skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent exposition, thanks!

>>censorship's main role is to cool down controversies and to suppress collective action, no matter whether those controversies/collective actions are pro- or anti-government. ... while pro-government messages are censored if they become too popular and run the risk of getting a life of its own.

This really strikes me as a key element. I've noticed anti-govt sentiments expressed within/from China, and the apparent paradox of them being allowed to exist, and also noted that the main thrust of CCP action was against movements, not comments. It makes sense, both as a practical need to focus the work of managing society, and strategically, that they see that they cannot allow any other movement to grow, hence suppression/management starting at organized religion, and anything else that gets viral or organized. In this sense, it is easily seen as a defensive measure, both internally and externally, trying to prevent anything from growing to another concentration of power.

Interesting perspective on the collective motivating trauma. It almost seems that for the Chinese, it was poverty and being overrun by outside forces, for the westerners, especially Americans, it was excessive govt -- the US was literally founded by those escaping govt persecution. So the core motivating fears are at the opposite end of the spectrum.

I like your distinction on the process/results legitimacy/illegitimacy views; it certainly shows how Chinese can see their govt as legitimate. and the CCP has largely delivered increasing prosperity for the last decades. However, when the govt fails to deliver, how does that get fixed? In (functioning) democracies, a govt that fails to deliver even a little bit gets voted out. In China, it seems the only choice would be to endure a non-delivering govt, or a new revolution...

Churchill's comment comes to mind: "Democracy is the worst form of govt, except for all others.". The best, while it lasts, is a benign dictatorship where the leader is successfully working for the people. The problem is that nothing guarantees the success or motivation.

How do they plan to ensure succession and that the party works for the people, successfully? It seems that the anti-corruption push might be a good thing, but from here, I have no idea if that was genuinely rooting out corruption, or consolidating power, or both. (They certainly seem to have little control of shadow banking, etc., which could be an existential threat).

Also interesting and a bit funny that the Party sees that it can't compete with western media. Not surprising, but not evident from here either until you mentioned it (I'd be pretty intimidated too). Considering that the firewall is generally known and accepted, how easy and common is it to evade it? Can everyone do it trivially, or does it take a lot of effort? What are typical penalties and how, and how often, are they enforced? What is the result - is discussion of yesterday's Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. common, occasional, or all underground, or does no one care about them?
This isn't the same drivel though. This article isn't about an industry complaining about not being able to attract workers, it is explicitly about how the wages are not high enough to attract and retain workers.
That's actually fairly.cpmmom practice in finance. If you base is considered a bit high for your position, the bonus just gets docked a bit instead. It's all 100 percent discretionary so...
It took 2+ months for our extension update to be approved, it was a small incremental update. Getting it done in that time frame required us to email Caitlin and an HN'er who commented on another thread to try and get things done in an expedited manner.

For a time there was a little ticker showing your place in the queue. We graphed that for a while, then they pulled the feature entirely: https://twitter.com/preinheimer/status/1422577415780450311

The queue of course isn't a straight queue. Some people end up traversing the entire queue, very slowly. Other folks manage to jump out of the queue and get listed sooner.

We've seriously considered abandoning our FF extension. FF's market share is shrinking, and we see the difference in the usage stats for our extension specifically.

Some of our updates require coordination on our website and the extension. So holding onto FF means that some updates take months to roll out for everyone.
> (exclusion and intolerance, resistance to or denial of reality, imposition of impossible standards, the denial of one's own preferences and wants).

This is true of group affiliation in general, and may be innate to human beings:

> “The human mind,” Klein observes, “is exquisitely tuned to group affiliation and group difference”—so much so that, as soon as an affiliation has formed, the people who have affiliated with one another proceed to define themselves against an out-group. To make matters worse, Klein goes on, human groups compete less for resources than they do for social esteem, and esteem is zero-sum: more for you means less for me. We would rather “win” against the out-group and be worse off than be better off and lose.

* https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/ezra-kleins-why...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized

> but as long as people follow religions that preach their own unique truthfulness (believe the pope, the Bible, the Quran, the priests, the sutras, ...) we will never get there.

Except that some world views do hew closer to reality than others:

> Occasionalism is a philosophical doctrine about causation which says that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God.

[…]

> The doctrine first reached prominence in the Islamic theological schools of Iraq, especially in Basra. The ninth century theologian Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari argued that there is no Secondary Causation in the created order. The world is sustained and governed through direct intervention of a divine primary causation. As such the world is in a constant state of recreation by God.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism

> Secondary causation[1][2][3] is the philosophical proposition that all material and corporeal objects, having been created by God with their own intrinsic potentialities, are subsequently empowered to evolve independently in accordance with natural law.[citation needed] […] That the physical universe is consequentially well-ordered, consistent, and knowable subject to human observation and reason, was a primary theme of Scholasticism and further molded into the philosophy of the western tradition by Augustine of Hippo and later by Thomas Aquinas.

