skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds pithy, but is inaccurate. Marxists (in particular Leninists, because Marxism is a broad church) think that there is a ruling class, that in capitalist societies the ruling class is the minority of owners of capital, and that, in order to transition to a classless society, the capitalist ruling class needs to be replaced temporarily by a ruling class composed of people with the interests of the working class in mind.

The purpose of this period of working class rule is to eradicate the capitalist class and its ideology (not necessarily through violence, although in practice what ruling class yields to another without compulsion?), and develop the productive forces of the society in order to enable communism.

This last point is one of the big things that distinguishes Lenin's theories from Marx's, because Marx thought that revolution would naturally arise in the most advanced technological societies once the industrial base necessary for a transition to communism was already pretty much in place. As we know, the revolutions occurred in places with a lower level of development, thus requiring this theoretical modification and extending the period of rule by the working class beyond the brief duration that Marx envisaged.

The USSR, while it existed, always said they were "building socialism" and never said they had arrived at the destination, which is a classless society. The PRC says that it is "building socialism" and that the process might take a hundred generations. The purpose of their rule, according to their own theoretical framework, is to eventually give it up.

So no, Marxists are not "even more in favour of a ruling class above all."
Everyone wants to follow Apple here it feels like :(
I'm someone who was born with a "shitty" passport. It's not the visa part, but rather I can't spontaneously just "go somewhere". All my travels need to be planned weeks, if not months, ahead. Fortunately, I'm on a path to acquire another citizenship and my children will have a "good" passport at birth.
It's not puzzling, it's that you read a title and think it is something different.
Just a minor note, `nnn` is available on Homebrew.
40M people with diabetes will be left without insulin by 2030, study predicts
A bored teen in the Midwest with a .22 took out a window in my car.

Yet we don't require car windows to be able to withstand a .22.
This is very wrong, assuming that the concept of academia is to have any scientific meaning.

We can see it, for example, in the GDR, the former East of Germany where social sciences basically died. At the very same time, West-Germany developed a hugely influential discourse (...with a lot of Marxists, despite all the tensions).

One could say that specific individuals from academia might profit from having symbolic capital to convert into political power, but that's hardly an idea that could be universally applied.
Note that for a lot of people (me included), Africa is a social and legal black box and that is a major cause of concern for such issues (justified or not). Some countries have unreliable courts and/or people/tribal justice on the street is common, other are more modern, and except for a few specific countries I don't know which ones falls into which group.

(what I'm saying is, you're more scared of the unknown, and the various countries of Africa is much less known by the average hn'er than the american system)
That’s a bit silly though. A citation can’t somehow “prove” a moral statement. I think it’s clear that the commenter was assuming the reasonable moral claim that ethnicity/gender/etc. should not affect one’s opportunities in science, and then claiming that there is still work to be done in achieving that goal.
> we are governed by fools who barely understand technology

This is an argument heard all around the world with regards to similar issues. I wonder to what extent it actually applies, and it is not your latter statement - that lobbying and commercial interests are at play - that is prevailing (so they are 'willing fools').

Hard to know, of course, but I'd say these lawmakers need not have to know the intricacies of the technology themselves, but can rely on accurate reports detailing their implications in layman's terms. They can have expert advisory groups do the hard work for them.
> Just the idea that people are suggesting in some of the comments that everyone should be “required to live a year abroad” as part of college is more evidence of the bubble that many HN posters are in. How many middle class[1] families can afford to send their children overseas for a week let alone a year?

they need not be able to afford it, if society would recognize the benefit and find ways to finance it.

the moment something becomes a requirement, then it's the responsibility of those who defined the requirement to make sure that everyone has access to it. it is no longer an obligation of the student but a right.

also, whether you pay for the dormroom in a US college or in another countries is not going to make that big of a difference. and if the school requires you to go abroad, they also better make sure that the cost is covered in the tuition that you already pay.

universities in different countries can make deals with each other and agree to exchanges that make sure that students are not burdened with additional costs.
Let me play devil's advocate for a moment:

Is there any hard data that proves that people are becoming increasingly tribal?

Perhaps the number of radicals is the same like it was 20 years ago, but the internet and social media now give those radicals a voice. Because of this it feels like we are becoming increasingly tribal, when in reality we're not.

Similar to how the crime rates are going down, but most folks think that it's getting worse.

