skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to know other people feel this way. My experience has been that there are a lot more of us out there than it feels, but you only find that our when you start speaking up about it.

One of my biggest observations in life is that many discussions that seem dichotomous are not. Most everything exists on a spectrum.

One of the biggest one is pro-choice vs pro-life. My experience has been that there is a very very very tiny minority that is absolutely pro-life and an even tinier minority that is pro-choice. The vast majority are in the it depends on time and gestation. If you ask the right questions of someone, you find out that they are pro-choice but feel that abortion in the 8th month is wrong. Likewise, when you ask the right questions, may pro-life people are okay with abortion like the morning after pill to like up to a month or two. What I've learned is that we've been conditioned to think we all fall into one camp or another, but the truth is most are in the same camp but just disagree on when is okay within that very wide 9-month span.

Likewise, the same goes for the debate about immigration. There's this push to force everyone to fall into the camp of 100% for immigration no matter what or no immigration whatsoever.

The truth is that most folks are actually simultaneously pro-immigration and anti-immigration. Almost everyone feels like there is some common culture. You need to have it if you want any semblance of cooperation, but even the most ardent anti-immigration person agrees that there are folks work bringing into the tribe.

There is no magic dirt. Demographics are destiny and you really can't reverse the damage from an immigration policy that makes no attempt to discern between folks you should and should not allow in. It's possible to take a cautious approach and increase it later if proven to be too conservative. The reverse however is very very messy.

If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out Sam Hyde's ~45 minute video message to Elon Musk. Absolutely amazing summary of the state of things.
the problem is not too many or too little, the problem is integration

i think canada have the potential to receive far more immigrant (and i think it should, to realize its full potentiel)

but little is being done to help with their integration, two thins should be done

1. build more home
2. support startups and small businesses
This is such an innocuous cartoon. I can't believe it would be an issue in this age.
How does one build an audience on Substack anyway? It seems most of the successful authors there already had an outlet and a following in a major publication and took their readers with them.
Public competence: why you should create a personal website
> insufficiently political (ie saying her programming wasn’t done by black females).

If you're trying to create a persona, having someone that knows about the background said persona would likely have is not political, it's just common sense. It's like having a group of people from Brazil design outdoor clothing for Norwegians or something along those lines.

Now, who knows how much the responses were hallucinated or not, but the whole thing is just weird and seems poorly thought out.
It's not entirely misplaced. There's supply, and there's demand. You can't point to one and ignore the other.

I'm all for the YIMBY and zoning reform push, but a) that's decided on the municipal level, b) change is slow, c) immigration rates can drastically change in very little time, if the feds decide. In Canada feds wanted to have their cake and eat it too: the population grew by over 3% in a year, but infrastructure at the provincial level (e.g. healthcare) didn't budge, and housing isn't building much faster than it was before.

If we understand that the key factor behind housing affordability is inelasticity of supply, then it should be easy to intuit that other things can be inelastic: policy and the law. By contrast, immigration rate might as well be a push of a button. It's not responsible to jack up the rate first and keep it that way just because it's not "the-thing-that-ought-to-change".

There are of course other externalities with high immigration rates (for contrast, US immigration rate is not that high), and the downsides to low immigration are overstated. Older generations won't live forever, but what I generally see is a call for unnecessary wealth transfer from young generation to old. Boomers are the wealthiest demographic already. We don't need to give them more freebies.
Seems contradictory to build an audience for long-form content from short form work.
Lots of folks working on open-source reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning right now. The best one atm appears to be Alibaba's 32B-parameter QwQ: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/

I also recently wrote a blog explaining how reinforcement fine-tuning works, which is likely at least part of the pipeline used to train o1: https://openpipe.ai/blog/openai-rft
I used to go to a late night coffee shop in Dublin sometimes when I lived there and read a book. Was a really nice space with comfortable couches and good ambient music.

Couldn't remember the name but managed to find a reference to it, it was called Accents. Seems like it's shutdown now.
>What exactly does "social construct" mean?

