skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably the study was focused on worship of celebrities in the entertainment industry, i.e. movie stars. One wonders if the same pattern applies to worship of celebrities in non-entertainment industries, like tech.

However, IMO tech celebrity worshipers are more like zealous religious followers than movie star worshipers. I guess we've known that since the early days of personal computing, though. Even the early marketing was built around that tendency (i.e. the 1984 Apple ad).
And yet a junior dev who LCd for a few months will get paid way more than a MD in residency. It might be interesting to see if the quality of people (measured with IQ) or some other simple metrics who pursue medicine relative to other fields have gone down over the past decade.
Re: "proving it works", in a previous interview Lamport said that some folks measure simplicity by showing something to people and they say whether or not they understand it, while he measures simplicity by showing something to people and they can prove it's correct.
I love this answer because it resonates. As a former business person who learned the technical ins and outs, I believe the reason why this is happening is because majority of the population is uneducated how general tech works under the hood.
I am not even speaking about coding syntax but the abstractions of what does AI actually mean, how it works with data and what are the limitations.

The vast majority of business people think they get it, but they majorly overestimate the work required to actually produce output (whether it's ML or software in general). However that's hard to do when you haven't actually done it (talking about deliberate practice).

Despite that gap, we still need to push commercially viable apps out there to seek progress, the question is rather what is the gap between the reality and expectations and what is really being marketed as a capability.
Worship implies an extreme degree of fascination if not used literally in a religious sense. To say someone "worships" a celebrity suggests that person acts similarly to how they would act if that person was a deity.
It sounds like you want to take the War on Drugs textbook, and apply it to crypto. I expect it'll work about as well, and have similar collateral damage.
No. The reason is the regime they have. More than anything else.

How better? No economic data here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_and_Car.... I can say there were riots last July due to a
lack of medicines and food.
Well, she was also a bit unpopular too. Better strategy, or better popularity, might have made the difference. Hard to say. Things were so close in key states that it all approached a chaotic system where minor things could have unpredictable results.
"Crypto Scheme": a decentralized pseudo-Ponzi scheme.

I like it.
Past related threads:

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055125 - Aug 2020 (2 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818069 - Aug 2018 (11 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082585 - Dec 2016 (16 comments)

The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654774 - May 2016 (60 comments)

Isaac Asimov: The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629797 - May 2015 (138 comments)

Isaac Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1147968 - Feb 2010 (32 comments)
I think there term is a fecalpheliac.
> It’s almost like scientists want to ignore Mind, and try to describe the world only in terms of matter

It's not a matter of scientists wanting that, and plenty of scientists have quite overt beliefs about non-material truth.

However, science, in the modern, systematic sense is about a process which is entirely concerned with testable predictive models of the relation of observable material facts. Non-material potential truth that is not materializable in the form of testable material predictions may or may not exist, and may or may not be interesting to a particular scientist, but is outside the domain of science.

> Think about it, if you look at an atom close enough under a powerful microscope, it becomes clear that it’s actually almost 100% open space!

No, it doesn't. The highest-resolution (new-as-in-this-year) electron microscopy techniques are sufficient to see atoms as somewhat more than point objects, but not enough to see that they are mostly empty, That they are mostly empty is part of the model produced by modern physics, and you've probably seen popularization that talked about what you would see if it was possible to see at certain granularity, but that's not the same thing as what you actually can see with the most powerful microscopes that actually exist.
Such a wonderful read. Think of childhood or teenage years when you spent hours building things for the sheer joy of it, profit motive be damned. More of us could do with sabbaticals to explore projects like this as an adult. Build out in the open, perhaps it will work, maybe it won’t. But you’ll learn a vast amount, have fun along the way, and probably learn what you should be doing instead.

Bookmarked, because I know I’m going to have to re-read this.
Or, it could be just the usual first mover advantage.
now that's an amusing take.

But would you go so far as to call yourself an "elite" like this guy does...

>This is a key part of what it means to be a responsible elite.

The best description I ever heard of an "elite" is "A term used ironically to describe someone so out of touch with reality that they think people are using it to refer to them unironically."
To my knowledge "web 3" is a very vague term that just means "users host their own content instead of relinquishing it to big tech for hosting". So I think it's fair for federation to count as web 3. Even with a blockchain-heavy net, ad-hoc federation will happen in the form of custodian services.
My theory is celebrity worship is a substitute for kings and royalty fetishization which is a substitute for tribal chieftain fetishization and worship.

We don’t even know our own relatives that well anymore yet my Mom seems to know all this bizarre stuff about Kate Middleton and we live in America. People seem to crave gossip so they can discuss archetypes.
Almost everything in your first paragraph is correct (though you accidentally capitalized "starving".)

