skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a better ask is to create self-sustaining processes that ratchet to improve the system over time. In a word: regulation. You can't be sure you're consuming ethical meat through consumer pressure alone. You need more eyes in the system, with enough force to be able to see through the veils that the profit motive will put up.
> Elixir is overall a syntax that works well for me, at least as well as Rust’s. The Elixir team have made great strides in providing good compiler error messages, and are actively improving the distribution/ packaging story. Hex and mix are fantastic, and on par with what I’ve use in cargo.

I'm working on making the dialyzer error messages better, too, in Dialyxir[0] and Erlex[1] =).

[0] https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir
[1] https://github.com/asummers/erlex
This is a breath of fresh air.
You can freely join either party and vote for leadership and primary candidates in those parties.
You kind of proved my point though. Statistically the winners are less than the losers and that also applies to the world economy at large.

I had a friend who became millionaire at 25 (I was 28 at the time). So I guess if we get 10_000 of these people then suddenly my country's livelihood has improved by 2%?

Not how this works.

I'd like to see stats which don't include the extreme ends of the bell curve. I can bet my neck they will tell a very different story.
Well it doesn't say that. I just said it sounds like a reinvention of Lisp because that's what it sounded like to me from what it says on the homepage.
> Subsidies (and even worse EU wide subsidies) seem to do more damage than good in the long run.

It’s important to understand why they are there. There are not there because states are scared of food instability. Austria for instance tracks how much of the daily food intake it can produce locally and there are yearly goals to make it 100% self sustainable.

If that goal is still important as EU member I can’t answer but it’s still a goal.
I'm curious! I would love to hear more about your ideas. Could you explain why precarious employment must be relevant, and thus why the failure to discuss it is a significant failure?

I ask this because it's not at all obvious to me why this would be the case.
"One view of the status quo is that media companies are aggregating human attention and selling it at a discount–far below minimum wage–to advertisers in a massive arbitrage on human capital."

Interesting idea. I've never thought of attention in this manner before.
>the average person world-wide has one testicle -- yay for valuable info? It basically tells you nothing.

I disagree. If the average per person testicle count were .5 testicles, then you'd know something was amiss because you can expect it to average 1. (the average is slightly less than 1 by the way).
I also work at a small company (50ish). We also attempt to only hire good fits. We don’t have enough excess “fat” to do otherwise. My manager said almost verbatim what you’ve said. We want to retain people. We want to align company and individual goals. We want people happy. We want people to grow. Lip service was paid to those ideas for a few months. Once rubber hit the road it was clear that the company needed me to do what the company needed me to do, as defined by my manager, regardless my long term goals.

My experience, in my own case at least, is that I’ve been able to grow faster than my company and team in terms of skills and skill sets. That doesn’t mean my boss is gonna adjust our tech stack and it doesn’t mean there is going to be a new role available. I’m not going anywhere unless he does. And he isn’t. So, I’m stuck under him. And so, no, I’m not going to go into our meetings and explain why he needs to grow so that he can facilitate my growth. That is career suicide.

All that is semi besides the point. The fact is, a manager is an agent of the company, and at the end of the day the company is profit and product driven, and those will never perfectly align with my goals. Managers do ask, often and explicitly, for an asymmetry of information from me under the rationale of retaining talent or personal growth, but at the end of the day it is another tool in their toolbox to manage. Manage resources. End of the day, I’m a resource that is being managed. That’s the reality.
My (very uninformed) guess is that this is cultural. When democracy spread, Europe already had a good system of tracking people. The church was keeping records of every family for hundreds of years already. In contrast, the USA is a country of immigrants where new people without a history came in all the time. Tracking who votes where could not rely on an established system.
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"...even junior developers really CAN do good work..."

Yes. In fact they will do good work, if I just get out of the way.
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We also need religions to stop insisting that the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
It still doesn't say what the purpose of it is. I don't really expect it to either. I expected that asking the question here would be OK, though.
I like the various .NET dictionaries but have been unimpressed by their performance.

