skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may be misunderstanding the GP's statement of the problem: It's not parenting or bonds, it's poverty.

> Outside of straight up abuse (which was present within foster care and with "kin") the problem wasn't really with individuals (my parents or other guardians), it was poverty and problems stemming from poverty (e.g. drug abuse, homelessness). Everyone in my family and community was poor, and had been for generations, so I got fucked over by the system again and again.
Anonymous hacker served with restraining order via NFT
oops. Thanks!

https://bootstrappable.org/

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Mes

https://reproducible-builds.org/

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/
Fascinating, why I have never seen this one.
The process isn't quick, but I don't think anyone has claimed it to be.

Meanwhile, this subthread started at

> Heat, cold, darkness, lack of infrastructure, and distance.

If you don't think poor civic planning is at fault, you'll never fix it.
> As a non-mathematician, the last truly big mathematical project that caught my imagination was Hilbert's attempt to found all of mathematics on a firm foundation of logic.

The classification of finite simple groups aka The Enormous Theorem might also interest you. It is around 10,000 pages spread across 100s of journal articles by ~100 authors over a 50 year period.

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

You could jump to the history section if you want to skip some technical parts.

There have been other huge programs but they might be harder to describe without a lot of jargon.
> 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆 - Confucius
Maybe it has a cache and this only happens the first time?

It would be a bit ridiculous to re-compile JSX into JS on every request.
human attention has always been a commodity. Look at historical FM, AM, broadcast TV advertising.

companies like nielsen made attempts to quantify and measure actual viewership, hard to do in the 1-way-analog-broadcast era.

Big difference now is that every social media thing has its own app that can specifically track ever click, every scroll, every like, viewing time per image and page, on an extremely granular basis.

Look at why reddit is trying so hard to steer people into using their app rather than use it through a browser.

ultimately the revenue stream for these app based social media things comes from the company selling advertising to you, of course. it's just much more targeted now than in the analog broadcast era.
I'll take the opportunity to drop one of my favorite quotes from Herb Simon (Turing award and Nobel prize winner, artificial intelligence pioneer, father of behavioral economics, founder of CMU's Computer Science department):

"""
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. (Simon 1971.)
"""
It didn't become a commodity, it always was
I strongly agree, in addition statements like "Before social media advertising would have to hitch a ride with some content produced for something else. Billboards, newspapers, television shows, and magazines all tried to provide a use value to their customers and audiences" are pretty incorrect. As bad as many people agree Facebook is for mental health, it was clearly created for and does provide value. The author does a fairly poor job of carrying out the argument without form-fitting irrelevant details to their desired narrative.
> I've often wished there was a way programming could produce art as a by product

That's pretty much what computer graphics programming is.
TempleOS,[0] by the infamous Terry Davis, featured a program called "After Egypt" that he would use to post text supposedly comming from God (or “space alian”).[1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis
It was a rich private school for over a hundred years without the administration acting this way. You might expect the status quo, not that they would suddenly get a massive case of bureaucratitis.
“Stanford's new social order offers a peek into the bureaucrat's vision for America. It is a world without risk, genuine difference, or the kind of group connection that makes teenage boys want to rent bulldozers and build islands. It is a world largely without unencumbered joy; without the kind of cultural specificity that makes college, or the rest of life, particularly interesting.”

This is true at MIT as well. Can’t imagine the hacks of old being allowed.

Our zero risk society is perfectly boring.
Have they considered balancing their budgets ? Somehow california and many other us states have a surplus.
For those who are downvoting him without having read the article, he is suggesting the title update because that is what the actual title of the article says. Either the submitter edited the title to remove "Marxist" when they submitted, or for some reason "Marxist" is one of the words HN automatically removes from titles.
I don't think OP is really talking about the line between pet and food. There's something else going on here.

Think more about cows. Nice creatures. Live in the fields under the sun and that isn't horrific. We eat them. Maybe you had a pet cow? Ok that's fine. There's your pet/food line issue. Most omnivorous humans believe it is possible to treat them with respect in their lives and eat them. Others disagree, of course they do. That's also fine.

As a civilization, we don't treat chickens anything like that. We have factory farms that are utterly horrific, stomach-turning and detrimental to global health and we pretend we kind of pretend don't know that and don't talk about it much.

