skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, yeah, no reeducation camps, but cops getting away with murder all the time

You mean like how the Chinese State has executed 50,000 to 60,000 people since 2000? Have you read about how those crimes are applied to the people being executed? Typically there is an unsolved batch of crimes, they tag random people with them at will, then execute the supposed criminals by the hundreds to wipe away all the unsolved crimes. It wasn't more than a dozen years ago that China was still executing people as a public sport in stadiums, where you could go and watch the state executions.

The US still has capital punishment in some states of course, it executes about two dozen people per year by contrast.

The law enforcement systems in the US deserve a lot of criticism. Cops killing people in the US is a serious problem. The scale of it however simply does not compare to abuses that go on in China. For example, China still tortures thousands of homosexual people each year, attempting to force-change their sexuality with things like electroshock and drugs.
i wouldn't call new york an example of a "high quality of living." Subways that barely work? Terrifyingly chaotic traffic? A "me-first" attitude that is visible everywhere from the people complaining about citi-bikes to the advertisements literally EVERYWHERE.

Going from coast-to-coast is like walking into a time machine.
So, you can undo any 51% attack with just a quick hardfork with a few lines of code?
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So... Bitcoin people complain that it's not taken seriously as a real currency. Then when it is, with all the associated regulatory and tax ramifications, they complain about that, too.
If you are a U.S. citizen or if you don't do the double Irish like Google and Apple. Typical misplaced understanding of crypto.
Interesting, how much would it be say on Bitcoin Cash?
You need both. We need that tension between individuals and collectives to both innovate and regulate.
Have you been in Greece or Spain? Experienced quality of life is way above statistical or expected.

Proud moment in most of the Europe is being able to take relaxed coffee and think, which is possible in most countries. I am always puzzled when somebody proudly tries to explain to me how having two jobs is great.
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The Americans that reject it do so because of a lack of education. The educated classes generally don't draw a line in the sand on most things, regardless of where you live in the world. The uneducated have opinions that are distorted because they accept whatever reality is fed to them by the side they prefer to align their views with.
Walling one's self off from ads and spam though?
> IIRC like-kind treatment was never made available, with the new tax plan or without.

They never clarified and now they'll never have to.

Like-kind treatment is given to property, with specific exemptions made by the IRS. If the IRS never made an exemption, but it did designate cryptocurrencies as property, then like-kind treatment applies.

Given that cryptographic hashes are the only thing trading in any distributed ledger technology, it doesn't matter what the name plastered on the network is, it would fit existing regulations and case law around like-kind exchange.

Now with the new law change from Congress, the agency or the courts will never have to deal with it if they don't challenge 2017 tax filings.
So unstar it when you are done using it, if you feel so strongly about it.
What is TypeScript?
Turns out you can sell content cheaply when you don’t pay the people who create it.
Just spitballing here, but the Inuit eat a lot of omega-3 which is anti-inflammatory.
The issue is statistically you aren't a fantastic coder. At least not so much so that any organization can't find an equavalent person who isn't on the wrong side of history.

The paradox comes from the fact most people (and it seems even more than most in this industry) believe themselves "special" or "above average" when in reality that can't be the case. You don't get to (or at least shouldn't) "buy out" of the social contract just for being spectacular (and again, odds are very poor as to whether you actually have anything unique to add).

This can result in tragedy, as in the case of Turning, or justice, as in the case of the laundry list of sexual predators falling from grace currently. Pretending everyone you disagree with is just "politics" ignores the fact that no man is an island and everything is connected. Once you realize you aren't special; the world/society doesn't owe you shit life will get a lot easier.
For raw compute cycles, I think you're right, but...

The one place where today's GPUs aren't as good as Toy Story is filtering & anti-aliasing. The texture filtering and pixel (camera) filtering in software renderers is much higher quality and more expensive than GPUs can (typically) do still. You could roll your own high quality texture sampling in CUDA or OpenCL, but the texture sampling that comes with GPUs is not great compared to what Renderman does.

BTW, textures & texture sampling are a huge portion of the cost of the runtime on render farms. They comprise the majority of the data needed to render a frame. The entire architecture of a render farm is built around texture caching. Just getting textures into a GPU would also pose a significant speed problem.
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Is such a system sustainable though? Isn't England in a massive hole of debt? And if that debt comes due, what would happen to the quality of the NHS?
"I don't think Americans will ever be convinced collectivism is superior until there's some organization or company created within the States that ends up being far superior to everything else."
From a "devil's advocate" perspective, it's a relatively simple way to keep people from burning through the rate limit by submitting loads of usernames. Of course, if checking whether a user has starred the repo counts towards the limit, it doesn't solve the problem entirely...

