skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of one person (my friend's mom) who literally got this procedure done: she needed a new kidney, and they waited till a death row convict came along who was a match. When she was matched, she got a phone call to come over to that particular city quickly, and she went there, and came back a few days later with a brand new pair of kidneys. It was almost like when you give your car in for repair, and when it's ready they call you.

Her justification: this guy was going to die anyways, why not save someone's life in the process?

Rumor is also that SF Chinatown politician Rose Pak[1] got such a procedure done as a favor from the CCP government. She was extremely powerful, and CCP wanted to curry favor with her. When she got back from her "treatment", the entire who's who of SF ruling class showed up at the airport to receive her [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Pak

[2] https://www.sfexaminer.com/photo-galleries/chinatown-communi...
Putin is a paranoid tyrant who should be put down like a rabid wolf. Nobody should care what Putin thinks or wants. After he's gone let's see what shakes out.
Hopefully the "patient" was already brain-dead?
Licenses are intellectual property too so I am a bit confused why the difference? Was the first statement just over broad? Not trying to be argumentative, just trying to understand your position when I am a bit tired.
> Intellectual property frankly makes no sense if you don’t worship money.

Patents incentivize inventors to publicly disclose how their inventions work. They publicly disclose how their invention works and in exchange are given exclusive rights to it for a limited period of time.

This is predicated on the idea that in the absence of such a system, inventors have strong incentives to not disclose how their inventions work, which ultimately slows the spread of knowledge and puts a damper on innovation.

What parts of this do not make sense? How else would you solve the problem of incentives around disclosing how technologies work?
I watched the beginnings of the Iraqi insurgency develop in 2003... At first the improvised explosive devices we saw were relatively unsophisticated: short-range electronic devices using cordless phones, wireless doorbells, and car alarms. But in just two short months, I witnessed the insurgents’ rapid learning curve. In the subsequent two decades, insurgents have continued to learn. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, terrorists used small commercial off-the-shelf fixed wing and rotary wing drones, which they armed with both improvised and re-purposed munitions, typically 40mm grenades
The theorists working on their own grand explanations take heart
I would think in that case the solution should have been to talk with the manager about the junior engineer's performance (presumably well before the 60th time) rather than to take it out directly on the junior engineer.
The 90s were the decade of "you have GOT to see this" graphics. Thief was the first game I recall having "you have GOT to hear this" sound.
Nice! Do consider linking it here once you publish. Thanks!
> Isn't it the same in the modern USA?

This has been the Empire building-101 for ages: if you respect the state authority (emperor/czar/rule-of-law), state ideas (christianity/communism/democracy) and speak the state language, you can make it to the top — regardless of your ethnicity.

Even the Roman Empire had an Emperor who was Arab (historians agree he was really ethnic arab) and another one who was African (historians disagree just how black he was, but definitely agree he was unusually black). Salah-ad-Din (Saladin) was Kurdish. Russian Empire had tons of Germans/French/Swedes at their service. Of the famous Nazis, Otto Scorzeny was Polish (Skozheny would be a better rendition of his name) and Odilo Globochnik, Slovakian. Etc. etc. etc.

The idea that Ukrainians were somehow a "minority" in either Russian Empire or USSR is laughable to no end. Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians were a majority, and there would be no way to tell between them, unless you would study their personnel files. It's as laughable as suggesting that Austrian nazis were somehow treated badly by German nazis.
> What makes you think they have any power at all

I would say it's also not clear that they want it.
> Tacitus or Voltaire are variously credited with the notion that in any epoch, to know who is in power, ask who you may not criticise.

That doesn't work if/when a value claimed by those in power is to turn the other cheek. At least if it is followed, then this wouldn't be accurate.
No, I'm saying it's hard for people to see the externalities and so they're inclined to ignore them. And in the US at least, sewers are "farebox positive".

Instead of trying to nail on rail to cities it should be part of comprehensive travel planning that includes roads, etc. But selling it alone gets things like the California High Speed rail which hasn't sped anywhere, and dampens further similar projects.
My kids use headspace for win-down and sleep and it helps.
Bags full of people's pets that were gathered due to COVID concerns (it looks like still alive, though uncertain if the plan is to kill them):

"Pets filled up in bags for their duly execution in Shanghai, China as a part of the government's Covid response [TW]" -
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/u0fxgd/pets_fi...
All except the first one (possibly? I'm actually not 100% sure what your view is since it's phrased a bit confusing) aren't really "heresies" in the sense of "people will vigorously attack you for it". They are perhaps way outside of mainstream politics, but that's not quite the same thing.

