skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Christianity already has enormous appeal, it is literally the most widely practiced religion in the world. I never said Christians are against hand washing, I said that Jesus taught his disciples, who lived before Christianity was a religion (if you asked the disciples what they practiced they would have all said "Judaism"), that they need not wash their hands before eating. This is recorded in the gospels, so if you have some kind of problem with it then your argument is not really with me.

I also take issue with the idea that there is no joy or value in life unless someone has a "sincere relationship" with the Christian deity. There are plenty of happy, healthy, and fulfilled atheists, not to mention the many polytheists and idolaters who live equally fulfilling, joyous, and righteous lives. You do not have to agree with how anyone else approaches life, but to claim that only the Christian deity can bring meaning, worth, freedom, or good to a person's life is the darkest worldview I can imagine. Christianity is the world's most popular religion but the majority of the world is not Christian. Do you actually think that non-Christians live depressing lives dominated by evil and unjust practices?
I see something similar as as a risk for the general internet. We are already seeing GPT-based content farms masquerading as product review sites. It's easy to monetize traffic via affiliate links.

It will get harder and harder to separate genuine (human-generated) content from AI-generated. Eventually I think we will have browser extensions designed to detect AI-generated content and it will result in another arms race.
Ostensibly, we are paying them back the Social Security taxes + interest that were withheld from their pay when they were working, supplemented by any pensions or savings they may have.
This ignores data that shows how many older people retired, and how large that effect is.

Sum up the number of people who died, were injured, retired, our found better work, and it had a much greater effect than the government payouts. Otherwise, these problems would have already largely resolved already. Those extra payments are gone.
This might come as a shock to you, but you can be judged favorably too. When I applied for grants for dance performances, I never mentioned my gender expression, but the approval committees would tell us that they wanted more "queer voices." But that's not the lens that I wanted them to view my proposal through.

Also, I think you need to explain how race is incorporated into a person's character. Maybe start by defining what you think character so that we are using a shared definition. Because I think your different protected characteristics are completely separate and in no way intrinsically linked to your character.
Because he's bald and older (and very much eccentric), and Friends was fundamentally about young people in New York with no realistic means of support. The sequence is poking fun at the idea that race is the sole obstacle to paradise.
And the closest Western equivalent is the pension system. Also not a perfect comparison since pensioners are obviously older and have more assets on average, and some have large private payouts at the time state pensions kick in. But few people carry on working full time, and the system relies almost entirely on the labour of people who are not entitled to pensions to sustain it, to the point pensionable ages are needing to increase because healthier, longer lived people don't retire any later.
I totally agree with this "The psychologists also found an indication that people with a basic income look for work that suits them better.". If I would have enough money for all my needs I wouldn't stop working. I'm lucky that I'm already doing what I love. I'm not doing my job just to get payed.
I think back button suddenly closing the app is more hostile. When you do it accidentally, the recovery steps are painful (app switch, find app, focus to it etc). I totally understand why Netflix would prevent it from happening. I think iPhone solved it better than Android with the "super back" link or the app hopping gesture. Android could improve the back button with a long-press requirement in order to navigate away from the app too. In this current situation, Netflix is completely in the right to disable the behavior.
So super hero comics are for (pre) adolescent, straight white boys?

That's too bad because I have been told that that was a stereotype and was no longer true.
> I'm willing to bet it was this, because I was so struck by it I saved it:

This is indeed what I was looking for. I too was struck by it. Thank you SO much.
<< Those attempting to stifle free speech on campuses by banning what they deem hate speech are using private institutional policies in the open market.

Yes; the hate speech being defined as speech they hate. That is not a great standard, because I can assure you the definition will expand in directions you may not find acceptable. But it is an easy rallying flag and a good political tool.

<< The venn diagram between people that are "self censoring" by attempting to boycott say Dave Chapelle, and the people that are attempting (and succeeding) in banning "Critical race theory" has no overlap.

This is not what I meant by self-censoring. Dave Chapelle episode is something else altogether and we can discuss it if you want, but I am not sure if this is the line of argumentation you want to take. What I referred to was a clear departure of university ethos to present kids with various POVs, expand their mind and have a healthy discussion. Instead, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction recognized by some as 'stifling'[1].

<<It's purely an emotional reaction based on how the dominant culture feels about being asked to confront it's past.

