skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Russia was able to create division, why are they so bad at it when it matters - now.

Just guessing: It is easier to create division, when you manipulate both sides. It is easier to manipulate both sides, if you genuinely do not care which side wins.

As an example, consider vaccination. Trolling only on the anti-vax side would be a rookie mistake. A few bad arguments get made, then they get debunked, for most people it's game over.

To do it properly, you must also have your trolls on the pro-vax side. Their purpose is to provide stupid arguments in favor of vaccination, so that anyone who remembers their high-school education will go like "wait a moment, this doesn't actually make sense". They will also make such nasty attacks on their opponents, that many decent people will go like "hey, I am technically on side of vaccination, but these guys are assholes; I would rather not be associated with them publicly". -- This creates the situation where you have lots of confused young people documenting the mistakes of the pro-vax side, and pointing out their horrible behavior. Much better (from the attacker's perspective) than if one side is merely wrong.

The important thing is that (to the attacker) it doesn't matter which side wins. The goal is to create conflict. If the pro-vax side wins, by doing something that will make the losing side mistrust and hate them forever, mission accomplished. A few more conflicts like this, and the society is ready for a civil war.

Now when the two sides are pro-Russia and anti-Russia, would you want to be the Russian troll assigned to write anti-Russian articles? It's a lose/lose situation, because if you are too good at doing your job, instead of a bonus you might actually get a bullet, if you boss starts suspecting that you actually mean it. But your boss is even more scared of his boss, which is why he will probably assing all trolls to write pro-Russian comments. The entire troll department will play it safe, but as a result they will be much less effective.
This follows a pretty simple pattern for me: "people don't want to be wrong"

They have a certain vision for themselves, they know what's important, they spent time to do it the right way. If something is wrong, its clearly because something else failed, in this case, you. It breaks their idea for themselves.

I think it is less about rationality as I've seen just about everyone do this at various points, and more being humble and willing to own up to when was had an oversight, letting go of the ego to be able to say,

"huh, I completely missed that you wrote this. I understand that you said you have brought this up before, even if I don't remember it, I believe you. I will dig into this and listen better here on out."

How rare is that behavior?
These days, anti-racist is a code word for anti-Asian. I suppose that's progress compared to singling out whites only, and if history is any guide conservative-leaning Hispanic and Latinx folks (who are achieving better social and educational outcomes, largely by aligning to the mainstream norms that are sometimes decried as 'Whiteness') can expect to be next in line for the 'anti-racist' hate.
It is a universal definition, as natural rights are universal. What it is not is a legal definition, but you are attempting to make a legal argument.
Putin isn't Russia and he isn't his armed forces, and he doesn't press the buttons himself. There's a command and control system in Russia and those generals will need to give the orders to destroy the world, and they'll understand what it means to give those orders. Some of them will be currently in talks to Russian oligarchs about the situation in Russia who will not be pleased by any of this. Russians don't have a problem with military coups taking out their leaders.

Your logic only makes sense if Putin literally is Russia and that's the foreign policy mistake that most Americans always make by characterizing states strictly and only by cults of personality around their rulers and forgetting that there's other people in those countries.

At some point if Putin starts ranting that he's going to nuke NATO then he's going to get overthrown.

There's still a logic around this whole situation, and all the participants in the game, including all of Putin's generals and every powerful Russian, understands that logic.

(Also I strongly doubt anyone here is qualified to diagnose Putin as having dementia and I don't think he is -- he's making massive strategic mistakes, but that just indicates he's been smoking too much of his own information bubble for way too long)
There is a really distinct feeling I have about the fact that 2 times 8=16 and 3 times 6=18. Really hard to describe but something like 8 and 6 being siblings fighting about who is stronger/bigger.
I show this to my kids constantly. I love how it plants the seeds of concepts like square numbers and divisibility in a show that is ostensibly about just addition and subtraction
As an outsider "name of grotesque moral rightnessess" thrown from the Christian right made me spit my coffee out.
Hard disagree, but obviously our mileage has varied. I find that junior devs are the most hungry and will comb through endless poorly organized docs and source code before asking a question that makes them look like they "don't belong".
From the HN guidelines: please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. The original title is "WAGT: An artificial throat that’s small like a temporary tattoo"
I definitely don’t disagree with what you said. It reminded me of the second Democratic debate in 2007. Candidate Mike Gravel said something that stuck with me [0]

You only see $3. Just watch those wheels turn. There's another $4, which is what we spend to keep American troops around the world to keep the price.

