skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's reasonable to describe literally everybody who is leaving Twitter as some they that want only one kind of moderation and control over digital square.

I think that some people want what they understand to be misinformation off the platform because the misinformation is used in a hurtful way. E.g. gay people are pedophiles, so fill the feeds of gay people on Twitter with vitriol. I think that some people want misinformation off the platform because of the natural knee-jerk "someone is WRONG on the internet!". I don't think there's some nebulous they who consciously considers the narrative of social media as something to control. I think it's just very hard to remove bad actors in a non-centralized-tyrannical way.

And I think leaving to a decentralized platform isn't a hurdle because of some weird nebulous they who want power over everything. I think it's just less intuitive. I'm a mastodon user and I think "twitter but with decentralized spaces" can be super confusing to someone who is familiar with the centralized space. Many friends who have tried to move to mastodon to enter a community I'm in have accidentally signed up on other servers by accident.
It tends to often be humid here, even in winter.

Right now, it’s 81% humidity. Our laundry has been taking two days to air dry.
> Do you want a hardened criminal or a reformed citizen to move in?

That's not a choice you make regardless of who your government is. At least when Norway arrests someone, they seem to keep tabs on them instead of dropping them off across the street from the liquor store when they served their time.
I think a valid meaning might be "better at drawing what I want to draw." This is absolutely a skill that can be improved, even if the aesthetic quality of the output can't be evaluated objectively.
An exemption to the prohibition of slavery.
The "plastic crisis" is not an example where Luddites were right. At the time it seemed like a good idea to make everything out of plastic, and it probably was considering that we'd have had to cut down an assload of additional old-growth trees if plastic packaging hadn't come along when it did. Overpackaging and irresponsible waste management suck for sure. But legislation and innovation, not wrecking shit, are the answers.

Fossil fuels were not an example where Luddites were right. They have lifted billions out of poverty over hundreds of years at a comparatively small cost, to say nothing of saving countless millions from freezing to death in the dark. Now it's time to leave them behind, and that's just what we're doing.

Rain forest destruction is not an example where Luddites were right. I don't even know where you're coming from here. It should be stopped, but the people saying it should be stopped aren't Luddites.

Obesity and misinformation are not examples where Luddites were right. Again, you're just flailing here, pulling random crap out of your ass. Modern farming practice has saved billions (ever heard of a fellow named Borlaug? It's Google time.) And despite the growing presence of extremism caused by bad actors taking advantage of the same technology that's available to the rest of us, the average person on the street is better informed than ever. If they aren't, it's not the media's fault, it's theirs alone.

"Negative effects of the Internet" reported on an Internet quack medical news site. Okey-dokey, then.

Nuclear weapons put a stop to increasingly-destructive world wars by doing the unthinkable: making the leaders fear for their own lives. That's a boon unmatched by any other in post-medieval history. And nuclear technology could have saved us from countless other ills, if it weren't for mindless FUD from celebrities and politicians with no sense of risk assessment.

Chernobyl? See above. Fossil fuel power sources have killed unimaginable magnitudes more people than nuclear power plants ever could, which is one reason why we need to move past them. But they do it in boring, remote places like hospitals and cancer wards, and they do it years after the harm is inflicted. Without scary green blobs of molten radioactive crap to show on TV, nobody including you cares. News flash: faulty reasoning leads to poor outcomes, (no) film at 11.

Whether you should "go on" or not is up to you. You appear to be addressing a question that wasn't asked, or that was asked by someone who isn't here.
Have a look at the Fujifilm X-S10
https://fujifilm-x.com/en-sg/products/cameras/x-s10/

I like it a lot.
Yeah. I interviewed with a startup at the beginning of this year and the Engineering Director was telling me how he brought his friends on-board like it was some sort of selling point. People he has known since high school. Hard pass.
Had a really good experience with FS.com.

To the point that we even printed out a picture of their warehouse from google maps and wrote “thank you” on it before stapling it to the wall.

They were the best support we received.
No, rehabilitiation is explicitly NOT part of prison. Stop spreading that myth. From Federal Title 18 §3582. Imposition of a sentence of imprisonment:

"recognizing that imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation"
Some people are contributing to making that pie bigger and a lot of people aren’t. Why should the people whose contribution is steady or negative get a fixed fraction of the pie? What’s fair about that exactly?
How many jobs do you have? Like as a professional in some sector of the economy, how many sectors do you personally occupy? Are you a farmer that also writes iOS software? No, obviously not. Whatever job you do is fixed and it contributes a finite amount of economic value. Since the population is now decreasing there are fewer people, which means if all the economic value from everyone is added up then the total contribution will be less than another population with more people.

