skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Religion enters almost every conversation I have in the US in some way.

I'm an American and this is very surprising to me. In fact, I find it difficult to believe. Can you give some examples?
thread state is just a bit of memory.
This is just a route to get to number 2
from what I read on some of the administrators on Twitter the program has been (semi privately) running since last fall and there are already 10+ participants

now the decision to take it public may have been motivated by sequoia's launch
Very true. 1x or 0.5x is plenty for most. Some need 100x or 1000x though.
"I take it the tape would go in the middle between the circuit board and components?"

Let me see...

"place the tape on a circuit board and place components on the tape"
Not at all. To be a 10x programmer you need to be lazy. Automate everything, brutally eliminate complexity, and focus 100% on what makes sense from a business point of view.
Every time I go to use it I grab a fresh copy.
If they actually wanted the taxes they’d be sending bill collectors. They don’t most of the time because it’s highly probable you already did pay, more than you owe, and they owe you. Their incentive to collect is to let private companies generate more revenue with their services, which in turn generates more taxes automatically collected.
This article lost me when it started waxing poetic about Linux hardware support. The author praised one of the most broken and frustrating parts of using Linux.
jason calacanis
you can always hear dissent because following any server never requires you to disclose your identity. If you want to be an active participant in multiple communities with your name attached to it, sure another group might exclude you. This is possible on all platforms where people can form networks, including on twitter. This is not really a technological thing. Wherever there are factions there usually is exclusive membership.
Beforehand, I mean. There are market opportunities out there, but the problem is they're impossible to see coming. Nobody thought Russia would invade Ukraine, until it did. Nobody thought Ukraine would survive for a week after Russia invaded, until it did. So there was absolutely no possibility anyone would have seen a potential market for tracking Russian tanks in Ukraine and selling that data to the Ukrainian military.
That table is interesting.

The gulf between jewish view of evangelicals (+35) to evangelicals view of jews (-45) is interesting, but there are other situations similar like protestants like evangelicals (+55) while evangelicals are a little cooler to protestants (-10).

edit: it seems someone is saying the columns and rows are reversed from how I read it. I don't see where that's indicated, although that makes sense if you look at the evangelical row and how most groups dislike them, which was a reported result. Poorly labelled table.
Yes, they used the might of the people to get the concessions they wanted.
This is a very interesting point. Economics surely plays a factor in the price of real estate, as does climate as suggested by the other comments. Here is a link to the change in house prices in all 50 states. It is not at all uniform:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/06/27/how...
The left pretty solidly supports Palestine over Israel. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashida_Tlaib
The brine is injected back underground, quite a bit cooler and minus some amount of lithium and chloride.
90% of what I read comes from HN

Heck, I even check HN for book recommendations.

Does that count in the %?

If yes, it's 98%
It's always been like that, from the very beginning. They never just let true laissez-faire with the news on the site, like they pretended to sometimes and it looked like a story "went viral" like out of control. The only time I remember a story really getting out of the control of the editor, was on reddit in the thread about tips waiters received from a certain race. Just hit a nerve like what the fuck, like they found out the conspiracy behind Santa Claus, the existence of stereotypes doesn't guarantee that reality is to the exact contrary. Patterns emerged with no machine learning, just thousands of screams into the void, which wasn't quite that empty a void. Those waiters weren't alone, and this was back when reddit was less bot-infested, it always has been and it always hasn't been, but back then it was harder to do a robotic painfully sincere tone. I do remember one argument against the current of that thread, one among hundreds, like Social Justice short circuit. If you tell someone it's just him with 9 bad experiences for every 1 good experience, just statistics, and for that to work of course you need them not to know more statistics like statistical estimates for the probability the statistics report can be proven to be a lie with very little data, you must never let them talk to anyone about their uniquely unlucky misfortune. You can make people really stupid by teaching them bad statistics but in groups it doesn't work. So on that note, Facebook and all the others have to keep an eye out and always moderate. And you know? I did that myself once, there was a site connecting travelers to people who wanted stuff from abroad, like a marketplace, and nobody moderated it for a while, I finally go and it's disgusting, all scammers, buyers and sellers everybody is a scammer, like I needed to blacklist the user database and start from nothing. So if I had done some regex to look for blatant stuff, I might have been able to salvage more of it.

