skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Left people think it's right biased and right people think it's left biased. There are more than enough data points for everyone to find lots to dislike: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... We're all more likely to notice 'negative' examples, and what counts as 'negative'? Simply what you yourself disagree with.

In other words, these perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. What you're perceiving is not the site/community as a whole, but an inverted reflection of your own preferences. People with opposite views notice opposite things and arrive at opposite conclusions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Just to mention a few examples, here are people who have opposite preferences to yours and therefore have opposite perceptions of HN, often quite intensely:

hn leans extremely conservative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31951761

many comments on HN of late have tilted radical right-wing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31570945

I feel pretty confident about the right/libertarian bias to HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31562828

intolerable shithole full of pretend libertarians (e.g. racist white power sorts) [...] countering that will summon dang, who *always* hands out the bans to one side (https://web.archive.org/web/20220717202958/https://news.ycom...)

it's capital that aligns to fascism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32002395

pretty heavily Libertarian https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070125

filled with self obsessed tech bros who pretend they are "libertarian" but are actually just racists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31701287

always been very right wing ... always filled with racist, sexist, right wing political abuse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352287

Plenty more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870, with links to others.
Manufactured how?
Gp is referring to the redaction, not the language.
This is true in Europe and I guess in any other normal country.

If I stayed to insult my employer (wherever, including social media) they would have the right to fire me.

If I do not agree, I can go to court.

Of course, the nature of my comments matter. If I say that I like the color blue and they do not, they cannot do anything.

If I say that their products suck, they will fire me and the court will agree.

If I say that their products are dangerous (whistle blowing) then they can try to fire me but I will be protected by law.
Option+D would be the analogue on Mac.

This might work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shortkeys/
Sounds like the story of most of us, if not all.
Scott's thots part 2
I think this is largely a straw man, or taking an extreme case as representative.

I have friends that are not on Facebook. It requires more effort to stay in touch with them (for example, calling them on the phone) but it's doable. I don't see how a thing that was invented 10 years ago is now the sole method of communication with loved ones.

That said, I agree it's not without cost to delete Facebook.
> There's absolutely no technical reason you couldn't build a Rails equivalent in Java.

Groovy with Grails? Never tried Grails so dunno of it was mature enought.
Isn't the RK3588 an 8nm part? Seems odd that it'd have this sort of issue at that frequency, no?
How the Media Polarized Us
I wouldn't call it make-pretend when you can drop electronics in any supermarket and they'll take care of recycling. I don't have statistics but anecdotally people here in Finland seem to recycle electronics as intended.
it’s a misreading, they’re projecting something onto societies they evidently haven’t read up on
Really depends on where you are I guess, but I found no info about you in the link.. also the top right link that says how many spots are left sends me to google.
Pandoc + wget

wget -r https://www.bayesrulesbook.com/ && cd www.bayesrulesbook.com && pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex foreword.html preface.html chapter-{1..19}.html references.html -o book.pdf
As someone working on government projects for most of my career, I don't think the "owners" pocket that much, really.

Would I like to make more money? Yes! Do I think I would be happier somewhere else? Probably not! I like living in a "flat" society where most people are treated well. If anything, if it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't have been able to have the career I now have.
Ok. I'm also curious about your comment regarding GOTO. How is it potentially insecure?
No, but you can see the critical thinking ability of HN on full display right here.
His description of trench warfare and hand to hand combat is horrifying.
I understood his views on communism better after reading the book.
Is this the one where this group stole the name YOLO from the original authors because they're no longer working on it?
Recent studies have linked depression to chronic inflammation. [1] Long COVID is also tied to inflammation.

I can only speak from my experience in battling (non-COVID) depression that as I have gotten my inflammation under control (better diet, herbal supplements, medication, alternative medicine), my pain and depression have eased significantly.

If you can, attack it from all angles. See a psychiatrist who can find a medication suited to your specific symptoms of depression. A therapist will be important, too. Maybe look into a chiropractor or massage therapist (depression can cause pain). Consider a nutritionist to help you with an anti-inflammation diet. Acupuncture, medical cannabis. I haven’t tried/needed all of these yet, but they’re tools I know I can tap into if needed.

Good luck, feel better.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain...

[2] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/long-co...
Interesting you chose Photoshop: I've stayed on my older version of Lightroom because Adobe moved to a subscription based model and I just don't use it enough to justify that. They're clearly addicted to that revenue stream over their former model.
After Tom Scott made a video about VPNs[1], apparently a lot of VPN company executives got together to rethink how they market their product. He mentions that the reason there are so many VPN ads is probably because they are VC-funded, so perhaps the gravy train will run out for these companies some day.