You don't have to be a vegetarian or keep chickens as pets or even particularly like chickens much (and I don't) to object to those horrors. Factory farms days are numbered. They are beyond what the consumers of factory farms can stomach. They are beyond what we should tolerate in their abuse of the commons of having effective antibiotics. They are nothing like what we think of as farms which are usually some approximation of the family farm. It is perfectly reasonable and defensible to be very proudly meat-eating and want effective reform here. In my experience most do lean that way when they find out what goes on in a shed full of caged chickens.
You could always be an independent contractor instead of being an employee. That way it reduces the hurdle for hiring. I'm technically a contractor atm, but get treated like an employee. You of course don't get the same legal protections or some benefits but you can charge more instead :)
I am not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing. If you agree, I'll take it. If your point is that we should try and fix it and not succumb to "Stockholm Syndrome", I say precisely that also, in the second part of my comment. We can both work to fix AND have folks get their money by studying. Often times what happens is someone young enough will read this and conclude there is no point to studying, and that is not good career wise on average.
'Calories in vs calories out' is more meme than myth. It's both true and nearly worthless to aid anyone in weight loss because it's not the thing anyone is confounded by.
Consilience by E.O Wilson.

Small book, small words, short sentences but separates the wheat from the chaff of thinking and understanding. If you're fond of horoscopes, this is not the book for you.
Culture is harder to shift, and I was mostly talking about France, but your points on increased density neighborhoods are valid nonetheless.

French cities are currently not getting denser because of perceived social problems such as poorer working population leading to low economic activity, poor academic performance and eventually and a rise of crime.
Paris in particular concentrates a really-non-negligible fraction of the metropolitan area's economic activity but cannot become denser that it is right now because current regulation restricts high-rise buildings in the city proper [1]. That leads to inflated price which drive people away.

Same-day delivery? Good luck with that. 24h is the best they can do, and that's 79 euros -- by the way -- for your sofa that's being delivered to your home, when you'll be there (or not, lol). That being said, Japanese versions likely factor in the delivery cost.

> Why do you assume the delivery service will use bikes and not mopeds, small cars, or other powered mobility systems?

These exist, and there are even moving companies that use that as a selling point. Don't see how practical it is though, especially when driving uphill, as Paris is not exactly as flat as Amsterdam, Chicago or Miami, for example. Mopeds or cars still won't deliver more than 5 km away from their base, but customers can easily drive for 45 min to a good restaurant 20 km away.

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A8glements_d%27urbanisme_...
It brings a runtime that's easy to distribute to, that's pretty much it. I think there are plenty of runtimes out there (e.g. Java Web Start + JavaFX) that are just as good if not better, but they don't have anything like the same installed base (especially in locked-down corporate environments where you can't just distribute your thing bundled as an executable, which is where a preinstalled runtime really matters) as the browser.
Why are startups the leaders in lithium recycling? Haven't we learned after decades that producers of trash should be the ones cleaning it up? Europe made manufacturers responsible for all that extra plastic packaging years ago. When Tesla's battery packs wear out they should be dumped at their feet for recycling. Only by folding the problem back on manufacturers will they have any real incentive to build sustainable and repairable products.
> the problem wasn't really with individuals (my parents or other guardians), it was poverty and problems stemming from poverty

I hear this again and again from people who have experienced it. For some reason, the message doesn't get through to the rest of society.
If the finance guy is driving down costs and some of that makes it way to me, the consumer, I’m all for it.

We didn’t get dirt cheap electronic because some engineer squeeze costs down and competed on price.
I penned this short verse a long time ago to help remind me about "Analysis Paralysis" and hopefully try and minimize its effects on me :-) Being reminded of it from time to time, has helped me avoid 'stalling out' on too many details and better learning to live with imperfect information to make progress in a reasonable timeframe.

---

"A person who faces many choices, really has one

Out of indecision and confusion, they choose to have none"
Wrong!

A plot of land in rural Arkansas has been stable irrespective of Money Supply. The value of grain of sand on the beaches of South Carolina have been same.

OTOH, Bitcoin is not an hard asset :)

Hard/Soft classification are used by naive doomer-preppers (aka Peter Schiff). Assets are things that produce cash flow, rest is speculative. That's why the beanie baby (a "hard asset") that you bought in 1999 hasn't beaten inflation
> a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.

one could also say that when there's a scarcity of newsworthy events, or things to cover that might sell advertising to certain demographics, you get entirely new media things (like TMZ) which are the trashy digital version of the UK tabloid
press.

if such media organizations within that category think there is a scarcity of attention, they'll fabricate something new and shocking and hype it endlessly until it becomes a top item.

media entities creating entire media properties/brands for the purpose of reporting about the goings-on of other media entities/celebrities/brands.

it's like an ouroboros of media made from kardashians, hype, fear, angst, anger (hello rupert murdoch).

now combine the above with what I would charitably describe as weaponized advertising technology, building profiles on individual facebook/twitter/instagram/tiktok/whatever social media users and their extended friends network.
The distinction should be made on if the IP is transferred or not. What the acquirer actually does with that IP post-acquisition is orthogonal.

