skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an established "kittens to terrorist" pipeline? Did I miss a news story earlier this week? It seems very brash to assume that activity you simply don't approve of is instantaneously harmful.

I'm also suspicious of any study that uses YouGov, and in particular, derives it's data from a volunteer panel.

This smacks of looking for a conclusion and then building a study to find it.
Can people with older phones still buy a new copy of it though?
Religion destroyed plenty of people and continues to right now. In the 19-20th centuries of the USA it wasn't such a pleasant life for non-WASP or women.
It's absolutely wild to me that Rob quotes:

> Lack of money is certainly a contributing cause, as we will see, but rarely the only factor. It is usually the young father’s criminal behavior, the spells of incarceration that so often follow, a pattern of intimate violence, his chronic infidelity, and an inability to leave drugs and alcohol alone that cause relationships to falter and die.

Without seeming to make any sort of connection that poverty is a causative factor in every single one of these. Poor people are more likely to commit crimes of desperation. Poor people are over-policed when compared to middle-or-upper class people. Poverty makes it more difficult to escape domestic abuse. (Idk about the infidelity one). Drugs & alcohol are maladaptive coping methods that many people use to escape the reality of their daily lives - which are much worse when you're poor.

But y'know, that doesn't fit into his worldview that the dissolution of "family values" is the root cause of all this.
Hashing is borderline PII since you can feasibly reverse it to a unique IP, unless you use a slow hashing function like bcrypt.
Hz, not MHz. The upper limit of human hearing is only 20 KHz.
Cookie consent forms were a response to the "cookie law" passed in 2009[1].

If they're now illegal, that's on the EU for making them vague or not strict enough.

But my point is that fighting this with laws is:

- too slow, since by the time governments catch up that something should be done, a lot of harm has already been inflicted upon users. And by the time laws do come to pass, tech companies have grown in power and already have alternatives to keep growing. Governments are constantly playing catch up, which was a problem even with Big Tobacco/Pharma, but the speed of innovation of Big Tech is unparalleled.

- too ineffective, as breaking these laws is too slow/difficult to prosecute, and even when companies are fined, it's mostly symbolic to even matter. I.e. to them it's just the cost of doing business.

[1]: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
> This is pure status symbol

Purchasing things like this certainly conveys a signal. I'm not sure that's a signal people want to be sending...
I mean, yes, but it wasn’t that long ago that Google had to get everyone to agree to at least 18 months.

Given that many new phones were bundled with two-year contracts it seems likely that consumer protection laws in many places would have meant a phone that was not properly supported for at least that long after the time of purchase would have fallen foul of fitness-for-purpose rules and potentially entitled customers to partial refunds or updated replacements.

And from the manufacturers side it’s not hard to understand why the finance dept doesn’t want you to spend more money on a product that’s already been purchased.

Sure but again that's why we need consumer protection rules. Any security patch implies that the original product was defective. Buyers are entitled to reasonable corrective action if a defective product was sold to them. It may be unrealistic to release a product with no defects, and the corrective actions are typically intended to compensate for actual loss of value rather than being punitive, but the basic rules still apply.
Contend it all you want, I didn't see anyone standing on the proponent side of the debate.
Everyone is talking about how this is a waste of money, but as far as we know satisfaction is a logarithmic function of wealth (which implies that a certain percent change in wealth has equal effects on happiness at all points on the scale) so for someone with enough money this is like getting whipped cream on your latte. To quantify it, this is about 10,000 times as expensive as adding whipped cream at Starbucks, and the US median savings is $5,000, so to someone with $50,000,000 this cable is like the whipped cream.

(Not to ruin the fun but this is also about the cost of saving a life in Africa according to GiveWell, so do with that what you will.)
You don't even need containers. These techniques (a chroot + static qemu-user with binfmt) were used many years ago to cross-build (and test) entire distributions for exotic architectures.

I remember http://scratchbox.org/ would allow you to replace some components (e.g. gcc) with their native versions so as to speedup them. It is all hopelessly broken now.
There's a difference between being ready to seize a realilistic opportunity if it comes along and being told that there will be opportunities if only they work hard. I'm guessing that opportunity that came along just happened to better than the opportunity to sell weed on the corner, right? I'm guessing there are others who see an opportunity to work a low paying job as being less of an opportunity than selling weed.
>> Programmers have been looking at Haskell for 25 years and rejecting it.

