skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are missing the referential frame.

I don’t know if someone who has never taken psychedelics can adequately understand what it is like, unless they have experienced something similar without taking psychedelic substances. (That is, spontaneous, visionary experiences). There’s an intellectualization of what the person thinks this experience is about, as a substitute for direct experience.

A physicist might study physical phenomena, but what they work with are models about those physical phenomena, and then call that “reality”. That isn’t reality. Those are models of physical phenomena with high degree of predictive ability.

Rather, if you want to use an example of someone who attempt to directly experience reality, we’re talking about Zen practitioners or one of those non-dual teachers. If you hear them talk, they spend a lot of time saying very plainly, you don’t really experience reality directly. But people hearing it pretty much nod their head and think that they do.

As far as oncology research goes, you are right. It is biased towards study participants with cancer. Not only do the _researchers_ themselves are not experiencing cancer themselves (unless they got cancer), but what is _not_ being studied is what health and wholeness looks like and contextualizing cancer that way. Instead, we’re getting to know a lot about the mechanisms of cancer, and the various causal chains of cancer, and this limits our view to that of the body as a machine. That by somehow understanding all the fiddly bits, we would understand the whole, and we won’t.
It's easy an idea that alienates more than 20-30% of your user base as he said they don't really care about politics and I believe him. Can be something simple like a fucked up redesign... looking at you Digg.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/09/24/google-plans-to-bri...
>My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is way overdue for long form tweets! (Musk's response)

this may very well be the first thing in my life I've agreed with Musk on. By god scrolling through an entire essay chopped up with random replies and profile links thrown in because you have to click "show more replies" (which pops up twice?) over and over is awful. Just link to a Twitlonger.

On yishan's actual points I agree though. Companies moderate haphazardly and improvise and they care about their bottom-line and to extinguish shitstorms. There's no coherent ideological bias on any sufficiently large social network, they just pivot to whatever is causing chaos on any given weekday.

One important point stuck somewhere in the middle is his observation that in the physical world, no public square, or public debate looks like what's on display on internet social networks. All of them have rules, civility is a thing, if you're crazy someone's likely going to throw you out, there's identity instead of anonymity and so on. Maybe provocatively, "cancel culture" is simply culture. Culture is a bunch of rituals, rules, coercions, customs and traditions that predominantly tell us what not to so so we don't behave like a bunch of naked apes.
If elon owns twitter privately he can just go through his comments and ban the impersonators on the spot. He has complained for years about twitter not doing enough to stop scam impersonators. In fact he can ban anyone then. He would literally have that power. Conversely, he could also unban anyone. There would be no chain of command. Imagine using fakebook but then also having the power to ban anyone too. I think he may even be able to read private DMs or see accounts who blocked him. It could have national security implications if he can read Obama's DMs for example.
This is an amazing story and I’m glad you’re open to juniors that are from unconventional backgrounds. But you must recognize you’re an exception; my point still stands that odds are garbage for self-teaching and it’s not as easy as flippantly saying “well, just self-educate then!”
A car can accelerate through the intersection much easier than a cyclist can remount and accelerate from a full stop. Cars are also not in the same danger of being killed by a distracted driver rear-ending them. Cyclists are up higher, can hear better, and see the situation at the intersection much better, so the can roll through an intersection more safely than a car.
Isn’t that non-origin?
No no. They say -mortality- isn't affected. Like, people don't die more often without health insurance. There are all sorts of measured benefits of health insurance, quality of life, lower prevalence of medical debt, etc. It's just that a lack of it doesn't lead to people dying sooner.

Which kind of makes sense; the cost even with insurance ensures people don't go to the doctor as often as they should, until something is concerning them. And if it is sufficiently concerning, even someone without insurance goes. And if it's going to prove lethal without treatment, even those without insurance will probably still get the treatment, since better to be alive and in debt the rest of their life than dead.

Someone else linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Medicaid_health_experim... and it's a good example; it calls out that those with coverage are less likely to have medical debt sent to a collecitons agency, which implies that those without coverage are still seeking treatment...they just are going into debt for it.
See also: stock buybacks
I hope twitter burns and people stop using it.
Does it take a snapshot after every shell command?
Is it really the tax though? It sounds like you have enough money where the utility of extra money is reduced and you would rather do other things with your time. Can you honestly say that you would work 80 hr per week even at full rate? Now let's also consider that your first 40 your job would be full rate too, also providing less incentive for more needing more money.
Today is the one year anniversary of Jeff Bezos's last letter as Amazon CEO. They were hugely valuable for me and there was no audio version, so I narrated it myself. I'm republishing and recording starting with the 1997 one and will introduce a new one weekly.