So you're paying more than seven dollars a gallon; you just don't know it.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/us/politics/03demsdebate_...
Nope. Putin has played the long game by buying sympathy from the American Right.
I don't know why people should be dispassionate. Unbiased, sure. Dispassionate, not so much.
related paper: "Are disagreements Honest?" by Tyler Cowen and Robin Hanson.

Coverage:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/agreeing_to_agr.html

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3766
Can someone provide context here? Who is this?
Thank you. I appreciate the decision.
This is similar to how I see it. I have a hard time explaining how 7 is a tipsy number that's about the fall into 3 and 4, and how 9 has a voracious appetite to take away a number from another and you can't stop him. It all started when I was younger and my mom told me to bring every number down to 2s and 3s, and to always be adding or subtracting idle numbers (just numbers without any operators).

I explained it (poorly) to my wife once and she made fun of me about it. Well until our son told us years later out of the blue that it's how he sees numbers.
I believe they are coming close when viewed from the Earth - that is, the second star (S5) may come directly behind Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is only 1.3 parsecs from us, so it's actually much closer to us than S5.
Some customers are actually just really awful and you don’t want them to come back.

As management “staff” are also your customers and you want to serve them as well.
It’s also relatively easy to use the Scripting Bridge from any language that can integrate with the objective-c runtime. I’ve written a bunch of Mac automation in Common Lisp
It isn't understandable really. What is happening here is discrimination and can't be justified. Unless they have some proof that they are a spy or as an extension of Russian government for a dangerous intent, then there is no excuse.

This is only going to create more conflict and tension, and generate hatred in people that would otherwise be neutral.
As a former waiter I agree with both OP and you.
Yes there are people that are difficult to deal with, and yes a system ought to account for that possibility.
It's funny how that is playing itself all over again over a varieties of issues where people seem to be holding opposing views where in fact they don't have to be. Proponent of better systems can acknowledge indivual's flaws without renouncing to reforms. Morals-oriented people can acknowledge that shaming and or moral postures do not actually work without having to renounce to their feelings.

Of course here, it's about economics. Better overworking employees rather than paying one more salary. That is the economic incentive is stronger than the "aim at the most efficient system" one.
Ask HN: Is there any downside to re-signing equity paperwork later?
Just got a bit of an unusual message from a startup I just left. I had just signed paperwork giving me equity in the company - since I was leaving, this didn’t need to vest and was effectively a straight purchase.

Now, a few days later, they want me to sign again with today’s date instead. They just closed a round right after I signed. Is there any downside to signing this?

The only issue I can think of is some kind of rights/preferences awarded to earlier shareholders over the new investors of the new round (who invested slightly later) but Google doesn’t turn up anything indicating that would be a consideration.
Valid, but thats not the point of the article. The point of the article was broad vs specific and people having a predefined outcome for a conversation.

i.e.
Q: There are no docs for home page redesign.
A: They are right here

Q: I have question about the color choice of the header on home page redesign. I couldn't find anything about it in that group post or on the wiki.
A: Ah, yeah sorry, it is buried here. If it's still not clear, let's have a chat about it.
I hate it when a serious issue is dragged to the extreme in such distracting ways. Dostoyevski and chess players are not the problem , be smart
The country is being punished. Countries are made up of people. In all likelihood no Russian will be untouched by these sanctions. The secondary motivation is that other players might drop out in protest. Look at what just happened to the Paralympics. The plan from on high was to keep the Russian team. It looks like it was complaints from the other athletes complaining that reversed decision.
There's no equivalence here. Russia has assassinated about 50 journalists under Putin and imprisoned/beaten many more. They have a very tight stranglehold on press freedom.

But yes, we need to take it extremely seriously in the West and fight against any and all encroachments so that we don't slide further towards authoritarianism. Recent trends have been concerning.
He specifically explained that in the video.

He liked how in the beginning when he started to write he could create new things and work on what he was most excited about, but as he wrote books he started getting shoehorned into writing the sequels to the books, limiting him in what he could do and what he wanted to write.

When some unexpected, free writing time opened up - he used it to go back to that and enjoy himself writing books that didn't have any preexisting limitations.
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What would you call news outlets like MSNBC spreading lies about the Kyle Rittenhouse case? An honest mistake? Or calling the lab leak theory racist?

Notice how this works?

When a news source that is aligned with your political party gets it wrong "its ok" but when its a new source that is not aligned with your party its "spreading misinformation".

There is no objective standard for misinformation so trying to say disagreement and misinformation are not the same depends entirely on what is the issue being discussed. Any issue with ambiguity can be dismissed far too easily by just claiming it "misinformation".
A lot of the authors who matter most here (and there are ones way bigger then Brandon like King and Grisham) likely don't care about putting in all the work for a few more millions of dollars when they already make 7-8 figures per book. A LOT goes into arranging print runs, managing all the extra goodies he's adding as bonuses at the higher tiers, and so on.