It doesn't make sense to talk about zero-sum economics because economics is always a positive sum arrangement of work and specializations. The number of workers is the main limiting factor in any productive economy, every other measure is essentially an approximate proxy of that.

The financial sector on the other hand is indeed a zero-sum system. If someone is making money then someone else must be losing it because there is a finite supply of dollars in the economy at any given moment so if the supply is fixed then the monetary economy is a zero-sum game.

All of this is derivable from first principles but for some reason most people are constantly parroting some nonsense about wealth and zero-sums.
My experience is that people treat it as making excuses and don't respond to this well.

Perhaps it's a cultural thing.
This is a small portion of the prison population, and we have vast deserts and remote islands available; something could be done for them that is not freedom but is not perpetual solitary confinement, either.

I feel that most of the death penalty support left is some weird form of virtue signaling; that if "raped to death by a cactus" was on the menu they'd be howling for that punishment.
Thank you everyone for your great replies. I'm excited to try this out!
Exactly. Peace of mind. Now and ever.
> API cannot transfer blocks of data?

This seems like a deliberate and silly misunderstand on your part.

If you don’t realize that most API’s generally do more than simply transfer arbitrary blocks of data, then you have lied about your experience as a developer.

HTTP is just a transfer protocol. It’s in the name.
Pretty much impossible to do without major strain on a relationship if you live with someone else, and god help you if you have kids. FYI.

Doing it down to the studs and all at once is definitely the easier way to do it. Small patches and piecework suck, but if you’re living in it, especially with others, you don’t always get a say in the matter.
> The hard part is, when I want to draw something 'concrete', I can't... For example, a story between a boy and a girl - The only thing I can do is to draw two sticks in order to make them consistent frame by frame XD.

If you ever take an intro art class, you will spend a lot of time doing boring exercises like drawing a bowl of fruit, again and again.

This teaches you how to really "see" something, how to understand the shape, lighting, the true details. When we look at a thing we typically briefly glance at it long enough for our brain to categorize it, and then we move on. To get good at drawing, you need to train your brain to truly see things.

Then you learn how to hold something in your mind's eye and draw it. You start by briefly glancing away, drawing, then you look away for longer and longer, and keep drawing.

Drawing is not a mechanical skill of your hands, it is a mental skill.
3% a year in real terms is not near zero. It's what the actual state of the economy has been for decades, if not centuries.
Replace the aqueous part with vinegar or lemon juice and you have yourself an emulsion, which also makes a delicious salad dressing. What sort of role is like acetic acid in your analogy?
Exactly. When the oil eventually does run out these people will look as corrupt as people that wanted us to keep using leaded gas.
"Tendencies of physicians in training to be overconfident have to be taken into consideration to ensure the appropriate degree of supervision and feedback."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I don't know that my diagnosis is correct, but it certainly seems to be the case that your continual referral back to AIXI despite it being excluded from consideration in my original post and then re-excluded in my most recent comment indicates that your reading comprehension (including my "speech patterns") isn't nearly what you think it is. Of course, another explanation is that you are simply a troll, but that is a decreasingly likely explanation.
This is incorrect, it is a cultural phenomenon. There has always been a balance between doing constructive things for others depending on how close they are socially and caring for themselves. You have all the emotions, you know how it works.

There are tribes where no one cares who gave birth to the kids. We did countless wars and profited at the expense of others but if you fail to account for the soldiers moral it kinda not makes sense for them to make the ultimate sacrifice. We had many religions and some political ideologies where selfishness was not just not admired but frowned upon and undesirable. Most of our quality of life comes from previous generations doing the hard work for us, often intentionally. Try starting from scratch on the "only think of myself" principal and you get something nonsensical like Liberland.

Almost everything was just handed to you. You got a good hand of cards. Almost nothing was the result of you taking care of you.
Just a heads-up: On desktop, in all of the demos, I get stuck on the "Upload ID" step. Clicking on any of the buttons triggers the following error in the console:

Firefox:
> Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The object can not be found here.

Chromium:
> Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Requested device not found

Both at DocumentOptions.svelte:34

It tries to open the camera on mobile.

This should probably offer the option to upload a file, but at minimum it should handle the error.
> deterrence

I think that is the innocent opinion.

