skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yours is a phenomenal analogy, I thought, but as the comment opening this thread insinuated, you are naive.

> increasing economic disparity hurts underrepresented groups too

Close, but increasing economic disparity hurts underrepresented groups _most_. And, as it's been said, what we have made is only generously defined as progress--and most vehemently by those who seek to halt what little progress we've made as "sufficient".

> If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress.

This Malcolm X quote does a great job highlighting how the cessation of a particular oppression is hardly progress. Since slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and Red-Lining, there has been little in the way of reparations to make African American communities whole--not to mention the millions of Mesoamericans(1) similarly exploited in the history of American Imperialism(2), and still to this day(3)!

So, thanks again for that completely brilliantly painted analogy. I hope you find these texts offer some compelling augmentations to your understanding.

1) Eduardo Galeano's "The Open Veins of Latin America"

2) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz' "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"

3) CrimethInc's "No Wall They Can Build"
So, according to your own numbers, the peak was 119 years ago. So your own numbers demonstrate why you were wrong when you wrote “Even under Trump, US borders are more open than ever”
No, almost all invocations of system calls are implicitly telling the kernel that you now wish to sleep, and want to be waken up once the system call completes. It's abstracted away from you by mostly looking like a regular function call, but it's there. It's more explicitly apparent if you e.g. wait on a semaphore, but the principle is the same.

Just type "ps ax" into your shell, most processes will be in state "S", sleeping because of a system call.

My point is, you kind of have to go out of your way to spin CPU without actually having any work in front of you.
haha I'm not saying an exact replica - I mean the general idea of a themed privately operated bus is interesting. obviously it would be subject to more regulatory scrutiny than over there. you could have a party bus vibe, or a meditation one, or a social one, etc etc.
I agree but I consider improving military capability to be orthogonal to decision making into what the military does. If we wait until the military does only that with which we agree, then it may already be too late.
Meanwhile Tesla's countersuit alleges that the families of teens killed in a 116mph Tesla crash make unsafe teenagers.
I run a multiplayer VR team platform where we run a copy of Unity3d on the linux cloud server and load the the same Unity Asset Bundle on the server as the clients ("The current world"). I chose this method because:

(1) it followed the Unity3d documented approach using UNET server and client architecture
(2) it meant we get to simulate the entire scene on the server (physics, meshes, networked objects, etc)

We boot the instances on demand when a team wants to meet in VR.

Sounds like Unity's new T&C's means this architecture is dead in the water.. unless Authorized by Unity3d. :-(
Former Google exec: AI will replace 40 percent of jobs in 15 years
Well, it's a language that existed for quite a while (probably at least as long as Shakespeare->us) with a small amount of surviving written literature so we really only have glimpses of it.

I remember realizing at one point that I had read everything in Old French in the university library, and thinking that that probably meant I had probably read everything surviving in Old French.
> That's one of those product that will really depend on the price point.

Probably, and the price over time as well what with ink cartridges and stuff. I have one of those old timey shaving kits with replaceable single blades, but I still ended up getting a Braun 9 series electric shaver. Sure, the manual razor gives you a real close clean shave, but it’s just not worth the hassle to deal with the brush and the soap and the blades and the hot water and the what not – the Braun does a perfectly fine job before I’m even done with prep work otherwise. Even though it was more expensive, the time it saves me is non negligible. I can imagine customers of this device making that very same consideration.
The way I handle this in the Bay Area is keep an extra autoload Clipper card for any guests that are coming to visit. hand it off to them when they get here. It's pretty easy to let them know how much to settle up for when they depart.

I'm not sure how most visitors to the bay get in but two desks at SFO and OAK across from baggage claim seem like a good start to implement the same kind of solution.
This isn't quite true for many of the big cities of interest. There was an active high-modernist effort in the ~70s to destroy the walkable, transitable, livable parts of many American cities and cut freeways across them like big ugly neighborhood-destroying scars.

Even transit wastelands like LA had an actual urban core (that they're now rebuilding), as well as a relatively extensive network of streetcars.
I'll be just over 60 years old when that happens. With any luck, I'll be retired and not have to worry about it... I think having to deal with both Y2K and Y2K38 in one career is too much.
It would have been a funny response to a funny comment, but in the balance it's much better that they are all screened out.
I had a horrible misparse of the title and thought it was about a brand of "printer wipes" called Skin, then wondered what years and faces had to do with it... it made me click for sure.
Please don’t post ‘you are wrong’ without supplying the correct information either.

