skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Throwaway because unpopular opinion, which is ironic given the subject... and I make an honest plea to assume good faith in what follows)

The story so far: In the beginning of the 20th century, Modernism was created. This has made a lot of people very happy and been widely regarded as a good move.

I'd argue that it has also caused a great deal of harm.

Lately I've been analyzing life (as in {people, their actions, reality, fiction, ...}) through a simple filter: is this creating or destroying something?

The thing is, creating is much harder than destroying. The universe generally tends towards entropy, in the more philosophical sense of a gradual increase in disorder.

Creation is the act of building order out of that disorder. It's much easier to turn a glass into shards than the other way around.

Modernism and a great deal of 20th century zeitgeist (bleeding into the 21st century) was about breaking down establish cultural and moral norms. I'd argue that is only a net positive if that which you destroyed is replaced with a new creation that is better than the previous status quo.

Yes, we should absolutely destroy e.g. laws that made same-sex relationships illegal or disallowed same-sex marriages. But the _reason_ for doing that is because we want to replace them with something better: equal rights to people of every gender because liberty and life are the two absolute most inalienable rights.

But maybe, I don't know, abolishing the value of marriage, at least culturally if not legally, isn't a societal net positive. Maybe people drunkenly fucking strangers until they are 38 years old doesn't really lead to great outcomes. Maybe not all aspects of "free love" create a net-better society.

Maybe post-modern art is a "lesser creation" (or "worse") than "pre-modern" art. Just breaking existing standards, paradigms, aesthetics isn't enough to elevate works to the same level as old masters (or even above them, as some would argue). Maybe Jeff Koons baloon animals really are shit.

Anyway, what are we creating today? I live most days thinking we're so focused on destroying that we neglect the value of beautiful, purposeful creation.
How long until people get the message not to use Google products?
These people didn't buy a house, they bought a portion of a larger building. That entire premise is utterly unworkable without some organization managing the larger structure. Most of the rules in the above document relate to usage of the shared portions of the building, not the specific condo that the person owns.
It was only for sales achievements, and I never saw an email like that for any other department.

Sales people ringing a bell in the office when they make a sale is traditional in certain sales environments. When I worked in radio, the sales people did it. I've seen food truck operators and baristas do it when someone tips.

It's related to the expression "ringing your own bell," which means to be shamelessly boastful.
I have used Zoho for my burner domain for a couple of years.

It's functional and works ok, but is not as slick as Gmail (both web and app)
> I'm not sure I'd advise people to jump into this market when IPv4 is hitting $50 per address, but I've also thought the "top" was in years ago so what do I know :)

You and me both. I sold half my IPv4 holding at $20 (having bought in at $8), and am both annoyed and glad that I only did half, since I can now afford to sell the remaining 25% at a high premium, and maintain my remaining /24 and ASN as a vanity project for many decades.
There is an army of people with weird hobbies that keep this world running. The people maintaining OpenSSL, the Open Street Map contributors, the people who maintain lists of countries and time zones, and so on.

Blessed be their souls.
One can’t, for example, solicit donations for cancer research and then instead take those donations and fund swimming pools for dolphins or whatever… even if you’re a private company.
I got burned with Dart 1.0 and its Chrome integration, so not going there as well.
And the next time the government will want to force you to do something you disagree with, who is gonna fight it, the spineless white collars that we pretty much all have become?
Sunlight through a window is much less bright according to lumen meters than when you’re outside. We have neurons that wake you up more and directly respond to bright light early in the morning. (paraphrased, source from Huberman Lab podcast).
This poll was not conducted online.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. Because people took pride in their work. Zenith TV had a set of commercials saying "The hand-crafted quality goes in, before the name goes on" -- they hand-built their TVs for a long time after PCBs arrived, and used that fact to sell 'quality'. So 'hand-built' was synonymous with 'quality' for a generation of kit-builders. (Also 'cheapskate' because in those days, electronic kits were cheaper than pre-built units.)
It’s not that google reader was special it’s just that with its death, rss essentially went on life support with fewer and fewer sites having first class support.

At least that’s understanding, as my usage of the internet was limited to flash games at the time.
Your comment and the one you linked exhibit a pattern I have noticed among people who mistake infotainment for science. There is no attention paid to the actual claims, their veracity or scientific validity. Instead there is an exclusive focus on individual personalities, appeals to authority and storytelling. It's the brave mRNA pioneer-cum-renegade standing up to the establishment like a modern Galileo. He could be saying the Earth is flat and it wouldn't matter.

