skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20th century libertinism peaked in the 70s and has been in retreat since then.

This is certainly true, but it is also not the only source of the problems outlined in the essay (and by others in this discussion). It's this:

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.

And this isn't just university life. Read Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head and Why We Drive to get a sense of the ways that safety-ism is the new American way. As humans, we develop cognitively and emotionally when we are placed in risky situations (whether emotionally or physically). Perhaps it's college kids doing dumb things, or perhaps it's kids building bike jumps in the local park or homemade zip lines in the local park.
I've never quite understood the gushing over Apple's software applications. I might be in the minority, but they're awful.

Finder (especially Finder, copying a filepath...), iTunes/Apple Music, Xcode, Quicktime, Safari (pre 2022, Safari extremely recently became a great browser).

The vast majority of the core applications bundled with their products I've found painful to use.

The actual desktop and window manager itself is very pleasant.

But quite frankly, I despise the pre-bundled applications just as much as any other pre-bundled application.
The Federal Reserve is the currency issuer, not the US Government.
It’s certainly hard to argue that Scotland shouldn’t be allowed to hold a referendum again. Usually I feel that the one they had a few years back should stand but with brexit the situation feels sufficiently changed that the old result feels dated.
But at the same time, the lesson should be that a simple majority is not a sufficient result. Either a qualified majority of some sort, with minimum participation threshold, or maybe two referendums with a general election in between sounds about right.
I find this response baffling (as well as some of the replies) and it illustrates to me how people treat their devices differently.

I see my phone as a way to connect with people rather than a way to simply communicate with people. The fact that I might have to listen to people pause and form their thoughts is a positive of voice notes, not a negative. I don't ask my friends to provide transcripts before I meet with them in-person to make sure my time isn't wasted when we speak.

I understand that if you are receiving work-related voice notes that are better suited for text then that would be frustrating, but hearing my friends speak is so much more preferable to just reading their words on the page.
Most economists worldwide have other priorities.
I'd be very interested to see a breakdown of the economics behind this ever happening. Anyone got a decent link/article they can share?
Instagram launches new parental controls in UK
To lump UKIP in with the other two is absurd.
Yes, with one key difference: the Brexit campaigners insisted that the UK was being tyrannized and forced to implement policies set in Brussels by the EU (despite having full political representation in making those policy decisions), whereas Scotland is ultimately under UK control -- large elements of public policy are reserved for Westminster, which means control by a succession of governments Scotland hasn't voted for since 1955.

(The first part of this is a side-effect of UK governments since the late 1980s blaming their own unpopular public policies on the EU, aided and abetted by certain elements of the British media who made bank by painting the EU as some kind of continental political supervillain bent on tormenting the UK, rather than a political process the UK had full participation in. One of those most prominent of those journalists being one Boris Johnson ...)
I’d argue that deporting immigrants to Rwanda has a certain far right timbre.
I think in the context of today specifically with the Rwanda flight I would find it hard to agree with you.

True they aren’t all far right, but they do capitalise on decisive policies to invigorate their core supporters.
Scotland can be independent _and_ be in the same economic market (ignoring UK and Spain willing to veto Scotland reentering EU out of spite / own political motives).
IIRC there is no true Sriracha. It was first marketed by a thai guy using an old family recipe with Californian ingredients but it was never trademarked so there are plenty of similar hot sauces with the same name
A non Yugoslavian, I regret the breakup of Yugoslavia immensely but I do wonder if any of the former constituent states would agree with you regarding Scotland or me regarding Yugoslavia?

Note that it's an open question if the Scots economy would remain worse per capita, not disagreeing there is/was pain ahead in transition.
One quite important issue is the border. English and Scottish people will almost certainly never tolerate any kind of friction at that border. We've been moving across it seamlessly for centuries, families are mixed, businesses straddle the border, etc. If the Northern Ireland debacle has shown us anything, it's if Scotland were to leave and then join the EU that border would become an absolute political nightmare. The EU has an absolutist position on border integrity, but locals have an absolutist position of border porosity. I don't think there's a compromise that both sides could tolerate.
People in the USA vote regularly to choose their leader, while people in China do not. Hence, by definition, USA are a democracy and China is not.

Sure, the last two elections were a confirmation that democracy is not perfect (with millions of idiots voting Trump in 2016 and still millions of freaking idiots voting Trump in 2020), but it is the best we have got so far.
Interesting fact: the Anglo-Scottish border is significantly shorter than the one separating Northern Ireland from Ireland: 154km vs 499km.
A hybrid car is the worst of both worlds. Most people would always have been fine 99% of the time with a short range EV like a Nissan Leaf. But the human brain can't let go of the "what if" and long range EVs have proven necessary for large scale adoption.

