skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Having colored hair or tattoos will get you auto-banned.

I just opened the Douyin app and seven of the first ten human videos have people with colored hair. Tattoos tend to be subtle and obviously won’t be seen in most videos, but you see them all the time if you pay attention. Dying hair is so normal in China especially for women (usually to shades of brown, but some will use more lively colors), you can hardly film a crowd without capturing a ton of colored hair. There’s of course also a whole world of cosplay for every popular game and anime on Douyin. I don’t know where people are getting these ridiculous clips of misinformation and confidently spreading them around without thinking twice.

Edit: As an example, I just looked at the Genshin Impact cosplay tag. Tons of videos with hundreds of thousands to more than a million likes. Every single one of them has colored hair — purple, red, pink, green, blue, white, you name it. Conspicuous tattoos in maybe 10% of them. Go figure.
I agree with the first part of your point, but this in particular is an emergent phenomena that only happens with large-scale civilizations.

So I think some kind of sociological argument makes more sense (I don't know what that would be though).
If you can make a clicking noise with the side of your tongue, you can easily sense the volume of space you’re in, how close to a wall, etc.
> you can be __forced__ to talk

How, if you have immunity?
>While the tech bodyshops (TCS, Infosys, etc.) might have a poor reputation in the US, these companies have been absolutely critical in helping move tens of millions into middle-class respectability

This is related to the Elephant Curve brought out by Globalization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elephant_Curve

That is more or less, middle classes from developing countries exploded in number. While for the developed countries, their middle class doesnt share the same fortune. The upper class however, reap heavy fortune.

Unfortunately it seems the developed countries' middle class appetite to sustain this is waning.

http://glineq.blogspot.com/2022/10/lets-go-back-to-mercantil...
> they can always be emulated by a global function with a data object to bundle captured state

Only if you already have the infrastructure in place to pass that captured state through to where it's needed. For a C example, you can't (safely) use an "emulated closure" with qsort (e.g. if you want to write a function that takes a list and an integer, and sorts the list modulo that integer), because you have no way to pass the data object through.
I agree with your general experience, I'm in the middle of my PhD and so far I find it to be some of the most interesting and productive time I've spent thus far.

I'm not really interested in continuing on to academia, but this has been a good transition period for both building confidence and exploring other topics without having to worry about finances (besides of course making sure to keep up with advisor grants).

It has helped me learn and improve a lot about myself without the pressures of a more typical job. I'd say I was still pretty immature after undergrad, I wasn't really independent and didn't really think for myself (to the point that I didn't even realize I ought to be looking for a job until I had graduated and had family asking what my next step would be), which, after a year spent languishing led me to going for a Masters. Then my research work got me recruited for a PhD. Since then over the past 3 years I've been learning to be more independent which I feel works better when still having the freedom a PhD offers compared to a SWE job. If I had gone straight into the workplace I'd probably be in the process of overworking myself into burnout right now.

A side benefit is that having a PhD is very helpful for speeding up the immigration process and opening up possibilities elsewhere in case my current plans don't work out.
Or at least admit that it is not the town square at all.
All the "journalists" would need to do real work instead of just copy/pasting tweets all day.
There are free Usenet services out there (like aioe.org) if you don’t need binaries. Activity is pretty low though.
Aadhar card actually lessens corruption. Before aadhar government aid could go to whoever. With aadhar the points where corruption can happen is drastically reduced (to 1).
My intention was to point out that my comment probably enraged that person. Now, why where they enraged by it? I wasn't being inflammatory in tone, nor was I being antagonistic. So what would it be?

As far as I can tell, people are enraged when they see something they don't like to be pointed out, pointed out. An "uncomfortable truth" so to speak.

So being enraged and then commenting with "how pathetic" probably indicates that the person deep down understands that it's true.
Holy moly, i.reddit.com is so much better. Thank you for the recommendation!
Wikimedia Cookbook: A growing, world-wide, collection of recipes
just that they have way more important features and fixes to work on. shows wrong prioritisation in my opinion.
Agreed, it feels like the days of maverick engineers leading huge efforts is mostly over. Will there be any more Kelley Johnsons, or Gene Kranzs in our lifetimes?
Taking it up after it became available is not the same thing as asking for it. Sorry but this a frivolous cosmetic thing compared to security issues like Signal's ongoing linkage to phone numbers.
Fully paid twitter, no advertiser pressure, would beba different ball game.
> the talking point and metaphor simply conveys a belief that some of the governments work is bad and should be stopped

This is a nuanced and thoughtful position. The statement "The 9 words you never want to hear are I'm from the government and I'm here to help"" is not nuanced and thoughtful, it doesn't suggest governments do good and bad, it positions governments (and their agents) as incapable of doing good. That someone from the government trying to help you must not be, for whatever reason.
Unfortunate Xi is repeating past mistakes
So, I have stopped this, because I do not use iCloud. Can I enable backups?
This feels like a fluff piece.
Same. Only now I will be "forced" to ditch Signal as well, for the exact same reason. And I'm an uber-paranoid privacy nut who uses GrapheneOS on my phone.

