skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... Because on deals with "natural law" and the other with society..."

Society isn't... natural?

"There is no "replicable scientific test" to determine whether capitalism or socialism is the best economic system. There is no "replicable scientific test" to determine whether to have the death penalty or not. "

I wasn't aware that social science even attempted to answer these questions? Like most sciences, and this study, it attempts to study phenomenon as they occur. In this case this meta-study was trying to see if the backfire effect actually exists... which isn't making any moral or societal debate or opinion, just trying to verify a phenomenon existing. Which sounds pretty scientific to me?
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/avaaz7/cnn_disg...

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ambn6m/saw_this...

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/5xy20x/cnn_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5c8152/cnn_outs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6udivb/cnns_wol...
I'm never trying to read text while it's scrolling, so I don't really care if it blurs and ghosts for 20ms.

And video content generally works fine at 30, let alone 60.
As a random anecdote, [ʢ] and [ʕ] (the sounds that make ع) are my 9 month old son's favourite sounds.
> Go is less expressive than certain languages, it wins in clarity and readability.

Not having to deal with inheritance is clear and readable enough. Generics wouldn't make the language less clear and readable. Furthermore, it's not an ALL or NOTHING case. Generics could be restricted to generic functions for instance, not types per say. Go already makes a lot of trade-offs, i don't see why this trade-off would be controversial.

But to me generics are the least of Go's problems. A lot could be done to make the language easier to use, like co-variant interfaces for instance, a tons of other stuff could be added in a relative "invisible" fashion that would not impact the language's syntax.
>not captured beyond the second level

That explains why whenever I have to enter my account # or something over the phone, that information is never passed onto the human representative.
Ants are estimated to be arround 20% of all terrestial biomass, so clearly they are succesful. And yet, can the ant survive without the colony? Many individual ants are so highly specialized they cannot survive by themselves. Queens cant forage for food or defend themselves, there are soldier ants with jaws so large they require others to feed them and worker ants cant reproduce. Even we humans, sometimes touted as nature's best generalist, have become more and more specialized as we organized in larger and larger groups. We require others to produce our food, keep the lights on and help us when we are sick, too old or too young. Sure there are still people who survive on their own, but that is becoming rarer every day. Is that really a criteria for being 'alive'?
I mean he doesn't sound like much of a collector if he didn't know how to protect the shoes. Sealing them airtight helps and so does removing water as discussed in other comments. Almost everything that people collect needs some amount of protection.
I'm thinking more of an Irradiance map where the value is the current W/m^2 at a specific location, which would take into account latitude and time of year (to get the angle of the Earth relative to the sun), along with other factors like clouds, altitude.

e.g. https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/solar/solar_ghi_2018_usa_sca... but on the daily.
My favourite example of fake news came from real life. A friend uploaded a video of him salmon fishing on Haida Gwaii a sea lion came and snatched their fish off the line just as they were about to get it on the boat. He ended up licensing the video out and it ended up on msnbc, some news talk show and a few other news sites. Not a single one gave the correct information. One video said it was in california another got the place right but said he was sturgeon fishing another one said an eagle came and took the fish and didn't give the location. Even a simple fishing video was turned into complete and outright lies. I honestly don't trust anything from anywhere after seeing that.
Is This the Death Rattle of Mail-Order Meal Kits?
Once the linters get involved, everything that is `return nil, err` will need a special comment to silence recommendations to "use try here". That constant, nagging social pressure to reduce linter warnings will result in skipped error handling.
Cite your work. I've seen plenty of police threads and nothing in them with any sort of highly upvoted and popular comment backing calls for violence. coupled with the fact that you can report things(and they didn't disable reporting/downvoting via css) and they have heavy moderation I don't believe you.
Curious why you think this
> I don't agree that this is a valid justification. I pay taxes that go to funding the department of education despite never "participating" in any direct department of education activity. We don't make parents "offset" that cost when they send kids to public school (no, we make the teachers do that by forcing them to use their own money to buy chalk), why should we make a prisoner suddenly be more responsible for a tax burden carried by all of society? This is creating a "separate tax class," in my mind, which defeats the purpose entirely. We all pay in, we all benefit, we all use what we can/need/want of the system (minus the glaring deficiencies).