I’m now left wondering what the actual situation around fat is.
Nobody reads. The dude had a 10 year hiatus. Lichess didn't exist at the time. Most chess websites have had ratings roughly analogous to either USCF or to FIDE but lichess is the notorious exception.
This is approaching the idea of Qubes OS, which is a good direction IMO and something I've been waiting for stability to try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

https://www.qubes-os.org
Not necessarily true. A lot of acquisitions are 'acquihires' meaning they were bought just for their talent capital.
I am a happy Julia user, but I can imagine if you had a use case where you wanted to compile a binary or shared library, Julia could be a pain.

C++ of course works fine for this but I imagine Swift would be less terrifying to use.
(adds to list of "things I should think about trying to make someday")

If I ever do though it will use water-based paint.
There already are plenty of systemd-free distributions. Not because the developers hated systemd, but because they decided using a baroque init+daemon-manager+logger+.... wasn't the best idea.

> For everyone else, there is a reason they centralized on it, and its not because Lennart was stalking their mailing lists threatening to send them expired cheese. Systemd is not perfect, but it is infinitely better than a sludge of shell scripts.

This is such a disingenuous argument. Don't like Ford? What, you want the horse-and-carriage back?

I'm not arguing for sysv init. Nothing in what I've said references sysv init, and - if my choices were (a) sysv init, and, (b) systemd, I would indeed choose (b). But that isn't the full range of choices.

There are various non-sludge-of-shell-script choices which aren't systemd. Including OpenRC, s6, runit, Shepherd. I haven't used the first two extensively, but I have the latter two, and both were better experiences than systemd: they are faster, they are more comprehensible, and they are less error-prone.

On the other hand, my systemd-running home desktop - every time I want to reboot, I end up REISUB'ing it because I don't feel like waiting 2-5 minutes for systemd to release it. I don't have that issue on any of my other, non-systemd-powered machines. They all shut down/reboot cleanly and quickly.
I don't know the West coast very well, so I'm curious -- are there any (smaller) cities there where you can actually get by without a car to do grocery shopping, commute to one's office (assuming it's in the same town/city), etc.? I'm thinking something comparable to Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Berlin, where you can get by with a bike and/or subway, or often just walking. Portland? Seattle?

I've visited Silicon Valley and SF, and I remember it as being really pedestrian-unfriendly. A friend of mine has a story about visiting San Jose without a car, and not being able to go to a bookstore because, while the map showed it as being a block away and he could clearly see it, there was no way to reach it on foot from where he was.
PSA: Via Pass is a great alternative in NYC and works with commuter benefits too
no worries i didn't think you meant exact replica - just giving some context.
Sure, I've pasted it up here https://pastebin.com/rsVY3JWB
I'm not sure why you got the impression otherwise, but people do use transit in SF, a lot. The 38 Geary is so packed that you frequently can't even get on at major stops like Powell during rush hour.
I think it’s largely constant reinforcement that kids aren’t especially great. 90% of people are in the bottom 90%. A lot of our culture is pushing people to think that it’s either best or worst.

A lot of of young adult stuff commiserates in this, celebrating the tacit knowledge that you’ll eventually fail. So many memes are about feeling how you secretly suck. Or how they can do one relevant task well but fail at basic fundamentals.

I also think this is mostly a mindset issue caused by worrying parents constantly demonstrating why you need to be better.
Follow SF politics for a couple of years, and you'll see that the problem isn't lack of technocratic solutions, it's politics (with some exceptions that tend to be problems larger than a single city's scope). A supervisor can go tour every functional city in the world and when they came back, they wouldn't be any more effective, because knowledge of how to fix things wasn't the blocker.
Goes into good details about the tactics used to come up with an idea and then recruit the first few customers. After signing up $5k/month revenue it meant he needed to generate 5,000 leads per month for those customers. That is the hard bit, how did he do that on a side project? He says that the income was passive, so how did he generate 5,000 targeted leads passively? That is the magic, not the ability to recruit some customers.
I agree with others that watching chess youtubers/twitch streamers is a good way to get into it. I recently compliled a list of youtubers that I have found to be very instructive and fun to watch (instructive meaning they play longer time controls and are good at explaining their thought process while they play):

https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2018/12/16/instructive_chess_you...
Perhaps I used strong language, but could you clarify which guideline I failed to follow? I believe that I did not - and certainly did not intend - to attack the person. I didn't call them any names, or say anything unkind about them personally. I did wish to be clear that their harmful, pejorative language has no place in the discussion, though.