Happy listening!
ahh shit okay I see. Yeah social media is a cancer. At least in its current centralized form.
I trust Yandex more than I trust Google, because Yandex doesn't give a shit about me. I'd certainly use an English-language Chinese search engine.
I'm interested in this assumption that because you do not understand something, no one else must either. Is this a heuristic you apply to all fields of knowledge, or just business law?
Linux from Scratch on M1 in a VM
First of all, I don’t think they are reasonable. They’re crass and ill considered. Second of all, it’s not just about ideas, it’s about his personality.
If you need your employer to satisfy your social needs then you have a serious problem.
Most suburban/exurban SFH in most regions of the US have their own wells, septic, and plumbing. They're not on city water.
Is anyone working on a replacement for this broken social media experience?
It more or less all seems true to me.

I thought it was amusing that the replies were full of people with no moderation experience trying to fight with him about all of it by going "umm actually it's obvious that x", where x is something that totally conflicts with the next reply over.
I was addressing the second paragraph, not the first.
VEs are not presented in the database due to hardware identification problem and because people are not so interested in looking for virtual hardware.
This sounds like just another run-of-the-mill H1B staffing firm fraud to me.
Elon has run several companies immensely more successful than Twitter. He also planned to address some glaring issues on the platform. There is almost no question he would have been better than current management, which is destroying their platform.
“A lot of services will verify the user, and then issue an oauth token that'll expire some time around the heat death of the universe”

mTLS is definitely an excellent step towards solving this.
They will claim whatever they need to claim to justify not taking the deal. Like I said, it's how the game is played and completely standard practice. Lawsuits are also standard practice, which is why board members have insurance.
The Law That Shaped the Internet Presents a Question for Elon Musk
np, it happens.
If you watch and believe his TED interview from the last couple days, there was much more going on there than meets the eye.
In terms of cause and effect yes, in terms of attribution no.
"it still belongs to the natives"

Even that could be debated. Some tribes also subscribed to the right of conquest, such as the Lakota. Not a pretty thought but just thought it was worth mentioning.
I happen to love the exercise so I’ll happily have it this way! Especially if (like me) you’ve crossed over the starting hurdle and you are building/maintaining real muscle - it’s awesome!
Google, Facebook and the big tech companies are running H1-B visa pipeline and some small time staffing firm is the one that gets busted?
I’m actually a bit amazed they aren’t profitable yet. Hasn’t their user base been stagnant/shrinking for years? What are they investing in?
I mean the list of banned subreddits is (mostly) known if you want a few hundred examples. https://old.reddit.com/r/reclassified/comments/fg3608/update...

Like I would post some highlights so people don't have to click the link but I don't even feel good about posting most of the names of the subs. They're just... awful.
> exploitation plan only works as long that labor can't walk

That's not true. If H1-Bs were not a good deal for the guest workers, there wouldn't be a 10 year waiting list to get one. Living standards are so much higher in the United States due to massive infrastructure investments than in the countries most of these guest workers come from that accepting a lower wage than an American would otherwise earn is still a once in a lifetime opportunity for them. The workers being exploited by wage depression here are the American ones, and that's not even addressing the infrastructure costs of a growing population which is distributed evenly instead of being born solely by those incurring the cost.

> Companies also have to do prevailing wage checks, which often results in pay increases.

How? In my experience H1Bs always make less because they are taking a hit in pay in order to benefit from the public services they wouldn't get in their home country.
> I agree, we won't have data, but my gut feeling, having been raised in this kind of environment, is most people are basically poisoned by such lifestyle factors.

American life expectancies are still significantly higher than Chinese ones. Now, that could just be correlated to healthcare resources (America spends a lot, Chinese spends much less and much of it is wasted on pseudo medicine), but environmental factors also come into play (air pollution must be having an effect already).
Anything that causes a bunch of your userbase to get annoyed and leave, your own employees to have a bunch of their time wasted, trouble hiring new ones, or anything that causes real world consequences (from crimes to users getting in offline fights) you may have lawyers bill you for.

This has nothing to do with ~the powerful losing power~. You need to remember that most things that happen in real life aren't interesting.
There's still spyware on LTSC. Windows Ameliorated removes said spyware on an executable level, not just by using policy or registry edits.
I love conspiracy theories!
Yes it does, and this is underlined by the fact that they adopted the poison pill proposal. Though, in the past such tactics have been used just to get a better price, in investment banking 'no' doesn't really always mean 'no', it may just mean 'really, no, not at this price'. That said this is already a pretty premium and they might end up regretting that move if they really are after the money and don't have a different motivation.
“Musk will make a mockery of twitter”

how do you make a mockery of something whose only purpose is to manufacture consent for war profiteering?
The point is not "consuming things for free", the point is neutering "the Biz".

