skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In engineering it could be:

(1) They're focused on some other problem, and then they're asked to participate in a discussion. This requires unloading their brain, literally, so that they can devote full attention to the discussion (i.e. 'stay focused'). Some try to only devote partial attention to the discussion so that they don't have to unload and reload their brain all the time - as this takes a lot of time and energy (think: cost of a major context switch).

(2) They don't spend much time interacting with other human beings, so their communication and social skills are somewhat lacking, i.e. not much so-called 'emotional intelligence'. People can learn this skill, but for those not practiced in it, it does require one's full concentration (see point one). Others fall into the 'lecturing to the classroom' mentality, i.e. they generate a one-way stream of information, not a discussion.

One solution is to schedule technical discussions ahead of time, and make a point to never interrupt people when they're in the middle of something. If that doesn't work, maybe some kind of communication skills training program is needed.
Or there is a car coming and it isn't slowing down but there is just enough time for me to nip across in front of it. Maybe this doesn't happen in countries with jaywalking laws, but it does happen here.
You can certainly purchase from a Mexican exporter if you're in Europe with pesos.

> If you bought Mexican Peso yesterday and sell it today for a profit then that's it. Why would you care about what it is good for? The whole point of speculating with assets is to make profit from price movements.

I mean, funnily enough, I've heard this sort of reasoning:

> And now all of a sudden everyone's like, wow, people just decide to put $200 million in the box. This is a pretty cool box, right? Like this is a valuable box as demonstrated by all the money that people have apparently decided should be in the box. And who are we to say that they're wrong about that? Like, you know, this is, I mean boxes can be great. Look, I love boxes as much as the next guy. And so what happens now? All of a sudden people are kind of recalibrating like, well, $20 million, that's it? Like that market cap for this box? And it's been like 48 hours and it already is $200 million, including from like sophisticated players in it. They're like, come on, that's too low. And they look at these ratios, TVL, total value locked in the box, you know, as a ratio to market cap of the box’s token.

But, on the other hand, well,

> If all the people who constantly say how useless everything is would actually put their money where their mouth is and would trade and bet on lower prices then they would make huge money.

I have heard this as well:

> So you've got this boxes and it’s kind of dumb, but like what's the end game, right? This box is worth zero obviously. And like that, you know, you can't like keep this smart cap or something. But on the other hand, if everyone kind of now thinks that this box token is worth about a billion dollar market cap, that's what people are pricing it at and sort of has that market cap. Everyone's gonna mark to market. In fact, you can even finance this, right? You put X token in a borrow lending protocol and borrow dollars with it. If you think it's worth like less than two thirds of that, you could even just like put some in there, take the dollars out. Never, you know, give the dollars back. You just get liquidated eventually. And it is sort of like real monetizable stuff in some senses. And you know, at some point if the world never decides that we are wrong about this in like a coordinated way, right? Like you're kind of the guy calling and saying, no, this thing's actually worthless, but in what sense are you right?

Shorting is tricky for many reasons. There's the counterparty risk of how you're going to actually collect (say you borrow against FTT to get Tether which you use as collateral for your FTT loan; who's to say Tether is worth anything?). The space is rife with market manipulation, so you could take a short position and just get wiped out. And it could just keep going up until it goes back down.

I'd love to be bullish on crypto. I still have some. But like I said, it simply can't be healthy that pretty much every crypto financial product seems to just be based around crypto. It's like a stock exchange where every listed company just trades stock of other companies on the exchange.
Can you actually find nazis on Tiktok? I believe they have a pretty clear policy against hate in general which they apply just as liberally as for example facebook and youtube does.
> Nonsensical, bitter, and infantile labels will never make your rant true.