I happen to think that private ownership cars should be severely restricted, perhaps even outright banned. I think everyone will be better off. It's a pretty hot take and something of a "heresy", but no one is going to call my employer to get me fired, or round up a gang on Twitter to badger me over it. They make thing I'm an idiot, but that's perfectly fine.
Graham seems to have missed the mark here. What he’s describing as the unjust labeling of x-ism usually isn’t related to the deviation from a norm, insomuch as it is the prejudices behind that deviation. He argues that truth is ignored, but it’s not the truth that’s usually at issue in such matters, it is the manner of delivery of whatever truth may be, filtered through a set of prejudices the hearer is offended by. The hearer then can either utilize the thought terminating x-ist label, and walk away, or attempt to address those prejudices directly. In the former, they are saying, “because I have identified these prejudices in the way you’ve presented your case, I cannot give credence to any of the truth you are arguing”. Reasonable, but less than ideal. The latter - and often better response is, “that’s x-ist and let me tell you why.” That’s how you cut through the BS and have a productive conversation. I hope this is what he was trying to convey, but didn’t quite get there.

What he seems to have missed in separating truth from prejudices is important to recognize. This is an expected communications problem in a society that struggles with decency, and decency is what’s at issue here - not truth. Because at least one party lacks decency, they’ve lost their credibility to convey any truth. The other party may lack tolerance, but that intolerance is, at least usually, about those prejudices, and not any underlying truth.

Regardless, actual heresy - of the biblical type that Graham is trying to use to support his argument here - has historically been more based on threatening a power structure, such as was the case with Martin Luther, for example. Ironically here, the tables were turned, and the “heretic” (Luther) presented factual information while it was the hearer that reeled with prejudice. The two cases are about as much alike as a camel and a spork. I am surprised he tried to make the comparison. Nonetheless, if that is what he’s trying to argue, then he’s seemingly suggesting the fault is always on the listener for being offended. In the cases Graham is describing though, it is far more likely to be the speaker who wraps whatever truth there might be into vitriol brought into the conversation. It at least would have made for a good essay to point out both possibilities.

Tl;Dr: truth always falls victim to prejudice, on either side, which is why we should work to identify and root out our own prejudices before engaging.
Several western countries are already using opt out for organ donation rather than opt in, as many countries have overly long wait times and people die waiting for a liver or lungs etc

What unlike the US or China, many countries just don't have anymore are death sentences, so it is not really that much of a discussion to kill prisoners and then harvest their organs, because these countries would just not kill people like that
Obviously we can't eliminate all buffering but excess buffering can be reduced.
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The exact example you mentioned (a person's weight being taboo) was my first "culture shock" when learning Japanese. My mind was opened to the multitude of prejudices carried just by speaking English many times after that.

At one point I kept a Twitter account where I tweeted random thoughts about the world only in Japanese. Even though it hardly had any followers, there was something really freeing about this. It forced me to choose my words precisely (lacking a deep abstract vocabulary, it required careful perusal of the Japanese dictionary), and I also didn't feel subject to the cultural burdens of English (as for the burdens of Japanese, I wasn't yet aware of what they were). I definitely recommend to language learners keeping a little diary in their second language, once they get to a point where they are able to.
Borland turbo c++ was pretty good, and v4 came with a ton of printed docs on the standard library.
I've definitely benefitted from the slower pacing.

I'm embarrassed to admit the number of times I was about to go off half-cocked because I hadn't taken the time to carefully read a comment and/or to just calm down.
Satellite images: Russian military convoy heads south toward Donbas region
> Positing that reducers should be pure is fine and dandy, telling me I can't throw in a side effect is none of your business.

API contracts work in both ways. The user has to uphold it just as much as the provider. If you don't breakage ensues. In lower-level languages this can include the nasal demons from UB.
There's no point in doing this, COVID will spread until everyone gets it at least once.

You just want to slow it down not to overwhelm hospitals and that it's. And if you immunize everyone there's very few hospitalizations.

Just make vaccines available - you don't even need to mandate them, most people will take them, and that's good enough.
You're looking for money supply numbers and balance sheets on central banks.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

M1 is true currency: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/m1.asp

You will notice the graph suddenly changed recently. 4 trillion to 20 trillion is 500% increase in currency. Theoretically there's 500% inflation coming, obviously not set in stone. They can still pull the money back at the expense of a severe recession at minimum.

Another factor is that balance sheet.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

That flat line before the financial crisis is normal, not good, not bad. We could go into how the debt ceiling functions but it's unimportant. If the democrats can just keep raising the ceiling, it's not a ceiling. More of an umbrella i guess?

Effectively what happened in 2009 was that the USA federal government was officially bankrupt. But there's no such thing as bankruptcy for them. Plus who will make the decision to go bankrupt/default? It's retirees and veterans who suddenly have to go back to work... you lose the next election in a landslide.

