jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your entire chain of argument sounds religious in nature, and at no point did it touch at all on why anything having to do with rights would affect economic output in any way. You've neither pointed out a specific flaw in nerfhammer's argument, nor answered waterside81's question for clarification.

All you're doing is reminding us that hard core libertarians hate almost everything that government does, and that they all consider most things that governments try to do to be bad for the economy.

You can't successfully argue that a particular action is bad by falling back on the base libertarian dogma that all actions of that sort are bad, or at least you can't do it without offering at least some independent support for the base dogma. We already know that you believe it; what we're asking is why we should believe it in the context of this individual example.

There are dozens of possible responses you could give, I've come up with several myself, but frankly, I can come up with many arguments for both sides of the issue, so I'm of the mind that it's likely something we'd need to see a bit of empirical data on to be sure.

One of the few things I know for sure about econ is that first-principle-based arguments tend to be complete and utter trash whenever they measure up against real world tests.
Mutability directly breaks purity whether or not it breaks homoiconicity. This should be obvious because on of the best known and oldest FP language families is both homoiconic and impure due to mutation (the Lisp family.) So homoiconicity is a non-sequitur.
Certificate points to *.azurewebsites.net and a dns lookup on blogs.bing.com sends it via bingblogwest.azurewebsites.net

Not quite sure what the issue is though, but probably misconfigured.
> ... proofs were lacking on both sides ... religious fundamentalists (either christians or muslims).

These are equally ridiculous statements. We know who did it, we know how they did it, we know why they did it. People just can't accept that enormous events can have relatively simple causes.
This guy is pretty dense to think that his argument is any different for any system. You control your SLA in traditional datacenters by using multiple locations or maybe tier 4 isolation.

Now why would we need to worry about the same things everyone else does that isn't in the cloud? That's right: the cloud doesn't solve these problems. It's not a shining moment. It's just the fact that in these cases you'd have to be an idiot to think the cloud somehow elevates you from this problem.

Now what cloud does give you can be valuable, though sometimes marginal in comparison to problems like having cascading failures outside your control because everyone happens to be sharing the same network or so on. I'm not knocking the cloud as much as I'm knocking people who pretend it's actually elevating computing away from traditional concerns.
After my desk is made, I intend to get a custom coffee table made and hope to put in a recessed outlet with usb plugs for easy charging of phones and laptops.
> But in the US, the places where high-speed rail will work already have high-speed rail.

Huh? There is no HSR in the USA at present, the closest we have is the "higher" speed Acela service.

Edit: beaten
Not a startup. Actually not too bad a concept, just watch the first 5 minutes for the idea, after that NO!
Oh boo hoo, I insulted everyone's favorite monopoly
Unfortunately the changes have broken one of my most used Android apps -- HNDroid. I hope either the changes here revert, or the app developer updates it, cuz I miss it! :(
Saying 9/11 was the work of Christian fundamentalists seems nearly as bizarre as claiming it was the work of the government. Neither has any grounding in fact.
While this is a decent article to stimulate thought, it has too many details to be taken totally seriously. There is a significant vibe of : "Do it like me, or else you are a fraud."
The Arch switch was a decree from on high as best i can tell, with a very "deal with it" style forum posting.

And i think at least one Arch offshot is not adopting systemd at this time.
I try to write idempotent software whenever I can. It's usually not much more difficult to make it work and affords so much more flexibility and less worry when it's done.
Disclaimer: I work at Amazon, but not at all related to Sidewalk, or devices.

Amazon seems to be roughly in the ballpark of 1 BB devices sold based on [0] and [1]. Meanwhile, Apple seems to be in the ballpark of 3 BB devices sold (iOS + watchOS + macOS).

> I'm curious how you'd see this comparing to Amazon Sidewalk in size?

Their future growth curves (regarding devices "in the wild") are not very clear to me. Although, it seems to me devices stuck in homes (i.e. Amazon's), will be less effective at finding lost items, transferring data, etc; compared with devices that locomote with their humans (i.e. Apple's).

Ideally, I hope they create a standard and create a single giant network. After all, Ring data eventually needs to hit an iOS device.

Note: These are all legacy articles, so I did a reasonable projection. I'm probably overestimating for Amazon, and underestimating for Apple, but I have no idea.

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/21/21070402/amazon-ring-sa...
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reveals-alexa-sales-2...
[3] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/09/13/how-apple-has-hit...
That story is nuts - and he obviously would have been treated much differently when they found him in the U.S. if the climate at the time would've been like it is now (thankfully it wasn't).
I mean, Pine's and System76's laptops don't even use the same CPU architecture as each other currently...
> “The videos or the images already existed in some form and then our allegation—this is of course subject to proof at trial, she’s innocent until proven guilty—but our allegation is that Mrs. Spone took existing images from existing social media from these three victims’ existing social media accounts and manipulated them,” Weintraub said.