It's odd to me that they have pivoted to marketing VPNs for out-of-region TV, because that's against the terms of service of pretty much every streaming provider. I guess if the ads don't mention a name, they can say "oh we expected you to find a streaming service where that's not illegal, not use Netflix."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
It's been infuriating watching this in real time in the UK. Over the past 6 months, shops that sold liquids overnight just stopped selling anything reusable, with shelves full of this single use shit

Of course these sell better with higher margins than the old liquid bottles. Hope they get taxed into oblivion, wayyy worse for society than an equivalent box of cigarettes
Looking at Paradox's past promises and what was delivered, I expect the game to be just as focused on warfare as Europa Universalis IV.
Yes, and the SPD banned anti-war socialists and communists in 1918, and then ordered to have leaders of the KPD shot in 1920. As you surely know, 1920 is before 1924. The point being, the KPD and the SPD were irrevocably alienated from each other past the point of no return before Stalin took power.
Link is at the bottom. https://git.sr.ht/~erock/prose.sh
Absolutely. If your relationships is dependent on a single medium of communication, and you cannot migrate it to another one, that's a weak relationship or it's only local to the medium (some people are Twitter friends, and that's fine).
Since you don't have the lived experience of being a white male, this is a very problematic statement. Might want to consider running your posts past a sensitivity reader in the future
I would only allow them to do online purchases themselves once they turn 14 or so. No restrictions what they spend their money on.
Reduces the risk of them falling for phishing and scams
So in short, your view is that respect is simply the sum of the subjective expectations of countervailing forces (i.e. respector, respectee, and society)? If so, that doesn't provide a clear definition for the term. Instead it leaves the act of defining to interpersonal power plays.
Unless I've missed something, the SpaceX estimates this seems to be based on miss the rather basic fact that the energy/time (and presumably economic) cost of Mars trips varies depending on the synodic cycle.

It's never just point and shoot.

So the current SpaceX estimates are going to be for the most efficient and cheapest trajectories.

If you want to ignore the synodic cycle and run missions every day for years, the costs are going to be much higher.
Goal: A Paper Every Day. Day 1: Mesos Paper
Talk of "mate options" is not how most normal people approach relationships. Also, language discussing and finding a woman you desire being difficult if you don't make a lot of money is just odd and incelly as it casts the aspersion that all women are mercurial. It also paints women as objects of desire and not people with personalities, interests, dreams and a rich life - according to your language they're mercurial mate options.

I just think you could have phrased things a little better.
it’s performative in many cases to set standards for workers who have less innate reason (no meaningful stake, stolen wages) to overwork
I use an alias for everything. You don't think that Jethro Nethro is my real name, do you? :-)
Exactly. At some point I've had a conversation with most of the people who have filtered out of my life over this. I explained the reasons why I feel that Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopathic scumbag and his company is a cancer upon humanity, with the consequence that I won't knowingly use any product made by any company he owns or controls. For those who've filtered out of my life, their response was mostly along the lines of, "You said words, but I wasn't paying attention. I think Facebook is fun."

For most of the non-techie people in my life, I just communicate via common open protocols like SMS and email, things everyone can use easily. I do encourage people to try Matrix or Signal, but I certainly don't require those to communicate with me.
Same here.

Like alcohol, drugs and smoking, endless streaming media is just something I don't touch. I know there's an insane amount of good content to watch out there, but I'm content with not knowing what it's like diving into that rabbit hole.
Probably because I hate lines, it always shocks me to see the cars lined up around the block at takeout for my local Starbucks. In person lines are almost as bad. I've skipped coffee in the morning when traveling because I didn't want to stand in a 15 minute line.
Very timely post given the threat of the fascist movement in the US right now.

Especially interesting that Orwell mentions the right to birth control, since that, too, is now being threatened and destroyed in the US. Orwell understood the link.
> In addition, using the mean (average) is deceptive, because it is skewed by the few people that earn a lot (Jeff Bezos walks into a bar). Using the median would make more sense

Confused by this comment -- the source I linked IS using median, not mean. I guess that does mean (heh) that the number isn't skewed as much by higher numbers, but can still be skewed by the larger number of part-time high school kids too.
What ever happened to those, I remember years ago Grails was pretty popular, and groovy was one of the premier alternative JVM languages.

Then it felt like it just disappeared after some years, no one mentioned groovy or Grails anymore.
You’ve got to start somewhere though. And anywhere is marginally better than nowhere. As opposed to throwing your arms up in the air saying “it’s pointless we should be doing something else instead so let’s do nothing at all”. That’s exactly what the industry is aiming for, learned helplessness.
I think Chrome's pw manager is pretty fine if you don't feel like you're missing anything.

I'm on the free tier of Bitwarden and it's been perfect for me. I'm a cheapskate with subscriptions though.
Sure, I agree, though not anymore horrible than dealing with Autotools. Shitty developer tooling is a different question (and a very important one that I trying to solve), but I am simply talking about being unaware of the simplest features because of one's ideological blinders.
The median household income in the US is $67k, not 110k.
Thanks for the list! We do have some of these, and I'll check on adding the rest to my cart.

