skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a fair number of people retain a sense of humor into adulthood but most lose the courage to be even the slightest bit subversive.
You can change the keyboard to be the small size keyboard in the settings (something like 'one-handed use'). Hope that helps
You are right. Clearly Russians are enemies here.
Most people don't realize this either, but I think it's worth mentioning after Alabama passed their new legislation that the common treatment for trans teens is puberty blockers to delay puberty. These puberty blockers were specifically developed for CIS children entering puberty too early (or having other medical issues) and have been used for a long time. They basically help give the children more time to mature before making decisions in either direction.
Hi Joe, your buddy Putin is on the line - I am about to launch a missile on New York. Do me a favor do not launch full scale counter attack in return. But feel completely free to drop one on St. Petersburg.
The Us is a little culturally weird right now (and always), and it depends on your industry a little but he’s mostly fighting strawmen strapped to windmills. I mean, what would PG know about this whole topic?

Also, you want to write software without “being canceled?” Well, dust off your oscilloscope skills, in the unglamorous embedded world I hear toned down right wing rants about Putin being canceled and Covid testing as a mass surveillance program and all that happens is sometimes someone’s like, alright, let’s move the meeting along.
[DISCLAIMER - I run Transcelestial which is building laser comms and we think about this question quite a lot]

Some background maybe first.

There is a massive Global Internet Distribution challenge which works around the cost/bit equation. They are:

1. Undersea cable networks - USD 0.5-1B to deploy over a multi-year project. 10s of millions to maintain with regular cable cuts. Typically now only deployed through consortiums of Internet and Telecom companies. Carry 99% of world’s international data.

2. Inter-City Distribution - National Fiber and Copper networks which connect tier 1-3 cities, towns and villages with a backbone to the nearest Internet Exchange OR telco data center (which in-turn would have a hard line back to Undersea landing stations).

3. Last Mile or within city/urban connectivity - last & middle mile within a city/town connecting homes, offices, towers and DCs.

IMHO the challenges still remain but get worse from top to bottom, costs and complexity often jumping in orders of magnitude from one to the other, with Last mile obv being the craziest.

Telcos nationally in most countries still own most of inter-city distribution and tier 2/3/4 POPs (point of presence), leasing out capacity from POPs to ISPs and Enterprises. The investment in laying these cables is EXTREMELY prohibitive and is the main cause for high Mbps rates, high latency and onerous terms when it comes to in-country network distribution (big e.g. is South Africa). Numbers range from orders of magnitude more expensive (e.g. $1.6B for Telstra Australia in Phase 1, $130-150B for US) than Undersea cables primarily due to Right of Way and operational costs of deployment.

People are now moving from Rural to Tier2-3 cities/towns and also there is reverse-migration from megacities like Manila to Tier2-3 cities/towns (as evidenced by rising cities like Cebu, Bali, Miami, Austin, Pune, etc where housing is more affordable and earning potential remotely is nearly the same). Bandwidth and latency demands are going up 100% Y-on-Y in Tier1-3 cities, especially in WFH COVID times. Starlink & others in LEO wil definitely help with most rural unconnected places (<1-2% of total bulk). Telcos will eventually build out Tier1 cities with fiber more robustly (since they have to deliver on 5G small cell and potentially 6G).

Mid-tier cities & towns where by far the larger total bulk is accumulation will need a LOT of attention and more latency optimized, cost/bit minimized backbones.

Finally, humanity's push to get into deep space in the next decade will require building out infra to support robotic and autonomous missions. Thinking of deep space objects as islands or continents is a helpful model and tightbeaming laser comms to them as "undersea cables but in space" could help address some bandwidth allocation problems in the early days (but local distribution will again have challenges)
Given that they seem to be backing IPFS, I would say so.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gatew...
I didn't find that phrase passive-aggressive at all. I found your verbose ramblings to be a huge distraction from the conversation, though.
Nobody’s trying to put you in jail for having differing views. But there’s never going to be a world in which there aren’t social consequences for having them. If you think, for example, that the world is going to greet people who think it’s ok to molest children (whether they do it or not) with open arms, you’re just deluded.
Well, my point isn't so much about who is in charge than the fact that there is a broad popular support for islamism in the muslim world, and that doesn't necessarily mean an absolute majority everywhere. Clearly the sharia is in force in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and seemingly with a strong popular support.

And I agree that it will wane over time, or at least I hope it will, like communism. And I think, like communism, the most anti-islamist countries will be the countries that had to live under Islamism (I am looking at Iran with interest). But that may take decades.

Regarding Shia vs Sunni, that's right but I don't think it negates my point. There were many rivalries between Stalinism vs Maoism vs Trotksism, etc, but it is still right to refer to them as communist ideologies with a common goal.
I think you're judging zsh based on third party add-ons or non-default config. You can make bash flaky and amateur that way too.

