skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends how deep you want to go on HN. If you're busy and you'll accept an argument from expertise, then the majority of philosophers are Compatibilists, with a tiny minority holding out for incompatibilism (something like 10%).

If you want a review of the failures of every challenge meant to demonstrate how moral responsibility and determinism are incompatible, and that Compatibilism empirically matches our use of moral language and so is what people actually mean by free will, that will take more time.
Is there a GitHub link? I can't seem to find it on mobile.
>I've worked with people with previous job experience that have gone through 10-week coding programs. And it shows.

Were they useless? Were they worse than useless? Or were they just not as good as a more experienced developer?

I'm not arguing that college has no value, but that it's bad value for money. If someone can become a useful-but-flawed developer after a short bootcamp, surely it's better for them to learn on the job while earning a living rather than mortgage their future on four years of education.

If college were free to the student and cheap for society, sure, send everyone and don't worry about it. That's not the case though - an entire generation have been saddled with vast, unmanageable levels of student debt. We need to be asking serious questions about how much and what kind of education is really necessary to produce skilled workers.
Good Vibes Are Contagious
Not really comparable though. Tax filing in the Netherlands is simple for almost anyone who doesn't own a business. That's the vast majority of people. If you do own a business, it's still manageable, just not as automated.

I own a house in a household with two incomes: taxes took five minutes for both of us.
Good example of regulatory capture.

Should be a bipartisan effort to put public interest representatives into the FAA.
> I often hear my friends say, “I’m too poor” when they’re frustrated about what they can’t have. Maybe it’s a trip they can’t afford, a renovation they want to start right now or a pretty pair of shoes they spotted in a shop window.

I'm pretty sure I've literally never heard someone describe that as being "poor". Maybe this is some regional language thing?
I have noticed there's been some progress on reducing the stigma when you're poor and are surrounded by those that aren't.

When I was young, free and/or reduced school lunch paper punch cards were a different color than normal paid ones. Similar for food stamps, WIC, etc. Now they are all plastic cards that don't look obviously different from the cards the people with money use.
I take that to mean that the UK is not switching to e-billing for utilities any time soon.
Also age is a big factor, grade 2 is a lot different than 4, when kids start to be focused on being cool. My kid complained about this specifically, because it was less fun.
The research paper PDF: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01976951/document
This is a separate issue. TurboTax like software could still exist for people with more complicated tax returns. For the majority the government can just calculate it.
"Businesses would love to be able to exclude people too poor to use their services from society"

I'm pretty sure there are large swaths of society that would really hurt even though some would exclude folks. Everything from fast food to grocery stores to cheap clothing outlets.
I haven't really checked out LineageOS before. Just briefly browsing their site gives me a bit of skepticism. It doesn't seem to be very professional. For example, their about page, and one of their most recent blog posts.

I'm definitely looking for an OS to move to from Android. I suspect Librem will have its own flaws, but they inspire more confidence in me than my first impressions of LineageOS from their website.

https://www.lineageos.org/about/
https://www.lineageos.org/An-April-Apology/
Yup, to some degree if you have the money you can buy yourself a safety net. If you neither have money nor the social safety net, the thing left is what government may provide.

I grew up with a divorced mother that could provide only a small social safety net through family and an unstable financial situation. Although my financial situation is very stable since I've graduated - with small gaps - I'm extremely careful about my spendings and earnings, and instabilities worry me a lot.
The dict example given is exactly why operators wouldn't be useful to me.

Presumably d1 + d2 != d2 + d1 for some d1, d2.

If you're going to use the + operator then it should behave like it does in other contexts.
> The difference is that we know our phones have microphones and cameras and internet.

The question is, does that really matter? Isn't that just something you tell yourself to feel like you're still in control, ahead of the game? I have two colleagues who in general are pretty concerned with privacy, data protection etc. but still bought an echo. Then countered my surprise with the same argument: at least I know it's listening and how it works! Like somehow, that knowledge makes you immune to the Problem. In reality, you don't suddenly behave differently at home. You won't think twice before saying something. You just managed to fool yourself enough to deal with that cognitive dissonance.

And I'm all for charges against google here, I mean I dislike them more every day because of something they did, including this story. It's just funny that some people still think you can trust them in any way.
The phrase,

"Each [object] is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by [organization]"

is closely derived from my own original intellectual property and I will now proceed to sue Color Hunt for appropriating it.
Also, Rachel Maddow is probably the best example on air of non-fear-based programming. She usually spends the first 10 or so minutes of her show putting the forthcoming topic in historical context, and then proceeds with a rational, calm, and thoughtful examination of the topic. This oftentimes involves verbatim reading of court transcripts for 20 minutes. The majority of her show is a fixed camera on her with a static background graphic behind her. The rest of her show proceeds with interviews of a single guest with relevant topical experience (prosecutors, congresspeople, attorneys etc.) It's what you'd expect from a Rhodes Scholar and Oxford Ph.D. I never leave her program feeling angry, only ever informed.