From Wikipedia[0]:

A social construct or construction is the meaning, notion, or connotation placed on an object or event by a society, and adopted by that society with respect to how they view or deal with the object or event.[8]

The social construction of target populations refers to the cultural characterizations or popular images of the persons or groups whose behavior and well-being are affected by public policy.[9]

Social constructionism posits that the meanings of phenomena do not have an independent foundation outside the mental and linguistic representation that people develop about them throughout their history, and which becomes their shared reality.[10] From a linguistic viewpoint, social constructionism centres meaning as an internal reference within language (words refer to words, definitions to other definitions) rather than to an external reality.

And specifically regarding race being a social construct: https://archive.is/g5utD

>Are dog breeds a 'social construct'?

>Are species a 'social construct'?

Species are a social construct[1]. Dog breeds are not a social construct[2]. However, human races are not equivalent to dog breeds[3].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism

[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/ad58x6/is...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/rfapt7/are_dog_bre...

[3]https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...
>War is good for business.

War is only good for business if your enemy can't do anything to you. WW2 was fucking devastation for everyone involved except the US, which came out saying it's good for business because it had two fucking oceans and nobody could do much beyond dropping a couple balloons.

Likewise with all the subsequent wars the US has been involved in, the homeland hasn't come under fire ever. The military industrial complex has had free reign to peddle agony and death across the planet without having to buy some ourselves.

Of fucking course this is good for business, but this is not the norm and we the people should do our fucking damnedest to prevent the country from engaging in any more wars because the fucking fire we've been playing with will fucking burn our fucking asses eventually.
Rhode Island didn't have a lot of late night coffee shops even before the pandemic. But after it they're neigh impossible to find. At least outside of Providence.
Tweets are brand advertisements.
I'm not sure exactly what a "free press" looks like, but I'm damn sure they've been sleeping or dead longer than I've been alive.

Of all people, journalists should be able to point out our blatant contradictions in terms of supposed values and norms. But instead they're slavish institutional midwits.

Thank you for this post, OP.
Related:

Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42581119
Do some people prefer using filesystem routing? I don't think I've used it before but it sounds clunky.
Windows won’t stop functioning, it just stops receiving updates. Win10 machines will still work, and you can reinstall win10 if you like.

In practice, what usually seems to happen is Microsoft will begrudgingly extend security updates for a few years after official EOS, because most people won’t switch over that quickly and having all those machines with unpatched vulnerabilities would be a bigger pain that potentially more expensive than just keeping on for a few more years.
Why would it be? It’s full of corrosive oxygen and biomass that would be a biohazard to anything carbon based and organic. It’s habitable to us because we evolved here but it might be toxic hell to something else.

If you are going to sterilize Earth you might as well just terraform something dead. This isn’t even getting into the ethical questions, just looking at practicality.

If you’ve got the technology to come here, well, you might as well terraform something dead. We almost have the technology to terraform Mars (albeit over thousands of years) and it seems easier to do and possibly faster than interstellar flight.

Building giant space station habitats is also easier than interstellar flight. Uploading brains to machines, which would allow settlement of almost anywhere, is probably easier than interstellar flight. AGI is probably easier than interstellar flight.

In fact interstellar flight is so hard it might rarely be attempted anywhere by anyone unless there’s a forcing function like one’s star becoming unstable or some other cosmic scale calamity. Solar systems are huge and contain vast amounts of resources.
Often people believe that they are using the computer when in fact the computer is using them.

My first computer was a DOS machine with BASIC. If I wanted to play games I had to write them. No ads. No algorithm.

The key lesson is that computers are general purpose machines that you can bend to your will.
It's definitely not the right way, in this case.
Generative AI Is a Parasitic Cancer
yeah, you can't update an app with a different signature than the one you've currently installed, that's a feature of the OS.
open, perhaps, in the sense of an open set
Somewhat difficult to notice in a skim the article (but important) is that one of the figures criticized is Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper in question.
The first computer I remember having as a kid was an old DOS machine that was gifted to us.

I remember it had a command prompt and you had to type pop or something to launch prince of Persia. It was mind blowing, but led to trying to figure out what else you could input into this mysterious C:\ prompt.
Reminscient of the Rob Rogers situation at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he was fired for making too many cartoons critical of Trump when the owner was a Republican nepobaby.

So lame.
Do you see a strong economy as a goal in itself? I see it as a proxy measure for the things that truly matter. Happiness, good health, good education, the freedom to lead your life the way you want. America fails miserably on all of those.
Because my friend who just worked for years to become an American citizen after immigrating here and working for the US government still has other Americans tell him to "go back to where he came from" because he's evidently not American enough for them.