I used it and immediately unstarred.
Personally, I think one of the main problems with current use of CGI (specifically in non-animated movies) is color treatment. Comparisons between the original non-altered version of Jurassic Park (JP) against Jurassic World (JW) shows my point. There is an increased tendency to change hue and saturation of color in post-production, in order to transmit ideas or set moods on the film itself, but this makes CGI look faker than what it is and the brain is able to identify it.

EDIT: I prefer the look of JP over JW, not because I think it has better CGI, but because colors look more closer to reality.
> Or Apple could make it easier and cheaper to replace the iPhone's battery

Apple charges $79 to replace a battery. Seems cheap to me. And, btw I have been running my SE for a couple of years and the battery is only reduced by 8%. Seems pretty good to me. I think peoples expectations are just absurd.
I'm rapidly approaching 50 myself, and while I get that what they're doing is wrong, I'm also not that upset about this either. At my age, I'm not interested in wasting my time with meat grinders that don't value work-life balance.
What you say about individualists could just as well be said about collectivists.
Oh but they do. You'll pay up to 2/3 of your income in taxes in Germany for instance.
There is no room for discussion. You made up something. I assumed you had evidence, you did not. That was the end of it.
Why don't Europeans understand how little we care what they think? Their rights have been systematically eroded and their countries stolen right out from underneath them. That condescending, undeserved attitude of faux superiority means absolutely nothing to red-blooded Americans. They can keep their baguettes, I'll be just fine with my 30.06 and my F-250.
See? Brevity can work.
Yes. Either use threadsafe queues/ringbuffers to transfer data between threads. Or triple-buffer it and swap buffers in a threadsafe manner. Those are the best approaches.

Don't start a thread per work item. Start worker threads and distribute work among them. Never ever block a GUI thread.

Always know which thread works on which data structures and don't even make more variables accessible in your worker threads. Keep the variables multiple threads can access to an absolute minimum and make sure access is always protected by a mutex.

If you repect these rules, threading is safe and fun.
Not sure why don't you like go's context model. It works pretty well in our production system.
I can see people would like to pass the context implicitly. But I don't have a strong opinion. Explicitness is not that bad.
Probably because at the end of the day, he doesn't want to fight some legal battle, he wants to do mathematics.
Many of those households have more than one person in them (2.3 by the 2010 census) so I'm not sure it's a majority.

http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty....

40% drive alone, while a bare majority 51% use a car, bus or van for transport (including carpools).

It's so popular, nobody does it anymore.
At the moment the American quality of life is objective worse. The American healthcare system of today is killing people or bankrupting them, but Sweden's quality may one day decline to American levels, so that's a strong enough argument to say it's the worse choice?
Under macOS.
Many comments have this delusion of things being free. Free college, free healthcare, free this/that, etc. In this world of limited resources nothing is free. Either your tax money, someone else's tax money, or your govt through debt is paying for these "free" things.
As a European having lived in the US in a fairly rich state on many measures, and coming into contact with quite some American culture, this article "feels" spot-on.

It seems to me that Europeans are simply much more practical. Where Americans fall into a sort of philosophical debate quickly, Europeans regard the philosophical view yet take practical measures. The healthcare system as a very apt example: "Socialistic state-sponsored healthcare" is what it is: state-sponsored healthcare in a socialistic setting. But it works for us, and as such we don't care too much.

In many online debates were Americans make a point, extremism is encouraged. Two opposing sides or one strong side is heavily argumented for. This causes a deep divide between anything to be discussed in US culture, I feel. In EU the attitude seems to be more: "yeah, these indeed are the extremes, but let's decide on a practical solution most can live with". In the US, usually an (extremist) side is picked.
Yeah, this is the confusing part for me - moving from BTC to other crypto. Also if it is based on USD price at the time of the transaction...then which one? Coinbase rates can be far different from other exchanges.
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The author must live in an alternate universe. I'm a dual-citizen (US/France) due to my mother being born in France.

"so they already look half-dead — order coffee and a croissant, both of which are fairly tasteless"

Sorry, but there are plenty of places where croissants don't suck (give Wegmans a try) - and I'd be hard-pressed to believe that those major US cities don't have bakeries run/owned by real frenchmen.

"Everything I consume in the States is of a vastly, abysmally lower quality. Every single thing. The food,"

Really? Everytime I go to europe, the meat tastes like crap in comparison to US-raised meat, it's tough as a shoe-sole and it's overpriced.

"So my quality of life — despite all my privileges..."

