skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article misses one important point.

There will always be a level of distrust in society, the most effective way in which a human rational agent can minimize the distrust towards self will be (you guessed it) accusing others of being untrustworthy.

This approach you can see especially in politicians, political pundits, talking heads, social media influencers, musicians, celebrity CEOs.

It works by subtraction, flood the zone with attacks on everybody else character in order to make such attacks stick , while at the same time preventing attacks towards self from sticking.

Experts (being high IQ individuals with a healthy passion in the field they are experts in) don't want to do all the above because they aren't interested in losing the respect of their peers just to get a higher approval rating among the general public. These people simply don't hang out with the general public.

This means that they are easy preys.

Trump had no problems attacking Fauci once he noticed that he was getting more TV time than him, that's because his only interest is gathering social and electoral consensus around him.

Fauci in return could not attack Trump because he valued being able to show up at the CDC and lead a group of smart people who are easily turned off by ego (including ego which is solely of the defensive type). So he stood there taking punches without hitting back and his credibility diminished because Trump flooded the zone with attacks on his character
> This just isn't true.

Asserting that a scientifically controlled blind test would reveal something is not the same as actually performing that test. Have you?
The Grothendieck primes are the composites which aren't obviously divisible by 2, 3, and 5. For most people, they start at 51.
I don't think it's rank speculation, the article itself mentions 1 in 6 men are unemployed, and there have been plenty of other articles that have been posted on here with statistics on the number of men that aren't just unemployed but have no interest being employed. College enrollment of men is somewhere around 44% of the student body nation wide in the US, the number of men in higher education has been dropping for a couple of decades now. Girls are significantly outperforming boys from Kindergarten to 12 grade nearly everywhere. This stuff has been posted on here and discussed many times.

There was another article posted on here before similar to this one and I posted my thoughts on the trend from the perspective of coaching high school girls and boys sports:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30274979&p=4#30276972
To be fair, I feel that the sedentary lifestyle of being a dev is just as damaging. Heart surgery vs joint replacement basically.
Reviews on these are awesome. Probably hints how large the audience for them is - especially regarding buying them from amazon
I guess we all want what we don't have. I'd trade the cuisine for German engineering because it feels somehow, in the grand scheme, what will matter eventually is to resist and compete with a Chinese democracy, centuries down the line.

For countries like France relying on past capital and stagnating, admired by productive germans who dream of our dilletante for sure, waking up next to a space faring, technologically advanced and politically enticing China, size of a small planet may I remind you, will be hard. Maybe we ll sell them poetry, but my guess is we ll deplete for good and rot away. We ll never manage to keep the nanny state, since to this day, we borrow from..
. China to finance it.
I had a bunch of Staedler stenography pencils and I loved them even though I don't write stenography. They were round and perfect for underlining or annotating in books and they _never_ broke. When I tried to buy a new box, I found that I wasn't able to buy a new set, and the new pencils from the same company weren't round anymore (and it seems to me lower quality). Does anyone make round pencils of this kind anymore?
If you want parts, outsource the manufacturing.

If you want a new, expensive hobby, look into CNC machining. Don’t expect cheap parts, though.

> I am willing to go into the mid 4 figures for a good product(s) that can help me with both bar furniture trim, aluminum fittings, and laser engraving.

Mid 4 figures is about where you’d end up with an entry level 3-axis CNC, workholding accessories, tooling, and all of the other accessories you’ll need to set up the machine and cut aluminum correctly.

That budget is way too low for 4-axis and laser engraving.

I’d outsource the parts and start with a small $3-6K hobby CNC from a known brand (Bantam or PocketNC for example). Learn the basics of machining, CAM, workholding, and other basics on small parts on a small machine, then decide if you want to go bigger.

> and it's tough to wade through the many, many hours of semi-honest use/reviews when I have the day job and fam.

If you don’t even have time to research and learn the basics, you definitely won’t have time to learn how to properly operate a machine and CAD/CAM. I think you’re underestimating the work that goes into even basic CNC machining.
Holy shit! I didn't know about that. If true, this is pure evil. Any source for further reading?

Edit - never mind. I have just gone through 2 articles and now my blood is boiling.
I've been using this technique to manipulate raspberry pi OS images for use in embedded system prototypes. It's very easy to set up. It's also nice to be able to use the image's embedded toolchain rather than set up a proper cross-compiler. It's slow to compile stuff due to the emulation, but relatively foolproof.

Of course, the best long term solution is to use something like yocto or buildroot, but that takes considerable time and knowledge to do properly.
Ask HN: Which skills are essential for a founder and what can be learned?
Which skills are essential for a startup founder and what can be learned through books?
Please recommend the most mandatory/important readings (even youtube links are welcome)
Secondary psychopathy in boys positively predicts future dating involvement
I'll note that you didn't actually describe the particular things that CRT is that are problematic, only that it is in some vague way false. You haven't provided an argument, only a claim that they are in some way bad. Give the argument!