> Secondary causation has been suggested as a necessary precursor for scientific inquiry into an established order of natural laws which are not entirely predicated on the changeable whims of a supernatural being.[4] Nor does this create a conflict between science and religion for, given a creator deity, it is not inconsistent with the paradigm of a clockwork universe.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_causation
> UCLA and BioNTech

Biogen. BioNTech is still pretty focused on mRNA technology :-)
I can't keep responding to this thread. The following is what I said in the beginning of it.

> we need to set high standards for engineering, security, user consent, and privacy expectations for companies working in this area
512KB sounds pretty reasonable consider how simple the graphics and gameplay actually is. 90s really were much more efficient time.

Nowadays we consider nothing of half-a-meg useless images or javascript libraries...
>But I started noticing some people were looking at the meeting notes as if I was holding a gun at their heads for what they said during the meetings.

My experience (as technical resource/lead and project manager) has been to make sure that meeting notes include all agenda items and the action items associated with them.

However, I always make explicit that this is my understanding and request feedback from all participants as to the accuracy, schedule and scope of action items.

I suppose that comes from long experience where you're given responsibility for ensuring the success of an effort/project but not given the concomitant authority to compel action.

That requires consensus building and buy in from all stakeholders.

Often, that's not an issue when the entire organization is focused on a singular product/service. But in large organizations, building consensus among the stakeholders is absolutely necessary for success.

In smaller organizations this is less of an issue, as someone with authority over all aspects of cross-functional efforts is likely directly involved.

As such, the metaphorical "this is going to be done. Do it now." coming from a person who can directly affect your compensation and continued employment is extremely effective.

That's not so in large organizations where authority is more broadly distributed.

It occurs to me that differences in the size and structure of an organization can have significant impact on how such processes evolve and either thrive or die.
> If you can prove in court that the majority shareholders are acting to the detriment of minority shareholders, that's actionable.

Interesting. Thanks!
You should ask the opposite. If you have kids and are low class why are you buying child care? Shouldn't it be cheaper to take care of the child yourself instead of paying income tax to let someone else, who also pays income tax and may be gets paid more than you, do it?

I mean the point of childcare is that the carer gets to specialize and the workers who do not have to do childcare get to specialize. If there are people who end up worse off after specialization then something is seriously broken.
pay. more.
Tried out the finger version with three glasses of water. I could only reproduce it partway - my middle finger felt like it was in hot water, when it was actually in cold.
>> Does this count the 6 people I interviewed this year that couldn't fizzbuz?

Yes. The bell curve for software developers is very wide. The 10x developers are real, they're way out there - maybe 2 standard deviations from average. The "can't fizzbuzz" crowd is large, probably only 1 standard deviation (or less) below average.
Agreed. I am certainly inclined to believe that Nim is a better language than Python, but it's not so much better thlo justify moving off of the ecosystem.
Thanks. I went to lunch and came back and realized I'd mistyped it, hadn't bothered to put in a correction post and was well passed the edit period by the time I saw it.
Has Transport Fever 2 grown more challenging since its first release?

I bought it at release and found it a huge disappointment because it was too easy. Transport Fever 1 had a pretty decent economic simulation and I was hoping 2 would take it up a notch. Instead, Transport Fever 2's economy was a dumbed-down version of the original, with simpler production chains and industries that produced unlimited output. I spent many hours on Transport Fever 1 but gave up after fewer than 10 hours on Transport Fever 2.
This excerpt is from a widely prayed Orthodox Christian akathist hymn. [0] Akathist means not sitting as it is usually prayed standing up. It was composed during the persecution in communist Russia by Metropolitan Tryphon [1]

"The breath of Thine Holy Spirit inspires artists, poets and scientists. The power of Thy supreme knowledge makes them prophets and interpreters of Thy laws, who reveal the depths of Thy creative wisdom. Their works speak unwittingly of Thee. How great art Thou in Thy creation! How great art Thou in man!

Glory to Thee, showing Thine unsurpassable power in the laws of the universe

Glory to Thee, for all nature is filled with Thy laws

Glory to Thee for what Thou hast revealed to us in Thy mercy

Glory to Thee for what Thou hast hidden from us in Thy wisdom

Glory to Thee for the inventiveness of the human mind

Glory to Thee for the dignity of man's labour

Glory to Thee for the tongues of fire that bring inspiration

Glory to Thee, O God, from age to age"

[0] http://www.saintjonah.org/services/thanksgiving.htm

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryphon_(Turkestanov)
I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses - Please read on before you just dismiss what I have experienced.