A hell of a lot of people want to "just be American" and a lot of Americans won't let them.
No, having a concise separator is still preferable to saving a line in a diff.
To understand the "race is a social construct" thing, it's helpful to (1) consider border cases and ambiguities and (2) consider history

1. Breaks down especially with the existence of mixed race people. Did you know that there was a term for Americans born with 7 European great grandparents and 1 black one? Many of those were born into slavery and treated horribly for being black.

Which touches on 2... But also, the Irish were not considered white. I've seen horribly racist British illustrations of the 19th century comparing Irish people to Africans. In that century in the United States, Italian and eastern European immigrants were also not considered white.

When you consider these ridiculous corner cases, and how their perceptions have changed over time, it makes you aware that the categorization itself isn't really based on logic and reason or facts, even when generalizations hold up "better". Yes, for the most stereotypically appearing people, we'll probably correctly guess their ancestry a lot of the time based on things like appearances. But it falls apart pretty quickly. You don't need to get into extreme outlier cases as above for you to miss something when you treat racial categories as unambiguous facts.
> Evolution is a system, not a lottery.

Sure, if you chuck the concept of a lottery out the window. It's literally a genetic lottery. C'mon we can do better than this bullshit.
>> Are you truly advocating that people should no longer be proud of their cultural identity?

My take on the comment was that so long as a trait is relevant to some people, it will be dispised by some other people. Either it's completely benign or it's somewhat polarizing. There are few things that only range from neutral to positive without detractors.
But that's not the case... the random-looking very-large value X has to go through a conversion function to get the true value of 2024.12.25 T 23:59, just like every other value. Surely nobody is just dividing the Unix time by 86400 like people keep suggesting? What kind of a hack would think they could do date math themselves?
Unsurprising to me. Instead of ablative self-destructing tiles, they are trying to make survivable heat plates. This is such an extreme job, has to endure so much the brunt of this crazy job. Experimentation is required to see what you've really got, as well as assess what else might be possible.
I certainly believe it would be an issue. When your boss is one of the supplicants depicted in the cartoon it makes for an uncomfortable conflict of interests for the editor. We are not a post-oligarch society. We have a thin veneer of democracy now, but the decisions that really matter are made while rolling around in giant piles of $$$.
How is it whataboutism when you claim a election was bought, when the loser out raised and outspent the winner?
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It’s not. Long-form is easy to write. Every school kid specializes in expanding text into larger volumes. In an essay for my scriptures class I replaced “Jesus” with “Jesus, the only begotten son of God, who gave his life so that we might be saved from our sins” to make the word count.

The key is to follow long-form writers who can be succinct. The quality of concise communication of concepts then flows into their longer writing.
This isn’t really a lesson.

Not everyone cares about computers or is destined to spend their lives tinkering with them. Most people are content with simply thinking of computers as a magic box that does things and going on with their lives. And maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. Not everything needs to be bent to your will.

In very old days kids would have had to build their own toys instead of going to a toy store. Is there some lesson there?
I actually have no idea what he’s trying to say lol
> Cultural and housing problems are fixable (just build more housing), dying out is not.

We've been through this endless times through history. When one ethnic group is exterminated, they are still dead even if strangers move into their land and dwellings. Whether that is done through war, disease or economic strangling of the youth. All has the same result and it is a crime against humanity and a crime against God.

As long as the Japanese are allowed to exist, they can flourish again. Not if they've been replaced by different people. It's the same for all of us in the world.
Does it?

Books catch attention with a cover, with interviews, with reviews. Building an audience requires a lot more work than people expect, and people's attention span is the shortest its ever been.
The boot licking towards Trump and donations to the inauguration etc. have truly turned my stomach this time. Feels like we are living in the Dark Ages and giving bribes to a dark lord. At least have some self respect.
Yea, if anything a bot that just reposts and talks about sports news for a specific team is kinda the perfect test case for something like this. It lets you test "identity" for a bot, but no one's going to be that upset if the Mets Fan Bot isn't sufficiently obsessed. Plus, it'll know all of the history and stats for the team, even if it'll probably be wrong a lot. Not that most human fans aren't wrong a lot about their sports teams' history.
I definitely agree with your statement, though I don’t fully understand the link between that and not being able to retire.