I am honestly not sure what you are talking about here. What culture are you referring to? What past needs to be confronted? US openly committed genocide on Indians - it is on the books last time I checked. US imported slaves and it was a while before they were even freed on paper? Do you see anyone denying that? What exactly needs to be confronted? Lynchings? Segregation? What? None of this is hidden. If anything, you have a prime time now to call anything racist. You can call cereal racist and a clear and present indicator of white supremacy and CNN will give you a platform to spread that opinion further. Some of us just can't help but chuckle, because the backlash you are referring to is created by this weird fixation with race exemplified by 'everything is racist' movement.

<<Every other Western/developed country besides the United States believes this.

Does it mean it is the correct stance ( is majority automatically right on any given issue )?

<<Every country from Germany to the UK to Canada accepts some limitations on the exercise of free speech in the interest of resisting hatred.

Yes and there are historical reasons for those you listed. US, on the other hand, was founded based on a firm rejections of those limitations as enshrined in that foundational document called a constitution.

<<the very term is completely mis-defined

Please define it then.

<<The very acknowledgement of racist feelings and histories is uncomfortable. And the dominant white judeo-christian protestant conservative culture in the US does not deal well with self-reflection or discomfort, and instead lashes outward.

I find this the most interesting line of the entire post. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I do not see discomfort. Have you ever marveled at the beauty of the pyramids? I have about the same discomfort about pyramids as I do about US history.

[1]https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15277443/north-korean-defector...
I might be misunderstanding you, but it's a leak of database name, not database contents. You can tell someone visited a website by looking at the name, but your photo from Google is safe.
This is great and also what I practice. I've tried to explain it to people with limited success, but I think you do a good job here. This type of awareness has a long tradition. Ancient Sanskrit scholars and Buddha discuss this, as well as Western philosophers.

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

https://www.civilsdaily.com/mains/an-unexamined-life-is-not-...

Mahatma Gandhi’s examination of self through his autobiography ‘My experiments with truth’ highlights the significance of reflection on life. Mahatma Gandhi was not only able to map his weaknesses and vulnerabilities through the examination but was also able to question his prejudices and understand his strength as a human being.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Finding_Fran/8CZr_HxkKs...

To both calm and stimulate the self, Gurdjieff devised two main practices: a series of movements and an exercise called "self-observation." Some of the movements draw from yoga and ancient Sufi dances and are strenuous, while others, more controlled, resemble tai chi. "Self-observation" involves focusing all one's awareness throughout the day on one's thoughts, emotions, facial expressions, and body movements. The goal is to figure out the drives, as well as the contradictions, between the mental centers, in order to pull them together into some sort of harmony. Then one is on the way to finding the elusive spiritual center in the self that remains uninfluenced by social conditioning.

Osho

Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness. Hence the whole problem! There are so many problems man has to face, but they are all by-products of his sleep. So the first thing to be understood is what this sleep consists in — because Zen is an effort to become alert and awake.

Steve Jobs

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
I'm about as anti big government and anti welfare programs as you can get, but the overhead costs of most welfare programs isn't nearly as much as UBI proponents seem to think they are. Food stamps, one of the more inefficient ones, costs about 15 cents in overhead for every dollar in benefits. Most other programs like social security etc. range between half a cent to 5 cents for every dollar of benefits.
You can just use braces with:

from __future__ import braces
They are? Evidence?
> 128 (one for each node) 16Mhz 286's.

Geez. I wonder what their electricity bill was in those days.
I don't think that's the mindset. The mindset is, "I worked for what I have, you can do the same"
So, I take it you missed out on Bitcoin?
Most people strife to life a life better then "just basic".

Many people are driven by more then just money. Tbh. I don't know if anyone would become a nurse in a hospital for monetary reasons (if they have another choice). Or a care taker of old people. At least where I'm from. (As it's severely under-payed for the work you do.)

Similar a lot of people love to compete with wearing brands, having fancy things or having the harder to get in job.

A lot of people are prevented from being able to do what they want because of money. Sometime because they can't afford to take some time off for education, sometimes because the job they want to do doesn't pay well.

So I'm sure you can have a well working society with basic income.
It's ok to go through 300 to laugh at homoeroticism, but not ok to discuss the points that art is trying to make when it oversimplifies?

My only problem with this is the cultural critic's insistence on assigning everything they enjoy with a complex intellectual meaning and significance. It's self-praise, in the guise of analysis, used to rationalize the sheer amount of time spent consuming popular products of the culture industry.
Finns are not Scandinavians though. I think you mean Nordic people.
No, this lot have learned that there are zero consequences for being openly lazy and corrupt. They broadcast their intent to pork barrel and people vote for them because of that.
> What About Other Unvaccinated People?

At this point, they’re either in emerging economies, kids, or anti-vaxxers. Once all those who can get a vaccine are vaccinated, it’s anti-vaxxers’ prerogative to die from COVID if they want to.

