skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw it here in NYC after the election - "We'll secede, and we'll fight the other states if it comes to it." OK, good luck winning when no one owns guns, trucks, generators etc.

It's a pipe dream. You can't win a war with a bicycle and a baseball bat. Montana could probably win a war of secession, but this ain't Montana.
More likely we'll see more forms of non-dischargable consumer debt. This is debt which is not discharged when someone declares bankruptcy.

Every time you hear a politician advocating more student loans (rather than more affordable higher ed), one of the reasons they do this is because student loans are non-dischargeable.

Think about someone who is 18 and takes on lots of debt. There would be very little reason not to declare bankruptcy, and just live off of wages for 5-7 years until the bankruptcy is cleared from his/her credit report.

With the housing crisis, most debtors also owned some equity in the house, which was a massive incentive not to foreclose, yet many still did.

But with consumer debt there is no downside. You can just choose not to pay it. The collections industry uses some marginally-illegal tactics to create personal embarrassment, but that's where it ends.

With an auto loan the car can be repossessed, but you can pay your rent using a credit card or buy a new TV every few months and if you fail to pay back the debt nobody is going to force you to give up those items. As with education, once the money has been used nothing the creditor does can take away the item, which is why the debt had to be made non-dischargeable.

I think we can look forward to a new class of non-dischargeable consumer debt which will initially be sold via lower interest rates, but will become the sort of debt that college campus credit card pushers will mainly be slinging.

There is really no political opposition to this anymore, now that both parties are so strongly aligned with the finance industry.

I'd also expect to see the credit report become something somewhat more like a "trust dossier" that would routinely be viewed by employers and other entities we all work with who do not typically view the data, and would include things like TSA precheck status, IRS timely filing information, immigration status, etc.

There's a reason debtors prisons used to exist, which is that the human optimism that can get us through great hardship can also tend to lead many humans to be overly optimistic about their ability to repay debt. It takes a very firm hand to create compliant borrowers. In the US, the older generation views missing a credit card payment as a really big (and embarrassing) deal, but the younger generation does not care as much about this.

The occupy movement was a backlash against the shackles of student debt, but was shut down relatively efficiently. The next iteration has fewer principled objectors but a lot more debt cynics who view consumer debt more as something to be exploited.
It sounds like the actual most dangerous problem was people financing homes on unsustainable lending terms, literally requiring the home value to go up so you could refinance before your ARM teaser rate expired.
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> I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest thing we have for UIs today.

Maybe Racket will come to the rescue soon :) it comes with full gui and graphics libraries, is a much saner language, and is performant (with major perf boosts in the works), cross-platform, has c interop... Optional type system...
If anything, it would look like:

def hello_world(name: str) -> None:
print("Hello", name)

Which is completely fine. There'd be no point in using asyncio.
And no shared border. Also, NY State is much more conservative than people assume, the State legislature is usually controlled by Republicans.
Lexis-Nexis is probably the equivalent for individuals.
He means people who have skin in the game.
Society is only the collection of individuals, you are ascribing features to it, and implying some sort of moral order when there is no such thing.

The society is not judged by anybody and there is no universal moral rule that distributes outcomes to demographics. There are only people interacting with other people.

As a human, I am concerned about the personal freedom of individuals. I will do whatever it is in my power to make sure any human being truly has the individual liberty of pursuing life and happiness. I know from personal experience how difficult is to fight for one's freedom alone, so ethics compels me to join the fight in anyone's struggle. I instil in my children moral guidelines that I believe preserve individual choice and individual freedom because that is the world I want to live in and the world I consider just for my children.

At absolutely no point groups of individuals have intrinsic moral rights, and the whole idea of gradually shifting vocabulary from individuals to groups until established terms such as "gay's rights" and "women's rights" form is nothing more than a subtle effort of obscuring the original drive behind class struggle. Suddenly established language shorthands become legal concepts and the whole ethical struggle about ensuring individual freedom becomes a debacle about demographics.

It is bad to discriminate black people because it restricts the individual freedom of every black person, not because there is some intrinsic moral charter that codifies blacks. If I were a black person I would not want to be discriminated against, so my ethics make me fight against any specific examples of discriminating against blacks.

It is bad to discriminate gay people because it restricts the individual freedom of every gay person, not because there is some intrinsic moral charter that codifies gays. If I were a gay person I would not want to be discriminated against, so my ethics make me fight against any specific examples of discriminating against gays.