For us who spend a large portion of our time on internet, it certainly feels like everything is crashing down.
This is awesome I've been telling Twitter to be aware of who they follow, now it's a practical solution I can throw at them.
I actually don't know what I'm looking for. I'm quite happy without one. It just feels strange as file managers seems to be most people main entry point to their computer.
In meat space, where are the places to meet? Where are the weekly town celebrations, or the courtyard everyone retires to? Everything is locked up by money.
There is a good reason why people are escaping small towns. If you are even a little bit outside of the mold, such as being into reading instead of cars as a guy, you will be ostracized by a huge part of the community. And may God have mercy on you if you are into the really weird stuff, such as liking programming, tinkering with electronics or anime.
If no evidence is presented, the argument is invalid. This also applies to forums.
I am not sure what this has to do with loneliness. And I am not sure why you feel the need to emphasize "Confederate States" when it has a name: Southern Courtesy. Having growing up in the region and both given and received Southern Courtesy, it's more about community building and less about breaking out of loneliness.

When a bunch of Yankees moved into town during my childhood, they also were quite friendly but just in a different way. They're people too and I find the whole distinction rather silly anyways. Both groups have their nice folks and both have their mean folks.

Also it's perfectly fine to be alone, as it doesn't mean you have to be lonely.
two of my most used shell commands are "j" (https://github.com/wting/autojump) and "fd" (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd)

Autojump makes it easy to quickly jump into any directory I've visited and then I can open my editor or Finder (file explorer) from there. Would be great if I can be inside nnn and jump to directories using autojump.

fd is very useful when I want to just directly open a file. I might be in a project's root directory and I'd want to edit a file a few levels nested. Currently I either use fd to locate the path of the file, and then copy paste it into the shell. If `fd` is combined with nnn, I can type in a few letters of the file I expect, and jump to its parent directory, with the file highlighted.

Is this workflow possible in nnn, or can it be written using its scripting?
I’m against it of course, but realistically allowing children or anyone else to have unsupervised access to guns has a cost. It’s not a simple problem. It’s n the cite to if HN I’m against lazy posts that don’t add to the discussion.
This is HN projecting again. Venture out into flyover country and you'll see people (gasp!) under thirty having children and doing things other than getting into arguments on Twitter.

If career-obsessed urban intellectuals want to spend their lives drinking craft scotch alone in their apartments...evolution has spoken.
Yes. But it's not (or shouldn't be) a one to one between view and model. At least that particular view should be independent.

Note: It was simply a basic example. The crux being to also look at the view from the frontend - user and frontend dev, and not only from the model forward.

Fwiw I've recently taken over a project where I've found the same essentially partial four times. Not fatal, but more to maintain, as well as confusing when you're trying to unscramble things.
The Impreza is a compact hatchback, like a Ford Focus. I think there's a wagon version too, which isn't a SUV or a crossover.
they aren't the ones financing it because those that struggle to make ends meet are paying much less taxes than those with better income.

and with what little they do contribute, their own kids too get the opportunity to go to university.
Providing knowledgeable, disinterested advice to politicians is what the civil service is supposed to do. In Westminster style democracies, anyway.
One can agree that the tax should be implemented without agreeing with its categorization as a free market solution.
> Is going to university to "broaden the mind" a common sentiment?

Yes, actually! This might be a good link to read more about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...

The individual development those thinkers had in mind wasn't what the study tested, though, since "broadening the mind" isn't necessarily about personality tests. But I see that this is an attractive over interpretation of the results from a publishing perspective.
It is a market solution.
Can you provide some description or motivation for this project?
>If this was an academic paper then maybe but it's a comment on a forum on a website and life is too short to marshal supporting evidence for every stated opinion.

The reason academic papers require rigour is because such rigour is necessary to make a convincing argument. Without rigour, people end up just talking past, misunderstanding or shouting at eachother; nobody's going to convince someone else to change their mind just by stating an opinion.

>So I put it to you again, do you agree with the statement or do you disagree?

Personally, I agree that science is not a perfect meritocracy, but I'm not convinced it's due to discrimination by scientists: I've never met a scientist I could imagine making a hiring decision based on race. If there is a problem I'd suspect it's due to other factors; if there are fewer people with a particular characteristic studying science in university or high school, then seems like the root cause of that would be the real problem. You can't expect scientists to hire a certain percentage of people with that characteristic if the percentage of science graduates with that characteristic is much lower.
How would that dividend work?
> It's not privilege, privilege makes it easier, but it's certainly not impossible without it.

No, but it is much, much harder. Assuming all human beings are equal, how can you justify working a lot harder for the same outcome?

As an example, we generally want to help the disabled, it is generally a good policy to remove barriers, install lifts etc. not for them to 'just learn to walk properly' or whatever.
Natives weren't wiped out in Botswana AFAIK. White population is only 3%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana
You can make a clock easily enough: two NAND gates, two resistors, two capacitors. If you use parasitic components you will get a pretty wild resonance so better to nail it down by using something a bit more stable. But in principle it will work just fine.

