skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm late to the party, but I'll chime in anyway... Keeping up with friends can only work if one has friends; We are more isolated than ever. I always blamed the boring suburbs/built environment for this, but Japan has the same problem, so idk.

The poll of 1,254 adults aged 18 and older found that 27 percent of millennials have no close friends, 25 percent have no “acquaintances” and 22 percent — or 1 in 5 — have no buddies at all.

Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported On the 12th, citing the results of the survey, 31.3 percent of Japanese surveyed said they had no close friends, far higher than the United States, Germany and Sweden.

"Every empire contains the seeds of its own destruction" -G.W.F. Hege
It's not zoom school anymore unless you know of colleges that are over zoom.
Yes, if you get your information from someone with a duty or relationship to the company, you're also an insider. But if you come by material nonpublic information on your own (for instance, from drone surveillance, or some clever analysis of public IDs in URLs, or whatnot), you are allowed to trade on it; that doesn't make you an insider trader. I'm just correcting the statement made upthread about what constitutes an insider.
I tried, and see that it does what it claims to do. For this kind of alternative social networks you need to answer this question first:

If there is no network effect, which you don't have and will not have in the foreseeable future, what value do you provide?
Basically a modern version of the US Copyright Act of 1790. 14 year terms with an automatic 14 year extension if the work is still in print and was in print for say 10 out of 14 years of the initial term. If it isn't made available in the country, it isn't under copyright. If you "assign" your copyright to somebody else, you have the right to revoke said "assignment" at any time and reclaim your copyright. Publishers should only be allowed to publish under a license from the creator and should be banned from being able to steal the copyright to the work from the creator via deceptive contracts. Corporate copyright should only be allowed if the work was actually the work of the corporation rather than the work of an individual or unincorporated group of individuals.

Patent law would, ideally, be abolished altogether as I'm not convinced that other types of patents are any more legitimate than software patents. Trademarks should not expire, of course, but there should be restrictions on what you can trademark to protect the public domain (for example, the mouse corporation shouldn't be able to evade the copyright term limits by trademarking its characters).
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A spontaneous, decentralized work of art. Don't spoil it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924301
Easy for one person, you just set it and forget about it, I've one 4-core dedicated server for clickhouse that is inserting around 100 million new rows a day, db size is tens of terabytes, works without problems.
Sounds like Python wasn't right for those people in the first place. Abstracting away the internal data format is typical of Python.
IIUC this would be autopilot functionality, not FSD. And like the sibling suggests, it should be always on.
Online comments and user reviews :-)
The modern capitalist concept of property is abstracted a long way from its roots.

> Are you suggesting we return to being hunter gatherers? If not, I’m not sure what you are proposing.

I'm not proposing anything. I'm just describing our current system of organising the world, but in physical rather than the usual virtual terms. As a physical process, our current political/economic systems are dismantling the systems we live within. That doesn't mean I (not being a Nobel prize candidate!) could magically come up with a system to manage billions of people and an entire planet! I'm not particularly sanguine about anyone (or any collective) being able to. The destructive mechanisms are pushing us into emergency territory requiring fairly quick action, and H. Sapiens' cognitive/affective/conative capacities don't seem well adapted to the task of managing an entire planet. Given that evolution can't anticipate, why would they be?
It is not an evidence at all. Things look rather damning only if you are already biased.
I don’t think there’s a right or wrong here. I think there are strong arguments on both sides. What I would say is, I think Hendrix would’ve been booted out of a higher education system due to not conforming to the established principles of music theory, or some such thing.
He's been writing a song a day for 13 years and 277 days. That's 5,025 songs
R&D = all employees' salaries
We don't have a surplus of men, we have a lack of men: there are not enough highly educated and high earning men for all the women that want a superior men to them (the definition of hypergamy). You cannot find a partner for the 60% women in college, there are just 40% men and dropping.
Should post your mastodon name in your profile, cause he's bought it. Are we all gonna switch, are your favorite people who are on twitter also gonna switch? It's pretty decent, but I have a feeling the network effect is pretty strong. I just asked to open a mastodon account so we'll see.
Yes but that’s not a good argument against buying them now, instead it’s an argument in favour of setting up a replenishment programme for some fraction of the reserve every year after some initial delay.
I'll counter with a different unpopular opinion. Specialized vocational training should be viewed separately from continued cultural education and continued cultural education should be much more accessible. After you get out of high school you should choose a vocationally oriented educational institution to learn about whatever specialized field you've chosen, whether that's decades of medicine training, a year or so of CS training or a few years of trades training - then, for the rest of your life, cultural education programs discussing higher abstract mathematics, philosophy, advanced literacy, political science and other liberal arts, should be available as ongoing pursuits that are ingested ala carte. This is drastically different from our current educational system and the cynics among us will happily point out that implementing something like that overnight would probably just defund education in the current system but I think that'd be a much nicer way to approach life and I think it's reflected in how much continuing education content exists both modern stuff like youtube and more traditional tv shows (including nature shows and things like Cosmos). Modern web based learning (everything from SkillShare which is more vocational to Khan Academy and Harvard's online lectures) are making continuing education more accessible, but we need more! Learning is an activity that should be actively engaged for your entire life!

