skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this type of reasoning goes out the window when the way someone makes their living is actively hurting millions of people. I'm not quite callous, I think we should help them transition to a new line of work, of course, but don't expect me to have a whole lot of sympathy for people who actively poison the air for a living. Their line of work is literally killing people. Nuclear power is not so expensive. Especially for westerners.

We got rid of coal power where I live:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal

It can be done and the stakes here are too high for this handwringing. We didn't let slave ship workers stop emancipation from happening.
Agreed. NAT may or may not have made the walled gardens, but it sure killed their competition.

The worst part is that now it's not just baked into the network layer, it's baked into security assumptions as well. What a mess.
True, but it's still a highly exothermic decomposition, the energy comes from a chemical reaction, unlike ARCA's silliness.
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I'll admit that my first link is unfortunately pretty poor. Finding any significant investigative journalism on the topic is difficult.
Because if you look at the actual data from the big tech companies there is literally 1 very obvious reason that all groups are under-represented. Because the "Asian" group in most big tech companies is about as big as the "White" group despite being a faaar smaller part of the population.
Why does it use 149.2 MB ram? Is that a roseta2 thing?
Probably it's because of the generalization. Just because one store has a 2000% markup on an item, doesn't mean stores in general are a joke.
It’s optional but is a sign that it’s being used for more serious use cases.
Hypothetically, an Android vendor could build a notification service separate from Play Services and deploy it on their Android builds. Has to be a vendor (or, more broadly: "someone who controls the OS down to the kernel level") because the notification technology involves some heavy abstraction-breaking footsie between the physical link layer and the TCP stack.

But the two big challenges there are:

- odds are the first several iterations of it will suck, so they'll be competing with an already-working solution that most users have no concerns using (significant market uphill fight, with the only major value-add being "We're not Google").

- we've just traded one master for another. Ultimately, unless someone builds an open-standard at the Android distro level that includes an API to allow users to establish a notification source, the distro owner still owns the notification system (and there's no reason a priori to assume they're less evil than Google). And designing that API to be abuse-proof would be a challenge; do it wrong, and we're back to the bad old days of sub-one-day battery life on an idle phone.

It'd be a hell of a cool project for someone to take on though.
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Not at all. If the employers let their pants down already at the interview stage, where everyone is at their best behaviour, it gets much worse down the line.
I bet the actual cost of NAT when all things are considered is well into the trillions of dollars.

Any attempt to keep IPv4 alive is not a net win. It's another few trillion down the drain.
What if "putting them out of work" is actually a viable solution? Keynes thought we'd have short work-lives by now, and given the productivity gains in every industry, he should be right. It's not like that because those productivity gains have gone to the owners of industry.

This subject is quite close to home to the HN crowd, since software is capable of replacing a large number of human workers. Not even with AI, just by simplifying and streamlining paperwork-heavy administrative tasks. And yet our industry does nothing to protect the people who's work we displace.

Of course, there is still lots of work to do, even if you don't have a job, taking care of yourself and your family. Plus, if we extend the notion of family, an aging population is going to need lots of labor-intensive help, so that's something else they can do.
If there really was such a shared belief system, then this seems like a security offering by the Howey test definition, and the SEC would have sued the DAO eventually.
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> It is a stretch to call it a bad fire. One of the battery containers caught fire,

I suppose it's relative, but it seems it's a very good thing that only one caught because

> A giant Tesla battery pack caught on fire at a building in Australia, and it took 150 firefighters and four days to contain the blaze.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/after-tesla-megapa...

150 firefighters taking 4 days to put it out. It certainly could have been worse, but I don't think it's a stretch to say it was pretty bad.
I'm not disputing that before cryptocurrency people made a lot of money stealing, scamming, and hacking people. And people will continue to do so as long as we have money and computers.

What's new is demanding millions of dollars in ransom against large companies and organizations. This is a fundamentally different scale then locking grandma's computer and demanding some iTunes gift cards. Without cryptocurrency, most "ransomware" relied on getting a small amount of money from a lot of victims. These high profile attacks rely on getting a lot of money from a single victim. That's what changed with cryptocurrency.

> Read up on Zeus, SpyEye and various contemporary BEC gangs.

I spent a bit of time reading up on those, and none of those seem like ransomware to me. Ransomware involves locking down a computer (or group of computers), then demanding a ransom to unlock it. That's a different attack then stealing bank account information or social engineering scams.
There are multiple comments in here talking about or mentioning these drugs as addictive. I can't tell if it is a more common misconception.
Having worked in this industry for a number of years I feel the core issue is that an LMS is trying to organize and standardize an industry that is fundamentally disorganized.