Contrast this with Fox News, where the last time I tuned in to that channel 3 angry people were screaming across a table at each other about how liberals are going to outlaw hamburgers. The camera is flying around like a sportscast, and there's graphics and animations blaring in the background. The people in the room seem to have no relevant credentials as to the topic at hand. Are there any environmental experts at the table? Food science experts? No, there's just "political analysts" and "strategists".
Poor overly generalized statement there. Point being importance of identifying and addressing complexity as a 'I want'... not a 'I need'. Accept it or abhorr it, first recognize it as a complexity.
In my early 20's I had a girlfriend who was raised in Colombia and immigrated to the US in her teens. I remember one day recounting some bullshit middle-class slogan about how "it's better to be poor and happy, than rich and sad". She slapped me across the face and yelled at me. Passionate as she was she'd never done anything like that before. She told me what it was like growing up so poor you can't afford toothpaste. She basically gave me the whole "you know nothing John Snow". She described what a hard life it was. She'd take anything over that life.

She also wasn't poor in a 1st world country with community pools and libraries. Being poor in a 3rd world country is a whole other level.
I've heard this often growing up in NYC.
Let’s not forget a good proportion of high achievers at university are basically taking performance enhancing legal amphetamines in the form of ADHD medication.
I have heard it very frequently from 20 and 30 somethings in NYC. I'm sure I've said it before many many times.
That's not what they are suing for, in any case.

Also, while subjective value is... subjective...market worth is not and is a thing that, outside of college, misrepresentations relevant to are frequent subject of successful suits.
Wow, maybe this is a New York thing? We answered at the same instant.
I grew up poor. I don’t know how my dad managed it. I’m thankful every day that I don’t have to worry like my parents did.
I'm surprised that emacs users and some vim users too are switching to VSCode. Assuming I am not RAM constrained (I have "only" 6 but my system never lags- I have 0 chromium engines on my system), what is your workflow and what does VSCode do better?
While I applaud the effort that went into this, I'm not sure what this gains over adding a handful of additional rules into your current adblocker.

Many adblockers use the EasyList of blocked domains/files, but somewhat lesser known is the EasyPrivacy list which already blocks many of these helpdesk and chat widgets [1].

1 - https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt
> Stop that laziness and learn OOP properly, you'll find a good use for it!

This is my biggest problem with OOP: proponents keep shifting the goalposts to avoid criticisms. If someone follows OOP practice, and it doesn't work out perfectly, then they must not have been doing it "properly". Hence "OOP" becomes a nebulous term, encompassing a whole bunch of approaches (encapsulation, inheritance, subtype polymorphism, dynamic dispatch, SOLID, MVC, etc.) but if any of those don't work in some situation then they mysteriously don't count as 'proper OOP' in that case.

I used to be very deep down the OOP rabbit hole (oh the joys meta-object protocols!), but these days I tend to stick to functional programming. I wouldn't claim it's the best way to program, and there are different tools for different jobs, etc. but one thing I've taken to heart is that we should try to make the easy thing be the correct thing.

An example of this is static type systems: it's possible to write correct code without types, but it's much easier to get things wrong. Type checking rules out a lot of those wrong things, which makes it more likely we'll do the correct thing (note: I'm not saying static types make things easier, I'm saying that the easiest thing to do in the presence of static types is usually more correct than the easiest thing to do when there are no types). Automated testing is another example, as is purity, effect systems, capability models, etc. Even the fact that Java forces us to write a class in a correctly-named file just for "hello world" is an example of making the path of least resistance more "correct" (although I disagree with Java's notion of what's "correct").

Even if we concede that these complainers aren't doing OOP "properly", that just means OOP is fraught with gotchas, misaligned incentives and lacks objectively checkable criteria. I wouldn't want to pursue any practice where earnest, researched attempts to follow it not only lead to the very problems that it claimed to avoid, but is met with advice to follow the practice "properly". Just look at how much of softwareengineering.stackexchange.com is bogged down in philosophical pontificating about the nature of OOP!

As for your specific claim, after doing OOP in several languages for many years, professionally, academically and recreationally, I count Java among the worst (PHP is slightly worse). I could say that if you want to do OOP "properly" you should try Smalltalk, but that would be yet more philosophical snobbery (you should instead try Smalltalk because it's a great language ;) )
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> formulas written using operators are more easily processed visually has something to do with it: they engage the brain's visual processing machinery, which operates largely subconsciously, and tells the conscious part what it sees (e.g. "chair" rather than "pieces of wood joined together").