Thing is, I have all of 2 close contacts who use Signal. The rest use the default messaging app on their phone. So I already had to accept the fact that most of my texts were non-encrypted while I continued to try to persuade people to install Signal. Which was easier to do when it could conveniently replace their default messaging app and give them better security and privacy without any sacrifice.

But like them, I also have zero interest in using Signal to text all of 2 people and a different messaging app for everyone else. As much as I want e2e encryption for my texts, and would like SMS to be universally replaced by something secure, it's not like I text enough (or even use a phone enough) for my texts to be a particularly large attack vector in the first place. It would be way more useful to get MFA codes sent through Signal than it would to have my close contacts switch (and they're not going to anyway so what does it matter if I'm the only one who uses it?)
Isn't working towards the top of any field going to have just as many chances of failure at every step? My wife was the very top candidate for her surgical sub-specialty in the year she completed her fellowship and she still barely got an attending position due to how few openings were available. I am nowhere near as talented as she is, but I still had a tremendous battle to get where I am in tech and I watch brilliant engineers tap out before hitting even PE routinely. Working hard for 4 years and having nothing to show for it is de rigueur. Most effort spent in the world is spent in vain, but you have no chance of winning if you don't play the game.
Yea those shoulders scream "anabolics"
>>>> You described almost a very insta perfect version of the experience which doesn't play out most of the time.

I got a PhD 30 years ago, and had similar advantages: Supportive middle class family (both parents scientists), free ride plus stipend thanks to NSF, met my spouse there, etc.

I think that while it's correct to point out the benefits of such advantages, the same advantages apply to success in almost every realm, from K-12 through college, in business, even in the arts and professional sports.

Fields where a poor person has a chance at overcoming the obstacles and getting a lucrative job are few and far between, and computer programming is the only one that I can think of.

Note: I chose the word "chance" carefully, not "certainty."
Einstein is probably a terrible example here because in his day he was regarded as a pop culture icon so there’s plenty about him in film [1]. That’s not even considering that he’s had plenty of excellent biographies written about him. Agora with Rachel Weisz is an excellent one about Hypatia.

Could we do better as a society? Maybe. To do that though you’d have to bring these stories into film classrooms and get students inspired. But first you have to make the stories inspiring and a lot of them aren’t thaaat much except for the advancements they provided to the field and that’s harder to convey. Maybe Leibniz and Newton would be a good rivalry on the screen.

[1] https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/8689-albert-einstein/movi...
Aren't most microsoft business tools needlessly complex?

Honestly, I think that's just microsoft's way of doing business. They will try to enter a market quickly. They will prioritize a checkbox feature over a feature done "right".

So shipping a feature is more important than shipping a feature correctly done. It might be sort of a good evolutionary strategy.

I think of Teams. Microsoft is just trying to own all of that market. It is adding features all over the place. They're hard to use. There are bugs. There is head-scratching usability.
> it seems less and less likely that lone mathematicians can revolutionize the field.

Which inspires the question: how much can cutting edge math be parallelized?
I'm gonna go out and assert that the statement "if you're not paying, you're the product" has never been true on a large scale. Rather, the two are unrelated. In this day and age, you are always the product, whether you're paying or not. And back in the 2000s when I first started hearing that adage, it was only true on the most transparently awful platforms. It was really just a thought-terminating cliche meant to shush anyone who bothered to complain about a free website doing something bad. The difference between then and now is that we now know how to monetize somebody's data in a way that solo startup founders in the early 2000s didn't. Sure the science probably existed, but it wasn't obvious to somebody making a website that that was how you make money.

Nowadays, the process of converting daily active users into monetizable data is trivial, so that's what everybody does, again regardless of whether or not you paid. When you think about the economics of it, your value as a commodity does not decrease just because you paid for something. No matter how much you pay for your subscription, your data is always valuable, and the only reason Netflix doesn't force ads on all their subscribers is because it'd look bad for them. But behind the scenes, do you really think they're not selling your interaction data just because you subscribe to the most expensive package? Monetizing users has always been a function of ease of implementation, not the out-of-pocket expense of the user.
Chicago, Philly and LAX airports are all much much worse than DEL or BOM
it is very trivial if you don't use unnecessarily fancy cryptographic protocols
Japan Seeks Power to Turn Down Private Home Air Conditioners Remotel
Nature writing an article like this is like a newspaper writing that journalism is a waste of time. It's quite odd, perhaps they do it for the clicks.