Stock zsh is neither though. It's quick and solid. No surprises.
Yeah, but there needs to be a point where you can trust that the child didn’t just make it all up and gets fucked for life. I think the age where you can reasonably be sure of that is probably pretty close to the age of adulthood already.
This tweet where he calls out needing to fire 12 floors of staff might suggest otherwise;

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512974273606045702
But like. Seriously @dang, can you provide context here.

Is this a matter of heated discussion or what…
FWIW, I think ssh apps or something similar could be a very powerful paradigm for people who live in the terminal and a diversity of ideas here would be welcome.
The notion that young kids necessarily have a completely formed and stabilized "gender identity" (which is necessary for "trans kids" to even be a meaningful concept) is entirely driven by ideology. It doesn't even pass the most cursory test of plausibility.
There hasn’t been nearly enough time for longitudinal studies. We have no idea what treatment, if any, will lead to the greatest lifetime quality of life for children expressing symptoms of gender dysphoria. Nor for that matter do we have any idea why children are experiencing these symptoms are much higher rates.
Taxes are paid by the average person, so yes, the price is paid by the average person.
The richest man in the world making a "joke" at the expensive of the absolute least fortunate in America is not a good look. Pretty tone deaf if you ask me.
Re-inventing can be good for your personal learning. But if you're building something that others are going to have to deal with, those others will usually be better off if a classical solution or approach is used. The classical solution will usually be less buggy and better explained than whatever you roll for yourself.
Fetal development isn’t a perfect process. XXY embryos, testosterone insensitivity. There might be other manifestations of gender confusion as I’m not a biologist.
Why Is Everyone Bad at Math?
Not to mention that the fish in question seem to have been in a shallow "sloshing flood" at the time.
Easily 99.99% of all "apps" have no utility or value.

It's one of the reasons why I'm serious considering a dumb phone - save money and less distraction/uselessness. I don't really see too much being lost by stepping down. People already call me "the human GPS" because my sense of direction usually doesn't require using GPS devices. I don't "do" social media. Most of what I do professionally does not require a smart phone in any way, shape or form.
Psychiatry once regarded gayness as mental illness. The opinions of those who are employed in the industry of trans research should be regarded as potentially ephemeral, as was prescribing opiates for pain. Science makes mistakes. It’s part of the process. One should be wary of the new, if one cares about their patients.
It looks like calendar app will be the same but easier.
NATO would still have a multiple of conventional firepower to defeat Russia few times over. That's based on a scenarios if Russia somehow manages to fire all of its 1000 warheads into NATO force in Europe, without being fired back at.
Same, iOS Notes all the way.

Adding this because I didn't know about it for awhile and maybe someone reading doesn't know - iOS notes includes a pretty good document scanner with the iphone camera. Open a new note and press the camera icon, you can scan multiple pages with the camera and it turns it into a reasonable PDF.
Yeah, the quote is a very fundamental breakdown of logic. It's common among Facebook arguments, but very strange to see written by somebody at least ostensibly interested in rationality. I suppose he's playing a dishonest semantic game (I think he's smart enough to know that the world is more complex than that).

"13/52" is, I think, one of the most outstanding examples of this fallacy ("13% of American are black but they commit 52% of murders [or violent crime? I forget]"). Assuming the numbers are true, it can be stated primarily for the purpose of information, as in an unbiased demographic analysis of crime; or it can be stated primarily for the purpose of expressing racial hatred, as in 99% (99.9%? 99.999%?) of cases on social media. The belief that something being true means it can not be used for evil (or even just in an unnecessarily provocative context) is categorically not rational.

Even propaganda, which many people correlate with "lies", is actually often factually true, or at least subjectively true by argument. Cherry-picked truth is perhaps the most effective propaganda, because it invites people to feel justified in ignoring the big picture and embracing their negative emotions that are tangential to that "truth".
Or, a recurring calendar invite. Or a million other solutions. But what about responding to OP and the question they asked?
I've noticed it's gotten very common recently for wingnuts on both sides to pick an Emmanuel Goldstein figure that represents the root of all seemingly-unrelated evil in the world. Elon has become that figure for a big chunk of those people, a fever-dream boogeyman to rival George Soros or Hillary Clinton.

As far as I can tell, a sane person's reaction to him is some weighted combination of a) bemusement at his trolling, b) annoyance at some of his actually-irresponsible behavior, and c) respect for his accomplishments.
>I agree with you that "purposely misgendering one's colleagues" should lead to firing, but I think this article isn't about that.

I do think the article is about that. I think it was purposefully left vague so he could take advantage of people giving the benefit of the doubt. I don't think people's pronouns should be up for debate, and I believe PG does.
> I guessed I missed the memo. Which countries are on this list?

