skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the recent thread on Joe Rogan was a bit less "diversity of opinion" and more "a large crowd expressing fringe narratives".

While most people in other places were talking about Joe Rogan's support for ivermectin, telling people to avoid vaccines, or platforming the guy who calls pandemic response "mass psychosis", over here, the story was that Spotify was censoring him, and what an outrage that is.
>We are getting football teams and really fancy gyms but not better education.

This is an often flouted myth. Football pays for itself and then some. There's more money in education, per capita, inflation adjusted, then there ever has been ever.

It's not a money problem, and it's not a sports problem.
Personally, I would doubt "substantial" increases, but that would depend on how you'd want to define that and such.

That doesn't mean they can't, won't, and don't, shift cultures in many other ways.
Given the ubiquitous nature of artificial sweeteners and preservatives, you are probably still eating mouthfuls of inflammatory food everyday.
Does it use two dictionaries (one more complete for guesses and smaller one with more common words for the secret?). That seems to be the the case with the original one.
macOS has secret modes that disable the 8x upscaling dance that happens in this situation. You access them by holding the option key while switching to scaled resolution from native. The text quality is very slightly worse but the performance is very significantly better.
Apart from window size and that Ubuntu-specific font, this mostly gets things openly sent in my User-Agent and Accept headers.
> Culture is incredibly difficult to intentionally shift.

Look how much culture has changed in the last few years, in a direction that closely matches the intentions of some powerful people.

Look at changes around public health, smoking for example.

> People actively resist when they feel they are being manipulated

The only way to change things is to manipulate people?

> It’s a worthy goal but I doubt the government could move the needle with any amount of money

If you are talking about promoting exercise, here I agree: More money isn't always needed.
Yep! Great song.
My household was a little more conspiratorial, so my childhood version of “the engineers must be stupid” was “they figured out it was a good way to rip you off.”
If that headline were about iOS, it'd be a big deal, but it's about macOS.
I’ve found some recruiters just default to W2 because it’s less headaches (and potentially more money) for them. Sometimes it’s a requirement for the contract. You don’t know unless you ask
Sorry, I'm not sure I really understand this angle. Usually not wanting to be associated with specific content, and not funding that content wouldn't be censorship. I would expect it exists in the same way in non digital mediums, advertisers can choose how they spend their money.
>I come to HN for a diversity of opinion

Articles are auto [flagged] based entirely on domain name here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17974697

Wouldn't it be interesting to see the list of domains that are flagged automatically?
How is the reliability on those? The diesel-electrics are incredibly reliable.
I'm disappointed that this submission was (edit: had originally been) flagged. While The Dispatch leans center-right (and anti-Trump),* this particular article argues from a libertarian position and tries to appeal to everyone from the left to the right. I don't think it's off-topic, because HN has had a ton of submissions about social media removals hit the front page, and individual rights like speech are often discussed on HN.

* https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/the-dispatch-is-bank...
Are you honestly believing that fat people don’t enjoy life and food, have bad sex, and and stay awake at night worrying about it? I think you will find instead that overweight people are of typical happiness. I think someone has mislead you with false advertising, and done a better job at sharing information than the NIH could ever hope to manage.
Seeds last for a long time. Just keeping them dry will keep a few viable for 5-10 years
I don't think this is a conservative opinion piece -- or at least, it's not well aligned to the Republican tribe. While it does mention some examples of cancellation on the left, it also devotes significant focus to legislation by Republicans attacking the freedom of speech in academia.

But, sadly, it appears that most of the commenters here are responding to what they expect from the title.
And burning Harry Potter books? Trying to fearmonger about D&D and heavy metal?

Are these legitimate boycotts?

> they end when the bad stuff does

I would dispute this too, actually. Once you've proven yourself to be a shitbag, I'm not going back to your products ever if I can help it. Nothing illegitimate about that, it's called "voting with your wallet", which is nicely capitalist behaviour.

Regardless, whichever way you want to define legitimate vs illegitimate, the US right have been doing it for generations.
"had 2 failed startups".
"I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now."

I don't see the bragging part, personally.
Are you considering remote learning to be closing down?
Mr. McGuire : I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.

Benjamin : Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire : Are you listening?

Benjamin : Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire : Metadata.

(also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork)

"The Windows NT NTFS can support forks (and so can be a file server for Mac files), the native feature providing that support is called an alternate data stream."
How do you know how much you don't know?

I'd suggest there's a difference between "I don't understand how this is supposed to work" to "I do understand how this is supposed to work, and I don't understand why it isn't working."

Seat belt story seems to be Type 1. But what if a lot of "stupid" design decisions are actually Type 2?

And the reasons may or may not be good - somewhere on a scale from real budget and/or time constraints, lack of insight, indifference, penny pinching economics, to passive aggressive user hostility.