So how das it compare to Dictionary<TKey, TValue>? Given that operations on a balanced search tree are O(log(n)) while they are O(1) amortized - and O(n) worst case - on a hash-based dictionary, it doesn't seems too plausible that even a fast implementation could score a win. Not to mention the much worse locality of a tree. In some rare scenarios having O(n) worst case performance might be an issue but unless you actually need an ordered dictionary I have a hard time believing that a tree-based implementation can outperform a hash-based implementation.
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The benefits are:

* Immutable storage

* Public

Which is gained without any trust.
The process was created for and was used in this feature film production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBf9-_KyFJk That is my work, in combination with a VFX team. The original actor replacement process as implemented by the production team did not convince. I was a production analysis brought in, and created the extra embellishments to make the illusion convincing. The work was unique, I did some research and learned it was patent capable. Discussing with John Hughes, President of the Studio, he gave me the technology to pursue as I wished.
This is significantly higher quality than today's Deep Fakes, and as such it requires actual VFX artists, as well as a non-trivial expense. (Of course, that expense is less than any return from using the process - that's the whole point.)
That's because it's not an antiwar movement. It's a self empowerment movement disguised as an anti war movement. It's the same reason we didn't see any real difference on war policies between the candidates in 2016. People aren't currently concerned with war. They're concerned with feeling good about their choices re: war.
This is something I argue with myself a lot about. I work as a software engineer for a large non-tech company. They pay well, but I could easily go to a tech company and make 20% more. Except...well, in 18 months I've never had to work more than a 40 hour week. I can totally see the appeal of a government job.
This is my view of it. I mean, I'm very glad we don't have worsening poverty + environmental catastrophe (with equal emissions I mean). That wouldn't be worse than now, but the medium term prognosis looks pretty grim unless we figure a way to suck carbon from the air at scale.

Making incredible gains that reverse within a couple decades isn't much of a feat.
That wasn't due to lack of US force projection though - it was due to the Cold War realities of whether or not to escalate a conflict with another nuclear-armed country.

(Plus the influence of Russian money in US politics; it's much cheaper to bribe the US not to fight back!)
No way. That's not true. I've been running for 10 years now. Never have I been injured. Also my friends did not suffer injuries neither.
If you like lifting, that's fine. But that does not mean running is worse that lifting or that you could even compare them. It just means that you are used to lifting and you are rationalising your choice.
Isn't MagLev sort of a Ruby implementation on a Smalltalk runtime? I remember reading about it, but never used it. It's up on GitHub, but looks fairly dead:

https://maglev.github.io

For fun, here's some Smalltalk code from the MagLev codebase that modifies the image's Object class to better support Ruby:

https://github.com/MagLev/maglev/blob/master/src/smalltalk/r...
Fair enough. Structurally, are dumbbell squats safe like barbell squats? Or are they only good at lower weights?

I may try higher rep dumbbell squats, I've been looking for a way to workout purely at home. Is there a deadlift targeting version too?
I don't see how this contradicts the ideas of the post. I agree though that it is an important point, that maybe jobs suck so much that cheap entertainment becomes even more attractive
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Did not know about helm. I just installed it and I think that this alone might solve 75% of the problem, thanks!

As an example, let's say I'm new to elisp and I am wondering how to insert a character to a buffer. `apropos` "insert" just returns too much stuff. `heml-apropos` seems much better though, with a readable output. However, you still have to know that the function is named "insert", which you can spend lots of minutes on. In a Javascript parallel universe, there is a high probability that I would have done `console.log(buffer)` and I would have found the `buffer.appendChars()` method in seconds. You can quickly find what you can do with an object in Js/Python/PHP, but in elisp, I have yet to find.
How exactly does that destabilize the currency or eliminate the right to private property? All countries that tax wealth or income reserve the right to investigate how much wealth and/or income you have and ask questions about where it came from, and reserve the right to punish you for not cooperating.

They also reserve the right to investigate crimes and compel cooperation with investigation.

From the primary source linked by that Wikipedia article:

A UWO requires a person who is reasonably suspected of involvement in, or of being connected to a person involved in, serious crime to explain the nature and extent of their interest in particular property, and to explain how the property was obtained, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the respondent’s known lawfully obtained income would be insufficient to allow the respondent to obtain the property.

So if you're a known associate of, say, a mobster, and your income tax documents say you made £100k last year, but you suddenly had £2m cash to spend on a choice piece of real estate with no record of you taking out a mortgage or other loans, yeah, they're going to want you to explain where that money came from, and the law gives them the option to compel you to do so. This is how the rule of law is actually supposed to work!
I found this while following up on an excellent pilot wave (de Broglie-Bohm) theory video by Veritasium[1]. I never knew there were so many interpretations!

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
Not only, it seems like a completely speculative theory, unless I missed it there is no actual data in the article about an increase in media (games or other) consumption by the same group that is "working less".

And even if there is, it seems a lot like a chicken and egg problem, would young people consume more media because they cannot find a (as you note, "stable") work or are they refusing work because they are too busy consuming media (or have become addicted to it)?
One of the patents, which are global btw. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7974493.html
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Who decides what's small enough to be amiss, though?