But the distinguishing feature of great scientific figures who challenged the establishment and overturned accepted wisdom is that they were actually right. Semmelweis was right about hand washing. Galileo and Copernicus were right about heliocentrism. So is Malone right that athletes are dropping dead in droves from vaccination? That vaccines might actually make COVID-19 infections worse? That vaccine safety research is false and that the spike protein is highly toxic? Do you personally believe these things?
I assume they are short of money to make it work.

If it was because the developers are incompetent, they would’ve been fired. But when there’s no money, there’s no money.
So, why aren’t people more upset about mainstream news putting out blathering nonsense in 2-3 minute sound bytes about the same topics almost verbatim. Instead, there is an uproar over a podcaster that releases long interviews of people across many subjects (including controversial ones). We should be encouraging more discourse like we see on Rogan’s podcast, not berating it, especially if you prefer deeper discussion without fear of backlash by “squeaky wheel” personalities like Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world!
Momentum has a lot to do with whether third parties invest in your console. The fact that BoTW pushed console sales early on gave third parties incentive to develop content for it, which then allowed the buy rate to be sustained past the boost BoTW gave it. So the fact that only a quarter of the consoles are bought with/for BoTW, its importance to the consoles success is much greater than the buy ratio would suggest.
censorship and broader culture?
Maybe you are commenting on the wrong article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30122252

;)
I concur. And I'm saving these links.

As a tangent I would add that the damage isn't limited to the perfectionist. At some point one has to consider how the rigidity of perfectionism affects their relationships. It can be a self-indulgence in which one engages at the expense family or friends.
I'm sure there are ways in which we are still learning and right out of the plot of a film that needs no mention: https://newatlas.com/science/extract-insect-dna-amber/
I really don't recommend doing that with Apple Mail. I did, many years ago, and ended up losing quite a few emails due to Apple Mail bugs; I did it again a few years later and ended up with weird corruption of email headers (wrong "received" dates).

That was way before the Catalina Apple Mail data loss bugs. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

Any sysadmin will tell you Apple Mail has had occasional weird dogshit bugs for a decade.

Use Thunderbird, it's more likely to be robust and not corrupt your emails, then feel free to switch back to Apple Mail once you've moved everything.
No one said they were a requirement. It's bizarre how defensive you are over these questions.
Does China have them as standalones with basically nothing otherwise nearby?
I think this is what I had in mind:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
It's exactly what they wanted to do. They wanted to be able to tell the FBI to go pound sand. This CSAM scanning was a step towards it.
What’s “best” is, of course, quite subjective. That said, I tried a bunch around that price-point, and the Focal Clear was my favorite. I had the AKG k702s, and the Clear was a substantial step up.
A person meeds to have a cc where transactions are disabled. ( My bank via its online customizer accounts - allows a person to turn this on / off for security )
Everyone's experience is different, so it is unsurprising that are parts of this article that resonate very strongly and other parts not at all — overall, very valuable to have read this.

The philosopher John Perry has a humorous essay called "Procrastination and Perfectionism" that gets to the heart of the matter in a different way:

> Many procrastinators do not realize that they are perfectionists, for the simple reason that they have never done anything perfectly, or even nearly so. […] Perfectionism is a matter of fantasy, not reality.

(More at https://web.archive.org/web/20111120152858/http://www.struct...)

Minor pedantic point about the aticle: IIRC, the quote about Gauss from E. T. Bell was more about Gauss "hiding his tracks" like a fox with its tail ("Had he divulged what he knew"…) rather than taking too long because of perfectonism.

(This comment was typed with a 5-minute timer! It feels very uncomfortable to just hit submit without cleaning it up, but I've come to realize that that discomfort is part of growth.)
It improves your sleep / wake cycles.
Whether it's in your peripheral vision.
I had this problem many years ago and that was when I decided to never, ever use or recommend Adobe products to anyone for that very reason. A bunch of people at work wanted me to green light purchases of Adobe subscriptions for Premiere but we decided to go with Apple instead. Never in my life will I install another Adobe Cloud software on any of my machines again.

And that's in addition to the fact that once you decide to install their software they'll install about three hundred different things that are somehow needed and are pretty much impossible to easily remove. I really hate Adobe with a passion.
Very likely...

Unless they're South African :)
> That would imply the existence of legal “black markets”.

