skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s one thing to continuously confirm the beliefs of old people, it’s quite another to funnel impressionable children

I'm not sure there's much of a difference. I'm very grateful for my high school librarian who ingrained into our minds the importance of data verification. She seemed to recognize the potential for user manipulation in a very real way. I feel like that's something that a majority of my acquaintances lack.

Before Google search got personalized it was great for fact checking, but today it seems to re-enforce your existing views. There's value in both approaches, but it depends on context. At some point I'm sure that context will be resolved, but I'm afraid the fallout from the existing state of things will be severe.
> Performant UI must use GPU effectively, and it’s increasingly common to write UI directly in terms of GPU rendering, without a 2D graphics API as in the intermediate layer.

Y tho? I'm just a passerby in this topic, but I see this sentiment now and again these days, and I don't understand what happened. I don't remember hearing complaints of DirectDraw being too slow, for example.
A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture yes. Tags make life a bit easier for the CPU when it accesses objects and is deciding what to do with them, but the CPU is still doing all the work and walk the RAM to do the GC. (I vaguely recall stories about Lisp machine users who would turn off GC while working, and then let it run when they left work and returned the next day.) The idea here seems to be to have an entire separate chip, a specialized CPU, which walks RAM independently of the 'main' CPUs, whose only task is freeing up memory.
On the one hand, you've got some amazing satire here, on the other hand, I'm a little insulted that it's directed at me of all people.

Upvoted anyways :)
> referring to general users as idiots are often the top voted comments

I seem to recall this being true on Slashdot also.
If you want small images, why not use a tool like https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim
Then it doesn’t matter which distro you favor?
Alternately, if you want to just delegate everything, you can subclass wrapt.ObjectProxy https://wrapt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrappers.html#object-...

Python is scary sometimes. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and isinstance(duck), it might be an alien masquerading as a duck using metaclasses to accomplish these feats. But with this craziness comes the ability to make a transparent runtime proxy to just about anything in Python, and do so recursively e.g. to track all uses of an object hierarchy.
I doubted this too but a quick wikipedia search proved parent correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd#Etymology
If the UN was some sort of real power in the world, it might be. However, it is really only as powerful as the US military makes it, and the current administration has a very dim opinion of the importance, the usefulness, and even the necessity of the UN.
> reading self-help books…is similarly effective to in-person psychotherapy

That was not the outcome of the CPR paper, and even the authors' statement in the abstract is considerably more hedged than you imply here.

iCBT and bibliotherapy have both demonstrated the greatest efficact in subclinical or extremely high functioning populations; their utility in more severe cases or those where there are comorbid psychiatric or bio-social issues is less clear.

I absolutely believe in using telehealth to broaden access to behavioural health services and think they're an excellent first line treatment, but stating there's nothing to suggest that they're a fungible good with equivalent value to human-delivered psychotherapy risks dissuading people who're already struggling and fail to improve with self-guided resources from seeking out more comprehensive services.
Were the visual and odor aspects hidden from the participants? If you put some monkeys in a blank white room to do some tasks and some others in a room with visible Flora and the smell of Earth and plants, I suspect the lattre group would perfo better even with O2 an CO2 levels constant.
(but then you might as well just write such functionality directly into the IRCd)

Nah, such a thing would make most sense as a separate daemon that uses the server-server protocol to connect to the ircd (ie. it appears to the rest of the network as just another ircd).

It wouldn't be hard to build such a thing, the hard part would be convincing an existing IRC network to run it.
I mean that relative to the previous proposal, this is better. But other commenters make good points that legacy buckets could be blocked.
> People choose proprietary software because proprietary software doesn't make you memorize and type things like "systemctl suspend" for the most basic of tasks such as putting your computer to sleep.

Nothing says that all free software will be good or user-friendly (systemd is an excellent case-in-point). But you can choose a better alternative.

Proprietary software sometimes has short-term convenience benefits, but even thinking slightly-longer-term quickly shows that it's never worth it.

Even with less-than-ideal software like systemd, it's still miles better than proprietary alternatives. Yes, you may have to run "systemctl suspend"* to put your computer to sleep, but you don't end up with Candy Crush embedded in your program launcher, or over-12-years-outdated bash, etc.

[*] It's pretty easy to wrap 'systemctl suspend' in something friendlier, such as a shortcut.
> With criminal sentencing, the first goal is to isolate that person from society as a punishment with reform being a second consideration

A lot of people would argue that this is the root of most problems in our justice system.
> What's the benefit of having reserve currency status?

You get to print absurd amounts of money without significant inflation because every other nation in the world hoards your currency because it’s the de facto standard for trade. US dollar stability owes a lot to the fact that everyone else holds a ton of dollars.

> US States have right and left been legalizing precious metals for currency this last year...