> I really don't know why you think that true:

Because it doesn't show up any any metric as having significant usage. A list of 100 companies using it doesn't make the hundreds of millions of other companies not using it go away.
I’ve never come across someone who also claims to be able to reproduce songs perfectly in their head. I can do this. It’s mostly involuntary though. I can’t pick and choose which songs I ‘record’ onto my brain.
But muh jitter, bro…
Depending on the nature and scope of changes, forking offers a social advantage: pressure on the upstream project to merge your changes or risk marginalization. The described methodology largely avoids that pressure, yet the amount of effort to maintain a proper fork probably ends up being less work overall, as one can poach talent from the upstream contributor pool.
An important distinction is that the mechanical keyboard and retro computers actually are meaningfully different.

If I take a cheap mass-produced keyboard, like the "China Resource Semico Co., Ltd Keyboard" plugged into this random desktop PC, and I put it in a nice box and tell you it costs $500, presumably people who buy expensive mechanical keyboards would notice that the keycaps are cheap plastic with stickers, there are no mechanical switches and so it doesn't have the right "feel" and so on. It costs $500 because that's what I charged, but most people don't believe it's worth $500.

I was looking to sort out a good keyboard and then the pandemic started, and so I just bought the cheapest product I could source very locally (from a supermarket about 5 minutes walk) rather than incur additional risks or delays. And of course this keyboard does work so the impetus to buy a good keyboard receded. But I'm under no illusions that it's just as good, the letters A, C, E, L, N, O, and S are already rubbing off and the left shift key is already significantly worn because they used a cheap plastic!

The problem with situations like this "Audiophile approved" cable is that it isn't even meaningfully different let alone better. Unfortunately in a society that loves Veblen goods this is hardly the exception.
Changing the meaning of words (i.e, reducing stigma) never works. It's a practice used by authoritarians to get what they want fast because it's cheap and relatively easy.

I'm curious what the GP was told that makes them think the alternative to endorsing single motherhood is worse. The alternative to reducing stigma would be fixing the underlying issues that cause the stigma...in this case the lack of ability for a single parent to provide. We have plenty of resources to fix this, but they're disproportionately distributed in favor of those at the top. Funny enough, both the left and right at the top have solutions different than what I described. The left wants to destigmatize, and the right wants to shame (another cheap and relatively easy tactic used by authoritarians).
Thanks Insync I could survive without their support.
Japan and Korea are still high trust societies. I strongly encourage spending a month in either place if social structure interests you.

Low birth rates are overstated as a problem when you accept that prosperity has natural ebs and flows. It it becomes a truly critical problem, fewer women will go into higher education and their society will course correct. While they're doing that, we'll be demonstrating to them how failed our theory of liberal society is.
Nothing nicer than walking outside in summer clothing to keep yourself cool and then having to put a sweater on when you are inside.
The ground rule is that if you're over 30 it doesn't really matter: your ears have already dropped to the point that your stereo - no matter how bad - will handily outperform your ears. Best you can do at that point is get some good headphones and an EQ to level things out a bit.
> why is there open hostility to the nuclear family by this and other movements?

The term, as used in there criticism, refers to the social norm and institutional structures centered on it, not the existence of families that happen to fit the norm..

> But why be hostile/negative towards something that evidence shows is positive?

The nuclear family norm is not positive for the community BLM is concerned with, it both stigmatizes what is common in that community (a harm in itself) and idealizes something which evidence shows is harmful for that community (almost certainly more due to present material conditions than inherently, but the reason isn't that important for this purpose.)

https://news.umich.edu/more-than-one-third-of-american-kids-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172319/
Why post something that was explained as incorrect by the Bank of England in 2014?[0]

Where did you pick this misconception up from?

[0]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
"Simply put these are very danceable cables."

https://gizmodo.com/7-250-speaker-cables-turn-you-into-a-dan...
I've run it, and got an interesting result. I've played with the controls, and I have no idea what this is doing, or what the results mean.

It's absolutely gorgeous, and I'm sure there's information there, but I really don't know what it's showing me. Which is a shame ... I feel like this is a fantastic resource that's available, but I can't understand.
I guess the numbers are difficult to get exactly right but the cost per day at ICU seems to be about 50 000 2019-NOK in Norway [1] (70 000 the first day, half the next).

By comparison (in 2005 dollars), "Using data from 253 U.S. hospitals, Dasta and colleagues found that the average daily cost for ICU patients decreased from $7,728 to $3,872 to $3,436 on Days 1 to 3" [2].

$7 700 in 2005 is about $11 000 today, and 70 000 NOK is about $9 100 using exchange rate from 2019 and adjusted for inflation

[1] https://legemiddelverket.no/Documents/Offentlig%2520finansie...

[2] https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201506-366...
The example at 3:38-4:51 is great.
> declining material and social capitol in the lower four quintiles of wealth that have created pressure that exacerbates marriage instability and numerous other social ills.