And FWIW, I'm asking sincerely. I'm not trying to pick an argument with you.
I used Chariot daily for my commute when I lived in the outer richmond (24th ave). Its existential purpose was to ensure you would only travel with fellow commuters, and not the raving lunatics who rode the muni. It was a kind of bridge above the fray.
If anyone's interested in writing and testing their code for this - https://www.spoj.com/problems/MUL/
Middle class income in the US is basically the same if not lower than it was 10 years ago. Household income has all but plateaued since the late 90s[1]

I can assure you that the cost of goods has gone up along with inflation.

Young people can't afford a house even with historically low interest rates.

Household debt is way up there.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/500385/median-household-...
I taught myself OE grammar and some vocab a few years back; it was easy and one of the best things I ever did for myself. Did it as my parents both learned it in high school to the point they could read Beowulf (they also learned Latin). I figured it was a defect in my education not knowing it.

Noticed last year that Icelandic is kind of similar, so it may eventually prove useful beyond aesthetics.
1) why would you think it wasn't clear to me?
2) this isn't about finding out if lichess has a different method of calculating ratings
3) furthermore, their different method for calculating ratings probably isn't why their ratings are higher
4) ratings are arbitrary, unless they aren't--I could make my own website and give everyone a rating of 3000 and there would be nothing as impressive about it
5) the whole point of author's article is to demonstrate he improved at chess and he probably didn't, he just adjusted to the new platform until his rating rose to reflect his strength. He's still pretty good, ~95th%ile
Ok I'll bite. Ruby's biggest flaw is implicit context, due to its emphasis on convention over derivation. Which means that (for example) a developer new to Ruby/Rails won't know that paths are automatically generated from routes.rb, or how those routes and paths automagically connect to controller classes. It's not clear in the beginning how symbols relate to strings or why you would even want them (they are like enums so have better performance, but other languages get around this with better string comparison techniques), or how hashes relate to the associative arrays in other languages, or why hash method work differently from array methods. For example:

https://apidock.com/ruby/Hash/flatten

Which doesn't recursively flatten like Array#flatten, even when depth is specified. To me, most of these choices are arbitrary or done for performance reasons which get less compelling with each passing year.

I never know from one day to the next which new concept is going to be thrown at me, or how much I'm going to have to memorize. Whether it's Rails, or Rspec, or any other gem - each has its own ecosystem of technobabble that can't be derived from first principles.

In the end, I don't know what problems Ruby is trying to solve. I find it no faster to write than PHP or Javascript. I find that having multiple ways to specify blocks with begin/end and {} merely increases the permutations I must hold in my head as I'm trying to grok code. This is all very perl-like, which makes sense for a 90's language. But I wouldn't advise learning Ruby or using it in production today. Better to go with a more formal language such as Go/Rust/Swift/Kotlin, even though each of those has its own unique set of flaws and pain points.

P.S. If you are struggling with learning Ruby, I highly recommend learning PHP/Laravel first. It has most of the same concepts as Rails/.NET but builds on the existing context that C-style language programmers tend to be familiar with. Then from there you can create a virtual errata document in your mind to store any arbitrary conventions that Rails introduces.
i began to realize at an early age that the anxiety and depression were simply neurological sensations, and can be borne locked in a caged, like working with a migraine instead of tapping out for a sick day.

It never goes away, you just get on top of it as something that you inextricably are, like having a scar or poor eyesight. its called emotional repression.
The short version is that your body needs a balance of all three macronutrients - protein, fats, and carbohydrates, and that starving it of any is unhealthy. Parent would probably suggest focusing on calories in / out rather than minimizing fats.
I have t mobile and some calls come in with a caller I’d as “scam likely” so they do stuff like that
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> my attention, a resource that I consider very valuable

How much would you pay for a browser?
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Guessing it's selective editing, to illustrate cases of the car handling challenging situations well.
Either that, or the drivers are particularly selfish in San Francisco?!
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Was the transistor theoretically proposed similar to the memristor was? Wondering if people had as much hype for the transistor eventually appearing as we are about memristors.
Since these comments are not dominant I think it's OK to have them on the site since they get responded to. Perhaps it could change their minds.
From Rota's Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught:

"8. Give lavish acknowledgments

I have always felt miffed after reading a paper in which I felt I was not being given proper credit, and it is safe to conjecture that the same happens to everyone else. One day, I tried an experiment. After writing a rather long paper, I began to draft a thorough bibliography. On the spur of the moment, I decided to cite a few papers which had nothing whatsoever to do with the content of my paper, to see what might happen.

Somewhat to my surprise, I received letters from two of the authors whose papers I believed were irrelevant to my article. Both letters were written in an emotionally charged tone. Each of the authors warmly congratulated me for being the first to acknowledge their contribution to the field."