There are a number of separate tax classes as well as fees. Income tax, property tax, sales tax, registration fees, etc. We implement these for policy reasons. I'm guessing that the previous poster believes it's good policy to have the incarcerated pay for themselves where you do not. I think the idea of "separate tax classes" being bad on its own is pretty thoroughly disagreed with in most countries.
Growth companies can be just as bad if you're not in a position to realize gains the company experiences (ie you don't have equity).
Multinationals
> You don't need an exceptionally powerful GPU to render web pages at 4K; the fact that there are 4K phones out there is proof that this isn't true.

idk whether the the GPU is the limiting factor, but browsing gif heavy subreddits on a 4K display brings my computer to its knees. I have a haswell i5 @ 4.3GHz and a 1080ti so I don't think my machine is underpowered.
Doesnt Linus Torvalds use one? Im sure Ive seen a few photos of him with one?
Under this definition, it's meaningless to speak of life on other planets. What would you call xenoreplicators?
From the 1970s clip: "or the family can invent their own Pong games"

Love it, but just one note. Its already been invented, and its already called Pong ;)
Peter Watts: Attack of the Hope Police, Delusional Optimism at the End of World?
There's a whole Reply All podcast episode where one of the hosts tried convincing listeners that Facebook wasn't listening to their microphones.

It goes to show that people aren't too aware of just how much data Facebook/tech has about them, and occasionally that data can make extremely accurate predictions.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hlwr/
> The same people that have claimed for years that Go didn't need generics.

Considering all the successful software that's been written in Go, they weren't exactly wrong.
"Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property."

Is this system in fact slavery?
I always use this tool if I want to check local times: http://www.worldchatclock.com/
try() implicitly returns when there's an error, and sets the error in the case of an error. Then the defer statement would handle the error, as the return is happening.
Media Matters a Political action group with the mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." posted this[0] article just 2 days ago. I'm pretty sure this same source has been banned from the politics subreddit for self-promotion and astroturfing comments but I can't find the source. Amusingly, all of the wayback archives for the r/politics blacklist have been purged from existence.

[0]https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/06/24/A-pro-Trump...
I had no idea it was on the chip leve! I thought they came up with a software workaround. Thanks
You're thinking of the old Fox, and possibly predicting a future Fox. Former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile works for Fox now.

Politically, Fox does not stay put. To maximize market share, they always want to be just barely to the right of their main competition. Since that competition has gone quite a bit left in recent years, Fox has followed. By some measurements Fox is now even slightly to the left of the average American. Fox will immediately move back to the right if the competition moves right, because Fox can't risk crossing over.
> Not enough peer review and verification of results. Corporations can pay scientists for whatever results they want to put out in a press release and there is no shortage of journals that will publish total garbage if you're willing to pay them enough.

There's a term for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_by_press_conference
The answer to your first question seems obvious for me. If it's open source, you contribute improvements, rather than forcing anyone else to do so.
The Air Jordans 1 (1985) were the beginning of collectible sneaker movement. It probably wasn't until sites like eBay became popular that the market really opened up.
I mean, it's the telegraph. What do you expect?
I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. mail-order meal kit companies are not profitable. All of them have been burning through cash from the beginning.
That's incorrect by an order of magnitude. Lexus sells in excess of half a million cars per year.
They see themselves as distinct from Europe. It's more like...Russia is meddling in the democratic systems of Europe.
> Arabic, on the other hand, twists healthy minds in twelve ways:

I only see 11.
> EU could pay a bunch of security researchers to review open source software (analog to e.g. Googles project zero). Or implement bug bounty programs for the most used open source software.

Some EU programmes have done exactly that.
> If you’re writing code that renders things in a browser, this is your job.

Nitpick: I write code that renders things in a browser. I do not touch HTML. I use GL/D3D/Vulkan and C++.

I'm not really sure what point I'm making, perhaps that the author might want to consider the other parts of the web/web browsers.

Edit: to clarify, I work on the lowest level of browser's rendering stack.
> Unfortunately, this perspective makes mankind's treatment of nature all the more repellent as the horror of our actions towards the rest of life (and ultimately, ourselves) is so, so self-defeating. We just can't seem to evolve past self-interest where self is defined by the boundary of our body / family / tribe. :(

You're packing a lot of 20th century cultural angsty baggage in that thought. Your worldview is not universal.
I don't need dynamic DNS but was thinking about moving domains at new job to dyn:-I used it at 'developer' and 'pro' levels in the past. I liked the analytics, and the central management.

I am now in the market for something else. What are the options for small enterprise dns? Cloudflare? Route53? What else
I have been using for a year. It's a glorified bash script. Let's hope it will become something more similar to a programming language.
It would end up the same as today, ultimately, nations would emerge. Don't you think "free association" is where civilization began at first place? And you expect a different outcome? Who would protect "free associates" from the violence of others who don't buy into that system?

Utopia like Anarchy severely ignore the "human nature" factor.
Try doesn't allow skipped error handling, the error still needs to be handled, just one level up.