The article disputes that:

"Most social scientists who study poor families assume financial troubles are the cause of these breakups. After all, these young people grow up in a context of extreme disadvantage, at least by American standards, and they come of age with little education, few skills, and not many future prospects. Lack of money is certainly a contributing cause, as we will see, but rarely the only factor. It is usually the young father’s criminal behavior, the spells of incarceration that so often follow, a pattern of intimate violence, his chronic infidelity, and an inability to leave drugs and alcohol alone that cause relationships to falter and die."
If you read the article, they want things like traditional families with a single breadwinner like the 1970s, something that gradually became impossible in the developed countries as social democracy was abandoned in favour of neo liberalism.

We have seen the damage wrought by the trickle down economics of our real elite: kids who will never own a home, working multiple insecure jobs etc.

Billionaires dismantled our society, not some shadowy cabal of "liberal" professors.
I heard in an interview with Craig Federighi, that in designing the Apple Silicon chips they had looked at specific operations that were frequently used by their OS and software and optimized those on their chips. Reference counting was one of those operations and that was why the speed of that operation was so much faster on Apple Silicon. Sure those other things about unified memory contribute speed to all kinds of operations, but they really focused on some of them to let their hardware and software work well together.
Me too, and KMS is key management system or software. But I'm more in the devops side of the industry.
>> I think when Unsplash (the free photography website) was founded in 2013 it killed the old vibe by democratizing access to great photography, and thereby ruining its function as a costly status signal.

Disagree with the premise. Great photography (the kind needed for a website anyway) was not costly. I got lots of images for apps and websites from iStockPhoto around that time and it was very inexpensive.
That's probably it :) But if they refer to the Kjølen which is the entire Scandinavian mountain range, that's terribly imprecise.

Kjolen would mean "the skirt", for the anglophones reading.
> Nobody goes into the trades because the trades will "destroy your body before you're 35" yet all the thin healthy tradesmen around here are mid-50s boomers.

I just wanted to point out that this is quite literally textbook survivorship bias. Instead of looking around and talking to the people that made it that far, you should try talking to those that didn't.
Screen recordings are not loading for me (iOS Chrome as well as Safari).
Websockets still not generally available, ticket opened in 2009 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35886348
Cryptocurrency doesn't solve the problem the way a $12K cable does and not everybody has connections in the state lottery.
Almost a bargain in comparison to Nordøst Odin 2 power cords…

Things i will never understand.
Children born from Reddit addicts are the over-socialized version of crack babies.
> domestic violence was in the realm of “basically normal”, I’d guesstimate 20% of households had an abusive person

Can you cite this — or is it a made up fact to support your pre-existing beliefs?
With Trump I think most people conflated his words (“fake news”, and a obvious disrespect for certain news orgs) as action. When in reality it was just rhetoric. There was no doubt that it had some influence on the population but I agree that it doesn’t rise to the action of shutting down all press but for one official news source.

I’d even go as far to say that most of the other things that cause people to consider Trump as a fascist, were mostly based on that rhetoric as opposed to direct actions.
The Psychedelic Experience: A new concept in psychotherapy (1962) [pdf]
> I claim you said that, which misrepresents Islam!

Where did I say that?

> What about that is racist?

CRT, and many other far leftist ideologies conform to what we say in Arabic: "A word (claim) of truth by which falsehood is intended"[1]. We see the same with movements like BLM (with self proclaimed Marxist founders), etc. They're crafted in such a way that if you argue against their actual behavior or criticize their actual behavior, they are able to retort with their canned response: ah so you're against justice/equality/are racist/etc.

These approaches are trite and people are waking up to them. We've known for millenia that inequality exists or the people are prone to mistreating others. CRT/latest fad of the day is not telling us anything new with that regard, but behind the scenes they're power grab movements.

[1] كلمة حق يراد بها باطل
US diversity is not uniformly a good thing. It may be a good thing when it comes to positive examples of successful communities, but breakdowns in education, low income support, and wilderness management systems are apparent in all of our states and territories. The US should absolutely be adopting competent successful approaches from its union members at the federal level, even if it makes us all a little less distinctive and a little more New Hampshire.
I'm not sure if this fits your needs or not, but have you considered self hosting with Cloudron? Free plan would work for you so you'd only be paying for the VPS.

It makes administrating and backing up an email server a breeze. Only real requirement is that you have your own domain name, and know how to generate API keys for a few services (really easy). Helps ensure you have all the important mail settings (SPF, DMARC, etc) set up.

I use BuyVM for the VPS because I can set up one of the mail settings, but you could easily use another provider (Hetzner might be good if you need a lot of space).