There's no indication of IP transfer so it seems like this is not technically an acqui-hire, but not for the reason you're stating.
I think I'll just go home now...
Zero unemployment causes wages to go up fast as employers must constantly outbid each other for workers. This is bad in a theoretically efficient market because each employer is already running at maximum efficiency and every job is necessary, so there's no slack in the system. In the real world with super high executive pay, massive inefficiency, and massive employment of exploited, underpaid immigrant labor, it's less of a problem.
In my experience this may put a target on your back. Some emperors do not like to be told that they have no clothes, even if the feedback is thoughtful and would improve the business.

The (recently collapsed) startup I worked for thought their core technology was a differentiator, and I’d been suggesting benchmarks for a year so that we could publicly highlight advantages. A new head of QA benchmarked along a few dimensions. The results didn’t match what the leadership team had been telling customers, and it was taken very personally.
Because marketing and appeal drives revenue for your business. It's a multi variate system where the values aren't known, but they're there all the same.

Buying gold and storing it in your basement is just speculation. It doesn't provide any value on its own. You aren't using the gold for any immediate purpose, but just hoping that value increases beyond the market value in use for production.

Gold could have some intrinsic value as a signaling tool via jewelry etc, and this could conceivably drive value.

But you can't wear bitcoin
The grave isn't big enough.
The Marxist definition of "commodity" is a useful one, but doesn't do full justice to the nature of the problem. Attention is a commodity in the same way that corn and other raw materials are commodities: it's subdivided into abstract units for sale (and speculation), entirely divorced from the underlying asset (Joe Schmoe on Facebook) until the moment of redemption.

Commoditization is (arguably) a very good thing: it allows the market to make stable pricing decisions (at various risk levels) without having to worry about the exact load of corn (or human attention units) showing up right when needed. But it's also a fundamentally obfuscative force: the commoditizing party is incentivized to lie about the underlying asset's value. Advertising exemplifies this to a greater extent than agriculture: we don't really know what attention is, and so it's much easier (and more profitable) to misrepresent to buyers.

Subprime Attention Crisis[1] is a really fantastic analysis of the attention market, this specific sort of commoditization, and its latent risks.

[1]: https://www.fsgoriginals.com/books/subprime-attention-crisis
I think the Turing test is more interesting than what people normally believe.
I think Turing's test involved the ability of the machine to deceive the human, as well, regarding some aspect (perhaps gender?) of the machine's faux human persona.

This wikipedia article touches on the subject of co-opting the phrase "Turing Test".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Imitation_game_vs....

And the book below is really interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing:_The_Enigma
I'm not a mathematician or even very good at math but I love reading anything by Morris Kline. Even when I don't fully grasp what he's talking about, I have a great respect for his intelligence and grasp of the world.
Thank you! It’s good to hear that it can still feel worthwhile despite the many downsides.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Something like a third of GHG emissions come from heating, if you can extract the heat from a datacentre you're displacing something like gas, it is something to hope for.
> Multiculturalism does work. The way it works is, people with different cultures / wants / ideas form their own communities and mind their own business.

You're describing nationalism.
> But, at least in Texas, there is no way to become licensed to adopt without also being licensed to foster, and because they privatized the entire system ...

They privatized foster care??!! And adoption?!!!
Systeminformer: Monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware
Writing is a single-player game
Counterexample:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
Going on the GP's line¹, diversity of cultures is a result of balkanization. Just like genetics speciation, but with memes.

Once people start moving around, multiculturalism dies.

1 - I'm not sure I agree, but after reading the comment, I'm tending this way.
Reading your writings since the times where you had to manually merge newadmin and geodjango svn branches. Lots of love from south america.
And presumably you are from the “stonks only go up” crowd?
Why you may have a thinking digital twin within a decade
> However, the European Central Bank arguably has the hardest job of all.

This was very apparent in the head of the ECB Christine Lagarde’s recent interview.

She was asked, “how will you get the balance sheet down?” while being shown the ECB balance sheet on a screen.

She answered, “It will come. It will come. In due course, it will come.”

The interviewer paused, confused, and then asked, “…how?”