> The statement is similar to claims made by Engelhart to the Daily Dot that Spone allegedly used legitimate video as a basis for the deepfake. Police did not know whether the alleged victim’s face was added to a video of another young female vaping or if a vaping pen and smoke was digitally added to a legitimate video of the alleged victim.

If you're saying that she started with one video or image that was publicly accessible and modified it, I'd expect them to have the original video or image so they could tell what was added.
Reminds me of Reg Spiers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Spiers

> He is best known for successfully posting himself in a box from England to Australia to avoid paying for a plane ticket

I first heard of him on this episode of The Dollop podcast - https://allthingscomedy.com/podcast/the-dollop/113---reg-spi...
https://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2013/06/06/acid-2-0-in-ac...

If you can build a system with ACID 2.0 life gets really easy. You can reason about your system without worrying about ordering, time, 'exactly once' semantics, etc.

Idempotency is usually one of the simplest pieces to implement, and you definitely get a ton of benefit right off the bat - it's worth designing systems from scratch with it in mind.
I have noticed a similar thing, and I wonder why it is. I have a few possible explanations, but no idea which one is correct. Maybe it's a combination:

First option is that communist regimes ruin characters of many people, including those who try to fight against them. If you live a few decades in an oppresive regime where many things are forbidden... you get used to it, and then freedom feels scary. Even things that you hate can become a habit, and habits are difficult to change. When people leave a cult, they are also disoriented, and life outside feels scary.

Second option is that fighting against the regime becomes a part of their identity. When the regime is over, for a short moment they feel like winners... and then life goes on, and they don't have new impressive things to offer, they are like monuments of history, irrelevant for today. So some of them try to criticize the new system, because "criticizing a system" is what they are famous for, but now it's awkward... because some people realize what they are doing, and others are just confused.

Third option is that while in the West there seems to be mostly a linear political scale from conservatism to liberalism, in communist countries it becomes a triangle, with communism, religious conservatism, and liberalism/libertarianism as three deeply incompatible options. During the communist regime, the differences between conservatives and libertarians feel unimportant, because the first priority is to survive and hopefully overthrow their common enemy. Only after the victory, the former allies notice the deep differences between them, and both sides feel betrayed.
Keep them safely stored. It will be quite valuable at some point in the future.
Did you miss it when you were working on larger codebases? The library you mentioned clocks at 500 LOC, and while the LOC metric is pretty inaccurate, it takes a lot more time to really miss language features.
Garbage Collection. Not that long ago Apple came out with full GC in Objective-C to a lot of fanfare (no more retain releases yay). Not long after that they said to just use ARC (which is compiler retain/releases) because the GC was not working well. Today, it's hard to find any mention of the GC.
We should try and debunk everything he is doing. It is the best way of finding out if it might work.
Granted, and most people think prototypes are evil for similar reasons. Perl doesn't have the same design goals as something like Python, it will accept inconsistencies and complexity if they're deemed useful

I personally like this, assuming the complexities aren't too great and the documentation is good but to each their own

Edit: In Perl land it is a bad idea to treat built ins as being identical to subs, and this was taught to me by the books I learnt from. The rub of this is that it is bad to generalise from stuff like print, push etc
It seems like Rust is what Go would become of you added all the Haskell-ness to it. Which is fine, but we already have Rust. So... Maybe we should be asking what Rust is missing from Go? Or if Rust is good enough, just use that.
I completely understand what you are saying and agree. For example, if I visited your door and you told me that you were not interested because you were an atheist I would not ever reproach you, but I might ask a question such as "Have you always been an atheist, or did you once believe there was a God?" This isn't intended to be confrontational but is just motivated by curiosity on my part.

Perhaps if you were willing to talk about your beliefs I might go on to other questions such as "Do you believe that it is possible for us to determine if a God exists?" or "Do you think it is possible to find evidence that God exists?" and "Would you be willing to listen to some reasons why I feel that there is a God?"

If so we could discuss each individual reason. Really it is comparable to having a discussion here on Hacker News. There are disagreements here on HN but as long as everyone sticks to the guidelines everyone involved can have a productive conversation. I feel that likewise it is possible to have a productive conversation about religion.

Jehovah's Witnesses do have a vetting approach of sorts when it comes to determining capability but as I'm sure you will agree vetting is an extremely hard problem to tackle both accurately and fairly.
I have been :) I'll continue to keep my eyes open, but that is something i'm definitely trying to do.
"I'm afraid that's not correct. You can use arbitrary number of spaces to indent a block in YAML[1]."

Well, shit.

Thanks; how did I miss that?

"Are you sure you're not mistaking this with HAML? It's a bit stricter with the indentation requirements."

