skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see where you are heading with this, and we probably do not agree, but I know you have spent more time thinking about this than I have so I will defer on core values. Still, it is an important topic that I should probably spend more time on. But I really don't see how in the modern USA (Where most of FB/HN is) you could make it through life without spending much of it making others more money than you are getting paid yourself. Further, I really don't see how getting paid 250k and producing a value higher than that is such a bad thing in practice. And, another important thing I think to add to the conversation is that it is rather difficult to ascertain what "value" an individual SWE has produced. There are also a non-zero ammount of SWE's that produce less value than they are paid for. Are they immoral for showing up to the job?
There is a compelling theory that when a child is simultaneously exposed to injected mercury along with another stressor, the mercury is not excreted as it normally would be.

It's all kind of moot though because mercury is no longer in child-hood vaccines. I really don't see the point in bringing the discussion of vaccinations into this since almost no one can have a rational discussion about them.
Wait, a company is selling a library and only supporting Python 2? And 3 support is a paid tier? Wow.
I use a static-site generator.
It can be fun to tinker around with (it's a personal blog, I don't need to develop to some deadline), the friction of "generate, upload" isn't that high, and it's easy to find free hosting for the static content.

I guess the "stack" part of that becomes how easy it is to add on bells and whistles which don't come out of the box. I'd chalk that up to "fun to tinker with".
Racism is natural and, most importantly, technically correct.
The Branching Career Path
I know JS part for years, but never read anything about Applescript. Thanks for the heads-up, I guess I'll pass it for now
You can use them weekly without any real side effects. The "relevatory" aspects are played up to give it a supermoral veneer that is a defense against the serpents of prohibition.

They can be a Friday or Saturday night of fun for far cheaper than a dinner or a movie. When you have lowered mental inhibitions and expanded visuo-spatial reasoning, it's quite a bit of fun thinking about things.
Start working part time? And if my boss won't let me, find a job that will?

You forgot to add "figure out how to live on 95% less income" to your list.
This looks very useful, I'd definitely buy a book on the subject. Does anyone know about more Go-specific performance book/articles out there? Please share!
That is still a useful tool in Go, but you don’t need to use it as much as you’d think. The GC is pretty good at short-lived objects. The canonical implementation is sync.Pool if you don’t want to build one yourself.
Not sure what societies you're referring to. The UK is trying to figure out Brexit (still), France is dealing with the Yellow Vests, and the overall biggest political topic in the EU is restricting immigration.

America has its problems but it's not like the rest of the democratic world is earning a gold star atm either. And it's not like it gets better outside the democratic countries...
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I would submit that a lot of the idea that "vegans are obnoxious" comes from defensive projection. I know a decent number of vegans. I've known more at various points in my life. (I'm not one; I don't have the inclination or the discipline if I did.) And I have observed non-vegans transmute "no thanks, I'm a vegan" into a perceived attack and perceived moral superiority when it was not intended waaaay more than I've seen somebody getting a morality-boner over being a vegan.

Your four examples are anecdotal, much like mine, but we also see this sort of defensiveness around other topics where the conventional morality has some problems that conventional folks don't conventionally want to grapple with. I like Ian Danskin's work in general, but the way he looks at this in particular has resonated with me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEHuNrC8yU
Try using sync.Pool - it does the same thing: https://golang.org/pkg/sync/
"Do spam callers really think I'm expecting a call from the same area code, same exchange as my own number? Do most people have friends that have phone numbers with the same first six digits in common with their own?"

All of the weirdness and strange patterns and methods you see in practice by these actors make perfect sense when you realize their targets are seniors.

In fact, even the ability to keep someone on the phone past the first 2 seconds of recorded intro greeting makes sense if that's the only interaction with a human you get all day/week.

The lives of inactive, retired seniors in the United States - especially in small or rural towns - is tremendously bleak.

And yes, they've spent their entire life with technology wherein everyone they talked to had the same NPA+PREFIX.
Look what happened with the tobacco or the alcohol regulation. It looks like most of the people got addicted to smoking pretty quickly. I can't see a single good thing if they would switch to heroin. I believe China had the opium legalised and it didn't turn to be a good idea either.
Sidebar -

God bless the LA Times for getting the terminology correct. Keyword: "decriminalize". My temper is max'ed out on the mainstream media saying "legalize" (mainly when reporting on pot), as if Uncle Sam and the federal level laws suddenly disappeared.

For all intents and purposes "legalized" qualifies as fake news. It is intentionally misleading. And if it's negligence, that's not any better.
How does doing this censor them?