So you start the printing presses and hope you can print enough money before your credit rating drops to the point that refinancing the debt will be impossible.
They’re just answering the question.
> that doesn't necessarily imply that all speakers should accept the burden to be so inoffensive that _no_ listener would react negatively.

No, it doesn't imply that. But let's unpack the presumption behind your statement.

We all know that there are people in the world with whom we have deep and fundamental disagreement. Religious people are aware that there are atheists; classical liberals are aware that there are autocrats and theocrats, etc. Does that, in and of itself, upset us so deeply that we take offense at it? I daresay no.

What causes one to take offense is the uttering of "heresy" by someone nearby, where such utterance affects them personally. Which means that it is incumbent upon us to know who is listening to us. There is a wide emotional gulf between a preacher who preaches to his congregation and a preacher who proselytizes and seeks converts. Same message, different audience. In the first case, the preacher is among fellows. In the second, the preacher is among those who may not be so open to what he has to say. The preacher who decides to proselytize fundamentally accepts an additional burden, if the preacher has any hope at succeeding. And a preacher who does not accept that burden, does not even recognize that such a burden exists, who tries to communicate the same message in the same way regardless of who is in the audience, well, that preacher should only see his failure as foreseeable and expected.

"Preacher", above, if it wasn't clear, is not a religious term. It refers to anybody who has any kind of message that actually tries to persuade others, rather than merely seeking the empathy of like-minded friends and family.
for the same reason that some people kill other people putting them on electric chairs...

they are violent savages.
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I feel like it has double meaning, both with "Moore's Law" and "More Threads".
In what sense can "trans people are mental ill" be said to be true? Even if we only take gender dysphoria and treat it as a medical condition, it's highly resistant to therapy and is usually cured by leading the life the person wants to lead.

My position is mainly that unethical things shouldn't be advocated for. I think there's no good argument for stopping trans people for living the lives they want to live, and that people will rightly criticise you for being opposed to them exercising their freedoms. It's not that these things "can't be said" but don't be surprised if people criticise you for it. I think people calling this heresy are being melodramatic - being ratio'd on twitter is not the same thing as being burned alive at the stake.
can I has more threads for my gamez
That's how totalitarian regimes work: voicing dissent is dangerous. See other comment (not mine).
This is of course fallacious because waste is inherent to criminal punishment - you're literally inflicting something undesirable on someone, at a cost to yourself. Making sure that the costs of criminal punishment are shared helps keep every involved party honest. This is also an argument against things like privatized prisons and prison slavery in the U.S. If you're going to enslave prison inmates at all (and the U.S. Constitution allows this, so it does presently happen) it should be strictly to their own long-term benefit in their future capacity as free, law-abiding citizens.
Pretty sure its been doing this in dev mode since 0.14. Maybe earlier...
> the instrument deformed slowly under its own weight for the last decade and now we're 4 angstroms off

This was hilarious and plausible at the same time. Nice work!
> When used as a singular it’s the pronoun for people that identify as non binary.

It can be used for this, but it's also used for someone of indeterminate gender or if you simply don't want to mention their gender. For example:

"Oooh, that's such a beautiful baby, are they a boy or a girl"

"Does your friend want to buy my phone? You said they were interested?"
Yes, there is a lot of complexity to what you mentioned.

That is why I bracketed it: in the Buddhist context. The Buddha came out of the Vedic tradition (ancient Hinduism) so I agree that meditation practice is sourced from there. I cannot speak to what other Gurus were doing at that era.

Believe it or not there are deities (devas) in Buddhist Cosmology. The deity Brahma appears in much of early Buddhist scripture. Gods were not eliminated, but reduced in terms of importance.

In the West the “sit and do nothing practice” was extracted from the Shikantaza practice of the Zen tradition.

The problem is Zen includes all practice as part of meditative practice. There is no separation. This is not exclusive to Zen either. It is how Buddhism has been practiced in monasteries for over two thousand years.
Probably people irritated at HN being a cult of personality for Paul Graham. He's not that interesting a writer, but people here swallow his literary turds like they're pure gold.
Up in Canada, at the south end of the BC/Alberta border, is — was — a coal-mining town by name of Frank. Frank built itself near the base of Turtle Mountain, known to the native Indians as “the mountain that moves.”

Frank was buried under the Frank Slide when the mountain collapsed.

Should’ve listened.
Indeed - completely forgot about that. Though Borland really dropped the ball later, with horrible non-standard extensions to the language.

And of course many people in SE Asia are still being damaged by still being taught using Turbo C++ when they could be usefully using GCC or clang.
>I won't work with people on open source and run their code on my computer unless I know who they are.