There is an appearance of structure to content, courses, and curriculum but it's constantly evolving and changing. Often mid-class! The reality is the Eng 101 class you took last year is not the same someone will take this year.

Every school/class/teacher has exceptions to the way they run and evaluate things. So the software always evolves into more of a CMS+CRM with a million checkboxes and settings.

Source: I'm developing an LMS + remote teacher management platform at a startup right now.
I find myself use "Live Server" extension alot.
"FidoNet experience" :)
RoR is the most popular choice with Y-Combinator companies.

Its productivity is simply hard to beat.

Most of these companies are unicorns or public.
https://spreecommerce.org/ruby-on-rails-most-popular-among-t...
I suppose it may be possible to become dependent or relent on these substances, because not being depressed is better than being depressed. Assuming minimal other side effects... Probably best to skip the moral panic.
Disappointing outcome, I quite enjoyed their interface. I'm currently using Envel and One, both of which I think are suitable alternatives. Hopefully these guys will stick around...I'm still recovering from Simple
I'm considering contains for frontend development (Vue) at work. What are the biggest benefits in your experience?
Why? Even if a additive manufacturing is slower than traditional manufacturing, 3d printers can be mass-produced (unlike assembly lines and skilled engineers).
Meanwhile this placebo-controlled study happened quite recently and didn't find benefits, or at least no benefits compared to a placebo.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandasiebert/2021/03/03/larges...
No, I'm confident there are gender-based biases. But the degree of the problem needs to be considered accurately, which means understanding all of the exceptions and how frequently they occur.
This is a poor study.

But, I have been microdosing over the past few years.

Happy to answer any questions.
> They are trying to solve one of the problems, yes

That was the only point I was trying to make. It's okay to agree with me, instead of carrying the goal posts off into the distance. :D
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> Why have we chosen these 13 random publications? I'm assuming that the NYT is included literally just because the people who did this study don't like the NYT?

These are some of the biggest media publications that write about tech issues, these aren't just "random" choices. This author seems to focus on "big tech media" as is mentioned in the article multiple times, these are big tech media, independent journalists are not.

Anecdotal, but I know every one of them off the top of my head, I've personally never heard of AnandTech and had to google it.
How does a study like this make it into Nature? Is their bar simply that low?
Maybe not overruled, but called out:

> The Marriott spokesperson clarified in a statement to Axios that hosting the conference would not have violated any "political neutrality" policy, and said the reference to "corporate management" in the email referred to "hotel-level management."

> "We are working with the hotel team to provide additional training and education on our longstanding practices of inclusion," she said.
There’s also the “issue” of people most likely also have other types of communications with the same people they’ll have on Pony. Means that you could get in a situation where most of their messages will still come in on other channels, and the all the mindfulness will quickly be lost.

It’s a great idea, but without uninstalling other messaging clients the goal of a mindful messaging life seem impossible.
Very skeptical. How can one possibly trust self reported "microdosing" for something like LSD where a normal dose is on the order of tens of micrograms? Not to mention that self reported users can't be relied upon to reliably determine the provenance or quality of what they're ingesting. There are similar issues involved with something like mushrooms where freshness, natural concentration, and mode of preparation are all major factors on the drug's effects.
I'm no expert in medieval warfare, but it seems to me that if an army has breached the outer and inner castle defenses and is fighting its way up the tower stairs, bigger failures have occurred than which direction the stairs turn. As if the lord of the castle is rubbing his hands gleefully, saying, "No matter, wait until they see THE STAIRS!"

Nah, I don't buy it. Random chance or individual preference seems a bit more likely.
Not Swift?
hmm..
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Wow, this takes me back. Boffo Games made one of my favorite PC games, Hodj ‘n’ Podj for Windows 95. Which amazingly can be played online when I'm feeling nostalgic:
https://classicreload.com/win3x-hodj-n-podj.html
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“Ending climate change”. As in, the climate will no longer change. How omnipotent these intellectuals think men are.
Yep and it's a pretty big issue actually as it creates a lot of abuse in the system, doctors mostly interested in smaller "easier" acts that they are known to pay well, doctors getting referrals from a clinic outside of their administrative region (those pay more), and of course radiologists working 2-3 days a week because their acts are even better remunerated.

Add on top that by being independent, doctors will have their own company and be subjected to a much lower tax rate than a "normal" person earning 400k$/year.
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tl;dr the solution is a USB-powered cup of Yahtzee dice. There was some debate over the color of the dice and usb-c vs usb-a. But it will be included in the next kernel release and shipped out to every user of the linux kernel with the next update.
I think this is a good reminder that if you are male and live in a Western country, it is quite likely that you are being overtly discriminated against. It even has an Orwellian name: "affirmative action" [1].