I disagree that linters should or will recommend it except in cases where there is no annotation and there is therefore no functional difference in using try.
Doesn’t Hebrew have a similar concept?
This, and of course the list doesn't include those cases, where there was only a warning, and never a fine.
Those take-home tests are bullshit. You put all that work in it for free, and they can't be bothered to follow up. Maddening.
Going up the food chain, you have major governments, political bodies, entire industries that depend on a control of a narrative.

They say history is written by the winner.

When many things are broadly painted as good or evil then there is certainly propaganda involved.
No, it does not. Freesync just allows for variable refresh rates.
I agree, but "attachment to belief" is not solely in the mind. Your beliefs are also "attached" to all of the decisions you make based on those beliefs. Those decisions alter the "position" of your life- with that position being highly dimensional (the city you live in, the kind of house you have, how your transport yourself, how many kids you have, what kind of diploma you have, how you raise your children, etc). And changing position often comes at a great cost.

Assume you have a belief that fluctuates frequently (perhaps due to changing scientific or expert consensus). Also assume that this belief is attached to the position of your life in a highly costly manner. It is entirely reasonable to insulate your beliefs, and thus the cost of altering the position of your life to match the external belief, from the frequent external fluctuation of this belief. I'd imagine this is the fundamental (non-politicized) driving force behind conservatism.

I see this strategy playing out as illustrated in the graph below. The straight line is your internal belief. The fluctuating line is external belief. Effectively, you are running a filter on external belief, making you slow, but eventually able to react to the changing external belief. However, since your sentiment fluctuates less than external sentiment, your costs are kept low.

s
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n| /\ /\ /\
t| _/__\____/__\____/__\__
i| / \ / \ / \
m| / \/ \/ \
e|___________________________
n time
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Everyone practices this strategy to some degree. Some are more mindless about it than others. Some practice it with a greater emphasis than others. Let's call this strategy an "insulated belief system". Conservative viewpoints are traditionally associated with an insulated belief system since insulating oneself implies confidence in oneself as an isolated individual. Liberal viewpoints do not associate with an insulated belief system since liberals tend to rely less on oneself and more on the community. Despite this, it isn't impossible to be a liberal who owns an insulated belief system. It would just be rare.
> replace it with 9 ms or 3 ms or whatever the example of a new resolution from OP still works

No, it doesn't. I missed that they were talking about mode switch, but if the mode switch happened in 9ms the OP's example doesn't work anymore because the switch becomes faster than refresh rate.
MongoDB Offers Field Level Encryption:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/mongodb_offer...
Generating Many Prime Numbers
Agreed. The best example of this for me is nextdoor. The spelling and grammar for most of the posts are terrible and the posters are predominantly white and over 50.
Polls, as we've discovered in 2016, are also largely fake news. To me Yang seems to be the only sane candidate on the left, and the only one who'd be able to give Trump a hard time.
Children do not see more colors than adults.

The cone cell of the human eye is the main type of photoreceptor that senses differences in light bandwidth, aka color. The dics of the cone cell are tuned to be receptive to certain bandwidths of light. These bandwidths are well understood and do not change as humans age (outside of damage to them)[0]. Humans only have 3 sets of these cones and do not gain or loose new types of cones as we age. The receptive bandwidths of the pigments are set by the biophysics of the molecules.

The perception of color does change as humans age, however. Typically, a newborn cannot yet use their eyes well. They can percieve light and dark, then red, then they can process depth, etc. This learning process takes a few weeks to months[1].

The cognition of color is a very in depth and facinating field. Thus far, it appears that color is a cultural and learned thing, in that if your language does not have a word for a color, it seems to be very difficult to determine the color as a different one from among other colors. Translating the mix of photons that your photreceptors are affected by into usable language is a very complicated process and is not well understood yet.

Fun Fact: The Illiad does not include the word blue and the Bible uses it very rarely as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell

[1] http://www.bausch.com/vision-and-age/infant-eyes/eye-develop...
Going to interview friend/founder of GoRails.com What should I ask him?
TL;DR Perhaps I am really asking "what question do you wish someone would ask you?"

Full explanation

I have found that the communities a person belongs to is usually a good resource for questions so I thought I would ask Hacker News. What do you wish people knew about your field?

I've done interviews with a chemist, an investment banker, a cardiologist, an architect etc. My audience is intelligent but they don't likely know that many computer programers. I would like to ask Chris questions that allow me to help people understand what you do and why they would be fascinated if they understood what you do. Most people have no idea what programmers do all day, why they are actually valuable, and all the ways you could apply the knowledge of coding.

I have known Chris for a long time, but even I don't know what to ask a programmer. He rarely talks about his work on www.excid3.com and gorails.com but I know that he makes tutorials and gives talks at conferences. Doing this interview is a way to get him to talk about his work more- so I would love some help thinking about the right questions to ask him.

