skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All fair points. The change, as I see it, is the speed at which information flows. The old saying about how a lie can circle the world before the truth gets its trousers on applies. Only now, the lie can travel at the speed of light.

Narratives have a very strong early-mover bias.

The OPs point about things starting to crack in the Obama years rings true. For all of his positive points, there is nothing in Obama's resume that suggests he was qualified to be President. He was the first President to be memed into office. The press loved to talk about how adept the campaign was in utilizing the Internet to mobilize and motivate supporters.

Everybody took notice, and now the narrative battle happens online, at Internet speeds. This is a terrible, terrible idea. Unless you're some kind of otherworldly genius, taking in all of the input and coming to a rational opinion weighing all the pros and cons is impossible. So, like a black-box AI algorithm, people come up with opinions based on odd things like who has a more insulting neologism for their opponent, or whatever.

The "collective amnesia" you mention also occurs at Internet speeds. What was major news on Tuesday is fishwrap by Thursday, replaced with something else. There's no value in revisiting it, so whatever narrative gets entrenched is it.

I don't think there's a solution for any of this, short of a CME wiping out everything more technological than a shovel.
It is.
We provide consulting on email deliverability so I see many different emails coming from many different backgrounds. They go to Gmail Spam randomly, even follow-up emails.
In fact, Gmail works with two Spam folders: SpamSpam and SpamSocial, and with latest it is a joke too.
What?

A glass can hold X amount of water. You add X plus 1 and water spills out. "Guess the glass couldn't sustain X water!" is what you are claiming?

Systems can only be sustained within certain parameters. There is no magical system that is always sustainable regardless of parameters. But it sounds like we are saying basically the same thing in any case.

Consumption can go down and more population can be supported. Or consumption can continue at current levels but population will have to go down. (and that level it would have to go down might be truly horrific)
This reminds me of this book https://genius.com/Jorge-luis-borges-tlon-uqbar-orbis-tertiu...
I love it :D Thanks for sharing!

I the post, it links another post which tries to find predictors for which people like it and which don't. However, that link is broken. Do you know about a solution for this?
The “Carbon Footprint” page[0] is a nice touch. Not much in terms of concrete action there, but the fact it has been written (and linked to in the footer) is a good start.

[0]: https://ocaml.org/carbon-footprint
Message-Oriented Programming with JavaScript
If $30k is at stake, it might be better to spend a little bit more money and ask a professional lawyer.
I think there's a difference between 'in the standard library' and 'in the language', though. They seem to be praising Go for doing the latter. And the technical language in which it was expressed gave me to think there was some technical motivation for that, as opposed to sociological - but if what they meant is what you said, then I certainly wouldn't disagree with that.
This is awesome feedback and I appreciate your honesty. I will help so many remember what matters in their next ventures.
I think we need to collectively remove credibility from survey based results.

It's funny that persistently reporting surveys in the news was originally conceived as a marketing tactic to articulate to people what they think, yet even now it's popular to take it seriously.
The "criticism" section is on that article and has many objections. It is not accepted fact.

> It has also been argued that rates of major crimes also dropped in many other US cities during the 1990s, both those that had adopted broken windows policing and those that had not.[41] In the winter 2006 edition of the University of Chicago Law Review, Bernard Harcourt and Jens Ludwig looked at the later Department of Housing and Urban Development program that rehoused inner-city project tenants in New York into more-orderly neighborhoods.[25] The broken windows theory would suggest that these tenants would commit less crime once moved because of the more stable conditions on the streets. However, Harcourt and Ludwig found that the tenants continued to commit crime at the same rate.

Still waiting on real evidence of causation.
One limiting factor in generating OH is specific wavelengths of light, which is harder to artificially boost
Ok, but if Oatly is 100% maltose, it has only a slightly higher glycemic index than cow's milk. But the aforementioned planet oat is still lower(assuming it is 100% maltose)
Nurses are not an infinitely fungible commodity.
Yes. And yes "You can't judge because you were never a CEO" is a silly comment to make. Take my point as a shorthand for "this person has neither experienced what that job is or bothered learning what it is".
It is not foundational, it is one of the many rights that our society recognizes.
In Universal Declaration of Human Rights it’s Article 19, coming after 18 other articles.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

In German constitution it is Article 5 and it is explicitly limited, considering the importance of the balance.
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/German_Federa...
You probably use google and facebook anyway, perhaps to promote your business. You have probably already signed similar agreements due to you using those platforms. I'm not a lawyer, and you should probably talk to one. Just my 2 cents.
Leetcode is a system designed to fail individuals and justify downleveling
There are a lot of tools like Actual (YNAB, Monarch, Mint, Aspire google sheet etc). All are focused on budgets and mostly managing cash accounts.