The Daily Stormer is free to get their business elsewhere and it's still up on the internet. Cloudflare didn't want to be associated to this kind of content, and thus terminated their business relation.

We don't NEED Cloudflare to keep the internet integrity (if we did, it will go pretty badly...) but we do need DNS to keep the internet integrity.

> I'll keep using non-logging, encrypted OpenNIC servers, since you seem to selectively censor instead of only blocking terrorists and cp.

Why are you censoring Cloudflare? /s
Please don't take as disregarding your probably clear explanation, but if I had to show my grandma a youtube video about this subject, wich one would you choose?

I'm regarding this subject as
Lambda calculas > lambda functions > serverless > "business logic i can define and upload and let idle in the internets without worrying about managing the computers that actually made that business logic available worldwide behing an URL "

I know the HN crowd is skeptical about serverless but as a non developper, it is pretty mindblowing the barriers that AWS + lambda functions are taking down.
Up to you. If absolute performance is your reason, then you'll still end up writing your own pool like games seem to do. This is mainly to avoid the garbage collector. I'd try without first to see if that's really necessary.
I've moved (back) to buying higher priced electronics from places like Best Buy. The prices are usually the same anyway for the name brand stuff, and I'm less worried about fakes. Last week bought a new smart watch and headphones and they arrived 2 days after ordering.
And the laws of physics are continuously changing with our contraction such that it’s indistinguishable from the universe expanding?

In that case, there is no difference, so reframing it in term of local contraction is meaningless.

See also: http://www.rogermwilcox.com/darksucker.html
That’s a tough one. I hope your friend gets the help he needs.
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

These 16 words were the pretext for the disastrous US war against Iraq. These words were false and US officials knew they were false when they were uttered.

But at least after the fact we can examine the evidence and know that our leaders used yet another false pretext to lead us to catastrophe.

How will we ever determine if a presumed cyber attack (a) actually occurred, (b) was dangerous enough to justify a response, or (c) could have been dealt with in some way other than blowing up people?

Seems like the perfect pretext for another catastrophe.
Yes, to you they might be cliches. But the way they are presented - to n00bs - the wouldn't really be cliches.
If nothing else, each species is a precious example of a DNA sequence that works. We are burning the book of life. It's worth the effort to preserve.
America is very different from other countries. For example, at the dawn of the 20th century, the US had a murder rate 10x higher than the UK. That was before prohibition, before the drug war, before significant gun control in either country. The best we ever did was in the 1950s, when the UK was shattered by WWII, and the US was enjoying an unprecedented economic boom. Even then our murder rate was 5x higher than the UK’s. (And note, that was after prohibition ended and before the drug war began.) That statistic says something really fundamental about Americans and the nature of American society.

People assume you can just look over the pond at policies used in Western Europe and get the same results here. But over and over it’s proven that’s not true. For example, we spend way more on education per student than the UK, but get much worse results. Conversely, some of the states in the US that have the most guns and loosest gun laws, like Idaho, are also the only ones to even come close to having murder rates as low as Western Europe.
Just because there are issues with pesticides, subsidies, and other aspects of agriculture, doesn't make your statements on meat true.

Meat takes a lot of energy to produce. It makes sense intuitively: think about how much energy was spent to raise you. That energy has to come from somewhere, and producing it has environmental side effects. Enormous ones. Don't underestimate the harm done by meat production to the environment.

Sustainably farmed eggs and fish are much more environmentally responsible, and provide the vitamins you mention. In the future all the essential nutrients will also be available via bacterial cultures.
Including commenting system please. :-)

Is there any way comments could be shared across LinkedIn, HN, blog, et al, all visible at the blog itself?

And where to find good themes for static site generators. Am willing to pay. Theme for me is just as important as picking up the tech. stack.
The article just says it cleanses the body of them. I assume that means it just takes up the heavy metals.
Interesting point of view but it seems like the opposite to me. The reason we remember and recollect these "type 2 fun" events is that they generally did not go as expected. When you go to the beach, swim, have a beer and go out to dinner, etc., the day was enjoyable but also went exactly as planned. In 5 years, you are unlikely to remember any details of this day. If you had the same plan on an unusually warm day in November and then the weather changed on a dime and starting hailing, you will definitely remember that in 5 years and maybe longer. It also is a lesson that you should remember, that going to the beach in late fall might go badly.
There was an article on here a few months ago about how the organ donor system works. If you are on the list to receive an organ you get a phonecall and if you miss this call the organ goes to the next person on the list who picks up the phone.
Are you suggesting the attitude should be to give your time to door-to-door salesmen and every religious organization that wants to convert you? Everyone who comes to your door deserves your attention regardless of their intentions?

