skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really why eugenics is demonized? That the human race (not any living individuals) is giving up its freedom to some sort of fallible authority?

I guess, like censorship, people only object to an arbitrary subset of it. People love censorship of "really bad" ideas just as they love eugenics of "really bad" genes.

Most people seem happy with asserting our authority of gene selection over animals though :P Conservationism is that. Not to mention actual selective breeding and killing of course. Perhaps we rightly believe humans truly are capable of being benevolent arbiters of who gets to reproduce and who doesn't in animals.
There is a recent news about elephants evolving to have no tusks... Something that is happening in a relatively short time span. I will no wonder if our modern trends (consuming anything to get pleasure and short-term rewards) will affect our brain size in a similar time span.
I’ve been on Vyvanse for a couple years now, and while I was titrating up the dosage I got into the habit of “spreading out” the capsule by opening it up and taking half about three hours apart. The idea was to make sure that the peak effect occurred at the right time. I recently discovered that this probably served no purpose whatsoever, and taking the entire pill at once produces pretty much the exact same overall effect profile.
The historical review was very interesting.

On the hook of the article:

> In the 1920s, radio was an exciting new mass medium. It was known for providing entertainment, but educators wondered if it could also be used for education.

With every new technology, there is a furry of people coming out of the woodwork to tout it as a way to "revolutionize education" or try to guess if it can be used efficiently. Invariably, the dusts settles after a while to restate that:

- kids who self-educate will use whatever mean is at their disposition to learn, be it books, radio, VHS, youtube, the metaverse. Better technology is better, but it's mostly on the convenience part.

- kids who need guidance on what we want them to learn will need a human teacher follow them, see what works and doesn't, and bring contents/explainations for them to digest the concepts.

- mosts kids aren't self-sufficient in all subjects, and will need guidance to go through everything we want them to learn (basically every kid falls on both above categories, it just depends on the subject). Thus whatever the technology at hand, we need a trained human being to help them learn at some point.
> Facebook has recently changed their name to Meta and it seems that they're going all in on VR/AR.

Sure, that's what Mark is saying now. If it doesn't work out, Meta isn't that awful of a name for a holding company. Royal Dutch Shell wins the prize for best name, of course.
> Paleolithic life expectancy was something like 22 to 33, and much of that after very high infant/maternal death rates.

This is a widespread belief but it is an urban myth. Most of the average mortality from the Paleolithic is weighted downward due to infant and childhood mortality. If you lived past 15 years there was a good chance you would grow old. A 2008 study found that once infant mortality was removed the average life expectancy was 70 to 80 years! [0]

> our ancestors wouldn't have the same hangups and cultural barriers humans have had for the past several millenia.

Citation needed. Rules over access to women is found across ancient societies and cultures. In patriarchal societies women are a valued good and bargaining chip between men, hence the cross-cultural dowry paid to the father. Promiscuity would have been even more problematic then than today because of small, tight-knit communities where paternity controversy could cause a major social disruption in the clan.

[0] https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins...
Does using Roku solve the problem? He should be able to watch online TV without Ads then. Am I missing something? Of course, terrible product by Samsung. Hopefully, consumers will vote with their feet.
Are the only people who perpetuated the acronym stocks people? I'd like to know what other acronyms competed then, if they existed
> One theory is that much of the meth contains residue of toxic chemicals used in its production, or other contaminants. Even traces of certain chemicals, in a relatively pure drug, might be devastating. The sheer number of users is up, too, and the abundance and low price of P2P meth may enable more continual use among them. That, combined with the drug’s potency today, might accelerate the mental deterioration that ephedrine-based meth can also produce, though usually over a period of months or years, not weeks.

These are the theories mentioned in the article referenced in the comment you replied to. It might be the meth itself. Gin, whiskey, and tequila are different colors, and it's not because they are compositionally identical.
Just add +[bar] to any gmail address, as in 'foo+[bar]@gmail.com'. Your registration system will treat it as unique, but gmail will route it to one email inbox for foo@gmail.com
Thank you, can you please elaborate - superior in what ways?

The Chrome profiles work really well for me but I’d love to learn about the alternative. Using Chrome is a bit of a guilt trip at this point.
I'm not sure if Cook is a counterexample. Is it really a shock absorber for their supply chain?

Cash on the balance sheet is not inventory. Cash won't make the bill of materials magically appear; if a weather event knocked out 5nm production at TSMC, I'm not sure any amount would be able to address their supply chain woes. There just aren't enough ASML machines in the world, let alone everything else in a state of the art fab.