I suppose the unmoderated self-image Facebook (and everyone else) tries to project, beyond being about reducing wage moneys by getting "users" to "generate" "content", is that it looks fresher, more meritocratic, anything could rise to the top, nowadays the obsession with virality is much less than six years ago but everyone buys into the fifteen minutes of fame thing.
Old things aren't necessarily that far under our feet. I've excavated 4,000 year old sites under a couple inches of dirt, and found 10,000+ year old artifacts on the surface.
yeah i work at a job when i can listen to audio books while i work on head phones i turn them on while getting ready for work listen through my whole shift and commute home so i can easily pull down 10 hours a day right there. I get home and the kids have the tv with there shows on there is a couple more hours even though i am not "watching" it its on near me. then i put on a old sitcom or star trek episode before i fall asleep so lets say another hour there. so i would pull down 13 hours of media consumption even if mine mostly falls outside of the normal type consumed.

I dont think most people can work all day while consuming media like i do though, so i suspect there is some populations segment with non normal media consumption habbits that has a outsized representation here most likely retirees that leave the tv on all day.
One can generalize that to other SAAS services

Unless it is absolutely critical to have the online services component, any company that is requiring you to sue and pay for such a service (either monthly or as part of the requirement to use the product), is not primarily focused on providing value to you the customer, they are focused on rent-seeking with you as the target.

If SAAS is a convenient and OPTIONAL add-on then fine.

Otherwise, it adds a vast array of failure modes related to connection failure, provides worse performance vs local control (and optimizations applied to SAAS could also be better applied to local networks), and of course adds the major risk of this situation -- that the software /service could disappear any time due to many business reasons. Sure, native app companies can also go out of biz or discontinue products, but I still have the software and can upgrade on MY schedule.

Just say no, and more importantly, tell your entire circle of family, friends, and acquaintances to say NO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlL5_kKyLA0
Build OCI images using APK directly without Dockerfile
Not being Muslim, I can't state the relationship between the Koran and the Old Testament, but any contradiction in the former would be taken in preference I assume. I thought the New Testament was a replacement for the Old - certainly the teachings disagree with what you include. Although between "them" and worshipping money it's hard to find people who actually follow New Testament dogma. Hard for people to "turn the other cheek" and "treat others...", and that negative stuff about rich men and needles.
We have to add custom classes and styles to SVG files in our products which requires hand coding. There is no design tool out there that won't completely destroy any hand-coded SVG styles or even attempt to work with them.

I make a rough draft of the icon in Figma or Affinity then export it and do the rest by hand and it can never be viewed in a visual editor again. Our design tools have failed us at providing good tooling for web and product work.
How is it that one is controlled by the various websites they voluntarily visit?
Because computers are supposed to be practical first. We're still making significant enough improvements in the performance of them that they outweigh things such as aesthetics. The things you mentioned have negligible improvements year after year and the way they differentiate between each other is the looks.

This is also why good computers are affordable by almost everybody, but things like good bicycles, furniture, watches, coffee machines etc are not.

You can buy a decent computer for the same money as one chair.
I have relatives well into their 80s. Not a single one watches TV. Internet on computers only.
> As early as Homer, Greeks were imagining robotic servants, animated statues, and even ancient versions of Artificial Intelligence, while in Indian legend, Buddha’s precious relics were defended by robot warriors copied from Greco-Roman designs for real automata. Mythic automata appear in tales about Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, Daedalus, Prometheus, and Pandora, and many of these machines are described as being built with the same materials and methods that human artisans used to make tools and statues. And, indeed, many sophisticated animated devices were actually built in antiquity, reaching a climax with the creation of a host of automata in the ancient city of learning, Alexandria, the original Silicon Valley.

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology - Adrienne Mayor

https://classics.stanford.edu/publications/gods-and-robots-m...
tl;dr: two thirds of Canadians report believing in a higher power in some way. If you slice the data in enough ways you'll find a few that will make headlines like this.
> A while back I invested in 3M because it's a company that makes so many amazing and industry leading products and I thought they'd do well. A couple years later and the stock is just lagging.

The relevant question isn't whether they make great products, but whether their stock is undervalued.

We in the tech world are used to "great products" -> "stock price always goes up", but in the "real world" there's no reason for that to be true. "Stock price goes up" should, from an efficient-markets PoV, reflect new information.
but they have editors. filters have always been around in one form or another.
> One cable doesn't do everything

Well, seems like because physics™ it's hard to do both 420W charging and 69Gbps data over the same cable. And also people want thinner and cheaper charging cables. It's still better to have a unified connector and different capability cables.

> most cables get it wrong to a dangerous degree

That was the case in the early days. These days it's getting hard to find bad cables.

