disproportionately control power and they direct that power towards their own protection. This is true of 80 yr olds. But it is also true of 50 yr olds. And even 30 yr olds.

The COVID crisis response is one such example. Overbearing responses were put into place primarily because the danger was to old people. Concerns over this very outcome were handwaved away with low likelihood counterfactuals.

Alternatives exist in some other cultures. We are familiar with the Fukushima Skilled Veteran Corps https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13598607 but there are people who have a similar perspective who occupy this world.

My parents are surgeons in their sixties and they continue to practise during this crisis and do not advocate for the degree of total lockdown that is so popular. They do not advocate for closed schools. I would rather be them than be like risk-averse 70 yr olds saying that life should pause (but not their pensions).

I’m going to go ahead and say it: intransigent old people might be the greatest threat to humanity’s long term survival through their normalcy bias, grip on power, and fear of change. I hope that as I grow older I, too, manage to prioritize the next generation over myself.
So why bother with the snarky reply then?
XSV [0] can also pretty-print (minus the colors), but that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as what it can do. It's very handle for quick statistical analysis of CSV input.

[0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
I had an old boss that I developed a rule of 3 for. He like to change priorities constantly because that was "agile". So I just knew that until he asked for something the 3rd time, I would say "yes" and let it die on the vine. If he did ask 3 times, then it was probably going to actually stay a priority.
My SO is an elementary school teacher in a post-industrial urban school. Her students (mostly poor, and crucially almost all with parents who were working in-person through the lockdown) were effectively remote-only from March 2020 until earlier this month, and it's had some substantial visible effects on them. Among other things:

- Missing that in-person school time meant losing a lot of "leaving home" practice for a large chunk of kids. Current second graders were in-person for 6 months of kindergarten, and remote from there. This means there are a lot of mechanical and social things they haven't had to do (sit quietly next to each other, tie their shoes, ask to go to the bathroom).

- The "summer slide" has been much more severe than usual. A large chunk of the students didn't get much education out of being remote for first grade, so a much-larger-than-usual chunk of the cohort are substantially behind grade level for basic skills, especially reading.

- Related to above, there has been a huge backlog of students who need to be evaluated for various special education and disability needs who just haven't been able to be accommodated and who, due to the process difficulties for the last year, probably won't be able to be evaluated based on their data from last year (leaving them severely under-supported for another year while the data is collected).
Your reasoning is circular: nobody is "disagreeing with God", because nobody knows what "God" thinks. Fundamentalists just follow ancient texts that present themselves as the "word of God".
That's amazing. Enforcing a goal, but refusing to say what that goal actually is? That seems akin to psychological torture right there.
Thanks for the recommendation! That looks super interesting.
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The fact the US has problems with corruption and lobbying isn’t proof that authoritarian central planning isn’t worse.

The example I always like was Vietel, the national telecom company in Vietnam. It’s a business owned by the People’s Army of Vietnam.

Wrap your head around that. The military has its own side business running the nations telecommunications infrastructure.
> The odd thing about 'socialization' is that it really means 'age segregated groups in a highly organized situation'.

Are you campaigning for self-directed learning like in the Sudbury Valley model?
Getoutline.com is a great lightweight open source alternative to Notion.
I think a few people here are forgetting, importantly - that iOS supports external audio interfaces via the Lightning cable.

Anyone looking for solid semi-pro audio quality from their iPhone/iPad can spend around $100 and get a quite nice audio capture card with traditional XLR / 1/4" cable support; allowing them to directly plug a guitar, amp; or microphone into the device.

I have had a lot of success with this method - I wouldn't really suggest recording with the internal microphones on the iPhone if you are looking for any sort of notable quality.

I'm not sure how you could even effectively sing into it with a sense of actual response from the mic like I get with even a basic Shure SM58.

Not really a comparable tool. More for whole room recording, maybe; but even then you'll of course be missing a lot of the bass frequencies and get a bunch of garbage you don't want.
There is pictures in the Daily Mail of people emptying water bottles and filling them with petrol.
Cool project! I'm familiar with column, and this looks like a good replacement.

Curious, how do you handle formatting on cells with long strings that need to overflow to multiple lines? As soon as you try to optimize the column widths for table length, you start hitting an NP-hard problem.

https://quintenkent.com/content/column-problem.html
I believe you should give valid reasoning, and also deny the harmful obsession.

Some stimulants are too addictive to trust a young child to mindfully avoid.

The people working in the social media and entertainment industries are extremely skilled at their jobs of increasing user engagement, they have huge budgets with which to accomplish that goal and little regulatory oversight.

People have a finite ability to resist obsession.

Sugar is tasty, it gives a surge of dopamine when you consume it, and fruits use that property to get animals like us to eat them so they can reproduce. But even kids can resist that with a little education and maybe a stomachache after Halloween.

Heroin is similarly addictive, in the way that a butter knife and similarly a hand grenade are dangerous to a small child.