I can make a free email very easily. Having a "real" gmail in the logs means nothing.

>Getting recruiter spam is a good problem to have.

Easy for you to say. Not everyone wants that. Sign up for your own recruiters then...
So I was about to write something flippant in opposition about it possibly being the reverse, the many serving the few (powerful), but since I felt I don't really know what I'm talking about I googled.

I found an interesting document authored by the "German Institute for International and Security Affairs" [0] (A semi-official organization with close links to the federal government, it advises the Bundestag (the German parliament) and the federal government on foreign and security policy issues).

The document is titled "Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law" [1] and describes Chinese goals for developing the rule of law in China over the next decade. I found it very interesting and IMO relevant to the discussion, to see where they want to go, even if it's not outright on topic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_Internati...

[1] https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2021C28/
I have nothing to add. Thank you.
I worked at Swype and then Nuance after the acquisition.

My experience with Google keyboard has been very good. The main difference I've noticed over the years is that phones got bigger. Swype was magical on a 3 inch screen but not nearly as good on a 5 inch. If I remember right the core would take the exact touch points less seriously on a small screen but on a big screen usage might go back and forth between very accurate and sloppy.

If I had to speculate somewhat, it's possible that newer keyboards take a very principled approach to the code for input recognition. I didn't work on the input matching part at Swype but it was often discussed with great fear, because it was a couple giant functions with tons of conditionals. It had been built up over I think a few years early on but without much documentation.

The other thing is that there was a race to the bottom on price, which later led to much smaller teams working on keyboards. There just isn't enough financial incentive to put many resources towards it, compared to something like speech recognition.
They are not like lynchings in one pretty fundamental way, ie they are not being lynched.
Hey i have adhd too and have faced the same problem.

So I created an app just for this. You can try it at https://www.speakreader.com. Since you have adhd i suggest you go with at least 2x speed. I usually read at 3x speed just fine. At this speed your mind can't get distracted with other things. I read almost 1 book every week using this nowadays.

Fyi, the app is 100% free but you will need to enter your own Google wavenet api key for text to speech engine - since it billable over the first million chars by google so I can't give them away with the app.
The homeless aren't the punchline. The punchline is all of the Twitter employees who lobbied for permanent work from home and thus no longer need that large empty building.

I guess I'm curious to hear the downside to converting Twitter HQ to something useful like housing for the homeless. Twitter is a very progressive company, I would hope their employees would see the value in a move like this. The fact that this tweet has ruffled their feathers says a lot more about them, than Musk.
Sam,

1/ 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' - Which is to say that we all have faced, at some point in time, significant challenges... (I will refrain to tell you about my own ones). Having read your three part Ask HN, the first thing I want to tell you is 'please go straight to the point when posting here, or only a few folks will give proper consideration to what you write;

2/ Secondly, think strategically. You have the ambition to write a long form essay about self-help, psychology, sociology, and semiotics. This is excellent! At the same time though be sure to first position yourself as somebody that is not only knowledgeable – I am sure you are – but also recognised as being as such, and, therefore, authoritative and well known enough to publish in that field. Or, getting published will turn to be very hard, and, in the event you get your work out there, only a limited a few will pay attention, again;

3/ I am not knowledgeable enough to tell you if the proposed structuring makes sense. If it does for you, fine! However dozen of books get published in the more general self-help section every year. Be sure to contrast your proposed structure to what already exists, and to make it digestible by your target audience. Not many people are well versed in multiple discipline, be sure to guide your target audience gently in your interdisciplinary analyses.

Much love,
alfonso
No. But they should be transparent about it. Which they have an incentive to not be, since at this point we're talking about real money.
bothers me that it's fine print. why do we all have to resort to dark patterns, even among coders making tools for other coders :(
I’m not saying that psychological conditions are not real, but I don‘t know what you mean by “valid”. They’re all rooted in internal experience, and, unless you believe in a supernatural soul, all have a physical basis of some kind.

But that doesn’t mean that the language that the patient attaches to the condition needs to be taken literally, or even that it has any meaning at all. A clinician treating an emaciated anorexic patient who insists that she is overweight (a real, well-known condition) may, as part of the treatment, interact with the patient avoiding, temporarily, contradicting the accuracy of the patient’s self-description. Her condition is real and “valid”; her self-description is just another symptom.
Of course a huge amount of agricultural freight transportation goes by freight train. The question is whether these train deliveries are highly sensitive to small delays (relative to the time the train journey normally takes). Is it a major problem for these agricultural plants if, say, a particular freight train that normally takes 48 hours to complete its journey instead takes 60 hours due to delays?