It’s never been illegal to trade precious metals for goods or services. Precious metals may not be legal tender but no one has been prevented from using them as currency.

To the extent that some states may make gold or silver coins legal tender, it’s just pandering to conspiracy theories and paranoia. In the event that the dollar collapses, having gold as an alternative legal tender does nothing. Anyone saying otherwise is either lying or ignorant.

If someone owes you $1300 dollars, having gold as an alternative legal tender doesn’t help you if the dollar collapses. The person owing you is absolutely not going to go find a Troy ounce of gold coins to pay you. They’re going to happily pay you the $1300 they owe you in devalued US dollars. And you’ll accept, because that’s what legal tender means.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863682
You are correct. Public schools lose funding when enrollment drops but the magnitude of the funds lost and the degree to which those funds affect the total budget of the school is usually much greater at a private school.
They don't "must", but it would be very nice of them.
Sort of. "Connecticut’s drug laws will go from some of the most draconian in the country to some of the most lenient this fall when most drug possession crimes are reduced from felonies to misdemeanors" So drug possession is still a misdemeanor in CT.

When I hear decriminalized I think no criminal penalties and civil infraction only, and technically decriminalization really means no penalties. Sadly, that's not what this is.

Still, the Connecticut policy is a step the right direction.

The Denver one isn't technically decriminalization either, but it's effectively decriminalization, at least in terms of Denver city police.

Also, there are a number of other states that have reduced criminal penalties for drug possession from felony to misdemeanor, such as Oregon and California.
As someone (non-programmer, yet text-curious) who spent ~9months of this short life learning Emacs so I could use org-mode, I love using VS Code.

It’s non-esoteric, easy to pick up, easy to kick ass with, and easy to show others how to kick ass with it.

The terrible parts:

- I don’t trust it , from a privacy-first standpoint, as much as I trust Emacs

- There appears to be absolutely NO security around third party extensions (not good for newbs nor enterprise envs)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55126683/how-is-vs-code-...
Pearl raises 11M ex GumGum – Dentistry: the forgotten med
While we're at it, how about we liberate CPUs and caches from communication between threads and cores?
My EDC includes a Glock 30, would that get me in trouble?
Why would a license that discourages any community participation result in a more polished experience?

Got any examples?
>Today's luxury apartment is tomorrow's affordable one

That isn't necessarily true. It is most obvious when a neighborhood is experiencing gentrification. For example, imagine a SRO hotel in which the rooms are no more than one or two hundred square feet. Buildings like this used to be incredibly common in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles and multiple neighborhoods in San Fransisco. Many of those buildings are being knocked down in order to replace them with high-rise luxury condos. Since the new buildings are high-rises replacing much smaller structures, the new units can have several times more space per unit and still increase the density of the lot. The problem is that a 1000 sqft unit with amenities like an in unit washer and dryer is never going to drop to the price of a 200 sqft SRO room that doesn't even have an in unit toilet and shower. The new and old homes are so far apart that they don't behave like they are part of the same market.
I think for this to be dispositive, Apple Maps would have to be as good as Google Maps.
brew (used on MacOS) is working on extending support to Windows and Linux.
> Let's assume for a second that Carlgon isn't the misogynistic white supremacist charmer--he of the "I wouldn't even rape her" so recently, lest we forget--that he's made sure everybody knows he is. Let's assume that you are correct and that, gosh, he just doesn't like EU membership. Let's assume all of that.

Christ, man. That's playing dirty - you can't really go "let's ignore that my opponent is literally Hitler, let's talk about all the bad stuff he's doing", because either the fact that he's literally Hitler doesn't matter (and thus shouldn't have been brought up) or he's NOT Hitler, and you're using that to avoid having to defend the statement (and thus shouldn't have been brought up).

So, responding. "I wouldn't even rape her" is a great scissor statement. [0] A statement designed to be obviously offensive or inoffensive, true or false - but with people on both sides of the obvious statement. IMO it's sort of like "It's OK to be white". And while I can't really support deploying ideological superweapons, I can certainly see the utility in posting things that cause your opponents to respond in a manner your supporters will find insane. It's not the purely misogynistic statement you seem to be taking it as. (The alternate interpretation, IIRC, would be along the lines of "People are always getting worked up over rape threats - and correctly! Why are they freaking out about the opposite?")

Not sure what that has to do with being a white supremacist, of course. (besides the fact that he's biracial... and IIRC if anything a jewish supremacist)

> Do you know the term for somebody who works with fascists to achieve their goals?

> A fascist.

> This stuff just ain't that hard.

No, the term is "person". Otherwise the term for Hillary Clinton is "anarchist" or "communist", since by those standards she could be said to be working with (people who work with people who work with...) anarchists or communists.