Who knows except the man himself. That's the problem right there.

Belarus? Why not make it official?

Georgia? Maybe they deserve another round?

Baltics? It'll be interesting to see how much effort NATO puts in over those. Certainly not nukes. Can turn them into rubble to prove a point, if nothing else.

What about Hungary and Poland?

Also, aren't you forgetting a couple of countries, scroll up on Google Maps...
If any intelligent, caring discussion about this is possible on the open internet, it's certainly not going to happen through this sort of Molotov cocktail, so yeah, that's a problem. The HN guidelines are written specifically to ask people not to do this, regardless of which side of a conflict they're holding. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - note this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30977299 and marked it off topic.

p.s. since this kind of mod comment tends to elicit responses, I should probably add that I'm in a workshop today and unable to do as much as I normally would on HN. So if anyone notices something not being taken care of or not getting a reply, please don't be quick to draw large conclusions from that—it's more likely that I'm not as free.
“quite beyond doubt”, and there you are. The conversation just finished. You are right, the rest are wrong.

And that’s that.

Or is it?
I've always said zeen, because of magazine.
De-ossifying the Internet is necessary for solving many other problems like the IPv6 and RPKI transitions.

There's a lot of room to optimize latency whether it's removing bufferbloat, L4S, or cISP.
Nvidia Claims Arm Grace CPU Superchip 2X Faster Than Intel Ice Lake
“I don’t understand it but I’ll trust their feelings and the recommendations of their doctor” is very different from “I don’t understand it so I’ll call them mentally ill, misgender them, or insist that legislation prevent access to medical care”.
>> nobody is going to jail for their heretical opinions. They can have privileges revoked or be passed over for promotion or advancement, but that's how organizing people to do hard things has always worked.

That's because no trials are held in modern mob justice for heretics. The mob justice punishments are more like lynchings.

Medieval heretics could at least expect a "witch hunt"-style trial. The monarchy or church was the authority and there was a semblance of rule of law.

Modern heretics face mob justice by self-appointed vigilantes and mob justice punishments. The lack of due process is concerning.
iOS notes!! hit the camera button from a note, scan multiple pages, turns it into a PDF
A few more pics: https://www.viaggiatoridistratti.it/parco-archeologico-comps...

Why don't these articles have more photos!
Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout for Swype
I can’t understand bigots at all, particularly things like language. Yet Quebec is full of them.
Exercise is great but meditation is also valuable for some people. And it doesn’t get cheaper than meditation, you don’t need anything outside yourself, except maybe a pillow and some time.
Couldn't it be said that all the wealth inequality created by this system in europe created a massive collection of poor europeans who then decided to sell themselves to indentured sertitude in the America? This situation is the basis for why creating a fundamentally different kind of banking system was so important to the first few generations of Americans, thus the previous comment not being ahistorical at all.
lol no it’s not - it’s literally a vigilante system that prevents teachers from talking about reality
I think our next biggest "problem", though perhaps not an infrastructural one, is one of protocols. We've pushed almost everything into HTTP from my perspective and I think we'll be dealing or solving that next. Perhaps a resurgence of dedicated protocols and the routing/infrastructure to deal with them.
Ask HN: Where can I get an IPv6
Title pretty much says it all. I'm paying for a block of static IPv4s for my business and it has helped me realize the value of IPv6.

What I really want now is just a bunch of IPv6 for my home server stuff. It seems like these addresses should be free, right? Do ISPs provide them yet? How do I get them?
two things are clear:

- Putin has been left in charge by the same people that now are surprised Putin is being Putin. also US were too busy in Afghanistan and trying to make China look like the biggest threat to international peace.

- NATO should never ever intervene in areas that do not belong to NATO. When it happened it didn't go well (Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995, Kosovo 1999)
I think SMS might be a bit better than email for this.

I did this on my Mac for a while using cron and OSAScript to show a desktop notification.

https://www.breckenridge.dev/2021/10/12/using-cron-and-mac-n...
> Not only that, but when I read the headline I got really excited it could help generate Zines

I did too, but I kind of figure it had more to do with playing with pen plotters. Would be cool to generate an old school 70s/80s/90s zine from a tool.
And a monitored space to drink cheap vodka too? Personally I'd say no, you have to go shoot up and guzzle cheap alcohol somewhere else. Fact is more homeless people have alcohol issues than opiate issues, anyway. A lot of the alcoholics and opiate addicts don't even want to get clean, so why bother catering to them like that? Give services to people who actually want to get off the street first, that's the better option.
Personally the Whim Hof method has been a game changer for me. The breathing exercises are the fastest way to clear my head, even if you never do the cold exposure training he's famous for. I believe he has an app that guides you through his meditations/breathing but there's also plenty of YouTube videos that walk you through it as well.
You can pinch the keyboard to shrink it to a floating, iPhone-like size, which allows swiping.
For meditation I think people are trying to "meditate".

