skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think their argument is less that "hardship and poverty are real, everything else is fake" and more that for all the complexities of modern western society we're all still very much dependent on resources delivered just-in-time, and that as our society decays it will rapidly (and unexpectedly, for some) revert back to "primitive" behaviors like killing in the name of food today and security tomorrow. The things that are happening in Mariupol right now can, and in all likelihood WILL eventually happen here too. We have the same fundamental biological needs as them, the same ruleset governing social dynamics, and very similar cultures (as far as those things go). The fake are governed by the same set of rules that real lives are, but we don't see them that way because just like every other superpower our internal propaganda is strong and there's probably negative utility in commoners internalizing that.

It's not so much that our sheltered lives are fake, it's that they're opaque, and built directly on top of what the OP considers to be real. They're built on top of hardship and poverty, of slavery and unimaginable suffering, and yet we look the other way because wow that's a great deal on Nikes and oh look a $200 4k TV, you know you deserve one of those you've lived with 1080p for long enough. How many of the few who acknowledge and condemn the world of suffering that modern Western society is built upon actually live the austere lives that would be needed to abolish it?

Our sheltered lives are built on hardship and poverty too, the fundamental difference is that it is someone else's hardship and poverty a world away.
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Even with all its problems, KDE3 kicked ass. Future KDE versions? Little bit more dubious. It’s gotten better, but I find it to be rather buggy at times.

Not a huge fan of GNOME either. It has gotten better and worse in my opinion.

Year of the Linux Desktop is when the average person can buy a Linux laptop and have a good experience out of the box doing similar things to what they could on macOS or Windows as casual users without breaking the system. When Linux is seen as another viable alternative to Windows the way macOS is. Unless you count ChromeOS or Android, which is obviously Linux based but not the same desktop we’re talking about, that’s not happened. I know someone who was a fairly technical user who got their first Linux laptop with System76 very recently and it went… OK. I definitely had to help on some stuff.

The Linus Tech Tips videos on trying Linux as a daily driver is a pretty good showcase of a lot of the problems.
> Lol this is really funny.

Personally I see nothing funny in it. It's been a sad reality for many years. Every time I see a comment here under one of these posts "Hi I'm Eric from Google, I'll try to check it with our X department", it's a sad reminder that you have a chance of solving your problem only if you manage to make enough fuss about it in public.
Yes, and the double-step sound when he stopped!
>The natural process of democracy seems to be: Dictatorship -> industrialisation -> democracy. Does any one knows any books talking about this?

"Capitalism, Alone" by Branko Milanovic discusses that, amongst other things.
It has been almost 15 months since the previous blog post:

> Unfortunately, if we want to move to running more than one CONTROL process simultaneously for high-availability and better release management, that means we no longer have exactly one process managing the data

Do you guys still only have 1 CONTROL process?
A lot of changes in Kazakhstan. They are also changing their alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16925646
I submitted a PR if they dont accept ill just fork and have my own.
> Right now the most convenient way to send money from EU to Russia is crypto.

Which is kind of the point right about now? I am not sure one can compare deliberately introduced sanctions to crappy products...
> Maybe they only mention them with great reluctance is because you're not a safe person to mention them around.

Based on OP's other comments, I wouldn't find this hard to believe considering their complete dismissal and misunderstanding (or perhaps intentional misinterpretation) of people's comments that antagonize open questions and considerations.
> When I was a youngster in the early 90s [...] most homes didn't have a computer

"Most homes" might be technically correct, but home computers were a thing since the late 70s, and really taking off in the early 1980s withe the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, VIC 20, Commodore 64, and a myriad of others, depending on your geography.

> Almost nobody my age was playing computer games, only people working in industry.

This, of course, is complete nonsense. By the early 90s capable home computers such as the Amiga and Atari had if anything reached their hayday, with a myriad of popular games available. (Not to mention the popularity of dedicated games consoles.)
You’re putting people in buckets again.
It's only natural conspiracy theories exist: a lot of people don't believe academy anymore, because it sold itself to the market, which cares mostly only about profit, and also they have very poor education which is reinforced by distasteful ill-informed video content mostly (and also reddit). Absurd unlogical theories are the consequence. But they are always rooted in inadaptation/opression/fear.
> have literally been filmed doing a Hitler salute (supposedly that was "out of context").