Nature, and what it represents, is of course part of the problem.
I would suggest using system.data.sqlite instead, it's the official version from sqlite and is actively maintained. Additionally, it's self contained whereas the Microsoft version requires separate dlls. Personally I've used dapper as a wrapper over sqlite and had decent performance but you do have to be aware of transactions and increase the cache size (and maybe set wal mode). There's also things like sqlite-net which looks promising but I haven't tried it so I can't comment on perf.

Perf with litedb is pretty awful in my experience if you're using it as a schemaful db. But it's probably the wrong tool for the job if you're comparing to sqlite. I've yet to come across any embedded db that can do schema + document with decent performance.
crank up the frequency of the vga card in XServer, circa 1995. burn down the house.
North Africa is basically just part of the Middle East
Angry emails? The observation seems exceedingly obvious. Either you limit yourself to a very narrow career path or you dont use it.

Sure, it might make sense for a few. A very select few.
Really cool project. I've lived in DC for a bit and came across Helicopters of DC[1], whom have gamified spotting copters across the city.

The model they use is publicly available, too, to call via API for free: https://universe.roboflow.com/helicoptersofdc/helicopters-of...

Have you thought about collaborating with them on data/models?

[1] https://twitter.com/HelicoptersofDC
So you don't charge your phone in your bedroom?
The prevgen Communist Party in China is responsible for poverty creation displacing city slickers into the countryside to later return as dirty cheap migrant laborers in the Tim Apple's techboom and telling themselves propaganda lies before Xi Jinping's truthtelling.
For me TypeScript is something that you need when you want to solve a big problem with constrained typed code. I have written way too much JavaScript in my career that I know what is going on and sometimes the types given for libraries and frameworks just are wrong, out of sync or just get in the way of doing stuff. When writing regular JS I would just make a comment that if the reader hadn't seen this before what is going on but with TS I am denied that behavior and instead restricted to some type someone wrote and TS complaining that I am not doing the thing the way someone defined it as (why aren't you coding like this? I specifically requested it!).

Essentially, TS feels like training wheels for small codebases and red tape for large codebases. I do feel it helps for large codebases where someone might not be familiar with everything but reading the code works way better than types. If someone can not understand the code then that means: 1) it is not documented correctly, 2) the person needs more instruction/tutelage, 3) it is probably incorrectly implemented or 4) something more clever.
The default experience is far worse than it used to be. A common situation is I'll search for a 3-4 word phrase and the top results contain one of those words. If I'm really lucky Google will have attempted to match some terrible synonym of the other words, but frequently it doesn't even do that!

If you put everything in quotes, it's better, but there's so much SEO spam in the first page of results. I can't remember the last time I found anything really interesting with Google, for software development it's basically just a mediocre way to search Stack Overflow, GitHub, and MSDN. It's depressing.
I guess it could get it from GPS if each bulb contained a radio but this sounds incredibly inefficient
It's disturbing that execs are wasting time in a meeting over a low level decision like that. Leave it to the product manager and designer to figure out.

That's textbook bike shedding, and maybe it's why they seem to struggle with actual important things, like dealing with search spam.
Ah yes, the doomer perspective. Tiresome.
Unless they're deeply ingrained in the literature I find preferences for curly letters quite irritating (especially some older typefaces), dyslexic or not I genuinely cannot read them sometimes; it's a big blocker on my productivity.

I sometimes rewrite them using A, B, C then try to understand them. This procedure should be automatic but unfortunately TeX is ancient.
I love research, but I hated most of my PhD.

"Publish or perish" attitudes caused a lot of friction for me. I try to be more careful in my research than most, and I don't care too much about the sheer number of papers I publish. One great paper beats 100 average papers.

I also think that the (practical) requirement to bring in external funding severely limits what research can be done. There are a lot of great ideas that don't sound good to people in control of money.

My day job doesn't involve any research now. I do research on the side. I am glad that I can do research at my own pace and don't have to ask permission from others before doing research. The main problem is that I don't have a lot of time for my research, but I'm hoping to switch to part-time eventually.
But what if there are necessary prerequisites for making significant advances in longevity, which themselves are so complex that they require more than a human lifespan to master? We could be at a dead end unless the computers start doing the work. And even then, perhaps the same impediment applies to the development of an AI that can bootstrap other AIs into getting the job done.
There is a lot of myth baked into the PhD along with a lot of romanticization of deep innovative work. From school that is pretty much fed to you of scholars and that you need to get a PhD to be known as one. E.g. Newton, Gauss, Kelvin, Tesla, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, etc.