Pot, kettle... black.
Is this a joke? Nuclear physics is definitely more complicated. What super computers are the FDA commissioning to study nutrition?
Brooks and Knuth (fortunately still with us) are not only respected but also loved. I sometimes miss this in our field where sometimes success is valued more than a great mind and a great mind more than a lovable well-rounded person.
I wonder how the term "sheeplike" came into existence, because based on this article sheep are not exactly the docile, willing animals as we were told.
ya gotta source on that one buddy? I remain skeptical that there even is such a thing as "objectively" on this subject, but every time I see someone trying to look into or tally this up the main social media platforms are slightly-to-somewhat more tolerant of fringe right views than they are fringe left.

A confounder here is that social media inherits a lot of american political bias, and america has no mainstream left. Right leaning people interpret center and even center-right positions as "leftist" but that doesn't make it so.
Indeed.

The author is referring to the up-a-half-step modulation that Barry Manilow tactically used all over the place.

I call it a "Manilow".

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But yeah, it's just one of the many elements of musical craft that's missing in today's popular music.

Sampled sounds are (by definition) lifeless.

Sequenced rhythm tracks are unnaturally consistent.

See Paul Lamere's "In search of the click track":
https://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/02/in-search-of-the-click...

A lack of rhythmic variation. Consider the folk tradition of wandering from the time signature; Pete Seeger and early Paul Simon for instance. And the Beatles, certainly

Generally a lack of pickup notes, or "anacrusis".

And the lack of an inspirational melody or chord change.

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60's pop music was, I think, a special case because the hit songs had to get noticed and appreciated in a worst-case listening environment; typically a crappy AM radio.
Baby shortfall is so bad that the labor shortage will last for years
No they don't. This is copium.
America wants to save its national oil for the really rainy days. Especially when others' oil can be bought by printed money.
Maybe they do communicate clearly, but from their perspective you are the one who's just not getting what they mean, despite they expressed it in concise, elegant way.

People are coming from various cultures and backgrounds, you should accept that it means that communication style can be very different. In all cases, be patient and ask questions till you are satisfied.
Aren’t cattle the biggest grain consumers, so wouldn’t that be counter productive?

I’ve heard of the ag lobby and the meat and dairy lobbies but never big grain. Of course they exist and do something but going against the meat lobby just seems weird.
Satellite mounted weapons systems that can block ballistic missiles, i.e. reach at least into the upper atmosphere, but can't ever be used offensively? That seems like a tall order.

In addition, anything making MAD impossible will have very, very far reaching consequences for world politics, many of which are offensive. Any state that can unilaterally deploy nukes without fear of reprisal is on it's way to the total global tyranny you mention.
Orson Scott Card has a short story called "Kingsmeat" which also considers this situation. I read a lot of OSC short stories when I appreciated his fiction more, but this one has been particularly memorable.
That's one way to look at it.

Another way to look at it is: Too many are making it.
Yes, those 'lifting' key changes in MJ's songs may seem gratuitous, but key changes were used more subtlety by, for instance, Beatles to enrich the music with expressiveness even at the expense of musical common sense. And if anything, pop music today is just too uniform.
Compare: "In Western countries vegetarianism is already naturally rising" ... "What's needed first and foremost is a culture shift so that we stop seeing meat as a necessity" ... "We have no choice because livestock supply can't keep growing in a finite space" ... "The very fact that you commented as soon as you saw an anti-meat sentiment shows how the public has been conditioned" etc.
And yet I imagine people will be surprised when they find out that Coinbase insiders have only been selling (and have sold almost $4B worth of) their stocks every since the direct listing (not even IPO). [0] Chances are, Coinbase was more of your garden variety pump and dump where you hype your useless startup up, and dump it on retail at a hugely inflated "market price".

[0] https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/COIN/insider-trades...
A Comprehensive Legal Guide to Web Scraping in the US – McCarthy Law Group
Thinking this change of "technocratic authoritarian overlords" is as much of a non-event as you seem to or that the Chinese level of control over the citzenry is equivalent to that of the USA is a crazy level of naivety that I can't even begin to unpack
The same happened to Modi, the PM of India, if my memory serves me right. He was banned from entering USA for his deeds, until he turned out to be the head of India.

