jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But if I understand correctly, that isn't Girard's point. Girard is saying that they do realize that they are scapegoating, though they don't admit it publicly. The society knows, but it's on the quiet - they don't acknowledge it out loud, but they know.

So, yeah. Evidence for that is somewhat lacking - it requires interpretation, which a cynic could call "making stuff up".
Just run the output of autopilot in a symbolic execution environment and diff it against the code paths of the user code. This is one (admittedly convoluted) way of implementing what OP wants.
This probably isn't any help but as a father to a severely disabled autistic girl it feels the entire medical system is broken. There's so much future squandered in the hopes of short term profit paid for at the cost to the next generation.

I know people say "Autism can't be cured" etc. But having met other families in this process and visiting group homes and the potential for a life of happiness for kids like ours my hope grows bleak and I honestly catch myself crying when alone. Especially seeing neurotypical children playing or how other parents don't see the gift of a natural life their families have. I too turned to all sorts of exotic ideas of diets, behavioral therapies, vitamins and it was out of desperation. I put my daughter through a stem cell study at Duke that seemed promising but I then saw danger of losing potentially my daughter to experimentation. I was told by neurologist and psychiatrist that my daughter would never talk, never interact with the world. Today she's talking. I credit ABA, stem cell infusions, and a diet focused on fat consumption (basically keto) but in that same vein I've also learned to accept our fate.

Now I've cut way back and I just enjoy the gift of being with her. Her gains and triumphs whilst they pale in comparison to a neurotypical kid are harder but just as monumental. I know now the best thing parents or families in our position is to create a world that would accept our kids, take care of them, and create for them a place where individually they could have a fulfilling life. Yes a cure would be great but there are so many kids with different conditions, illnesses, accidents and circumstances that will have denied them a future. Modern day society doesn't adequately cover what children like ours will need when we are gone.
I've spent countless hours looking into these things. I've found no evidence for what you're saying. Literally zero.

I'm not saying that to pick an argument—it's just the factual situation. Meanwhile, there's enormous evidence that people imagine things based on what they believe they see in internet threads. That's why the site guidelines ask you not to post such insinuations unless you have something objective to go on. The appearance of a comment getting upvoted doesn't count—that's simply an indication that people have different views.

In addition to the links Confiks posted, I suggest https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... And there are hundreds of past explanations, going back many years, at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A lot of folks on here think the most sought after companies for SW engineers are FAANG.

Base for major profits at these companies:

FB - advertising

Apple - hardware company with software/services

Amazon - ecommerce

Netflix - entertainment content streaming

Google - advertising

Ranking those as far as companies to make the world better, I would rank Apple at the top since they actually produce something of value to a lot of humans. If you helped build features in the Apple Watch that cause someone to see a doctor for a condition and prevent a potential major medical issue, wow - awesome!

Tech or any other industry isn't going to change the world for the better. Maybe one exception of Renewable Energy, literally could help our planet. That isn't "tech" though.
The browser? Oh, you mean the WebAssembly Virtual Machine?
"cargo vendor" enables you to embed your entire dependency tree into your repo instantly, and compilation will work from that. Over half of your comment seems to have been predicated on the assumption that this either wasn't possible or wasn't easy... so I think your perceptions of Rust's package management system are more of an impediment to you than the actual package management system.
I think it's 100% the client. But this is the problem with a federated system like this: it increases your marketing surface without providing apparent value to the consumers. Consumers don't want choice, they want the one product that will do exactly what they need it to do. When I am presented with "choose your client from this list of 5-15" my eyes glaze over. I just want to try the thing. That isn't to say that there shouldn't be choices, there absolutely should. But the problem is that there needs to be a very easy short and gentle on ramp for new users.

Element is none of those things. It's name is so forgettable and so generic that people often don't even know whether it's an app, a library, a website, etc. The mobile app is yet another chat app with nobody on it until I do the legwork of pulling them in. It's just not usable on day one after I already spent the time to figure out which app I need. In the meantime, Signal can become your default messenger on Android within a few minutes and do everything you used to be able to do but more and better.
Unfortunately the fact that the code updates were hidden from GitHub while this feature was in development and the fact that the announcement doesn’t really address the risks argue against this being an ethical move.
The first time I quit I was drinking a cup per hour. I found this out from a time management course that had a time tracking activity for 1 week. So ~8 cups office brew per day. Two people at a company I was at before got diagnosed with caffeine poisoning. When I fell off the wagon the first time I kept it down to 4 or 5 cups per day.
This definitely isn't the only post you'll need to read, because it doesn't talk at all about the behavioural interview. Which at Facebook is actually one of the most important factors in terms of job levelling.