> negotiation is more complex and expensive to implement as well, even if you're only doing a low-capability device

No need for negotiation in a low capability device. Two resistors. It's not rocket science. Raspberry Pi did screw up and use one resistor but they made that mistake so famous that everyone knows not to repeat it now.
So what reputable and fresh sources exist outside of these 90%?
>recipe posted on a blog is good or not - it certainly is normal.

and pretty much universally abhorred by anyone but SEO types

> websites having a lot of above the fold advertisements

I wouldn't know about these. I have an adblocker. seems like a cheap price to pay to prevent unnecessary wear&tear on your mouse wheel.
> but it's unclear if that'd be a negative number or a 0.1x

A negative number. A 0.1x programmer gets work done acceptably but is slow.

A negative programmer on the other hand creates more work for other people to fix, and you’d be better off not having them touch the code at all.
I guess, but as someone else pointed out; the people who created twitter already greatly profited from the venture. I mean, Dorsey isn't part of the board anymore!

In a way, I'm questioning more the IPO than anything else; I think taking the company private after an IPO is a mistake and having it as shareholder owner company is also a mistake due to the size and influence of the platform right now.

I think as a platform grows there are many different ways that ownership can be distributed, no one thinks that a mom and pop shop needs to be socialised, but look at the size and influence of twitter (or facebook, or others). Do you really think people will stop innovating because they can't retain ownership of platforms with hundreds of millions of users? Any platform that gets to this size has already produced billions of dollars for their original owners! I think that's a cynical way of viewing the world, I mean, if anything there are tons of platforms out there that are built from the ground up with openness in mind.

I think you're not approaching things correctly when you say socialization is the flipside of a corporate bailout. The founders and owners of the platform are obviously entitled to compensation for their effort, but I believe there is a point where we can say "okay these people have done good enough!". I mean, big companies buy out smaller companies all the time; why do you think it would be so wrong for a state, or several states to buy out companies and then rework the ownership model of them? Maybe my original comment made it seem as though I was arguing for a state to simply take over. That is not what I'm saying, I'm saying, we need new ownership models. Lots of states around the world, for example, give benefits to people forming coops; but obviously with Twitter, it's a huge platform that already exists so what should be done about it?
I think this is how it should be.

Take keeping Birthday Cards for instance. The person sending you the card didn't intend you to keep it forever!

When I give a gift, I don't intend it to be kept forever!

When I make something; I don't expect it to last forever.

When I tweet something, I don't want that to be tweeted forever. In fact, I run an auto tweet delete bot.

Things should be transient.

The few scraps of history that we do found have value in their scarcity.

If society preserved everything, we'd be crushed and destroyed under its weight.

We can say the same of societies rituals as well. We must constantly reinvent to progress for the better of us all.

One of Steve Jobs first actions when he returned to Apple was to dispose of the archives. (He gifted them to a University I think)
Not accurate. US presidents are not elected directly by citizens, they are chosen by electors. Take a moment to grasp how complex is what we think we know about the political system. Would be posible that other people also didn’t know about more nuanced issues like what laws are voted by congress?
Relevant: https://www.q-mag.org/the-great-plain-of-atlantis-was-it-in-...
The prices in USD are $999 and $1099, respectively.
Yup, I heard the same. SSN's are the relatively recent "compromise" made in the 40's. Initially as a way to access your, well, social security. In post depression times where people wanted security more than freedom.

ofc it was never meant to act as a national ID (and thus never tried to be secure), but more and more things are hacked in to make it act as such since there's no better option. A bit ironic given the state of social security nowadays.
I've complained to people at work and they agree but they're like what are you going to do? And they're right. They pushed this on everyone.

I just drive defensively, dim the rear mirror (auto-dim ftw.) Tinted windows are a nice attenuator for sun, headlights and other illumination but suck at night for all around vision. I wind up having one of those driver AB memory settings and have B angling my mirrors slightly down so I can see wheels and just crane my neck slightly to see next to me. Sounds dangerous but im used to it, can still see most of what's next to me and it keeps flashes of bright headlights outta my eyes at night.
They used the powerless (or at least less powerful) to provoke the conscience of the more powerful to get what they wanted.
Some banks support dedicated devices for signing transactions if you don’t like to use a smartphone app for 2FA.
I have two of those devices, a portable one and a USB-tethered one for the desktop.
Either way, you insert your debit card to sign your transaction.

The underlying protocol is a national standard (published by DK, the association of German banks) and meets all European requirements.

I don’t do business with banks that require iOS or Android apps for 2FA unless they support an alternative.
Are you also going to force phone manufacturers to provide OS updates for 7 years like Apple is doing and security updates for nine years?