I wouldn't rule out their ability to build a fab in some sort of incredible Manhattan Project-esque feat with their outstanding funds, but at that point you'd have to ask "at what cost?" Then again, maybe that's a more efficient way they could use their cash than sitting on it.
Surely having sharper and more intelligent humans is an objectively better uncontroversial outcome. If there's even a chance that our environment is somehow downregulating important features such as intelligence, we must find a way to reverse that process.
> Even in my prototype sender pays email environment (camram/2 penny blue), the cost of the stamp was pushed on the message originator i.e. the email client.

What email client? The one internal to the web application?
That seems very pessimistic. Well, we probably can’t do it, so why even try? What about, maybe we won’t succeed, but we won’t know until we try?
Something like this?
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/19/5727712/drug-alcohol-deaths
Unfortunately, I can't give you a privacy-related example. In this case, I think that's because there have genuinely been few (if any) infringements on the privacy rights of US citizens due to this specific crisis (unlike the terrorism and CP issues).

However, there have been federal-level incursions on "dissent or constitutional rights" that was mentioned in the GP post - in particular, freedom of assembly, and the sovereignty of one's own body, with what has effectively been a federal vaccine mandate (as there's little effective difference between "companies with 100 companies or more must force their employees to get vaccinated" and "every citizen must get vaccinated").

And, I'd like to point out, that yes COVID-19 is a real issue that has killed many people - as are terrorism and CP. But you know what? There's still an infringement of rights that threatens our freedom, and like both of those issues, I strongly suspect that after we get past our emotional fear of the virus, we'll realize that, even given the number of people that died, it wasn't really worth giving up our rights for (as the "temporary" powers meant to be used to fight terrorism were never given up, for instance).

I encourage you to really think about the comparison between COVID-19 and 9/11 - how a real tragedy could be abused to advance the powers of a government that does not have your best interests in mind.
I was going to say: maybe it's because we're so successful? We dominate our environment so well that we've made the world a much less threatening place, and so it's not as difficult to survive in the world anymore. Less selective pressure means we end up with a less selected population.

I don't want to turn this into a political commentary, but the modern age is an extreme example of this. You could be the kind of person who doesn't finish high school and can't keep a job, a deadbeat, but still manage to have multiple kids. Even if you don't take care of them, someone else will ensure that your kids survive. Long ago, not being able to are and provide for your kids probably meant that they died.

IMO, as we keep making the world increasingly more safe and comfortable, we might have to resort to genetic engineering. Otherwise, it might be inevitable that more and more genetic disorders will arise, just because we're able to keep people alive with all kinds of illnesses that would have been fatal before. People can argue about the ethics all they want, but it seems inevitable.
Specialization may be bad if you're working in small startups - they need people who are jack of all trades in the early going.

I'd generally follow your interests, work on things you're curious about, the rest will work itself out.
Apple has been continually buying back shares with the goal of having as much cash on hand as debt (simplification). This returns the cash to shareholders.
True, also cigarettes provide an amusing bogeyman to compare things to, whereas Facebook is no laughing matter.
Odd defenses of FB/Zuck in this thread. Criticism of Zuckerberg isn't sour-grapes, its pointing out that a ubiquitous product that made a handful of people fabulously wealthy has been proven to be both destructive to society and helpful for finding friends, and the balance isn't clear which is better.
This book was abstracted into a great Atlantic article mentioned at the beginning of the original post.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
The metaverse is for the Roblox and Minecraft generation who are supposed to be even more doom and gloom than the one that preceded it. So the world in shambles condition may already be met for some.

Gen Z have also grown up in this reverse Truman Show dystopia where everyone has their own TV show (Youtube, Snap, Tiktok) that allows them to edit out the blemishes and embarassments of real life to produce a nicely manicured image to 'build their brand' on.
Deno is not a language. It is a runtime similar to Node.js.
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>But if items and their properties are stored in a public-by-default way, then other games can incorporate those items in it (without Blizzard's permission). So if you get some loot in one game, it can become available in others.

This only makes sense for like gambling games / other financial stuff that values those items as a substitute for money. What game designer would let some other company add items to your game without your oversight? Why would you bother devoting developing time into mao king sure everything renders correctly and has the correct properties in game. What if the other game gets hacked and now people start bringing OP items into your game. If you are designing a game you typically want to have control over the whole experience.
> heroin and meth should be legal, and freely available, and they will read your comment with that bias in mind. I'd much rather have the old DARE bullshit than allow this to happen.

Why? Do you think somehow things would be worse with legal, controlled drugs?
There was an article yesterday pointing out the perverse incentive that freight companies have to allow the supply chain problems top get worse.

If you own a shipping port, it's in your best interests for thing to get worse right now and not better. You end up being able to charge premiums to jump queues, and end up making more profit by doing less work. Those guys are incentivised to ride the crashing economy all the way to the bottom, and not to lift a finger to slow it down.

