skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what I'd do if I had kids in the US. The education system here is so toxic. It's like a factory designed to churn out little automatons. Like everyone's purpose in life is to become a cog in a business wheel. "We're preparing you for a life of work."

Art, play, love, nature? Waste of time. Personal finances, cooking, repairs, wayfinding? Useless. We need you to learn advanced maths by hand, for that job you'll have at McDonald's where you need to handle advanced algebra. We need you to learn this highly curated view of history that excludes most of the important events in world history. Philosophy? You'll have to go to an expensive college for that. Psychology? Why should you have an insight into relationships, the human mind, emotional intelligence? It's not like that would come in handy at some point.

If I ran a school, the curriculum would consist mostly of teaching people to curate their inner and outer life towards their own goals and interests. The purpose and benefit of intelligence as a tool to use too improve their own life, and the lives of others. The benefits of benefiting society and our loved ones. The benefits of love. The things nobody should learn by accident.
Here's my fear when I read your comment.

You're applying these labels to speakers (racist, transphobe, reactionary) and then claiming that if the label applies, engagement is pointless and they deserve to be shouted down.

Let's say I agree this is true, on net, for some set of beliefs. There's still some huge problems here:

1) How can we all agree which sets of ideas deserve this treatment?

2) How can we be certain these labels are being applied accurately?

Calls for violence are the only clear answer to the first question, but they're extremely rare - I'm guessing literally zero of the deplatformed speakers were actually calling for violence.

Beyond that, it's very hard to come up with a set of beliefs which we can all agree to. Socialism / communism killed tens of millions in the 20th century - should they be banned from speaking?

And who decides when these labels apply? I've personally seen examples of medical professionals using traditional scientific definitions of biological sex labeled as transphobes.

Given the difficulties drawing the lines, it seems better to have prudence when inviting speakers initially (fewer Milos) but then allow individuals to determine where those lines are themselves.
I definitely noticed something was wrong with me once I started school

I hope you have gotten, or will get to, a place where you no longer think of this as something "wrong" with you!
> The goal is to die with PaC, not because of it.

The reason many people die "with" it is because 67% of Americans are obese or overweight, and it usually dosn't show up 'til a person is 70. Of course these people die of something else first.

If a person isn't fat, and has no other health problems, getting it removed if it hasn't spread beyond the prostate is the best choice.
SpaceX proceeded with the 3'rd launch of Starship
It's flying! And all engines are burning, it's pretty damn impressive to see this thing lift off.
So be unreliable and terrible? That doesn’t sound better.
Tangible results of decades of academic and political brainwashing. Eventually the AI models will coalesce around the groups of people that built and influenced them. Digital twins of thought groups so to speak. And there will be battles around which AI is the arbiter of truth. Not to mention “fact checking” meta AIs.
Speaking of Spain, how much of this is (partly?) because of how messed up time is there:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain

It's in the same time zone, CET/UTC+1, as Germany (which is east of 0˚) even though Spain is west of 0˚.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain#Criticism_of_the...

(See also France, which is mostly centred on 0˚, so probably 'should' be in UTC+0, but is in UTC+1—presumably to also be in sync with Germany.)
> If the market doesn't cooperate, the problem is the market and how it's set up, not the goals.

Market schmarket, the thing not cooperating is people — families. Any plan that operates on the premise that people will be fine and willing to give up detached homes with useful amounts of land is doomed from the start.
I sat with a bunch of older teens at lunch the other day that I've known for many years. About equal boys and girls and they only see each other on weekends. Some of them are obviously interested in one another.

They all were eating together but intently on their phones. I half seriously offered up money to each of them that could make it through the lunch without the phone in hand. No takers.
The subject has always fascinated me, largely to understand this character type when I encounter it. I've worked for a couple of sociopaths, it was extremely confusing and difficult.

I find it interesting that the author understands that the way she behaves can have negative impacts on people around her. In my experience this is unusual, sociopaths I've met either don't get this, or if they do, don't care, and in some cases use it as a 'special power' to advance themselves, especially in business. If you're not hampered by feelings of guilt or unfairness a lot of social barriers fall away.
This is very much a geographically specific thing. At further latitudes I can assure you we wouldn't want to waste our previous daylight by sleeping then away!
SA-500D's second stage blew up in testing injuring 5 people, not to mention the Apollo 1 disaster.
Graduated high school about 15 years ago in Maryland. IIRC, lunch and recess were decently generous in elementary school, but of course there was no such luck in middle and high school. Lunch was just another period, so about 45 minutes. I was lucky to get decent periods most years, but with so many kids, someone had to eat at 10:00AM in order to make sure there were enough lunch periods to service the entire school. I would have liked time after lunch to use as a rest or study period; I distinctly remember getting crap from my post-lunch math teacher for falling asleep constantly in her class (in retrospect, I must have been mildly sleep-deprived, going through a growth spurt, AND crashing from my carb-heavy packed lunch), despite essentially acing all her tests.

