skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people with the most followers have the most followers for some reason, and that reason isn't as inherently biased as you would think, or there wouldn't be such caustic arguments about people trying to ban each other off Twitter. I strongly believe in your right to free speech and a right for you to say anything you want... I do not, however, believe you have any right to be heard by people who didn't care to listen.

If you have something worthy of being said, you should use that to build an audience of people who bother to follow you, so when you say something controversial you have people who will hear it... and we should be building a system that ensures that that can happen without interference. You shouldn't just get to reply to someone else and shove stuff at their audience, if nothing else because that doesn't scale.

In my case, and to show that I have some "skin in the game" here: I happen to have a rather large following of people who listen to my let's-call-them-"rants" about Apple (and sometimes Google and Facebook, but my audience mostly cares about Apple), a company with much larger resources than I do... because I have something valuable to say on the subject and have built my audience up by being a trustworthy and even unique source of information.

But, I shouldn't get to force my rants about Apple onto Apple's audience of people who don't know I exist and who only wanted to sign up to listen to Tim Cook or talk to Apple's corporate support or communication lines... that's just me clogging up their communication channels. People should get to opt-in to my content no matter what I want to say, but that doesn't mean I should get to force what I say on anyone.

Put another way: the problem with not doing this is that you get what I guess Twitter kind of is (and it sucks): a place where the people who shout the loudest and post the most message volume--almost certainly because they have too much time on their hands from having nothing else valuable to do with their lives--manage to get the most "space" on the platform by just going around replying to people who are trying to provide high-value content.

This current situation, I will then also argue, is much worse for the goal of the little guy/gal with the niche opinion: it implies that the platform and the zeitgeist get to co-determine what is shit/spam via some horrible combination of a centralized (and clearly biased) overseer reacting to a "tyranny of the majority" (or sometimes an authoritarian government), which results in a world where you don't even get to talk to your own followers, much less mine.

This much-more-serious censorship--with people losing their accounts or their tweets getting filtered by centralized moderation based on keywords in an attempt to scale this process across all accounts at once--is a downstream effect of attempting to almost provide a "right to be heard", because we do generally want--nay: need--the ability to filter shit/spam from the platform: but to scale and be fair it needs to be done at the level of individual users and their own audiences, not with centralized filters for the entire community.
The MINI is actually not a BMW, although it is true that it is made by BMW. Nor are MINI drivers really very much like BMW drivers, in fact I'd say that overall as a population, they are quite different.

(I had a MINI from 2002-2020. Put about 300k miles on it.)
Honorable, no. Funny, yes. Deserved, certainly.

Let's not forget that Kim Dotcom is a miserable piece of shit who rats on his friends and used his position of trust to snoop through people's data and then snitch to governments and criminals for profit.

Not enough people know his real history but the guy is a pure scumbag, credit card fraud criminal and con artist masquerading as freedom-loving CEO.

He's exactly the kind of person that should be thrown in a hole somewhere and not heard from again and if you knew anything about him you would do it if you could.
The supply-chain mystery
Science is the process of gaining, evaluating, and revising knowledge and understanding, Science is not a body of knowledge. It's an algorithm, not data. So clearly, having access to the largest book ever written does not say anything about scientific literacy.

Here's the thing: people love to trust experts and, also, love to not think for themselves.

And they do trust experts, i.e. when it comes to having their cars repaired, getting medical treatment outside of COVID, etc. It's not like millions of people came up with using malaria medication and horse dewormer on their own after conducting studies in their basement. They are following other people, while, ironically, praising themselves for being independent and most certainly not sheep (it's horse dewormer, after all).
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The key fact that's missing from your argument is that no vaccine is 100% effective, and that efficacy relies in part on herd immunity.

For example, several years ago, there were several instances of outbreaks of measles because the percentage of vaccinated individuals dropped below the threshold required to maintain herd immunity.
Aha, okay, that was my initial reading.

NBN (Australia's national broadband system) introduced, via a partner, this Sky Muster Plus offering about two years ago, that includes effectively unmetered plans, so the claim isn't as true as it used to be.
HLSL is proprietary, and GLSL is open. It would be more odd if they had somehow unified. We still have plenty of proprietary vs open choices in computer languages - it doesn’t seem odd C++ and C# haven’t unified, does it?
My humble take: it's actually not meant to be an arrow - although it does indeed look like one - but the part of the embedded Union Jack that lights up.
People have always wanted this.

Technology is a democratizing force that is giving people voice, greater reach, and a higher probability of success.

Previously you had to be really lucky to bump into the right producers, casting agents, etc. Even if you were incredibly talented. Now you can find an audience from home.