Regardless, batteries are highly recyclable. Lithium is super plentiful. Cobalt reduction and eventual elimination is making progress. EVs are the future and it will be great. Let go of your fear, it is not rational.
I still can't really see the case for Scottish independence except nationalism.

Scotland has been part of the UK for more than 300 years. It is so tightly integrated into its society and market that a hard border would be rather painful.

We have an example of the successor states of Austria-Hungary once the empire collapsed at the end of WWI. The economic situation of businesses that suddenly faced high tariffs accessing their traditional markets was dire and likely paved way for the Great Depression in Central and Eastern Europe being even worse than it had to be.

Scottish independence seems to me a solution in search of a problem.
They'd have a lot higher degree of freedom in the EU, compared the to the UK where their votes barely count for anything as witnessed by the Brexit and any other general poll.
With hard headed view, I struggle to see that an independent Scotland will be economically able to deal with large cuts to public sector spending that would almost certainly be required. Per capita spending is already higher in Scotland than in the rest of the UK. Scottish companies have debts denominated in pounds. There would almost certainly be capital flight to rUK. Large businesses may relocate. There is no plan for a new currency, which would leave Scotland either with a weaker currency than sterling, or with a currency it has no influence over.

The UK is obviously suffering economically because of Brexit - an economic relationship that was built up over 40 years or so. Scotland, England and Wales have been a country since 1707. Just imagine the complication of breaking that. It makes Brexit look like a tiny job. Scotland would need to set up mirrors of institutions completely administered by Westminster at great cost, with a shrinking and aging population which is poorer, less educated and less healthy than the rest of the UK, even despite much of the things influencing that (healthcare, education) being devolved to the Scottish government since 1997.

I certainly don’t think it’s impossible. But I think it’s like Irish independence - it took the best part of 70 years for Ireland to economically recover. Over that time there was vast emigration to the UK and the US. Part of that was my own family who moved to the UK in the 1950s because of terrible job prospects in the Republic.
The complaints about LinkedIn I've seen are not so much about the product itself but about the social media culture that formed around it.
Indyref1 got 85% turnout (highest ever turnout for a democratic event in the UK) so at least any reasonable minimum participation threshold should be easily reached.
And that, as they say, is why we vote the Prime Minister and parliament for life, instead of having repeated elections every 5 years.
Which is going to get introduced because nations like Hungary, led by oil oligarchs connected to Russia, want to fk over whole EU for their personal gain.

You should work towards stronger union not weaken it.
I don't mean this as a criticism of the link author. Nobody wants to use a toilet plunger. You still want a good one.

Merely an observation about the dashboard industry.
Smaller is desireable (leaner government, and fairer representation). Poorer is a matter of opinion -- Scotland has a healthy economy.
I would not expect that any of them are trademarked either, which is what the parent post is referring to. IGP and DOP are not copyright/trademarks, as far as I understand anyway; they are EU food origin laws which don't apply elsewhere.
That's my point.

UKIP and BXP disintegrated because their more competent members colonized the Conservative Party, which is now much more radical and far-right than it was under Cameron.

The only surviving cabinet minister from Cameron's era (2010-2016) is Michael Gove. The rest are all new faces with far right credentials and a commitment to the hardest of hard Brexits.
> don't pretend like it's somehow going to make Scotland "better".

Isn't that the essence of politics?

You're basically trying to convince people that the system would be "better"
if things were run the way you proscribe vs someone else. Of course different people have different preferences so it's likely some will perceive it as "better" and others will perceive it as "worse".
Yes. The veto power allowed individual countries to block major decisions. Require 2/3 majorities for important stuff if you want but requiring all country leaders to agree on everything makes the EU too slow.
I don't think that would actually make sense. I'm sure the backend/business logic/functionality of settings has extremely little in common with iOS, so that cannot be reused with catalyst. And the UI is tweaked and "improved" for macOS (compared to iPad UI). So you don't actually gain anything from using the iPad settings app on macOS through catalyst.
Brexit was a terrible idea and a gamble which failed miserably.

I think what we will see play out is a Labour Libdem coalition which will get us back into the single market. Eventually we will get a single party government again and hopefully by then the world will be a much stabler place...

Oh climate change...
I still find this type of comment odd (although I do also recognise that it's very common).

I write a lot of code in C++. And I'm definitely no fan of it, so I'm not here to defend it! And I write a lot of bugs in that code. But very few of them are segfaults. With smart pointers and some common sense, they're just not that big of a concern. Yes, they do happen, but it's far a minority of the bugs. Maybe everyone just has better tests than me? (shrug)

I like the look of Rust, though I haven't yet got to use it professionally. I actually think it would be a perfectly good language without all the lifetime stuff, with lots of improvements over C++ (destructive move for a start). It would probably be good enough for most purposes, and the improved uptake would result in fewer bugs overall than the current situation.

