jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The political sector is largely a client of the upper class and the rich. A basic income scheme takes power and influence directly from them, and shifts resources to the middle class, while essentially pushing the lower class and poor into the middle class by force of law.

Indirectly, business owners are deprived of cheap labor, while barriers to entry are lowered, increasing competition. The market becomes glutted by zero-employee owner-operated lifestyle businesses. DIY culture explodes, and is primarily motivated by a desire for genuine quality at an affordable price. Companies dedicated to supplying small businesses and home businesses, garage-sized production capital, and small quantities of raw materials win big (i.e. Staples, Home Depot) and those who depend on large business customers and factory-sized production capital lose a little.

The latter type of company pays for a lot of the government's pet projects. You simply can't tax small businesses as heavily without destroying them utterly.
The OP is making a (presumably) tongue-in-cheek reference to phrenology -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
I would just answer "Nothing."

Because, really, it isn't just because a language has it's deficiencies that I would want to change that. That would probably result in a new language, which is not desirable. Usually a language is what it is because of it's pros, which unfortunately happens to create the cons. If you remove the cons you would probably also lose some of the pros.

So, I think a better question would be: "And what wouldn't you use [language] for? Why?" Or, if you want to sound cool, "What do you hate about it?"
Other people pay, regardless of whether they produce negative externalities or not.
Or, perhaps some of those "volunteer" activities could become actual jobs???
This is obviously staged.
Except for the bystander and TSA agent that were shot by the officer.

I actually find it irresponsible to fire a weapon in a crowded security line. Two innocent people were shot.
The important word there is "tend". For most people their personality slowly shifts over decades. However, that doesn't mean faster change is impossible. People's personalities can change quickly, either due to life changing events or to intentional effort to change - for example, nearly anyone who is neurotic, depressed, anxious, easily angered, or similar who practices mindfulness daily for 6 months will experience a reduction in those aspects of their personality. Combine that with CBT, new hobbies, changing to a less stressful career, choosing better friends, more exercise, better diet, better sleep, and so on, and you'll experience even faster change. However, most people don't do this, especially when they are older, and hence the statistics show that changes tend to be slow.
doesnt matter if its minified as long as you can

window.console.clear = function arsehole() {console.log(arsehole.caller, "Asshole script called console.clear()")}

before it executes

Stuff state of the art adblockers (uBO) inject to block ads today: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uBlock-user/uBO-Scriptlets...
How many people have the opportunity to be Einstein?

Everyone who has access to (public) education, probably. And of those whomever has a relentless will for achievement. And/or is, by nature, curious about stuff. There's a reason why the lines between genius and mental illness get blurred sometimes. Remember John Nash, Jr.?

How many people have the right brain, and the right interest, and write the right paper at the right time?

How many are starving in an underdeveloped country and no access to education, for that matter.

I wouldn't know but I'd estimate millions.

Einstein wasn't necessarily a unique genius standing at the pinnacle of an intellectual mountain.

Whether you like it or not, he was a genius, and unique in his own way (like everyone else is - even you), along with various other well-known peers of his time and lots of other people before them.

Now, obviously, they, as well as any "proper" scientist, are well aware that none of their work would mean anything if they didn't stand on the shoulders of giants. Science is a branching tree of giant people.

He was a beneficiary of survivor bias. We don't know how many other "Einsteins" there have been, or could have been, because we only tell success stories.

Following your train of thought then no one's achievements - even those who you claim don't have the "right brain," "right interest," don't "write the right paper at the right time," are "starving in an underdeveloped country" and "without access to education" - would mean anything.

So, to get back to the subject: replaceability depends on the kind of job. It may be simpler to replace a fast food worker, but a Richard Feynman? an Albert Einstein? or <a name of a scientist whose name isn't publicly known but has made a difference in their field>? I doubt it. Those people made a difference in their respective fields and no one can take that from them. And I'd say the same if it were someone else from other countries, ethnicities, etc.
I think some of the comments here are seeing the word contrarian and dead seas scrolls and assuming he must have had some church forgery grand conspiracy theory instead of the more insider debate he was involved in. For anyone who is interested in the scrolls, I really recommend the great courses class on them which is pretty affordable via audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Audiobook/B0...
IDE development tooling straight out of Oracle without going to hunt for third parties, including proper debugging of stored procedures with everything that I expect from a modern language.

Ada flavoured PL/SQL.

The Java and .NET drivers, with support for advanced stuff like distributed clustered transactions and direct mappings of UDTs into source language types.

Support for nice stuff like OLAP cubes, bare metal databases and APEX provides a nice way to quickly build database frontends.