Oh, that I know. One reason I avoid it.
Oh wow. Couldn't this easily be abused, if someone visited my Javascript page, that automatically entered a form under their IP?
No, wasn't logged in.

I thought I'd start out by just getting it running, but I'm pretty stuck at a Shoes window with "undefined method `font' for (Object):Object".
Haha - yea I guess "wear" would be a jersey, but wouldn't a pedometer be "ware" - not sure...
Chrome netbooks
Did I say something wrong? I'd really like to know.
Yep! One can even define the `main` method using either:

public static void main(String[] args)
public static void main(String... args)
The world is not exclusively asynchronous. There are lots of use cases centered on live, especially around events. As Ben Thompson mentioned Locker Room which is Clubhouse for sports. I think live is a great format for these and no surprise it replicates live talk radio which has been around since the 1920s.
> If you're eating bacon and it tastes like bacon, it's cured.

In Northern Ireland there's a producer (Finnebrogue) which sells nitrite-free bacon (no, it doesn't contain celery - "adding nitrites from vegetable extracts for a technological function and/or as a preservative, is banned by the European Union") . It's pretty decent, tastes like bacon.

> The range replaces the nitrites commonly used to cure bacon and give them their recognisable colour with a Mediterranean fruit and spice extract it claims matches the shelf life of traditionally produced bacon and ham.

They seem to be mostly useless at preventing Botlusim anyway: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/23/nitrites-ham-ba...
Of course they are, but by default, it won’t work the same way with the built-in date command of *BSD, macOS and probably a few others (Windows? Plan 9?). If you need it just for this one command, my tool is a smaller additional installation than the GNU environment; alternatively, one could just remember all of the four-or-so different syntaxes...

Plus, the date command mostly doesn’t parse words properly. ;-)
This change would substantially benefit large providers at the expense of smaller providers.

AWS can afford to be sued for hosting a forum or the costs of a boycott for hosting Stormfront - a smaller provider could easily be wiped out.

Edited to add the following.

Most of this post was wrong. ttt0 is right that section 230 protects providers in the cases I mentioned. TIL about the scope of section 230 provider protection.
The reason people recommend a private homeserver is that Matrix will end up knowing a bunch of metadata, so the thinking is we'll put the server on this Raspberry Pi in my spare room, now the Secret Police can't get it.

With the Signal protocol this isn't a thing. Where metadata has to live on Signal's servers (e.g. "new-style" groups where you can have moderators) it's encrypted and the servers can do operations on the metadata without understanding what it means in a human sense. They go to considerable lengths to ensure they have no idea who their users are, who they talk to, or what about.

With Matrix you have to choose, Stand Out by setting up the private server which may attract problems, or Don't Stand Out but give away your metadata to the big public servers and assume the Secret Police have it.
Fascism is ultranationalist, collectivist authoritarianism. Silicon Valley is definitely not ultranationalist, and for the most part not particularly collectivist. Certainly no one in silicon valley is calling for corporatist autarky, nor would you find much support for mass militarization of society or paramilitary violence.

Technosolutionism is not fascism, libertarianism is not fascism, cancel culture is not fascism, socialism is not fascism, laissez faire capitalism is not fascism, letting fascists express their opinions is not fascism, censoring fascists is not fascism.

Of course this is semantics, and when most americans talk about fascism, they are talking about something else which may or may not have some vague resemblance to fascism, but meaningful dialogue is impossible if we can't agree what it is we're discussing.
You might as well say it's a 100% loss until you sell. After all, it's money you can't spend.
I'd pick sbt over mvn no doubt. Haven't played with either fury or mill, so can't comment on those (even gradle... I never really used it). But coming from years of Java/Maven I think sbt is way better. Things start complicating a bit if you have lots of plugins or macros probably.
IMHO, it is the reason to use Safari. The $100 and the registration process is a high barrier that helps keep out junk extensions. Even better, in some cases I can pay the creators of the extensions I rely on which makes the ecosystem more sustainable.
For my daughter (she's now 7), I followed this sequence:

- Exact instructions challenge (from YouTube)

- LightBot app on Android

- Scratch with Harvey Mudd College's course on edX

Snap! has some nice features but the community aspects of Scratch are so much better that she's happy building games there.

Same as you, our goal was not to "learn programming", but just to have fun making things move with your ideas. Just creating rather than passively consuming something.

Because this "coding for kids" mania seems to have gone overboard, I collected links to all the resources I used in the form of a "syllabus" here: https://learnawesome.org/items/1c96e03a-ffff-4579-b69a-0387b...
You could island hop across the Atlantic. Bermuda -> Azores -> Canaries. Work your way up the Irish sea from the Scilly Isles -> Lundy -> Skomer -> Bardsey -> Angelsey. On up to Faroes (Bonus points for a stop off on Rockall) -> Iceland -> Svalbard.

