skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entity resolution is a thing though, and the Discover Weekly algorithm actually tries to combine artists (possibly due to collaborations), which is what goes wrong.

For example, I follow Cornelius, the Japanese guitarist. I liked several of his song. So the data indicates I’m a fan. I’ve been recommended a new song by a different Cornelius. This other guy is an African gospel singer. I don’t follow him. Never even played a song.

That shouldn’t happen. The system knows they’re different Corneliuses, because the catalogs aren’t mixed, but yet string match took over.
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> Taking offense, however, is entirely in the perception. If I choose not to be offended by the words or deeds of another, whatever his intention may have been, then I will not be offended. If we could simply refuse to engage in drama and conflict about what we happen to dislike, our lives would be so much easier.

We do have some control over the matter, but we are human beings and can't nearly entirely control our emotions, and we have emotional needs that are as necessary as food and water. We need to be loved, among other things, and we care about other people.

The idea that we can choose otherwise might be philosophically interesting, but isn't healthy (those are generally good things, not problems) or necessary. Are we so afraid of pain that we try to shut down emotions of love and need? That seems the opposite of 'stoical', at least in the colloquial sense.
I can vouch for Proton. In some games, I can even get more FPS running on Proton/Vulcan DX emulation than natively on windows. One such example is Path of Exile. I should totally NOT be playing this game..
“mass produced hand made artisan goods” is not a thing. You’re inventing things and putting words in my mouth, just like you did originally, which is why you’re blocked. No, you can’t put words in someone’s mouth and say “you blocked me so it’s true” either.
I wish the people who wrote about this stuff valued precision in their language. Of course if they did, then it would open the nonsense that they spout to criticism.

> The ultimate in democracy, in the sense of a positive-sum maximization of individual agency and control over their lives to the greatest extent possible short of anyone’s agency infringing on anyone else’s, is universal consent of the governed. And in this sense, a permissionless, stigmergic organization, in which all individual activity is self-chosen, is the ultimate in democracy.

What on earth are the assumptions and conclusions here? What is the mechanism of inference? Maybe this person should spend some time trying to formalize their beliefs.
I don't think HN represents the average tech worker so that may well be true.

At the very least HN represents the tech worker either genuinely interested or personally invested in their job if not being entirely focused as a place for the top performers to share projects and information in the first place. Since by definition half of people can get more than the average if you apply either the above filters to define the average HN user then most people here probably would be right - they could get significantly more than their average peer.
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> Alitalia was drowning in debt for years before the pandemic, but Francavilla said that the future is bright for ITA, calling the airline "right-sized" both in terms of fleet, staffing and routing.

It’s a mature industry undergoing massive change - isn’t this just a rebranding of a restructuring?
You seem to be reading Kevin with the understanding that "anarchy" means "nothing gets done" or "ineffective organization". But that's a misreading that amounts to begging the question; Kevin's principal point in this essay (and, perhaps, across his writings in general) is that pure democracy is a very effective form of organization that gets a great deal done.
So cherry picking stories while 99% of COVID19 infected people have no issue surviving it? That sounds like Reddit all right.
I think the sort answer is: “We don’t know”. We have tonnes of history to go by here. Labor costs have increased and decreased millions of times all over the world since the industrial revolution. If there was a universal pattern such as: Increased labor costs always increase product prices then surely we would know about it by now.

However we don’t have such a pattern. History has shown us that it is not so simple. Workers dissatisfaction actually costs workers productivity so a low payed worker might actually yield worse prices then a high payed worker.

Another thing to consider is that a lot of the companies which have high worker dissatisfaction and high chance of strikes, are multi-million dollar companies with highly payed CEOs and big shareholders that sometimes pay them self dividends and may have an offshore account for tax hiding purposes. Not only is this super frustrating for the workers of these companies, but consumer prices suffer as well. After all they could make the product cheaper to produce if less money was being diverted to the rich.
I really appreciate you saying that. Don’t worry about it, it’s not causing me any distress and I’m too sick to do anything productive right now anyway.