It's not really an "attitude" as much as it is a solution to a problem. The problem is door-to-door salesmen (whether they're selling phone service, vacuum cleaners, Girl Scout cookies, or religion).

There are ways and places to meet your neighbors that don't revolve around knocking on my door unsolicited. Once we've met, you're no longer a stranger and the "attitude" doesn't apply.
The book The Missing Risk Premium covers a lot of the evidence. The author give a synopsis here: https://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/missing-risk-premium...

Low volatility investing is based around the observation that low volatility stocks have higher average returns than high volatility stocks. This article is a good summary: https://www.researchaffiliates.com/en_us/publications/articl...
Is illegality even A way to prevent addiction? Because most of the data in the US indicates no correlation between enforcement and addiction rates. We say we enforce drug laws for people's protection, catch them with drugs, throw them in jail and say, "see? this is what happens when you take drugs." The discussion around Denver's laws has often been on the assumption that before Colorado legalized marijuana, no one had access to marijuana. They throw around statistics with out before / after comparisons, or without full context. One famous example was a guy who drove into a parked cop car - a test confirmed that some time in the last 6 months he had smoked marijuana. Nevermind that his BAC was astronomical. Anti-marijuana headlines for days on that one.
If you are at your home location incoming calls are free. The caller pays.

US carriers double dip by charging the caller and the receiver.
I guess, sure, you can chalk it up to "those annoying people" and just be done.

Or you can look at the way that many Americans (for the purposes of this discussion; I am one, and I don't have sufficient insight into other folks) react to anybody suggesting anything is wrong with the status quo. America has not a conservative problem but a reactionary one, even outside of what is generally considered "political". This is part of the American hypocrisy about "leaving politics out of it"; most folks with a political education understand that life among other people is inherently and inescapably political, but it's only those who want to change things who are accused of "bringing politics into it", while the nature of the status quo is taken as implicitly apolitical.

To this end, I often see people react as if somebody else being a vegan is translated into being an implicit threat to a non-vegan's way of life. Similarly, you see this with those "normal people" finding gay marriage to be a threat to the "sanctity of marriage" or whatever (gay people are gonna make heterosexual marriages worse, are they?) and you see it with the completely bent way that Americans have and historically have reacted to the notion of somebody being "a feminist"--well before the internet's even more bent notion of some kind of "SJW menace" arose. I tend to think that that has transmuted into this reputation as much as any "bad apple"/obnoxious jerk has been, if not more.
I don’t track industry surveys and have no idea who is credible.

I’d venture to guess that Model 3 waiting list folks who just got screwed won’t be very happy. ( https://electrek.co/2019/03/04/tesla-owners-protest-price-cu... )

Sounds like things went bad in 2017. Surveys tend to lag 2-3 years.
I agree, but would go with:

return a < b ? -1 : a > b;

This does the right thing, but removes the nested tertiary which to me is a big win.
There’s a brain region for Pokémon characters if you played a lot as a kid
Do you mind explaining what you mean? To my knowledge, inspecting the number of rows returned eliminates this problem.
And related: "Know your enemy."
Any reading on stoicism that you recommend?
>For instance I have an iPhone model, so why would screen resolution help increase identifying bits coupled with the user agent? Everyone with my phone version and OS version will have the exact same values.

The user agent for mobile safari doesn't identify the iphone model, only that it's an iphone[1]. Knowing the precise model definitely helps to fingerprint more.

[1] random search: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Obviously, but it implies if you don't get into any of the top schools that you're not 1%.

Are you saying that someone in the 1% can't choose to go to a non-top 1% school?

Now that is pretty specious to me because it doesn't imply anything. He could've simply been applying during a highly competitive time of year. And considering the college scandal and how money affects people getting in or not, clearly the "top 1%" really isn't the top.

I have doubts. The DS&A classes in top schools are probably better than mine and according to people I've met at top schools they make studying for tech interviews easy. They don't need to study Leetcode problems, they just need to study for their tests.

I'd argue that most jobs don't require you to go to interviews that are as competitive as big tech companies. Most of my interviews have been pretty low key. It may help if you want to get into Facebook, Google, Amazon, MSFT, or Apple, but I'd argue plenty people work there that aren't the top 1% simply because the companies are so large that it would be impossible to have that many people at the top, otherwise the top would be the mean.