But everything in your second paragraph is incorrect. Even before the industrial revolution, it was commonplace for banished people to find a new place to live, either as hermits or as part of a new tribe; the outlawing and persecution of individual refugees and "stateless persons" is a Late Modern aberration. Since the advent of the industrial revolution, a subordinate position in a tribe like Japan that is very "dominant against the real world" gains larger benefits than a dominant position in a tribe like the Wola that is much less "dominant against the real world". For example, as a Japanese person, you live twice as long, you probably won't get raped, you are at no risk of being executed for witchcraft if you fall from favor, and if at some point the two tribes come into armed conflict, the Wola will be entirely at the mercy of the Japanese.

Even in the first paragraph, though, there is a significant error. You say, "Starving or not starving... procreation... [and] changing the world in various ways [mostly] depend on how many other people you can motivate to go along with your plans." But in fact they do not. These things depend jointly on whether you get teamwork on plans, a social question, and on whether the plans are any good in the first place, a rational question. This is what sunk the Great Leap Forward: Mao was suffering from the delusion that you so clearly expressed here. He evidently motivated people to go along with his plans to an almost unprecedented degree, but many objective, non-social aspects of the plans (notably backyard smelting, the Four Pests campaign, deep plowing, and close planting) were destined to produce catastrophe, especially if they were executed thoroughly. The greatest famine in human history was the predictable consequence, killing some 40 million people.

The industrial revolution was a consequence of Galileo's rebellion against this subjectivist view: he dared to look through his telescope at the real world and believe what he saw, despite its incompatibility with the socially constructed virtual reality of his time. It took some time, but Italy paid for its rejection of Galileo with centuries of penury and destitution. Ultimately Galileo influenced the external world, as you say, far more than the crabbed Inquisitors who persecuted him.

I stand with Galileo and against Mao. Will you join me?
That's why they organize into political groups and manipulate wages on the nation-state policy level.

Owner vs. worker power struggle is always all about who can better coordinate collective action. Owners have an inherent and mostly dominating coordination advantage.
Did you not vaccinate your dog?
Einstein is, in fact, a counter example. He was working at the patent office as a 'technical examiner' for seven years, including throughout his 'annus mirabilis' when he released his most famous papers.
30 years old in September.
I don't particularly think it's a good tutorial

It's a bunch of OOP with a bunch of Composition with a bunch of ECS

It's asking for trouble and confusion

I am definitly not a fan of that decision, it started properly, then they messed up after making Entity -> Actor, shame
Pretty unlikely if you're walking around outside. You'd hear/feel the bat flying near you.
Agreed. I've never gotten back to my old qwerty speeds of up to 160wpm since relearning proper homerow on a split keyboard, then later learning Dvorak, then again later learning Workman. I'm in a lot less pain, though, and I'm still generally above 120wpm at least.

FYI I didn't switch off of Dvorak because I was bored of it, I'd traded my left hand pain for right hand pain, and I decided it was a bit worse. Workman is more evenly split between hands where both qwerty and Dvorak had a major bias.

Workman also seems to beat Dvorak and Colemak in efficiency, but if that were my main concern, I also considered qgmlwb and Halmak, which IIRC are even better.
I don't see how that applies. Finding a truffle now doesn't mean the rate at which he'll continue to find truffles changes.
If you really want to optimize image size, use Nix!

Ex: https://gist.github.com/sigma/9887c299da60955734f0fff6e2faee...

Since it captures exact dependencies, it becomes easier to put just what you need in the image. Prior to nix, my team (many years ago) built a redis image that was about 15MB in size by tracking the used files ans removing unused files. Nix does that reliably.
as much as I truly despise the current "web 3 is blockchain" trend, I do kinda think "web 3" as "decentralized" works. blockchains are just in vogue (in a big way, to web 3's significant loss) because of a couple unicorns.

maybe this is "web 2.5"? federation brings significant advantages from both centralized and decentralized, while not being fully either.
I did go through your comments and read the one about your mother. My dad passed of cancer yesterday. It was a lovely comment that helped.
What makes you think that the US would blockade Cuba if it would have no effect?
I echo all of the compliments on the app. It certainly has a utility function but its also very aesthetically pleasing to use for some reason. I think the smoothness and fine resolution plus the contrast of the shade brings familiar form out of nothing.

One thing i didn’t expect and can’t really explain is the emotional impact of zooming out until you can see your location and that of a loved one and watching the sun rise and set at slightly different times and different ways for each. There’s an interesting connection that it somehow creates, I’m not sure.