And she answered, “In due course, it will come.” And then smiled.

She offered no answer, no description, no clarification, and had rather awkward expressions throughout the exchange.

This is because, like most central banks, there is no plan. It won’t come. Sovereign debt will be monetized to whatever extent it needs to be, or it’ll collapse.
And here's a reason science can die in complex societies: because people want to score points over engaging with it. On a surface level it's easy to say "suggestions are changing, therefore it's a scam." But it's also a highly-expected outcome of a field being actively researched! Working as intended = ammunition for those who want to play games instead.

That's not to say there is no fraud, or bad actors. It's just to say that your comment falls hideously short as a potential way of spotting bad acting, so far short that it looks intentionally misleading.
Anyone with APM setup can see what’s going on pretty well. For almost all web apps, you can see that ruby/python are extremely fast and almost all of the time spent on a request is the database.
Then again a geneticist friend of mine pointed out the egg that made you was actually created inside of your grandmother.

This geneticist should lose their degree and their job.

Not sure how a single cell from your grandmother could pass along “eggs”.

Jesus.
> Apple doesn't really do gaming.

They do, just the casual gaming market. Which is gaming. They don’t do all gaming, but nobody does.
What and where is your experience? The stories vary greatly in this discussion.
What is material here and how far down do you go? By your admission, do you believe in electric and magnetic fields creating emergent behavior - they do not exhibit the same phenomena as something physically perceivable to humans. On the other hand, computer is made up of atoms and molecules and their emergent behavior could give rise to consciousness.

End of the day, you are arguing that since you could explain away the process, it is not conscious.. but you could explain away anything. How is human brain conscious? It is just activation of neurons across a large network. We can even poke electrodes and simulate various feelings.

It would be helpful if you can explain why you believe this to be true rather than what you believe to be true.
C++ has things like the fragile base class problem meaning you can accidentally break it easily. There's issues with throwing exceptions across different libraries on some platforms (maybe just Windows?) but I forget the reason why.

p is short for predicate.
OK, thanks, it's funny that there is basically no economy of labor seemingly in either the app or on the user side in this area. But I hear you, workarounds are clever and worth using when complaints are losing traction and maybe getting complainy.

So if it gets too annoying I'll see if I can arrange to open the 90+ tabs on a system that doesn't already have so many tabs open. :D
You should really go over there and explain this to them. You could save all of them.
Soulless is the essence of postmodernism. I have no doubt if the admin can remove the traditional buildings, they will replace them with all cubical buildings. Yelling for diversity and at the same time replacing everything with grey color rectangles and squares is their cultural revolution.
I thought the downfall of the roman empire was the result of near constant idealogical and physical warfare, a series of plagues, and then division and getting conquered
Tiny Rings and Big Noises
Parent is referring to the Dutch VOC, not the British East India Company.

The entity that eventually "owned" the Indian Subcontinent was the British East India Company. The VOC ended up with Indonesia, swaths of land in South America, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and so on.
see also, Marx's theory of Alienation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

The theoretical basis of alienation is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being, as an economic entity this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie—who own the means of production—in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus value in the course of business competition among industrialists.

that sure sounds like a paycheck-to-paycheck, permanent renter class person that's become trapped in a debt-laden advertising-driven consumer lifestyle to me.
I like hover.com because it’s from Tucows who I fondly remember from the 90s
Even there, we’d have to understand if that arrangement is commonly viewed as legal in the country of residence. (My understanding is that it’s not legal in all countries [including my own] just because you say and I agree that you’re a contractor, if there are additional facts and circumstances tests to decide the “proper” treatment.)
As an anecdote, in some modern Asian cities, you can live your life entirely indoors.

You live in a small apartment above a large shopping mall and connected to the metro.

School is indoors, book learning is prioritised over outdoor physical activity.

Kids would spend their entire childhoods indoors.

No wonder myopia is so prevalent.
India: Ancient university reopens after 800 years
> three seconds of the time of a 25- to 28-year-old male with a Bachelors degree in a STEM subject from a state college, an interest in travel to the Baltic countries, centre-right political leanings, and a credit score between 650-720. Facebook can also ensure that those three seconds are sandwiched between a message from his mom and a holiday photo from a potential love interest

Haven't there been a number of studies/articles written about how Facebook/Google sometimes really suck at delivering ads to the correct people that ad-buyer's ask for? Anecdotally, I've gotten ads for burger shops in Chicago while living in California.

The above fear mongering, worst case claim, makes it real hard for me to take this guys philosophical /ethical break down seriously.