This is why I prefer ML-style syntax over Algol-style syntax.

ML-style syntax (with sugar for pattern matching) engages my visual process machinery better, such that I can scan over function definitions more at a glance, than the "literary" style of Algol syntax
While this is common where I live now (Norway), it is not common in the states. Married couples (or just couples) often have a joint account. It was more difficult to transfer money between two people's accounts as well, though there is a chance this has changed recently.
Ghostery[1] also already blocks chat widgets.

[1]: https://www.ghostery.com/
Doesn't help on mobile, but I use this chrome extension that allows you to view/download the source of other chrome extensions a lot: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

Edit: Found the GitHub page: https://github.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye
Why? It baffles me that a husband and wife don't trust each other enough to pool their resources.
Not sure if nathanaldensr means that but that's what I would say is the straw man.

Also, it's been my experience a lot of developers have a lot to learn about OOP principles. The most common OOP idea that's seemed to have been lost is asking an object to reason about its current state. If I had a nickel for every time I see code like below...

String fooJson = new Gson().toJson(foo, Foo.class); or

Double totalTax = TaxHelper.totalTax(orderItem.getCityTax(), orderItem.getCountyTax(), orderItem.getStateTax());
Interesting, but aren’t these groups meant primarily for folks who haven’t moved on yet?
Nice work! Lem looks "Spartan" at first glimpse, the high expansibility however is a promising key for success. Anyone who truly loves Common Lisp has the opportunity to make Lem the best Lisp editor ever.

I am a long-term Emacs user but I think we really need an optional editor which can be extended in Common Lisp rather than Emacs Lisp. What I really like about Lem is the KISS principle ("Keep it simple, stupid") since Lem is based on curses which is good for portability.

I have no experience with Roswell. Is it possible to use QuickLisp packages? Or do you consider to switch from Roswell to quicklisp? That would make installation of Lem much easier!
Monzo will give a bank account to pretty much anyone with a verifiable form of ID, regardless of their residency status.

https://monzo.com/blog/2018/05/29/getting-bank-account-immig...
Fair points. And I didn't intend to say google should go unpunished for this, in case it came across as defending them.

Added those vids to my queue, thanks.
https://github.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye
You're both right. Research shows that more money doesn't make you happier - after around 80k a year in family income. Before 80k a year (depending on location, etc, I think that was the average for the USA), every dollar absolutely makes you happier with a linear line graph.

This is also a great argument for more marginal taxation.
They did? You are wrong, I find that equally concerning. I do make choices on electronics based on their hardware. I do not have any devices like he echo or homepod because I find them intrusive. Maybe you two don't but I definitely do. I have two devices with microphones and cameras connected to the internet as far as I know and I have taken the necessary precautions to ensure that those are safe. Now I have to open up my other Google products to check if they've been bugged. You bet your butt I'm a bit miffed.
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Looks like author is comparing document vectors using nearest neighbour.

I thought cosine similarity was considered the best measurement for closeness of word and document vectors.
The author is Canadian, in which case the assumption would probably be that universal single-payer insurance is in place rather than individualized subsidies.
More misinformation here.

Emacs Lisp is a Lisp-2.

Emacs Lisp has lexical scope.

When writing code in Emacs, Emacs Lisp for all intents and purposes can be seen as a subset of Common Lisp, not an entirely different language like you present it to be.

Please try not to propagate this sort of misinformation again in the future. The things you claim are obviously wrong to anyone who has ever used Emacs Lisp, even once. Have you ever done that?
although something is better than nothing this is nearly not even close to the amount of money that is needed in order to fix the tech inside local government.

Do you know what the cost of turning all of their records, from paper into digital would be?
The Guardian isn't run like most newspapers
You’ve got yourself a keeper. She sounds incredible. Your disease is called neoliberalism. Get some help.
> I can always just not present my license at all.

Sure, that might work.

But a likely scenario is the officer will ask your name and DOB and look you up on his MDT and now you've got three tickets (including whatever you were pulled over for because now it is definitely not going to be a warning) instead of just one.

Another scenario is the officer discovers you have your license and are just refusing to show your license. In California, and other states, you've now escalated a simple ticket to a misdemeanor with large fine and possible jail time.

Another scenario is you just update your address with the DMV and don't risk compounding your problems during a traffic stop.
The obvious reason for it existing is to serve as a glass breaking alarm, something that might have been part of the planned specs, and listed on the spec sheet, when they finalized the hardware design but they couldn't get working for launch. That's a very real feature people want their security systems to have, and forgetting to add "a disabled microphone, IMU, bluetooth and FM radios, and probably some other random chips privacy-obsessed people will care about" back onto the spec sheet is a really easy mistake to make, especially a few years ago when Nest mostly had user trust.