Anyway, in that context i kept finding myself replaying sunrises and sunsets and my rickety fingers don’t do a great job of making that a smooth process. That made me yearn for a little time widget that progresses the clock automatically at some +/- multiple of realtime.

Congrats btw, i don’t know if you feel like you accomplished your goal of learning webgl but it sure looks like you have to me.
If you develop type-2 diabetes, you may be able to cure it by not eating any sugar for a few weeks. And, keep it off after, if you never eat sugar except with enough fiber. I.e., apples ok, donuts & froot loops not. That is good advice for all of us: there is never a good reason to give yourself type-2 diabetes.

For many people, cinnamon is a good temporary treatment for type-2 diabetes. But some people have a bad reaction to enough cinnamon, so start light.

Type 1 diabetes is much bigger trouble: you need to inject insulin, because your pancreas is damaged, probably forever.

Probably few Cubans have type-2 diabetes. It is a 1st-world problem; another name is Processed Food disease.
It’s definitely not analogous to an open mail relay in the slightest.

The whole point of an open mail relay is the 3rd party can send their crap through your servers to anyone they want to target. This scenario gives the spammer no control over who gets the message.

Twilio is being used as a message bus, and OP is simply trying to save the work of writing an app or a new UI on the employee’s phone to read a list of messages. It’s a pretty common use case.
Bolt is now the first tech unicorn to permanently switch to a 4 day work week
That really fired you up!
> If I develop type 2 diabetes, do you think my life expectancy would be longer in Cuba?

I think that depends on your socioeconomic class and your insurance in the US. I'd say for the median citizen, life expectancy in Cuba with diabetes is probably higher as insulin cost isn't an issue and they do very frequent health check-ins that would be prohibitively expensive for a lot of Americans.

But seeing how you post on HN, chances are you have better healthcare available to you than the median American...

Then again, it seems like Cuba has some pretty cool homegrown diabetes treatments available:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Let-s-open-the-d...

> Who can I trust for relevant statistics and information?

That's a good question and I don't have a good answer. Consensus internationally seems to be that the Cuban healthcare system is legit, but I must admit i haven't dug all that deep.
"The problem with western civilization is the oedipal complex [...] Very briefly, the Oedipal complex shows up in the way people orally fixate to external sources of authority, suckling on their (president's/sports team's/teacher's/guru's/celebrity's/corporation's) ego instead of moving the locus of authority within themselves. This practice forms many incomplete people into a transpersonal blob, collapsing individual autonomy into a flow of resources to, energetic investment to (emotional/advertising/replicative), and political assent to being ruled by, and moreover becoming literally a part of, the authority."

https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/5sd9...
How would anyone know what anything smells like to a cat?
> There is no secret database of what is being paid.

There are public and private databases of this info.

Glassdoor is public, but you can also buy salary data from the credit bureaus.

Every large company can easily find out what a single applicant has made in the past and/or get aggregated data regarding a particular title.
25% by species. Bats only make up 1 billion out of 130 billion mammals, as near as I can tell from a quick Google.
"Free" as in "my neighbor has an apple tree".
Can anybody point to high-level resources as to how ART works?

The Wikipedia article is light on details [1], the 'types' described look basic and preliminary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_resonance_theory
It's absolutely true that bats have an exceptional immune and metabolic system, unique among mammals and dangerous to other mammals. The flipside is that bat biology also provides an enormous amount to learn about immune system modulation, cellular repair, metabolic capacity, aging, and many other aspects of human biology.
Be a lot cooler if you did.
I think you're underselling the importance people find in their gender.

Personally I agree, for me gender holds little importance, if I'm being most true to myself I identify as non binary simply because I don't really identify with a gendered label. That motivation has also lead me to being ok with being gendered male, because it just doesn't matter to me.

I understand I need to look outside of my own experience to see the importance people place on gender though. You can say all you want that most people don't care, but I feel if you misgender people, a lot of them would be very upset. Trans people are very vulnerable to suicide because of this, to diminish the importance of gender (this includes the binary, of which many trans people want to fit into) to these people is to be at best lacking in empathy.