Why’s that? I don’t follow. How does black markets being defined as illegal imply there are legal ones?

BTW, don’t take my word for it, just look it up.

“A black market, underground economy or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the set of goods and services whose production and distribution is prohibited by law, non-compliance with the rule constitutes a black market trade since the transaction itself is illegal.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
Nearly all “talents” are just skills and way more learnable than people want to admit. Just think about all the work that you (likely if you’re reading this) put into learning to code and use a computer. It’s not a talent you were born with. Whether it felt like work or not is another matter.

Singing, drawing, shooting a basketball, whatever, are things that can be learned. No, you’re not going to be Fred Astaire, Da Vinci, or Steph Curry. But your skill can be developed far beyond what feels possible today if you’re willing to put the work in.

Most people just aren’t willing to put the work in, so it’s easier to wish for a “talent.”
You also have to consider that unvaccinated answering the poll honestly would be admitting to something that puts their livelihood on the line. I imagine that a disproportionate number would refuse to respond at all.
Good question.

At least we already know that the lockdowns did not really save lifes:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jan/31/lockdowns-h...

I wonder also how much damage the "fact checking" of the media has caused. I have seen several "fact checks" that discouraged supplementation of vitamin D with questionable reasoning.
Agree with this completely, even though Oxen is probably my second favorite episode after Cyclops.
We can easily find these deleted episodes hosted elsewhere on the web. Legally? Maybe not, but they're still out there on the open web, and so are similar views and statements to those that Spotify opted not to host.
When I was a young kid, my father ground a 6in mirror with a 48in focal length. I remember him walking around a table at night for weeks. The first mirror didn't work out so he had to grind a second.

The resulting telescope was, and still is, a remarkable device, although we had to have the mirror re-silvered a few years ago.

The first time I saw Saturn in all its glory was through that telescope, looking the size of a softball, and I remember thinking, Wow, it really exists!
Not the OP, but a world in which IT giants do delete speech they don't like might be the same world in which the actual horrors such as starvation, violence or civil wars do not get enough attention because a discreet request from the implicated government is enough to take the incriminating content down.

Look, for example, at the way that the Indian government used to strong-arm Twitter into obedience.
Bitcoin's fungibility graveyard
Have you considered switching from EE to Firmware or Software? (I did almost all the same stuff, but only got shocked once -- on a Heathkit !!!)

I now do mostly FW, and use LV on my EE projects.. and I'm still alive !!!
> We had some minor inklings of the microbiome, but we were not aware of serious consequences. Unless you are accusing the all the governments and medical bodies of the world of gross malpractice.

That is not true. Microbiome treatments were proposed at the beginning of the 20th century.

I don't see how it would be malpractice. Pathogenic bacteria are a much worse problem than damage to microbiome in most cases. If your microbiome was damaged by evidently useless antibacterial treatments, it could be malpractice.

> Do you really think nature has drawn a bright line between viruses than can affect humans and viruses that can affect bacteria? I'm not sure this lines up with reality. People are even seriously starting to talk about the "Human Virome"

Yes, there is bright biological line between viruses that can infect humans and bacteria. And sure, the human virome could be thing, and certainly natural bacteriophages are important and so are many benign, transient infections important for the human system.

> This is what they said about tobacco causing cancer and pesticides killing bees and carbon emissions causing global warming. How did that work out? I'd prefer a more proactive scientific framework than a reactive one.

Certainly not. Tobacco causing cancer was the default because it is a foreign contaminant in the human body. Insecticides killing bees (insects) is also the default position. Global warming was theorized and predicted since the late 19th century, see Arrhenius, so yes energy companies had the burden of proof.

We already have the priors of EBV causing massive damage to the human body. You're saying that we must prove the negative that it causes nothing beneficial at all. That's akin to saying that despite we know that global warming has many negative effects, we have to show it has no positive effects.

> There are 1M confounding factors in sampling outcomes. Not controlling for confounding variables is a great way to get weak conclusions.

That isn't how statistics work. You can calculate a distribution of impact of every confounding factor onto the measured variance, and from then on you can know if you have controlled enough confounders or not. If you have 999,990 factors that alltogether account for 0.1% of variance, and 10 members that account for 99.9% of variance, you know it's enough.
My personal projects fail most of the time, unless it is a side gig where I have to deliver to someone.

I think this is quite common, after one learns what we wanted to learn, e.g. how a tile engine works, then the interest is lost and we move on to the next challenge.