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-le...
One thing they already did is display "Scam Likely" for some calls. This is on an iPhone, but I think it's a T-Mobile thing. It misses a ton of spam calls from numbers that match the first six digits of my own number, and had at least one false positive, which was my bank calling.
you could squash those commits, but i agree it would be better not to have them.

can you commit with --amend instead to avoid creating new commits every time?
I'm an amateur student of language, particularly English. This article taught me about kennings, or compound words in Old English poetry.

At first I thought that the writer, Josephine Livingston, was saying that these were the main words --- like, the Old English word for sea is hronrad, "whale road." But no, if you look up "sea," that is Old English too. People normally said "sea," but sometimes if you were writing a poem you would make up these colorful alternatives. I think that's what she meant. It just took me a second reading.

At the end, she says this isn't possible in modern English. "We who speak contemporary English are so reliant on word order that we are no longer as able[...]. We just can’t do the same things with our vocabulary." She gives as an example that she wants to make a new kenning out of "poignant" and "solitude," but it won't work because today's readers would interpret "poignant solitude" as just an adjective modifying a noun, with no special poetical air. That's because she did it wrong.

At the beginning she defines a kenning as two nouns, but "poignant" isn't a noun, it's an adjective. She would need two nouns. And solitude, while a noun, is abstract. She would be better off with two concrete nouns, like the old kennings. The best I can come up with right now is "teardrop cloister." A more modern style, though, would be "cloister of tears."

I see no reason why you couldn't write a poem today with custom-made compound words like "whale-road" and "bone-house." The reader would have to rely on the context to figure out that you're using metaphors for the sea and the body, just like then. Maybe it would be a little more jarring these days. It sounds like back then that poets did it all the time. It was a meme. But modern poetry has this kind of wordplay here and there. And like I said, instead of doing it with compound words, they do it more by joining them with the word "of", like: "cloister of tears," "the road of the whales," "this house of bones." I could totally see any of those in modern poems.
You're probably right -- and even when I saw it elsewhere it was still within the CS department.

For instance we glanced over it during my Digital Image Processing course. The professor did introduce it as a form of fast polynomial multiplication but we didn't dive too deep into Cooley-Turkey because frequency analysis was the focus of the work.
So the memristor has been physically proven? I thought there was skepticism over whether it was even possible to make them.
It did in the context of what I was replying to, which is why I stated it.
FUD is never easy to read, and I'm not always wise enough to answer in the proper tone.

As I do a lot of Python for a living, and still work on both Python 2 and Python 3, I have talked a lot with people writing new P2 apps in the last few years.

My experience is, either you have very niche constraints, or somebody made an unwise/uneducated engineering decision. Unfortunatly, I meet way more of the second type, and of course, most of them pretend to be of the first.
Artificial barriers are only removed as they become irrelevant in the face of greater, more subtle and less infamous levers of control.

As the internet offers greater surveillance, phone taps become less relevant.

As offshoring jobs to nations w/o union protections, where beatings and murders of organizers is less punished, working conditions in the US can improve without cutting too deeply into the bottom line... just until they close the factory.

As manual labor is increasingly done outside our borders, or by precarious undocumented immigrants, as laborer reproduction is increasingly done by their wives, more white women will be allowed into management, executive, and leadership positions. Did you notice, all the heads of the Military Industrial Complex firms are now all women? (1) What allowed this to happen?

1) https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/201901...
In Linux's defense even the corporate issued Dell laptops at my work running Windows 10 struggle with projectors. I see it daily in meetings people have to randomly mash the function key until display gets mirrored to projector properly, need to plug / unplug projector repeatedly until it works. People hit fullscreen in powerpoint and projector display just disappears and have to go through plug in unplug again dance.

From everything I've seen a projector "just working" seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Loans just put debt into the economy, while the rich monopolize the credit.
That's just because the Commerce Clause (and the Foreign Commerce Clause) puts limits to federal jurisdiction, so there has to be a nexus connecting the conduct to interstate or foreign commerce. At least in theory, because the Supreme Court considers almost everything to "affect" interstate commerce (see Gonzales v. Raich). But I'd be surprised if all the states didn't have similar offenses.
NixOS may also be something to look at. It's doing things a bit differently compared to Qubes, but seems to have similar kinds of goals. I've not used it before but the idea seems to be neat.

https://nixos.org/
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Linux in the 90s was figuring out which distribution had usable versions of the software you wanted to use, and hoping that an update to one package didn’t break everything else.

That, or rolling your own distro from scratch and spending ALL YOUR TIME maintaining your Linux install somthere was no time left to do the stuff you actually wanted to do.

Oh look, updating my windows manager means sound no longer works. I guess that’s three hours I need to invest to get my music player working again.

See you tomorrow.