When Apple removed Magsafe no doubt there were perfectly good internal justifications for that decision. But ultimately the people outside the company who said it was a poor move from a user POV turned out to be right.
It does seem like a confounding factor. Everyone was equally poor compared to everyone else during an unrelated economic depression? i think that would overwhelm any impact of the school closures.
Generally focused in the industrial space:

* https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/analogwire/posts/how-10base-t1ls...

* https://www.altronix.com/products/Pace1KL
Ok sure, but how does it work? I clicked around your website but there doesn't seem to be a description.
> I don't see how that quote addresses it. Wouldn't the relevant right be a "right not to hear", which he doesn't mention?

You're right, I misread your comment. He really does not differenciate this clearly, despite having examples for both cases.
I'm saying that building the facilities and hosting the ceremonies are a lot of hard work for tens of thousands of people. That they were able to pull the event off as smoothly as they have, during a global pandemic, is still an accomplishment, regardless of the TV ratings.

Maybe we can say that once in a while without having to frame it in the context of "TeH cCp EvIl AnD fAiLiNg"

Saying "it's the same government" is rather a broad-brush. When there's a new library or stadium built in Phoenix, do we belittle the hard work of the contractors and architects over what ICE is going with immigrant children?

You see that sort of coverage on a lot of news about China. "20,000 km of high speed rail built in a year" or "space program is proceeding smoothly" inevitably pivots to human-rights potshots, even when the actions in the story have only the most gossamer links to it.
Not surprising, since formal education doesn't seem to be correlated with job performance when you remove the selection bias.
> The vitamin A argument boils down to cost.

It boils down to cost in the same way that you and I not owning a private jet boils down to cost—which is to say, as nice as it would be, there are probably not enough resources on the planet to feed everyone a balanced diet without these continued advances in food production, as the current conventional farming practices are not long-term sustainable, and they are already required to actually feed everybody on the planet today.

> Genetic engineering goes way beyond the possibility space of selective breeding, which we have thousands of years of experience with.

And inside that possibility space are things like extremely high-yield crops that end hunger forever. Grains like Golden Rice that solve nutritional deficiencies caused by incomplete diets. Nuts that are modified so they don’t trigger life-threatening anaphylaxis. Crops that absorb and sequester CO2 more efficiently. Delicious new hybrids that don’t even exist right now. Foods genetically modified to be low in FODMAPs so people who have gut problems aren’t so restricted in what they can eat.

All the problems that exist now with diets have hypothetical solutions in genetically engineering crops to create more of the nutrients that we need to be healthy, and to eliminate the bad stuff that makes us sick, down to the point of being able to provide ideal nutrition for a specific person’s body. However, we’re unlikely to get there if people’s imaginations are always focused on the potential negatives instead of balancing those risks with the obvious potential and need for this sort of technology to be developed.
So to play devils advocate, a seatbelt harness is actually much safer than the seatbelt in a mass-produced automobile.

The reason seatbelts release tension is a compromise in safety made for the average driver (i.e lowest common denominator). The engineers probably thought they would compromise on safety because otherwise most people are not capable or willing to operate a harness. Aircraft and high performance automobiles use a design that would make perfect sense to a nine year old.
Yet another Wordle library and CLI in Rust
Inflammation means many different things. There are specific cases of inflammation increasing the risk of cancer, for example inflammatory bowel disease like Ulcerative Colitis and colon cancer. At the moment, inflammation in otherwise healthy people is not well defined or characterised, so it is quite impossible to study it. On the other hand, some albeit very potent anti-inflammatory medication increases the risk of cancer (for example JAK2 inhibitors). Some conditions assocaited with chronic inflammation seem to be associated with less cancer (Familial Mediterranean Fever for example). As such I think inflammation is not the most useful concept. It is more a surrogate marker of some other undesirable behaviour related to lifestyle or diet for example, rather than a direct causative factor.

Stress is similarly complicated and not well defined or easy to measure. There are different types of stress of course. It seems like moderate to severe stress isn't necessarily harmful, based on studies of I think it was Dutch women in WWII who were definitely stressed but not in Auschwitz or open combat. There is some poorly controlled data from concentration camps that extreme stress coupled with malnutrition and everything else that went on does result in more cancers, but this doesn't really help us today.

Sugar is another complicated one. Any nutritional factor has different effects in different people. There is evidence that what sort of sugar you have, and even how you eat it matters (drinking sugars, especially fructose seems esepcially bad). Here it may be more relevant to consider the result of sugar intake, such as insulin resistance and high insulin levels.
Its not just funding - content is often removed because its perceived as unpalatable to advertisers and payment processors. This is the way the modern web which we all made, works.
The MSP's policy can be whatever they want as long as it IS advertised.

If they say "We drop 10% of messages at random, and you knowingly choose to take that, then that is just a stupid arrangement you should never agree to, but they aren't doing something unexpected.