> CRT/latest fad of the day is not telling us anything new

I disagree. The CRT (again, insofar as it is a cultural thing that people argue against) functionally says that people who have power should account for the mistreatment and inequality when making decisions. This is problematic to some people.
Exactly.

I worked on a huge project to beam power into the body, wirelessly, for an implanted blood pump /artificial heart.

It works for small amounts of power, like for pacemakers or nerve stimulators. But for any kind of real power, the power needed to move motors and do real work, it's just not feasible.

No matter what fancy math or physics you do, no matter if you work with a fancy tech firm that has decades of IP in this field and was founded to make this technology specifically (like wiitricity). None of those things changes the fundamental underlying physics. Energy in the EM spectrum decreases with the square of the distance, period.

If you need to beam a tenth of a watt one foot, that's possible, if you want to beam 10 watts 2 or 3 feet, that's possible (both with very large losses, 50% or more). Anything beyond this in distance or power is just wasting energy. It's like heating up 500 gallons of water, carrying it one mile and using the last 2 degrees of delta temperature left to do something. Instead it's far smarter to just take the 50 gallons of fuel one mile, heat the water there, and use its full energy.
Yes, so some view it as economically cheaper for many humans to cease living, rather than to upgrade the infrastructure.
> Protocol not changing is a problem. Email is so outdated nowadays that you're way better off using Gmail for its added security, especially within a company so everything stays within Gmail. IIRC email has changed a bit, but the new security features haven't been uniformly adopted like with HTTPS, so it's too much of a mixed bag.

I've been self-hosting email for ~20 years. The new security features have close to 100% adoption in the real world, especially since most people are using one of the massive centralised email systems, all of which implement all the new security features.

The protocol not changing is not a problem. SMTP is as fit for purpose now as it was 40 years ago, and has been truly decentralised since the very beginning. The protocol is not the cause of the centralisation trend, neither in email nor in IM.
Heh, well I guess with only 26^3 TLAs to choose from, collisions are unavoidable.
At least initially, when people used to make fun of incels, it was specifically in reference to "the government MUST find me a girlfriend" types, but it seems it's frequently 'genericized' to people who don't have a sexual partner, regardless of if they're even interested in it in the first place.
If you have a crappy connection, you should really use mosh (https://mosh.org/) instead of SSH.

My own experience is that text user interfaces over mosh work far better than web applications when on a crappy connection.

My experience isn't specifically with textualized-based applications though (one is irssi, the terminal IRC client, and some with proprietary applications from $work).
Does this work for graphical programs?
Fluidly thinking of multiplication as addition of exponents is handy, but a slide rule won't do anything for that a few dozen exercises without a calculator couldn't.
I don’t understand the protective suits. What are they supposed to do? I get masks and face protection but the suit makes no sense this isn’t Ebola
if there are 20 different user agents, i would count that as 20 separate users.
The legitimate interest ticks are just another way for the scum of the web to break the law. I hope the makers of these popups will at some point get fined to hell because of their sneaky attempts to smuggle tracking into the browsers of people who click the "fuck you and fuck your cookies" button.
> And how do you explain high levels of family stability in countries that are much poorer?

Less individual freedom, greater direct economic dependency on others in your group, and also the threat of ostracization, excommunication, and destitution if you go against its rules. Basically, there are extremely high cost/stakes associated with going it on your own.

But on the other side there are also good things that come from greater direct interdependency, like perhaps less individual alienation and a greater sense of shared purpose, and access to community resources when you follow the prescribed rules.
Hm. What about other things though, which are not the job, but still require effort/work? Like working on free software, working for a social project, being politically active, doing things of charity reasons ... Those don't require one to define oneself in terms of how far one has gotten in their career, but they actually add value to society. In many cases adding more value to society than the actual job. I think it's quite OK to define ones worth using such measures. We all live in a society. People should ask themselves more often how much they contributed to the well-being of society.
I think you're trying to think that stable families become less stable if their waged stagnate. They don't. What happens is that in aggregate, with stagnating wages, there are less stable (middle-class) families in society.

For so-called poorer countries, they are differently structured. It's tough to compare their family units with our rich nations.
South Vietnam was never an independent nation. After vietnam won their independence from france, we stepped in and took over the southern part of vietnam fromfrance. South Vietnam was created by the US and won its independence when the south vietnamese viet cong and the north vietnamese army liberated south vietnam from the US.
On a different programmable keyboard, with a more traditional staggered layout (the ErgoDox has a columnar layout where where keys are aligned horizontally) I used that same function but on Caps-Lock, left of A: press it combined with another key, it is CTRL; press it alone, it is ESC.