As mentioned I am familiar with PostgreSQL, and honestly other than a couple of SQL extensions that are easier to use, I don't see much value when I compare everything that is on the box, and usually at the project scale I work on (just yet another cog on the enterprise wheel), license costs aren't the biggest hurdle to care about, there are other pain points where money matters more.
> ask to speak to the on-duty manager to make them aware you are having difficulties getting into your vehicle as they are aware of the process to follow.

Wonder what the "process" to solve this is if they don't even know the cause?
that storage pod looks really interesting. Standalone disk enclosure connected to a RAID card. Are there any like these broadly available (in that form factor)?
Re Cold food: I've had curbside pickup before and even then orders get sent out with some components not even warming lamp warm. Like if someone orders french fries during a non-rush time. Only you also can't reliably order during rush times, because then the place might be too busy to do it properly at all.

I hope we all get vaccinated and deliver the finishing blow to this pandemic so that I can safely eat hot fresh food inside again.
Forgot to mention, I'm a Googler, but I don't work on search, ads, or YouTube. My opinions and thoughts are my own.

I posted an ad for my family name a few years ago. I was applying for new jobs and I wanted some say in what prospective employers saw about me online. I think it was 5 cents per click that I ended up paying. It's cheap enough that it's probably worth paying for them. And going through this process for yourself you can see what the targeting options are.

As for how your name got in there, who knows. Maybe you searched for yourself accidentally. Maybe it was able to get it from your account name. But it's unlikely that the data was "sold" to YourNameOnATShirt.com. This wouldn't really make much business sense, the privacy policies explicitly say this won't happen, and I've never heard of anyone with actual knowledge claiming that any personal data is ever sold.

It looks like you can opt out of this kind of ad personalization here though: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
It seems like delivery apps have a more helpful contest process for restaurants. I know credit cards are deeply ingrained, but it's sad to see an non-existent ecosystem of one-directional payments. Apps like MocaPay or AliPay don't allow such fraud, and it seems like some restaurants might be better off if they went cash only. I certainly don't mind going to an atm every week to grab a hundred bucks for my purchases. ATMs in the US usually have even greater daily withdrawal limits.

In a trustless society cash is king (I mean I suppose there can be money counterfeiting but I suppose the USSS can help you setup a sting op)
You’ll need faster charging and larger batteries (larger batteries allow for sustained peak charge rates longer when you roll into a charger station at very low state of charge).

Taycan has an 800V battery pack, so can leverage higher Fast DC charge peaks from CCS chargers (vs Tesla 400V packs and Superchargers).
> I suspect that they have some reliability issues.

I've heard that they are sufficiently unreliable as to be unusable, that was was some time ago, and things may have changed.
> No, thats not what I said. Your misinterpretation starts at the very first sentence. I said "people with guns are less likely to be brutalized by the gov or literally anyone."

I'm not sure what the 'no' refers to?

Your original post said "the gov or literally anyone". Your second post only talked about the gov part, so I reminded you about the "literally anyone" part. Where's the misinterpretation?

> trying to fighting against anyone isn't self defense. no where did I say anything the like you just made that up.

Let me rephrase. Self defense against the government with a gun is a terrible idea.

> You are seem unable to completely read and understand my post. You cant just pick one part and ignore the rest. I clear said that if you cant defend yourself its not the same as if you voluntary dont want to.

You did say that. You also equated choosing not to carry a gun with choosing not to defend yourself, with the phrases "Who would have thought that people with guns are less likely to be brutalized by the gov or literally anyone." and "their own actions or inactions makes them the victim"

Are you telling me you didn't mean to equate those? If so then your original post was written misleadingly, and I don't even know who you're even accusing of victim mentality anymore.

If you did mean to equate those, then I still think your opinion is hot garbage.
We really are heading into some Brave New World situation, aren't we?

With that said, I recently used a sperm freezing service as I refuse to have children under the current circumstances (but wish to do so in the future) and this was always one of my concerns: that the business 'fails' and gets bought out by a large corp and my sample is just another asset on their balance sheet, so the vulture/disaster capitalism model is to take it as it assumes all liabilities and tries to recover its 'investment' and finds a certain Market need.

This pandemic baby model driven by low sperm access only proves why that would be a likely scenario after all, at the time I only had a very unsettling sense of unwarranted paranoia to back it up.

I'm not into online dating, as I need more bio-feedback than an online profile to even consider a woman as a possible partner, but hasn't the advent of tinder like apps pretty much made a 'Sperm donor' a SaaS?

> This is a net positive considering the US population is declining at an alarming rate.