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
People complaining about the old Pinebook are missing the point completely. Pine was always super open about its limitations, even on the "purchase" page. From the beginning, it was always intended as a product for tinkerers, ARM enthusiasts, and OSS advocates, not for consumers. And now they've taken what they learned and applied it to create functional, Chromebook level hardware.

Even with the Pro version, why would you ever buy this thing as a typical consumer? I mean, how would you even find it in the first place? The Pinebook is not aimed at the general public, even the Pro version.

The Pro will be great as a terminal and as a machine for casual development. It's not a gaming PC, a media center, or a server.
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I did not know he was a Casque and Gauntlet character. Probably would not be now - it's shifted ridiculously to the SJW types, and is incestuous to a degree unimaginable.

I still cannot believe that the incredible teaching hospital there is now the Dr. Seuss Medical school.
> most video games provide where they are just a passive consumer of the content.

With books and videos, people are passive consumers of content.
With videogames, players are active consumers of content, in that they need to be engaged in order to consume the content.

The demand on creativity and imagination in videogames is usually at least in overcoming the obstacles/challenges of the game. With games like Minecraft, there's also a more tangible intermediate result in terms of building blocks.

Though, mobile games might tend to be more "cow clicker" ish, and mainstream games can be linear sequences where the game makes it hard to fail.. there's less demand for creativity there.
I think that of all the news companies, Fox is probably the one that would care most, since they have the largest proportion of the audience that's only there for the daily outrage.
“Having used drugs” is consistent across (most) races, but “usage of drugs” is not. There is a difference.

On a side note: National victim surveys routinely prove that blacks commit dramatically more violent crime per capita.
Not being screwed over in the future is pretty appealing.
On that note, an article was just posted on here about how Chinese companies are going bust left and right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19858288

While many people have stopped believing this, it really is true that free economies outperform planned ones, and when the planned ones explode, they tend to explode spectacularly. The only mitigating counterpoint is that it's not clear how free the US and EU economies really are these days, as they've increasingly become dominated by large companies via market power, lobbying and regulatory capture.
I’ll just leave this here for whoever wants to read it

https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machi...
Why don't you post a few pictures here? I would be curious to see one.
Can the community both appreciate the excellent children’s books and consider them alongside, for example, the reality of what he did to his wife, which happened regardless of who’s writing about it? I think there’s value to that analysis beyond “outrage politics,” but you’ve gone ahead and written off any exploration of the nuances of Seuss’ personal character. So far, nobody in this thread is suggesting we forget the books and demonize Seuss, but you’ve completely shut down any discussion about his character as if that outcome would be one of two options.
VW opens preorders for the ID.3, its first long-range electric car
I think "just build denser housing" is tomorrow's "let's just add lanes to the freeways."

We have to consider the whole system - jobs, office space, etc. If more housing just makes a healthy job market grow even faster in a loop, you've changed a lot just to stand still affordability-wise.

Do we really need ever-growing city centers vs some more disperse way of working and living?
That's the commonly accepted narrative about LLVM, but in retrospect it's even more clear that it was always about the GPL and, in particular, GPL3. Fast forward to today and LLVM's interfaces are no more stable than GCC's, and GCC is the only project with useable dynamically pluggable modules.

RMS was wrong to have pushed back on module support for so long, but it was irrelevant. Apple wanted to be in the driver's seat, and Apple's legal department was and remains violently opposed to GPL3. And it turns out that when you're in the driver's seat you don't really need stable interfaces and you definitely don't need modules.

The competition has been good, though. I like using both compilers.
And on the other end of the same point, not all luxury residential buildings become affordable.

Case in point: The John Hancock Center in Chicago. 700 units of luxury living since 1969.

Apartments may depreciate, but in a good number of cases condos don't get any cheaper.
I'm not really sure what your getting at. I agree with all of your numbers, that's what all of my figures were already based off of in my original post.

(For example, a $200k home on a 30yr 3.5% down mortgage is roughly $1500/month, which is equal to the average total monthly ownership cost of about 4 to 5 cars)
Well done, agree with the decision, plus I don't mind a fresher discussion on Frankfurt kitchens.

Off-topic: I guess moderators learn about A LOT of stuff, simply by moderating. I guess that's a small perk for the job :)
Oops: Typo for the ages printed on 46M new $50 notes
I believe I said exactly that above. I just don't think that either choice will result in a successful business.

Uber and Lyft got popular because they made taxis artificially cheap as well as the convenience and efficiency. Take away the cheap aspect and the market will significantly shrink.

I don't think they can squeeze the drivers enough to be profitable because drivers will leave for other unskilled jobs if the wage drops below them. I don't know the internals of their business, but the strike today and the arbitration play seem to be showing that's fast approaching.
The price of the land is set by the rental profit.