But this place is a cesspit. This is actually a better experience than I would’ve expected from years before, and it’s still terrible. Just something to take away from the experience.
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> Such is the starkness of deepening poverty in Afghanistan, a humanitarian crisis that is worsening fast after the Taliban seized power on Aug. 15, prompting the U.S. to freeze $9 billion in Afghan central-bank assets and causing a halt in most foreign aid.

So the cause is not so much any economic policies instituted by the Taliban, but the seizure of Afghan assets by the US, and the ambiguously worded "causing a halt in most foreign aid" - does this mean the US government stopped giving aid, or did the US stop others from giving aid? I'm assuming the US is also pressuring other countries to enact various sanctions? I'd appreciate it if someone could shed more light on this. It would not be the first time the media was very discreet about US sanctions (Venezuela comes to mind). On the other hand:

> The U.S. and other Western nations that spent the past two decades fighting in Afghanistan have a particular responsibility, some aid officials say.

This is a common sentiment, but how does that responsibility arise? Are they claiming that Afghanistan would be better off had the US not intervened? (I'm not informed enough about Afghanistan to discount this possibility, so I don't mean to imply the answer is "No".) If so, I'd prefer they phrased it that way, instead of this "You touched it last so anything that happens after is your fault" logic.
Much respect to those on the front lines of these power battles.

It seems like we are doomed to repeat these cycles because the necessary tension between labor and capital.

I'd love to hear any ideas on how we could shorten this feedback loop so we don't have to so closely approach the precipice.
I was diagnosed about a year ago when I was 30.

Overall I have had a slight improvement after getting a diagnosis. My post history will give you more details if you're interested.

I tried medication. I find it helps a little. Better than not having it. Temper your expectations. Some people get big improvements, others get very little. It's just one part of the puzzle.

Other therapies can help too. ADHD counsellors and coaches. CBT. Medication might help you to access these.

Really, there is basically no downside to getting a diagnosis. You could decide to not take medication and you wouldn't be any worse off than before.

If you are noticing a relatively sudden change it might be worth getting a physical to rule out any other deficiencies/health problems that could be contributing to your issues too.

Good luck with your journey. Remember, changes take time. You wouldn't go for a jog one day and then say you're done with fitness. Mental health and fitness take constant care, attention and effort.
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I read it, but I was playing devils advocate arguing the inflation number are incorrect relative to the value of the dollar 30 years ago on essential goods.
Sounds like Spotify’s fault to me.
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Whoops I was wrong.

“...they found that aspirin carried immunological benefits and that the group taking it was 29% less likely to become infected with the virus in the first place.”

Not sure how I missed that.
I was using Spotify for podcasts because they were there, but then my home feed got dominated by them, and they occasionally get queued up and giving me a mix of podcasts and music, which I don’t want.

I started migrating to Apple Podcasts so I can context switch more easily.
These are wholesale prices, not retail, but yes the two are linked.

$9000/MWh isn't crazy for a few intervals once a year, but if a generator clears 200 MW for each hour of the day for a day in the day ahead market and then has issues and can't provide that power in the real time market, it has to buy back that power at the spot price. That can get insanely expensive fast. Now imagine the owner of that generator has other generators in the same boat and it just stacks. These aren't trivial prices. Similarly, the load serving entities have to buy power at that spot price if they don't have it locked in at a lower price in the forward market (hard to do when events occur over multiple days). A little googling will turn up some chatter about many of those companies nearly defaulting from the ERCOT scarcity pricing during the February event.
I can't believe CNBC wrote an entire article about some person who sent her father a lot of memes from reddit and who's father eventually decided to get vaccinated. I wonder why they didn't run any articles about how /r/fatpeoplehate was convincing people to go on a diet /s
For the kinds of devs you are referring to, the kind that post on HN, I am skeptical that a union could materially improve the year-over-year wage increases they already see. At best their compensation trajectory wouldn’t change and unionization often causes wage compression in other industries (read: it would reduce their compensation). If you are one of those highly paid devs, everything about the calculus of unionization is unlikely to produce a positive expected return. Software is manifestly not in a race to the bottom; there are persistently more jobs than devs that can fill them if you are sufficiently skilled.

In Europe, businesses encourage labor solidarity among software devs because it suppresses wages in a global environment where software wages are rising rapidly. Exceptional devs are shamed for believing their worth is so far above their peers, even if it is true. I don’t believe most wage gains in software in Europe would be happening if US tech companies weren’t in Europe pushing the wages upward.