If it were for deterrence, then it would need to effectively deter better than it does. It does deter some people, but perhaps not others (especially in the US with its extremely high incarceration rate). And do life sentences effectively deter? It is possible to measure deterrence scientifically, because there is variation.

Also for it to properly deter, many of us would need to experience it first. From the outside we “know” it is horrible, but experiencing it is the only way to bellyfeel just how horrible. And what about the people who like the scene, the routine, and zero responsibilities?
An effect, but not the purpose.
> Iraq body count is a common reference, it paints the coalition forces in a rather good light https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

Another common reference is this one, which has numbers as high as 1,000,000+

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

I wonder: does it seem possible that humans might choose (and psychologically/epistemically favor) one source over another according to how well it supports their pre-existing worldview?

Similarly: might people also "calculate" causality (which directly affects attribution of responsibility for death) differently for similar reasons (assuming they don't just ignore it entirely, even when it is explicitly mentioned in a conversation)?

> For Afghanistan it’s harder to find numbers, but given the vastly higher casualties among local forces, it seems fair to assume that they’d have been doing most of the fighting.

Do you have any interest in the causality that preceded that fighting, and if so: how many years do you go back in your model, and how many variables are in your model? (Perhaps I should also ask: do you even have a model, or might you be using a different technique/phenomenon to produce your values?)

> Given the doctrinal differences between US and Russian forces, it’s completely unsurprising that Russians would be killing way more people.

Perhaps...but then there's also this rather unpopular question: what is actually true?

> Not to mention that US doctrine does not really involve terror attacks on civilian targets, whereas Russian doctrine clearly does.

"Clearly".

> You don’t see US bombing power plants many months into a conflict in order to cause civilian misery to gain an upper hand in negotiations.

You see mostly what is shown to you, and what your mind allows you to see. I recommend against the premature formation of belief, as well as being mindful of the mind's tendency to conflate belief with knowledge.
It could also be that your windows are not insulated enough. For 20C and 40RH the windows need to be colder then 6C to get condensation.
100% agree with this. There's nothing in the new standards past 17 that actually helps me in real life day to day work. Most of the new features are solely for code-golfers (see ranges). Mean while co-routines and other concurrency extensions have languished for years as TSs with only partial support. Here's the full list of TSs [1], half of which only have partial or no support despite being 5+ years old.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental
I listen to this while coding with my ANC headphones. I can't claim that i'm an amazing coder but these kinda BG on youtube help
Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (1994)
Holy shit, is that why I see this more often now?
NASA details plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth
> I think he’s completely misguided about how great government control would be.

It's not as though the premise is without precedent. It's easy to port your phone number to a new telephone company and all your friends can still call you. That's thanks to government "control" (aka regulation.) Maybe it's even too easy from a security perspective, but it's not as though you have to navigate a byzantine and capricious government bureaucracy to get it done. For the common person it generally works very well, seamless and painless.
Hence one reason why DIY is nearly unheard of in most of Europe and Asia (that and lack of space for tools).
Also I've heard (no proof) that Japan is more likely to characterize deaths as "accidents" or "suicide" to keep the murder rates down.

Excessive punishments result in "missed" crimes - if the punishment for speeding was immediate death, cops would be much less likely to pull over speeders I feel.
I can see plenty of times where this can be useful, and hope to use it. Related I recently found and use Apache E Charts https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html
> There are dangerous individuals that need to be removed from society, and when they're not, they hurt and kill those around them.

A more insidious problem is that there are some guys who aren't as dangerous as killers/rapists, but who are nuisance to others (e.g. multi-recidivist non violent theft). Putting them away for years doesn't seem like a fair solution.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume that everyone will have the same perspective on this.
> AggSeg is the VERY BEST place you can be in jail or prison. I spent almost a year in AggSeg and it is lovely.

You do realize that most people would go insane from lack of social interaction?
I have a tons of cameras and lenses from Nikon, Sony, and Canon, but yet I find myself just picking up the x100f no matter what the occasion is.
Great article. Amazing the publishers first blog post and front page of HN. Well done ;)
What other proposal?
TikTok and Facebook fail to detect election disinformation, YouTube succeeds
If your time is billed out at a large multiple of x, it’s pretty relevant.
I thought that was impossible with the way the wings were geared. But apparently I'm wrong. I found this: https://imgur.io/L9OEWQr
If you let dirty water fill up your tub while you shower that'll result in a dirty ring around your bathtub which you'll have to clean... with more water (and possibly chemicals)... it'll cost you extra time to clean as well.