People like to point at folks working at Mickey D's and opine on how their bachelor's degree is wasted, but if that bachelor's degree came with philosophy courses that taught you self-worth and empathy that helps you raise to a management position that creates a nice working environment for a half a dozen people then I think that is a fine use of education. Learning for learning sake is valuable enough and it doesn't need to be itemized about how much "value" (always framed in terms of vocational training) that it creates for society.
I didn't read it as a joke. Young adults can be incredibly destructive if left to their own devices.

> The relationship between aging and criminal activity has been noted since the beginnings of criminology. For example, Adolphe Quetelet (1831/1984) found that the proportion of the population involved in crime tends to peak in adolescence or early adulthood and then decline with age. In contemporary times, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) arrest data (1935–1997), particularly the Crime Index (homicide, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft), document the consistency of the age effect on crime.

[1] https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/602...
Oh boy you’ve drank all the koolaid. That is not the default treatment, you have no idea what you’re talking about and you’re letting propagandists wind you up.
If you genuinely put an effort into refining your critical thinking, you should have no problem getting a return on your investment on any publicly subsidized university. Plenty of jobs demand strong critical thinking or writing skills, but don't have require any specialized knowledge that you'd learn in college.

According to the author, people used to go to college to simply get drunk, and implied that this changed, so I view this as a positive change.
no it's not don't sign up and use it instead of HN pls
do you think the obama administration depleting the stockpile of N95 masks from 2009-2016 made any difference?

see section 3 “The Atrophy of Vigilance in the Strategic National Stockpile”

https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/23p...
That would make sense though, right? We literally make officers carry guns and tell them “use this to defend yourself, and as a last resort against dangerous suspects when the situation warrants” as part of their job description. It stands to reason that the likelihood of a cop using their gun in a “legal” way is higher on average than the average person who fires a gun. Even in cases where an officer does get arrested on suspicion of murder, it’s less likely to be convict-able than average.
On the topic of artificial scarcity, once food becomes quickly and easily synthesisable on consumer premises, does anyone think that will not be incredibly heavily gate-kept by roles similar, or even identical, to copyright as it is now?
No, you claimed that the visual editor was the default on wikipedia.

> I mean, it’s the same VisualEditor that’s used across MediaWiki sites, including as the default on Wikipedia.

I mean, I guess you could claim technical correctness if Wikia was defaulting to a non-visual editor, but that's going on a wild tangent and the opposite of the real situation

I'm not sure how the opt-in visual editor on wikipedia being the same as the default editor on wikia would disprove the claim that the visual editor's more difficult linking would cause people using the default experience on wikia (wysiwg editor) to link less compared to those using the default experience on wikipedia (source editor) with it's less sidelined linking experience.
Get some of that wifi blocking wallpaper to try to block a lot of whatever is coming through from outside?
Propaganda never works.
I haven’t read the spec, but I believe that some backwards compatibility is built in, and there’s a degree of complexity involved in making a robust framework that isn’t general purpose (like Wifi), but instead offers compartmentalisation of different device types and use cases.

I agree with the manufacturer concerns, but many were in a bit of limbo while Matter and Thread languished in draft RFC hell. The spec was always ‘coming by the end of the year’, and obviously impacted by the pandemic.

At least now, there is some certainty and a path forward.
> You can plainly see that I recognize the magic remark as sarcastic

Indeed, and I stated such :)

> so what is the point of your response?