Agreed on the 'preemtive multitasking' bit, but that has little to do with this subject. And it is kind of embedded in the name, you need something to do the pre-empting which by definition has to come from outside.

But building a functional computer with just NAND gates is absolutely possible, even if there are better ways, just like you could use Brainfuck or combinators to do meaningful computation. The whole idea of the course is not to give some kind of purist model for computation but to show that the essence of a computer can be boiled down to some very simple building blocks. So the title of the course is misleading only if you want to pick nits. Course titles are made to attract students and to give broad cover to what the course is all about, not to satisfy language purists.
Well said, this pilgramage is definitely a worthwhile one.
People have been ruminating on friendship for a long time.
Here is an essay from Samuel Johnson(the guy that wrote the dictionary), 1758.
https://www.thoughtco.com/decay-of-friendship-by-samuel-john...
> JS is a strongly typed

Strongly typed implies no implicit coersions at runtime. Python is strongly typed. JS or PHP are weakly typed.
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Sorry, guess I'm kind of contrarian - reading a claim like "spaced repetition is the best way for learning facts. And it's not just my fancy - here's one of the many studies that prove it" just makes me think "Uh, that sounds highly unlikely" and download the paper and read it. (I mostly studied philosophy, so probably that's more pedantic about accurate language than most humanities areas, or should be.)

Anyway.. So, unsurprisingly, it doesn't prove spaced repetition is the best way. It talks about another paper that looked at 10 methods, and found only 2 were 'highly effective'[0], spaced repetition and practice tests. Even if spaced repetition had been the single best way, and they had tried every possible learning method, not just 10 methods, that would be nowhere near proving it. (The next study might find something entirely different, as continually happens in science.)

So, sorry if that seemed uselessly pedantic. p.s. I do use Anki though. Or I did. Not sure how useful it is, although better than no study, if that's the alternative. I used an ancient Windows program years ago for learning Spanish, which was similar, but also had audio of a Spanish woman saying the words to go with the written word; I seemed to learn more from that.

[0] The 'utility' scale in the other paper seemed to have only 3 degrees - low, moderate, high.
In fact every operation would be slower in an interpreted or scripting language. It becomes evident on a Raspberry Pi, Linux subsystem for Windows (even on i7, yes), when opened within vim as a file chooser, or on Termux env (Android). `nnn` finds its users in all these constrained environments.

Also `nnn` is not a feature by feature replacement for ranger. The last thing we want is a feature bloat. And we are very open to useful feature requests. Let us know if you are missing something.
They could just be in favor of paying them fair wages and allowing them to organize.
> When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.

Mass psychosis - solution to loneliness.
Nim's multisync macro is another nice approach: on compile time it transforms the same function to a sync and async variant
Wouldn't it be easier to create a national methane infrastructure, reforming on the spot where pure H2 is required and methanate H2 when/where/if you can get it from non-fossil sources? Methane is much easier to handle for transport/storage.
>The UN and other international observers declared this a free and fair election...

Er, no, they didn’t.
Seems to work fine, could you consider having a perpetual license?
Or a nonrecusing one year?
I don't like to have recusing subscriptions. Too many of them already.
Now that is how to get people on side when you’re looking to start a good conversation.
This is the problemn and you illustrate it perfectly. If you propose a plan that introduces a carbon tax with the revenue returned back to the economy, progressives will attempt to kill it. For progressives, an environmental policy is only sound if it goes with massive government expansion. Nobody cares about the environment. It is always ideology first.
The liberal left wing decided that "community" was an anachronism that needed to be done away with. In addition, both the left and the right wing ceded to cultural changes instituted by the big corps so that materialism and marketing were the main focus of life in the US.

This is the result. People who are completely alone, and believe that happiness comes from buying the things that they are told to want.

In my opinion, it amounts to cultural genocide - the absolute destruction of the values and social structures that made America great to begin with.
It has been mentioned, but my comments are invincible, yet.
Ask HN: What’s your reaction if MS made GitHub stats available to recruiters?
Before I could login to GitHub today, I had to check some features they are trying to sell, and there’s more distracting links than usual I feel, since the news of acquisition.

As Microsoft now owns LinkedIn and GitHub, I have a feeling that they will provide an opt-in way of signaling your productivity to Recruiters - finally monetising that green dot chart on your profile.

What’s the community’s feelings on such a possibility?
You just need to make up for the weirdness by hosting a BBQ every now and again. No one's gonna be made at you if you fill them up with a bit of meat and beer ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but assuming that someone's karma is comment karma + post karma, the number is pretty much meaningless.