I've always wanted an equivalent but for investments. I know you can sync investment accounts to some of these, but that only reports the balance generally.

I'd love to have the equivalent for investment accounts that answer these questions:

What is my sector exposure?

How much, across multiple accounts and brokerages, of Apple (or any stock/etf/mutual fund) do I own as a total percentage?

How much money are in retirement accounts vs non retirement accounts?

What is my IRR (rate of return) in aggregate and per account?

And of course things like projections, safe withdrawal rates, analysis in the form of charts and graphs like what Actual and the rest offer.

etc
In the music department at my university the vocalists had to take two different foreign language classes for this reason, and they were _supposed_ to learn the meaning of everything they sang so they could capture the feeling of the song. Bullshitting your way through those kinds of inflections is the voice undergrad's version of slapping a paper together the night before a deadline.
I hope any jury trials this causes decide to nullify the regulation.
> Use whatever typographic rules you like, as long as it communicates the ideas you like to tell...?!

Following conventions & rules is exactly how you communicate those ideas. Failing to do so tends to cause confusion and distraction. It's not about what's right and what's wrong—it's about compassion for one's readers.
I learned a great deal from the article. Thankfully I discovered it from twitter. If flame wars are the issue, then the thread should be locked, rather than pulling it from the front page. Really disappointed in this move.
Pensions do have risk, but you act as if 401(k) style plans don’t. Imagine how difficult it would be to plan fastidiously for your retirement and then have the stock market collapse and wipe out 1/4 or 1/2 of your savings. Yes, you should diversify your investments to reduce your exposure, but in this instance the risk and responsibility is on you the individual. Isn’t it strange how two different systems that on paper have totally different risk profiles both have a huge risk of low and middle net worth individuals getting wiped out?
What do you think is currently the best form and when do you think it failed?
> The sugars in oat milk are a bit simpler (primarily maltose rather than lactose), which gives a lower glycemic index

That would lead to a higher glycemic index?

>> Either way, if you compare them to something like fruit juice or full-sugar soft drinks, the sugar content is still pretty low.

From https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/oatly-responds-in-defense-of...:

Even with the slightly lower glycemic index for maltose due to the soluble fiber content, I get more or less the same result for Oatly’s blood sugar impact: a glycemic index of 77 (previously 79) and a glycemic load of 18.4 (previously 19.0) for a 12 oz portion; still about the same blood sugar impact as a 12 oz cola, which has a glycemic index of 63 and glycemic load of 20.8.
https://xkcd.com/1217/

The joke is about cancer cells but is equally applicable to bacteria. Just because something is very very good at killing bacteria doesn't mean that it can also become a practical medicine.
> with RISC-v, there is no company to hold you hostage for designs and all

No no no. The RISC-V ISA is open.

The implementation of RISC-V CPUs is often proprietary.
I believe the answer is yes, but I imagine it would be far too diffuse to actually achieve ignition. Same issue applies to various schemes for putting a pilot light at cow's butts to eliminate the "cow fart emissions" issues.

(Quite apart from the fact that it's belches not farts that are the issue anyway, so the pilot light would be at the wrong end...)
Yes, it features prominently in the MBTI, but my point is that "Whatever people think of Myers-Briggs [my experience is that extroversion is important]" doesn't make a lot of sense because introversion/extroversion is a widely-accepted concept that the MBTI uses, not a concept that comes from the MBTI.
The issue is not whether Republicans are the only ones fighting a culture war.

It's about whether the Republicans are only fighting a culture war.

What are their policies on healthcare? Infrastructure investment and repair? Climate change? Transportation policy? Childhood poverty? Topsoil depletion in the midwest? Extreme severe drought in the southwest? etc. etc.

Why do they appear to spend so much time talking about things in the "culture war" realm and so little time advancing policy agendas about things that really matter (not that are no "culture war" issues that matter).

Progressives are quite clear about the metrics by which they consider one state of a society to be better than another. More equality of opportunity. Less income/wealth inequality. A more even distribution of GDP between labor and capital. Reduced discrimination against protected classes. Improved health outcomes. Equal treatment under the law. Above all, the type of society you would choose to live in if you could not control who your parents were or where you would be born.

It is far from clear what the conservative/Republican equivalent of this is.
This open source finance product recently raised 8.5M: https://openbb.co/ I believe it from some organization that focuses on OSS
If you're trying to "control" who I can allow stay at my house and for how long, you're infringing on what I deem to be my "rights". I don't get how its not about these things?