Chris runs a successful business, and once pitched for Y-Combinator- he is the one that introduced me to Hacker News and many other things over the years.

What do you wish people knew about the work you do?
> The 4Runner has barely changed in 10 years.

Which makes a lot of sense when you consider how and where it's used. It's easier to have service and repair infrastructure for one car with identical mechanicals over a decade than 3 or 4.
You can’t naked return with a shadowed named return variable. The compiler disallows it. Thus, at any return site, you locally know that you’re either returning the only err in scope (the named return), or the specific value listed in the return will be assigned to the named return variable.

I don’t know what error types has to do with it. If you need to annotate differently for every exit point, sure, a defer doesn’t work, but neither would any other proposals I’ve seen. In those cases, do the more verbose thing because the verbosity is apparently warranted. In my experience, it is rarely warranted, and a stack trace with annotation about the package/general operation is sufficient.

The stack traces contained still include what line the return happened on when queried from inside the defer. They retain the information about which return executed. My, or any, helper could, if desired, explicitly skip the defer stack frame, and it would be indistinguishable from capturing at the return itself.
Nike tried flooding the market with Jordans, and they quickly lost their desirability on the streets. Nike has said they plan to keep the shoes in limited supplies to prevent this from happening again.
That sounds like a personal problem. Nothing nags me when I write Go. Don't use those linters.

There is a reason Go doesn't have compiler warnings.
> But I think an equal and opposite problem is that these days people don't believe "real" news as much as they believe "fake" news.

This is the endgame, and the reason fake news exists. There's no better way to destabilize a democracy than to cast doubt upon all journalism. Democracy depends on a well-informed populace, and if all information becomes subjective it cannot continue to function.
Besides the possibility that the mistakes were made deliberately, like other comments said, I can totally see how these two mistakes slipped through.

> He was also lucky that I didn’t care that he’d missed a “the” in We need your assistance in evaluating several projects for Adam Smith Prize.

Slavic languages, like Russian, don't have articles. In my experience the proper use of definite and indefinite articles is the most typical error native Slavic language speakers make.

> Apparently I further didn’t care that he’d unnecessarily capitalized the word Organizers in Adam Smith Prize Organizers, or that he didn’t seem to understand that a paragraph can contain more than a single sentence.

German capitalizes all nouns and German and English have plenty of nouns that are close enough that it's hard not get confused. Add to that all the exceptions where you do capitalize words in English, this is a hard problem for Germans.

My armchair linguists bet is that the mail was written by a German with Slavic roots.
I mentioned above, that GPUs are the limiting factor still, to effectively use both high refresh rate and high resolutions at the same time in all use cases. That's not inertia, rather a current limitation. That's why there is more demand for something in between still. I.e. GPUs didn't even catch up to 4K / 144 Hz yet (gaming use case is the major driver). Once they do, demand will increase.
I don't have a large amount of experience but when I worked with Qt I was blown away with how friendly and cross-platform it all was. It's pretty close to write once, compile to anything.
There is a subtle false dilemma there. That we have to believe one way or the other.

A better policy would be to assign some degree of belief to both possibilities.
I'm not sure what your news sources are but I haven't seen anyone, right or left, call for physical violence to the other. There has been violence done "in the name of" the right or left, but Donald Trump cannot and should not be blamed for Charlottesville and Bernie Sanders cannot and should not be blamed for the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting. And if either side had they should be arrested, but it doesn't happen. And no, dog whistling is not a thing. That argument is a non-starter and is the sign of someone trying to warp the language to best fit their ideals.

So for the things that are non-physically violent: the right certainly has it's problems but to suggest that the left, and especially the most extreme versions of it, isn't doing underhanded or otherwise despicable things (like when YouTube demonetizes channels or Twitter shadow bans accounts) is willingly turning a blind eye. At least with the NRA someone on the left knows where they stand. Google/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter and now maybe Reddit seem to be taking a much more selective approach to how they apply their rules. And even those rules are hazy at best.
Yes, it's characteristic of Semitic languages.
Has nothing to do with what I said. IE couldn't handle XHTML until IE9

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2010/11/01/xhtml-in-ie9/
You're comparing situations where ethical violations put lives truly at risk with situations where someone is possibly induced into (but can fully opt-out of) a larger sales transaction?
You don't read it directly, but you still glance at it to see where to stop, and you get a lot more irritation when you glance at the ghosting or over-blurred text. High refresh rate gives you a lot more smoothness.
Depending on the circumstances (I didn't actually look into it) the rental car tracking could have been done in ways that were at least arguably legal under EU law (though at least several member states had legislation that would have covered that).
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