In what way is not retiring (let’s assume with decent savings, your typical 25X yearly expenses including typical ACA premium and deductible) significantly lowering the chances that a serious illness will cause bankruptcy, enough that it will make it worth to continue working? Isn’t the probability more or less the same in either case?

Clearly one cannot just save their way into self-insuring, as it’s trivial to imagine medical bills in the many millions of dollars if your insurance starts denying expensive treatments that you do need, wiping out everyone without a $50M+ net worth. Hell I had a routine 1h colonoscopy a while ago and it was a $20k bill (of which I “just” paid $4k out of pocket while the insurance paid $16k, “lucky” me), can’t imagine what an expensive surgery would cost if insurance denies it, there’s really no amount of savings that can shield you from such risk.

Is the thinking that for as long as a person is covered by an employer plan they will get better coverage than what’s available on the exchange, therefore it’s better to just never retire? This also doesn’t seem too logical.

Or is the thinking that by continuing to work one can mitigate the scenario where the insurances constantly nickle and dime you for some non-black-swan medications/procedures, causing one’s healthcare costs to inflate way above the stated maximum out of pockets, but in a way that can still be somewhat offset by the additional income? This is probably more plausible as I read stories of people taking medications that improve their quality of life at the cost of $2k+ per month, which they fully pay because the insurance decided not to cover those. Those can definitely put a dent in one’s planned budget.

I seem to have answered myself after all…
>"That's because those immigrants came here because they wanted to be Canadians."

They came here for better life. Nothing is wrong with that. Country can use it to its advantage or fuck it up.
from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/1900-id...:

In 1850, the US was home to 19 millionaires. But the years following the Civil War had seen a considerable increase in membership of that exclusive club. By the end of the 1890's the number of millionaires in the US had swelled to more than 4,000.
As someone who has done some of the free Brilliant puzzles, I can't say I've learned a ton from them but it does feel nice to exercise some of my brain muscles occasionally in ways that aren't directly related to my job even if it's just high school level physics or math.
Harris is not in a position of power.
I canceled my paid sub stack subscriptions because they started to send me unsolicited political advertisements.

That crosses a red line for me and I will not support their business.
Only if you don't include Elon dumping hundreds of millions into the campaign.

And I am sure there is a lot more where that came from in terms of "contributions" from Russia and China in terms of disinformation.
It's not building an audience for long-form content, it's cultivating an ingroup of a particular ideological tendency that will absorb any content from the ingroup.
Quote from a Chinese friend of mine form over the holidays (currently in Canada on a work visa, applying for a PR shortly, started as an exchange student in highschool):

“I really like coming back to [jmb99’s hometown], it’s all white people. Nice change from Toronto.”

Definitely a common sentiment.
I suspect they actually do expect them to burn-up on re-entry... but by telling the FAA they may splashdown, it absolves them of any problems if for whatever reason they fail to fully do so. And then the public communication has to match what they told the FAA.
PRQL is awesome. There's a similar competitor whose name I can't find now.
Twitter can serve the purpose of an RSS feed for the long-form content.
That ship has sailed given how Harris and other 83+ billionaires (including several other tech CEOs) raised more than $1BN for her campaign more than Trump (and she still lost).
This is from a fairly left wing publication and it's clear who had more billionaires supporters
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-har...
Easterly and Levine (1997)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24091596_Africa's_G...

Alesina, Baqir and Easterly (1999)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24091676_Public_Goo...
I thought I was the only one. I’m non-native English speaker so thought may be I missed something.
I feel like the current political situation in the US is going to accelerate the demise of traditional media. They have not been able to adapt to a changing information landscape and were stuck on models that worked in the past, like "both sides"ing issues sort of reflexively. That works great with a lot of things like "how much should we tax companies?", but not so much for some more fundamental questions like whether someone supports democracy.

I'm not sure what will emerge in its place. It's a big problem, and has hit hardest and first among local newspapers which are increasingly hollowed out husks of their former selves. This has a real cost to society that's actually quantifiable in dollars and cents:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-closures-of-local-new...

Things like social media don't really take the place of people paid to do the hard work of, say, sitting through local city council meetings and making sense of what's happening there. A friend of mine tried doing that for fun and it lasted a few years, but he got burned out because of the tremendous amount of work.