skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly. It's the other way around. Just like herbstein said earlier theres no boolean flag that tells facebook that something is "inflammatory and tribal". Its not like facebook has some algo that says if a republican posts and a bunch of democrats comment then boost this to a wider audience (repeat ad nauseum for every category).

Their algorithm is just identifying content that lots of people interact with and then it boosts that to a larger audience. That content happens to be inflammatory and tribal content because people, unsurprisingly, like interacting with that sort of content.

If people didn't interact with it, it wouldn't get boosted. So ultimately its society's fascination with inflammatory and tribal content that causes the algorithm to boost it.

Again people pretend like facebook somehow looks at a picture and says "wow this person is attractive, wouldn't it be nice to affect someone's mental health by showing this to them so they can compare themselves?" Thats not how it works.
Fta: He added, “It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away....There’s a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area.”
Facebook socialising is a lot less direct than an email. I see Instagram photos and the like from friends and enjoy it but if they all emailed those photos to me every day I’d feel overwhelmed by the experience. In any case, they wouldn’t do that anyway, because they’re already posting to Instagram because that’s where all their other friends are.
Business/profit friendly taxes and regulations.
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Warning: This post is written from a libertarian/center-right viewpoint.

While this move is great, I'm skeptical of the idea that moving to Austin is a political panacea for moderate/center-right/libertarian governance.

- The same percentage of people who voted for hard leftist candidates in SF also voted for hard leftist candidates in Austin. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Texas_Democratic_presiden... This means that, fundamentally, people in Austin believe the same things that people in California do.

- There are homeless issues in Austin, just as there are in SF (though not as bad as SF, it's getting worse every year).

- Many people don't realize how regulatory constrained Austin is for new buildings/housing. The same NIMBYism exists in Austin too, just like SF! But this isn't surprising since people in Austin basically have the same politics as people in SF. The only reason why rents are cheaper (though that's changing as more people move in), is because Austin isn't as big as SF. If all of the intelligent tech people moved to Austin, it would have the same supply & demand problems that SF has (since you'd have the same number of people mixed with the same regulatory constraints on new housing supply).

- Yes, it's true Austin is a place with zero income tax and fewer business regulations, but that's only because it's held at bay by the surrounding red regions of Texas. But it's only a matter of time before Texas turns blue. So in the long-run -- when the state house will be controlled by the same party running California -- why would you expect tax rates and regulations to stay low? In 10 years, Texas will have the same political makeup (at the city, state, and federal levels) as California!

- The bulk of taxes and regulations aren't at the state/city levels. They're at the Federal level. A zero percent state income tax is cool, but it only goes so far. Is the entire tech ecosystem really going to sustain this movement for a mere 10% drop in total taxes? The SF/NYC network effects are still very strong. I'm not sure such a marginal/incremental decrease in taxes is enough to affect this sort of change.

Power to Tesla though. I really, really hope to be proven wrong.
Symbolic move with some logistic practicality with Boca Chica and his 400 sq ft tiny house [1] being home base at Starbase. All signs point to Tesla continuing manufacturing at Fremont and they just opened a Megapack manufacturing facility in Lathrop, CA (hiring 1k-2k workers) [2]. The irony that "pro business, less regulation" Texas doesn't allow direct to consumer sales of Teslas.

[1] https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/elon-musk-lives-pr...

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-megapack-lathrop-megafactory...
Hah! OK, sure.
Lower taxes and fewer regulations
You know Elon has run Tesla from like... practically the ground floor right? He bought a controlling share like 8 months into the company history and has been CEO since 2008.

Given that half of Elon's wealth is Tesla stock, what makes Elon money is pretty much inseparable from what makes the company money. Weird thing to complain about.
It doesn't look racist, but depersonalizing.
i'm sure there are many reasons but it is far, far more expensive to operate in california than texas on any level, from personal to enterprise. texas also has cheap land, a sizable tech sector, and weaker labor regulations (all 3 tying back into the first thing).
> largely progressive company like Tesla

Did you miss the memo? Progressives hate Tesla now.
I dont think they really are. But if you want a big office building with 5000 middle class workers SV is very expensive to do this.
Taxes are much better and a low cost of living.
> 2. Politics are highly conservative and frequently invasive.

Given Elon's previous commentary, I think he might disagree with this evaluation.
The hours that you save not cooking meals add up. One hour a day spent cooking all three means (conservative estimate) is a lot when you have roughly 5 hours outside of work and sleep (likely less if you have a long commute). With access to outside food also cheap, there are other priorities to focus on. I don't live in the US, but cooking for myself only made sense after I started meal prepping.
1. Elon Musk only cares about the money in his pocket despite whatever persona he puts on for the public.