Women may face other types of workplace discrimination, as the article also says, but when it comes to hiring and college admissions there is overt and (mostly) legal discrimination against men. This is supported by data [2], procedure [3], and myriad anecdotes [4].

Some think this is necessary (even a moral imperative) for correcting historical injustices, but at the very least we should avoid gaslighting people and acknowledge in plain language that discrimination against men exists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

[2]: The Atlantic: Men Are the New College Minority https://archive.md/CrAxH

[3]: WSJ: YouTube Hiring for Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Men, Lawsuit Says https://archive.md/tl5lO

[4]: I personally know about a brother and sister applying to the same college, where the brother got rejected with a higher GPA while the sister got in.
It's very simple - just open your email client once per day. 100 % a same thing, with an existing network, using a tool you already have.

That's what I do anyway :).
If I remember correctly the AMD 386DX/40 sold for about the same price as the Intel 33 MHz part, was definitely faster in any benchmark, and in the same era when a 486DX/25 and motherboard was a very expensive system, matched or outperformed the 486 in a few benchmarks. It was very popular around 1992-1993 or so.

In terms of ratio of price/performance in the budget category, it would probably be analogous to a zen3 based $175 ryzen today installed on a $150 motherboard.
You're obviously right, as "feminists" is way too broad (as is "patriarchy", really).

It's still unsatisfying at some level though. Reading left-leaning news (say the BBC), you're far more likely to read a story about desirable equality that doesn't mention the undesirable side. To be clear, I'm not opposed to equality at all. The discussion often just doesn't seem to be nuanced.
I believe sustaining such a boycott is nearly impossible if you don't have the news-media on your side. This is because you need to convince the average, not particularly engaged citizen to join in the boycott. And, after the initial outrage you need media attention keep the boycott relevant in people's minds.

I don't sense our news-media wants to fight this fight.
How fast would it be to get a delta between any two of the 2,000 builds in a single elfshaker pack?

If that's reasonably fast, perhaps an approach like that could work: server stores the entire pack, but upon user request extracts a delta between user's version and target binary.

Still, the devil is in the details of building all revisions of all software a single distribution has.
I love the idea and the brand, but that's how I use email anyway :).
>Even if you did all of those suggestions, you still need to pay the gas fees to put it on a layer 2 solution, or that rollup solution / zkSync contraption the web3 guys speak of in order to have 'less' transaction fees in the first place.

Not necessarily. Exchanges are starting to support some of these so you can skip the Ethereum mainnet completely.
In August I was hospitalized for pericarditis, I have 2 more months before I am allowed to go to the gym and do intense effort. I also can't drink coffee. I wonder if it would have been better to just catch Covid.
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I just tried enabling that this week, but I found that I often press Ctrl-S out of habit, even when I have syntactically invalid code and then the autoformatter messes things up royally and I get lost. For now, I just memorized the shortcut for autoformatting and I'm running it manually when I feel the need to "tidy up" the code.
Climate change is a subset of environmentalism, and climate change and environmentalism are both moral issues because they both involve narratives of escalating harms to human life. This is the impact by which they call others to action.
Another possibility is that many African cultures are highly gregarious and due to the virtual absence of vaccination they’ve long since reached natural herd immunity.

Interestingly though the African diaspora was relatively hard hit. The two possibilities that spring to mind is that diasporan behavior patterns are significantly different, or that the mixed population somehow otherwise altered the dynamics.
Most of the web3 advocates are too young to have experienced Eternal September, and so they don't realize that not only are their ponzi scheme dreams foolish, but that even if they could get it off the ground, it'd be a ridiculous cesspool that nobody would want to use. There's a reason that people go to reddit and not Usenet to post their memes.
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1. If we are nitpicking this article, then castle is not a fort - it is an office, that houses ruler and his court. Castle is a residence to accept high flow of people and not planned for sieges. Castle also would have enough of army to defend it(and siege is not a defence - it happens when there is a lack of it!) - it really is not something that was planned to be sieged, not to mention any fights indoors.

2. What author meant was that 30% of them who were anti-clockwise clearly does not mean that those other 70% were projected by people who thought of using stairs as battle scene.

3. I've mostly visited early medieval castles, that had anti-clockwise stairs, so meh... it looks like a cultural thing. I even doubt that these were used when carrying sword, because those had not much space to have it there, so it looked like something to be used for practical everyday usage - not battles.