It is bad to discriminate women because it restricts the individual freedom of every individual person of feminine sex, not because there is some intrinsic moral charter that codifies women. If I were a women I would not want to be discriminated against, so my ethics make me fight against any specific examples of discriminating against women.

And so on ad ad infinitum.

However we can talk about black people, gay people, or women purely as groups of individuals where the rights of the group (if we can talk about such things) is the collection of the individual rights of its constituents. It's an extrinsic concept that arises from the way we look at groups through generalisation. We haven't imbued any distinct, intrinsic right to the group. The group does not exist outside its members, and its members are concrete living human beings, not abstractions.

Forgetting this crucial fact is a insidious strategy to make people take decisions that infringe upon individual freedom in the name of the freedom of some group.
Can anyone provide additional info before I give up my email address to chance? I'd be interested in this but not without details -- especially with the immediate email grab.
The increase of consumer debt is directly correlated with wage stagnation. Someone in the 70s or 80s wages started to grow and access to loans was made easier.
"Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp made a huge impression on me and my career.
https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Eng...

Also, "The Phoenix Project" which IMO is a groundbreaking work on how to make IT/business more effective (and the start of the DevOps movement).
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine...

Even if you're not a manager, both books are very approachable and packed with great lessons about how improve and better work with people, teams, and business.
The EU is about to see 16% of its economy disappear so there's precedent...
Seconded. There's nothing at all wrong with wanting to improve your situation, even if it's what others might consider "pretty good", if it's not making you happy and fulfilled.

And also, seconded on the goal comment. You (OP) might get value from some talk therapy specifically focused on what makes you happy and satisfied with your life. The results may surprise you, particularly if you've never done anything like that before.

Job #1: figure out what you want. Job #2: figure out how to get it.
The very idea is insane. I think we need to do a better job of fighting the divisive forces attempting to destroy this country, led by a domestic terrorist like George Soros.

The site itself seems to be run by children[1]. This is where HN news is coming from now?

http://waitbutwhy.com/wait-but-who
Personally, I've been using Haroopad as my long-form Markdown editor ( http://pad.haroopress.com/ ). Good side-by-side preview, and I also run Hugo in server mode to double-check things. Haroopad sadly hasn't been updated in a couple years, but it works well enough for my purposes.
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Warren Buffett's encouraging words for America
The number of war crimes by Obama has little bearing on the number of bombs Banon wants to drop. Give him time, I am sure he will kill lots of people.
As the parent says, if you stop doing this and somebody else does not, you are out of business. You might not have time to convince people after the fact if you care about your business. You also are very unlikely to convince all the powers in your organization to put all your eggs in the social good basket given the very likely outcome that you won't be able to convince everyone outside your organization in time to put common, social good over company profits. Sometimes we need to make decisions as a society. That's why we don't have anarchy.
> It's just much simpler to move to a better hash function.

I don't see how one excludes the other. :P
> They'd all need to stop, simultaneously.

Plenty of people stop all the time, plenty never started.

> In the meantime our world is such that any company or person who refuses on ethical grounds will be outcompeted, and go out of business.

Again, no. Plenty of individuals and corporations refuse to cut plenty of corners that would give them 0.N% more profit on purely ethical grounds. If the world was actually like you described, nobody would even survive the first day after their birth, they'd just get eaten.
You think a company that was using SHA1 [0] to hash passwords was actually logging IP addresses?

[0] - https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-livingsocials-5...
Not to mention that it'd be even more messy if you were to add type annotations and async in Python 2.
A pen being wielded by a man with no desire, or knowledge, or forethought, to do so.
Is that serious? Lots of massive perl projects out there like Booking.com. If you search you can find an article on how they manage their +1 million plus line code base in production. It can definitely get unwieldy I bet, but you can write really good code too. I don't think having extra features makes a language bad as long as it isn't all bolted on and the community has some discipline.
Fault for that goes both ways, towards to people who took the loan and the people who gave the loan. The people who gave the loan knew a lot more about the specific details and risks, so I find it hard to blame the people who took the loan.
No! Blockchains guarantee total ordering of events, but CRDTs are designed so that ordering doesn't matter and so long as all updates reach all nodes in the system (in any order) everyone agrees on the result.