That's it, that explains everything.
Ironic how? Isn't it crypto people who constantly talk about how neanderthal the banking system is and how crypto is "Banking, Evolved"? Shouldn't that imply a higher standard.

> People are dissatisfied with anything less than fully-backed when it comes to 'crypto'.

If banks these days failed (or their founders, friends, "hackers" ran off with the contents of the "vault") with the same frequency as crypto providers and exchanges, they would too.
Is Tesla a progressive company? And what does that mean?
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Inspired by Ryan Hoover, Lais de Oliveira, NƒX and others, I identified 6 key elements that creates healthy communities!
Hello OP here

I just released this. It is my first app and I have been coding it on and off for about 18 months. It is just a start for something I would like to build into something much bigger.
It is for everyone that might want to have notes that don't actually mark up items. Our information is digital, but we can't use it on a post it. The goal is associate far more than just text and video so that one can easily use the digital information on your phone to make notes on items in the real world. Our next phase is to add the ability to share.

Just looking for feedback especially from anyone that would like to try it out.

Best Regards,
Jonathan
How many people actually work in HQ? Is the design done there are is that going to move?
It’s model building isn’t it? Our world model is a compressed representation of the real world. The better the model the more effective the compression, given the same storage space. That’s why unexpected results excite us, because they allow us to improve our model. I’d wager the best comedy allows us to see the mundane (i.e. well within our model’s capability) from a novel perspective.
Each sub / surface vessel gives off a unique acoustic signature.

My understanding is that US subs don’t travel in packs, so anything they detect is generally the enemy, and especially so if it’s submerged, unless they are escorting a carrier.
> and frequently invasive

What would be the top ten examples of "frequently invasive" conservative policies in Texas? Just wondering what your perspective might be on this.
Good.

This will both alleviate pressure on the Bay Area as well as accelerating the political shift to the left in Texas. It's a win all around.

I actually think that living in the Bay Area as a tech employee is increasingly unjustifiable from an ethical point-of-view. It was once the case where that was necessary for many career paths but that's increasingly not the case and the pandemic has hastened that shift.

Why unethical? Because tech workers are contributing to the displacement of the people those places need to survive.

Example: I read an article about one of the Google bus drivers and what his schedule was. It was basically get up at 4am, drive for 2 hours to work, drive a bus for 5 hours, sit around unpaid for a few hours, drive for another 5 hours then drive 2 hours home. Why? Because he couldn't possibly afford to live anywhere closer.

You can argue that NIMBYism is rampant in the Bay Area and this restricts development of housing units and you'd be right. Yet the reality is you're still contributing to that displacement even though you're not responsible for those policies.
Yes, and live life to the fullest. Are we exchanging cliches now?
>If Cloudflare had an entire AWS-simulation business and was making a clear effort to confuse customers about being "just like AWS, only not Amazon", then that might be an easier case to win

Well, I'm pretty sure THAT'S not a problem they have to worry about any time soon.
On abortion or taxes?

I think it’s an important distinction that we need to address - social conservatism, what that means, fiscal conservatism, or outright low taxes, etc.
Stop your wife from working and do what she’s meant to do.
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be able to explain all that to my users. Some of them don't even have a computer.
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Career hedge fund trader for the trading stuff.

Twitter for the Tether stuff (Bitfinexd, Bennett Tomlin, Cas Piancey, Doomberg, David Gerard, and a few others).
Trees don’t cross the streets.
Now that Elon has extracted a bunch of subsidies from California, he is moving on.
> Taxes are much better

Only for the upper-middle class and rich.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-19/wait-c...
I can't reply to your most recent response, so I'm replying here instead.

You have gone from saying

- "you actually have to be smart to be a good developer", to

- "Incompetent people sliding by is hardly limited to programming", to

- "I have no idea how someone totally incompetent could break through".

The original statement was not "totally incompetent people can break through". The original statement was "Are developers the new blue-collar workers?" And your response assumes that blue-collar workers are not smart. In fact, it seems like you think blue collar workers are "totally incompetent" since you created an equivalency between "blue collar workers", "not smart", then "incompetent", and lastly "totally incompetent." That is incredibly ignorant and prejudiced.
I thought I indicated that in literally next sentence;

Musk is building companies to change future and disrupt status quo in general (so opposite from the most generic definition of conservativism which seeks to preserve it) ; and specifically Tesla is a company that builds a product that in small way obviates what Texas exports and lives on
Actually we have autonomous killing drones https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers...
It's less about ideology than about the impact of entrenched power. For all the leftist rhetoric in SF, interest groups like property owner, landlords, etc., have political power sufficient to preserve the status quo.