Apparently your only way out is to be the head of your state, if you have done something evil.
If you throw this script into your PATH, you can write:

$ math ‘5510^9 (3.17*10^-8)’
1743.5000

https://github.com/shawwn/scrap/blob/master/math

It’s a wrapper around bc, but it’s one of my most-used scripts. Doing some quick math in the terminal without opening a repl is nice.
I'm disappointed that hella has not become a prefix
For two decades defaulting on your bonds was not be a big deal- witness Argentina. So a rando local politician thought it wouldn't be a big deal, because that's been most of his political career. And the way the bond market is now, it is not nearly as forgiving, so it became an enormous deal.
New rule of headlines: Don't read any article that contains "slams" in the headline
I’m sorry for your loss.

Your raise a very good point. Two things.

(1) Incapacitation is something on our radar, and we really care about getting it right;

(2) We put a lot of effort into making sharing and keeping people up to date as simple as possible, so they can reach out to us if there’s a problem.
It probably made it past the "editors" because the Judas betrayal actually happened (Christ myth theories aside), whereas the death/resurrection cycle... not so much.
My wife has this problem. It's very tiring and draining for me at times.

Examples:

She starts off with "To make a long story short...". I tell her: "Honey, all of your stories are long and I like them to be very short. Just leave off 'To make a long story short' and get right to the point."

She answers yes/no questions with long-winded answers that make it very unclear whether it's yes or no.

She drifts WAY off topic very easily. We might be talking about some current topic and she'll go off with something like: "Oh, let me tell you about what happened when I was 7 years old and attending elementary school and we had this girl that lived next door that would always ...". It exhausts me when she does this.

She's very hard of hearing (has hearing aids in both ears) and even still she often doesn't clearly hear what the other person said and guesses at what they said. Then replies with something completely unrelated.
Will definitely read that book next!
Came to say this. So much health news is equally polarized just in the other direction.

When it skews towards your preconceived notions you hardly notice it. It's important to be aware of the voice behind the article
Yes and the circumference of the earth is about 40 million meters. This is because a meter was originally supposed to be 1/10E6 the distance from the equator to the north pole through Paris.
I do! As long as we understand it's "my branch" that's being reviewed. I can push/rebase/squash a bunch of times until the reviewer is happy. Once the reviewer's happy, my branch becomes one new commit on top of master.
A smart foreign propaganda news outlet doesn't simply censor everything that makes their sponsor country look bad. You can push a worldview while still reporting most of the same stuff any other outlet would, and having actually-decent coverage means more people will tune in—then you save the heavy-handed slanted coverage for when it really matters.

Hell, look at something like The Economist. They're regarded as an excellent news source, which makes their efforts at pushing a certain economic and political POV far more successful than if they pushed it so hard that they weren't a good news source.
It does come off as rude, yes. We see right here in all the threads the difference in opinion of what constitutes "processed" or "packaged". A lot of misunderstandings in the world stem from people using the same terms to mean slightly different things. So in fact I think it's very important to state this explicitly. It helps in business communication as well, when you're the third party and see that two people are saying the same thing with different words or using the same word to mean different things and they just keep arguing.
Cess pits are useful.

Infogalactic, not so much. Complaining that Wikipedia is a source of propaganda and then citing Infogalactic as a balance is a mistake on the order of comparing Reuters and the Babylon Bee.

I refer you to https://infogalactic.com/info/Bibhorr
Elon Musk Has Strong Views on Hydrogen. Not Everyone Agrees (2021)
I'm aware of that too, it's a problem, but the lesser one imho. At least there's some modicum of accountability with Western companies subject to Western laws, which Western citizens have some say in (if they get agitated enough at least), thus some possibility for reigning them in. There's much less or none with with Chinese companies operating in the West, and sending all the data they collect back to servers in China, under CCP "law".
It really depends on what you want to maximize in your life, health and environment. Not everyone will agree, but here are some things to chew on.