In some cases (e.g., a monotonically growing list) you can use both. But the way a blockchain handles conflict and the way CRDTs handle conflict is quite different.
A lot of people don't have guaranteed retirement benefits, education is expensive and sickness can cost you a lot of money any time. When things go well you can live well in the US but things can go bad quickly.
You act as though power exports from Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada and Utah would somehow cease overnight if California were to become its own country. This is of course false.
A monopoly on “an industry that doesn’t really exist” - citing the article.
Wow, the performance is worse than I thought in this.
> Foreclosed homes naturally have
> a lower value than non-foreclosed
> homes

Why?
This all reminds me a fair bit of the transition from VB6 to Visual Basic .NET from about 15 years back.

There was a whole lot of wailing about how the changes were unnecessary, and a whole lot of complaining about how expensive it was going to be to rewrite all this existing code. It was all very visible, but if you paid too much attention to it you'd fail to notice that there was also a huge and quiet majority of people who recognized that VB.NET was a much more capable language that allowed people to easily go places they could barely have dreamed of with VB6. I suspect those people were so quiet because they were too busy doing useful work like keeping their toolchain up-to-date to spend much time griping on the Internet.

So on the Python side of things, it's the exact same story. I see plenty of blog posts and suchlike by people who are still upset about Python 3, but I'm hard pressed to met someone who feels that way in real life. Most folks I know made the switch ages ago, and are a bit mystified that this whole thing is still such a big deal.
The debt is as "real" as the assets. All it would take to erase a good chunk of it is for people to stop paying or for significant inflation to occur, among many other possibilities.

Edit: I'm not trying to suggest some kind of Fight Club-esque reorganization of society's financing structures. I'm just talking about the way that debt tends to get fractionally charged off when it goes to collections.
The Tom Hanks movie was set in Paris, and based on an actual case there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
Article doesn't mention there are strong and weak ETags, only presenting the strong variant (those hashes in double-quoted strings).

Weak ETags are rare(r) beasts that look like `ETag: W/"foobar"` and mean that while response may be not byte-to-byte identical (e.g. it's a dynamically generated JSON document), it's still semantically the same - which can be useful for APIs (if caches implement all the logic correctly, of course).
I've said it before, but I'll repeat it here:

This is our fault (the many of us who have worked on profiling tech, or for companies that do). But there are things to do about it.

The problem is largely a coordination and logistics issue -- there are far more people and resources concerned by the problem than think things are going well. The problem is that they are spread out and have trouble focusing on issues such as this, and so end up being largely ineffective.

Here we see our second fault: how many of us have taken the time to actually do something about it, rather than complain while we spend our work hours exacerbating the problem?

Many of us have backgrounds in crowd sourcing, in logistics, in machine learning (especially things like auto-summarization) -- why are we applying those skills (only) to cab rides and not to making democracy more efficient and robust?

We've spent too much time on offense -- against people, to build addiction, manipulation, and control -- and if we want a healthy society, one that isn't going to tear itself to shreds on behalf of a few wealthy radicals, we need to work on defense -- deprogramming psychological traps, tools that increase autonomy and self-control, media meta-analysis, etc.

Politics only works if we engage with it, putting ourselves and our ideas out there, and technologists have been reluctant to, because many of us saw that it would devolve in to this mess. Well, the mess happened anyway -- can we at least get engaged about trying to fix it?
It doesnt matter if its not pure extra virgin democracy, as long as its the best way for a community to be governed
> Today, Singapore is seen as a perfect example of a data-controlled society. What started as a program to protect its citizens from terrorism has ended up influencing economic and immigration policy, the property market and school curricula.

Well I know all the Smart Nation, Data.gov, Gov Tech and Data science initiatives but I think the influence is way over-exaggerated here.
An alternative to Bloomberg Terminal, on the research side, is Tiingo, an amazing financial data portal. They ask that if you use it, you pay a minimum of $7 per month, though that is not currently enforced.
To be fair (although I've been commenting angrily about git's continued use of SHA-1 elsewhere) it's a lot easier for a browser to change hash algorithms than for git.
Does Vim not have alternate mappings for other keyboard layouts?
The EU isn't a country, never has been, and the UK only joined in the early 70's. What existed before was essentially a lot of tribes who'd been at war on and off for a few thousand years.
I don't think the statement you're quoting is correct, however, they do tend to have a lower value. Here are some reasons:

- Buying a foreclosed home is much more arduous due to bank processes, decreasing demand.