I think the geographical constraints of SF (water all around) amplify the power of the above groups at the expense of others. Austin may have more space to gradually expand and spread out in a way that is more equitable and does not so disproportionately reward those who were there first.
not the parent, but I've heard similar justifications in London
IMHO, there is very little risk consumers will confuse Cloudfare for a major Cloud provider
This is because of the "-ese" ending.

For country names ending with "-ese", it's usually an insult to call someone "a" something, like: Chinese, Japanese, Lebanese, Portuguese, or Vietnamese.

With these countries, it sounds better to say "I am from X" or "I am X", such as "I am Japanese".
Cost of living is one of many reasons. Highly sought after tech workers (like all workers) would prefer not to hand a huge portion of their salary straight over to their landlord. And tech workers, unlike most workers, actually have a bit of leverage under current market conditions to demand stuff.

Texas actually has some of the highest property taxes[1] in the nation, which (unintuitively to some) helps keep down the price of property. Countless studies (can share links if you like) demonstrate that property taxes (and land taxes in particular) are capitalized into the price of land.

California has some of the lowest property taxes, which when paired with Proposition 13, means it has some of the most expensive real estate in the nation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_Sta...
Autonomous killing drones are already here https://www.cnet.com/news/autonomous-drone-attacked-soldiers...
In Japan, ivermectin is somewhat politicized. Investigating ivermectin is fine, but most anti vaxxer says we don't need vaccine because of ivermectin despite its efficacy isn't proven. Tokyo's Haruo Ozaki is considered to outlier (in bad way).

Vaxed-side is against to overly expect ivermectin's efficacy because it's still not proven and results seems to not quite good.
In the Navy the training is invariably PowerPoint, for officers and enlisted
"A Japanese" or "a Chinese" were common in English a few decades ago. This has declined very significantly. Interestingly, people often use these as self-descriptions (I think especially non-native speakers).

There is a similar phenomenon with "a Jew", which was once common and where now most speakers would use "a Jewish person" (except, to some extent, for Jews using it as a self-description, although "I am Jewish" is more common than "I am a Jew", but their denotation is also different because the former foregrounds religious identification and the latter foregrounds ancestry or ethnic identification).

Apart from the "person-centered language" phenomenon that other people have mentioned, I think there's the closely related euphemism treadmill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill

where even a completely neutral term may acquire a negative connotation because of its widespread use in a negative sense, or by people intending to give it a negative connotation. Or people may simply fear that a neutral term has acquired a negative connotation by recalling that it was widely used in the past.

As other commenters have pointed out, there are still demonyms which are common to use in the singular and their idiomaticity has tended to change (mostly in the direction of stopping).

Although I think there's an interesting phenomenon where new countries' demonyms feel plausible to me in the singular ("an East Timorese", "a South Sudanese", "a North Macedonian", "a Kosovan"/"a Kosovar"). It's hard to prove but I suspect that the relative novelty or unfamiliarity of these terms acts to alleviate speakers' internalized fear that they might inadvertently be using the same terminology that was previously used by xenophobes!

But I'm not totally confident in that.

It would be interesting to gather more data by surveying a lot of native speakers about a lot of demonyms and trying to quantify the possible influences of (1) familiarity, (2) phonology, (3) history of ethnic conflict, ...

Another one that feels kind of parallel is the arbitrariness in whether you use a definite article in the name of a country. For example, "the Sudan" and "the Ukraine" used to be very common in English but it's not unusual to see the country names without the article now. On the other hand, "the United Kingdom", "the Netherlands", and "the Maldives" are still always "the". This is different in other languages, where for example "Switzerland" is never "the" in English, but is always "the" in German ("die Schweiz"); "Japan" is never "the" in English, but is always "the" in Portuguese ("o Japão"), as is Brazil ("o Brasil"). It's challenging, though maybe not impossible, to give a clear account of the origins of all of these distinctions...

Edit: in Arabic, too, some countries are "the" and some aren't, but it also doesn't correspond with English practice.
Sure! You can list it! Thanks! It is hosted from my house's comcast though, so it might get slow... :D
> As long as Coinbase allows on-demand redemptions nobody is going to care about an audit because it’s trivially easy to just convert all your USDC to real dollars almost immediately.

And what happens if Coinbase were unable to convert all the USDC because the demand exceeded their stockpile of USD?
California's tax regime is really backward. I suspect Tesla's departure is just the tip of the iceberg and that the repeal of the SALT deduction in 2017 really hastened this trend.

High earners pay an effective tax rate of > 50%. They are partially picking up the slack from Prop 13, which artificially distorts the housing market by allowing longtime homeowners to pay property taxes based on decades-old assessed values while sitting on millions in equity gains.