There you have it, this guy has homes in London AND New York. Ask the average EU citizen (I'm not talking about techies, I'm talking about the blue-collar workers) how good they have it.

I compare my upbringing in the States (we lived in France for a year when I was young and it just wasn't for me) and life is far easier on the blue-collar worker in the US if you could find a decent job.

An uncle of mine spent 4 years out of work (machinist) before he found a new job in France. My father worked in a factory in the US for 37 years. This is obviously too small a sample to be significant, but other family have had similar outcomes and difficulties. My mom (who still barely speaks english) wouldn't go back to live in France.

This is still the land of opportunity for those who are willing to work their butts off and take risks. The only thing I wish we had in the US is universal healthcare. It's coming, when the republicans manage to lose congress in 2018.

So yeah, if you're rich a rich hipster, Europe might be "better."

I'll keep my guns, my F150, and my 4,000 square foot (372 sq. meter) house, merci beaucoup.
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Waiting tables in Hollywood is never the reason people take up acting, and yet so it goes.

Anecdotally, I know several full time top 10 grads who aren't exactly on the fast track to the c-suite, and I assume this is even more true for the broader pool of MBAs.
Socialism and bureaucracy are not exactly the same thing.
I have had a chance to speak with quite a few people who spent some time living in a country with universal healthcare, and not a single one would give it up or think that the American system is better. Or even acceptable, for that matter. Public healthcare does not mean lack of private healthcare.

I’ve heard Canadians complain about the lack of private options awhile back, but I think even that is solved now.
My understanding is that it's easier to get a culturally homogenous population to buy into economic collectivism, vs. a culturally diverse population. E.g. the migrant "problem" that the EU is dealing with--last I checked, most of Europe wasn't stumbling over themselves to provide social services to all of their recent arrivals...
> It feels qualitatively different to argue that “he and I disagree on firearms but we continue to work together” is the same basic concept.

I get that it feels different to you - but I'm telling you in good faith that it doesn't to me.

> Don’t you think it would be difficult to go into work, and report to your CEO, knowing that he had donated against gay marriage?

Certainly. I've quit jobs because of similar issues. If someone feels about gay marriage the way I do about guns and the right to self-defense, it sounds entirely reasonable to me for them not to financial support people who actively work against their political interests.

> If the liberals “win”, and guns are banned tomorrow, like they are in Australia, are you so committed to your firearm rights that you’ll consider moving to another country, or suicide because life just isn’t worth living?

Yes. Five years ago when I was choosing a place to move from rural Arkansas to further my career as a developer, California, Illinois, New York, and several other states were out of the question because of their gun laws. Now that I'm more established, I'm moving back to Arkansas and a large part of that is the political climate here in Virginia.

Given the choice between disarmament and emigration, I'd emigrate. Given the choice between disarmament and death, I would fight. It's that serious of an issue to me and to far more people than you'd believe unless you've lived somewhere surrounded by people who share this view.

> Firearms are a choice. Being gay is not. Judgement against gay marriage is judgement against who you are. Judgement against firearms is judgement against a hobby.

Respectfully, you're completely wrong here. Firearms are not a hobby for me, they're symbolic of my entire cultural perspective. It is no more a choice than religious affiliation.

> Have you ever wondered if your love of firearms has impacted your professional career?

Of course it has. I'd be making significantly more money right now if I'd moved to San Jose, New York City, or even Portland.

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I'm re-reading my comments above, and hesitating to submit them because I'm concerned that they might easily be seen as justification to lump me in with the GOP. Let me be clear about that - I don't consider myself a Republican, and I don't consider myself a conservative. I'm an extreme libertarian. I have no animosity towards homosexuals, and it doesn't matter to me how someone presents themselves or structure their personal relationships. "It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

The main point I'm trying to make is that online communities in particular are made up of people with drastically different perspectives on life. Some of those differences are obvious, but some are not. Some of them are expected to be respected while it's socially acceptable to disregard others out of hand. That's not right.
Ameericans do realize how unhappy they are. There's an epidemic of opiate addiction.

That unhappiness is the result of many things: major changes in the job market leaving millions without opportunities, the collapse of hundreds of small towns and communities, the disintegration of the nuclear family, etc.

Ironically, materially, Americans are much better off than they were decades ago, but all that material prosperity has left people unsatisfied.