People didn't change. Technology did.

This is only going to increase as the tools for creation get stronger and better. We'll have so much more art. Some of it will be great, and a lot more diverse interests (the long tail) will be catered to.

TikTok is a stepping stone.

Less Disney, more indie.
First, what a refreshing discussion for HN.

Separately, is it me, or do I just see less and less people choosing to get married these days, and even less of them having kids? Wondering if anyone has seen stats to the same and if this is just an n=1 problem or more of a generational trend.
I'm not super familiar with RP, what is the typical boot time?
The turn signals on new Kias that are 11" off the ground on the lowest part of the bumper are ridiculously hard to spot and after fall below the line of vision.
The point is: it doesn't matter what the average return over a given period is, the safe draw-down rate is always less than that much.
First time i seriously thought someone pretty high in the chain should get fired over a design
+1 on that, I need someone to remind me to read though the articles I've bookmarked in the past.
I got really frustrated when I started to see 3 rapid flashes when a Toyota or Kia driver put on the brakes on the Highway. What had been a common signal for “you’re a little too close” was now shown every time the driver pressed the brake pedal.

I guess I could’ve complained to one of the manufacturers, but what do they care? I’m not buying their cars.
No it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
I italicized "soul" in an attempt to indicate that I meant it as a symbol. I thought the context made it clear, so I was comfortable using it as a shortcut, but perhaps I miscalculated.
I think SQLite fits the bill described in the post. It's included in Python's standard library, stores data on the file system, and doesn't require an external process.
You are right I keep hearing in interviews, videos and blogs people talking about how many stars, please star me etc

There is something of a insane competition going on at various levels, people judging languages by their rank on various sources. Saying a specific language is "winning the race". We all know since the 70s that no language is winning ever. Calm down, code in what you like and people around you can use and understand. Create a new language, have fun... Things in life are not always a competition, you can relax.
> Also, children used to spend most of their time outside - a significantly more dangerous environment by any measure

Considering the Nile and the ever-present schistosomiasis, this is almost certainly painfully true.
Mostly because nuclear accidents are much scarier than they should be.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was safer to live in Fukishima than the average city due to reduced (non-radioactive) pollution and fewer people piloting multi-ton objects at 60mph.
The rabm subreddit is helpful for identifying non-fascist bands.

Have you heard the surf rock versions of Freezing Moon and Transylvanian Hunger? They’re great!
Any reason for hating pocket?
Trances People Live
I don't think you understand Plato either.
It's pretty crazy. For whatever reason there is a substantial culture around NPM usage of preferring to depend on lots of trivial packages, over writing simple inline equivalents. And it's recursive, which can mean depending on what seems to be a modest but useful package at the top of that hierarchy ends up pulling down 10k packages.

I think this makes it easier to acquire an inflated sense of importance when an authors package reaches popularity - most of the small packages have some value and aren't as ridiculously worthless as "is-odd"; yet they also don't embody anything particularly unique or difficult to replicate.

> I wonder why there is not a simple math lib.

There are some non-standard but comprehensive math libraries such as MathJS. Although I don't think "is-odd" could be attributed to an absence of standard math libraries.
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I think that may be correct for a technical definition of 'ego' - and you could cultivate a selfless ego or something.

In common use 'ego' tends to mean someone with selfish or slightly narcissistic personality trait, though, right?
I just hope for one thing: that they ban automatic updates.
Thank you for all of this and the large type, too!

Would you do uncertainty logic next?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03123
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01310
> Logic is the science of the possible. As such, it is at the root of all other sciences, all of which are sciences of the actual, i.e. that which really exists.

Logic describes our universe well but even here it starts falling apart pretty fast. The idea of axiomatic systems as we know them is flawed. Mainly due to Godel's and partly from what we know of the psyche.
I meant at a higher lever.
You can not overtake if doing so requires exceeding the speed limit.

Unless you are driving in the state of WA:

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425
FWIW, the answer to that question is yes. We bought a Mini a few years back and the Union Jack indicators were an upgrade (not a cheap one as I recall)
Because that's reacting in surprise to an expected inevitable thing (infatuation fading), and presumably afterwards trying again with a different partner with an unrealistic expectation that in those relationships they might permanently stay "in love" i.e. the infatuated feeling of falling in love, which is quite distinct from long term relationships that we call "love" but IMHO don't apply the label of "fallen in love" anymore.

