skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>All this to be a long-winded way of saying: yes, the left can be vitriolic. But you have to understand that the world as it is is crushingly inhumane to so so so many people, and people (especially privileged people) are content with the status quo and hostile to those who challenge it.

But compassion/empathy for the vulnerable/weak is not the only virtue. There is often a trade-off between compassion and other virtues (e.g. competence, discipline, protection of one's interests), and it's not always the case that choosing compassion is right pragmatically or in principle.

Compassion can also be pathological, and have harmful effects, if excessive or applied unintelligently. That's where the smothering mother motif comes from in stories and myths. Sometimes you need to hold people to account, to deter irresponsibility, for the greater good of society and even the individual who is being denied compassion. Too much compassion can and will be exploited by the unprincipled. Compassion above all else is not a sound principle around which to organize society.
I'm not sure what your basis is for either claim. How would a duck that was aware it could die behave any differently than what we observe? What makes you think that fear is a conscious emotion in humans and an unconscious reaction in animals?

If you were a member of an alien species briefly observing the Earth 50,000 years ago, you'd probably use a similar argument that humans aren't conscious. Sure, they hunt, they play, and they show fear of danger, but that isn't substantially different from other mammals.
They distinguish among ages of things they eat within the same species too.
age is just a number. that being said I don't recommend a bootcamp.
Live coding a basic Go compiler with LLVM in 20 minutes
Your comment assumes good faith.
I agree with your reasoning. There are plenty of situations where you can do everything in your power to avoid hitting someone, and still hit them.
n of 1 anecdote:
While driving down a 40mph road with tall hedges on the side of the lane I was in, at night, a homeless man darted out of the hedges directly in front of me. I jammed the breaks, but still hit him going about 10mph. He got off the ground and ran off before I could even get my hazards lights on. If I'd swerved right, I would've gone through the hedges off a steep embankment into a river, left would've taken me into an oncoming vehicle. I had maybe 25 feet to stop. He was at fault, and I did the best I could possibly do. The law proposed by craigsmansion is insane in this scenario.
I wonder if the president of the American Enterprise Institute felt it so important to stress how both sides have "contempt" for one another back when a plurality of his politcal party of choice thought the president was secretly a Muslim born in Kenya.
I eat the same thing for lunch everyday because it’s one less thing I have to worry about.

I used to be religious about what I ate and would weigh everything, calculate ratios, make adjustments, and making the same thing (grilled chicken, brown rice, black beans, steamed veg) was just easier. I did this for 4 years straight until I changed jobs and started working near a chipotle.

For the next 5 years I’d get the same thing from chipotle for lunch (burrito- white rice, black beans, double chicken, side of salsa) because it was kind of healthy, cheap, the staff got to know me, and I learned what times to avoid. One more thing I put on Auto pilot.
>Dogs raised alongside cats never even try to eat them to begin with. You don't need to teach them it's not allowed.

That's an absurd statement. While tempers of dogs vary from one to the next just like humans, I vehemently disagree to the extent that I'm hesitant to believe you've ever raised a puppy, or even have been exposed to many dogs for that matter. Plenty of pet dogs behave more like their wolf ancestors than others.
I'm not saying that emotions don't exist, just that the meaning is completely separate from the way that we define it.

For example many languages define colors differently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg), but this doesn't mean that the different wavelengths don't exist. Cultures categorized them for the purpose of communication and it's only within the context of that categorization that you can understand the meaning.

Earlier I referenced "finger pointing at the moon" and this is exactly it. The word is the finger and the meaning is the moon, and we shouldn't mistake the finger for the moon.

> i am sure there are animals willing to discuss it with you, it’s just that you (us) can’t understand them.

I was half-joking, there are already animals that we can understand and communicate with. It's just a matter of finding them :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorgFtCqPEs

> it is very possible that animals feel deeper emotional connections than we do. orcas showcase some very deep emotional states.

No doubt. Even visiting an animal shelter exposes some of the deep emotional state that dogs and cats can be in, and I'm sure that barely scratches the surface when considering all of the different species and circumstances.
I think you're trolling. Let's flag this comment.
How big is the project you are working on? Resharper qas a net productivity gain for me on moderately complex projects (the lag was more than compensated by the speed gained from the mode powerful editing and refactoring, let alone the lower barrier to start otherwise tedious refactoring jobs)
I didn't really see anything substantiating a claim that eg 30 years engineering experience in tech is more valuable than say 20. It was just an assumption.
That's weird. Never heard the word heteroscedasticity before and now I see it in two different HN threads within the hour. (the other being https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337466).
The most likely solution to the Fermi Paradox is probably the most depressing for the people who are interested in it: space colonization is basically impossible.