* Animal products require an inordinate amount of water to produce compared to plant-based products.

* Animal breeding and grazing at scale creates a bunch of environmental issues.

- Methane production

- Dust bowl effect due to over-grazing

- Manure runoff and associated effects

- Crazy abuse and proliferation of antibiotics and the resulting antibiotic resistant bacteria

* Ocean dredging for seafood is horribly destructive to marine environments.

* Fish, due to other human-origin environmental issues, are loaded with methyl-mercury and arsenic. This trend is only getting worse.

* Animals have brains and the associated emotion, pain and fear responses to trauma.

* Outside of chickens, most animals we like to eat are higher order mammals that are arguably more susceptible to the kinds of pain and distress we feel ourselves.

* Animal rights standards for slaughterhouses, especially in the US, are abysmal.

* Food and food handling standards for meat, especially in the US, are abysmal.

* Meat production creates a lot of secondary waste products that wouldn't be market competitive if they weren't subsidized by super-high meat production. Used as fillers in all kinds of things from pet food to cosmetics.

- eg. Animal tallow, gelatin, organ meat, animal bone-meal

- some of these are inherently useful, but as meat consumption rises to meet demand, so do these byproducts' supply and they show up all over as they now compete with vegetable based options.

* Risks of parasites, improper cooking, spoilage, etc.

* Nutritional benefits exist, but there are nutritional issues with red meat, organ meat and associated fats as well.

* A lot of food "certifications" are industry-managed and opaque to consumers, pushing a lot of negative externalities under the rug and making these things worse, not better.

- "Grass-fed" is a "best-effort" thing and most companies that claim this are still only seasonally feeding their animals grass while also supplementing with diets molasses.

- Free-range, prairie raised, farm-fresh, cage-free... What this means depends largely on who you ask.

- etc. etc.

There are more bullets I'm sure too, I'll stop listing though. Hope this helps.

Just given the above, animal foods aren't required for adequate human sustenance and yet there are a lot of issues with them.

There are of course nutritional benefits to consuming meat and negative externalities from modern agricultural practices, but I think animal production has high costs for its benefits.

It doesn't have to be an all or nothing either. Everyone reducing their meat consumption by a little has an outsized impact compared to some zealots doing so. No one benefits if we treat this as some kind of morality food fight or religious crusade.
This project looks really neat!

Firecracker is very cool, I wish/hope tooling around it matures enough to be super easy. I'd love to see the technical details on how this is run. It looks like it's closed source?

The need for baremetal for Firecracker is a bit of a shame, but it's still wicked cool. (You can run it on a DO droplet but nested virtualization feels a bit icky?)

I run a CI app myself, and have looked at firecracker. Right now I'm working on moving some compute to Fly.io and it's Machines API, which is well suited for on-demand compute.
Unfortunately the safety filters have enough false positives (basically any image with a large amount of fleshy color) to the point that it's just easier to disable it and handle it manually.
Of course they do. The scam was in the misuse of customer funds, had nothing to with that the fact it was crypto. It already happened with fiat currency; guess everyone forgot about Madoff.
Doesn't seem much puff:

The now-deleted blog, called WorldOptimization, is unsigned but a close associate confirmed that it was hers. In it, she wrote that "the sexual revolution was a mistake" and that she believed “women are better suited to being homemakers and rearing children than doing Careers." She also espoused on race science, in one post writing that there are “scientifically proven (and therefore apolitical) genetic differences between groups of humans.” And at the top of her list of “~cute boy things~” was “controlling most major world governments.”
Thanks! had not seen this yet.
This filing strongly implies there is evidence of deliberate intent and fraud; after reading it I'm betting DOJ files charges fairly soon.
White House cybersecurity director on TikTok threat
> I will not claim that nutrition science has achieved methodological purity

I'm not in a position to critique the methodology. But the reports that reach the public (and what use are reports that don't reach the public?) keep contradicting one another. If they can't get consistent results, then these reports shouldn't be appearing on the front pages of newspapers; they should stay in the pages of obscure journals.