It's academic really since that's obviously not where we are. But, like I say, I don't think memory errors are that problematic in C++ in practice (unless you're writing security sensitive code where even an occasional one can cause big problems).
>Conversely, if the more distant object did subtend the same angle as the nearer object then it is normally perceived to be twice as big.

herein lies I think the real cause of this illusion - It's the way our brain perceives size in things that are considered to be at a disconnected distance from each other, and things that are seen to be 'connected' being perceived as being the same distance. As soon as the moon comes close enough to the horizon to be perceived as 'connected' in our minds, the perception of it's size is shifted dramatically.

This same effect occurs with tall islands - If you're standing on the shore and look towards the island, it appears one size. If you move inshore and lose sight of the water, viewing the island over rooftops and such, it appears much more massive.
As another Brit, a Londoner, who didn't want Scotland to go.

1. Because I enjoy living in a country that has the Scots in it - without Scotland the country would be diminished, less interesting and more insular.

2. Generally, I think fracturing is a bad thing. I wanted to stay in the EU for similar reasons.

This isn't to say that I don't think that Scots should have self determination, just that I would be sad if they went.

I imagine some Australians would feel the sanme if - say - New South Wales decided to become an independent country
I wasn't speaking of horizontal scrolling, Apple's (and KDE's) only needs vertical.
Honestly, no I don't want a LinkedIn alternative. I only have it so that potential employers can google me and (after my blog and/or github) look at the way I present myself professionally. It's mostly static and I visit LinkedIn maybe once per 3 months, probably less. If there was a "new LinkedIn" that gained significant traction, it would just mean another profile to keep up to date for no real gain.

Yes, there is indeed a lot of humblebragging on LinkedIn but it's fine. Don't go there if you don't like that kind of thing.
yes. its email.
> Lets turn this around a bit... To charge your vehicle, it requires multiple days of typical household energy usage.

Powering your ICE car takes far, far more energy. But you don't think about it because it is in the form lf a toxic liquid sloshing around.

EVs are far, far more efficient than any ICE car.
> a third of those voting for independence also want(ed) independence from the EU

Do you have a source for that? I only heard of the opposite, but that was mainly Reddit and HN where Europeans are usually pretty pro-EU.
Because Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom and their secession is therefore of great consequence for the rest of the union - how is that not obvious? I live in Scotland FYI.

I am undecided on independence, but clearly part of the calculus is how it effects matters of concern to the rest of the UK. Consider what is to me, the following con and pro:

(1) Scotland is more left-wing than the rest of the UK and its secession would condemn the rest of the union to indefinite right-wing government.

(2) The UK's nuclear subs would have to be restationed, but there isn't a suitable harbour anywhere in the rest of the UK, creating an opportunity for it to be scrapped.
Cement block condo is super-expensive, but could in principle work (for a short time) if anybody was dumb enough to buy one. The crane thing won't even work if there is any wind at all. But there is always wind. (Maybe they could build a dome over it?)

Losses are almost irrelevant when top-line generation is so cheap. So, even though round-trip efficiency of hydrogen is low, it doesn't matter; you just add a few more panels. I.e., losses increase capex but not opex.
I only started using KDE recently so I didn't know that one. It does look very useful indeed.
> Unlike a camera? ;)

Cameras have higher overall resolution than the eye, as well as it being consistent across the sensor surface (unlike the eye). Eyes have pretty good dynamic range, but DSLRs are definitely catching up. Same with sensitivity. So I'm not sure whether I'd describe a camera as being all that imperfect.

But the point I was making is that we mostly navigate the world unconsciously believing that we perceive it directly via the light that hits our eyes. But we actually "see" an unfolding reconstruction that our brain pieces together from evidence contributed by our eyes and memories. If your vision is good, and especially when you're young, it's easy to be completely unconscious of the actuality of vision.

> I guess we (humans) put our understanding of the world into the mechanics of the camera, so somehow I see the mechanics of a camera like a summary of human "recollection of prior experiences" regarding visual imperfection.

Interesting question. I wonder if photography changed the way that people think of their vision - compared to previous methods of visual capture like painting or drawing? I suspect not but I don't know.
const in C++ is more like Readonly from TypeScript - you cannot modify state of an object, but it still might be possible through other reference/pointer - you have to check source of that value to be sure
Now do the consent of house owner and especially lake owner. And also, just because you convinced groundskeeper does not mean the ground-owner have to be agree with it too. Acting like adults involves also NOT dumping your trash in an artificial lake. And yes, that sand was their trash.