I decline to believe you are as stupid as that remark.

Good faith best effort is perfectly reasonable. Not knowingly and intentionaly discarding mail is all that's required.

If you're the mailman, you do not have to garantee that you will never lose a single letter in a car accident.

But you can certainly garantee, absolutely, that you never go through the bag and throw away all the spam and sometimes mistake a legit letter from a lawyer for lawyer spam.

You can ceetainly garantee, absolutely, that you never apply utterly thoughtless rules like "we got these scam letters from Nigeria so now we just throw away anything from Nigeria."

You should absolutely be responsible for other peoples stuff that is in your hands while it is in your hands. It's not yours to dispose of, even when part of your explicit job is to filter. If that sounds onerous, that's why you get paid money for the responsibility. If it's too hard to bear this responsibility properly, then you have no business doing that job. Do the job right or don't do the job. There is nothing unreasonable about those two choices. It is not at all required to do the job, but poorly or carelessly.
The First Amendment expressly provides for freedom of the press, which was the earliest form of mass speech and the one most directly comparable to publishing something to your "1000 Twitter followers". The only form of "mass speech" that's broadly government-regulated in the U.S. is communication that's broadcasted via the radio spectrum, which is inherently a scarce resource.
Where’s Byte Magazine when you need it? Dr. Dobb’s Journal? C/C++ User’s Journal?
At best, only approximately Gaussian.

Height cannot be Gaussian if only because height is never negative but every Gaussian density is positive for all real numbers, including negative real numbers.

"interactions of many genes that are measureable"

The interactions of many is commonly used to justify a Gaussian assumption, but there is no such theorem. The main theorem to get a Gaussian density is the central limit theorem which usually assumes an infinite sequence of independent identically distributed random variables (plus some), i.e., i.i.d. The i.i.d. is asking a LOT!!! Asking so much that in practice it is essentially unrealistic.

What people often mean by Gaussian is just a central peak, some symmetry, and long tails, but an actual Gaussian distribution has a lot more, e.g., sufficient statistics (as in a classic paper by Halmos and Savage, with a derivation in M. Loeve's two volumes, from Springer, Probability) which, as I recall, E. Dynkin showed are quite sensitive to deviations from actual Gaussian.

Gaussian is important in a lot of derivations -- a LOT is known. But in practice Gaussian has some utility but only as an approximation where don't need to be very careful about accuracy.
No, it says that critical race theory cannot be offered. That's specific and distinct from required.
> The power of government PSA campaigns is also well known. On average, they enrich advertising agencies and produce no change in the public's behaviour.

It's not well known at all to me. What is the basis of that?
Yep, and you could often tell who was a real old timer (or maybe who had institutional clout in the company) by who got to keep their firstname@company.tld instead of being forced to change to the standard naming template, which could create a lot of problems with longstanding workflows (in my case it has always been (mylastname@company.tld).
It’s so wild that most of those books were required reads by my public school. So many wonderful books on the list.
They aren’t in any danger. The guy driving in the video is crazy and not disengaging when the car is misbehaving. With your hand brushing the wheel, a person can regain full control of the vehicle well before there is any danger. And yes, I would like to see not only Teslas profits go up, because they are the only company doing self driving, I would also just like to see this project move forward. It’s the coolest project in the world and if it succeeds it will save millions upon millions of innocent lives.

Furthermore if you really were so edge-of-your-seat scared of traffic fatalities then Tesla would be at the bottom of your list. Why don’t you go do something about the droves of people that stream out the back of bars and into their cars every night? They kill thousands every year meanwhile Tesla has killed roughly zero people.
Why can’t this also hold for iOS?

> Now apps from both the App Store and the internet can be installed worry-free. App Review makes sure each app in the App Store is reviewed before it’s accepted. Gatekeeper on your Mac ensures that all apps from the internet have already been checked by Apple for known malicious code — before you run them the first time. If there’s ever a problem with an app, Apple can quickly stop new installations and even block the app from launching again.
You are correct. Not sure why you're getting down voted.

Just because Pinocchio isn't in the curriculum doesn't mean it's banned. You can still get it in the school library.

Not in curriculum != Banned
BIM, Revit, and the Database Dream (2021)
> The President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition has existed for decades but was never very effective.

It didn't fix everything, but what were its aims and what were the outcomes?
I agree with you that paddles or switches can be used for "spanking", and that "spanking" is a form of "beating", but still the words are different. "Spanking" strongly implies that it is done to cause pain without serious or permanent injury. "Beating" has no such limitation.

I agree that it is not the right way to discipline a child, but I can recognize this distinction in meaning.