What is the point of yours? The "magical" nonexistence of footage whenever 1. there would ordinarily be footage and 2. that footage happens to record something for which someone doesn't want evidence demonstrates a pattern; that pattern is in and of itself a problem, regardless of whether it's explained by incompetence or malice. Assuming that someone else assumed malice and quibbling on that particular point is a pointless distraction from the actual problem in this case.
Correct, it has not yet been successfully implemented in the history of humanity.
I play Conan Exiles which isn't exactly an MMO, but has the same sort of resource gathering grind. While my character is new, I don't actually mind it, but once I'm no longer just surviving, but thriving as a character, the basic resource gathering becomes mind-numbing due to the shear amount of stuff I need. There's no way to automate any of it.
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For a very concrete example of this kind of issue, r18.com is shutting down without offering refunds or anything; videos people "bought" can be streamed (or "downloaded", but with DRM that will make them unwatchable when the service goes down) until 6 months after the announcement, then you're SOL.
"has left some of the more complicated use cases for later."

Er, Stacey, you mean "most interesting".

But better late and lame, than never.

Remember, the great thing about Smart Home standards is there are so many to choose from.
College would also be more affordable if schools weren't making dorms and cafeterias that compete with 5 Star Hotel experiences.
They can be, but in practice you’ll want a cable capable of at least 60 W for the laptop. So now you either have to carry all the same high power cable (more expensive and wasteful) or give up on the benefit of having one type of cable to begin with.
Nuance matters. In this case people start saving but also EXPECT prices to increase. So prices are able to increase under that speculation. Sellers can then demand higher prices while demand decreases. [0] discusses self-fulfilling oil price increases due to speculation of oil price increases. This is more what I was pointing at but conveyed (extremely) poorly.

There's also the matter that people treat econ 101 as facts but the truth of the matter is economics is really fuzzy and there are no hard rules and there are always (ALWAYS) exceptions. Even what I said can happen or can not. I was just pointing out that it ,,can'' happen. It's all very statistical. But you may notice that the real world very much does not follow anywhere near the econ 101 models. It's like doing physics where everything is a spherical cow. Truth of the matter is that if we actually understood economics we wouldn't run into situations like this. It isn't like economies benefit from major downturns and inflation. It'd be like knowingly shooting yourself in the foot. Over and over again.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/033115/how-does-law...
> Other countries have this model, particularly in Europe, where college isn't a requirement for employment, but a benefit none-the-less.

If anything, European companies are more credentialist when it comes to degrees than their USA equivalents.

The European model is better simply because it's free-to-cheap for the student.
Pumsae for the tae-kwon-do folks. It is awesome.
Imagine getting done in by your own Google Glass.
It would be truly amazing. All Musk had to do to minimize his exposure was to do exactly what he was doing - loudly and repeatedly proclaiming “won’t someone rid me of this troublesome merger agreement!” and seeing what crawls out of the woodwork. If he couldn’t help himself and went beyond that - well. Like you said, just simply amazing.

I can’t exactly blame Musk for taking the lesson from the last several years that the American social, political and legal systems are seemingly incapable of dealing with bad-faith actors who are loose with the truth and fluid in their commitment to their, uh, commitments, but it’s nice to know that Delaware Chancery is a place where bluster and obfuscation doesn’t fly. Yet, anyway.
Gotta have those stocks of Radaway of course. Where are the vaults though? I want to sign up.
I've messed around with it a lot, and none of it is particularly life changing. You're not missing out on much by just ignoring it and living your life. With that said, I have three use cases that I enjoy a lot.

We sleep with a sound machine on. I have it set up so when the sound machine goes on, the lights in the bedroom go off and the subwoofer in the living room (adjacent to the bedroom) turns off. We tend to sleep at different times so this allows whoever is still awake to continue watching things without disturbing whoever is sleeping. I also have the outside lights set to turn on at sunset and turn off when the sound machine goes on.

For some reason the lights in my kitchen are controlled by two sets of switches on the opposite side of the room. I added a button to the kitchen island that turns every kitchen light on and off.

Finally, I have the under cabinet lights set to go on at 50% brightness when motion is detected in the kitchen after dark. That way we can grab a drink or a snack without blinding ourselves.

It's all pretty simple stuff but it's nice to have.
> Wonder how long that will last?

Probably for longer than USB-A male connectors exist, knowing how fast things usually evolve in said industries :)
Yep, correct. But it's expensive if you have traffic :)
I suppose I made a mistake in getting political, but there's a difference between atrophying something, and sweeping the whole thing into the trash.
There are some narrow fields I would point to - Doctors being chief among them - that probably legitimately require extensive training.... for us normal plebs though I'd put forth an argument that degrees are pretty unnecessary. The vocational side of degrees is basically a way to get a jump start on skills acquisition (and avoid learning bad habits or wasting time) but, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I honestly don't think this training should be bundled into cultural education.
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I'd like to see Apple remove the port completely and rely on wireless charging and communication, only in the EU, just to spite the EU.
True, in pro cycling over the last few decades it became almost mandatory (unless you were phenomenally gifted) to take PEDs in order to be able to compete.