If you tax land to increase the cost of carry you will see prices fall. Taxes work.
Modern datacenter switches are still this way, see SFP+/QSFP.
It can. There are millions of houses and condominiums across America that are worth more now than when they were built.

Housing isn't like a car. It doesn't depreciate as soon as the first person moves in.
Since when is an accurate recount of history "flaming?" Dr. Seuss created a number of racist cartoons, which is part of the nuances of his history which this book see as its purpose to unpack.

Yes, it would be easier to love his childrens books without knowing his full body of work, but to ignore those is whitewashing a piece of reality.
How does this work if someone on for example a green card got caught and cited for possession? Since it’s still a violation of controlled substances act would it affect a citizenship application?
The same reason why Google open sourced Android OS, Chrome, Kurbenetes, etc.
I will stick to my on device privacy thanks. I know it costs more but its well worth keeping my entire life out of being a lab rat for company that wants to do good for yet to be born rats.
In the market of people who would buy a house / condo with the proceeds of their job, you will see the cheap stuff bought first and go up in price while expensive stuff goes down until they reach an equilibrium point of pricing of whatever people can afford.
How about Google cloud run?
Seek out an immigration lawyer. Although legal, most of the ways are considered shady, so I don't want to go into details on here. But I am part of a certain foreign community and know it has been done.
From an environmental perspective, I wonder how much energy is consumed (and emissions generated) for garbage collection and interpreters. These things exist to make programming easier but are then duplicated across thousands of servers.

If everyone used some compiled language that was just a little simpler, a little safer, had just a little better memory management/tooling, or like here, had better hardware support, how much would that reduce global emissions caused by data centers?
If you look closely at one of the error messages, it says "too many iterations", in what looks like a random generator. I wonder if at some point it has to iterate to get a number different from another one, and it just gets an endless stream of identical values?
Oh that's stupid! We (non racist people) know that black people are black and white people are white (biological differences), we just don't think it's in any way a reason to treat them differently.
(same thing with men and women ;)
The book about pre-war Berlin, "In the Garden of Beasts" recounts the experience of American Ambassador to Germany, William Dodd. As ambassador he and his family had many direct encounters with the German government of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Beasts
There are two things to discuss. One is China right in what it's doing.(which most people would agree is wrong)

The second is why isn't the UN doing something, and clearly whether the UN regularly engages in this behavior is relevant. And here are a bunch of cases of human rights abuses that the UN hasn't tried very hard to solve and therefore maybe this isn't what the UN consistently does is relevant.
New Zealand introduces bill for zero carbon emissions by 2050
Insurance companies care a lot of drug prices since they pay a bulk of it. For example a 20% copay is not uncommon for expensive drugs to encourage use of cheaper generics. Drug companies in turn provide copay assistance so consumer are less concerned about the high prices they charge the insurers. The drug companies in turn raise prices to cover the assistance. Meanwhile those without insurance coverage are left high and dry.
This is interesting for a few reasons. IMHO, the original deprecation plan was reasonable. Not generous, but reasonable. Especially compared to what other cloud providers (eg. Google Cloud) have done. It did seem like a diversion from their normal practice of obsessively supporting old stuff for as long as possible, but it really wasn't too bad.

Responding to feedback, publicly, and explaining what they were trying to do and why they needed to do it, is incredibly refreshing.

This seems like a big PR win for AWS. I'm left trusting and liking them more, not less.
Microbiome Startup Seeks to Reassure Investors on Ethics
It's not all in a tower but I'm in the process of fulfilling my own childhood dream - filling out all the IDs on a Mac SCSI chain http://kalleboo.com/retrotech/perip/#scsitower
Azul Systems has asked Intel to do this once... but instead created their own processors with interesting memory barrier properties for awhile that greatly sped up JVMs beyond what was capable (at the time) on x86-32/ppc/sparc. Eventually they gave up and became a purely software company, but their "Java Mainframe" product was many times faster than the Intels of the age executing the same code despite much slower CPUs. Died a quick life despite the cool factor.
Hardware is fundamentally parallel, CPUs are fundamentally serial; it is possible for a hardware solution to have a super-linear speedup in time.

As a simple example, what is the time complexity of zeroing out n bytes of memory. With a CPU, this is O(n). However, with proper hardware support, this can be done in O(1) time.

For a simple garbage collecting example (no idea how their chip does it), consider a simple mark and sweep algorithm. Assume the chip has an internal object graph. At the begining of GC, only root nodes are tagged. At each step, the neighboor of every tagged node is tagged. With a CPU, this step takes at least Ω(n) time, where n is the number of tagged nodes. However, if this is done entirely by hardware, then (depending on how the hardware is designed) each node can independently look at its neighboors and complete a single step in just O(1) time.

Moving stuff to hardware gives you a set of primitives that is asymptotically different than the primitives you have on a general purpose CPU.