In this case, if reality doesn't meet expectations, then divorcing just to try the same thing again to get the same result is absurd insanity, instead the expectations should be adjusted.
Just a reminder: MIT license ≠ public domain.
I'm not aware of any zoning laws in France, at least not the kind there seem to be in the US. There are technically shops close to where people live, the issue is their opening hours aren't practical for workers.

A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that the "urban" area of Copenhagen is ten times smaller than that of Paris (292.5 km2 vs 2,853.5 km2). Not sure how comparable those are in practice. But a 25-minute bus ride with no traffic, in Paris, would put you inside Paris proper, not in the suburbs. Public transport is fairly good there.

The issue is many people live and work outside of Paris proper, and transit from suburb to suburb is poor. Most suburban trains go to Paris and bus routes are relatively short. They're working on improving things, but there's still much to do. So the issue is more one of time, rather than zoning per se. People don't have the time to go to the local shops were they live, so towns don't thrive.

Maybe if there was less concentration, so if instead of having one big city in the middle of an enormous suburb, there were multiple smaller cities, the situations would resemble that of Copenhagen. But for some reason, people insist on running all their businesses in the same few spots and bring people in from long distances (relatively speaking).
Needlessly pedantic point... no one doubts that they have seen the back of their car before
Small, non-representative subsets of the population are inherently bad as study targets from the perspective of epistemological power. Results derived from such sample sets often do not generalize. If you combine this weakness with a weak investigative methods like survey, the problem compounds. My definition of a good study is one that gives us strong evidence about the world, and a bad study is one that doesn't. What else can you call a study like this one but bad?

> What evidence do you have that the two studies are bad?

The study indicts itself (i.e. it describes its methods, and the methods are not ones that lead to strong evidence).
You may be forgetting about the man who started it all...
Same. I drove a MINI for 18 years partly because they are so quirky and that's enjoyable, but this is simply the wrong kind of thing to indulge quirkiness in.

Turn signals need to function well as turn signals. That's vitally important. You can't fuck with that by making the signal actively and hilariously misleading. It's just not ok.
I find it crazy that Americans allow turn signals to use the same red lights as brakes considering how many different safety rules they have. Like how all cars have to have amber reflectors on the front bumpers, which almost all European cars have to add almost as an afterthought [1], or how the door lock pins can't be flush with the door (at least I assume this is regulation since I never see non-flush door lock pins in European cars). And now the most recent one is the mandatory backup cameras, and I don't think I know any other country in the world where those are mandated by law.

[1] https://live.staticflickr.com/4623/39623465442_7519e01f0b_o....
How hard is it to go: oh, the left hand side indicator is blinking. It's possible they might turn left.

It's common bloody sense.

This is honestly manufactured outrage.
This reminds me of the colour word test, where you have to say what colour a word is but the word itself is the name of a different colour. The cognitive conflict behind this is called the Stroop Effect and I wonder if this isn’t being inflicted on drivers behind these minis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
I was almost wondering if that was going to be the punchline of this paper. "Surprise, we tricked you with an academic format into taking an opinion piece more seriously than you should have, further proving the point we are trying to make"
These influencers are just using their looks and charisma to sell products or ads in exchange for people feeling entertained for a few minutes.

It's the same thing with celebrities a lot of normies look up to. They think these celebs are nicer or better people than ordinary people, when in fact there is nothing.

One of the best parts of covid for me was how all these celebrities faded out and disappeared from view for a while. Thank you!
I saw a flashing indicator light not an arrow until it was pointed out to me.
Of course, it depends which human you are talking about. I've been hit three times by human drivers in the past 18 months. Twice while stopped.
It depends on who you ask, but usually it's more than 10 seconds, which is too much if you want to embed it into a device that must have an "instantly on" experience.

Even the 4 seconds mentioned by the sibling commenter would be too much (e.g. if a page load of 4 seconds is considered "long", then turning on a device should be shorter as well).
MY2013+ Minis are built on the BMW ULK1 platform.
Was I the only one who googled whether taillight-themed nightclubs are a thing?
hardware/bootloader stage take around ~2s. After that it's on the OS, a stripped down Linux can get down to also ~2s on top of that if you don't need all the hardware. The more IO you need ready, the longer it takes.
YouTuber Mahmood Hikmet analysed Tesla safety numbers in his recent video
https://youtu.be/DxXiTf4sO54?t=1190 and it doesn't look good for Tesla.

"Tesla autopilot saves lives" is a bold claim.
How on earth could did this pass QA...
I have heard Ageism has become a problem. You might be good but apparently significantly disadvantaged.
Not sure how true it is.

I don’t know if other fields such as hardware engineering are any better? The salaries might be lower but experience matters. Software engineering favors fresh graduates.
Sadly I agree. Business is about optimising for local maxima — making yourself money, whether or not it makes us all poorer.