I pay no attention at all to "nutrition science". I eat a mixed diet, no fruit at all, few green vegetables, a small steak once a week or so, quite a lot of cheese and whole grains. I let my stomach guide me. If I followed dietary guidelines, I'd probably starve. I simply can't swallow food that doesn't appeal to my appetite.
Happy thanksgiving!
How is FTX related to DeFi in any way?
Or past presidents, it would seem.
Who thought that giving a bunch of 20 year olds with no experience, and most importantly _no_ oversight hundreds of millions of dollars was going to end differently? Everyone involved with this deal at Sequoia capital should be fired. Did they do _any_ due diligence?
i mean they literally follow a goat to their certain death.
This is actually standard within financial institutions and big corps. It's not implemented as "signal with auto-delete turned on", but rather as retention policies on emails or whatever.
Craig Murray? sigh
They shouldn’t be spending money on donations for either side of the culture war.
Um. I already have like 100s of WG connection. Office to cloud, various servers all over connected to others, servers on many WG "subnets".

WG is the easiest VPN I've ever used. Dropped all these other crazy rigs (stunnel, ssh-tunnel, etc) cause WG always "just works" and is on every platform.

However, I've spent loads of time as network admin, planning IP-space for VPN layers, first time in 1997.
Because when you hit someone with a car, they die. When you have bad sex, it's just bad sex. In other words, driving a car requires much better connection with reality in order to make sure you're doing it right, and doing it wrong has much harder consequences than the things you've listed.

Sure, all those things are pleasant to people, but that doesn't have anything to do with them being "real". When you watch a good movie, the scenes feel real, but they are very much not.
So there is legal immunity for a de facto leader. How about stop selling weapons to murderous de facto leaders? Is there a law to prevent that?
That's not really how auditing works though. If there is a legal requirement to keep records of communications between senior managers (and there is for financial institutions), then "we purposely used an app that deletes such communications to hide our actions from the auditors" is in itself a crime.
The State currently fund the vast majority of schools, among which many are russian-speaking. Forcing those schools to switch to Estonian, without having enough teachers to do it, is going to create a lot of problems. The solution found was to degrade the teacher's level, by authorizing anyone with a university diploma to teach.

Please read those articles from the State-sponsored media: https://news.err.ee/1608774058/julianna-jurtsenko-switch-to-...

https://news.err.ee/1608751774/deputy-mayor-language-transit...

Also, there are plans to prevent russian-speaking people to enter politics. This is a problem in places like Narva where 99% of the population speaks Russian.
https://news.err.ee/1608778132/ministry-calls-for-assessing-...
More options are a good thing, but his Twitter alternative might be misidentifying Twitter's actual strongest point. Allow me to elaborate and tell me if you disagree, but this is how I feel:
I never used twitter because of the social aspects. At all. I'm not there because I want to have a chat.
I just use Twitter to get new artwork from artists I like or follow game devs who post their content there.
For me, Twitter's real value was always content sharing. The social aspect was tolerable at best and detrimental at worst, which is why I don't want to use an alternative explicitly focusing on the social aspect.
What I really want is a Twitter with content creation focus, instead of social. I think most alternatives are focusing on the social aspects, so I thought I should share this sentiment.
They also parse tweets. Entirely possible somebody posting "twitter down would be really bad" on Twitter is taken as valid report.

Edit: "Downdetector gathers data about the status of a service through Twitter and uses sentiment analysis to detect issues for a given company and location"
Does anyone have any recommendations for books/courses for improving verbal communication? Not talking about pubic speaking, like toastmasters, but improving your ability to do things like mentioned by OP?

I feel like there's lots of stuff about this on writing but less related to verbal communication.