The fastest object we've sent outside of the gravitational field of the Sun would take about 75,000 years to reach the nearest star (if we pointed it at it). For perspective, the last glacial advance started in earnest about 75,000 years ago. We don't have any technology that can maintain an automated craft for that long, let alone life support for sentient creatures. Hell, our current technology is insufficient to permit a self-sustaining colony on any other planet or satellite.

Ultimately, the Fermi Paradox is based on the assumption that, given enough chances, an unlikely event is basically certain. While this is true, to do a proper analysis, you do need to look at orders of magnitude to see if there really have been enough chances. And we have so little information to base the computations on that the dominating term is your priors: if you think we ought to have seen alien life by now, you'll pick priors that suggest life is quite likely and find that we ought to have seen it; if you think we oughtn't, your prior will reflect that.
That is one of the most interesting things to me about this. Consciousness seems to arise from the communication and computation in and between sensory inputs, so do computers feel anything?

I can understand the logic of input 1 causes output 2 and output 5 to do something, providing the objective indicators of consciousness, but the internal experience puzzles me. Why do we feel? Why do our pain or pleasure receptors result in agonizing pain or pleasurous feeling instead of just throwing messages saying “you are experiencing 57% pleasure” or “pain at 25%”? Why do we see what is going through our visual system? Why are we conscious at all? Why aren’t we just autonomous? Systems of inanimate material seem to have this bizarre innate property where they create subjective ephemeral forces from objective inanimate atoms.

Which raises the question: do computers feel?
Private car ownership is less of a threat. Currently connects many drivers with many riders. A competitor has reach critical mass one both sides. Getting rid of drivers would significantly weaken the current leaders network effect and thus make it a lot easier for competition. Windows mobile might still be alive if their app store wouldn't have been a wasteland :(

Uber could still lobby against competition, but that's a whole different level and we'd be pretty much back at a classical taxi situation.
>The left, as I see it, gets and respects human vulnerability, and our need to depend on one another, and wants to build a just, equitable society where we can all fluorish.

This is what people dislike about the modern left, when it makes the assumption that the intentions of its political opponents are bad just because they disagree on methodology. There are conservatives who genuinely want to build a just, equitable society where everyone can flourish, and believe that strong welfare problems go against this by making people dependent on handouts. There are conservatives who genuinely believe the best way to achieve a flourishing, happy society is by following the tenants of some religion. There are conservatives who believe a just, fair society is one in which people are rewarded in accordance to how others value their work (how much other people are willing to pay them). Two people can want the same outcome but widely differ in belief about the best way to achieve it; assuming that your counterparty has bad intentions just because they disagree on the best way to achieve something or have a different definition of a word like "fair" does not lead to healthy discourse.
I graduated with a degree in art, which means all my old college friends are more left-leaning than is usual.

I still keep in touch with many of them on Facebook, and the amount of absolute insanity coming from them is staggering and depressing.
They'll gang up and murder or perhaps execute members of their own group.
That's because it indicates the version of uuid it is.
This is why "home" is a few blocks away from home in my Uber profile and why I allow it location services only when the app is running.
> Not if they do the same thing that they done with the other accusations, which is to seal the indictment.

No, what is alleged now is that there is a sealed indictment (which is fairly routine before an accused party is in custody.) To actually prosecute based on such an indictment, it will be unsealed.

> Secret courts, secret judges, secret crimes.

There are no secret criminal courts and no secret judges in the US. There are secret proceedings, including all grand jury proceedings, but I have yet to hear an argument for why that is a bad thing rather than an important protection of all of the rights of the (potentially) accused, the rights of third parties on whom grand jury evidence may touch, and the interests of integrity of law enforcement process. And simply yelling “secret court” repeatedly is, as well as being factually inaccurate, not an argument.

There are, naturally, secret crimes, but that's because criminals often (but not always!) prefer to do their crimes that way.

> Would you support Sadia Arabia if they started extraditing gay US citizens, from the United Kingdom, and then executing them for being gay

I wouldn't support any country for prosecuting people for being gay, what the punishment, process, or whether they attempted to use extradition is irrelevant. But since there's no even remotely plausible reason to suspect that any US offenses for which Assange may have been indicted, or which a federal grand jury might now be in the process of considering indicting him, are for anything remotely like sexual orientation, that's hardly relevant.
Would someone ELI5?
I want to share a little story with you. I recently attended a GraphQL meetup. The host presented the app he is building and was very knowledgeable, answering 90% of the questions thrown at him without any hesitation. So far, nothing about the meetup was remarkable. That is, until later that night, when I spoke with the host in greater depth.

In his early 30s, he decided to leave the public school space and pursue software development. He found specific things in the field that interested him and aggressively consumed information about those things. He read about and tinkered with code on his lengthy bus ride to work each day. He began presenting little things he was building at local meetups.