Profit and wealth are important motivators, but democratic society should balance this by looking after the global optimisation problem, even when that sometimes constrains individual or corporate profit seeking.

Interoperability, right to repair, etc. are exactly the kinds of globally beneficial, [possibly] locally detrimental balance we should be pushing for.
Indeed; thanks!
FWIW, I don't see anything wrong with stripping the git history. I think it's stupid and short-sighted, but whatever, it's allowed. One use case I've seen, sometimes you want to pull a single file from another project without a bunch of baggage.

Your license should cover the history, in that every source file should bear a license header, going back to the first commit.
And some believe we need uncertainty to be accounted for, too!

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03123
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01310
In this book I am focused on category theory, but I may write some more about logic in other places.
Personally I find the Audi-style sequential lightshow signals far more stupid - and more distracting.

These look odd in a static image where the reader has been primed by the title, but in real life they are flashing lights on the corner of the car. The animated GIF in the article isn’t confusing is it?
What is the definition of influencer anymore?

To me people like MHKBD seem reviewer more than an influencers , but if you remove people like him basically all you are left is girls showing their goods on instagram hoping to get picked up by some MLM beauty company.
I do check my car every couple of weeks. I have a routine that takes about 3 minutes total. About twice a month so about 24 times 3 minutes ~ 1 hour per year.

Although I could argue it actually takes zero time because I usually do this while waiting for somebody else to get into the car.

As a side note, if you are too busy to brush your teeth you should consider talking to a health professional about consequences of not brushing teeth. Or maybe your wife/girlfriend.
I've been sending text html emails for my blogletter for over a year now. The single biggest struggle point is the spam filters in gmail/outlook/others which just render my emails waste for majority of the subscribers.

Do you face the same?
This really reminds me of an article that i read a while ago, called "SQLite as an application file format", which seemed to express some ideas like that: https://www.sqlite.org/draft/appfileformat.html
She contracts through various Discord servers, to a combination of friends and random people.

It's definitely not Fiverr or whatever typical thing you'd expect, it's hard to earn money that way.

Easier if you do niche stuff and cater to specific online communities + establish a reputation.
What if it’s dark outside.

Is that a motorcycle? I can’t tell. I guess that motorcycle is turning left.
I think it's that a 10% chance of dying of cancer before old age is unacceptable to humans but won't have a big effect on population. Similarly, a 10% chance of birth defects isn't relevant to most species as a large proportion (often more than half) of their young die before adulthood anyway.
I agree, it’s a baffling decision. I had a brief look to see if I could see the European implementation but I’ve not found anything yet.

Edit: here is an example:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0272/7303/5875/products/1_...
They're shaped like arrows pointing the opposite way, and we've had arrows for directions long before we had turn signals. If I ever see one of those in the street you bet I'll be confused for a split second. Being confused even for a split second is not a great thing when you're driving a two ton vehicle.
They aren’t using the commit you referenced. Instead they went down this path where there is one license, with one copyright (new author), but they are citing the other work in the copyrights:
https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/pull/15/commits/182c767583b...
Sounds all good until the email providers start filtering out emails as spam for no reason.
You might be a giver looking for another giver to build something bigger together. It isn’t correct that givers only want takers. Think of it like cofounders.
People think if a project on github hasn't been updated since 3 months then it has been abandoned!!

Like, why don't we just let projects be "done"? Things don't need to be maintained and updated for eternity.

In my mind, the best software engineering is where you solve a problem once and your solution just works and needs no configuration or maintenance or updates.

This of course has a very low chance of happening if your system has to exist as a part of "ecosystem" where you expect/assume the presence of some external service that can change its API on a whim (or just disappear).

Yes, to a certain degree it's impossible to design software that does not exist as a part of an ecosystem, which is why I put it in quotes.

Some APIs are stable and are guaranteed to continue to exist for a very long time: CPU instruction sets, networking protocols (IP/UDP/TCP), operating systems (AFAICT: Linux (the kernel) works hard to not break user programs, and Windows is kind of known for bending over backwards to maintain compatibility with old programs), file systems, etc.

What I'm advocating for here requires that your program be compiled into a native executable binary file, and it must embed all its library dependencies (aka static linking).
Same author as history of the basque people (and also salt). Definitely recommend all three
This isn't the manufacturer, they're aftermarket. It started (sensibly) with some emergency vehicles having it to make sure to get the attention of the driver[s] behind them. At some point people in high-traffic areas started thinking their 18 year old Corolla was worthy of the same treatment.