I for one wouldn't mind to lose Hollywood as an industry, or Broadway, or Silicon Valley...

All of these industries are way too big and over-influential in all aspects of our lives, and leave us without any chance of a more human-scale alternative to counteract.

I mean, how many TV networks are owned by Disney? Do you really think that all that lobbying is just to keep people away from watching copies of Mickey's Fantasia?
You are honestly arguing that the concept of private property is a mistake?

Serious question. How do you envision things working when everything is communal? What motivates productivity and overcomes the tragedy of the commons?
I don’t think I’m an exception. But to the extent that I am, I think it has more to do with people believing that they need a CS degree. They believe they need one, people tell them they need one, so they get one. I didn’t go to college, and I can’t specifically recall that fact ever even coming up.
> You are thinking in absolute terms and not on the margins. If the marginal income tax beyond a threshold jumps by %10, then even discounting the increasingly marginal value of each additional dollar earned I will value the return on work less when I hit that tax threshold.

And given you don't want that dollar, and given the dollar is still on offer (the work's still gotta get done) someone else will earn it instead. This is probably a net gain because you got to do something else with your time and the other person got money they (probably) needed more than you.
> Legally Car A of course

Not 'of course'. One second is arguably reaching the intersection at the same time.
How I stopped loving panoticon and ended up marrying it.
His entire thread falls apart when the very rules of a given platform show an ideological bent to them. you can not claim the company is not biased when the very rules for which guide the enforcement is biased
Absolutely agree! I like my coworkers and enjoy going to the office 2 days a week but anything more than that no thanks. I have a life outside of work that I care about.
I read the book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" last year, and that basically summed up my relationship with them. They were emotionally unavailable to me growing up, and very immature, and now I find it almost impossible to connect with them or feel any affection for them.
That's your typical small shareholder in a nutshell.
I switched over to eReader Prestigio because of TTS feature. When I go running or do some mindless task I use TTS and put the fone in my pocket and still absorb information.
The companies he run do very different things. I dont think there is any garuntee his success will transfer domains.

But it would certainly be interesting to watch.
I am having trouble finding statistics on the proportion of homeowners in any given country. The available statistics I can find are based on "owner-occupied homes" which is not comparable.

What do homeowners want? Well, they don't want higher home prices if no one is around to support the local economy. So clearly they want some level of distribution of access.
> Elon has run several companies immensely more successful than Twitter.

Like all things, it depends how you count. The problem I see vis a vis Twitter is it's private company and a public utility at the same time.
Companies also have to do prevailing wage checks, which often results in pay increases.
Property tax already means that your tax will go up. Your scenario seems like scaremongering
That is why what we need is not DumpTV, but Smart TV that is sane.
Any alternative to uMatrix?
>> Roundabouts generally require a driver to look in a direction other than their direction of travel, to determine if it is safe to go.

> True for stop signs...

Not really. Stop signs make you stop first, before needing to look around, after which you continue. There's no "direction of travel" when you've stopped; you're not traveling when you've stopped. Meaning you can focus on one thing at a time, unlike with a roundabout.
I'm not all that comfortable writing about my relationship with my parents in an open forum especially because one of them is still alive and I have siblings, but you can probably trust me on the statement that most 'picture-perfect families' aren't.
>How do various regulators view this?

Its a good question, one I've mentioned on YV in the past. I havent seen it handled in the UK, but the backup industry isnt handling it either from what I've seen.

I think the regulators will view it as it needs to deleted from backups, but the backup software industry doesnt really make it easy to delete stuff from said backups. It could be done because individual file & mailbox restores exist so if they can identify what needs to be restored, they could just as easily delete it.
No! Both are about shifting the balance of power from the state to the individual. Cryptography and Cryptocurrency are evolutions in a continuum of technologies that empower the individual for privacy and security. They are technologies that care not for the existing power structures — they exist and the power structures better get used to and work with their existence. Software doesn’t care what you want. It just is.
> random replies and profile links thrown in because you have to click "show more replies"

Huh, clicking show more replies only shows more of the original thread for me until I've reached the end of it.

That does sound horrible, if that's the common experience then all the complaints about Twitter threads make a lot more sense to me.
I don't know about the 90s specifically (I was 6 when the new millennium started!), but people were definitely talking about "politicial correctness gone mad" and the "war on Christmas" in the early 00s.

Here's a comedy sketch from '05 that's making fun of many of the same "woke" concepts we have now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7Z5cNfc9w
Exploitation is exploitation even if it affords better opportunities than taking a pass.

