skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also worth pointing out that centralized systems tend to drive people towards wanting decentralization over time, since it's only a matter of time until individuals get burned by the arbitrary whims of the rulers over centralized systems.

I never took such arguments seriously myself until my bank refused service to me without giving me any reason for it. Treating honest customers like criminals is exactly how people start distrusting centralized systems and their untrustworthy authority. In the dns/icann sphere there are also countless factors[0] that are evidence of this, not even talking about the dns hacks[1] or clear cut corruption of icann or censorship attempts.[2]

So it's not only about robustness vs efficiency, but also about additional factors like ownership and freedom + security et cetera.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/09/website-domain-more...

[1] https://threatpost.com/unprecedented-dns-hijacking-attacks-l...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/ukraine-wants-ru...
Scrolling through my subscriptions and posting the ones I haven't seen mentioned yet:

* Epimetheus - Ancient history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9ZtilfKJds0iWytR_pnOQ

* Everyday Astronaut - Rocket engineering breakdowns and other space stuff https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut

* Forgotten Weapons - Discussions of interesting and often obscure firearms, usually by disassembling working examples. https://www.youtube.com/c/ForgottenWeapons

* Have History Will Travel - US Civil War history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhl9yTKO6685Ssam0hXTCw

* Historia Civilis - In depth history, with ongoing series about Rome, the English Civil War, and the post-Napoleonic era. Uploads infrequently but worth waiting for. https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis

* Illinois EnergyProf - Energy, with some focus on nuclear. Uploads infrequently. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w

* NativLang - Linguistics throughout the world https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang
I agree, with the caveat that whatever you use also needs to get funneled into the box at some point. So a cocktail napkin is fine, unless you forget to take it with you. Having a limited set of places that you know you have notes makes this easier.
Interesting thread, many insights on a topic where wisdom is hard won.

That said, I read OPs complaints about polarization and taxes, and I wonder if Latin America might address some of these issues?

(Slightly tongue in cheek)

Your status as a foreigner will make people more forgiving of your ignorance of local political issues, and also interested when you make comparisons to foreign perspectives (especially coming from Europe, which they consider the model of civilization).

Tax evasion is a way of life here, you could declare as little or as much as you like of your foreign income, which combined with the lower cost of living, would mean you could put away a sizable portion of your monthly income.

The quality of life may surprise you in some aspects, provided you are willing to think strategically about your lifestyle, ie where you will work / shop, play and with whom. The food can also be excellent, with a greater abundance of fresh produce, which in Europe often tends to be optimized to withstand prolonged shipping and storage, as well as limited volume/higher price.

And when you eventually decide you have had enough, because the conditions can be trying (constant horror stories about violent home invasions, rife inflation, far fewer accessible /and/ safe getaway destinations, and not being able to consistently get a decent flat white) you can return and declare your savings as foreign income tax free.
It probably means that the Bredesen protocol is the cure for Alzheimers. He has a literally proven track record of success with hundreds of patients.
You're right; my understanding is that for the poor person, inflation is only part of the picture: wage growth is the rest. Inflation is always bad for the investor class. Inflation is only bad for the wage-earning class when their wages don't follow.
> I personally don’t see how we can advance science with the current credentialing and paper citation == academic success we’ve seen grow the last 50 years.

As a scientist I would be thrilled to see someone remove these systems. The question then is: what to replace it with that would work better? None of our resources are infinite.

It's even harder when the fundamental problem is research fraud.
Not OP but will answer anyway. Lived in the US for quite a long time and left a couple of years ago. Below are just my very subjective opinions.

1. Unhealthy relationship with cars, race and food. Food is bad quality in general compared to other developed countries.

2. Car centric city planning, zoning. Suburb culture.

3. Bad or lacking and underfunded public transport everywhere.

4. No public healthcare.

5. Not very good for introverted people who just want to be chill and mind their own business.

6. People will look at you strange or make fun of you if you don’t like or care about certain American things like BBQ, football, burgers, pizza, etc.

7. People in general don’t know much about the rest of the world, and only consume American cultural products.

8. Unsafe outside in certain parts of the city. "Don't go south of that street" kind of stuff.

9. Trump.

I lived in Scandinavia and certain developed Asian countries, and found that these places fit me better, so that’s why I moved away.
ApplyingML: Papers, Guides, and Interviews with ML Practitioners
One thing we have to ask is the monopolization the problem??

Do we want to break monopoly up in favor of a bunch of possibly shittier products?

The real problem It's not the monopoly it's the Monopoly tax.
I was tempted to just post "because f** you, that's why" to be funny, but then it just felt like a quick path to the banhammer. :-)

Seriously though, I'm beginning to believe that this is the path of all general discussion platforms - jerks and morons infiltrate, and the rest of us fall for it.
> But heading straight to “tear down the journals” seems mistaken.