(and if that's the case, is there any way to separate the two?)
IOTA: Analysis and Exploration of 'The Path to Coordicide'
I don’t think this has anything to do with small town vs big cities. Loneliness is a problem also in big cities.
Reducing access to means and methods is one of the best ways to reduce the numbers of people who kill themselves.

There have been a number of natural experiments that have shown this: when the UK switched from coal gas to natural gas, or when catalytic converters were introduced.

You can probably find research to support this on the NCISH website.
How did you gather these Twitter users?
Fifolock: Synchronisation primitives for asyncio Python
actually, the most important thing to teach, which not all schools are teaching is "how to learn"

for example teaching multiple programming languages has the benefit of learning how the languages are related to each other. a student that learned several languages over the course of their studies will be much better at picking up yet another language when they start working.

in my university each different programming concept was taught with a different language. object orientation with modula, functional programming with scheme, etc. we pretty much learned a new language every term.

and the point was not to learn those languages. that just happened as an aside. but that aside produced the benefit of making the students comfortable working with whatever language the job might require.
Suburbs are structurally lonely (your own castle with as little reliance on others as possible), and only ‘work’ when paired with other sources of community. Those sources are disappearing for a variety of reasons but the transfer from physical -> digital, communal [1] -> personalized, eating out -> eating in [2], public space -> private space, friend time —> media time all add up. We also don’t have strong culture around co-habitation within let alone across families, and a bunch of other culture things that keep us isolated physically and cognitively.

Look at schools and retirement communities for examples of how to design community that keeps us present and with others, then compare to what most experience.

There’s a space between the immediate self/family and the super broad impersonal gov’t and/or hired services (that pave your roads, deliver your food, etc) that is severely under-developed in our modern context. Local interdependency and pooled resources isn’t a thing. My read from talking to several peers in 30s is an openness to explore alternative community structures (eg like a kibbutz) to bring this close community back. I get the sense from many that there’s just something missing and we’re all starting to rediscover the ways communities in the past organized themselves to fill this important place in our lives.

[1] communal being other-oriented or at least aware of others needs versus having our needs ever more optimized and personalized. This causes mindset shift.

[2] there are stats showing rapid increase in delivery over dining in past 10yrs, I believe it’s now majority takeout/delivery these days
> In fact most people I meet in real life are stupid.

I've also felt like this for a long time before I grew up.
If you have a group that attempts suicide more often you'll want to make suicide attempts more survivable - this is in addition to all the other work you're doing.

Reducing access to means and methods is known to work to reduce the numbers of people who die by suicide.
A nice roundup of IOTA and their plan to remove the coordinator
> I always chuckle when I hear about "free" education, "free" healthcare, etc. Somebody is paying for it.

That's because you probably choose to misinterpret what is meant. If you genuinely don't know, I find this quite astonishing, but let me explain; As someone with "free" healthcare as a citizen of an EU country, I never think it is free as in literally costs nothing and nor do my left-wing American friends advocating for "free". It's "free" at the point of use, paid via our tax dollars, to which I contribute.

The U.S. spends more on its current healthcare than the "free" one would cost them.

You can think of "free" healthcare as giving you freedom from being sick, rather than in terms of cost.

Would you rather spend money on "free" healthcare or tanks? Because it's going to be one of these.
Garden faucets in the U.S. can be 3/8, 1/2, 5/8 or 3/4 inches. They can have a course thread or if a backflow preventer is reuired in your muni, they have a fine thread.
Why wouldn't companies start producing less carbon intensive products? Seems to have worked pretty well with cars, which even with the recent dieselgate, are much more efficient than before.

Currently there's an effective subsidy on air polluters; I can sue my neighbor who dumps waste on my land, but I can't sue the people dumping carbon in my lungs. Is that subsidy not concerning?
That's bull, political anger is being caused by ever growing income and wealth disparity – only an oblivious moron or someone who is happy with the status quo would be blind to that.

edit: to all those flagging and downvoting: my comment wasn't at @nabla9 it was directed at the assumptions in the NY Times article. It's very convenient for writers at the so-called newspaper of record to ignore the huge transfer in wealth from the less well off over the last decade and biting austerity and under-investment in infrastructure. One person died in Paris recently in political unrest due to fuel price hikes.
100% this. I studied abroad in Istanbul, and when I was there I was blown away at how normal it was to either study abroad, study abroad multiple times or take a gap year abroad. It seems like a given to Europeans that they will do something like this.
As to be as compliant as possible, Twitter users have to connect their accounts manually and select multiple data in regards to their interests, gender identity, and much more, which is complemented by the data gathered from the Twitter API (language, verification status, followers, following, tweets, likes...).