One night, after presenting at a meetup, a developer approached him and asked if he might be interested in interviewing for a new position which hadn't even been publicly posted. He agreed to interview and was hired shortly thereafter. All of this happened within a year's time.

You're definitely not too old to start! I would recommend you follow your curiousness and not simply follow where the money is at some given point in the industry cycle. Curious people go far and are less likely to quit. People into the idea of software development typically become overwhelmed and try something else because they lack a sturdy base.
this is a well-considered response -- I don't disagree with you, thanks for taking the time
H-1B: Outsourcer HCL games visa system to discriminate against non-South Asians
If you are on Windows and are using VS for debugging, you should really rethink your workflow and consider using all of it and most importantly, launching it once and keep working in it. Launching it seperately for each new debugging session seems really foolish. Even just having it reload csproj files is faster than completely restarting it.

If the debugger is written just for the heck of it, I can totally get behind this reason. No amount of reading can replace practical experience.
We've heard this many times before, but to what end? What does any of this mean in practical terms? What's going to happen? I might be wrong, but nobody I know actually uses Foursquare, and I'm not sure that it offers any tangible value. It seems more people are realizing that location data is a liability these days, and Apple is demanding greater protection for customer data.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052444
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904494
[3] https://www.wired.com/2016/01/foursquares-plan-to-use-your-d...
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but Portland's roads are already overwhelmed with traffic, its mass trasit past capacity, and its former "cool" residents have already left for less popular destinations.

Also, they get hot in the summer at times—think 90s...so you'll end up getting a box air conditioner unit at the very least.
Must be peculiar to some users. I have used Windows 10 Home since 2015 on my laptop and yes, Candy Crush was installed the very first time I installed 10 (as a free in-place upgrade over 8.1), and I uninstalled it from the Store app and never saw it again in my menu. This despite upgrading through several versions of Windows 10 from 2015 to now (1809 at present.)

As for updates force rebooting, they only do so during designated non-active hours, which I set from 2AM to 5AM and leave my laptop on. By the next morning, its updated and ready to use.

One thing I don't like about 10 is how updates tend to uninstall my hardware manufacturer's drivers and replace them with vanilla Windows ones and I have to go through the tedious process of re-installing them. Happens most often with webcam and sound drivers.

Oh, and I don't use any hack software like ShutUp10 etc. This is just stock Windows.
Is that really accurate? iOS comes out of the box with "improve Apple Maps" enabled, which collects location data and associates it with your Apple ID and your registered address. They do this even if you've literally never launched their terrible, useless map application that nobody likes. Always seemed pretty underhanded.
"Without package management, keeping even relatively simple Emacs setups working was not that easy. Now, it's trivial."

Trivial, but wide open to getting owned by anyone who puts their malware on to an Emacs package repo.

This is why I still do all my package management by hand. That way I can audit any Emacs package I want before I install or use it.
> Airspeed dropping while the autopilot tries to maintain altitude is another. This can result in a stall and complete loss of control under the wrong circumstances.

This happened to me in X-Plane (sim) the first time I used autopilot. I had dialled in a rate of climb the plane couldn't maintain. Very hard to recover from a stall when the elevator trim is set fully nose up.
Complexities in Cryptocurrency Tax Calculation
Cryptocurrency like Bitcoin is traded on thousands of exchanges across the world — to be exact 16002 as of today as per Coinmarketcap.com. So complexity here is,

- Its price changes every second.

- It’s different on every exchange.

- It is traded 24x7x365 days a year — Market never sleeps, unlike stocks!

- Imagine not just Bitcoin, there are 1500+ of those!

- Trading one crypto to another is taxable — how do you calculate gains in Fiat(normal) currency like USD? Can do for one, what if you’ve converted Bitcoin to Ripple & used it to buy Litecoin, withdrew from an exchange for safety & deposited it back to buy Ethereum, used it to buy some tokens in an ICO (an IPO equivalent here).

- Which of those actions are taxable and which are not?

- How do you keep track of prices every second if you are a day trader?

- When you look at your trades at the end of the year, how do you reconcile everything?

I am associated with BearTax where we handled these complexities via our platform and can help you get this done in minutes
There is a touch policy called "cached" which allows signing operations for 15 seconds after a touch so you can do many connections at once
We will have to take off our shoes before entering ours cars?
>New-school farther left. Probably younger, fans of AOC et al

The Axiom of Choice is a political thing now? I'd have thought it generally has strong support among both sides of the political spectrum; in spite of their vocal presence online, constructivists are still a relatively small minority of the mathematical community.
AWS/Google Maps/Foursquare etc. bills probably add up.