Going door to door I have meet plenty of people who say "I don't believe in God, we got here thru evolution!".

So I ask the simple question which theory of evolution do they think is probably has the right idea.

Too often I hear, "Survival of the strongest." or "What? There is more than one theory about how evolution works?".

What is clear to me is that to these people evolution is a BELIEF and not something they thought of, it is as much a religion to them as mine is to me. Worse, I can study and agree or disagree with things I was taught, too often people are just blindly accepting because they do not want to put any efforts in.
> multitail

You just made my day. I always open multiple ssh sessions just to display various logs at the same time.

Seems like you can even docker-compose logs -tf | multitail -j.

edit: I never took the time to learn tmux but after just watching a use case video, seems like you could achieve the same result with tmux indeed, as the other comment suggested.
It's still correct regarding ebooks and audio files, you're not paying for the files but the rights to keep a copy of the file and use it personally.

If the files are not protected by DRM, then there's no technical limitation on copying or redistributing the file, but according to your license agreement you're not permitted to do so.

In practice, no one is probably going to come after you for copying your music files or ebooks across your devices or sharing it with friends, but you don't own the file. Try mass distributing it or reselling it long enough and you'll attract someone's attention.
I'm skeptical that will do anything. Healthcare tried to be interoperable with the HL7 protocol. Which worked out so well that software companies sell "hubs" to translate between the different vendor flavors of HL7.
> calling them all “RSS” is harmful by encouraging the inferior.

Where did this come from? You refer to an atom feed as RSS, someone decides to add RSS to their site, and they implement atom because that's how you do RSS. What's the problem?
Also its kinda funny to argue 'electric cars are slower' when your example is a car which did 7:38, changed nothing about the engine but added electric power, and now does 7:29
Increasing supply reduces prices, hurts speculators, and makes things more affordable. This is Econ 101. There is no reason to think housing is an exception. But it sure does serve the interests of NIMBYs to pretend as if it is an exception. Are you a NIMBY?
What if my AI invents something and then someone else patents it? Can I use the invention from my AI as prior art?
The difference between religion and other groups is that it provides an impenetrable shield to those who wield it, and virtually anything can be deflected a-la

> God's ways are mysterious

fashion. Any differing positions appear as attacks against the person's religion, which - when it carries sufficient argumentative power - can shake the foundations of the person's world model. This, in turn, prevents them from accepting the differing position because such events induce fear and shut down mental faculties, effectively putting a person in a fight or flight mode.

Furthermore, it prevents people from maturing and accepting integral parts of the human condition, such as the permanence of death, it provides a false sense of security that renders people incapacitated from taking meaningful action (God will find a way if God wills it), and finally gives a false sense importance and grandiose to puny humans who live in utter ignorance of their own insignificance in the medium (NB humanity scale) and grand scheme of things.

To reach the solution that you point to, society needs to accept that free-will is an illusion, and that is inherently incompatible with Abrahamic religions.
This is why I like things like svg for pure gradient graphics. Uncompressed plaintext can be used to render all RGB colors with a similar filesize as png.

I'll see if I can come up with a clever way do it without having to resort to tricks that move the goalposts (such as having repeated colors).

Okay I think I got pretty close. The png export doesn't have 16.7 million colors, so there must be some error in my logic.

1370 bytes as a human readable plaintext file.

711 bytes as a 7-zip.

658 bytes as a usable compressed svgz file.

159936 bytes as a png.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg width="256" height="65536" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 256 65536" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<defs>
<linearGradient id="a" x2="256" y1="32768" y2="32768" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<stop stop-color="#f00" offset="0"/>
<stop stop-color="#ff0" offset=".166666667"/>
<stop stop-color="#0f0" offset=".333333333"/>
<stop stop-color="#0ff" offset=".5"/>
<stop stop-color="#00f" offset=".666666667"/>
<stop stop-color="#f0f" offset=".833333333"/>
<stop stop-color="#f00" offset="1"/>
</linearGradient>
<linearGradient id="b" x1="128" x2="128" y1="0" y2="65536" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
<stop offset="0"/>
<stop stop-color="#808080" stop-opacity="0" offset=".5"/>
<stop stop-color="#fff" offset="1"/>
</linearGradient>
</defs>
<metadata>
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage"/>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<rect width="256" height="65536" fill="url(#a)" stroke-width="24" style="mix-blend-mode:normal"/>
<rect width="256" height="65536" fill="url(#b)" stroke-width="24" style="mix-blend-mode:normal"/>
</svg>
"Winner-take-all" giants are not the problem. The problem is when something is strictly better (price, features, UX, performance or security) but can't win due to properties that are not inherent to the solution like network effects.
My point was that the political will to make large swaths of land public has existed in the past, and if people keep getting more and more desperate it'll happen again, hopefully not violently.