Ultimately, I think journals can be reformed but it’ll break their business model.

Effectively, you can publish without reviews. Then have credentialed people anywhere anonymously making comments / challenges. You can also let the public similarly comment. Similar to movie reviews - people in and out of the industry could both review.

On top of that, allocate 25% of grants for replication which could be done in a somewhat public manner and attached to as a report on the paper. Things like that.

That said, Einstein had his work initially rejected. There weren’t strong journals at the time as a gate keeper. Just people would publish and publicly debate — I don’t think there’s an issue with that now. Particularly, With the internet.
Inflation hurts those, who have their resources denominated in inflated currency, so cash, bank accounts, even your wage specified in contract.

If you converted into other assets, whose price floats against the currency (stock, real estate, metals, art), the price is affected by the floating, but that floating can protect you against inflation as well. You can lose without inflation as well, the risks are different.

If you have that in foreign currency, you are damaged by their inflation, but not necessarily by domestic one.

And now back to your point: who do you think has the resources, that can be held in non-liquid form, convert back as/if needed? Rich or poor?
No remote working for CS/software/hardware?
Why wouldn't they be able to discover your site through the human readable name? They just wouldn't go to a centralized source of truth to find that name, but ask trusted peers for it. IIUC, it's not a huge difference in practice from how things already work, but the technical side allows greater resiliency to attacks from malicious parties.
Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver...probably couldn't be more different. Would not want to lump all of Canada into one of those cities.
The British armed and trained them.

We will never know the truth about the black ops that the English security agencies were involved in. Some things are never declassified.
There are even theories that they deliberately allowed some of the IRA attacks to go through in order to sway the English public opinion. They had their informants all over the place.
You are wrong. You will have incredibly realtime examples of how dangerous this way of thinking is when winter hits Europe this year. Energy is life. It's not a "nice to have" or something people "enjoy".
Bitcoin miners flock to where the energy is cheapest, where it can't be used for anything else, namely stranded renewables. If the energy source can be used for anything else, it is probably too expensive for Bitcoin miners, who are a buyer of last resort. Bitcoin provides a financial incentive for infrastructure build out for these stranded energy sources.

You've made your arguement for "planet destroying", now why is it a "scam"?
I guess that depends on how you define hurt. Rich people may lose more in an absolute sense, but poor people will suffer more from their smaller loss. Most or all of their money is needed for survival.
Fuzzy Finding with Emacs instead of fzf
> Is that related to some legal/privacy issue?

Possibly in some medical or social science fields, I don't know. I know there is not such an issue in chemistry and materials science. There also may be some complications for collaborations with industry, but that's kinda a different situation. For people whose career development is not strongly tied to reproducibility of their work (a.k.a. everybody) it's just another step in the overly complex process of publishing in for-profit journals. Funding agencies generally aren't going to punish people for using this excuse and the watchdogs/groups concerned with reproducibility have no teeth.

Not an excuse, but journals don't make it easy to share files, as hard as that is to believe. Some will only take PDFs for supplemental information and many have garbage UIs, stupidly small file size limits, etc. Just uploading to a repo (or tagged release) on GitHub is common these days because there is much less friction.
thank you for telling me this, but I'm already aware that Russia is based.
You're assuming that inflation comes down.

Our money supply was debased by at least 30%. So far inflation hasn't even made up for half of that.

Even if you assume we go into a recession, it's not going to be long before 2019 dollars are worth $0.70.

$30k was the norm 3 years ago. But it's likely in a couple of years that $40k is the new $30k - because money will have lost that much value.

In that case, people won't really be as far underwater.
On hacker news I'd suggest sharing some technical choices, otherwise you leave people to guess. Anyway:

1. Looks like you're not using libp2p, why? (Not accusing, just wondering)

2. What is your fallback mechanism when hole punching isn't possible? Relay nodes?

3. Follow-up: how do you ensure an acceptable QoS (latency, bandwidth, time to peer-discovery etc) for that fallback mechanism?

4. How do you handle many participants? Amount of chatter scales n^2 by default in p2p.

5. What application bundler are you using (eg electron)?

6. Bonus: what technical challenges were hardest? Any big unsolved problems?

Thank you.
Generally you'll get worse fuel economy due to the ECU and knock sensor detecting the lower grade fuel and pulling ignition timing out. It's unlikely you'd even save money at the pump
My insurance company doesn't care about the infotainment center in my vehicle and DRM hasn't stopped anyone ever. Look at all the farmers waiving their middle finger to John Deere. When has anyone in the history of buying insurance been forced into a bootloader check? Never, you're making stuff up.