That would make an nice amateur radio Islands On the Air (IOTA) expedition.
He says his kid asked for programming books. Doesn't seem like it's being forced to me. Could it be that maybe, just maybe, both father and son enjoy programming?
I don't think it has an MMU (didn't see a TLB or table walker in the source), so a lot more work is needed than just the extra instructions.
> There is no advantage to criminality.

Of course there is. That's why YCombinator prefers "naughty" companies that break rules but get away with it.

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

> "Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter."

Is there any doubt that YCombinator would be investing in TicketMaster if it were a startup? Is there any moral distance between the scofflaw insouciance of AirBNB and TicketMaster? TicketMaster just eliminated a threat to its quasi-monopoly through criminality and were rewarded because the criminal penalty was utterly inconsequential compared with the commercial advantage obtained. They have "won" in the "marketplace", as that criminality-advantaging "marketplace" was constructed.

The unjust demolition of TicketMaster's competitors, and the resulting systemic economic inefficiency, is underpinned by rhetoric like yours.
Perhaps the largest that happens to not be used.
Darn. I thought it might do something clever like play interfering sounds to cancel it out, like noise canceling headphones.
Do we have comparable results for challenge trials with other vaccines? I thought the 90% numbers for the COVID vaccines sounded bad until I read that other vaccines we routinely use are in the 80s.

Additionally, AFAIK we don't actually know if the vaccines prevent COVID infections at all, we just know they prevent severe illness. If a challenge trial provided enough evidence of that, why wouldn't that be sufficient?
Yes, I've worked on a lot of Vue projects now, this is unlike any other I've seen.
It can, depending on the flight control mode.

But a pilot with time alone in the cockpit can most likely trick the flight computers into whatever mode he wishes.
>This means the frequencies emitted are very high (5 samples per period is 19.2 kHz) and it seems the audio output is being low pass filtered resulting in silly wobbly lines.

That effect actually looks amazing. I'd totally play a game with that aesthetic.
I've got slightly mixed feeling on copy-paste because sometimes it leads to lots of dependencies--some with conflicts--and you would have been better off writing if (s != null && !s.isEmpty()
As has China, for that matter: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/19/eng20061219_3340...
Some states are at-will employment. I would avoid working in those states, they give the employer way too much power over the worker.
> being added to the PSL reduces your ability to track users

Not really, in fact it can increase your ability to track users if it's (ab)used in specific ways - see use case #2 and #3 here:

https://github.com/privacycg/private-click-measurement/issue...
So i would say you are qualitatively correct but not quantitatively correct regarding what Dalio believes regarding inflation.

I think Dalio would go as far as saying "Cash is trash" but not as far as saying "the dollar will hyperinflate". He believes strong inflation is coming but that is very different than hyperinflation.

Hyper inflation would generally be defined as a quarter of 50% per month inflation. That means the dollar would have to lose 3/4 or more of it's value over a quarter to be said to have hyperinflated. Supply factors have to totally outstrip demand factors where there is essentially no bid to reach this kind of growth. But 90% of the world has debt denominated in dollars that creates a constant bid for dollars. This simply cannot unwind overnight without ending in a major global solvency event and if that happens every currency on the planet is going to be revalued instantaneously anyway.

Anyway that's a lot of words to say, I dont think Ray Dalio believes hyperinflation is coming. I think he thinks inflation is coming, maybe even a lot of it.

A second unrelated point is that every historical instance of hyperinflation I'm aware of involved a sovereign owing debts in some other sovereigns currency. No one has ever hyperinlfated when their debts were denominated in their own currency. This also is a situation which does not apply to the US.
One thing I want to call out, and seems to be the case (based on my understanding of the client code?), Apollo client doesn't try to understand the query and make intelligent use of the normalized cache based on the actual query going to be made. For example:

query profile(name: $name) {
id, name, address
}

query profile(id: $id) {
name, address
}

If the second query never made before the first query, even if they access the same object, it needs to make the network call again for the second query.

However, once you made all the queries, the normalization process will make sure the object is always fresh and there is no need for the extra network trip.
umm... I am surprised you, nor anyone else (yet) mentions the power key being right above the backspace key... I've turned off or put to sleep that stupid laptop so many times I went back to using my iPad 1st gen with bluetooth keyboard and RDP lol

but seriously, how they can continually overlook what clearly is a flaw? if I've got this all backwards, please share the logic behind it
related: http://evertpot.com/dropbox-post-api/

Basically everything about the status quo is messed up.

JSON into parameters: bad.

JSON into request body: undefined with the GET method.

JSON into request body with POST: great, but we're not actually mutating anything, so it's bad practice and won't be cached by varnish/nginx + a barrage of other problems.

I really wish someone would take up on http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3253 - like REPORT as an analogue to GET, just with a JSON request body. Hey, we as a community finally managed to get PUT and PATCH on track, why not this one?