On the positive side, some of them can be used as portfolio for HR.
It’s just a far-left claiming everyone else is right-wing. It’s a common thing in their group.
All the 'elsewheres' are non-federated, centrally controlled, and/or corporate. No thanks.
Doing it a lot will give you two things that might not be obvious (in addition to general skill).

1. You’ll get better at knowing what to leave out from future projects, or finding simple alternatives.

For example, for one recent project I built a semi complex payment scheme that used stripe. For my current project I’m using Gumroad, which costs more but should save a bunch of time.

2. You’ll develop a massive set of pre-written code you can reuse. I went through the steps of figuring out how to configure Redis/Django/Heroku for asynchronous tasks on a project 2 years ago, and it’s simple for me to drop in my pre-existing code for anything I build now.
> The same people who take responsibility now?

That’s not good enough. That’s why making software a trade is what some engineers have been pushing for.

> Some here don't want more STEM professionals because it would increase supply and reduce the equilibrium price (wages).

And some don’t want to see an influx of low-quality engineers, because these decisions have major negative consequences.

The OP mentioned the push for more STEM workers, but the push for more STEM workers comes doesn’t equate to more CS degrees or STEM degreed workers.

It’s also about bootcamps and a broad questioning of why a college degree is needed at all.
That's a great perspective. I'm so unaccustomed to parsing it that even the "Fast" setting felt lightning fast to me! I went ahead and added a new "Faster" speed. It may be running into the limits of how precise the Web Audio API can be, but hopefully it should be a little closer to a more proper speed. Thanks!

Edit: after a little more research and experimentation, the Farnsworth method you mentioned is actually an even better experience for both listening and inputting - went ahead and added an option for it, defaulting to on. Great call!
Computer programing is art in the same way as architecture is art, ie. it almost never is
>Neither i nor ii above apply to political (elected) officials. They are absolutely covered by the Hatch Act.

From the linked article again:

>Its main provision prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,

Do "political (elected) officials" count as "civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government"? My memory from civics class is a bit hazy, but I recall that elected officials are in the legislative branch, not the executive branch?
common sense?
none-2D surface things:

* 1D: MIDI (music)

* 3D: CNC mill/ 3D Printer

* 4D: VR (animated)

* outright Non-Euclidian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsi0CLxmjw
I respectfully disagree. Human language and characteristics around distributed data stores in the real world have inherent ambiguity implicit in them that Jepsen in my view pretends isn't the case.

Here's an analogy that may help me communicate how I feel since I realize my message is not landing: Let's say I'm buying a condo in the San Francisco Bay area. And let's say the building that I'm looking to buy in advertisers that it is historic but seismically retrofitted. Then say Jepsen-earthquake-test comes in and shakes the ground beneath the building and shows that the building indeed collapses with enough of an earthquake: would that or would that not be enough information for me to decide whether or not the seismically retrofitted building is good enough for my needs? There's a lot of ambiguity in answer that question.
If I accept money on behalf of someone else, with the expectation that the cash will be given to that person and I just use the money as I please, this is called fraud.

If I set up a monetary relationship between 2 entities and then I interfere with that relationship, this is called tortuous interference with contracts.
It might be more accurate to say that the democrats started taking the rust belt for granted. And it's hard to ignore the left's shift (in primary focus) from blue collar workers issues towards race and gender issues.
Correct, though it's interactions between any of doctors, payors (insurers), and information brokers (more like clearing houses if I remember correctly) - between themselves or each other.

So if any of them or their business associates got the information and sold it that would be a violation. But if say Target figured it out because she was buying a lot more orange juice and lotion (true story, Target‘s ability to figure out who’s pregnant is legendary) and sold that into it would not be covered under HIPAA
The net is open if you have know-how beyond booking guest talent oneself or through a 3rd party e.g. booking agent if you understand something about the tech that gets your product out. That was the position I agreed with. Why? 'cause it's right.
Me too. I guess the chip shortage price me out of the used Tesla market which I was grumpy about most of last year but I think I’m over it now. Waiting on a reliable ev with normal controls and decent range.
No slur on the experiment, but the presentation is surprising, that’s all.

The wheel seems to be clearly erratic, but the erratic faucet is distracting. Would love to see the wheel behave crazily even with the most uniformly boring and consistent inputs.
Tons of artists put their music for sale on Bandcamp and make 90% of the sale (very high compared to itunes, amazon, etc.)
That's a bit suspicious. Sounds like something an imposter would say.