skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also great in that the same piece of wood can be more or less flammable given environment.

imo, it is not just the wood, but the environment too, which matters perhaps more:

>> But there’s nothing natural or inevitable about the specific ways that Facebook and YouTube corral our attention. The patterns, by now, are well known. As Buzzfeed famously reported in November 2016, "top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined."

>> Humans are a social species, equipped with few defenses against the natural world beyond our ability to acquire knowledge and stay in groups that work together. We are particularly susceptible to glimmers of novelty, messages of affirmation and belonging, and messages of outrage toward perceived enemies. These kinds of messages are to human community what salt, sugar, and fat are to the human appetite. And Facebook gorges us on them...

>> The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself. As a result, they don’t look much like the old forms of censorship at all. They look like viral or coordinated harassment campaigns, which harness the dynamics of viral outrage to impose an unbearable and disproportionate cost on the act of speaking out. They look like epidemics of disinformation, meant to undercut the credibility of valid information sources. They look like bot-fueled campaigns of trolling and distraction, or piecemeal leaks of hacked materials, meant to swamp the attention of traditional media.

https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-n...
The Humanness of Physics (1978)
> Good thing we have economists whose job is to not forget about those things.

Because authority!

Aka argumentum ad verecundiam.
I mean, it's 8 years from now. MacOS will have had 8 new releases by then, likely dropping support for any pre-2020 hardware and most pre-2023. It's hard to be grudgey about a 10-year lifespan for an OS, when even your mouse probably doesn't last that long.
> The reason is that no one can become an expert scientist in one day or even one year.

Indeed. However, basic media literacy training could help people to differentiate between quacks (Alex Jones, un-attributed opinions in social media share pics not grounded in any scientific facts), actual experts but not in a relevant field to a debate (e.g. a PhD in art history or psychology in a debate about the infectiousness of coronavirus), and actual experts (e.g. Christian Drosten, one of the discoverers of the first SARS Coronavirus).

A bit of common sense in media entities such as newspapers in TV stations - such as not giving quacks and non-relevant experts airtime and having scientific expertise on-call - would do the rest to further civilized debate.
Ingenious, simple idea executed really well.
The problem with that clip is that he was speaking off the cuff, as he tended to do, and he didn't even consider whether or not what he was saying could hurt people. He had the idea "Maybe we could wash people's insides out" and out it came.

I think most people watching that clip wouldn't ascribe malice to him, but it does demonstrate why the man was an incredibly Dangerous person to have as president.
“ Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them” - Dickens, Hard Times

Be careful if you truly want to find the answers to those questions, it is a dangerous road.

Think of Jesus as just a literary character in an epic myth. I could care less if you don’t believe in the things as facts. Most christians I know believe in a factual Jesus without believing in the mythical Jesus.

What actually makes this mythical character from classical literature so appealing? Don’t read the book as a bunch of facts, think about what it means. It is less relevant to me that the creation of Adam was a literal creation from dust, and not some step in the evolution of biological life, it is what that mythical character means, what he represents to our psyche that is of first importance.
> I don't get why now they are calling it Windows 11

FOMO looking at Apple? I don't know.

Making it slightly whataboutism-ish, the same thing happened with Apple. When Apple transitioned from PoerPC to Intel, they kept 10.x because changing architectures kinda sorta wasn't a big deal for Apple. Same happened with 32bit -> 64bit transition. Same with HFS->APFS transition. It was no big deal.

With Mac OS 11 though? It's the same OS that is slowly circling down the drain after years of neglect. The only thing that is different is the new architecture. Which wasn't a big deal 15 years ago, and now for some reason it is.

Same thing at Microsoft? "We have to be seen as moving forward with a system we have no idea what to do about"?
It's fascinating all the ways this is unethical, but not illegal.
Nice. This would be fun to add to an Acorn BBC or BBC Master via its Tube interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_(BBC_Micro)
Those implicit biases can be pretty explicit...
To rule it out, have you tried booting with your network disabled?
Maybe it's just the people I surround myself with but I've never once heard someone say they're feeling a tryptamine or phenetholamine rush.