> All they are doing is observing that people like to live next to human beings they can form longer-term relationships with.

Maybe we should ban renters as well. Higher home ownership rates has been shown time and time again to be critical for psychological health and societal success. So why not nudge out renters? Curious where you draw the line and why.
ugh, typos: "hugely expensive", "even for chips that are simple compositions".
You're saying that land taxes should supply 100% of federal tax revenue, but 0% of state/local revenue?

Currently most property taxes are local, not federal. You're also missing the bit about a citizen's dividend which seeks to offset some of this.
Spacedrive accounts for every file you own, uniquely fingerprinting and extracting metadata so you can sort, tag, backup

Oh...how I've longed for this. How I've wanted to carve out the time to do exactly this to service my own needs (as a hoarder). I am so excited to use this one it's stable enough to trust fingerprinting to the extent that you can dedupe across devices!
> The hyphen makes it read better,

Along the same lines, I wish the standard for using the / required a space before and after.

second/syllable

second / syllable

I find the latter much easier on the eye, especially when copy is dense. It's easier to read the individual words and identify the / at the same time. Without the spaces adds processing overhead imho.
I just want to clarify that CookTime is not an aggregator, it is exactly what you are asking for: a recipe website where people submit recipes, no blogs.
This is not correct. Nobody takes it away. It is limited by other rights through the laws that explain when and how the rights should be balanced.
Bingo. Like many in my generation, I used to not worry about it at all. Now I am a bit obsessive—constantly checking my name, number, and address on people finder sites and sending takedown requests when they pop back up, and currently trying to transition all my online accounts to use e-mail addresses provided by Hide My E-mail on iCloud (which is quite the project). Seems like changing my e-mail on different accounts could be useful, since people would be less likely to connect those different accounts. I keep reporting the links to the doxxed info on pastebin, Twitter, and google (pro-tip: you can ask google to remove doxxed information from their search results). I know I will never be able to ask the actual extremists to take down my name when I am mid-identified as that other person, which sucks. And it still feels like there might be some other exposure that’s just waiting to blow up in my face. Open to suggestions on the subject if anyone has any.
Racing is a great manifestation of this. Drivers often claim bad luck for being hit by another car. But the best drivers just seem to rarely have bad luck.

Knowing how to keep yourself out of situations where unlucky events may happen is just as important a skill in racing as driving fast.
I'd tunnel it over a websocket, or there's no reason why you couldn't translate its verbs into a REST API. It's a super simple protocol with not a lot of complexity.

It sounds like you're after a federated storage protocol though, i.e. something that two totally different apps can use to allow a user to transfer data between them. This is a much, much bigger leap in complexity and requires a very strong authentication and authorization story. IMHO look into the fediverse and whatever is going on with storage and files there.
And it's so difficult to find any hardware anywhere that respects that flag that hacker forums are filled with questions asking if anyone ever saw such a device.

Every modern copy or backup program ignores it, and it looks like none ever used it.
> They could afford to get degrees in subjects that may not have paid all that well (teaching, for example)

I also wonder how much of that growth is from high school students being told to go to college above all else, and how this graduation increase corresponds to enrollment and graduation from vocational schools.

I do think your point is the big one: people could go into college and come out with knowledge in the so-called soft skills, like philosophy or literature (areas that don't pay well but are vital for a society to understand itself, if nothing else). Why society doesn't value teaching and similar jobs as much as it does other industries is left as a debate for another time.
Yes, Florida's corporate income tax is basically fake: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-florida-corporate...

And I can't find any evidence that Disney doesn't need to charge Florida sales tax within the parks. They definitely charge the state sales tax on ticket sales as I just checked the email receipt from my most recent trip.
Sats are the easiest, cheapest thing to send to people globally. Lightning network is the only cryptocurrency construction that would permit such global payments.

Launching an erc20 on eth is super dumb. You will destroy most of the value just sending it to folks, and they will need to then buy expensive eth to spend it. Makes no sense.
I always write e-mail too. Perhaps because in my native language the word "email" means "enamel" and it feels like it would be a strange thing to send somebody.
It wasn't a big surprise for us. Redpanda is a complex distributed system with multiple components even at the core level: consensus, idmepotency, transactions so we were ready that something might be off (but we were pleased to find that all the safety issues were with the things which were behind the feature flags at the time).