Programmable keyboards offer so many improvements, it’s incredible.

Some of that can be done with xinput on Linux, but as far as I know the different-key-when-held functionality is not available there. [Edit:
yewenjie’s comment mentions keyd which apparently does have that feature! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31146572] While I waited for this one to be delivered (was a crowdfunding campaign) I used that to simulate some of its features and surprised myself when I found out that I stopped using the dedicated cursor keys even if all my keyboards had them.

I had never thought of using J for CTRL. You lose the ability to enter Line Feed (Return) with CTRL+J which I do use from time to time, but it sounds intriguing. I might try it out one of these days.
My favorite part of this article are the repeated ads for Upwork I was served. Pairs nicely the content.
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" -- in the order of priority. Why select Recycle when alternatives are simple and viable?

As the largest hotel soap recycler in the world, Clean the World has helped lead to a 60%+ reduction in the number of children who die from diarrheal diseases each year.

Wow, casually overclaiming their ~0% impact. No doubt these folks are getting all the grants and we are discussing them here.
Yes, it absolutely was! Thank you!
You say that Python is slow, as if shell wasn't slow?
I think your premise is flawed:

> A marketplace of ideas only works if every single idea every person has is actively chosen based on analysis of alternatives.

What is required is exposure to alternatives. It's not a perfect nor an instantaneous process, but it absolutely works. I've changed my position many times based on rational argumentation. If they are never exposed to the alternatives, the majority of people will just continue believing in what they already believe, of which the bulk comes from upbringing.
This goes for all infrastructure. Destroying it is much easier than making it. But that 'cheap' submarine won't be as cheap as you think it is and it still has to do it undetected and it has to achieve some kind of objective. It also immediately gets two countries pissed off at you, one of which is in NATO and may well see an attack on its infrastructure as an overt act of war.

So you better think this over long and hard before sending your cheap submarine down there.

Personally I'd be much more concerned about the kind of damage marine life, fishing and cargo ships would do to that cable and how to armor against that. Probably by the time you've taken all that into account you have also defended against that sub. And finally, the same thing of course goes for all of those other undersea cables, communications ones for instance.
Page numbers are slightly annoying in the modern age of PDFs: there's the visual / physical / internal document (?) page number of what the document would have if printed out, and then there's the page number of the file.

Never quite sure what reference.
I saw this the other day on youtube, it appeared, saw the middle Reject All button, clicked it, closed and reset the browser, tried again and it didnt appear!

Were they testing bots?!?

Regarding the Reject All button, its about bloody time, these tech giants have plenty of other surveillance methods at their disposal if they want to go down that creepy criminal online stalking route, exploiting people's lack of knowledge to make sure shareholders and employees are getting their top dollar.
5% - 8% of human genome appears to be from [retro]virus inserts. Thats outside the tree of descent.
Sure, but the flip side is that every scale now has one repeated letter and at least one sharp or flat. Take C major; in hypothetical 6+6 notation, it becomes

C D E E# F# A# B#

In fact, I think every diatonic scale in 6+6 notation will have three or four sharps/flats.
Dangerous. Certainly emulating China, which is less than auspicious ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
At the same time you can't fly drones pretty much anywhere in CA, and the situation is even worse in TX. In TX you can't even make photo/video from drone and it is a crime of trafficking in such photo/video ("land of the free" despising government overreach :).

Drones is a transformative technology, and we as usually go for 19th century Red Flag car laws.
You're toying with forces that even the most learned KMS scholars haven't fully investigated. Remember: the kernel, and by extension KMS, evolved to it's current state through the collective intellect of many humans. No one knows what's in there, and those who get close are driven mad, like a modern-day kabbalah. It's best not to think too much about it, but you should be safe trying random incantations you find in books of arcana and witchcraft.
I think that's a disingenuous reading.

Nielsen ratings are for small subsets of users who explicitly opt in to tracking. That's not the same as "uniquely identify all end users of my website" it's like paying user testers.
Very interesting study if anyone's curious.

https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/5/229...
That would be interesting to see. Maybe you can show us the numbers, adjust for COL, adjust for definition of success, adjust for academic differences, and adjust for cultural biases.
if it was that effective, why wouldn't just google switch to it and stop wasting money on ideas like FLoC, and ditch 3rd party cookies?
You will vote for the people destroying the Roman empire for the sake of Rome? That way lies madness.
Your prejudice against drug use and users is unfounded and ill-informed.

Addiction and the negative consequences of drug use are almost entirely driven by social and psychological isolation. Overdoses and tainted products are caused by ignorance and black market commerce. Cartels and gang violence and police corruption are all enabled by maintaining the farce of harsh anti-drug policies. Legalization and requiring drug use safety education as a prerequisite for drug licensing can inform people about how to use responsibly. Limit purchase amounts to responsible doses. Educate everyone. Stop jailing, fining, and ostracizing drug users.