I've seen a lot of comment threads on articles like this one. It basically always goes on like this: mostly first-world country citizens comment, they mostly agree things are getting better, they collectively and wisely nod their heads and everything is good in the world.

...Except on the tons of places where it isn't. If it wasn't for me, my mom's increased pension (from 55 to 60 EUR) would only help her buy food for 1-2 more days -- and she'd be homeless. The global X% improvement means nothing to her and to millions of others.

Let's face it, articles like these make it easy for people to entrench themselves even deeper inside their filter bubbles and echo chambers. I sometimes cynically ponder if that's not their original purpose.
Maybe I should run. I wonder if I'd stand a chance against sawant.
> It's not just the MSM, it's the CMHC and Stats Canada.

The linked CMHC numbers are surveys of people's perceptions of the impact of foreign money, which is a hilariously useless metric.

Stats Canada is pretty careful about the wording they use, I imagine they run everything by the legal department before release to make sure they're not technically lying, they leave that up to the newspapers and TV to accidentally misreport repeatedly, until it becomes common knowledge.
It is still unusable with HiDPI displays. The bug is raised for 5 years, and as Pharo renders everything from scratch, it makes the UI pixelated.

OK, I will wait a few more years. I love Smalltalk, but I don't think I am qualified to fix this myself, unfortunately.
The problem with the global system cracking is that it's pushing this work onto low-information people with mismatched incentives.

If the Sauds have routine trouble getting money into funds they'll resort to tricks that will get them exposure in one way or another. They can acquire a company, they can create their own VP that doesn't list investors but co-invests. It's a never ending battle and one that we're not capable of fairly judging. This should be a Nato / EU / US or UN thing where we have real tools to enforce sanctions.
well if jobs are extremely poorly remunerated, are unrewarding & have poor long-term growth options, not working becomes more attractive of course
That's an important point but lack of screen-readers (or whatever) support is forgivable at the early stages of a project that gives something conceptually interesting in exchange. I just hope they won't forget about it later when it gets clear that the project stabilizes and its future becomes clear.
>the onus should be on the proposer

I'll bite: what should @Lerc have done differently in his proposal (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe-evolution/pull/51)?
Being from a country that is a NATO member and borders Russia... We don't want to be another Ukraine or Georgia. Stepping back won't work for world peace. That'd be just another Czechoslovakia/Sudetenland situation.
I've had issues like this multiple times. But have never felt like I had to prove my innocence. I recommend using a smaller bank. It's a lot harder to mistreat your customers when you know their face.
Do you have any plans to support Snowflake and do you keep the syntax updated?
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When I worked for Savi Technologies (RFID tracking for DoD Weapons/Supplies) - it was bought by Lockheed Martin.

The employees were financially screwed over in the deal.

Several employees - who were muslim - quit on the spot, as they refused to work for a company owned by Lockheed...
This is the epitome of late stage capitalism and a sign of the post-scarcity economy. "The economy" should serve human needs, not the other way around. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and the proposal here is to destroy leisure availability here... why?

As automation progresses we are going to have a lot more people who don't want or need to work. This would be much further along if the economy of capital inequality wasn't so distorted.

Young men apparently don't have to work full time to survive, don't want to, and are free to do things they want. This is being painted as a bad thing either because they should be working because work > leisure or assuming that work is inaccessible rather than undesired (probably both, definitely not just one)

I, personally, would like to work a lot less. The reason I can't are two fold. 1) it's uncommon for employers to hire highly skilled workers in part time roles and 2) the cost of living ballooned up to eat any excess income by rent seekers.

>The chief aim of their constitution and government
is that, whenever public needs permit,
all citizens should be free, so far as possible,
to withdraw their time and energy
from the service of the body,
and devote themselves to the freedom
and culture of the mind.
For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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A valid concern. There seems to be some work in the area, but maybe too experimental?

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/successes/education/laza...

https://github.com/LazaroProject/Lazaro
Absolutely, the military continues to take on a variety of non-military functions. That being said, it does not detract from the point that the first use case is for war, and as long as these many other org exist under the DoD structure, the first case will be for war, always.
Hold on. So we now have the ability to create DNA with arbitrary code, and we also have the ability to sequence a genome. Does this mean we're able to clone a human from just their DNA encoding stored digitally? Like, I could swab some DNA, store it on some format that will persist, and my descendents can download and print their great great grandfather in 100 years?
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Honorable, but it could also be a slippery slope: how far back do you look? If an LP, or investor in general, uses their personally earned money, but they earned it through capital gains from tainted money - let’s say from stock in a company with human rights issues - do you ask about that and if so do you take their investment?