If I own the car outright, I own the computer and can do whatever I want to it. Seems like you missed all the DRM hacks, and think vehicle insurance companies do IP law.
I happen to be really good at passing the product sense part of PM interviews. There's a bit too much to cram into a single comment, but the general outline is:

A - make sure to really understand the question, the constraints. Write down the question, and ask about every word. Have a cheat sheet of questions to ask. E.g. what's the timeline, what's the target OS, what's the goal, etc.

B - segment the different possible users. Use MECE for this. The more insight the better.

C - pick a segment and explain why, e.g. not well served by the market. As a bit of a trick pick a community that's generally not well served. Never segment on age, that's boring.

D - segment their pain points, again using MECE.

E - pick a pain point, describe why.

F - brainstorm solutions, pick one, explain why. Make sure to only pick one!

G - talk about how you'd measure success.

... and there you go. There are lots of online services that can give you practice. I used Exponent, seemed reasonable. It's not crazy to spend $50-100 bucks to get better at this given the return.
If a monopolist is efficient, then nationalization is efficient. Break them up or seize them.
Hopefully we start commoditizing everything else, like saffron.
This is pretty crazy! New cars are out of reach for most people in the west. I work in DE and am visiting IN for holidays, I was surprised to see that smaller SUVs with decent tech and features are available here for under / around 10K.

In DE, I could not even get a decent 3 year old second-hand hatchback under 10K. Something just seems off. (e.g. - https://www.hyundai.com/in/en/click-to-buy/prices?prod=VENUE, same for Renault Kiger)
I guess I should post a positive example of what the field (should be/should have been) doing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pro.2339

Ms. Murray (aforementioned hero) is doing a startup these days so if you are or know any VCs that talk a good game about funding science then see if they'll throw some money her way.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad you're living better now
I've noticed this on a lot of tech sites. It switched from pure technology to focusing more on the intersection between tech and culture. Once the tech or business landscape reached a certain point, the focus seemed to shift towards targeting tech or businesses towards cultural problems, or identifying the impact of tech on culture. From that point on, it's going to be more speculative, and more likely that people are going to find more things to take personally or to disagree on. I'm not sure there is really any way to stop this. It just feels like the general direction things will take until a major change in technology brings about greater changes and more opportunities.
Not in the rust belt they don't!

Better engineering and a desire for ever-higher fuel economy means that today's cars are made stronger than ever before (when new) but with less metal. Less metal means the frame is compromised more quickly by corrosion.

All but one of my previous vehicles had engines and interiors that were perfectly fine at 200k miles but the frames and bodywork were so rusted out that the whole car was essentially a loss.

Car manufacturers COULD design a far more rust-resistant car, and it wouldn't even be that hard or much more expensive. But of course when your business is pumping out millions of a thing, you don't have much incentive to engineer it to last longer.
Our laws don't dictate who is allowed to live somewhere, but pricing people out, now matter where, actually causes homelessness because they can no longer afford homes in the area they live.
They start upper middle class here as close to the median household income.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27....

It is probably at the median household income now.
At least for while this changed. Not sure what things are like now though.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/rental-car-shortage-has-hertz-a...
I may be unlucky, but I have met a number of people who are not just selfish or tribal but actively sadistic. They would do something that does not benefit them if it meant discomfort and disadvantage for their outgroup. This is a little beyond just disinterest or lack of consideration, they actively prefer it. These are people who are constrained only by the rule of law, such as it is.

One of the companies I worked for seemingly attracted this type of personality. Of the people like this I've met (and been actually very cautious around), maybe 90% worked at that specific company.
If only the well wasn't poisoned.
A lot of poor people, maybe most of them, have more cash-denominated debts than cash-denominated assets.
How to Be Influenced
The pun is that C is the chemical symbol for carbon.
You've completely ignored what I've said and argued a completely different points.

> On a laptop from 2008, you won't have USB 3.0, 5ghz wifi, support for 16GB DIMM's (and maybe not even 8GB).

As I said, NUCs include all the stuff you've described. So upgrading the NUC in your laptop absolutely would upgrade USB et al. A NUC is a small form factor motherboard with an Intel CPU integrated. Just like upgrading your motherboard in a PC would upgrade USB et al, upgrading the NUC board would too. So your comment here doesn't apply to the product we're specifically talking about.

> But even more to the point, your ten year old NUC is good enough. If you were the sort of person who upgraded, you would have upgraded.

I said I use it as a HTPC. A HTPC is, by definition, not as a primary computing device. It's literally just a set top box.

If my last laptop was upgradable by swapping the board with a new one (in the same way as the laptop being advertised here is) then I absolutely would have done that instead of buying a new one. I loved that laptop -- still do. But it just aged too far for me to use it as my daily development machine.

> While a C64 isn't good enough for most people today, a ten year old laptop is right up until it breaks.