These products are meticulously engineered to be maximally addictive and obsessive. Human nature is not necessarily up to the task of resisting them.
This is a fairly old article, and the title suggests there is a recent ban on recurring charges. Am I missing something here?
It's a funny bit which is put into stark relief when cast in the negative: you do profound damage to society by NOT raising your children well... and could start a cycle that repeats for generations.
In my case, given a fairly weak upper palate, it’s also a case of destroying your mouth with perfect objects.
I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
I knew which one it was before clicking the link.
We were also told to prepare to self isolate a family for 2 weeks. That's a bunch of toilet roll for a normal sized family needed to stock up on. When internet deliveries were restricted to just the vulnerable too.

Almost all "panic buying" is calm and rational.
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That is the kind of problem solution that ends up with you now having 2 problems. New problem(s); having tabs and spaces, having to think when to use them, having to train/document everyone in usage, having to debate that usage, having to correct code and chastise people who get usage wrong.

Use a automatic code formatter with minimal options. Automate either running code formatter on commit or denying commits that change when code formatter is run on them.
It should be noted that the photographs that the news outlets use in the articles about supermarket shortages are mostly from last year. It's deceptive.
I think it is a good example. Corruption and acquisition of power into the hands of a few is the result of pretty much any system. One can still acknowledge, however, that some approaches lead to this result much faster.
This is why I love HN. Never knew this existed. It has become my favorite tool in the past 5 mins I installed it. Also reminds me of Mainframe programs that I encountered in the past. I wish we had more tools like this instead of electron mouse click based apps for people who prefer speed and keyboard.
You could also just check if the copywrite has expired. They are from 1975.
I self-host three VPNs to protect my infrastructure heavy startup https://quantale.io

I am a big fan of Pritunl which is opensource and provides network security with a lot of ease. I am in no way affiliated with them. I use Pritunl to limit access to servers and web applications for my different teams. For each user, you can generate a profile and assign the servers and port they have access to on the server. For eg:

- Only dev team can access ssh port(22) on stage server and not open to internet.

- Any one in the team can access stage version(port 443) for testing purpose.(Not open to internet)

- Only I can access all ports on all Prod servers(only 443 open to public)

What hackers can't see, they can't attack. Especially the port 22 on your servers should only be accessible to you and not the internet.

I self-host one instance each of OpenVPN and Wireguard with Pi-Hole which is then used to access my Pritunl Server adding extra layer of security.

Each of these 3 servers can be hosted on Hetzner $2/month instance. With a mere $6, you can add an extra layer of security to your infrastructure. Pritunl itself also provides subscription so that is also an option.

*Quantale is a stock market analytics tool that helps users discover trending stocks using real-time market sentiment from social media
used signal for years before it became trendy recently, it had always problems with delivering messages when switching between mobile data and wifi, whatsapp will choose best connection almost instantly, it took Signal minutes or didn't choose it at all

heck for years you could not even select multiple photos to share at once from file picker

I vivily remember how Signal didn't work for like 8 hours because it was during night in US and the responsible person was sleeping, so these 3 hours outage is nothing with this profesionally managed client/network

that last drop was when they started to nag me with mandatory PIN code through half screen, then we just left with extended family, F that
I just started with: The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra and I'm lovin' it (not a book but a 15 pages essay).
> Anti-1A sentiment is growing on the political left

That statement, if you stop to think about what it means for all other freedoms, should genuinely scare you. Freedom only matters if it includes the right to offend others. Anything less isn't freedom at all.

If you genuinely believe in the principles of freedom, you will trust that the free exchange of all ideas - good and bad, right and wrong - is the best and only way to bring out the truth.

All of this hearkens back to dark ideas in which one class of people exercise power over another. Remember what they say about power.
In a case near me, I know a middle school teacher who has to negotiate with students for lectures: "We'll do 20 minutes and then you can do 5 minutes for a phone break." Without this, the classroom cannot be controlled. She says without knowing when the next phone break is makes them very nervous, and very difficult to retain their attention. This is a classroom in a "good school" area, extremely high funding, all kids claim learning disability to get advantages, and parents come down on the teachers. The school bureaucracy is deeply anti-teacher, and allows parents to treat them this way. I definitely agree that it is a failing of the school itself.

I have another friend who is a science teacher, but he doesn't have exciting stories like this.
Originally, there were a handful (like 3-6 or so) stations that ran out of fuel due to a BP driver shortage.

The resulting media-fuelled spate of panic buying overloaded normal delivery cycles.

There is plenty of product stored at the ports/refineries themselves.
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Superdeterminism predicts that it was always pre-determined I wouldn't really understand this article, and the universe left me no choice, so I have nothing to feel bad about.

Sabine's blog exists in an interesting superposition of comforting and existential dread =]
Your source is behind a paywall, and I'm not interested in paying the Telegraph, but it seems there's a factual inaccuracy in your statement - the electoral commission did not 'come up with nothing'. They imposed a fine, referred Vote Leave to the police, and Vote Leave dropped their appeal.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/vote-lea...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/29/vote-leave-...