Writers who need extra stuff to make a name and convince people to notice them is one thing. When you already make insane amounts of money it becomes less worth it.

Also I wonder if less nerdy/technical fan bases than SFF would be as inclined to even get involved with Kickstarter.
>it's practically a loss-leader for Apple

Apple isn't selling its hardware at a loss, it is well known for the very high margins on hardware.
This is excellent knowledge about human nature. The only thing I would add is that it's usually the same person in different circumstances.

There's a concept of someone "tilting" or "going tilted" (analogy to an old pinball machine; I wonder if we need to update it? Do people still play pinball?). Essentially, as a software engineer, your job is to make order out of chaos (where chaos is defined as "Everything that doesn't work the way you think it should"). Some of that involves changing your reality to match expectations. A lot of it involves changing your expectations to match reality; that's usually the fastest path (though you'll get paid for the first).

But changing yourself takes cognitive energy. When someone has had enough of that for a time, they're tilted. There isn't any reasoning with them because they're in a mindset where they are demanding reality conform to their expectations, and every deviation from that will just make them angrier. A person Rachel's describing in the first scenario has tilted and until they un-tilt, it's unlikely there'll be anything that can be done to help them solve the problem they were working on when they tilted.

Some corollaries / consequences of this model:

- some people have, in some contexts, nearly zero patience with surprise before they tilt. We often call many of those people "users." ;)

- a manager or project lead prone to tilting can be a real problem because they have the authority to try to solve the situation by putting other people on bending reality. Be sensitive, as a team member, to whether a manager is tasking you with a project because it's a good idea for the company's goals or because they're grumpy about something and taking advantage of their position to change it without actually fixing anything other than their mental model not matching current consensus reality.
I've read a lot of them. The part I was unsure about was his being the first depiction of benevolent robots.
This is a difficult topic for me to articulate, so the below explanation is merely my best effort to express the experience in words.

The perception of my own heartbeat is something that I've always been squeamish about, but for most of my life it was never a problem. It made me a bit uncomfortable during high intensity exercise, but it was easy enough to just ignore.

During meditation, I began to perceive my heartbeat more intensely than ever before, and it became a "center of gravity" that my attention would often "fall into". My attention would gravitate toward intense perception of my heartbeat not only while meditating, but also at other times (while trying to fall asleep, while trying to focus on work, while driving), and paired with my pre-existing squeamishness, this became very uncomfortable. I might go through most of my day normally, but as soon as my mind becomes idle for a bit, or if something triggers me to start thinking about my heart, my mind will uncontrollably gravitate toward perceiving my heartbeat, and I'll struggle to ignore my heartbeat and to focus on other things.

My strategy at the time was to attempt to become more comfortable with my heartbeat through continued meditation. I thought that by deliberately focusing on my heart during meditation rather than trying to ignore it, I could "fight the monster face-to-face", kill off the squeamish feeling, and learn to perceive my heartbeat as a benign sensation.

Unfortunately, I developed a delusion that I might gain the ability to consciously control my heartbeat (analogously to how we can consciously control our breathing when we think about it), and that I'd injure or kill myself because I'm not at all qualified to exercise that kind of control. I convinced myself that this is impossible because the heart uses its own pacemaker, unlike the lungs which are controlled by the nervous system. But this didn't kill the delusion - it just transformed it into a more vague anxiety, centered around the notion that I might be inadvertently abusing whatever regulatory connections exist between my heart and my brain. I think this delusion is really just a transformation of the visceral squeamishness that I originally felt when I began perceiving my heartbeat, into a more cerebral form of "squeamishness". I made the decision to stop meditating a couple years ago, but the delusion still lurks in my subconscious and comes back from time to time.

So to summarize, when it first began, the uncontrollable heartbeat perception paired with the squeamishness/delusion caused a lot of agony for about two weeks. I've gotten significantly better at ignoring my heartbeat and not being so troubled by it, but it's a problem that I haven't been able to completely get over.
Six steps on how to waste less time of engineers
You're describing two systems with the same end result - rights, but with exceptions and limits. One of the systems is simply more honest about having such a setup, and it's not the American one.
> Telling them “yes there is”, sort of escalates the conflict in my book and while it’s totally understandable (and I’ll do this myself on my less good days) it’s also just asking for things to go south. Which is something I have learned not to waste time on.

no kidding. if you're going to be that abrupt, then just send them a link to the docs as the sole response.

i usually also ask "where did you try looking for it, so that i can put links there?". and then i put links there.
If you have passion, age is just a number. I’m turning 50 this year and bootstrapping a startup alongside my consultancy business. Whether to take the “safe” option of a job I can’t help you with.