The more senior a level you're aiming for the more important the behavioural interview becomes (because the less the job becomes about pure technical skill, and the more it becomes about people).

Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on your perspective - the behavioural is also one of the harder interviews to prepare for.
First real job I had there was this guy who had one specialization. He was in charge of some software that drove tape drives.

Every outside new manager would come in and in some form or another look down on this guy in some form due to his age and generally not doing "a lot" of tasks and new products.

It took the local VP to come down and regularly high five him after his product git rave reviews from customers (regularly) and make the point every time some manager didn't get it.

That guy's code, documentation, everything was rock solid, and the number of support cases for everything he did was so low that the dude was without a doubt the most productive person as far as income goes. You could sell the product that he worked on and just rake in money with almost no costs after that. Almost everything else had a lot of support costs and etc.

Meanwhile the guys who were doing all the new stuff, sucked at trying to juggle 12 things because it looked good on a resume.
Without mentioning how the intelligence is measured, how can you decide that it is racist? You're not assuming good faith.
I think Jobs has been repeatedly clear that iOS supports two platforms: the web, an industry standard Apple tries hard to advance to the best of its ability, and iOS, which Apple keeps proprietary and advances to the best of their ability that way. Apple is devoting significant resources to developing both (in leu of focusing 100% of engineering on either), as an experiment, if you will.

Now, if only web apps on iOS could enter into full-screen mode like native apps...
I love the fact that with mobile devices, we all get to witness Mr. Carmack doing what he does best for a second time: pushing resource-constrained devices to their limit.
This presentation explains what problems React inline CSS solves

Could you please summarize in a few sentences what are these probs this approach deem to solve?

Because I have seen demos and talks from React people and I was appalled at their neglect of best practices and bending the rules just to push their product and technologies on the community
Since many NoSQL DBs use JSON to store the data, it seems you could save complicated conversion code between JSON and the db format by sticking to JSON throughout. That would be my line of thinking (I'm not the OP).
Quite a true piece, this is.
Often we feel like this, but what I find more awe-inspiring is when I feel an idea that I have come up with is great, I meet someone with a rather similar idea.
I should also note that many of the simulated Starlink paths between NYC and London are actually higher latency than the best fiber path, which is less than 60 ms (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/first-nyclondon-...). The author ignores routing and RF delays in the space network, but compares RTT to the public Internet. A joke.
My head always struggles with "Sign up" and "Sign in"...best example for me - https://www.digitalocean.com [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/fAS7rfz.png
I see many problems with that:

- if you change your email address, or have any problem with it (oups, google has blocked you again!), you can't log in. Have been bitten by this when myopera.com closed and I couldn't access my old email. I lost some accounts.

- emails are clear text, so bots can intercept a login link and use it

- if you want to share the account with somebody, you gotta give them access to your email

- I don't want my inbox to be polluted by 15 login email every day

- using my password manager is much faster than doing this
It's my understanding that this is what South Korea, Hong Kong, and possibly Taiwan did (and are still doing). As well as China once they acknowledged the outbreak. (Which is not to condone China's methods of enforcing the quarantine.)

(EDIT: Found an article I saw the other day about this being done in an Italian town with the claim that the virus has been "eradicated" there as a consequence: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradic...)

I'm just a lay observer of all this, not an authority. But my impression is that the U.S. could have done it effectively if a) the CDC test situation had not been borked and b) the federal govt had acknowledged the risk of epidemic (because I expect it's the CDC who has expertise in this tracing exercise, much more than state health departments).

As to whether it's too late, I honestly don't know. But it seems like it would be useful in controlling the epidemic regardless of its state.
I feel you! :o/ I do hope you get the time to play, it's worth it!
Sorry, but I have a bone to pick with people spouting this type of blanket rhetoric.

Animals are treated as units of production in developed countries because this is what is required to provide sustenance at a scale that makes it economically feasible for hundreds of millions of people to eat better than ever before in the history of humanity. [1]

Seriously, how many times must we start over every time someone watches Food Inc.?

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures/Data...
I'm not sure where these guys are getting their numbers, retail investors make up about 25% of the market. Not the dominant force, but also not exactly negligible.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/retail-inves...
Is there a consensus of who will be holding the bag when all of this stops and it drops back down?
The ISPs showing that there was significant harm would contradict the claim that they were already following the rules without being forced.
Well no, in practice Facebook/Twitter constitute a majority of the social media market (~75% IIRC) but it isn't a mutually exclusive share like the two parties that occupy fixed seats in the US government. Speech on non-majority social media is still effectively free speech; Unlike the governments in China & Russia, Facebook & Twitter can't do anything to stop your speech from reaching even their users if their users choose to listen to your speech because users aren't locked into using one social media platform.