Also... you could host Nextcloud and OnlyOffice on the Cloudron box under the free plan as well... which is pretty much like hosting One Drive and Microsoft 365. A little more complexity to manage, but still very easy.

Now one thing to keep in mind... you still have a single point of failure in your domain name provider. It they don't act responsibly, there's not much you can do.
For sure, I do agree that Flatpak is better than Snap in general (and appimage works fine too, I guess its lack of a, uh, 'snappy' name for the format has kept it from getting as much mindshare...) In principle all three of them seem acceptable for apps I don't use much, or don't need maximum performance from, but for my main browser...
I cook for four (my family) and always just pipeline everything. Sometimes I make up to 4 dishes at once. This feels a lot faster to me. So at least for that number I don’t agree.
I feel like FreeBSD is almost this middle ground between a typical package managed (?) system and something like Nix. I didn't wind up needing that middle ground, but just the few months I spent with it made it clear how well-designed it is. Only on Nix have I written and modified my own packages that much, and that's partly out of necessity.
This cable is ok, but it is overpriced. I can sell it for only $4000 per meter.

Of course if you want a true high performance cable, we offer that too, but it is $6500/meter, with a certificate of compliance showing that it passed the tests we tested it with. This cable also has a $750/year support option, allowing you to send it back at any time for recertification and tuning.
The laws and the system against that are openly and publicly against men, its not exactly a secret.
A professor of mine insisted that presentations have not only page numbers, but also the total number of pages (like this: 4/17), so that he knew how much longer he'd have to listen to this... :-)
"Drugs & alcohol are maladaptive coping methods that many people use to escape the reality of their daily lives - which are much worse when you're poor."

I imagine this explains the correlation between poor minority neighborhoods during the crack epidemic or between the depressed rural areas and the opioid epidemic now.
If your idea can win in the marketplace of ideas, then free speech is the answer.

If your idea loses in the marketplace of ideas, you ban the speech you dislike until your idea wins in the *marketplace of ideas.

If any group is busy saying - out loud - that they need to ban what you can see and hear, maybe we should start asking some critical questions.
Or simply the need for backend upgrades.
I sometimes suspect that the super expensive cables are a form of "anchoring." I've seen comments on web forums where someone will say: "I can't believe that I need a $5939/m mains cable, so I bought a $539/m cable instead."

They still got snookered.
They're never here to give a voice to people who don't have one, or to make us look at the material in any different way besides complete dismissal.
You call them Intelligensia but I call them people who suck all the oxygen out of the room.
I was super confused and worried by DRM here, which I guess goes to show how long it’s been since getting video working on linux required futzing with manual kernel builds :D
All of those traits are quite common. Paranoia and violence are big issues.

Society has problems regulating things that occasionally go wrong. For instance, most drunk drivers make it home. Most cigarette users don't get cancer-- and if they do, it takes several decades. Most sugared soda drinkers don't get diabetes right away.

To me, the idea of a responsible heroin user falls into the same camp. Sure, some high functioning professional may be able to coast along taking it casually. But usually, the heroin users get sucked into some vortex, perhaps by a problem in life or something else. There's a reason why there are so many overdoses. All of those users used to be responsible. Then one day they weren't anymore.
Disproven here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31137909
> Still, his life is a constant stream of grievances from the people who feel he’s misinformed them. If he says there’s a 20 percent chance of rain and it rains, everybody thinks he’s an idiot.

Maybe it's because Michael Lewis also wrote Moneyball, but all I can think about when reading this is umpires in baseball. The accuracy of called pitches from home plate umpires throughout the 2021 season ranged from 91.3 percent to 95.6 percent [0]. Yet there are Twitter accounts, Youtube channels, articles, etc expressing just how terrible home plate umpires are at calling pitches. Had they not looked at the underlying numbers, I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they believed umpires only made correct calls a quarter of the time.

[0] https://theathletic.com/2886178/2021/10/14/grading-mlb-umpir...
This is a startling and very interesting article. Thank you!
https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1080/02791072.1968.10524522 also works
There are also some $5,999 headphones:

https://www.amazon.com/HIFIMAN-SUSVARA-Over-Ear-Full-Size-He...
Isn't this the same problem? What're "good headphones"? Are they $100? $1000? What about an EQ? The consumer sound system industry is rampant with folks selling and worse, recommending, snake oil.
Barbershop? I need a cut already... and I guess some web search. Thank you for the reference, I'll take a look later.
Thanks for answering. I marked my theory disproved in another thread. Appreciated.
Back when I was deeply into this sort of thing we purchased hospital grade power cables (green dot) for less than $20. You get a well made cable and connectors. https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/q/qualtek/hospi...
I bet they're working on the M4 chip too