I think, in general, Americans are loathe to build in "cushion" for human needs. I'm sure everyone has heard, "If you're on time, you're late."
I think part of this issue is really exacerbated by most politicians being unwilling to acknowledge boys and young men are falling behind and have some real problems that they need help with. People feeling totally ignored and that their problems are invalid is how you get demagogues being elected across the west
Let me be clear. These websites list your full name, date of birth, main address (including the exact apartment number if you live in a flat), your flatmates if any, the size of your apartment, and the average salary in your neighbourhood. Comparing this to a phonebook entry is a bit of a stretch. Also, obviously, you only appeared in the phonebook if you had a landline.
>What metrics would you prefer? Feelings?

If that is the only alternative you can imagine (or rather, pretend to be able to imagine to form a bad faith response), there is no point in continuing this conversation.

> that their scores are some of the lowest in Europe and below the OCED average on the PISA exam

Exactly! And yet they consistently produce some of the best engineers and scientists in the world, and have a stellar pure and applied mathematics tradition. So tell me, does this say something about the French schooling system, or about metrics like the OCED average?

Nevermind, don't tell me; your first paragraph above already demonstrated what kind of response to expect.
I don't think they're equivalent on the west (why is it relevant?) but I do think you're softening a lot the harm of the academic example because the violence against the speaker is just the tip of the iceberg. If a victim of socialist violence can't speak, can you acknowledge that phenomenon in that institution? Will grants or even studies that acknowledge that socialist state violence be taboo when recruiting students and researchers?

Corrupting an institution that's (unfairly) used as the arbiter for scientific truth is not insignificant.
Some things may be urgent but most deadlines are bogus and created by sales and managers promising something to someone.
And everything revolves around that, creating a toxic blame culture. Looking at you Scrum!
People react to incentives. Windows got PowerShell instead of an improved cmd.exe because improving or fixing existing things does not matter in the yearly promotion package talks, but new stuff does.
Why altering meaning by selectively cutting away words? Quote makes perfect sense to me and what I know about nutrition and digestion (not an expert/pro but way above average human)
Yes, humor.
> Adobe, a more traditionally structured company, has never been a hotbed of employee activism like Google.

This is untrue. Adobe has been infected, and long-time employees have been leaving left and right because they no longer feel welcome there.
Super interesting. I can recognize this behavior with people playing multiplayer games. When there are no stakes, and everything is a game, people mess around – especially when they’re bored. If it’s just a game, who cares?

People with extremely low “emotional reactivity” appear unlikely to share with others (why would they, most of us share stuff for empathy - and they may not see the point - or lose out socially). According to the Gervais principle, they are rewarded for their excellence of social deception in institutions like corporations. Then there are the worse, hardened criminals as well, taking assignments nobody else would, or for their own sadistic maladaption.

The best fit in a healthy society, I think, is doing things that others can’t, like extreme sport type of stuff, or astronaut, brain surgeon - sound decision making under immense pressure. Alex Hannold for instance, has an almost non-existing amygdala response even compared to other extreme sporters, iirc. He apppears deeply aware of this, and seems to channel everything into his climbing, which overall seems really healthy.
I made a directory of quietest places in a nosy world
Hey makers!

I made a *directory/map to find places to be in calm*.

*Why?*

Because we're living in a noise world, specially big cities, and that have a terrify impact in our health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), *over 30% of the urban population is exposed* to noise levels exceeding the recommended limits:

- Increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.
- Adverse effects on sleep quality.
- Elevated prevalence of stress, anxiety, or depression.
- Diminished ability to concentrate and learn, particularly in children.

So I built [kalm.so](https://kalm.so/) to collect all quiet places in the word:

- Paid map
- Comments and reasons to get there
- Favorite spots in your personal profile
- Good newsletter with content to help you
- Filters to choose: hikings, parks, hotels, coffee shops...

Would love to hear what you think. All feedback and opinions are welcome!
> Project gets out tomorrow versus a month from now? Will anyone still care two years from now? No? Wasn’t worth it.

Depends on the industry and the circumstances.

If this is a company shipping their own software product and the deadlines are arbitrary, then of course they should be a little flexible.