I can get my battery replaced for $50-$70.

If the EU had forced a common standard before USB C became prevalent we would be stuck with USB A. Government moves way too slowly and doesn’t have a clue about technology.

GDPR made web browsing worse with cookie pop ups everywhere.
Hasn't this been known for a long time now? The Big Six?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_conglomerate

If anything will wake you up, read or watch something by Jerry Mander. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is life changing. That was written in 1978, well ahead of its time.

> “[T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.”

> “The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.”
According to Smithsonian, it was originally created for use in aircraft:

> Intrigued by Earl Muntz’s four-track cartridge, Lear wanted a tape system for his Learjet business aircraft. Realizing that the aviation market was too small, Lear convinced Ford and GM to offer optional 8-track players.

Source: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nma...
People of the book whose resulting cultures are fairly different.

I'm not sure people of the book means anything.

The jews think the christians stole their book to make up a new religion and pretend it came from judaism. The christians think islam stole their book to make a new religion and pretend it came from judaism and christianity. Islam believes that the bahai...

"people of the book" isn't a unifying feature when you realize everyone is actually territorial about their books.
Hey Glen,

Is there some way to email you? There isn't any contact information on your profile.
I wonder why the preference of the less common spelling.
Has anyone dropped https://ustaxes.org/start yet? OSS US tax returns.
More importantly ZFS by design ensures that if you unplug early and lose the last few writes, you'll end up in an earlier consistent state.
Don’t check hn, reddit, facebook, twitter or any other socials during work hours.
Amazon to conduct racial-equity audit led by former Attorney General Lynch
I'm surprised they didn't do well during the pandemic. Their Aura masks were, like, weirdly better than every other mask I tried (at least in terms of comfort).
Governments and politicians need to reach people where people are. Though I agree it is extremely important for governments to have official state-owned channels of communication; we can't close our eyes and pretend like people don't go to twitter first.

That's the situation we are in, that's the situation governments find themselves in. Due to network effects it's very difficult to get people out of these platforms so what should be done about it?
> Not sure what the claim about guessing means.

By "guessing" I meant the opposite of "trickery". The latter, I remind you, you described as meaning, "basically, already know the answer." I hope you'll concede that "guessing" means not already knowing the answer. I'm not using those terms to prove a point or persuade you of anything, just for convenience: "guessing" saves me from typing out the phrase "psychological skill, manipulation, perception, or other mental techniques" and "trickery" for "gimmicks, trick pens, hidden cameras, confederates, sleights-of-hand, etc."

So, what we're (I think) arguing over is whether any mentalism tricks rely on "guessing" as opposed to "trickery". Obviously, they all typically claim to be based on "guessing", that's sort of the definition of mentalism as opposed to other kinds of stage magic. But my position is that some subset of such tricks really are based on that, and I believe your position is the opposite, that they're all what we're calling "trickery." If I've misunderstood, please feel free to clarify.

I looked for a few more examples (all by Derren Brown, not because I think he's unique but because he is prolific and practically all of his stuff is on youtube). One I already mentioned; another is the routine he does with Stephen Merchant; another is the one where he does the "Russian scam" on strangers; and a fourth is the bit where he tries to buy jewelry with blank paper rather than money. My understanding of your position is that these must involve "trickery" - the people involved are actors, there was sleight-of-hand the camera didn't show, or some other gimmick. I think he really is just conning those people.

As for the books: compare to difficult-but-not-impossible sleights, like a perfect Faro or dead-cutting the Nth card. How many magic books have a trick requiring a Faro shuffle? Not many, because it takes a lot of practice to do reliably. And yet, there are (I think!) tricks being performed on stage which do rely on it. Same thing here, except that, unlike Faros and dead cuts, tricks based on "guessing" generally can't be practiced without an audience. "Go perform this pick-the-envelope trick in restaurants and shitty nightclubs, over and over, failing repeatedly, getting booed off stage, until you finally learn to do it reliably, and then there you are!" would not be very useful to the budding mentalist! But it doesn't follow that it cannot be done.

And as for why we're arguing, well, I just like the kind of discussion where a casual belief of mine (something I think is true, but haven't done any particular research in to) is challenged - I think they are useful and good and worthwhile. I'm not angry or trying to show you up or "win", whatever that might mean in this context. Totally ready to update my own beliefs on all this. There are at least two tricks I used to think were probably "guesswork" before this thread, which I re-watched with more skeptical eyes and now believe are "trickery". But as I listed, there also still others that I think aren't.
How can we help reduce this down to a couple, or even single source?
Much less fighting if we could achieve this.