- Foreclosed homes tend to be in worse shape. The owners may not have had the means or desire to maintain after realizing they would eventually lose the home.
If you don't understand my use of the word "we" as in the opposition/Right, or "narrative" as in political narrative; we are off to a bad start.

A quick example of bad left would be their reaction to Brexit and anyone that voted in favor of it, which to them meant, overnight half the country became racist.

Now, comparing a doctor, whom don't base their care on political opinions - to, say, financial experts that have something to gain from their "expert opinions" are two very different types of expert. But again, this is what we see coming from the left all the time, everything is black and white, there is no middle ground, you are either with us or a whole host of 'ism words.

Funny thing is, doctors actually have to make shitty calls i.e. triage, and sometimes society can be so broken, that to fix things, shitty calls need to be made; something the left are utterly incapable of doing.
"You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail. " (Gen. Sherman)

Ironic reversal, but you're 100% correct.
Big Data, no, AI, maybe.
And now you have an empty file with all the functionality of the original app! Hooray!
This usually means that the project is vaporware at this point but may be built if there is enough interest.
The problem is, reading all sources of journalism and synthesizing them into a coherent narrative does not necessarily get you to the truth.
There is a distinction between deeply understanding someone at scale and using that understanding to either bait them computer generated propaganda or suppress their vote.
There is a plethora of issues that have to be addressed, to name a few:

* The U.S. Government would have to be ok w/losing a ~1/6th of it's economy.

* California has no military; funding such would be expensive.

* All existing multilateral agreements the U.S has entered into would NOT apply to an independent California. An independent California would have less bargaining power in renegotiating said agreements.
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That's true as long as I'm the only person working on the code. What happens when I need to collaborate with others? Am I gonna be the one to say (the equivalent of), you can't submit this perfectly valid and idiomatic C++ code, you've gotta remove all the templates first?

Choosing Python 2 when I can is like setting in place a simpler coding standard.
Money is great for solving problems where the problem relies on needing money (as David Mamet put it, "Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money"). After a certain point, however, the problems you are left with are either ones that more money cannot solve, or have only been caused by having too much money in the first place.

(I actually agree with the rest of what you say. Creating your own business, even if it's just a consultancy which serves little purpose other than to generate more money for yourself than working for someone else's business would do, is probably more than enough to keep most people occupied for a good spell.)
So, the kernel is free to assign a connection to a new thread even if there is a previous thread working on it? Because the kernel has no idea when the previous worker will be done processing the data. So the user has to manually unregister and register the connection each time?

How about a concept like "transaction"? Maybe such as `epoll_begin` and `epoll_end`? One thread achieves exclusive access when entering the block, and releases it when leaving.

Does this flaw also exist in IOCP or kqueue?
What are they going to do? Occupy the entire coast with federal armed forces?

Sure, they could do that, but it's hard to take any sort of moral high ground or project strength on the world stage when you are forced to militarily occupy your own country against its will.

That said, I doubt any states are realistically going to secede, but at least Texas won't be the only ones constantly going on about it now.
I'm not sure there would be much opposition. Without California fucking things up, conservatives would reliably win the electoral AND the popular vote. The people with the most to lose are liberals in red states who would become a permanent minority.

Personally, I would not want to live in an independent California. I love everyone's good ("bleeding heart") intentions, but our legislative system seems fatally flawed.
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No it won't in the long run as we know it. The most important political aspect of individuals will be their cloaking abilities in order to avoid plunder from government. Once AI and technology allow individuals to produce and exchange with invisible currencies and without any political intervention or regulation then no matter how politicians morph they won't be able to "see" us.

Of course democracy will morph too towards trust networks where privacy, anonymity and invisibility will be key factors in collective decision making. Market forces at their best.

I am a big follower of Bruno Frey and his political theories for liberty, one of the modern panarchists.
Also missing from things is the fact that more rural parts of the west coast are much more conservative than areas close to the ocean.

Look up continued interest in the State of Jefferson.
> As the longtime manager put it: “When I look at LivingSocial’s legacy, more than anything else, we basically gave a lot of people their MBAs in scaling a company very fast.”

Oh nice, the people at the company that grew too quickly learned how to do it again. Tight.