If you look at MIT Open Courseware, nothing out right shocked me with regards to the curriculum. In fact, they taught Scheme in their intro class for years. How many companies do you think use that language? I'd guess not a lot.
this heartfelt yet trivial response makes the worst fodder for those seeking to block or ridicule those serious about this topic. Absolutely down-vote on this, due to more significant systemic approaches needing the attention.
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> but it lowers [...] the priority against prosecuting them

Does it? It turns a cost-centre for the state into a profit-centre.

Speeding tickets are handed out like candy during the safest road conditions when it’s also the safest to be outside. I never see speedtraps around a sharp bend when it’s dark and rainy, where they would deliver the most safety value.
I don't need my own tree, and I don't think most people who go this route would need one either. Just dump me in the woods somewhere. I don't care if anybody knows the specific location.

The problem, I see, is overcrowding. It's not really a quality forest if you constantly have to dig holes for new bodies.
A220 cleared to compete with 737 MAX for Transatlantic routes
I'd be a little suspicious about this 'paper', as the only record I could find on it is this PDF http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/documents/resea...

It has very few sources or figures, and mostly consists of a bunch of statements without support. They're also using a broken tinyurl to link to the full paper, which doesn't seem available.
We need to do something; and that's heal our psychology. We can't just save the planet because all the thing that are killing it are things that we make "to feel good". Most of our economy is based on consuming things we don't need. Most of the pollutions comes for the energy sector and all the containers that get shipped across the ocean. Ocean Cruises are pretty bad also.

We need to focus on how to get the entire planet to execute on the same actions. That is our only hope. If 80% of the planet goes green, but 20% is still emitting pollutions, we are still in the same boat (just not sinking as fast). Getting individuals to do what is necessary will simply take pricing things correctly and making laws; most humans don't want any trouble and will easily be able to live a more sustainable life just through peer pressure.

FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS. This will serve us in all problems, not just global warming.

To put it another way, if you have a cold, you don't solely focus on making the cough go away. Just drinking cough syrup isn't going to fix it. Global warming is the "cough" to our "cold". If we just "fix" global warming, we still have soooooo many other psychological issues as a species that it's not going to "save the planet". We can't even agree if humans should live or die. There is so much nihilism that there are lots of people who are content on doing whatever; until they die. Lo, they prolly want death and are just to scared to do it themselves.

This is a legit problem; that many humans (either through religion or personal belief) don't WANT humans to live; or don't think we deserve to live. How are you going to solve that by solving global warming? We can't even agree that, regardless of our impact on the climate, we should be as clean to our environment as we can. Half the population only cares about GDP.

Go back to first principles and let's SOLVE THIS. We all watch the Avengers, but don't come out wanting to BE THE HERO. We can solve this. We can't save all the animals; but we can solve this.

So stop bitching, let's come up with solutions. Until the last second on the game clock ticks, you are in the game. Make a friggin' play. (YES YOU!)
It's also a fallacy that a ternary operator is some impossible to understand concept that will make the code totally unreadable for everyone but you. C programmers should be fine with the use of ternary operators for something like the example shown here.
I agree 100%.

In my experience, loops and recursion are lower level constructs that should ideally be used only in libraries (map, filter, limit, sum, distinct, etc [1]) and in hot code paths (for optimization).

Kevlin Henney makes a good observation on one of his talks about how "you have written all the loops you will never need in your life" [2], and those are constructs such as map/filterand friends, present in LINQ, Java Streams, Ruby Enumerables, etc.

His argument is that code made with those primitive is clearer than code made than procedural loops, because when you read it you don't have to "execute the code in your head".

I'd argue that using procedural loops is what's actually "too clever" here, despite being more verbose!

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[1] I have mixed feelings about "Reduce". It is hard to use and, most of the time, hard to read as well. It's too low-level.

[2] https://youtu.be/APUCMSPiNh4?t=3317
I tried to order a few boxes of hardwood flooring from Home Depot one time and despite being in stock at the store 20 miles away from me they somehow managed to outsource delivery to some local company that delayed delivery repeatedly because of "weather" for four months. This local company never picked up the phone or returned emails.

I had to do a chargeback as Home Depot refused to refund me, they seemed confused as to where the shipment was. I don't think HD or any company run in the HD mold will ever be competitive if these are the outcomes.
I rarely shop on Amazon. I just looked around and you are right it's not easy to see the seller information. But I wouldn't consider this the root cause of faulty products. I see it more as a global problem (can also happen on AliExpress for example). There have always been cheap white label products coming from China. They've just become more easily available than they used to be thanks to services like Amazon.