All together the total costs of the extra cleaning resulting from this may exceed the cost savings from letting the water heat your home.
Mandatory minimums don't work.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/5-charts-show-mandator...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/end-...
I'm in your same camp, absolutely pro-decentralization and anti-Twitter/corporate social networking. But the fact is that what people are complaining about when it comes to Twitter moderation is not that they will see objectionable opinions, but that the people who have objectionable opinions are able to speak anywhere, even to each other.

Decentralization will not silence people with objectionable opinions (assuming someone like a Musk allows more range of opinion on Twitter), so it's not a solution to the problems of the pro-political-moderation camp, it's the opposite of one. The way you censor opinions (as a government) is to encourage more centralization - and by threatening to pick a different favorite if the right opinions aren't censored. It's an end-run around prior restraint.
Agreed. From my perspective, someone who would benefit from my advice doesn't need the added challenge of dealing with manual focusing in addition to properly composing their frame.

I see it as being similar to an innovation token in software development. Choose to learn one new thing at a time, not two or three.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

Once you're comfortable with a 50mm with autofocus, go nuts! Turn off AF on your lens or body. Practice with manual focusing.

Buy an old Canon FD lens and see how delightful these vintages lenses are on a modern body! Then, attach it to a Canon AE-1 and learn how to shoot black and white film!

Lots to learn; just don't bite off too much at one time.
Oops, that's in fact a bug from my side, I'm afraid it's currently only available on PC...

I'll try to fix it ASAP!

(p.s. I personally recommend using this project on PC, because the features on the mobile site are very, very limited XD)
Sounds like you approach this debate as an exercise in argumentation, not as a discussion of Watts' life or his publications.

When I asked OP to name someone, I did mean someone well-known. That makes sense in the context of a discussion of a famous philosopher. Maybe a childhood friend gave you a good advice 40 years ago - we won't be able to discuss the character of that person here.

What kind of a person one must be for you to value their life advice?

> Was he an abusive alcoholic or not?

He drank heavily at the end of his life. Was he an alcoholic? Maybe. Was he abusive? I haven't heard anyone call him abusive before this comment.
I've seen many places that were designed "industrial" with various metal parts (conduit, vents, etc) showing; and the people that owned them were very happy with the look.

Good code also doesn't need to "look pretty", it needs to be correct, and maintainable. Preferably maintainable by a less skilled developer with less domain knowledge. Following that logic, the code that follows the pattern of "highly visible and obvious", like the conduit, is probably the better code.

All that being said, I prefer simple walls, with conduit hidden inside it. I'm just happy to admit that what I like it not universal, and that other have their own styles.
> Currently the options seem to be prison or Congress.

This made me chuckle out loud, well done!

> There are a lot of naive takes in this thread. Prison is objectively and disproportionately racist and classist. It's not so much about deterring crime as about terrorising and brutalising certain demographics.

Yes, there are biases against various races and classes, but they absolutely don't override the bias against criminals. Our system is flawed, but it's far from "about terrorizing and brutalizing certain demographics". This kind extreme hyperbolic rhetoric isn't helpful, and insofar as it motivated the de-policing and catch/release prosecution policies which led to the violent crime surge, it has done far more harm to minority communities than the criminal justice system could hope to do.
well flagging the comments, because you dont like it, is not a way to keep a discussion.
> that you leave the company

I don't and have never worked at Twitter :)

> As to the question of whether this makes sense, it would seem we all agree that it does, then.

My comments are mostly about the likely future of Twitter, which is almost certainly atrophy and death.
Cold air can hold much less water (hence why it's relative humidity). This is good if you take in cold air and heat it to 21°C or so because the air you end up with will have very low humidity, but if the outside is a drizzly 10°C and you are only heating to some 18°C, it can be a problem.
At a time when more internet developed countries are moving towards 10gb connections, the uk is moving towards 1gb. Instead of playing catch it should lead. Now if only there were competent people in power.
I still get emails from Comcrap because once I had a business internet plan with them in a residential area -- an apartment no less.

When it comes to internet service, "giving a crap about the customer" is a premium add-on from Comcast, but once you commit to opening your wallet for that, they do deliver.
Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure
> How about corporal punishment?

For crimes not involving bodily harm/loss of life, sure, I am totally for corporal punishment. Public lashings/canings, with tarring and feathering for more serious offences to top it off