There is a massive misreading of the general situation though like the parent comment mentions. I think until before WWII academia was a rich mans profession. I would bet that people who got into academia were those whose parents had the means to support their education and that they could either independently or through patronage carry out research. This is what most people miss about a PhD or a scholar. It was exclusively a rich mans (and in very exceptional cases a woman married to a rich man or a man married to a rich woman) business. A more extreme example Carl Jung’s wife supported her husband’s research even when he was having an affair with another woman. Remember that cabin he built so eloquently described in “Deep Work” with a walk in the woods. It might have been with the wife’s money.

Post WWII government funding for research exploded but there were not enough researchers. Universities brought in more and more professors for their government funded programs and government funded student loans. All professors want tenure track. To handle tenure track you need publications. But now we have a problem - the professors aren’t wealthy. They need to apply for patronage (ahem - government grants) and need to write proposals. The problem is “professorship” is an up or out profession. You get 7 years to move up or get out. In time, the government grants have reduced, the number of professors has ticked upwards. You have a complete rat race for scraps. There are some well-funded departments that continue to attract great students. But by and large its the stress of grant writing that will eat at you.

So, in the end the profession itself hasn’t changed much. You’re still petitioning the “rich man” for “patronage”. It’s just that now there are many more petitioners. It’s just not worth it.

That being said, there needs to be some mechanism to acquire deep advanced skills as you continue along your professional journey. A masters with a thesis mostly works and can get you a considerable way through. It could be specialized so that you get more time for focused research as opposed to filling up your time with pointless credits. I did a PhD when I was working. It was stressful - but only from a time perspective. I never had stresses of money or career for which I’m thankful. I also had a very considerate advisor. I cannot think of a position in industry today except in research labs that really need a PhD. Everyone going for it needs to look out and understand that.
what happened to:

c=-1;

ambiguously being either:

c = -1; // c becomes -1

or

c =- 1; // c decremented by 1
As one of the loud "anti-cloud zealots" out there, I agree with you that this is actually a workload-dependent decision (or a luxury product that you can buy to show that your company is rich and modern). I think a lot of big companies are going to be moving toward "hybrid cloud" in the near future if they haven't already: maintaining a few racks (or an entire DC) to handle their base load and then doing bursts of heavy computing in the cloud.

The days of the full cloud lift-and-shift are going away, and we're getting to the point where people make that decision rationally.

As an aside, I actually believe in the cloud enough that I am working on a startup for a piece of cloud infrastructure.
and a budget
> I'm on Job 3 now and I grimaced when I saw that the company used it as its intranet

Sadly it's Microsoft Teams' backbone, so it's used far and wide still.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/sh...
He did work behind the counter sometimes.

Source: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=88Q2v6FTSBI 49:03 - 49:56
It's also more about geography. Had there been no Himalayas, the problem would be much less acute
What a bizarre comment.
Thank you for your well thought out reply!

You introduced a few new terms, "true friends(hip)", "fun buddies", "weirdo", "work colleagues", "gaming buddies", "tinder girlfriend", "real friends", "interesting people online, on reddit, etc witch[sic] which you share many things in common and you can end up getting to know them well and share secrets and many intimate details of your life".

What we're disagreeing about is that you're using the word friends only to refer to "true friends", and everyone outside of the group is decidedly not a friend, while I'm using the word friend to refer to basically anyone in my life that I've connected with that bears me no ill will, while still recognizing that the different categories defined exist and are distinct, just as a subset of the superset called friends.

We're not really going to reconcile that difference in definition, but I do want to say that I think we agree on the important point - everybody should have true friends that will back you when you're at your most vulnerable and when you're in need.
And recent focus on manufacturing. New govt is heavily pushing local manufacturing(atmanirbhar bharat) for last 8 years. Progress is already being felt in some areas, for example in smartphone manufacturing India went from nothing to #2 in world in those years. They are now targeting more phone phone supply chains like pcb, modems etc. and other consumer electronics too.

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/india-now-2nd-larg...
$64k, unreal.. For me I made a dismal $18k stipend.
I would think putting up a paywall would make a wonderful echo chamber. Can't see how random people would pay for social media after being trained and trained it's free.
Alright, thanks for the clarification. It looks like they opened it up for particular apps in the last few years but haven't yet gone beyond that.
Close, it's YXRKT. Unfortunately that's where my memory ends.
Timothy Snyder is a historian who has written on extensively on the history of Ukraine (Bloodlands) and Putin (The Road to Unfreedom).

I'm not familiar with The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, but Dr. Snyder makes some strong counterpoints to the Mearsheimer way of thinking on Ukraine in this [1] podcast and others.

He has also given a timely history on modern Ukraine [2], but I have not got around to listening to it.

[1] https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/10/25/historian-timothy-sn...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz...
What about shorter and lighter humans vs taller heavier but both have similar good bmi?
Friendster and Myspace failed because of scalability problems and lack of features compared to the alternatives. Mastodon has both of those.