That said, I don't know any of the subtle points of the visa system.
$10 per month (last heard), if they plan to start charing.
That's interesting, I've never heard testing code skills by reading instead of writing.

An example would have been nice though, as I'm not sure how to find a piece of code that does something standalone that is too large to grasp in 20 minutes yet make a reasonable prediction at the output. That combination seems kind of weird.

I wonder how well it would work to modify OP's idea and present a candidate with some code that has a bug in it (you reveal what the bug is to save time, they'll need to understand the code anyhow) and you ask them how they'd fix it. First broadly, like what approach, then actually write part of it.

To take my own advice and make the discussion more concrete, I should add an example. Random script from my github: https://github.com/lucb1e/randomdirectory/blob/master/random...

To prepare for the interview, one could add an argument like -h to show usage (in the same style as -v is currently implemented), then tell the candidate that the bug is that passing -vh executes neither -v nor -h (one would commonly expect it to execute both). Fixing this requires a 'structural' change to this little bit of code, but it's small enough to easily grasp and implement. The candidate might propose to loop over each character after a single hyphen to fix this, or they might propose to throw out this custom reinventing-the-wheel and use a proper arg parsing library. Either is fine, but they should be prepared to write the code (in any language, they can write just the changes in C, Python, JS, or whatever language they're comfortable with).

Has anyone tried such an interview coding question?
It's for these reasons that I'm convinced massive social networks are not the future of the internet. It's too hard to win. Most people will fatigue and retreat to products that offer a more comfortable media experience made up of community members more like them. This seems to be happening on platforms like Twitch and Discord already.

I don't think Twitter is mismanaged. It's just as bad idea that's living past its point in time.
if what you're trying to say here is that one side makes use of antisocial tactics more than the other and is hit harder by moderation as a result, that's not really Twitter's fault or problem.

I think the example you're reaching for is racism/homophobia/transphobia, and how those run afoul of the "don't treat people like shit/debate the validity of their existence" rules, and how the left is comparatively un-affected by that rule because they don't generally do that stuff.

It's unfortunate that one of the parties continuously makes that stuff a voting issue, but like, you don't get a pass on the "no festering bigotry" just because it's mainstream discourse in your circles.
You're preaching to the choir, but I don't choose our technical assessment. That said, it's not leetcode.

I think that can work for plenty of orgs, but I'm not sure about my team. I've already worked with two people who had great references and decades of experience who couldn't contribute to what we are building due to their weak technical skills. That doesn't mean there isn't an org out there that they will fit in with better, but the current process we use was derived from experience. It's not hazing, like Google.
> That must be why we censor libraries...

The analogy doesn’t hold. Libraries don’t hold random internet posts.

You need to first have your work published as a book or similar, and then have the acquisitions team at the library buy copies. Yes self publishing is an option but convincing a library to stock your particular book will be more tricky. Sure the library of congress may hold a copy, but that’s about where it ends.

Donated books also aren’t guaranteed to hit the shelves either, they can end up in book sales or rejected if the library prioritises other books on its limited shelf space.

They also won’t for example carry books documenting how to commit suicide, construct a dirty bomb, child porn, well porn in general actually (you’ll still often find nudity and sex acts in books about sex, but those books are not designed to provide sexual gratification whereas porn is).
> I'd love if he provided an example of these powerful and dangerous ideas that must be censored.

Plenty of historical reddit examples of this: /r/fatpeoplehate was the first sub I remember that got removed and caused huge site-wide drama, then there were all of the incel subreddits, then /r/watchpeopledie and the wave of gore subreddits, etc.

> Why is this not a matter best handled by law enforcement?

Is there anything illegal about making fun of overweight people, ranting about how much you hate women, or posting industrial accident footage? Generally speaking, no. Is it something that should be on reddit? This is where the arbitration and individual judgment of admin comes in.
Something to keep in mind is that from a purely utilitarian standpoint, eating vegetarian 9 times out of 10 is 90% as good for the planet as doing so 10/10 times. There's no utility bonus for being a gold star vegetarian. So don't feel as if you have to choose between being a "real" vegetarian, and being a full-on carnivore - best effort is better than nothing!
You can't press a button and buy that much stock. You'd likely have to buy from portfolios of hundreds of investor funds and family offices. Word gets around, and you'll have to jack up the bid with each successive call.

You'd also have to buy in large volumes on the public markets as well, so that'll bid up the price,providing a rationale for the board to reject the offer as undervalued.
Yea there are a bunch of those in Seattle neighborhoods, they work well.
I'll check if they installed flatpak ;)
Hundreds if not thousands of people have installed it, with no sign of malicious intent.
If you still don't trust it, you can manually ameliorate using the open source scripts. (Located on the ameliorated.info site)