You’ve struggled to make things work on your own and the good news is it’s incredibly hard to do so, it’s not you.

I think it’s worth either broadening your skill set beyond development or looking for partners who complement you.

I’d also recommend exercises in strategic positioning and value proposition design to help target viable markets with a desirable product. Pointers available on request.
It's an artifact of cludgy anti-scraper design that sacrifices user experience at the altar of copyright.
>> The correct business response is to petition management to staff more accordingly so that no table has to be de-prioritized (going by the book on customer service)... Also other measures can be taken, like stocking napkin dispensers and condiments on tables so that trivial requests don't over-burden staff.

Not so sure. Trying to accommodate the worst case customer seems a fools game. You're suggesting escalation, from running the server around to running the management around (and more work overall). Adding napkin dispensers at the tables may go against the entire aesthetic they're looking for, while not doing anything about the ketchup, water, and other frivolous requests.

>> If we create rules like this for how to deal with customers, based on assumptions about them...

There is no choice but to make assumptions about them (even just a generic model of a customer) unless you want to form some kind of relationship with them, which is not really possible in a restaurant setting (with the exception of regulars). Besides, the idea of simply deprioritizing them is quite sound - keep the other customers happy but don't deliberately insult the difficult one. You can not please everyone, so have rules that allow you to please the majority and let the others go.
> Some team members output has severely dropped. I've seen people playing video games during work hours for example. Also work and free time has mixed to a point where people just randomly take hour or two to go skiing or for a walk and routinely just quit at the normal time.

We as humans are not designed to be productive selves 5 days in a row, for 8 hours a day. If I'm not feeling well or having a bad day, I might finish working an hour or two early but make up for it by working overtime another day that week. It doesn't matter that I cut that day short - I wasn't going to be very productive if I wasn't feeling well anyway.

The 9-5, 8 hour work day was designed for PHYSICAL labor during the industrial revolution where output was directly correlated to time. This is not the case anymore. If someone can meet/exceed their responsibilities in 5 hours, why do they need to spend 8 hours just because slower workers need that time? This just punishes efficient workers.
Working class Russians are not the problem either, yet the sanctions penalise them the most.
I didn't see this as a hostile student, I saw it as a hostile co-worker who is trying to accuse you of something you didn't do.

A junior dev may ask a lot of questions but that would be like, "Where is that documented? How do I read that? I don't understand what it's saying." A senior person might have already grokked a lot of it but didn't realize there was hidden context somewhere else, so when they say they couldn't find the documentation you show them and they go back to read it. A hostile student (someone who wants to be force-fed info instead of reading themselves) would pepper you with questions showing they didn't in good faith read any of the docs, but they wouldn't lie and say the docs weren't there. This is someone who thought that you were slacking off or wasting time and want to show that, and they'll keep at it until they can find something to stick. And if they can't, they'll make you have two mutually exclusive things to be true in order to satisfy them.
I don’t understand why the installer was corrupted.

This just works for me:

wget 'https://github.com/freenet/fred/releases/download/build01492...' -O new_installer_offline.jar;
java -jar new_installer_offline.jar;
It sure does. But as I commented before, readability might not be the best/only metric to strive for.
It's not about the chess players. It's about the little people who see the headline that another of their representatives is unwelcome, and about the powerful people who see one more way Russia is being shamed for its actions.
Yes, it's not a great situation and no body's perfect. But so long as we're alive we can change for the better, and change is arguably a constant in this universe until well off into the future (i.e. trillions of years, heat/entropy death of the universe stuff). What's even weirder, though, is surviving toxic situations can require all sorts of odd "contortions." So go easy on yourself and try to identify toxicity early.
what great data mining tool, I watch my hands type every surname I know in order of familiarity. lol
I wonder if Xi will survive his bromance with Putin.

Did you read this? https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display/Article/292349...
You've invented the wiki.

Knowledge management is not a technical problem, it's a nobody-wants-to-do-it problem. People will see poor management of knowledge, and assume that if they just used this one weird trick, the problem would go away. See also, maintenance work vs greenfield work.
I'm pretty sure that's due to saltwater's conductivity, not any EMF considerations. Conductivity will result in some partial cancellation of the AC magnetic field. But not enough to matter at 60 Hz, which is within the Extremely Low Frequency band used for communications with submarines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines
Depending on how positive you are about the future of the startup, it's worth retaining legal advice.