I think a considerable amount of what I'm looking at is the more ephemeral type of book, so I feel a bit better doing a more vicious weeding. Thanks!
Do you think major websites that are funded by ads would simply block Firefox with merged ad blocker?
Nation invests in the health of future generations instead of maiming swaths of the workforce unecessarily. It's a good move
Life is not fair and not everyone who works hard gets paid more. However on average the better skilled get paid more, and this is exactly why so many immigrants come to America despite our supposed bare-knuckle form of capitalism - we are a place where people who work hard and succeed can get ahead.

Please, if you don’t like America then don’t come here, or if you are here just leave. However a lot of supposed socialist utopias in Europe have effectively zero immigration that allows you to be a full citizen on their pension rolls. Just see how hard it is to immigrate to the Netherlands or Norway.
Software developers around the world are not going to work for $2k/mo. Even in cheaper countries they realize it takes some money to get into middle class, or they would consider moving closer to where the action is.

Especially since you need a few generalists who should work with minimal oversight (and indeed provide one).
I read stories about Amazon trashing unused or return devices. What if they are promising to recycle them but really just want to know which electronics are being turned in as obsolete? It’s probably more about data on consumers.
You’d describe American governance as centrist?
like an inverse? where the trash guy controls people and has an 8 figure salary, but the ceo working 4am to 7pm gets paid peanuts?
Really depends on the industry. With everybody online, if someone can't successfully network in a meaningful capacity online then that's their own shortcoming, IMO.
My grandpa prefered the Americans, because the local soldiers gave him (and the other kids) sometimes sweets or stuff like an orange (which he thought was a ball at first, being disappointed that it didn't bounce :D) and were generally very nice to them.

Some older kids only wanted to play as the Germans or Hungarians (at the end of the war, apparently some Hungarian troops were stationed in the local bunkers to fight off the Americans).

I don't know what the other kids in his age group prefered, though.
SF author Eric Flint has died
I’m at a FAANG+, in a team working on B2B enterprise products (SAAS). Previously I was in consumer electronics and B2C, but even then there was a healthy relationship between design and eng.

I’ve been remote for about 5 years.

What are specific examples of friction you’re encountering ?
Brittney Griner turned her back on America and sold out to Putin
I'm curious how much of this was a reaction to the overtly obvious "Russian Collusion" conspiracy theory. If Trump had been left to fail on his own without the interference by intelligence agencies I suspect he would have far fewer ardent supporters.
I don't think Firefox extensions can do this sort of thing.
We came to a similar calculus, nearly the same cost of unattended subscriptions. Dropped the obvious ones, and for entertainment, we usually have 1 a month, and actively decide what we're going to bing watch.
>I remember watching a post of hers and thinking "damn, that's fucked up", and then went and investigated the full source material

Any specifics ? what was the actual post and how did LOTT misrepresented it ?

>She also regularly republished obvious troll accounts as fact

The cat litter thing is the only factual incident where LOTT did in fact post false things, you are free to prove me wrong with links. Besides the fact that she did in fact apologize for it, so you seem to be doing a fair bit of misrepresentation yourself, it actually kinda proves her point nonetheless. The kind of people LOTT makes fun of are so far out there that this is the kind of thing you would believe they would do. Like imagine if I told you "Mainland China makes its citizen report dissenting journalists on social media", regardless of whether its true or not (I just made it up, I have no idea), you will believe it because it's the kind of thing you imagine Mainland China does to its citizens, and there is plenty of precedents of it doing far worse things.

Regardless of how this incident happened or developed, I find it quite telling that this the only incident LOTT detractors seems to reach for when they need an example of her supposed misinformation. A twitter account that posts nearly daily or more since march 2021, and the only thing you can find is 1 post. Because news organization and nearly every single source of information out there totally doesn't make mistakes ever.

The truth is that, just like GP said and apparently upsetted HN progressives too hard, progressives (and most people, but we're talking about progressives in this case) hate to have a mirror held up to their faces. They see the ugliness and the raw insanity and think that it must be in the mirror itself ("She's MISREPRESENTING us"), there is no polite way of telling them that mirror is just a neutral reflection.
Lloyd's of London: Catastrophe Modelling and Climate Change (2014)
If you want to make espresso the type of grinder is important for the quality of the coffee. More important than the espresso machine. You want a disc grinder, and they are more expensive than cone grinders.