That's just not that damning.
In the age of 22 and within 2 years, i experienced loss of my younger sister, my first love, a beloved cousin and the only grandmother i have ever met. I literally don’t remember anything from these 2 years, only that i was like a skeleton and i have forgotten how it is to be naively happy and careless. I suppressed my feelings for more than 10 years, until another traumatic event released everything x100000 times worst. I seeked therapy and finally feel happy about myself, but really wish i should have done it back then. The pain is still there, but at least i don’t blame myself for any of it.
> Finland, you had Kekkonen because he was seen as a safe and strong option for standing up to the USSR...That said, I know little about Finnish politics.

The last statement is correct. For the most part, Kekkonen did whatever the USSR wanted. He was the architect of Finlandization.

The USSR was in a totally different state in 1945 than during the Winter War. It could have rolled into Finland at the end of the Nazi funded Continuation War, reinstated as the government the losing side from among the worker parties of the Finnish Civil War, and Finland would have been another Warsaw Pact Comecon country. But the USSR did not. Because Germany and the buffer states between were seen as a possible threat but Finland was not. Finland had no means of standing up to the USSR, and Kekkonen did the opposite.
> No way something like this would ever be able to be accomplished in America.

I find this statement shallow and irritating.

You seem to be extrapolating from your ignorance of construction techniques and attributing them to Americans as a whole.

Bamboo construction is not vernacular in America. But the skills of the artisans who build in bamboo are no less (and no more) than those who build in other locally traditional materials.

And you're wrong to discount the architects. The truth is that bamboo is actually a very cooperative material to work with. It's almost magical after being trained on stick-built structures (2x4s) or masonry. It's light, strong, as flexible as you want it to be, and comes in almost whatever length and width you want. Lashing is easy (if tedious at scale).

So, 100% agreed that the artisans involved in building this structure are skilled. And bamboo engineers are thicker on the ground in SE Asia than in America. The architects and designers also get a huge amount of credit for understanding how to use the material and succeeding, structurally and aesthetically.

Edit: Now if you want to talk about the likelihood of a structure like this passing building code in America, without significant extra expense for structural engineering studies and alterations for fire code, then there is an reasonable conversation to be had. But this has nothing to do with the skill of the builders.
I tend to switch between colour schemes depending on the conditions. During the day, I prefer Gruvbox light soft; at night, I prefer Solarized dark. When using my laptop screen (and some other times too), I find Emacs default colours best. I really don’t see the point of sticking with just one colour scheme, disregarding the surrounding environment.
The most important thing is to keep the structure dry. The parts that sit deep inside the building could resist decay for hundreds of years as long as they're properly tied together and the roof doesn't leak. The parts that are exposed to wind and rain, not so much.

The beautiful thing about wooden structures is that it's relatively easy to replace any part that has rotten away. It's even easier with bamboo, which is an inherently modular material. You could disassemble and reassemble the whole thing if you wanted. Over time the building becomes a kind of Ship of Theseus.

It might not be economical to maintain such a complex structure for a long time, though, so unless it's a very important building they'll just tear it down and build something new. Permanence is not really a concept that Asian cultures usually associate with wooden structures, anyway. The fact that they age, change, adapt, and eventually give way just like ourselves is one of the factors that make them feel so "natural".
Market value is having someone else have control over the value of what you control. Market value may not be centralized, but it is the definition of something you do not control. This is my point. You cannot have full control over something that's value is dictated by an external entity, the entity being the market in this case. The concept of having "full sovereignty" over something that you don't control the value of, and the only purpose is to exchange for something of value, is non-sensical.
If you've already encoded the content to the most effecient size, why then zip it?
I liked the puzzles in the BOTW dungeons, and nothing in them made me rage as much as Snowhead Temple, especially the very last puzzle in it
This trust is still partial trust in the system. There are a lot more aspects of the system that need to be trusted with your money. The coders who maintain bitcoin, that the miners won't collude, that your wallet won't be drained by hackers and so on...

I'd rather trust my money to an FDIC account. It far more likely I'll lose my Bitcoin through some crack in the system that the United States governement collapses and is unable to give me my money, and at that point, Bitcoin wouldn't help me either.
Go and see it for yourself. I've lived and worked in tech all over the world, and have settled in Europe. But your experiences will be unique, so you'll need to decide for yourself.
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There is no cover-up going on here, it's just that we know very little about preroman and especially preetruscan populations of Italy.

There is a wikipedia page[1] concerning megalithic architecture in Lazio (the region of Italy in which Rome is), which unfortunately is only available in Italian but contains some information about the estimated age of most of the structures from the linked submission, as well as attempted explanations. For example archeologists suppose that some of the most advanced walls where built by local populations helped by wandering Greek builders based on similarities with the temple of Delphi and Greek acropolises. Wikipedia also has individual pages for some of the ruins[2][3] (also not available in English) where other theories are suggested, for example the acropolis of Alatri could have been built by the Hernici[4].