To be clear, I don't know exactly what chips modern electronics contain that we will worry about in a couple years, but all of the above seem like plausible things.
It would be interesting to see a browser extension like this that keeps the chat widgets on the page, but forces them to stay minimized. I often find it painful when I actually need the widget (example: using intercom for product support) to disable my blocker & refresh the page.
If you are poor in the US your healthcare costs will mostly or entirely be covered. This includes major surgery.
interestingly Lisp/ocaml/clojure rank low in popularity, clojure shows it’s not because of libraries.
That has to mean something other than libraries or unenlightend people. Idk maybe there is too much complexity in those languages and philosophy
I think it's kind of pointless.

Humanity uses more kWh -equivalent of energy in 1 seconds of an airline flight than everyone who ever has, or ever will use viewing this website. Shit, just takeoff is something like an equivalent 90 MW or so worth of electricity:
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19569/how-many-...

I think society would be better served by engineers learning and working on new technologies to extract and use energy, instead of pushing bits around on a website. Why not get a degree in Nuclear Engineering, or Oil and Gas Engineering? It would certainly benefit society more than this.
I think lisp is beautiful in a mathematical sense, but not in the ‘producing practical code’ sense.
Are you serious? Does Sony prevent me emailing my friends my game source code? They "JUST" need developer system with expensive proprietary software and developer accounts, certificates and agree to a few EULAs and ToSs but I am not prevented to send them source code.
What do they give then? They must have some other sort of compensation other than the base salary...
If you really want to play through it with some enhancements, you probably want ECwolf http://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/.
You definitely can't audit chemistry & engineering labs, architecture studio, geology field camp, etc. It seems that the more you can get the education by auditing, the more "signaling" the education is.
Colombia, right?
If 80k/yr is considered poor, then sure, but that’s absurd. She was right. He was wrong.
Or even some base level of healthcare for anything remotely serious. It's implicit in UBI that it would have to be paired with something along the lines of universal Medicaid. Otherwise, an income that is truly base--say $8K/year in the US--is not going to have any real slack to cover healthcare.
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I saw this too in high school, ridilin was trivial to come by. If you’re graded on a bell curve and you’re playing the game so to speak then playing by the “rules” doesn’t make sense since the rules are just a guise. That was the insight I saw from some higher achievers.
But why? Why avoid inheritance?
Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase
I've had this conversation with a coworker who was frustrated that people with wealth could leverage that wealth to create more opportunities for themselves. My response is essentially: "isn't that what you want to do for yourself?" He seems to think it is more fair if someone with less wealth got access to those opportunities, instead of the people with wealth. How is that more fair? Why does it matter who gets the opportunities, as long as they're going to people with a low risk of wasting them?
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I certainly think that since they let unqualified kids in, somehow the curriculum had to adjust to, or already be of a lesser standard. To push it even further, why would I want to go to and pay for education in X when in fact now we know that quality of education, or passing criteria at least isn’t maybe much different from your average community college.

Or maybe the entry criteria never was about being able to find and accept the smartest and the brightest of each generation...
Those in school are absolutely at risk. I work in the industry. If we found out at any point that someone had lied or faked a credential, they would be out. And applications require a student signature or electronic affirmation to the accuracy of their submission. There's no reasonable expectation that a student didn't or couldn't have known there were errors or falsehoods. In the case of test scores, the student would have been aware that they did not have a legitimate IEP for test accommodations, so there's no deniability for them to say the parents arranged the fraud without their knowledge. I've seen the test agencies invalidate scores for much less. That too then negates the entire application decision. Absent direct hard evidence of student knowledge, some schools may choose to overlook some of the factors and be lenient. Those students should consider themselves very fortunate.
We all have to do our part to extend safety nets to those in our spheres of influence. I have done very well in life, mostly through what I attribute to luck and being at the right place at the right time. In return, I treat checking in and providing a helping hand (temporary housing, an extra line on my cellphone plan, or in some cases plain old cash) to extended family, friends, and others I encounter as a second job.

Societal fabric isn’t going to be solved through anything other than effort on the part of individuals.
Agreed. There are two types of healthcare expenses that insurance is important for:

1) massive, unexpected ones, which $1000 a month would be useless towards, and where the word "insurance" actually makes sense

2) recurring costs like doctor appointments, prescriptions, and teeth cleaning, which could arguably (but still probably shouldn't) be lumped in with UBI

#2 can still wreck someone who's truly poor, to be clear, but the author's case sounded more like #1