Aside about the two parties: yes the two parties don't operate democratically, but they don't need to for the system to be democratic. Ultimately the voters choose and parties are held accountable for whatever actions they take. If a party subverts the will of voters, it will lose votes, or worse case scenario the parties die (eg. the Whig party, which was a major party).
South America had cities. (not 20th century, admittedly). The settlement of south africa involved murdering a large amount of natives... I'm not not sure what to tell you!
"how much suffering can you justify by saying that it might save human lives down the road?" - human suffering, or canine suffering? What is the 'exchange rate'? And fish suffering? A difficult problem. PS. It's certainly much easier to be the "eventually we would have found other ways"-humanitarian, being a healthy individual :)
We should applaud them for standing up and saying "Hey, we cocked up, sorry!"
Entertaining tale. Lots of pseudo-science, lots of spiritualism. Not a lot of useful insights? Took a hallucinogenic drug: experienced hallucinations...did it again: same result.
From my understanding, he was actually making that trip to exchange classified documents with another person Snowden sent the documents to. That would be a justified detention.
On the up-side there is now commercial pressure to produce first-class documentation.
They have their own domain name. How are they not distinct?

If you used a single site for gmail, youtube and G+, integrating it all into a single service, then you'd have a point. But they're different sites, different services. It's nice if you can use a single account for them all, and if it's easy to move content from one to the other, but that's not the same thing.
That's a pretty common practice yeah. Your point being?
Agreed: the g-forces involved in repeated collisions with debris would pulp whatever's inside.
What DRM system has actually been effective in reducing piracy? I think the more modern usage of DRM is aimed at market segmentation and control, which might also be in the best interest of supply.

However, these DRM systems require the user to use an unknown, "black box" decrypter to keep the content out of their hands. This wouldn't bother me if you could choose to not use the black box (as they are inherently insecure, obviously the decryption key can be extracted and used without the black box), but that is currently illegal. Therefore, I don't consider the current usage of DRM to be ethical.

I would actually be more supportive of DRM if it stood by its own merits - without government backing to try to paper over broken implementations.
Chris, you coming up to Chiang Mai before you leave thailand ? Would you like to come up to CNX and give a talk on your experiences and tools?
how long until mobile phones are purely data devices and cannot make calls or send texts, but do all of that via apps?

isn't that why facebook wanted WhatsApp, as they see this is a future of mobile phones?
I'm not entirely pleased with sonic.net. They have a nice business plan, but they don't care about the deep issues.

For example, Dane is against Net Neutrality, and he doesn't think IPv6 is terribly important.

The beta IPv6 service is manually configured, and some time around the weekend they changed my IP address via DHCP, breaking my IPv6 tunnel. I'm going to have to hunt down my sonic.net login so I can get my tunnel back. Or switch to an he.net tunnel.
Reliability and Monkey Brains is not something I'd put in the same sentence. It's a pretty regular occurrence for it to go down at our office, even after moving to a new space, several streets down.
And Ruby on Rails was born inside the closed source project which remains closed source.
It's not that hard; there are people out there that created activity bots to create messages in your activity heatmap, etc.
Not in England and here in Scotland they are "free" to Scottish students studying in Scotland. If someone from out Scotland comes here to study then fees are charged and if a Scottish student goes elsewhere in the UK then fees are charged.
And it's my decision not to use it. Why would I want a non-free (as in beer and speech) editor which reports data to Google, only works on Mac, and lacks any unique features? I don't understand the hype created on HN about it...
I can only respond to this with two cliches:

1) A team of mediocre performers will never give you anything more than mediocre results.

2) Nine women can't make a baby in one month.

Programming definitely has a cap on both quality and productivity.

And the only way to the maximize the results is with better people. Not more.

The problem is that until about the last two decades, most programming was done in non-competitive fields (internal enterprise IT), so nobody gave much of a fuck about quality or productivity.

Nowadays, most of us work in a context where software is crucial to a company's competitive edge. However, the monetary rewards and social standing of programmers is still very much based on the era of corporate IT (especially outside the SV bubble), and we are only slowly catching up.