Edited to add: That is what rubs me really wrong here. The only "crime" university committed here is that they did not treated the sand hill as special thing worthy of protection forever. Instead, they closed the lake due to salamanders which is hardly outrageous action. And then apparently later on did not kept lake during drought (and note that they did took some pro-salamanders actions even during that drought).

At no point is this the case of university ridiculously restrictive or doing something wrong. But, frankly, the entitlement in the article is astonishing. You dump your trash into lake and then have fun with it, that somehow means this should be treated as cultural monument worthy of forever protection.
It's a self-CEOs and HR circle jerk platform.
An alternative would have to depart from trying to create same type of engagement as FB or Twitter, as it would run down the same path, but focus on showcasing skills and providing better search options.

hmmm, but I'm still afraid that a push for monetization and YOY growth would eventually ruin whatever good is made.
It's also true that management at for-profit firms introduce ostensible DEI programs to undermine unionization efforts, [0] but I don't think it's useful to refer corporate managers as "the left."

0. https://www.protocol.com/workplace/employee-resource-group-w...
yeah, if there is something to replace about linkedin – its people
on that day there might not be many career options open on the market, though
To answer the title: no.

LinkedIn is a perfect containment zone as is. Leave it. Any alternative will die an unused death, or will gather a critical mass of recruiters blindly spamming their jobs/thought influencers shitting out their opinions to as many “connections” as they can.

Any place that tries to target LinkedIn will only replicate its terrible SNR.
I am not British or Scottish and have no skin in the game, but what is the harm in revoting if things seem to have changed? Either things didn’t change and everyone votes the same anyway, in which case it was a waste of time but reconfirms the status quo, or things actually are different and then you know and can act on it. Is there a special history or feature in UK democracy where things are only ever voted on one time per generation for some reason?
All I want from the "new improved LinkedIn" is a way to maintain my network of past co-workers and people I have dealt with in a professional capacity and stay in touch. I'm delighted to read about job changes, promotions and any work related awards, accomplishments, links to published articles.

I DO NOT WANT:

Randoms contacting me to add to their network. i.e. people I've never met, nor worked with.

Recruiters spamming me with jobs that I am NOT interested in. Recruiters asking to be added to their network (see previous point).

Invitations to seminars, conferences, etc that have nothing to do with my profession.

"LinkedIn" staff wanting me to sign up and pay for yet another feature that I don't need.

As others have mentioned, no personal updates, humble brags, etc.
Non-techies wielding SQL is a big advantage for sure, but a moderately complex dataset sends SQL aggregations complexity through the roof. While modern data warehouses can handle such queries, I can hardly imagine non-technical person being able to write it.

That's where dashboards come in handy.
That's silly.

I have no dog in this fight, but people are allowed to change their opinion, especially as circumstances change. If what your choice was based on changed, then it's perfectly logical for your choice to change in response.

Holding up to "once in a generation" promises is stupid, though so was making such a claim to start with.
1. A PM who lies about attending a party, and runs with the lie until he is forced to admit it by a report and photographic evidence.

2. A PM who lied to the Queen.

3. Food poverty on the up [1]

5. £350m a week for NHS post Brexit, and yet that was a blatant lie. NHS now struggling with many staff quitting post covid and as a result of increased work load due to brexit.

The list goes on.

[1] British medical journal (https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/347/bmj.f7157/F1.large.jpg)
Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm
Here is the government's paper from 2013 made before the 2014 referendum. Extensively covers the economics and many other topics https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publ...
I think it's pretty easy to see examples of what Scotland could be. Have a look over the Irish sea and Ireland is doing very well for itself just a little over 100 years after independence ("full" independence obviously happening slightly later).

It seems very obvious to me that when decisions are made locally they are made in the interests of the people who are local. Being on the periphery of a country is not ideal. Ireland had suffered for it in the past and became very poor as a result of colonization but has rebounded very significantly. Scotland, despite having massive resources is a very very poor and depressed country. If the oil wealth from the North Sea had stayed in Scotland, you could be having a Norway style moment but instead that wealth has gone south.
He's talking nonsense. He's talking running a new line from the nearest electrical pole to his house. That is almost never necessary.
Significant is your get out clause. The SSP had six or so members and in electoral terms has been significantly more successful than any English or British equivalent except perhaps sinn fein, who were at least notionally socialist and left of labour.

How far left do you want to go? Cenfuegos press was Scottish, that's a former angry brigade member.
Yes, that's the solution but only if you share with people that understand Python and if you are allowed to upload code + data to the cloud.
> The EU has an absolutist position on border integrity

And do you have an opinion about UK position on border integrity?