But other software development is part of something bigger and/or accountable to third parties who are depending on it. If your software product must be ready for a scheduled run of a hardware build, a launch event that was planned months in advance, a date agreed upon with customers in a contract, or any other circumstance with real dependencies then getting it done on time is crucial.

> The human propensity for screaming “I want it now!” about things that don’t really matter never fails to frustrate me.

In my experience, people who have only worked in the first kind of environment (deadlines are arbitrary) are the most vocal about insisting that estimation is impossible or that deadlines shouldn’t exist. When they encounter a real deadline with real world consequences they struggle to track their own progress and have to do a lot of crunch mode in the last few weeks.

People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without crunch mode at the end. They become good at communicating issues with deadlines far in advance to avoid surprises.

I’ve worked a lot in the second environment. Eventually I learned that it’s important to screen for attitudes toward deadlines because many software devs have only worked in environments where they can deliver whenever it’s ready as opposed to working toward a target with a team. It’s a shock when they’re dropped into an environment where delivery dates actually matter, as opposed to being something a PM made up.
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers
Maybe not billionaires but in the past "activists" like Glroria Steinem were confirmed CIA operatives. These days they are called "influencers" but quiet probable still state funded.
That Australia does not exhibit this apparent phenomenon is interesting.
Correct, we don't have AI yet.
Conspiracy theories are juicy, but usually they can be explained by incompetence and disinterest/lack of empathy.
yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677525
It is, but X over 4 years instead of X over one year is a pretty big difference. I suspect a lot of the ex-FAANG folks know this and are trying to push for it thinking they'll get that deal.
Ageism is literally about age.
N95 / FFP2 masks are sufficiently effective (if worn correctly) to reduce the likelihood of getting infected to the extent they effectively prevent infection on a personal level.

There's of course still a small chance of contracting COVID-19 in spite of wearing a mask, which is why for society at large masks only slowed down the spread at best. For the individual person by and large the probability for getting infected is negligible, though.

This precisely what those - quite heated - arguments (and pertinent studies) regarding masks being not effective at all were about: Masks are highly effective on a personal level; for preventing community spread their usefulness is limited.
That's not it in my experience. If I give actual bounds on the estimate, management cannot tolerate what the Gantt chart says when the pessimistic estimate is true.
Everyone is capable of learning else they'd have died as a toddler, or any time since when they tried to cross the road.
> Speaking of Spain, how much of this is (partly?) because of how messed up time is there

None of it, obviously. It's an adaptation to the weather. The weather doesn't change if you give different labels to different parts of the day.
> Also her gaze in the picture is quite unnerving.

Photographers know their business.
Your analogy would've made sense if Nix had a few dozen implementations to choose from, all being similar in scope and none being definitively better. These are tools that build upon Nix. The whole point of a language is to have tools that build upon it. It's nothing line the Python -env situation where the sole purpose is to mitigate a design flaw in packaging.
No disagreements on your main points, but I would dispute calling that headline clickbait. We published this story in 2019 when software issues were the central issues at Boeing, so establishing how the company was coding was very newsworthy. I typically associate clickbait with bait-and-switch tactics, tricking readers into reading content unrelated to the headline. This article provides material directly related to its title.
Robert Schoenberger, editor-in-chief, IndustryWeek
The FCC is not involved here. You might be thinking of the FAA, they are in charge of airplane things.

What makes you think that boeing - a company scrutinized over the last few years for shoddy work, negligent employees and incomptent management - actually followed an approved procedure? There's been a lot of reports lately of missing paperwork and lack of qc, both of which are supposed to be part of the procedures (and are in fact in the approved procedures).
I read it in English, but some knowledge of Czech culture and geography (towns and Prague neighborhoods) added to the enjoyment of the book.

The one I read was translated by Cecil Parrott (in 1973), but I learned there's a new translation (1997~) by a native Czech speaker: The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, translated by Zdeněk "Zenny" Sadloň, in three volumes.
Most common motivations are to understand why they are so messed up and to exert power over others.

The former usually fail and the latter always succeed and get tremendous benefits from it, not unlike the ones bullies get from abusing their victims.
> And the data on that end shows unequivocally that it is not working.

Of course throwing money at (sometimes corrupt) school boards isn’t going to be effective. There isn’t much 1/20th of a school teacher can do 8am-2pm M-F to counter a bad environment. It takes a village after all.

Not exactly data that’s useful to your hypothesis.
No, I set it one for each device, then I never touch it again. So I'm am the third group that you doubt exists.