[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architettura_megalitica_del_...

[2] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli_di_Arpino

[3] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropoli_di_Alatri

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernici
I think because it doesn't make anything better. It just provides alternative ways (often much poorer) to do things. Disruption comes when a new technology solves a real problem/need that everyone has.
The target being a "public figure" might well have factored into the Crown Office's decision to prosecute, as part of the public interest test under the Prosecution Code.

If the target were a random member of the public, it seems that the offence would still be made out (he would still be found guilty) but perhaps the sentencing would be less severe.

It does seem that judicial discretion was thrown to the wind here. I don't agree that the sentencing reflects the gravity of the offence, given the mitigating circumstances raised by his defence counsel.
Not true. How could it be that way? It’s literally “do not murder”. It’s even one of the seven laws applying to everybody regardless of their religion along with not to commit adultery and not to steal. You’ll have to back that discriminatory claim.
It’s repeated for lots of medications where it could never happen. SS is widely misunderstood even in the medical community.

I trust specific doctors who specialize in psychedelic medicine and psychiatry who have deep understanding of the metabolic pathways and pharmacokinetics of these substances.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/serotonin-syndrome-myths-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820588/
Huh, that's a pretty large amount of refunds (granted, still $10B in additional revenue). Interesting data, thank you for sharing.
I disagree that it reflects poorly on the author to write an article in bad faith. There is literally 0 other ways to get Googles attention than to make as big a noise as possible. If people are forced to resort to absurd lies to get some customer support then that is a game Google has created for itself. An actual support chat would mean this article was never written.
This is a pretty remarkable satire of your typical shelf help book, I give you that.
> Because scientists work by aggressively cutting down bad ideas. The basic mindset calls for being efficient-and-ruthless in identifying-and-eliminating low-quality thinking.

Generally, people actually doing the science haven't been condescending, in my experience. You can challenge incorrectness without condescension (and its usually more effective that way.)

The condescension comes from the way a certain type of science communicator decides to use the name and gravitas of science to belittle those who don't agree.
Probably because you gratuitously insert a racial qualifier there.
I guess he is probably targeting America and Europe where people have disposable income then. Nothing wrong with that. And there's a free tier.
Maybe the word conversion is not the right one or we see different meaning under it. I mean conversion between date/time formats. I built this tool because I need to quickly get unix timestamp form of a date/time and other existing tools are very cumbersome to use (I have to enter the time by typing etc.).

I may add the conversion between timezones as a new tool, I will consider that.
Have you seen the movie Ron's Gone Wrong? Not trying to make fun of your idea. I just expect you may find this movie especially enjoyable given the problem you are interested in.
Shortcuts shaping up on the Mac (2021)
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Depends on the legislation. Along the lines of the recent EU DMA, forcing giants to open up APIs, interoperability (federation...?) , and portability (for real this time, not the takeout thing. But even takeout was a result of legislation), can do good I think.
Competition is Good, Cartels are Bad, and so too are Unions
> steelpillow: "We should all trust [vulture hacks on 1 April] why, exactly?"

El Reg tends to be a bit slow on the ball, but I wonder if it was cunningly held for a day or two (and if they had to spend $1500).

https://www.forrester.com/report/web3-promises-a-better-onli...
Your first sentence makes no sense, but it did give me enough keywords to find an actual explanation of the process, so that does clear it up.

I'm aware that the rest of this is automated. I guess I just haven't kept up to date with the last 5 years of chicken sexing technology.
I’m not sure I properly understand what you are saying, but I think your idea is that 10x’ing the complexity of a system has the potential to support 10x the intelligence, and so the path to super-intelligence is not through deliberate intelligence-engineering but through scaling up the hardware and applying artificial or natural selection? Is that right?
What seems unnerving in this situation is Western universities not scrambling to scoop these scientists into their institutions. How do you let that go to waste?
Some people claim to aspire to.

It’s always people. Biden is a person. Putin is a person.

Hiding behind language like country or state is part of the propaganda and mind virus such people rely on, insuring agency defers to concept. They’re self serving people, not concepts.
I'm running self-hosted conferences, full-time
NaCl is a reference implementation by djb[1], but libsodium is more widely used[2] and offers the same API.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaCl_(software)

[2]: https://doc.libsodium.org/libsodium_users
> Russia has shown no intention of imposing an autocracy in Ukraine.

Care to elaborate? What is it Russia is doing in Ukraine? To me it looks like Ukraine was given a choice of becoming a vassal state like Belarus or Russia would ensure this by force (or at least ensure it in parts of the country where it’s militarily feasible to do so).