As far as the other three things (caffeine, sugar, adrenaline) I think the argument is we have a better understanding and direct experience of those vs. dopamine. You can drink a cup of coffee and feel obviously caffeinated day-and-night difference from pre-coffee, but you cannot drink a cup of XYZ and feel obviously dopamined.
The only problem I noticed a few times on hn is that some comments go dead even if they are right on the money. Edgy or not is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things if the content of the comment is correct.
I didn't end up down the oblivion hole just yet but I did see some that had good points... just not mainstream. Like round earth and trepanning used to be. One is mainstream while the other is now gone and considered barbaric. Some things take time to prove... or dissapear.

On the positive side: You don't have to content with baiting and such things for long.
Yeah, I'm sure we'll get better results if we put the "Velocity is fake" dude in charge of the Fed.
If your income rises significantly in dollar terms, you can easily pay off your mortgage, and stay living in your house? If you are forced to sell in the dip you are in trouble, but most people I know buy houses with the expectation of living there for decades.
Yes it is a bit like presenting somebody with two buttons, one green and one red and asking them to press one. Then concluding that those who pressed the red button was depressed and how hard and quick the pressed it determined how depressed they were and equally those who pressed the green button the hardest and quickest were the most happiest people alive.
I don't disagree with you to an extent, but humans are wired for social behaviors and there is a positive social pressure to be had. Of course your examples are real and pervasive, but we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

That being said, this is hacker news which definitely seems more composed than most online forums so I think social pressure here is useful.
> Your house's increased value isn't treated like realized income, but its effect on your taxes isn't 0 either.

Yes true. My point is articles about “tax the rich” prey on people not understanding this.

The narrative is that “X rich person made billions and didn’t pay the same 30% tax as you!” … no they didn’t make anything. The value of their assets went up. They might even have negative cashflow to sustain that.
I remember during the peak of the dot-com bubble around 2000 service in Bay Area restaurants got noticeably worse because so many of the wait staff found higher paying jobs in the tech industry. Then when the bubble popped they all got laid off and suddenly service was good again.

(I'm not blaming the workers here. Nothing wrong with pursuing better opportunities.)
Had access via a research hospital in Houston, and I couldn't agree more.
They had weeks if not months
6510 compatibility only requires adding 6 IO lines mapped to address $1 though (otherwise the 6510 is 6502 compatible enough), so given it's an FPGA based project it wouldn't necessarily be a big ask, and from the webpage it sounds like they're open to suggestions.
For vast majority of users, auto-update is the best way of handling updates. They don't have to think about keeping the browser, their most used software, the tool used to download and execute untrusted content, up to date.

As far I know, Firefox has an option to turn the auto-update off.
In my memory also 98 was horribly unstable until 98 SE.
The fact that Reader View can help you out suggests that in fact the site was made well. I absolutely don't want Safari "fixing" web content unless I ask it to (i.e. Reader View).

I'm short sighted, use pinch-to-zoom and pan&scan about 95% of the time I'm using a computer. I'd rather this kind of content than most "fancy" web pages. (a well designed, readable blog is preferable-still).
Both the youtube channel and the discord for the project is active.
It seems clear that you have very little respect for the MMT set. But I haven’t seen anything to suggest they’d disagree with my characterization. I wonder where you draw your understanding of MMT because from my view the theory is fairly straightforward: money creation happens when the government spends, and is taken out when it raises taxes. The purpose of central banks is to provide financial stability.
LOX/RP1 is pretty awful for the environment - space-flight is by no-means eco-friendly (I suppose apart from the Space-shuttle main-engines)
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The thing is, it's not simple due to the massive human factor involved. Ultimately, the vast majority of people need to deliberately be on board with HN guidelines and actively follow them for HN to remain as high quality as it is.
I think I'd struggle to find five threads in all of reddit for which "sort by top" and "sort by controversial" don't yield dissenting opinions.
It's physically a USB-C port so I'm not sure you can do that.
I use an old android phone reflashed to e.os using f-droid. I think all those threat modes are avoided by using it.

I don't think it is safe for every user to do the same I did, but I'm glad I could do it.