And Bezos might be as well. Amazon quite likely could profit handsomely off a freight crunch that sees container prices go through the roof. There are very few retailers or wholesalers who'd have the bargaining power to get those queue jumping premium services for lower prices than their competitors, and when Amazon Prime becomes the only way to buy manufactured goods out of China, they can push the margins higher that other importers who either can't negotiate rates the way Amazon can, or who just can't get stock into the country at all.
last i read kids (~7 and under) didn't have "fully developed ACE2 receptors" which lead to the spike RBD not fully binding in young children. this allowed their immune system to fight the invader and gave them very strong protection against SARS-CoV-2.

mutations could bring about a spanish-flu style pandemic in the young so i agree it's not a good time to get comfortable yet.. but i'm not sure i agree with mRNA vaccines being forced on all (especially kids) without long term study data. especially when subunit and inactivated vaccines for the S1 protein now exist
I have never seen "swell" used that way. I thought you were saying your battery was making the entire casing swell.
The mayor of Long Beach makes >180k in pay and benefits:
https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/long-beach-mayor-r...
The disruption of Blood Brain Barrier has been an ongoing attempt. No one can reliably ensure it in clinical deliveries.
This is maybe half right. The demand for short term maximization of profits over all others is really driven by being a public company and shareholders only being satisfied if they see gains that exceed the market even at the detriment of the long term viability of the company. The US stock market is better at accepting risk of than my country (Canada) where companies are really harshly punished by shareholders if they show any signs of reduced profits/revenue.

Keeping inventory down is one easy way to maximize the profit as you aren't accounting for unused inventory. While it is correct that this is risky in case of supply chain bottlenecks, holding lots of inventory isn't a good solution either, because the company is now holding the risk of unsellable inventory should there be an economic downturn and people aren't buying your goods. Either one could easily sink a company.

I don't have a great answer, but after what has happened over the past year, I think the solution has to involve manufacturing be better distributed throughout the planet. You greatly reduce the chances of "once in a century" events preventing your shipment of product if you can shift production elsewhere and rely on a distributed supply chain. This would be better environmentally as well as it would require significantly less shipping if things were manufactured near where they were consumed. The costs of implementing this and the complexity for companies to manage is just too high for this to practically happen.
>OK. So, how does anything of monetary value interoperate in that scenario?

The same way things of monetary value interoperate on the internet currently. Anyone right now can create their own ecommerce site right now and start selling things for money just fine.
I honestly don't know. But it's incredible that they can just agree on behalf of the customers that ads are okay. That's why I never buy Samsung phones either. They're full of bloatware. There should be a setting to disable these ads.
Yikes, that's extremely bad. (I don't consider being unable to upgrade your TV's firmware to be that bad) Next time, could you drop the model of TV that you got, so that the rest of us can avoid it?
Oh, for sure (that was what I was angling at with my comment about roommates). I suspect we would absolutely rebalance our strategy if faced with that sort of circumvention of our ... er... usual waste disposal mechanisms.

On the other hand, I've known grown, solo adults who went through a few full rolls of luxe-brand paper towels a week (who needs a plate when you can stack 10 sheets of paper towels?).
> The market value of a company is true, aka the owners of this company must be taxed for the real value growth in their portfolio (since it constitutes income)

well, if you follow this logical conclusion, why are you not taxing a baby because the baby's value is the future income of that person's job. Sure, it's unrealized, but you're still considering it income even though it's unrealized.
A high energy cost is not fundemental to NFTs.
Not sure if this is still a feature of the Slack API, but in an older version you could set your name and avatar when sending a message. I trolled our internal GitHub for exposed tokens then wrote a simple bot that used the token from some random app and sent messages as “Servicedesk Bot”. It proved reasonably effective.

I was on the security team and had permission, which is important if you are going to do stuff like this.
Any source beyond the tweet?
The article touches on that too.

It is pretty comprehensive about a variety of going theories and doesn’t make the mistake of choosing any single one of them as the “because”.
> I don't know his background

He’s the CEO of Flexport - if he’s not one of the foremost experts on logistics in the country, it’s only because they all work for him.
Very cool. Would be nice to have a browser extension or something to have a quick link over from hub.docker.com.
I thought that they had been doing this for years. I've heard DNS based block lists (e.g. NextDNS, PiHole) can make them disappear.
The blogger doesn’t know any better than the rest of us if that’s what happened.
There are some popular WP plugins that takes care of changing the wp-login path
If you are only now discovering that the world is an unfair place, you had been fortunate.

This is the reason poor, colored, foreign people complain about privilege. Your life is worth as much as you can afford, everything else is a lie.