Unions focus on the compensation of the median ability worker. The issue in the software is that ability has something like a barbell distribution; workers at different ends of that barbell live in different worlds and are not interchangeable. The “median dev” barely exists as a useful abstraction.
I think pornographic content is banned too
Among other things, it wouldn't surprise me if the international transportation costs of a mostly built tractor are prohibitively expensive.
Whoops. From the submitted article:

“...they found that aspirin carried immunological benefits and that the group taking it was 29% less likely to become infected with the virus in the first place.”

Not sure how I missed that. Thanks for the correction.
How is it obnoxious to expect to be able to log in and add a payment plan yourself? Literally every other Saas that serves business customers does that. None glibly say “oh yeah and your data’s queued for deletion, but you can ASK to be let in to add a payment plan”

That is beyond unprofessional
Do you seriously not know how to access man pages?
Only if the "experts" had strong objective evidence for their consensus in the first place, which is usually not the case. If you have objective evidence you don't need experts.
What I did was get up a server as DHCP server on the LAN, install tftpd on it and have netboot.xyz on it. Then for other machines (inside same LAN) that you want to boot something or install a distro, you would boot LAN, the dhcp server you set up will automatically let that other machine boot into netboot.xyz and then you can choose your distro.

It works really well for colocation server where you don't have the freedom to go there and plug in an Usb or a DVD because it's 1000km away in the footsteps of a hotspring in Iceland for example.
Same here, do all my work on an HP Elitebook 2530p with 4G RAM 128 G SDD; this is a very good machine with a track point and long battery life of which I have several copies.
Well, he was awarded a Nobel prize jointly with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger.

Here is the speech given on awarding the prize that summarizes what it was for:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/ceremony-spee...
Strongest idea I'm aware of is radical pay transparency. If everyone's full pay and benefits were public knowledge, negotiation would be essentially algorithmic. The information asymmetry currently benefits capital greatly, but if we can overcome the cultural blocks to pay transparency, I am confident almost everyone will be better off. It's late, so I won't find the sources for this, but there is ample evidence of the beneficial effects for labor negotiation. Consider the recent law where CEO bonuses would be public. After that, CEO pay actually went up because it was easier for them to negotiate.
>"You may say I am paranoid"

And if I say sure it is safe how would you know I am not a communist eating babies for breakfast? But I guess you can always ask permission / advise from one of 3 letter agencies.

Meanwhile turn off your toaster. It could be reporting you.
Some people have since reached out to me and told me:

1. The CEO randomly picks on women on twitter he thinks subtweeted him and writes their bosses

2. The same lock-out mechanism — plus the queue for deletion — happens if eg your credit card expires or has an issue or sometimes randomly
Tangent: Mod, this needs (2017) in the title.
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> Windows PE (is that still a thing?).

Seems to be. Latest release was 3 months ago, “Built from Windows 11 v21H2 code base.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Envi...
To be fair, I have had the same problems with Java, C# and Python packages. It's simply not an easy problem[1] once the project dependencies grow. It is a bit more apparent in JavaScript ecosystem and it is cool to hate on ofc.

1. https://the-guild.dev/blog/how-should-you-pin-dependencies-a...
Motivated reasoning.

“She blocked me therefore I must be right!”
Yeah. Pro-anarchists seem to do mental gymnastics to validate their beliefs. On a long enough timeline an anarchist society would necessarily become democratic.
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Doesn't everyone use ad blocker on mobile these days?
Let your conscience guide you, but in my opinion you should look to the union to see what they are asking you to do. A boycott of a struck company is not necessarily what the union wants you to do. One can imagine, for instance, that consumers continue to demand a company's product, demand that strengthens the union's bargaining power. When in doubt you can always check the union's web site or social media to see what you can do to support them.
If you worry about that just format the partition with the OS iso instead of using ventoy. Ventoy is harmless but you never know what can happen and if you're that paranoid for good reasons, having a signature file that can vouch for your iso not being modified + being 100% sure you are booting into that ISO defeats all the conveniences in the world that Ventoy or Any-other-solution gives you.
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I don't even follow this sentence after reading a few times...
Bleh, this was a very unpleasant story with an even more unpleasant ending. Be wary of wading into it unless you’re ready to be depressed
I wonder if, instead of a string match, enough people have searched “Cornelius” and (accidentally, out of curiosity, etc.) played the gospel singer’s songs that it’s algorithmically linked the gospel singer to the other artists these people listen to, which are then linked back to the Japanese guitarist.
The trouble of course is that people who are too far gone just say these are all actors and it’s made up (similar to any other group of deniers).
78% of community bank executives expect the housing market to crash by 2026
This totally ignores effects from the long tail, black swans, power users, and criticality dynamics.