For filter / french press / aeropress it doesn't matter as much and you can use any cheap grinder.
Not only that, it’s a broad generalization of a cohort that’s both arbitrary and loosely defined. Even more useless.
Debian Violating Rust Trademark
Maybe it’s just me and all my friends but: when things break, pests, foundation issues, plumbing issues, door issues, lock issues, appliance issues, mold… you have to do it yourself or research & get quotes for it. Big hassel

When I rented I had one phone number to call and they had to deal with it.
In the summer, I sometimes like ice coffee. I actually bought a cold brew coffee maker. I still use it for iced tea sometimes but otherwise I just pick up the cold brewed coffee in the supermarket.

In addition, although I'm definitely not a Keurig fan I rather like Nespresso and have been having that rather than dealing with the filling and cleaning of my espresso maker.
That sounds extremely useful.

Is it possible for others to use this as well ?
Non-Facebook link from his publisher:

https://twitter.com/BaenBooks/status/1548746657373749249
Used to do the same and still would if I had a coffee maker. Now I just use a plastic drip cup, filter, and cafe bustelo (nothing against coffee makers, it's just less space/easier imo). Tastes good, affordable, lifts spirits, gives some pep, gets the job done, and helps trigger the morning number 2/three Ss.

Though, one does wonder if the connoisseurs have better experiences with their morning laxatives
.NET did run in the browser from day 1, even if only on IE.
I think it may be possible to change browser shortcuts with a custom UserChrome.js but it is very much going down a nonstandard path.
I kept getting told that if I didn't love it, to leave it. So I did and it's been great.
Alright. That's totally fair and true, but that's not within the context of this thread, the first post specifically said "music production wise" and this is what all the corrections refer to.

Consumer audio, even (or especially!) when things are 10x more expensive than pro products, is definitely a bit of a garbage fire.
Disagreeing is one thing, flagging an article from The Economist is something else, and really pulls the mask down..
sorry, I can be as dismissive of reactionary nonsense while being more helpful - here’s a compelling realm of research that they’re evidently missing out on and not speaking to and choosing to treat something demonstrably avoidable as utterly inevitable/exclusively practical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32126771
I've been using google chrome for years but now it works worse with every new update. constantly changing features, newly added nonsense, ram usage problems, I'm really tired of it all now. I think it is the most logical to switch to firefox or another alternative.
So far looks like it, created from resistance against PNaCL, and now clamming new ideas that are actually quite old.
Would love to read an explanation of this.
Two things from this article stick out to me:

1) The author was paying for both Bear and Craft. To me, they serve the same purpose - Markdown notes editors with a sync component. I tried both out (and liked both) but have since settled on Obsidian because I like being able to see my notes as .md files on a device I own.

2) The author mentioned Microsoft Office was a lifetime purchase in 2021 which confused me - are they are referring to Office 2019 instead of Office 365? I don't believe O365 offers a lifetime option.
> Programming should be taught as a combination of theoretical computer science, mathematics, and applied applications, which is already is in many places. I think that someone should learn from theory and from the ground up.

I could not agree more.

This was my university experience. I will say that the most 'useless classes^1' I took were the most important to my career. These 'useless classes' were classes like Assembly Programming, Digital Logic, Discrete Math, Algorithms & DS, and perhaps Linear Algebra.

Taking Discrete Math/Digital Logic straight into Assembly was the wombo-combo in which everything "clicked" for me. I think I really benefited from seeing things operated at a low-level and the theory behind how the low-levels worked. With current high-level languages being so abstracted from low-level programming, I feel like a lot is missed when skipping out on the lower level languages.

[1] Obviously, I do not think those subjects were 'useless classes.' However, that is the attitude a lot of my peers had lead me to believe because I would commonly read or hear things like, "Who cares how to sort a string? Just use .reverse()" or "Digital logic / Math is useless. I want to be a programmer and not a(n) electrical/computer engineer."
The regulation in this space is weird. It’s more acceptable to show someone getting shot than to show a nipple.
Shooting an elephant is a brilliant short essay from his time as a police officer in Burma. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
I've been on brave for years now. Two vital extensions though:

uBlock Origin

Sponsorblock - skips sponsored segments/outros/self promotion etc that has spread like a plague across YouTube
stopped reading at "by 2050". History has shown that any forecast that far away with regards to achieve is simply pure empty speculation
Net zero means net zero. Batteries are going to be a huge part of our future and we need sustainable approaches to managing them right now and even more later.
There’s a lot of variation in the US. I’m in a 600k city and an area with some kind of COVID program that pays my $20.00 bill. I’m not paying anything for a very reliable 35 mbps.
The United States Demographic Dilemma
Come on, please don't play these kinds of games. This includes single people (in which case you wouldn't need the shared Apple plan, among other things.)
It is classic postapoc
I did not think that espresso is standard for high quality coffee. It is just a type of the coffee.
You can make ”decent” coffee with regular pressure boiler and $200 grinder.
Come and get them, keyboard warrior. :)
Big Vivaldi fan here.