But ok back to your point: so market capitalism works - but in housing we haven't had markets because of gov interference. So what's an area where we have a free unconstrained market for a basic human necessity, that doesn't cause deep deep suffering?

Food, water, housing, heathcare, safety - these are things that when solved by "the market" necessarily exclude a small but significant portion of people. Market capitalism is the wrong tool for basic needs. Prove me wrong ;)
Tell it to get a job or go to college.
> Reality check: ISPs sell your information. They’re pretty much the last people you should trust.

Exactly why we should regulate IP address and protocols, so that every company that handles them is beholden to the same conditions for preserving our privacy. Instead we play whack-a-mole regulating individual company behavior, while they continue to control the protocols and addresses and everything on top of those layers.
Complete failure.. haha..
Note the existence of the included Pipeline audio/video server. The article mentions it should be low enough latency that it could be used in professional audio while also be approachable from the "normal user's" perspective.

I may try Fedora just for that.
I see where this is going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv_Y-norYPU
Get Ferdi: All your services in one place (i.e., Franz but free)
Rambox community edition feels dated, but Franz feels obscure or bloated? Ferdi may be hitting the sweet spot for you in terms of chat services organizers.
The article is input from a worker which states pay is crap and a company which states they can't find anyone and offer $12/hr, this is very much a problem with the business
This is the classical liberal take: ultra-individualism. Everyone can have their own god(s) (even metaphorically) and things will just work out if everyone got along.

Historical trends seem to be going in the exact opposite direction. Individualism is sustainable to a certain point, but not when it becomes the default position of a society. All of the countries, belief systems, and ideologies that are succeeding today are running away from individualism. Whether that’s good or bad, is up to you.
A belief does not constitute a religion, people have all sorts of irrational beliefs, but that doesn't make them religion.
Since the article is talking about the great expansion I'm offering a counterpoint - the great collapse.

https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age/

> Collapsed Layers (One thing doing many things well instead of many things doing one thing well)
I've attended a few Unitarian Universalist services, and they're very open to "non-believers", as well as pretty much any type of personal belief. They seemed to be much more interested in community and rite than to forcing dogma. Still, while they were certainly a friendly and pleasant group of people, I found it all a bit too fuzzy with objective truth to be my cup if tea. I don't have anything like Sunday Assembly in my area, and occasionally thought of trying to start some kind of weekly humanist gathering. Rather than the UU message that "any belief is welcome", I wanted to convey more of a "everyone is welcome, personal religious beliefs aside" message. Where we could just work on humanistic goals together.
After some time you have to consider the test is failed and investigate, even if it would have succeeded had the timeout been 1 second larger. I cannot believe they do not have quality of service requirements. Testing those requirements is of course not easy. It may take to much time to run on every release or may be considered out of the scope of E2E tests and compliance is checked with telemetry results.

However pick any response time mandated by the QOS requirements, multiply by an appropriate x and use this as the pass/fail timeout for your test. Take a value large enough that can easily be considered a bug (because e.g. the customer would think the operation failed and would hit refresh or back). You then have an issue that is definitely worth investigating. You may actually have reproduced a rare issue that is part of the long tail of your telemetry.
Indeed, this is why we cant have nice things.
Medical Journal Sparks Outrage with ‘Bodies with Vaginas’ Cover
Which ebooks and audio files? Two mainstream providers - Amazon (Kindle) and Spotify - both rent out access, not sell actual ebooks.
A month seems like a long time, I’d have assumed you could probably delete 95% of the images within 3 days. Out of interest is the month long expire rule a guesstimate or something based on actual numbers?
Raise middle class disposable income?

That may count as subsidizing childcare with extra steps.
That's a really good question. But there are many cases where the unanticipated costs of things non-kids, such as housing, have escalated rapidly enough during that 5 years your child could use child care. As you were planning your pregnancy and the next 5 years, the circumstances around you shift sufficiently that you NEED that second job, or second income, or third job, or whatever it is, just to afford housing or power.

For example, in my regional part of Australia, rent has gone up 30% in the past 18 months. If my kids were 0-5 instead of 11-14, I'd be panicking a little, because child care is expensive and hard to find.
Very cool! For people interested in plants and where they come from, I’d recommend the youtube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t

And for books I’ve been going through Botany In A Day and the really highly recommended Plant Systematics
Glad I’m not the only one! Since I was in the kitchen when I read this, I had to try. Same result, all three fingers felt like they were in warm water.