Where I would get same benefits from 45-60 min cardio where I focus on the training and rhythm of music.

I definitely also felt "meditation" effects from reading books - but of course with intense focus on the book not thinking about anything else and not having tv running in background and people trying to talk to me.

In the end I do believe I get the same benefits when I focus on something intensely so basically any hobby.

Watching series on streaming services is for me not that immersive and too much stimuli so it does not work that.
Heresies are inherent to tribalism. Violating the tribes bigger rules gets one rejected or killed.
This ties into the identity of the society.
Different types of meditation have different goals, somewhat like different types of exercise have different goals.

Meditation isn't about closing your eyes and doing nothing. It takes effort, at least until you are proficient.
I'm glad Xah Lee is still around, and seems to be doing well.

(Protip: his Unicode search pages are very useful, I use them all the time: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html)
you're totally out of line but you're also right.
Ah, so that's what Blizzard/Bethesda have been doing. :D
I converse here on HN because the discourse is usually a little higher than the “middle school” level that you find elsewhere on the Internet. Won’t you join me in preserving that property?
you wouldn't consider it "positive affirmation" of most people to simply accept the name and gender they provide, it is simply the bare minimum for normal interaction.

why do you consider it beyond reasonable accommodation for some people? do you think you know some deeper truth about these other people than they know about themselves? why do you think you can reliably identify that case? couldn't you simply leave them alone, and not make a big deal out of it?

if you think it doesn't matter, prove it. refuse to recognize anyone's identity. start misgendering and misnaming people you wouldn't do that to before. see how far that gets you.
Somehow Gen Z gets a free pass to refer to everyone as they, regardless of that fact that some of us would rather not be referred to that way.

The norms are not as straightforward as you claim.
I think the tradition is that only conversations about unjust things done by Russia must start with a comprehensive list of all unjust things done by USA.

Unjust things done by other countries can be discussed freely.
Of course it's not necessary for gender identity to be "completely formed and stabilized" to be able to talk about it. Do you think it's meaningless to describe a child as "short" or "tall" because their body is still growing?
That should be relatively easy for the mobile carrier, they're always in the same spot.
> People are getting called out for denying the existence of people who aren't like them.

I see this a lot and it makes no sense to me. What does it mean to deny the existence of someone? To pretend they do not exist?

People who make that comment usually seem to be falling into a trap of viewing a disagreement or difference in opinion as something much more extreme.
I love Waking Up. It's Sam Harris walking you through how to do it in a practical way.

I'll admit that until I tried it, I thought meditating was either just sitting there trying there trying to think no thoughts or it had some sort of religious connection that just wasn't for me. After using it for months, I realized it's a way to be present, acknowledge that thoughts are things that merely arise, and most of all, things that you can discard instead of letting them impact you.

I started trying it when he said that he'll do it for 30 seconds just standing in line at Starbucks if he feels some sort of anxiety, or before he goes on stage. That kind of thing felt practical to me, so I gave it a go. I've used the app on and off for over a year, often starting from the first guided session from scratch and working back through them when I lose the habit.

I don't do the guided sessions anymore, mostly listen to the interviews in the app that you point out. But I meditate in the morning almost every day now, and right after, I try to think of the person I want to be, and then I start my day. I got that tip from Eben Pagan (of David DeAngelo dating advice fame) after realizing I usually just wake up and am the person that I feel like, like sometimes I'd wake up and feel low confidence, and I would kinda be a low confidence person all day. Meanwhile, all I had to do was simply decide to take another path.

I dismissed all of this kind of stuff as BS for most of my life. I was 30 when I finally tried Waking Up and I finally see that there's something practical behind these things.
I read the article as strongly implying that individual Americans are complicit in war crimes in Ukraine, at least to the extent of not reporting them. It's possible the article is wrong or misleading, or that the source mislead the journalist, but after the clear descriptions of Americans killing Russians on the battlefield I read "I don’t know what happened to them" to be a intentional strong wink that the captured Russians were not treated in accordance with the Geneva conventions. Do you interpret it literally?
Maybe a chorded keyboard.

e.g. https://openstenoproject.org/
One of my dogs used to "lie" - he knew he wasn't suppose to be on the sofa. But he'd always push boundaries and try anyway like a human child. As soon as he'd hear you approaching the room, he'd just off (he was a no-fur dog).

What gave away his game was that sometimes his hind leg didn't quite get off the sofa. It was like a kid that took cookies for the cookie jar, even managed to get it back where it was supposed to be but then left obvious crumbs.
I think they're mainly referring to the "what am I doing here?" phase that most people seem to go through when they start meditating.

It's exactly why I never managed to make a habit out of it.
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