So young, high earners see the state taking a massive chunk of their paycheck in exchange for middling infrastructure and pitiful public schools while simultaneously putting its finger on the scale of a wildly inflated housing market.

The exodus will only pick up steam unless policymakers get their act together.
When lambo is a joke. The entire space is riddled with memes and jokes. You shouldn't take it so serious.
It’s all of us. He doesn’t have any more information than we do.
You think people putting content on youtube are doing it for fun?
Neither fun or passion pay the bills
Halo was originally demoed at Macworld for the Mac! I'm sure it would have launched, but I can't imagine Apple would be very good at running a games company.
Japs/Nips, based on Japan/Nippon. These may have always been offensive words, I honestly don't know as it was way before my time, but they both certainly are considered derogatory in the US today.

Which itself is weird, because most other countries we just suffixed - like Englishman, Chinaman(also now considered derogatory, I think), Frenchman, Irishman, etc. But I cannot recall ever hearing 'Japanman' or anything similar.

In any event - I wouldn't take this situation you're in as any slight or bias against any people - it's strictly to do with the English language and ese/ish demonyms.
How so? I have a hard time seeing how that could be, but I may be missing a counterintuitive answer.
That's what I had in mind with my "tiny probability, infinite timescale" multiplier, and also why I said "waste of money". The comment I replied to had a more nuanced point about AI research, which I think merits a more nuanced approach.

Having said that, I repeat what I said at some point: once they show that they can stop the dumbest DDOS, then and only then I'll listen to what they have to say about a super-intelligent AI. If they can't do even that, then I don't know why I would listen to anything else they have to say.
Yes, but the innovation could be individual precise targeting. You could potentially keep a battery of these drones at every intersection. Track every human using phones, then deploy at will, at some threshold event, like a failed covid test, or mean post on fb against the dear leader.
Sometimes, sometimes not. In the case of the boat I was on, it wasn't fatigue, it was people new to their jobs combined with some stupidity.
Yup! I fired up DOSBOX and did a screen recording, and then paused it frame by frame so I could trace the pixels in GIMP. :D I adored that game.
Elixir and Rust are very good friends, so to speak. Writing a library in Rust that you can use from Elixir is only slightly worse than trivially easy.

But I agree somebody has to put the work.

I've made a good career with Elixir but I still don't think it's a good fit for a hedge fund. IMO invest in Rust.
The best available data suggests that _that_ particular shot is rather more effective after a few months than its competitors.
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Firstly, yes, there is something broken about it: Google Groups. Any new user becoming interested in Usenet will more likely than not end up in that quagmire, which will likely kill their appetite for Usenet rather quick.

But Google Groups is probably the only thing that could handle a large scale influx of users.

There simply aren't that many free Usenet servers.

If Usenet were to suddenly explode in popularity for some reason, those users not wanting to put up with Google Groups would probably overwhelm the small number of free NNTP servers.

Speaking of servers, what (almost) killed Usenet was ISP's shutting down their NNTP servers. It used to be that every major ISP ran an NNTP server you could connect to, similarly to how they give you an e-mail server. This service was obviously not free; it was part of the service package, though, so it looked free.

A big reason they stopped doing that was that most of the NNTP volume came to consist of copyright-infringing binaries.

People are now used to actually free discussion forums like Reddit; any resurgence of Usenet will have to use free servers (and your ISP won't provide a free-looking one any more). Too few users are willing to pay for Usenet access; a Usenet resurgence based on paying users connecting to servers cannot happen.

There is little economic incentive for anyone to provide a free Usenet server, because there is no revenue. You cannot collect any accurate personal information, and you cannot serve advertising. I suppose NNTP could be hacked to insert advertising into articles. These ads would likely be ineffective in their limited format, and face a backlash. Still, that's an idea. For instance, the non-paying users of an NNTP server might not get to see the original signatures of articles; the server would replace it with its own, containing an ad. Moreover, when posting, non-paying users would have their outgoing signature replaced by an ad. Paying users would see original signatures and get to send their own.

Before BitTorrent, people posted binaries as multi-part MIME or uuencode jobs to Usenet, believe it or not, using multiple articles. The clients still support automatic decoding of binaries from multiple posts.

It would be nice for Usenet to come back without the alt.binaries.* cruft that is not so useful today anyway.
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Lidar costs have come down. Now it is around $1,000 soon it will be under $500

https://www.barrons.com/articles/lidar-is-the-future-of-auto...
But that's nonsensical from an ethical perspective because you can apply it to infinity. It's the no ethical consumption under capitalism idea.

The right solution is to fix the root cause (NIMBYism) not throw your hands up and move.
Why do you assume your sources are any better? Or even different?

At the end of the day I honestly don't really care what flavour of irrational hyper-selfishness it is, to be perfectly honest.