Downvotes are way more "potent" than upvotes. If I'm listening to music that I like, I'd say I probably log over 100x upvotes than downvotes. But when I downvote, I usually want to nuke the site from orbit.

What is the ratio? What ratio of users use downvote? What ratio is that compared to users that interact in any way? How are you controlling for sampling bias? Berkson's paradox? How much utility are the users that downvote obtaining, vs the disutility of being unable to?
What are you having trouble with in this passage? It seems straightforward to me. Maybe if I restate it as the contrapositive it will be clearer: any rule imposed on someone without their consent reduces their agency and control over their lives, although if their agency was infringing on someone else's, that rule might increase that other person's agency by a greater amount. That seems so straightforward as to be almost tautological. You could maybe criticize it for speaking in abstractions that are open to misinterpretation instead of parables, but parables are notoriously imprecise, so your criticism would seem to be the opposite.

There's a little bit of conflict between the two sentences you quoted, in the sense that the second sentence doesn't explicitly take into account this possibility of one person's agency infringing on another's, but if there's an unstated assumption that imposing activity, as opposed to forbearance from activity, is never necessary to prevent that kind of interference, that would clean it up nicely.

The overarching theme in the passage you've quoted, as in the whole essay, is that there's an inherent tension between democracy and coercion; the employment of coercion endangers (Kevin's definition of) democracy at best, destroys it at worst.

Is that of any help? I'm kind of shooting in the dark here, since I don't understand the root of the difficulty, so it's possible that my explanations are just as opaque to you as the original text. Can you elaborate a little bit on what part you're having a hard time understanding?
It's very good. I'd say she focuses more on people in a more reachable state; I can imagine the eaten-by-egregores reading the book going "Yeah! This is what's wrong with the outgroup!" or just angrily rejecting it all, but it's mainly about how/why to improve in this regard on the margin. She sees the soldier mindset as having its place.

Orwell acknowledges we all have these tendencies but focuses on the people he sees as too far gone (I have no idea about all those 1940s folks).
Therefore, close relatives to marry is a human breeding taboo, will greatly increase the probability of genetic diseases in infants
If you live in a city you don't need a printer. Just go to an office store or whatever. Their printer will work, it won't cost much, and you'll probably appreciate the exercise.
Most jobs actuallu. You are confusing familiarity and adaptation with ease. Yes, physically demanding jobs like brick layer are a good example, emotionally demanding jobs like EMT/paramedic too or prison guard, bomb tech, lineman,etc... some jobs due to the difficulty, people who work those jobs have high mortality,suicide, disability and other rates that indicate the body and mind deteriorating as a direct result of the job. Office jobs pay more to the most part but they are not all cushy either. No amount of learning or adaptation can make a hard job easy, only more tolerable. You will sacrifice the same amount in exchange for wages. I did not imply any subtlety, I worked somewhat difficult blue collar jobs and now I have an amazing office job where i can even work from home! I assumed others would also understand the difference. To give you a more first hand example, I troubleshooted networking problems sitting in a nice office and I did the same (layer 1) crawing in attics, outdoors, climbing poles, jumping fences and more in 105+ humid weather and even that was considered easy compared to harder jobs, I was good at both jobs (according to others/management) and I worked more or less the same hours. The difference is night and day. I am more comfortable and much less stressed out when in an offic le job. Even in the office job world, the more I progressed in my career the more rewarding work I was exposed to. Less stress, hardship, more conmfort and pay. No hidden meaning, just an observation.
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