The difference between being in a top team and a lower ranked team is measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Riders who spent 10-15 years of their childhood training to be a pro were faced with a difficult choice - cheat and realize your dream, or stay clean and walk away from the sport.
What about the Pinebook Pro or MNT Reform or new MacBooks? I know TrustZone is a thing, but heard it's not really the same and also not used in every SoC.

Also, The Asus C201 Chromebook has Libreboot support, it's not just old ThinkPads.
Look for „Disk Loading“ - in short, the more rotor surface you have for every kilogram of mass, the more efficient your vehicle will hover.

Turbo fan engines work more efficient, because with their huge fan diameter, they have lower disk loading than turbo jet engines without bypass.

Lilium has a very high disk loading, resulting in low efficiency, resulting in short possible hovering times.
sure Bloomberg's headline uses the word "stole" as if that was the crime

Gary is accused of money laundering and other crimes, because of the money laundering and other crimes. Money laundering is a tacked on charge that requires discovering an illicit origin of the funds. Then subsequent actions, such as the laundering through additional mixers, depositing in BlockFi for collateral with clean funds loaned against the dirty ones, and using those clean funds, can all be criminalized.
How do you know it has no result if you can't see total number of votes or score for that comment?
God help us if this is the kind of article those in charge of teaching children are writing.
> The police are very well funded. Campus police at some universities have armored vehicles now. Meanwhile, we’ve systematically defunded classrooms. Every year, states have cut funding to schools and colleges. Teachers use their own money to buy school supplies. A lot of them can’t even support themselves.

States do give less than they used to, but the federal government gives more. The combination of the two is increasing, slowly, after suffering during the Great Recession. Third-party funding has also increased, by the way.

This to say that I don't think the reason fewer people are going to college is because there's less money in higher education. Funding is a factor, but the lack of state funding doesn't explain the poor choices schools make with that money.
> and go join Larry Ellison on his island for mojitos at sundown.

Of all his behaviour and stupidity here, I have never for a second believed he will just kick back and live the billionaire life.
He’s a workaholic, and he loves Tesla, starship and more too much. Say what you will about his character and decision making, you can’t deny the guy works extremely hard and is devoted to making stuff better
I think we should normalize the idea that community colleges and remedial education is okay. Had a hard time with Algebra in High School? That's okay, you can take that, and you can work your way up to Differential Equations in the same place! For a fraction of a price of a four year school!
there's a lot wrong in the the fundamentals the us had been founded on recently

your data constantly being collected and sold is a violation of unwarranted searches

actors like twitter/cloudfare/etc playing morality police about what opinions you're allowed to express on what should be considered a public common

needing to write diversity statements for scientific grant funding is a violation of the separation of church and state

and the police having no need answer as accountable to the courts shows a serious lack of checks and balances

but i think the errors are becoming more obvious to the ever-growing internet-raised generations as they get older and there's going to not only a majority of people realizing this, but there will also be rockstar solutions to all of these things within the next 10-20 years, society will snap back to where it should be as long as people speak openly about these things. i don't believe a dystopian future is the final destination
I am not trying to be negative. I mean, what’s brewing is not a subject to throw jokes around. It’s a genuine question, considering current geopolitical issues, when is the right time to prepare for a crisis if not now?
If you have some training as you claim you do, then you too would realize 107 rounds fired is not unusual or unexpected, given the events of that evening. (FYI not from the article, this is a sidebar conversation about some other event that you may have waded into unknowingly).

The only point I raised was 107 rounds fired from 7 or more individuals is not unusual. Folks like to run around with some number of rounds fired as-if it indicates malfeasance - but it really doesn't. That was the only point I was making... everything else is "what-if" noise...

Zero judgement was passed on the events themselves, but it seems people want to force you to state an opinion none-the-less.
This isn’t about the rates that cops are committing crimes, it’s about cops getting more leniency from the system than regular people.

There aren’t that many documented cases of cops shooting people without justification, but in those cases you often find instances of cops covering up for other cops. That’s evidence not just for these cases but also otehr cases which where successfully suppressed.