Customer service - Uber seems to have decided it's cheaper to just allow a few no-questions-asked refunds for cancellations than actually getting humans involved every time

Office space (in SF!) to hold all those employees

"some back-end routefinding" becomes hideously complex once you factor in:

- real-time road closures

- lyft line matching

- traffic modelling

- time-of-day turn restrictions

- normalizing data from various regional map providers

- routing itself is NP-hard
> But DP? I've never needed it or used it. Why the emphasis in it then

There are people who did only the multiple choice questions and moved on to the video conf interview. At least they can skip DP question for some people, so probably not an emphasis.
This is a superficial and unhelpful piece from someone who, despite appearances to the contrary, is in fact a US political partisan. That doesn't make his opinion worthless! But it does make his high-horse stance a bit much to take, to say nothing of the ahistoricism of his thesis (ask someone who appeared before HUAC if partisanism is boiling over in 2019).

That said, I come not to bury Arthur Cooke but to praise him, for while his arguments clearly have not survived condensation into an NYT op-ed, they're at least thought-provoking in longer-form media, and I can recommend as an alternative to this dumb article his lengthy podcast interview with Ezra Klein on many of the same topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRJuZlTtXVU
I think comparing an accelerator to a university is flawed for so many reasons.
Nuclear pulse propulsion might be possible and it might approach the initial assumptions, but unless your talking ounces of cargo reaching and slowing down from 1% light speed is not feasible. We can’t rely on hand waving science fiction, they would need to send enough infrastructure to booststap manufacturing of a replacement probe. Let’s lowball that at 1 Billion tons of cargo and run through the rocket equation for 10,000 ISP.

Even hand waving that we don’t have force fields to survive single gram impacts at 1% light speed. At those velocities anything is going to act like a massive shaped charge. Space is fairly empty, but when you start talking about the volume swept up across light years that’s really not a safe assumption.

70 years ago people generally assumed fusion was right around the corner. It’s only when you start building these things you get some idea of all the real limitations.
Nashville. Amazon is ahead of the game.
Uh, no.

SFTP == Secure File Transfer Protocol

It doesn’t have anything at all to do with SSH, other than the fact that both protocols have the word “Secure” at the beginning.

Feel free to go back to the drawing board and choose something that doesn’t cause confusion with another protocol that is decades old.
Ben Shapiro acts respectfully when answering students and debating BLM or other persons. I've seen so many instances of bad behavior on the part of his conversation partner, yet Ben remains cool and professional. The worst I remember is that instance where he refused to use a pronoun on Television. If I recall the trans person in that situation behaved very badly.

Jordan Peterson remains cool, even with interviewers that treat him badly.

Dave Rubin says repeatedly he's willing to talk to people, and that people refuse him and don't invite him.

Tim Pool keeps his cool in the midst of online and real-world dust-ups.

Tarl Warwick is also calm cool and collected. He'll talk to anyone.

Any leftist who wants to engage others productively can look to Pool as a good example.

Jimmy Dore is on the left (according to himself at least), and he's civil.

My impression is that most anyone on the spectrum will talk to anyone else, except for Resisters, who seem to have a visceral dislike for Trump that clouds their reason; and the far left, who object more or less to the entire western way of life, or capitalism, or something that would require a large amount of dismantling. It takes a lot of dissatisfaction to want to start from scratch, and these persons seem to be the most badly behaved. So my guess is they feel most of the contempt and also are the ones who receive the most contempt -- because of their abusive behavior. In fact, if the far left has any lasting principle at all it would appear to be that contempt is a wonderful club to use against anyone who isn't responding properly to their dogma.
This is confirmed by the author:

> Also, for the user interface, I am using Dear ImGui which has been a joy to use.
In my experience, there is a good chunk of people who have to eat out every day because they have no time for cooking, because they work 40h/week and have a one hour commute (, to pay for the lunches and the car).
An “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound
In 1980 was the scientific, rational position that outside of our own Solar System there were no more planets in the universe? I have a hard time calling that a rational position despite the lack of observed exoplanets at that date.
I like how you list all these things and entirely leave out the landing an orbital class rocket, which no private company nor governmental agency has ever done.

They're also pretty much doing it all themselves for a fraction of the price due to vertical integration, which is also unique.

Raptor is a full-flow staged combustion engine. Others have been made, yes, but none have flown. Right now Raptor is the only methalox variety of such an engine to ever reach a test stand.
You do not need 100% accuracy.

Easy data mining: "Religious center" is a top-level category. "Religious school" is a type of "School". "Marijuana Dispensary" is a type of "Shop & Service". "Gay Bar" is a type of "Bar".

More evolved: Find location patterns that correlate with known gay or religious people (for instance by cross-referencing data sources).

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/resources/categories