In my opinion the problem goes much deeper than this, as Augustine said:

> You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

But the inadequacy of consumerism is maybe more clear.
The "pro meat" (or should I say "meat health and environmental damage negationists") circle jerk on HN is sure strong, looking at your post and below's slowly fading away. I'm amazed everytime how the majority here, people who seem in other conditions able of logical reasoning, are just impermeable to unpleasant facts. You bring up good arguments.
What jobs should be open to racists? What jobs should be open to pedophiles? The current social construct is built on at least trying for equality of opportunity; there's nothing to be gained bending over backwards to accommodate people who believe other humans to be some how lesser.
Very cool, thanks for sharing. The last part about just writing Swagger, Lambda, and a little config is very interesting.

Do you worry about vendor lock in, which is coming up a lot on this comment section?
I block ads for many reasons. One of which is indeed that I don't want to see adverts. Others include malware protection (Google will provide citations for this) another is tracking protection.
One thing to consider is that it’s very unlikely America could actually cut half of all costs by simply going universal. We’d have to ration care and implement price controls. Who knows if that is even politically viable.

And even we could reduce it by half, the only politically viable method of funding is a highly progressive tax.

People on hacker news would likely pay 20k a year and the average person would pay 2,500 or less.
Fantastic response, I appreciate it!
> Most other countries have subsidized or even free mass transit systems and they realistically don't expect them to be profitable, but helping people/goods to be moved is considered more important.

Here is a good map of "farebox recovery ratio" (the percentage of operating costs funded by fares): https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/gallery/Map_World%20.... Quite a few asian systems recover more than 100% of operating costs, and a couple of European systems do, but no American ones. London's public transit system, for example, gets 25% of its funding from the government. The NYC MTA is at 45%.
Capitalism + welfare does not equal socialism.
> The biggest problem here is MTA is government run. Return the subway to the private sector. Get rid of the union.

You're going to get downvoted for this because there's a very strong pro-union contingent on Hacker News, and most people reading Hacker News aren't from New York.

That said, it's true that many of the problems that New York transit faces stem from the extreme incompetence and greed of the TWU. It's not even about protecting their members' interests; it's about the TWU protecting its own interests as a corporate entity.
Possibly, if i could get myself you swim more than 500m before giving up from boredom/dislike of drinking chlorine water.
Most tax advisers I spoke with recommended against treating this as an in-kind exchange anyways.
If you ever have a serious illness or an accident money will be taken out of someone's pocket and given to you. Unless you don't have insurance and refuse treatment.
Correct. I work in healthcare finance, and can guarantee you that a "Medicare for all" system would bankrupt all US Healthcare providers almost instantly.

The real question is: why don't Americans understand how much they are already paying for other people's healthcare? If you get treatment at a provider that receives DSP reimbursements, you are not only paying for medicare but paying again out of pocket to subsidize that hospital for providing financially unsustainable medicare treatments.

We're all waiting for California to prove that Universal Healthcare is possible at scale in the US. Smart money isn't holding their breath though- lawmakers know it would be career suicide to give them what they wish for.
Identifying bubbles with absolute certainty may be impossible, but identifying them with a reasonable amount of confidence is possible. They follow similar paths.
These debts come due all the time.

The US has one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios of the OECD. All of the countries I mentioned have lower debt than we do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...
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The mobile data usage growth
>pick up some mass-produced groceries, full of toxins and colourings and GMOs

Seriously? This is an absurd exaggeration. For one thing, GMOs are safe, and EU policy on them is utterly backwards. For another, this is some transparent application of the "natural food is safer" fallacy. Food here isn't "full of toxins", that's mythology invented to support the bottom line of "organic" grocers -- there are occasional issues, but those also happen in Europe. And food colorings are much less dangerous than, say, sugar. But Europe has fake olive oil and the infamous practice of dumping substandard products in Hungary and other poor countries and probably some other problems I'm not aware of because I'm not a propagandist.

Should we have a better healthcare system? Absolutely. Everything else in this article is mostly an issue of lifestyle preference and ideology.
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It sounds like you'd burn out in any profession. Perfect is the enemy of the good. If you're holding your work, and that of others', to a perfectionist's standard, then you're just causing yourself unnecessary stress and anxiety.

Most of those bugs and failures you listed are really inconsequential in their contexts.

Car won't play your phone's music? Use the radio.
Game has bugs? Play another game until it's patched, or find inventive ways to use the bug.
Can't see your CC? You can still charge on it and pay its balance.
Experian and Equifax don't report same credit score? Your creditors aren't reporting to every credit bureau.

Ashamed that someone else's system doesn't work? I can't help you there. That's some deep psychological issue.

About 10 years ago I came to understand that mediocre runs the world. All these people, who are your bosses, who are getting raises and promotions, they're the B/C students from college. They don't care about perfect. They really only care about finishing what they're assigned and going on with their outside life.

If you want perfect, do it on your own time.