I don't want to fiddle with it. I read text on my phone, I have a preferred size to read, I shouldn't have to change it more than once. The few sites which end up too big or too small I read begrudgingly. Can I even set font size per site?

Pinch zoom doesn't work because now I have to pan left and right for each sentence?

I'm totally with Karellen on this.
That sounds like a great plot line for a story, but why is the more simple answer wrong?

Moreover, why would anyone actively and maliciously need to espouse those viewpoints when there are perfectly explainable reasons for those viewpoints to circulate naturally?

I know there are many influencers are associated with certain powerful and funded groups, but the majority of people parroting these viewpoints are not related.
It's fascinating. I've read a fair bit about sociopaths (but I'm no expert, obviously) and her compulsions feel pretty unique to me. It's not something I have really seen mentioned with sociopaths too often.

A lot of sociopaths lead pretty normal lives. Pro-social behavior is generally pretty beneficial, even if you are doing it for practical reasons and not out of empathy.
Business owners fighting to keep tax rules from destroying small tech companies
But would you say someone who says "I call for violence against pedophiles" deserves to be more deplatformed than someone who says "hm, I've heard that vaccine is linked to autism, just google it (and avoid classic media, they are all in the conspiracy anyway), and based on that take the correct decision for your children (knowing it will impact all the other children at school too)"?

Not saying you are wrong, I just think it's way more subtle than what you present.

(and I'm certainly not saying violence against pedophiles is the solution, just that it feels the consequences on the society seems way less bad than the second one)
As for water much of it uses wells drilled on each persons property. Electrical and telephone a lot was done as a new deal jobs programs like the Tennessee Valley authority. As such it was more about making endless work to give the unemployed untrained labor jobs trying to get the US out of the great depression.
That's a strange combination of "I can't begin to imagine" and "definitely".
To be clear, I am not advocating it, I just expect that as a resolution.
You seem to like Occam's Razor, so what about this explanation: look at who benefits. You double the workforce (and so get to halve salaries and increase productivity due to competition), you cut down the birth rate, and you get worker bees who are ideologically motivated by fighting for their favorite cause, and so aren't looking to change anything about the employer-employee relationship. If you are a billionaire, sponsoring some talking heads to achieve this seems like a no-brainer.

And by the way, this doesn't mean I am saying "women should go back to being women" or anything like that. The billionaire class didn't turn women into men. They turned both women and men into sexless worker bees.
There's also a gnu-radio flow graph which serves a similar purpose: https://github.com/bastibl/gr-keyfob.

Presentation here: https://www.fleark.de/keyfob.pdf
The virus meme is particularly apt at this point.
I was talking about "and the 2023 Whitworth University disinvitation of Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese dissident who grew up during Mao’s Cultural Revolution."

The comment claimed only the most vile ideas get deplatformed and a lot of the examples in that article cite people that are not vile but inconvenient to the left.
That's one theory, how about the theory that we've just built massive confirmation bias media devices, that take everyone's attention, convincing them that they are always right about everything, never need to challenge any core assumptions about life or romance, and any romantic partners that challenge their thinking are wrong for them and they deserve better anyway.

Now what if Billionaires made money from people using those devices more and more, and hired the smartest and most capable people on the planet to find out to get people to use those devices more and more. What would that mean?
> That estimate turned out to be wildly incorrect. The project ended up taking a year longer than I’d originally projected. The reasons are complex; the short version is that I made some major technical assumptions that turned out to be wildly incorrect. Several large architectural changes I’d thought we could avoid turned out to be unavoidable, adding all sorts of dependencies and additional work to the project.

Honestly, I can't help but judge either the company or the author. What kind of project ends up taking more than a year to complete? Wait... it's "a year longer than I’d originally projected." So what was the original estimate? Six months? It doesn't matter how complex it was. If it is taking that long, the project should have been a smaller piece of what was planned.

The author talks about re-estimating, communicating early, and owning up to your mistakes, which is all fine advice, but what if the project itself was too ambitious, and too broad to have a reasonable estimate?
> Matterport is the industry standard for real estate walkthroughs, but it’s not cheap

The hardware is not cheap, but if you have a (friendly) realtor in the area they might be able to let you scan it for a resonable price. Or a dedicated scanning company if you have those in your area.

Worked at a company who had these for doing scans of offices, and you could get the scan in different standard file formats for not a huge price (iirc).

https://support.matterport.com/s/article/Matterport-Assets-Y...
I thought Svejk was more available to a younger reader. However, like someone already mentioned, it has enough layers for a reader of almost any age to enjoy. I'd read them both.