I find this interesting, actually, as a form of argument. The annihilation of semantic categories. It's like argument via Sapir-Whorf.
Chesterton's Fence is indeed linked in this single-page article.
Doesn't they mean they plan to build a "simulation" when saying computer design?
> perhaps even more extreme views such as neoreaction

Evidence? I have and listened to Thiel extensively and see no signs of neoreaction. In fact, he has been pretty consistent in his claims of pursuing a less violent future.
I've tried Triplebyte and TopTal in the past, and never made it past their technical skill tests, despite having 10 years of experience.

With both, all their questions where either algorithms, or multiple choice questions about some quirky things in the language. Either stuff you wouldn't need, or things you would test / look up. I'll never understand how this is an acceptable way to screen engineers.
Can’t wait to BIM on it one day.
It makes you wonder, though, why apps from the internet are only worry-free on macOS. What is it about the security of iOS that makes apps from the internet more worrisome on that OS?
There is a lot of research on those questions. The people doing it aren't taking shots in the dark.
I love Worms, but if there’s a runner-up for “Britain’s most tenacious indie games company” then surely it is Hello Games. They launched No Man’s Sky in 2016 to universal disappointment and fan outrage, but kept working on it post-launch (under extreme stress and with little income to speak of) for years until they met & exceeded fan’s original expectations. Gratified fans eventually paid to put up a “Thank you Hello Games” billboard on a road near their office. The whole story is incredible and worth your time:

https://youtu.be/O5BJVO3PDeQ
SQL isn't quite comparable today to punchcards in 1990, is it?
> Yet for some reason, that's what people focus on.

The people or the media?
You Can Buy This 27-Ton FBI Mobile Command Center Truck
A conclave of heretics in the capital of capital
If a change has far flung consequences that aren’t obvious, the code is of poor quality. If the reasons for the decisions are non-obvious, the code is of poor quality. I’ve been bitten y assuming that people thought things through the first time too many times. If it’s not in the code base or documentation, I’m assuming that it was done for expedience. Not because they were dumb, but just because that part of the code base wasn’t important when it was written.
sounds like a whitelist? I wonder how much it costs to be added to it
Good list, and I'd add something crazy sounding to the long list of potential nightmare problems with some kind of future centralized digital currency: forced spending through expiring money.

Keynesian economists that dominate a lot of official politics have a hard-on for viewing consumption as the root of all goodness and prosperity. In the midst of a future economic crisis with a central digital currency, it would be trivial for the politicians to start blaming a lack of spending for the problems and to force people to spend received money within X amount of time or it disappears from your digital wallet and thereby incentivize desired behavior. No real saving for the future possible: citizens would be turned into a cattle-like consumption class.
Because you can only get iOS apps through the app store, not "and the internet."
Can winter sports survive on a warming planet?
Ask HN: Who's sick of remote work?
I thought it was the best for a while. But long hours in my house alone is killing me.
Yeah, happy with that risk, 2 years of lockdowns and no travelling you know?

Thailand is not an expensive place ;)
You do not have to go that far to find hypocrisy. It is quite alive and well here for example.
If you really want function keys, you can just put them on a layer that you switch to with a thumb key.
> A cancer 1cm3 in size has a hundred million cells in it or thereabouts. Therefore in advanced cancer you are looking at billions of cancer cells in the person. This is a very large amount of disease biomass. And the task is to make it all go away.

But we do successfully treat cancer in many people, and prolong life in many others.
You see this a lot with hedge fund guys too. They make a boatload of money doing a very specific thing (thiel : software :: griffin : securities trading) and think their ability in that thing gives them abilities in most other things.

Stepping back it’s fairly obvious the opposite is true. They got so good at that thing by focusing on it. Focusing on something, by definition, means not paying attention to other things. You see where this goes…
Older entrepreneurs are quite successful as well, the difference is they aren’t in tech so you don’t hear about them. They’re in Real Estate, construction, logistics, infrastructure and so on. They don’t found startups, they start small businesses. Usually with debt or cash and they don’t sell equity in exchange for ownership of the business. They are a big fraction of the >22 Million Americans who have a net worth greater than $1m.
lol, this is the very action the article is saying you should avoid.

Assuming stupidity when you don't really know anything about the subject.
Or, god forbid, a supply chain attack on your file manager. Thankfully, it's using pinned versions, so it's not as bad as if could be.
Right, but why can’t this also hold for sideloading on iOS?
Have you seen the Huawei Mateview? It's a 28" 3:2 monitor (3840x2560).
I'm comfortable with dedicated keypad on the left of a keyboard rather than right, because of the right is where mouse locates. Don't you?
For context, Progress Rail is what became of Electro-Motive Division when GM split them off, and Wabtec bought the locomotive division of GE a few years ago.
This is chicken or the egg causality dilemma.
Might be wise to think the other way around too. X causes Y, Y causes X.
Cancer is a leading cause of death (and other problems). Maybe we could invest in both? Even if we had to raise the capital gains tax rate a little? A friendly reminder: The US is the richest country in the history of the world.