These type of statements are unnecessary (hyperbole). Are there risks from get Covid? Well yes, of course there are. But this idea that EVERYONE who gets it dies simply isn't true. And I guess the unjabbed die twice? Because they deserve to do so? That's absurd.

The fact that he goes on to say, "I’m concerned about governments" makes me wonder if he see his own disconnect?
It's not "I got mine, fuck you". It's "I got mine. You got yours. Now you want to take mine, fuck you".
>the nonstop "revelations" of crazy projects funded by gasp Anthony Fauci are really meaningless

I'm not really aware of any of those other than the gain of function research on bat coronaviruses by EcoHealth Alliance, which was only controversial beacause Fauci denied it in front of Congress and was technically not supposed to happen due to Obama's moratorium. What are the other revelations are you talking about?
One must ask themselves if they think the government should treat people differently based on the color of their skin. If you think the answer to this is yes (because CRT requires it), then I'm curious to hear why we now believe this form of racial discrimination to be a net positive in society.
Income subsidies for people in need is a nice thought, but isn't the bigger problem that we keep buying shit made with slave labor in China? We live in a global market, and as long as we keep supporting hucksters abroad it's no surprise things are stagnating at home.
I just went through an absolute debacle with my phone number being in limbo and no customer reps being able to access the account. Submit a complaint to the better business bureau within a day or two executive services will contact you via email. They resolved my issue, it still took a few more days but it worked without spending even more time chatting to bots and reps who simply do not have the power to resolve the issue.
Thanks - I appreciate the thoughtful feedback.

An open-ended follow-up: is there any way the whiteboard could be improved upon (and/or is there a way to better incorporate it into your workflow)?
You could create a tiered tax structure - which would be unpopular - where the yearly tax increases with time. In addition, you could have a progressive increase in tax based on the number of residences you have.
The joke is Colin is a bald guy who wouldn't be considered attractive. (I suppose Gunther is an example of that, but leeway for main cast vs. occasional supporting role)
> I'm sure once upon a time no one in their right mind considered Japan attacking Pearl Harbor a realistic possibility (as in "zero chance" to use your words), yet it happened. Doesn't have to be China at all - I just used it as an example of a country currently building artificial islands for military purposes and how taking an island with no military presence (US has left, remember) would be easier than building your own. It's a very strategic location.

The attack on Pearl Harbor only worked because they managed to do it in secret. It would have been suicidal and a disaster otherwise. The US overestimated it's intelligence capabilities, but they were right to think it was an improbable attack. Nowadays this wouldn't work.

China's islands are very close to it's territory, and were preceded by 50 years of claims in that area.

> Again, it doesn't have to be China

Who else?

> Why would the US Territory of Guam come into play if the US gave up Hawaii and it was no longer a part of the US to defend?

For multiple reasons. Firstly, it's going to be impossible for the Chinese to actually hold Hawaii if Guam and it's related island chain is under US control and operational militarily. Fully impossible.

Second, if the Chinese indeed managed to fully take Hawaii, Guam becomes completely indefensible. So the US is essentially obliged not to let Hawaii come into Chinese hands or it's entire military position crumbles.

Thirdly, an invasion would be obvious and Guam is in a really good position to deny it.
I love this and wrote about it in my newsletter on network thinking [0] – thank you!

[0] https://sourcetarget.email/editions/17/
FNV is the largest federation of unions in the Netherlands. (It's name translates to Federation of Netherlands Unions.)
First of all I’m not seeing this advantage “beginning to vanish”.

Even assuming it completely disappears we still need to solve:

- energy inefficiency of BTC

- extremely low number of transactions per unit of time

- a currency lacking the possibility of reversing transfers is not compatible with most legal systems

- full traceability of my wallet transactions open to the public

- volatility

And those are the first I can think of while paying little attention because I’m watching a movie…
Huh, even though I would prefer a universal SQL layer, ibis looks quite nice.
I think you are misunderstanding how second-price auctions work. In a second-price auction, the FIRST price bidder pays the bid of the SECOND price bidder. This sentence is saying that the FIRST bidder is still paying the SECOND price rate, but the publisher is only receiving the THIRD bidder's rate. For example:

* Bidder A - Bids $100

* Bidder B - Bids $90

* Bidder C - Bids $80

Under a true second-price auction, the publisher receives $90, and Bidder A pays $90. The article is alleging that Google changed it so that in this scenario, Bidder A pays $90, but the publisher receives $80.
If you're on mobile you're going to want to rotate your phone.
One big thing that could help address the problem is make buying a second home as difficult as borrowing to start a business or getting margin on a trading account. As it is, they are treated as any other primary home purchase because the government backs the loans. The government should not be in the business of propping up second home prices. The reason so many people are able to buy and hold multiple homes is because it's so easy to leverage 5x or even far more. Most margin investment accounts can only leverage 2x. This ease of getting highly leveraged on a home is also the only reason that homes as an investment outperforms the market. Because a 1% increase actually equates to a 5% ROI if you put 20% down on the house.
Greed can make people do stupid things in any space
You know that Apple TV+ has an artificially low rate to get people on Platorm and will do the same thing as Netflix over time (that is escalate its pricing).
>Some places that could be considered a UBI welfare state would be Scandinavian countries or parts of Canada

Canada does not have any UBI. What are you referring to?
As a Finn I think that when people are not sure what to say.. but they feel like they should say something, then small talk is great.

Maybe we Finns think too much and say something only when we’re sure what to say, so it might be very compact, well thought package of information. Something like: “Sure. Good Bye.”

We also seem to share some bad drunken behavior and dark humor with English lads.
That only follows with a theoretically perfect UBI which either matches everyone at the highest COL or matches everyone with their local COL and reacts instantaneously with increases due to changes in the market.

If there is a delay in UBI increases, or if the UBI is not properly matched to the COL, there will still be pockets of people who must work by necessity.
That’s a good thing. We’ve introduced math, probability, statistics, etc into every day life. “Show me the numbers” and “show me the data” is how we should look at more problems
There was an even near me a couple years ago:

https://kutv.com/news/local/sandy-estimates-600-homes-affect...

And a follow up a year later:

https://kutv.com/amp/news/local/exclusive-cause-of-sandys-wa...

This is of course cherry-picked. And having a million smaller deployments is harder than one big centralized one. But the anecdote here is that even in a well-off, large suburb like Sandy, the infrastructure that is meant to “protect” the residents actually poisoned them.

It’s hard to say, IMO, that municipal run water on its own it guaranteed to be safe.
We had a similar experience to the one here: https://dev.to/codenameone/google-play-kafkaesque-experience...

Google is worse than Apple in many regards.
It seems like it is still sufficient for passwords that are generated in a normal way.
>> Being able to pay off a debt at anytime is equally freeing,

Let me remind you that in 2008 things were so screwed up, some lenders lost track of who owed what. Having a hard copy document that shows a debt was close out is not the same as having assets that could pay off the loan. Keep in mind too that it was also not a good time to trade investments for cash.

There are risks in every approach. I can't imagine taking out a loan on a property today and investing the money thinking it will beat the interest payments over the next couple years. At other times, it's less risky but the rates will probably also be higher at those times.
Just speculating, but another possibility may be a new kind of business popping up: Google App Store experts who can somehow prevent these problems and/or make them go away.

Similar to Google-SEO consultants, or college-admissions consultants who help rich kids get into universities they normally couldn't.
I like significant whitespace in Python, and wish other languages used it instead of brackets or whatever. There, I said it!
It's an international crime most of the time, with operations that can be opened in a day. It doesn't help that local law enforcement in some countries actively covering these types of crimes.
I believe that given a pie of content from comic book targeted at young male adult the pie dedicated to action is way larger than the pie dedicated to romance - and the flatness of woman carachter has more to do with audience interests / space dedicated to romance than writers' skills.

that said I too hate that non protagonist women are mostly treated as props to a story and protagonist women mostly embody male tropes in a woman body - I think there can be much more than that.
Defer, comptime, far better cross file model, yo name just a few things
I looked at other articles on that author's site and found a topic that was discussed here more than once that I would be interested in hearing opinions about:

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

The title is "Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors" and the contents is piece by piece refuting that book.

Checking google, it was discussed on HN actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

and in this sub-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21792342

Quite a few other potentially interesting links, even if only to check some things more deeply. Also, https://guzey.com/fiction/hntop1/ ("How I got to #1 spot on Hacker News and why you should never try doing the same")
Don't know why I got downvoted, it was a serious question.

Can you give an example of how we've made use of the 4th, 5th, 6th dimension, etc.?
Are drive-by attacks still actually possible if you're using a modern browser?
"All in" sounds a bit of a leap based on one job posting.
I don't see what's surprising about it if you account for the context where we're discussing code that operates on large datasets. Aside from banks, do you have any examples? Because all of the examples cited so far do not qualify (Apache, Linux, gcc, etc.), so it seems like most people are completely ignoring that context.

I myself am still maintaining a large system that I started about 20 years ago, and maybe only a couple of functions from that time have survived to this day, but all of that data is still there and valuable.