4. If a person was wearing armor in medieval times, he was like a tank. If there was a discussion among nobles and one of them got pissed and decided to wear an armor and return to continue discussion... well, pretty much the discussion was over for rest of party, regardless of presence of swords. Though, despite the trope used in cinema, I can't imagine swordfighting in medieval setting between armored opponents on stairs. If the one on top of stairs slipped, the opponent below would be disabled from the weight of opponent above him. They would also not be able to step on those stairs... and if it all comes to that, swordfight is not requirement to rat out enemy - for that was used fire and smoke. Pretty much it is what author was mentioning - if there is a breach, it is game over for defenders and no real reason to continue defending anymore. The only thing they can try is fleeing.

Fighting, that involves swords and no armor is very late invention, where fortification defenses were useless and could be blown up by a powder and all the "strategical" stairs would be turned into a rubble.
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>> How can insights be useful to others if no one sees them. That is the whole point of having an audience.

Your point ignores what the poster says and then doubles down on "audience". People setting out purely to "make money" often focus heavily on "building an audience" rather than "crafting content for an audience". There is a very subtle difference which results in them burning out before they hit critical mass, or strong competition from people who are ostensibly just writing for fun.

The point of writing down your insights, even with only a minimal audience, is that you capture and refine them. They may be worth much more to an individual in a consulting reference than as Substack subs. The context always matters though, but not everyone can have 1000s of subs on Substack or whatever replaces it.
I remember seeing some YouTube video that politically sensitive people are under "house arrest" in a high-rise apartment, and there are plain clothes police who guard the entrance (the apartment buildings have another gate at the beginning of the neighborhood, like a US gated community) and probably check the ID of unknown faces, ask them who they're there to see, and can refuse entry. If you said "I'm just here to see Joe Sixpack" they'll probably ask Joe if he knew you...

Also, getting even a tourist/any kind of visa if your occupation is "journalist" is hard enough, I think they'd probably google you and see what you've written about China...
That's what I was wondering as well, this is obviously a study done on a very small budget with conclusions that could be called a stretch but maybe they knew that research in that area gets more attention?
Scam? Tesla is manufacturing and delivering vehicles.

The model Y is by all accounts the best vehicle they've made and so far doesn't have any of the problems seen with others.

FWIW ours arrived in perfect condition and hasn't needed service.
If you're curious, they gathered income, employment, and education data from both groups (table 1).
Glad I invested in both companies last year. Triple digit gains.
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Relatedly, from roughly the same time period La Chanson de Roland / The Song of Roland
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland) which has survived to the present day and is considered the oldest surviving work of French literature.
Well put.

Personally I love that Tim's personality shines through in his videos. His enthusiasm is infectious and just plain nice to see, IMO.
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Hey everyone, whats up?

I sold my startup a couple months ago to a VC backed company, after the acquisition i was added to the team to help with them building a similar feature, after they were done and all set i watched them begin to "solve the problem i was solving"

Now after a month i've left and see that the company i sold to aren't really solving the problem effectively and are more of diversifying than really focusing on building a full solution. also internally i didn't like how things were run.

The problem space is still empty and i want to go back to the space and solve the exact same problem with a competing platform but i'm unsure if i should or not. there are no official contracts or anything

Is it ethical to create a competing platform?
My uneducated guess is resistance to coronaviruses and better health policies due to previous epidemics.
I’m curious what language you’re working on and what formatter it uses? In my experience many formatters will not run if the AST is invalid.
On the moon, you'd need a mass driver in conjunction with a skyhook.
Several people here in the comments point out the lack of quality of the linked study.

I am not a researcher so I wouldn't be able to "see" or figure out these things or know what to look for myself, unfortunately.

But this is Nature, a well-respected journal, no?

I'm surprised that they're essentially posting clickbait studies...
With what substance, and how often/how much?
To me, that's like the worst of both worlds. You have text, but you can't read it at your own chosen speed.
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Anecdotally I've seen these effects in someone I care about. They live a very healthy life and do all the other stuff well, but still no effect. They take one medium dose of psychedelics and are transformed for weeks. The effects do wear off. That effect by the way is the extremely esoteric "feeling openness". It is night and day for how they feel socially.

I also have not read this study yet judging from a few comments it's not really randomized or blinded or anything.so the takeaways are very minimal.
If you made this a Matrix client, I think you'd really have something. Using the matrix-rust-sdk, you could even get E2EE that people are requesting for free.
>“Ending climate change”. As in, the climate will no longer change. How omnipotent these intellectuals think men are.

Then you have jerk klingons coming along and breaking the climate machine. Paradise is much better.