Also we have internal chaos test and by the time partnership with Kyle started we already identified half of the consistency issues and sent PRs with fixes. The issues got in the report because by the time we started the changes weren't released yet. But it is acknowledged in the report

> The Redpanda team already had an extensive test suite— including fault injection—prior to our collaboration. Their work found several serious issues including duplicate writes (#3039), inconsistent offsets (#3003), and aborted reads/circular information flow (#3036) before Jepsen encountered them

We missed other issues because haven't exercised some scenario. As soon as Kyle found the issues we were able to reproduce them with the in-house chaos tests and fix. This dual testing (jepsen + existing chaos harness) approach was very beneficial. We were able to check the results and give feedback to Kyle if he found a real thing or if it looks more like an expected behavior.

We fixed all the consistency (safety) issues, but there are several unresolved availability dips. We'll stick with Jepsen (the framework) until we're sure we fixed then too. But then we probably rely just on the in house tests.

Clojure is very powerful language and I was truly amazed how fast Kyle for able to adjust his tests to new information but we don't have clojure expertise and even simple tasks take time. So it's probably wiser to use what we already know even it it a bit more verbose.
Housing in almost all the west is a huge rent extraction scheme made possible by politicians catering to boomers and run by boomer savings allocated in real state + NIMBYism from boomers that prevent the market to adjust.
Precisely, try that shit in Brazil or something. The government isn't going to give two fucks about your "squatters rights" and you can bet if you tried that on the wrong landlord that landlord is going to send out the pipe-hitters. Not advised.
It’s an entirely appropriate framing.
Tezos's reference node Octez is written in OCaml and one of the main smart contract languages Ligo really shows it's OCaml roots.

https://tezos.gitlab.io/

https://ligolang.org/

It's a nice change of pace from the Ethereum ecosystem.
Any CPU heavy algorithm that does not have a clear boundary to start the C/C++ part is a poor match for Python.
I don't consider basing my worldview on emotion-based fantasies mentally robust.

Is it possible that believing a lie increases ones chances of being happy & less depressed?

Sure, but that doesn't make it worthwhile.
It goes way beyond dictionaries though. Once you know where you can break words, how do you know where you should break words?

A simple flood fill will hyphenate very enthusiastically, use suboptimal breaking points, does not consider stretching whitespace, and leads to rivers and other artifacts.

Many more sophisticated algorithms suffer from the same problems. Last I used LaTeX seriously, it also produced rivers where a human using e.g. Scribus would not.
I hope your wish will become true and that your wife will survive!

Do you already have back up plans to let your kids experience the unconditional love of her mom even when she is not around in a body any more?
Yep. It's also the same idea why we have gas flares on oil wells. It might look like it's oil companies setting stuff on fire for no reason, but it's better than just letting it leak.
I'd rather be harassed by a security guard than a cop any day.

You basically never see private rent-a-cops doing the kinds of stuff police get in hot water for because they don't have a legal double standard to protect them and the financial motives to not waste resources result in less incentive for "you can beat the charge but not the ride" behavior.
I see this as Google ratfucking Firefox. It doesn’t matter if this is really a deliberate attack or merely poor filtering. These companies need to be held to account for automated actions taken by their algorithms just as surely as if the CEO himself had given the direction to do this.
Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Could you elaborate or re-phrase?
I concur with everything the author says here. If you want to visualize this for yourself, just take yourself back to the whole science/anti-vaxx debate we've had the past 2 years. That was a pretty accurate picture of the biblical tower of babel. Social media as a tool keeps sowing more division than ever because that's the growth incentive and we are too afraid to kill the golden goose. Once the metaverse becomes a thing, we will have better bricks to build the tower even higher.

China is soon going to overtake the US as the world hegemony. This disruption will have devastating effects. The accelerated move to the 4th Industrial Revolution will be even more disruptive, unlike anything we as humans have ever known. We keep on ignoring the global warming threat because we think our survival will be under threat if we go cold turkey on fossil energy and the creature comforts necessary to forestall the climate disaster. The covid pandemic gave us all a unique opportunity to recalibrate our collective lives. Today, we go about our daily lives as if the past 3 years was just a bad dream. I very much doubt we can make it through another global pandemic on a scale as or bigger than covid was in the near future.
With no disrespect, there's something quite funny about a freight corridor moving tons of freight every day. In the "there are dozens of us!" way.
Wait, are you telling me that we need fire breathing cows for the good of the environment?
Exactly. I did this at one company because it was less hassle than making sure that finance update the CC on yet another external service every year.
Reliably verifying the identity of every human on the planet is not something I have any confidence this org will solve. I'm not even sure if its possible to solve for $1/day/identity.

This will get sybil attacked, millions of fake/stolen identities will be used to siphon the value of the system into harder currencies, and it will crumple due to lack of trust.
Cool - thanks for sharing! :) Did you already schedule your next longish break?
An algorithm that screens for child neglect raises concerns