I disagree, I think that growth should be curtailed far more this will allow us to implement a better system rather with a less messy transition than to breed only to throw more fodder into the pitfalls of our current casino, rent seeking, war addled, gig-economy mess of a system.

Anyone who has any experience living even remotely in that system often feels the same, hence why so many people even in developed countries with good jobs and partners opt for dogs instead of children these days.

I attribute it to the same reaction mechanisms you see with people in tech who work at Social media corps and do not allow their children to use the very same products they work on.
I suspect yes on both. But also, I think, a sense that the country/society no longer values them, but instead looks down on them. The Democratic Party was once the party of the "working man". Now it regards many of those people as "a basket of deplorables".

Bernie appeals to the same kind of people, but the mainstream Democratic Party does not.
Fantastic work. This is the kind of stuff we need to get these models actually adopted and integrated into non-tech organizations.
Am I wrong to think it is a good thing ?
What feeling? The market cap to asset ratio for Tesla is nearly 25.
Doesn't that part of Scheme implementation interact with continuations?
I believe he's referring to this article[0] which was discussed on HN yesterday.

[0]: https://sahillavingia.com/work
I have not stated "all screening is bad".

Broad-based population screenings as the parent comment suggests, in my opinion, are.

I'm yet to see any clinically-valid distinguishing aspects that would suggest AI would add value to screening. Curious to hear evidence that drives your optimism of human+AI.

Just to state, the NELSON study [1] focuses on high-risk segments. Their paper also recommends a "personalized risk-based approach" to screening. This seems reasonable.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1911793
Cache invalidation, one of the so-called hardest things in software, is simply a consensus problem on the lifetime of data. Naming things is consensus on definitions.

Consensus isn’t just hard, it’s the hardest thing. Possibly even the only hard thing, if you include the social aspects of software development too (which involve human consensus).
Interesting! I can see why that might be a better model for the places it can work.
I like the notion of "Optimistic Nihilism", as explained by Kurzgesagt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14

For me, it is about stoic/Zen acceptance of things we cannot change.

Contrast it with "American optimism", which is for me close to gaslighting, or at best - a "flight" reaction from suffering.
> has better IntelliJ support

That's gonna be hard to beat for most languages I guess, the best IntelliJ support will most likely always go to Kotlin :-)
OK I see, the very short sequence in your example was a stand-in for a potentially infinite one. I got nerd-sniped into understanding what was happening as I found the behavior surprising.
> Different snapping, at least to what I’m used to.

Be that as it may, the post I responded to was commenting on the absence of a feature that isn’t absent. Wether you like or are accustomed to its behaviour is a different matter.
I really miss tools like FoxPro or MS Access where you could whip up some pretty powerful solutions quickly. Back then I knew several small to medium sized businesses where the owner over time had created pretty intricate systems they ran their businesses on. I bet they would have had to pay six or seven figure amounts of money if they had let "professionals" do this for them.

I don't think there is anything comparable out there that allows you to do the same with "modern" tech.
Pretty good research on the same topic from this firm a few years ago: https://baymard.com/blog/drop-down-usability
You can work with mutable state in Haskell, you just have to be explicit about it (e.g. State monad).
I am LDS, and it's true that there are a lot of very competent techies who are members.

The two major factors that likely influence the high ranking are : as mentioned. (1) the SEO is affected by links pointing at the site from external sources like LDS bloggers, and (2) the comprehensive system of cross-referencing that the site has implemented through its web-based scriptures. For example:

http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp?lang=eng

because the LDS Church's major "message" is how the Book of Mormon is supplementary and complementary to the Bible, as it is a record of God's dealings with people on the American continent during "ancient" American times.
okay, i see some problems here ...

why use the MacRoman character set? UTF8 is a much better default.

also, the code uses CFStringGetCStringPtr() as if it can't ever fail. from the docs: "This function either returns the requested pointer immediately, with no memory allocations and no copying, in constant time, or returns NULL. If the latter is the result, call an alternative function such as the CFStringGetCString() function to extract the characters"
I see I can get a free 1million size account for the contest at heroku. How big is that for this type of application, like you show in the tutorial?
It's the time that helps you.
Excellent point, onteria. To further your suggestion, if it's reported that some of your user-input variables aren't being escaped then you better check the rest of the unreported ones, too. And not just in that single file/controller/view/whatever! (EDIT: Or whatever the root-cause of the vulnerability is)
It doesn't seem strange to me. Most people have gone through high school and had some chance to hang around with college kids (or gone to college). Anyone who has done those things has almost certainly been offered a hit, and there is almost no downside to accepting such an offer.
I grew up in Milan, and none in my family is obese. If for relatively small you mean "human" yeah, we don't server Cheesecake Factory portions (we actually do once in a while, I remember my dad and grand father eating pasta in a salad bowl few times).
Sorry I missed the books. There are some real gems in there.