Now if you're approaching this from a gender abolitionist angle where you believe all this attachment to gender is socialized and that we should push to de-emphasize genders role in society, then I believe that's a far more defensible position, but I feel you need to at least recognize the importance gender has to people today (socialized or not) if you're to have any hope in bridging that gap with people.
The argument about gender (and pronouns) being an arbitrary social construct does not imply that it's the individual's unilateral choice - the fact that naming people and referring to them is a social construct means that the social consensus determines how people will be addressed and the individual does not get a veto vote - e.g. if someone asserts that their identity requires them to be called Your Majesty, the society will simply ignore that demand. So the demand for non-standard pronouns essentially is up to the society; someone may want others to use e.g. xe/xir, but it does not necessarily mean that this desire has to be honored, that is an arbitrary social construct which can plausibly be different in different subcommunities; in some communities these pronouns fit the social construct and it's mandatory to use them, in other communities it goes against the social construct and it's considered unreasonable to demand that they get used.

There are many other parallels - e.g. the criteria for using (and expecting/demanding of use) of formal vs informal "You" in many languages, the expectation on how mandatory it is to use specific prefixes or honorifics (Sir/Ms/Dr), etc; and in all those cases it's an arbitrary social construct and the wishes of the individual can be and are shunned whenever they go beyond what the locally prevailing social norms require.
Empathy has a performative component to neurotypicals. If you are not acting as though you are empathizing, you have "no empathy" and are thus a strange form of psychopath. Actual psychopaths can pass the performative part of neurotypical empathy with flying colors because they are excellent maskers and mirrorers -- that is, of course, when they can be bothered to try at all.

Neurotypical psychology is deep, complex, and fascinating. They devote significant brainpower to constantly evaluating and testing other people's behavior against a constantly evolving set of rules in order to ascertain whether they are a member of the neurotypical's tribe or ingroup. The rules have to change and evolve because ingroup members will be able to predict how they will change, and so catch any outgroupers who have heretofore successfully infiltrated the ingroup. It's like you have a monster CPU with a lot of cores, and then devote half (or more!) of those cores to the world's most elaborate DRM scheme. We benefit because much of that CPU power is in us freed to do other exciting things, like programming or particle physics; but we also suffer because most of the people around us cannot attest that we are legitimate humans running a legitimate copy of the human OS.

Relatedly, I love Japan and I love the Japanese people but... Japanese society has one of the most elaborate, impenetrable set of social rules in the world. If you want to know why hikikomori are such a thing there, it's simple, really: so many more people are frustrated with their failure to conform to the elaborate ruleset it takes to simply be Japanese and tired of being flagged as impostors in that game of Among Us that they simply give up and withdraw into whatever brings them comfort.
That can happen. Doctors are employed by physician practices which work as contractors at the hospital.
Ask a cat?
Who's the last government official you had to bribe?
And I just thought elites had to be the men buying hygiene products labeled "tactical".
Yep, I've never felt the need to remap hjkl for other layouts. Very exaggerated issue from people who didn't stick with it long enough, I think.

I was worried about it with Workman because it was slightly less logical. h still left of l, but quite far away, j and k are placed so that it's like you've inverted your camera controls in a game. Very easy to adjust anyway and I don't really think about it now. Your point about w and b is very good as well. Advanced vim users are actually less likely to use hjkl much due to having faster ways to get around in most cases.
> My theory about celebrity culture is that it is deliberately attempting to replace normal human interactions

have you heard of the term 'parasocial relationship'?

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/parasocial-relationships-on...
Yes, I think there is value in the patent system but the concept of what qualifies as "novel" and "non-obvious" seems to be way off.
Maybe it's time to try doing something totally different than "development?" Have you done anything with Python hardware like CircuitPython with Adafruit's boards? You may find it refreshing to think about coding in the hardware space where the mindset is different than pure development....
You'd think so, but it seems that people who have a problem with cryptocurrency in general are already laying the groundwork for the next assault. This is one of the tweets in the linked thread:

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1478017698676228099

It basically claims that cryptocoins are "sound money", and that "sound money" is inherently racist. I tried to follow the logic in that thread, and, so far as I can tell, it boils down to something akin to "Hitler was a vegetarian, ergo, vegetarianism is bad".
And now he's only the fourth richest.

I'm sure a lot of billionaires would actually consider that drop to be something worth losing sleep over, as messed up as it is.
I definitely didn’t get a trust the science vibe. I got more of a hopelessness vibe.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see MS abandon Word or Facebook (erm Meta) abandon Facebook in the same sense Google would abandon Chrome.

Sure, some piece of software will have that name, but it won’t be aggressively developed like MS abandoned IE a few times.

I also won’t be shocked if Word or Facebook are like Edge where it’s a new different thing with an old name.
The Military’s New Challenge: Defeating Cheap Hobbyist Drones
Monkeytype works well for this if you tweak the defaults. Turn on capital letters, punctuation, numbers, and change the time to 60 seconds. I did this at the start of learning a new keyboard layout and got quite comfortable with the numrow and symbols.