I don't even understand your point here. You're comparing apples to oranges and don't even make a point out of it.

For what it's worth, I do still have a bunch of 80s (and 70s too) 8-bit micros and still use them regularly. Sometimes for retro gaming, sometimes to teach my kids programming. Sometimes I just power them on for no particular reason aside nostalgia. It's sad how those machines are still working flawlessly yet modern systems 1/10th of the age are routinely breaking. Just goes to show how complex things have gotten and how disposable we consider our hardware these days. Just as your comments on this topic also do.
It’s a deliberate double meaning, maybe even a triple meaning.

(1) a ‘dog pill’ as in ‘a pill for dogs’ as in ivermectin

(2) that document you mention which is one of the most remarkable expressions of postmodernism in that it parodies the rest of that Incel wiki and all of the literature of the social sciences going back to durkheim’s book on suicide. In short that document calls into question the possibility that you could understand anything about human suffering no matter how much rhyme or reason you use.

(3) the logical endpoint of the idea that you can give someone a ‘pill’ that alters their world view permanently and changes everything about them. With bad ideas you can make people storm the capitol building or drop out of school, work and life (e.g. happened to incels I know)

1 and 2 are both cases of 3.
There has been very questionable counting of the deaths in Canada, as well.

For example, according to the public health unit of Canada's most populous city:

"Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...
There is probably a large percentage of BMW drivers who are renting or leasing their cars.
The 48 states that aren't Texas and California just don't have these problems
Also consider elderly on fixed income:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/poverty/3572806...

And we know wage growth for the poor unemployed is far below current inflation levels.
> as far as their employment is concerned, advancing the aims of the owners, generically profit

I quoted the bit where he added legal and moral qualifiers onto that profit motive for the owners.

Which renders his clickbait headline and his now quaint sounding red-scare intro totally empty of meaning. The whole thing just disappears in a puff of logic.

He even admits that himself.

"Don't do what's best for society. Why not? Because that's bad for society" is a paradox that he points out himself, though apparently he thinks writing an Op-ed in the WSJ telling people they shouldn't do something doesn't count, which means it's not hypocrisy when he does it.
"False" is the traditional word here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color
Because the car’s usefulness is much less if they get conventional car tires. Lower range is super annoying, so people just pay for the slightly more expensive low rolling resistance tires. They’re also the standard replacement tires.
The other huge cost drivers are testing and calibration. Even if you have all the parts to make another one, you'll spend a lot on expensive labor to put it together, tune, calibrate, and verify it.
Right now is a weird time where buying a used car may be a worse financial decision than buying a new car. Used cars are marked up so high right now that when this corrects later this year, the owner of the used car will have lost so much value from it.

Best bet is to stay away from the market all together for awhile, until it all comes crashing down. Then scoop up the bargains.
I'm waiting on a Corolla right now. Found a dealer who will sell for MSRP. But ... there are no cars. Every Corolla that you see on Autotrader as new right now, with few exceptions, was sold months ago and they're using the listing as an ad to attract folks like me to go on a waiting list. Crazy.
Yes. The problem with marketing people is it's hard to tell which ones are full of shit and which ones aren't...becuase they both sound the same.
Reminds me of this (Greg Young - The art of destroying software):

https://vimeo.com/108441214

I'm still trying to figure out how to apply this to my personal javascript codebases.
Robert Evans is an amazingly good journalist, I would recommend any of his work to anyone. Also, he is very funny.
Googling it, it definitely was not the Norwegian Seaman’s Church. They had a regular storefront (I think it was actually two adjacent retail spaces connected with a opening in the wall near the back).
IIRC from the previous discussions, liver complications are more common following Hep-A or Hep-E infections. What was new about this wave of cases was liver complications without the known Hep A/E precursor.
I just bought a mid-size SUV new (definitely not a frugal decision) - and if I had gotten the top-tier package with every single accessory possible to buy on that model (which I definitely did not do), I still wouldn't have reached that number!! What are people buying? And why?
Not to mention that the light source is a several hundred dollar very high CRI LED with exacting power requirements.

It's a cool technology feature and a beautiful experiment and short film but not exactly easily attainable to the general public.

If you make a similar system with a cheap 100 watt LED you're not going to get the same results.
I’ve always wanted to do a small sampled sentiment polarity test comparing HN with a number of peer subreddits to test whether there is a statistically significant change in tone between the two, and also maybe even with older incarnations of HN. That said I’m not quite sure how to scrape HN without looking like a bot that should be banned.
Eh, there's marketing and there's marketing. Making stuff discoverable to people who do or would want it is great. Abusing psychological tricks to try and get people to buy your product regardless of value is less great. Spamming people because surely they need to know about your super special amazing product is worthy of derision.