Meanwhile the industry is desperately trying to put the genie back into the bottle, first through outsourcing (most of which failed miserably, because good programmers do way more than just code shit), later through wage-theft conspiracies and attempting to lower the barriers for importing cheap foreign programmers.
I know a UK semi-detached house that has 2 postcodes.
Perl's motto: TIMTOWDI (There Is More Than One Way To do It) <-- This include using other languages such as Ruby/Python to solve your problem.
I have a music collection at YouTube. Because of this when I like something I just click like and it's added to my list.

The problem is, YouTube and others will remove music from time to time. All of a sudden a song you liked but didn't bother to check what it's called is gone and you don't even know it's gone. At some point you remember something about it but you can't find it anywhere.

It's like a piece of memory has been removed from your brain but you have some residue left, "was it real or was it a dream? I can't remember".
> Anyone who is technical enough to use Heroku effectively can charge AT LEAST $84/hour for their time

This is very off base in my experience. I know countless beginner devs who swear by Heroku, because it's designed to be that simple.

You're not a 'freeloader' if you have lots of apps on the free tier but production grade ones where you pay premium. You're a paying customer in that case, and that's probably a common pattern with these 'freeloaders' - lots of free apps, but key paying ones.

All in all, I'm not going to pay $84/year for each of my 12-14 personal apps that have light traffic (couple hits per hour maybe). I'm going to pick a new platform and make it part of my workflow, and for the sake of simplicity, I will be moving all of my apps to it, paid ones included.
You can reference elements from an external file just as well:

<use xlink:href='icons.svg#foo'/>

Theoretically the browser should only download that file once, just as with multiple img elements referencing the same image. I haven't seen that approach much in the wild, though.
I'm not complaining I asked for multiple picture-in-picture.
> There are lots of other contractors that fail to negotiate and end up accepting a client's first offer. Are they not actually contractors?

Is there a 3rd party coming in and deciding what their rates are going to be? Or is it between them and the client?
We are living in the age of moral indignation and outrage rather than intelligence and understanding. On the one hand, it does nothing to address the problem. On the other hand, that's good because it means there is more fuel for outrage in the next election, too.
Maybe she meant it's inefficient in a way that for the government to track money it has to do a lot more work compared to the existing systems in place with the banks. Not lying seems to very important to government officials but equal level of misleading truths are totally acceptable [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34912959
GNU Global:

https://www.gnu.org/software/global/

For example, here is the Linux kernel in Global:

http://www.tamacom.com/tour/kernel/linux/
That's great! Honestly I'm still navigating more pressing existential crises (like which country and then city to set roots in, if I even have a choice) but after that the plan is to embrace fields that are amenable for cheap amateur experimentation. In that regards, I have some connectomics projects with c. Elegans in mind, followed by evolution with basic cell lines. Depending on answers to aforementioned crises I was planning to be near some big univs so I can mooch off of their inventory control auctions and core facilities as need be and go from there! However if there's actually communities of similar minded people that'll only be great since it'll expand the no. Of topics I can dabble in (which is precisely what you can never ever do in academia contrary to whatever crap they peddle to get you into the system).
Just finished Atomic Habits by James Clear and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've found some of the ideas he writes about incredibly useful and have had fun implementing them in my routine as well.
If the New York Times were taken as seriously as The National Enquirer (which never the less occasionally does journalism), few would care. However, the NYT are taken seriously, take themselves seriously and they have heft and sway it to set the tone of public opinion. Why else would so many do things for shitty pay so one day they climb the ladder and have their own bylines? If the NYT says something they get quoted seriously rather than sarcastically, etc.

That’s why it matters.
> This is so bleak, and so easily disproven (by lots of fields, including prestigious ones), that it makes me sad even to read it.

Honest question, but in what areas has this claim been disproven? In my interpretation, chatmasta's argument was fundamentally a mathematical one, that was basically just pointing out the likelihood of humans and human society being ultimately deterministic.

Are there some reasonable mathematical arguments against this possibility? Cause to me, it seems rather likely that humans are indeed deterministic (though still as fairly complex systems of course), and if so, we should probably start taking into account what kinds of [mathematical] implications that might lead to.
I like my indie laptop manufacturer:

http://www.rockdirect.com/notebooks.php

2 models, no confusion. And it's just upgrades on those models as in you customize those how you want it.
So much for the 25% gain. It has dropped considerably and is now at a 5% increase on the day.
I'm sure this debate has been had elsewhere at some point in the past, and I don't have the book here anyway. Whether or not the text actually callously celebrates the death of all these folks, it's still a scene which kinda creeped me out, and I'm sure a lot of other people too.
Evo is winning? Only in your dreams android fanboys.