I had no idea something like HNTrades existed. Shameless self-promotion... I just posted my iMac up for sale on there: http://hntrades.com/items/show/151
It likely won't be. Amazon is pretty bad at software.
There is no difference procedure-wise. In execution however, Israel and China aren't invading foreign nations and using the online peanut gallery to try and sway public opinion on the matter.

Maybe you could make a case for Palestine or the Senkaku Islands dispute but I don't think those examples would hold muster for a multitude of reasons.
Well, these big services probably close down as often as an end user sees their hard drive fail.
The article covers it quite well. The trolls generally don't really know what they're talking about and often don't make sense.

So if you ignore the nonsensical people you will ignore the trolls too. It's a pretty good rule to follow anyway.
My wife's charity organization has gotten some new members by publicizing their events on Meetup.com! I haven't used it but in general that seems like a good place to find things to do.

If not, try your local government or church, or just see if big-name charities or service organizations have any groups in your area.
What is the benefit to having 'this' defined based on where a function is executed rather than where it is created? Is this mainly an artifact of the ability to assign a function created in one place to an object created elsewhere?
Yes, better support for running in multiple regions is clearly needed. There needs to be native support for transferring snapshots between regions (at the user's expense, of course).
Kind of obvious. When W. Bush took office, Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela were all threatening to stop using the US dollar for oil sales - all three were branded as part of the axis of evil and we started overt or covert military operations against all three countries.

Whether the huge military budget for protecting the dollar as the reserve currency of the world was a good strategy is still an open question. (But my guess is that given more historical perspective in 5 years, or so, it will look like a bad strategy.)
Then you should talk to people who where actually living there and you will be surprised. Also a look at statistics helps to get rid of this too positively drawn picture.

As I said they even fake some numbers to let it appear to be better now. Like e.g. unemployment rate - now everyone who is in a useless training that he doesn't need and that doesn't help to get back into real jobs is not included in the numbers anymore (I think it was when von-der-Leyen announced the numbers herself or round about that time when they changed their work- and unemployment model).

While in the 70ies many/most people had good jobs (one was enough to finance a hole family!) nowadays they have minimum wage jobs that don't pay enough for single individuals to really enjoy life.

You can be glad not to be bound to get Hartz 4 - this is a nightmare compared to their old social security system.

To discuss this further I think we'd have to define "decent standard of living" because I suppose we understand something differently there.

The schools are not getting enough money and have a lot of problems they don't want to talk publicly about. If you are interested you should ask some German teachers about that because they tend to have some funny stories about school, the money which is spent and the system itself.
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> For one very big thing, hardware accelerated rendering didn't exist in 1980.

Then why the hell isn't it being used by GTK/Cairo nor Qt in production code. Oh yes, there are OpenGL(-ES) backends in both. But by far and large they're doing all their rendering on the CPU and then blit over to the graphics system. This is BTW the main reason for Wayland coming to be in the first place: The observation that the X server has been "reduced to a blitting engine" (if your world view is so narrow to cover only GTK and Qt).

And then they're draining the baby with the bathwater… Wayland is how old now, 9 to 10 years, and it's still far from usable for production. IF you compare that with X11, after 10 years it didn't have just a barely working server and some example application. It was a thriving ecosystem with multiple desktop environments, toolkits, loads of production applications and you could just run them all arbitrarily in the same environment.

Only last Friday I was working on a custom windowing library (something in the same vein as GLUT, SDL or GLFW, however with a focus on "desktop" programs with traditional GUIs instead of things like games) and whenever I start working with the Wayland side of things it turns into a severe headache. Wayland is an actively developer hostile (and I'd even wager to say user hostile, too) ecosystem. For example, because in Wayland there's no concept of windows, and whatever a window is, is left to the compositor, you can't even properly implement something like dockable windows. The best hack I could come up with was via the drag'n'drop mechanism that Wayland then does specify.

IMHO Wayland is a prime example for the sunken cost fallacy hitting hard.
Don't we need a bunch of "bad" investments to get the space tech to move forward faster?

Like, maybe this guy will convince a bunch of "fools" to invest, and in his path to failure, he'll find some more efficient way to... something.

Or are you saying, even if everything was efficient, there are things you can't fix, like how far away valuable stuff is, that makes it all pretty pointless?