> The major threat to our democracies are capitalism

In what sense? The correlation between capitalist and democratic countries is nearly perfect - so obviously the only countries that risk losing their democracy are capitalist states. The others never had any to lose.
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Same reason I spend so much time on the internet. Where else would you get the chance of talking to someone from the other side of the planet?

If you ever do visit, please do it in late spring or early autumn. The climate here is a bit extreme, especially for someone from milder ones. (I've always lived here, and you don't pay much attention to -40°C winters and +35°C summers after living with it for a few decades.) It's not that bad all the time, but if you do happen to arrive in the middle of such an event, it's not a fun experience.

Nomads were doing the logical thing and moving around with seasons. We, not so much.
Because when a kid is truly problematic, they can kick them out, and kicking them out means kicking them into the public school system? The public school system has to either spend a disproportionate amount of time/money on troubled children or completely neglect them. Private schools can do the math to decide if the child is profitable, and kick them out if they are not.

It feels very disingenuous to try to make an argument about teacher's unions and then use private non-union schools made up of those who can afford the tuition or qualify for a merit based scholarship and public schools made up of everyone else.
The question “Why isn’t this written in Rust” is ridiculous and a distraction but “why is […]” is even moreso.
I posted a movie I made on Peertube —- on one of the recommended instances —- and fry instance closed down.
I think anybody who wants to understand Functional Programming should start with Lambda Calculus.

I highly recommend An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson.

You can then see how to express Functional Techniques in your language of choice (i.e. one you already know well eg; Functional Programming in C++ by Ivan Cukic) before learning a new Functional Language. This is to avoid the confusion in syntax/semantic expression of unfamiliar concepts which is a bit too much for a beginning student to handle simultaneously.
Arguably they did want to annex the countries they warred with.

Into a global financial system that they controlled.
Ask HN: How did you find first testers for your software?
how and where did you find people willing to test and critic your libraries or software?
> 90% of the creations on Ethereum are useless and there is little there that is worth looking at. From the start, it was not designed to scale at all hence its sluggish throughput and high fees.

Sounds like early internet BBS boards!

RE: ETH decentralization, they've prioritized decentralization of the settlement layer over the decentralization of money in the world, which does somewhat reflect the current state of the world.
Why should your bank get to decide:

- Which code you can run on your own funds
- Decide which interfaces you can use to manage your funds
- Where you are allowed to send it

I'm quite ok with extended checks with crypto on/off ramps, but once it is in the network, I want control of my funds.

[I say this as someone that has spent the last decade working in finance]
>The family deductible is $12,700, and out of pocket max is $16,400.

Wow, that's just so much money! No wonder people with health insurance go bankrupt in the US.
"Don't use a confusing name!" "But the name is not exactly identical!" ... really?
One word: throughput
From rereading this whole thread now, I notice that about 90% of the commenters are only interested in 2 or 3 of the hundreds of attributes involved in this situation.

It's amazing the lack of diversity in thought, and the amount/rate of simple, unforced(?) cognitive errors, on a site with such relatively high intellect. I think something important and unseen is going on here.
Wow, I had no idea I could add MD to my github profile. That's really cool.

I created a silly little tool to spice up your github contribution graph a while back. I don't know if I ever even posted it to HN, but this thread seems relevant:

https://ben174.github.io/busy-boy/
I think the randomly selected only once jury is an important part of that idea. If you let people self select as moderators you're going to end up with alot of people with way to much time on their hands trying to push an agenda instead of moderate.
That’s the wrong question. Would you rather suffer for want of a doctor or see someone else?

We already know the answer. People seek them where they can get them. WebMD. Google. Fish mox on Amazon. Self-treatment is rife.

If I had the choice I’d go to a doctor (and I always have the choice - my parents and cousins are surgeons). But I “go to the doctor” for something as mild as a contusion on my knee or the suggestion of sniffles or if I wake up with my eyes feeling a bit dry. The people who don’t have the choice don’t call the doctor when they can’t even get out of bed.

It’s about all the people without a choice.
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Because it isn't nearly as disruptive as people make it out to be. It's basically Second Life in VR but Facebook. Everything the article mentions has been done before.
“Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod
Aren't there already something like 100 PHDs per job opening at universities already? There doesn't seem to be a problem with the supply as is.
Putin and Tokayev talked just today. I'm pretty sure that all major Kazakhstani public announcements are coordinated with Putin. Putin helped Tokayev to keep his president chair just few months ago, it's not like Kazakhstan going to break up with Russia (and I really hope that will not happen, as it would be extremely stupid thing to do).