We've tried 60+ years of the war on drugs and "just say no" and self righteous people with opinions about fried eggs and "this is your brain on drugs."

Your way failed and is responsible for the carnage and human wreck left in the wake of drug abuse. The number of black men stuck in the cycle of prison and broken families is an atrocity.

Our society is fractured and fragile, politically and ideologically polarized, and technologically primed to isolate people in ways we are ill-equipped to handle. These social pressures will lead vulnerable people to self medicate, and ignorance can be lethal.

Seems to me that the sober, anti-drug, just say no folks are the ones inflicting tragedy on society and denying reality far more vehemently than the most paranoid addict.

It's time to legalize everything, require education and per-substance licensing, and to treat drug abuse as a health issue, to be dealt with by individuals and their doctors.

To do otherwise is to support the current status quo of sacrificing the vulnerable to a false sense of righteousness. It's not working. Change course.
Paradox of intolerance alarms are going off in my head for some reason.
You need to be careful with your logs and what you're doing with the data, it's not straightforwardly OK to do this.
Yep. But it doesn't send out those oh so precious conspicuous consumption signals.
I'm not rich, but I do spend too much money on certain products on purpose. The reason I do it is because I love the engineer's or artist's work so much that I want to support them more than typical low margin product purchases would allow. I don't think they are being deceptive, and I don't feel swindled... as long as they aren't lying about the product specs or the capabilities.
I became an unwilling victim of such feature in my Razer gaming keyboard.

One day a friends child was visiting and I put some games on for her. The little bastard somehow reprogrammed the 'r' key to empty macro, it took me weeks to find out what it was.
I'm actually working on this. Component based over the wire TUI system. It's in a decent alpha state but I want to code and host some more sample sites before I start sharing a ton.

Protocol: https://github.com/rendicott/uggly

Client with gif demo: https://github.com/rendicott/uggly-client
Though the current state of the web is depressing, the rise of piracy and TOS-breaking VPNs for the general public made it quite easy and inconspicuous for people to use VPN services.

You can effectively get the protection of any EU based citizen by setting up a VPN with an endpoint in Europe. There are dirt cheap options thanks to the man youtube sponsor discounts, and there are privacy-first VPN providers like Mullvad who are pricier but better if you care about your traffic.
I burned out just before the birth of my daughter - it was the extra I was doing to make sure I'd handed off to my replacement during paternity leave that sent me over the edge. The week my daughter was born, I was not at work but I couldn't help my mind from racing with fleeting thoughts and needlessly worrying about unfinished business .. I suppose it was "The inertia" and I knew I had to fix myself.

I requested to resign but was given leave to recover by my manager (which was very helpful). I ended up taking 6 months off doing all and nothing - took care of my baby daughter, helped my wife out, fixed small things around the house, picked up cycling, read a lot, went on small excursions and holidays, soaked up the sun, etc.

This helped "forget" and rejuvenate and I was now confident in myself that I wasn't a neurotic hamster-in-a-wheel anymore and stable enough to negotiate a better return to work - I ended up requesting a change of team/project which was a clean start and little in terms of attachment or responsibility that'd draw me back to being overwhelmed.

Things didn't work out in the new team - and that's just fine. I was free enough then to start job hunting and find work in a new place without being forced to jump ship.
? Why would having 100 people work day and night to labour over you costing $1300 be a problem. Even by a civic standard it could have been very expensive and that would have been 'fair'.
Anything over $200 is probably better spent on the amp and that too need not be super expensive to be more than good enough. Really, most hi-fi is just like jewelry: overpriced junk that is intended as a statement of the owner's affluence.
The report repeats many previous allegations made by the commission, appointed by the government whose key figure is the main ruling Law and Justice party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin of the late president.

[...]

Earlier, two separate reports by Polish and Russian experts on aviation incidents said the crash on approach in dense fog to the Smolensk airport, which did not have sophisticated aviation equipment, was the result of human errors made in adverse weather conditions. They found no proof of foul play.

This commission was always going to conclude the president was murdered, because his twin brother, who thinks so, runs the commission.

It's unlikely we'll ever find out what happened, since Russia refuses to return the wreckage, and in any case is entirely capable of such acts of state terrorism. But this report tells us nothing new.
Volunteering tends to be an elite activity anyway. When people have to work multiple full-time jobs just to survive, it's just not very helpful or meaningful to ask whether they might find their inner fulfillment by helping out at the local animal shelter.
Typically a small group of engineers/founders/investors for each project.

Who are open for manipulation just like anyone else in the world.

It's only decentralised if you ignore any of the reality and details.