I think a reasonable solution would be something like a hardware seal that unlocked the bootloader once broken. If the vendor worries about how this may affect them, breaking the seal could also void device warranty.

I'd gladly buy a second hand still powerful device, void its warranty and install whatever I wanted on it.
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> You counter all skepticism the same way: by a designing an experiment to test the skeptic's hypothesis and presenting the results of the experiment to the skeptic.

I've tried this (by sharing data) with friends and family members - it doesn't work/matter. They simply dismiss the data as "fake news" and shift to a new argument. This is why I classify it as "disingenuous skepticism".

Their actions (anecdotally) are driven by culture and politics, not data.
Makes me think. edw519's comments on programming and business have been turned into a collected work; perhaps we need a collected work of dang's comments on maintaining an Internet community. I for one would love it.
I think they're going for a "The Codeless Code"[1] type of koan. The idea is to express through something that may seem slightly illogical or counterintuitive an insight.

> Without arguments, your comment has as much substance as me replying:

Yes, what you substituted is equivalent, and they likely could have written that to the exact same effect.

> It is not like "Ensure" would be a single-use thing. "Ensure" here is a utility type definition, which is what a "function in the world of types" would be.

There's a few ways to interpret the stanza. The way I interpreted it is that the beginner uses a library to provide the definitions, the advanced programmer just writes their own definitions inline as needed, and the master programmer uses a library for the definitions they need (whether written by themself or someone else).

In that respect, I think you're both in agreement.

For what it's worth, I think comments like these are generally beneficial, if maybe I prefer at least a line of context. That they can be interpreted differently and may require a bit of thought to map onto the current context can sometimes allow people to view their beliefs from a slight remove where more introspection is possible, or spur interesting tangents to explore. Both of those are generally beneficial in a forum like this, IMO.

1: http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
Anyone can develop their own Android fork - this will still not put Google's dominance in any danger.
Going down the Engine Yard --> Dev Graph rabbit hole, you find they also own Fog Bugz https://fogbugz.com/

I guess you don't need 10x developers to write bug tracking software like Joel said...
There are multiple software engineer labor markets and these guys are not competing with Facebook and Google for staff. They're probably fine.
Calendly no more addicting or engaging than a dentist’s website. It just lets you schedule a phone call or video chat.
I think it works here when it works, and it doesn't when it doesn't.

If you're a straight white male (note: I'm not), then I think social dis/approval works well for you.

I think that conversations about privilege are hard and, unfortunately, often times the social majority is united against the implications that they might be part and parcel to the inequity in our systems.

This isn't specific to this site, but I'm frequently appalled by what I see in posts regarding race, gender, etc. and there is no social repercussion for people who post in bad faith simply because it is in the majority's best interest to self-regulate in a meaningful way.

(And now here I am, worried about the "social disapproval" of this post, even though I think that the contents are worthy of posting and the tone is respectful)
except in the case of my home all my doors were unlocked. I would definitely appreciate a paper about how to secure my home, especially if the intruder took great care not to cause any damage or disturbance.
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7 was much better than XP, but 10 is much worse than 7, so I'm not sure if I'm ready for a 12 that is much worse than 10.
Here and conversation are the keywords in those points by dang. I come here, to HN, to have discussions/conversations about topics I'm interested in and to see other's viewpoints.

An easy example to frame a discussion about discussions here would be to set aside any political or other easily flammable topics (because unless it relates to tech/software/hacking its not really content for HN in my opinion) and pick the cliche of developer flame wars: vi vs. emacs

At HN I would expect curious dives into features, functions and reasons why people love one or the other, why they dislike one or the other or if there was something fundamentally new/different. If the discussion about vi vs. emacs was just inflammatory statements, its just not interesting for this audience, here.

Taking other viewpoints into consideration when you write comments in a discussion is just part of being a good online citizen.
Aren't the expansion modules all just things that are standard ports and storage options on normal laptops? Would be cool if they offered something a little specialized. But of course if the current setup lets them offer the base laptop with less ports at a reduced price compared to a less modular laptop with more standard ports, it could be a win too.
I haven't been given time to read the documentation. I was told TS is simple enough that I can just figure it out on the fly.
Firefox (macOS & iOS) and Safari (macOS and iOS) render it almost exactly the same as their platform counterpart, and pretty close cross-platform. It's simple HTML with few display directives so I don't find this surprising. What are you seeing?
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>You are free to not wear a mask or party by yourself, in your house, away from society.