If you can afford traveling to a third world country to be tested, because the prices are lower, do so.
If you just get a bum shower as used in many East-Asian countries, you can get away with very little paper towel use and don’t have to clean towels as well.

And these bum showers can be bought on Amazon quite cheaply and shouldn’t be too difficult to install on any toilet.

You’d also be much cleaner I think.

This is just one example of such a shower found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B086W1YZSH/ref=sspa_mw_detail...
Seems to act differently depending on route of administration. If you've ever had weed, it's like edibles (injecting) vs. smoking (nasal).

Intranasal is more cerebral, "in your head" type of effects.

Subq is more bodily, "all around your body" type of effects.

If you're looking at it as a nootropic, I would recommend the spray. It feels similar to prozac and wellbutrin, if they weren't so terrible.

If you're looking at is as an anodyne or body-anxiolytic, I would recommend subq. If feels like baclofen.
Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues
I think you'd need a SoC designed for phones instead of general computing to reduce power by that much.

Also, I'm curious what use-case do you have that would need an RTOS?
> which accidentally caused a major kink in the global supply chain

Nope - you don’t get to blame a new problem on a 20+ yr old regulation. Changing this will likely help in the short term, but it’s not the cause of the problem.
I think my family’s spending since the pandemic actually geared more towards stuff we use a lot.

Perhaps the original comment is right about purchases moving from services to goods. We ended up buying things we may have otherwise used through services. A paddle board we’d otherwise rent, roof top tent (otherwise used to pay for camp sites that were closed during the pandemic), cooking equipment to satisfy cravings for food from restaurants that were closed or shut down, etc.

Overall it’s been money well spent though.
+1 for Manning, I've co-authored two "In Action" books and the experience was excellent throughout.
Drug lord Pablo Escobar once burned $2 million cash to keep his family warm while they were hiding in a cave. It is also said he lost 1 billion cash per year due to rats eating the bills and/or dampness spoiling them.

References:

https://www.businessinsider.com/pablo-escobar-burned-2-milli...

http://www.hoaxorfact.com/celebrities/drug-lord-pablo-escoba...
AI Learned Physics but How Good Is It? [video]
> USA is an outlier.

Regardless of what non-us people want, the US is not the outlier - its the center - It is uniquely the source of most tech companies. Almost all of the major tech companies are american, or move to america. Everything is created in america and shared with the rest of the world by nature of their being no borders online.
That would be easier.
Many, if not most, chips (by part number) are fabricated in one fab on the planet. It’s not possible to design a product with dual sources for every chip. This is particularly the case with older designs that are on the sustaining end of their life cycle. In some cases, a part # is run once a year, in one fab on the planet.
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I can't think of any code rot either. As long as it is built against the standard it tends to just work.

I also find the idea of using no libraries a big thing in more advanced users of CL. The more advanced of a user the more it makes sense that you can just implement it yourself (with only the functionality required) and know it works without having to leverage a library. Then again, the idea of CL is that things that tend to be bigger/harder to solve problems in other languages can be done simpler in CL because you can break the problem up different and have an easier to understand or implement solution.
One of the reasons TVs are so cheap these days is because they sell advertising and harvest viewing data.
ah that's fair - I misspoke - I was intending this entire topic to be around climate sensationalism which is what my first comment was about.

Of course climatologists are pointing to some very serious issues, but they also understand those to be modeled projections and potential outcomes. The most dire models are indeed alarming and of course it is their job to sound the alarm. It's everyone else's job to use their relevant experience to decide just how important those alarms are. If we've learned anything from this pandemic it should be that alarmist models can very well make every headline but still fail to predict the future.
Eh, the tech isn't there until it is (PalmPilot/iPhone).

An example of something that's already here: call of duty. Spending time with others while casually playing is a fun time. It's challenging, requires communication, you shoot the shit, laugh, drink, etc. I already refer to it as plugging in.

Sure I prefer a lake house, or skiing in the mountains, but that's expensive, and not accessible to most. I think too if the environment trends into more chaotic areas you can expect people to spend more time inside, thus more demand for digital experiences.
Consider a hypothetical solution.

There's a place similar to 'college' but focused on adults. Admittance to that college is free. Anyone can attend. Room, board, meal plan. At least some classes must be attended; though the term 'class' is vague. For some a class might just be seeing a councilor to talk things over, or some other doctor prescribed treatment routine.

Some of the classes should be group activities that are cooperation based rather than rivalry based. The focus should be on establishing the expectation of positive interactions and experiences. Also about helping to train people to respond to others in the same way.

Suddenly, I think I'm describing kindergarten for adults from an amateur psychological perspective.
>TikTok can rise from no where is crazy

Whew! $10 billion in funding and you call that "from no where".