If you only look at one degree, ie are your direct investors’ money clean, you could also be targeted for laziness in the “supply chain” of your investors’ money. This is similar to problems with blood diamonds, organic foods, unethical coffee etc.

What's needed is a framework and policy in the community for what's acceptable due diligence.
It doesn't work like that.. Source: hundreds of hours playing various Civ-series games.
Because having unused capacity requires you to build out more (more skyscrapers, suburbs further away) which makes everything further apart.
Just because they have other options doesn't mean the fight is lost before it's begun. We can make this more and more work for them, and keep sending the message. And yes, we can also work to place sanctions on investment from nations that ignore human rights.

If we make better and best into enemies, there's no end to what we can't accomplish.
> I am sure there would be some interest in a no-holds barred race. Hell, there needs be no rule that the craft even needs to touch the ground (or not be sucked down to it). Lets open our collective transportation imagination...

I'd love to see this as well. I think you'd end up with an interesting racing league if you had the following rules:

1. There are speed bumps at the entrance and exit of pit row. (This is to prevent designs that could never work on regular surface streets, such as side skirts for ground effect.)

2. Losing teams can buy the winning vehicle for $100,000. (This is effectively a budget cap to prevent the best funded teams from dominating.)

You'd probably end up with all kinds of crazy designs: active aerodynamics, 6 wheeled vehicles[1]… maybe even gas turbine electric drivetrains. I'd definitely tune in.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_P34
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Visuals help people retain info. At the very least, slides that contain 1-2 sentences that state your main idea for that section would help. Having lots of text is a great way to get people to ignore what you’re saying and read the slides so don’t do that. But best of all is simple, clear graphics that help communicate your main points.
At first read, this article says something like: non-top-tier men lack access to social belonging, partly because social media creates a status signaling arms race unattainable by many, therefore they play video games instead of working to achieve status, therefore we should tax their video games.

This seemed like dealing with the effects rather than the causes of the problem. But if you include social media like Instagram in the tax, and not just Xbox FPSes, you could disincentivize the status broadcasting that, according to the authors, leads the men to say "f it" and stop working in the first place.

I think you would have to tax a lot more than is obvious to discourage use of digital media -- like at least $3 or $4 an hour. Taxing status signaling is harder; you'd probably have to factor in the number of followers. I would welcome the chance to read more books, but this thought experiment is never going to happen.
The question is too broad to answer with yes or no.

If you can come up with slides that make it easier for your audience to follow you, go for it.
I accept your correction; the US in not self-sufficient: "in June America produced 13% of global crude oil" (economist URL in child comment) whereas it consumes about 20%:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273565/share-of-the-majo...
Favoring stuff with Greek/Latin names is just a bunch of Euro-centrism, which isn't really a good look. The Romans also ignored the risks of lead, which is just ironic in this context.

In general I think it's best, when possible, to stick with foods that have been around for a long long time. I think a lot of the new stuff we've introduced this century has some pretty nasty medium to long term consequences, even if it won't give you acute poisoning right off the bat. If a food/dish has been around for a few centuries or millenia then chances are we've already worked those kinks out.
That's a universal argument for industrializing all food production. No food is a necessary foodstuff. It does not follow that all our food should be industrially produced.

(Free market food production will end up industrially produced, because that's how you minimize costs and maximize profits. I, for one, don't want to live in a country like that and will vote for laws that help prevent it happening.)
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Pre-trial? It's from 1877 and listed in an industry reference on legal precedents. And that precedent still stands because, as the article says, they're still prosecuting people for it.

> One precedent-setting example from 1877 was the case of a diseased buried pig. According to legal text Archbold's Pleading, Evidence, and Practice in Criminal Cases, even if someone discards something and does not intend to use it again, they can retain ownership of it.

> this practice was part of the squat culture as well

Not sure this would work as a defence, to be honest.
You could say they're "probabilistically binary", that would at least be intuitively accurate.
If I were the milk industry, I'd heavily promote meal replacements that use milk as a base. Especially in places where milk is cheap. I love Milk Fuel(formerly Schmilk) and I think it would be a good breakfast replacement for the masses.

http://superbodyfuel.com/shop/milk-fuel/
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Slippery Slopes are a slippery slope.

If you reason about everything in extremes, how can any solution ever be acceptable? The worst case for all real-world solutions are always bad.