Or you could frame it the other way. Instead of suppressing everyone's freedom, people who are too scared to resume a normal life could watch us live a free life through their window, from the security of their home.

I'm not aware of any country that had a democratic consultation to ask the people which way they wanted it.
I as well! I’d pay towards such an effort.
Does anyone have any books they'd recommend on the topic of the Big Bang?

The Big Bang theory has always seemed dissatisfying to me, like there's some prima facie aspects of it that defy logic, or are "just so" in quality. It's always seemed to me to be the sort of thing that will eventually be superceded by some more complete explanation; that is, the Big Bang is correct but is part of a bigger story.
> Effectively, they're all the same.

No they're not.

Birthday attack says that a 160-bit perfect cryptographic hash will have a collision with just 80-bits, on the average. This means that an 80-bit burst-error would probabilistically contain a potential SHA1 collision. (80-bits burst error doesn't mean that all the bits are flipped btw: it means that 80-bits have been randomized)

In contrast, CRC is designed specifically against burst errors. CRC is "regular" and "tweaked" in such a way that a 160-bit CRC would be immune to 160-bit burst errors of any and all kinds!

So if you care about burst errors, then CRC is in fact, better, than crypto-level hashes. And in practice, burst errors are the primary error that occurs in practice (scratches on a CD-ROM, bad sectors on a hard drive, lightning storm cuts out a few microseconds of WiFi, etc. etc.)

That is: noise isn't random in the real world. Noise is "clustered" around bursty events in practice.

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If burst-error is king, you can do far, far better than random methodologies. CRC is proof of that. That's why error distributions matter.
I guess I am replying for the dopamine. All of the other things I have / need to do require more effort. Is typing out a few replies after I have breakfast my morning cigarette in a different time?

A healthier habit?? The problem may be there's no defined end. What did people in the past who didn't smoke do? Newspaper? Magazines?
PowerShell does have progress bars, but rendering them is (was?) on the critical path. I once had a script that was downloading a large file and took ages to finish, you could speed it up by well over 10x disabling the progress bar.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/2138
"The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade."

Apple did manage to un-lose, semi-congrats on that. But innovation still seems to me, here, two decades later, dead as a doornail. Personal computing has not changed much at all.

There's tweaks, re-skins, re-shuffles, but the general practice is still the same. Use a launcher to launch applications, live in an app, alt-tab to another app. We've done little to really make users more powerful, more creative, more enabled at any kind of platform level.
That's a great tool for some frame-to-frame animation training, it's so very friction-less!
Here's my little "I dont care"-doodle :D https://media.giphy.com/media/fRECiVW4vyGMBkv6X6/giphy.gif
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It would be impossible for a non-expert to recognize these roads without hand-holding training. There are few quantitative criteria ("lots of"), and many that are only understood relative to a persons experience ("Just picture ... "). Yet, they are well-defined and the problem is well understood.

Perfect application of AI/ML. The reasoning behind AI/ML does not need to be mysterious for it to be an appropriate solution. "All it has done is <Something I understand> " is not a valid criticism of the solution.

"All it has done is add these values and subtract these values" would not be a valid criticism of a banking application, for example.
Dopamine, dopamine rush, etc are incredibly useful concepts that previously didn't exist in the English language. As you describe it's a useful mental model to explain your own and other's behavior, and as the person quoted in the article describes a so called dopamine rush is a palpable feeling.

The fact that the concept "dopamine" shares a name with a neurotransmitter is imho not that relevant and will over time just turn into an etymological curiosity. It would be better if it was named less confusingly, but that's not how language works.
For me that was obvious when it started showing sponsored content in my "new tab" page (in the speed dial-like list of sites). I just needed a reason to switch to Qutebrowser, so I did.
Except when supply is flexible. Manufacturing in higher volume will reduce cost.